Hello good friends, I thought today was a fine day to post something on my favorite website. If anyone was wondering where I've been, I've been home battling health problems associated with taking the most dangerous drug in the history of that class of drugs. I'm referring to Vioxx. Well, I'm hanging in there folks, or more importantly, my kidneys and heart are hanging in there, but it's been a rough ride.
So why is today such a fine day to post something? Cuz I'm being sarcastic, of course. Today I heard the news about Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG being told by the FDA to put a sterner warning on it's flu medecine Tamiflu. You see, it turns out that Tamiflu might be responsible for causing psychotic behavior in children. It seems three children have jumped off balconies to their deaths and one ran into traffic killing himself.
Which makes me wonder "What The Fuck?" The medicine causes children to kill themselves and instead of yanking it off the shelves, the FDA wants a "sterner warning"? Sorry your kid went psycho folks, but you were warned. Here, have a smoke, it'll calm you down. Don't forget to read the surgeon generals warning. Now cancer's your problem, not ours.
Roche, of course, claims that the flu disease itself is responsible for their actions. Big fucking surprise there huh? What also isn't much of a surprise is how the Corporate Media is handling this. The first headline I found reads:
Roche Accepts FDA's Tamiflu Proposal
Ahh, so it's a proposal, not something Roche has to do. How fair and magnanimous Roche sounds for accepting that proposal. Next time a police officer proposes that criminal pull over, I wonder if the newspapers will run the headline "Criminal accepts officers proposal to pull over." Then I can think, oh, what a nice, wellmannered criminal he must be.
The article then continues to reassure the reader that Roche probably hasn't done anything wrong because:
the illness itself posed a risk of psychiatric problems, not just for those taking the Roche product. [Martina Rupp] stressed there was no causal relationship between Tamiflu and reported cases of delirium and hallucinations.
"It's important really that the label reflects that influenza itself can trigger such events."
Okay, covered our corporate asses?
When's the last time your kid got the flu and then responded to their name by growling like a wild beast at you as he ran out the door? When's the last time you heard about children flinging themselves off balcomies because they had the flu? What the fuck is in this medecine anyhow?
Fuck the MSM, let's search the internet and see:
According to a list compiled by Dr. Patricia Doyle at rense.com, a host of strange ingredients are used to make up Hoffman-La Roche's anti-flu drug Tamiflu, which has recently been connected with bizarre behavior, mostly in children.
So what the fuck is in Tamiflu? Here's a partial list of some of the more interesting and bizarre ingredients:
Pregelatinised maize starch Red iron oxide (E172) Shellac - A "natural plastic" secreted from the female lac insect. Sodium Stearyl Fumarate Talc - Preliminary links between talc and pulmonary issues, lung cancer, skin cancer and ovarian cancer have been established in studies
Titanium dioxide (E171) Yellow iron oxide (E172)
Sodium benzoate (E211) - When combined with absorbic acid (vitamin C), sodium benzoate can form benzene, a known carcinogen
Propylene glycol - Although generally recognized as safe (GRAS) by the FDA, propylene glycol is used as a food-grade antifreeze and is the primary ingredient of the paint inside a paintball
Tutti Frutti flavor
But hey, it's got Tutti Frutti flavor! It can't be ALL bad can it?
"This list of ingredients is downright amazing," said Mike Adams, author of "How to Beat the Bird Flu." "It contains an antifreeze used to winterize RVs, a chemical sweetener known to promote cancer, and a chemical preservative also known to promote cancer. Is it any wonder this drug, with all its chemical interactions, causes some people to go crazy and leap from tall buildings?
Which leads me back to "What The Fuck?" Isn't it the job of the FDA to protect Americans from dangerous drugs? Why is this shit being sold on our shelves?
Questions like these and their answers in turn lead me back to my own private hell, Vioxx. It seems that the Harvard School of Public Health did a study that found Vioxx to be dangerous.
Eric Ding, co-author of the Harvard School of Public Health study, was highly critical of Vioxx, saying that more could have been done to identify the drug's side effects before it caused any real damage.
"The risks of these drugs should have been made known to the public much earlier," he said. In addition, "tracking drug safety may be improved by adopting an active and continuous cumulative surveillance system."
Dr. David J. Graham, the associate director for science in the FDA's Office of Drug Safety known for blowing the whistle on both Vioxx maker Merck and the FDA itself, agreed in an editorial accompanying the Harvard study in JAMA.
Graham testified to a special Senate hearing on Vioxx's risks in 2004, and challenged his agency's claims that the drug actually protected people from heart attacks. He also accused the FDA of knowing about Vioxx's dangers before it was approved for marketing.
"It is clear that Vioxx increases the risk of heart attack, and that increase in risk begins with the first tablet a patient takes," Graham said
The FDA pooh-poohed Dr. Grahams statements. To which the aforementioned Mike Adams responded:
"It is amazing," added Mike Adams, a consumer health advocate and frequent critic of the FDA's favoritism towards Big Pharma, "that FDA politicians go to such great lengths to try to discredit the carefully-researched conclusions of one of the agency's top drug safety scientists. The FDA is at war with good science," Adams added, "and this war is producing countless casualties among American consumers who naively believed the FDA was trying to protect their health."
Nice to know who's out there trying to protect you and who's out there trying to kill you for a buck. Which begs the question: Would a massive violent citizen revolt which led to the deaths of government officials at the FDA be anarchy, revolution or just humans asserting their basic right to self defense?
