John,

Please forward documents with facts that back up their assersions.  This 
looks like a bunch of vitriol with nothing to back it up.  I'm not defending 
the pharmaceutical industry, but I don't really think this forward is either 
productive, edifying, ornecessary.

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From: "John Schwery" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 12:03 PM
Subject: Fwd: FYI: Pharmaceutical Drugs


I don't know if the interpretation of this is
correct, but, I think, at the least, this is a good application.

Text of forwarded message follows:


>PLAYING RUSSIAN ROULETTE WITH PHARMACEUTICAL DRUGS,  By Greg Ciola
>January 7, 2007   -  http://www.newswithviews.com/Ciola/greg2.htm
>
>Deadly Dangers May Be Lurking In Your Nearest Pill Bottle
>
>Russian Roulette ­ it's a rather innocent
>sounding term for a high stakes game with deadly
>consequences. First, you take a six-shot
>revolver and load one bullet into an empty
>chamber. Next, you cock the pistol, put it up to
>your head, and pull the trigger hoping that all
>you hear is a click instead of a bang. Your bang
>odds are one chance out of six, but if you keep
>playing this insane game long enough, you will
>eventually find that lonesome bullet.
>
>That's what got me thinking about a similar dead
>end game being played every day by millions of
>people taking prescription medication. Let's
>call this one "Pharmaceutical Roulette," only in
>this high-stakes game the potential killer isn't
>a bullet, but a pharmaceutical drug lurking in
>your nearest pill bottle. Every year in America
>thousands of people die from pharmaceutical
>related side effects. Can you imagine the
>different perspective our society would have on
>this medical nightmare if these deaths were listed as casualties of war?
>
>That's right! Pharmaceutical drugs kill, perhaps
>not as fast as a bullet in many cases ­ but just
>as effectively. Stay on them long enough and
>you're almost assured of the deadly
>consequences. Do you really think for one minute
>that the pharmaceutical industry cares if their
>gun goes off? They're making an absurd amount of
>money selling you sickness. The combined profits
>of pharmaceutical companies annually are in the
>hundreds of billions of dollars.
>
>They try their best to underplay how all the
>different pharmacological agents may interact
>within the body. The best they can do is provide
>you a virtual laundry list of potential adverse
>side effects that they tuck away in small print
>on their packaging while letting you be the
>Roulette guinea pig. Just look at the Vioxx scandal as an example.
>
>We lost over 3,000 Americans on 9/11, yet year
>after year we lose many more than this from
>pharmaceutical side effects and most people
>never give it a second thought. Instead, the FDA
>shelters and protects this industry of death.
>The twisted pharmaceutical philosophy of
>"health" is completely contradictory to good
>health principles, yet forms the basis of
>university curriculum that is used to brainwash
>all future doctors into this grand scam.
>
>Mainstream media bestows praise and accolades
>upon this industry for their "so-called" medical
>achievements while the FDA, AMA, WHO and other
>pharmaceutical alphabet soup front operatives do
>all in their power to squelch and destroy safe,
>natural, non-toxic, non-lethal and proven
>methods of treatment. It's really no surprise
>that the rapid expansion of the pharmaceutical
>industry with the help of its lackeys is in
>direct correlation to the rapid decline in
>health we're seeing throughout the world.
>There's a reason why health care costs are skyrocketing.
>
>The pharmaceutical industry has made sure that
>they have hundreds of different symptoms
>requiring medication and they're sure you suffer
>from at least one of them. There are well over
>150 million Americans taking at least one
>pharmaceutical drug every day. Some are taking
>upwards of fifteen to twenty, especially the
>guinea pigs in nursing homes and hospitals that
>are pumped full of them against their will. In
>this medical basket of goods they've got
>everything from A to Z to suppress symptoms, but
>nothing to help you get well and off of their
>drugs. The sad fact is once you're on
>pharmaceutical drugs you will be for the rest of
>your life unless you get a wake up call on this
>grand deception. All pharmaceutical drugs are
>designed to keep you in a perpetual state of disease management.
>
>They've got antacids, anti-anxiety drugs,
>anti-acne drugs, anti-arrhythmic drugs,
>anti-asthmatic drugs, antibiotics,
>anti-coagulants, anti-convulsants,
>anti-depressants, anti-diabetic agents,
>anti-diarrheals, anti-diuretics, anti-emetics,
>anti-estrogens, anti-histimines,
>anti-hypertensives, anti-infectives,
>anti-inflammatory agents, anti-psychotics,
>anti-spasmodics, anti-thyroid agents, anti-ulcer
>agents, anti-virals ­ anti ad infinitum. If this
>present course of madness is not altered, soon
>the entire planet will be medicated with some
>type of pharmaceutical drug. But then again, perhaps that's the ultimate 
>goal.
>
>It may come as a shock to many of you that the
>Bible implies that pharmaceutical drugs are a
>tool of the devil and that they're being used to
>deceive the nations of the world. Let me explain.
>
>The word sorcery as it appears in the New
>Testament version of the King James Bible comes
>from the Greek word pharmakeia, which is where
>the English words pharmaceutical and pharmacy
>both come from. With that fact in mind, the
>following scripture takes on a whole new
>meaning: "For by thy sorceries (pharmaceuticals)
>were all nations deceived. And in her (Babylon)
>was found the blood of prophets, and of saints,
>and of all that were slain upon the earth."
>(Rev. 18:23-24) Pretty frightening interpretation ­ wouldn't you say?
>
>Isn't it time you stopped playing Pharmaceutical
>Roulette with your life by gambling on
>dangerous, unproven, and potentially
>life-threatening pharmaceutical drugs? Stay off
>the medical merry-go-round! Stay off their drugs
>unless it's absolutely necessary in a time of
>crisis to take them. My advice to you is to seek
>out natural therapies that address the cause of
>the disease before choosing drugs as your only
>option. There are many valuable resource
>materials available in health food stores and a
>wealth of information on the Internet to help
>you navigate around these medical lies. Making
>the right decision could be a matter of life and death.
>
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John


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