I spent some time on the FDA site, but could not find it. It is probably in some of their docuements that would require a trip to the Washington Library to find. In the interview I saw, they were covering a drug that had a bad side effect that was not listed in the PDR. I think it was suicide and prozac, but I am not sure now, it was over a year ago. Anyway, the show determined that the reason that it was not shown was that the placebo has the same side effect, so statistically the difference between the drug and the placebo was insignificant. But the real shocker that they uncovered was that the advertising for the drug on the side effects referenced a SUGAR PILL instead of saying placebo. The FDA representative was asked about this false statement in the drug's advertising and their response was basically that since many people do not know what a placebo is, the drug companies are allowed to say "sugar pill" instead of placebo when they run ads!
This information on that show was posted to this list the day after the news item ran. I will see if I can find the original posting. Marshall Nenah Sylver wrote: > Marshall, > I'm wondering where I can find this law written down. This information is > shocking. > > Thanks. > Nenah > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marshall Dudley" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 3:08 PM > Subject: Re: CS>the vital placebo effect in ms etc > > > Don't forget that since under the law the drug companies can use anything > > they > > want for the palcebo. That means that many now use a placebo that has > chemicals or > > poisons in it to make the condition worse, so that the drug being tested > > will > show > > up more effective, or even if the drug does nothing, it will still show up > > as > > effective when compared to the the placeo. > > > > Marshall > > > John Rigby wrote: > > > The most frustrating thing in scientific controlled testing is placebo > effect. > > > When testing a drug three groups are needed: > > > 1. Get the drug > > > 2. Get a fake (water) > > > 3. Get nothing, told nothing, just observed normally. ( vis ordinary > > > population with that symptom set) > > > It is CLINICALLY recognised that up to 30% of the groups 2 and 3 will > > > improve/self-cure. > > > BTW: MOST drugs approved today are approved on efficacy rates as low as > > > 20%......... > > > ****************** WHY do the 30% recover? > > > They are actually observable to anyone with open eyes (3rd ones?). These > > > are the positive ones. > > > It would appear that even the most die-hard should accept that the mind is > > > a powerful component of all healing, thus it is highly likely that > > > negative > > > states promote negative health......... > > > > > > Sadly, one group with whom I've had most contact have 100% termination > > > rate > > > UNLESS they self-manage their affliction and my observation is that "cause > > > often shows the cure". > > > Not even quarts of CS can help a negative mind! > > > Nor can even a positive mind can help if the afflicted stays in the zones > > > that created the illness. ( Modern food, modern drugs, modern lifestyle) > > > > > > In watching almost a thousand successful cures of the big C , every one > > > that was successful *absolutely* required a total lifestyle overhaul - > > > otherwise it *does* come back and the worst form of re-infection is from > > > the mind. > > > > > > Big C, MS, Lyme, whatever your case, unless massively interfered with by > > > modern medicine, you can leave it behind. > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] > OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
