Inside the FDA Mafia
by Jon Rappoport
June 22, 2014
I post this piece now and then to show how
personal things can get inside a terminally corrupt government
agency.
It's not all about remote decisions made from a
great height.
These decisions can come about through the rank
intimidation the Mafia exercises with a member who wants to leave the
mob and go straight.
As in: "We know where your wife and kids
are."
This article is based on a Truthout interview of
a man who did drug reviews for the FDA. He examined applications to
approve new medical drugs for public consumption.
Pharmaceutical companies must have their new
drugs certified as safe and effective before they can enter the
market, before doctors can prescribe them. The FDA does this
certification. Thumbs up or thumbs down. The drug is okay or it
isn't.
Here's the story:
In a stunning interview with Truthout's Martha
Rosenberg, former FDA drug reviewer, Ronald Kavanagh, exposes the FDA
as a relentless criminal mafia protecting its client, Big Pharma,
with a host of mob strategies.
Kavanagh: "...widespread racketeering,
including witness tampering and witness retaliation."
"I was threatened with prison."
"One [FDA] manager threatened my
children...I was afraid that I could be killed for talking to
Congress and criminal investigators."
Kavanagh reviewed new drug applications made to
the FDA by pharmaceutical companies. He was one of the holdouts at
the Agency who insisted that the drugs had to be safe and effective
before being released to the public.
But honest appraisal wasn't part of the FDA
culture, and Kavanagh swam against the tide, until he realized his life
and the life of his children were on the line.
What was his secret task at the FDA? "Drug
reviewers were clearly told not to question drug companies and that
our job was to approve drugs." In other words, rubber stamp
them. Say the drugs were safe and effective when they were not.
Kavanagh's revelations are astonishing. He
recalls a meeting where a drug-company representative flat-out stated
that his company had paid the FDA for a new-drug approval. Paid for
it. As in bribe.
He remarks that the drug pyridostigmine, given to
US troops to prevent the later effects of nerve gas, "actually
increased the lethality" of certain nerve agents.
Kavanagh recalls being given records of safety
data on a drug---and then his bosses told him which sections not to
read. Obviously, they knew the drug was dangerous and they knew
exactly where, in the reports, that fact would be revealed.
We are not dealing with isolated incidents of
cheating and lying. We are not dealing with a few isolated bought-off
FDA employees. The situation at the FDA isn't correctable with a few
firings. This is an ongoing criminal enterprise, and any government
official, serving in any capacity, who has become aware of it and has
not taken action, is an accessory to mass poisoning of the population.
Fourteen years ago, the cat was let out of the
bag. Dr. Barbara Starfield, writing in the Journal of the American
Medical Association, on July 26, 2000, in a review titled, "Is
US health really the best in the world," exposed the fact that
FDA-approved medical drugs kill 106,000 Americans per year.
In interviewing her, I discovered that she had
never been approached by any federal agency to help remedy this
tragedy. Nor had the federal government taken any steps on its own to
stop the dying.
Ronald Kavanagh's story, exposed in Truthout,
never jumped the rails and made it into the mainstream press as the
explosive revelation it was.
Too hot to handle. Too many bodies buried. Too
many media outlets bought off by pharmaceutical advertising money.
Too close to bought-off government officials. Too likely to shake the
pillars of the medical cartel. Too real.
It was the kind of story that could actually wake
people up from their mind-controlled slumber.
It still is.
Jon
Rappoport
The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for
a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He
maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of
which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a
Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30
years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS
Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers
and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and
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