- Lynne Born is a longtime alternative health care activist,
writer and independent medical researcher.
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- The Bush administration's policies in the "war on
terror" are substantially enriching the pharmaceutical corporations
while subjecting the public to dangerously explosive consequences. The
pharmaceutical industry spent over $262 million to bring George W. Bush
to power during the 2000 election cycle, investing more than any other
industry to solidify their power in both Congress and the White House.1
The pharmaceuticals have recouped their investment many times over as Bush
has signed into law the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness
and Response Act of 2002 and Project BioShield, 2 providing over $7 billion
to develop and warehouse millions of doses of new vaccines and drugs as
"countermeasures" to biological weapons such as ebola, plague,
anthrax and smallpox.
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- These new drugs and vaccines are exempt from the regular
approval process and can be fast tracked to market with no human testing
at all,3 an unprecedented step for an industry already responsible for
hundreds of thousands of deaths per year. The fact that the current system
that produces "standard" pharmaceutical drugs is the third leading
cause of death in the United States has been completely overlooked in the
rush to bring the pharmaceutical industry into the biowarfare business.4
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- While the drug companies would like us to believe that
these deaths are the unfortunate side effects of a careful and caring industry,
they are actually the direct result of the ways in which pharmaceuticals
manipulate drug trials and skew research data to produce the positive efficacy
and safety results they need to bring new products to market. Building
a new class of drugs and vaccines on the foundation of the current flawed
and corrupt system, combined with the fact that the pharmaceuticals will
be working with ever more infectious and lethal biowarfare agents, has
the potential to "fast track" the creation of catastrophic epidemics
of the very diseases they are attempting to prevent.
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- Pharmaceuticals profit from the Homeland Security Act
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- While the bioterrorism laws provide a new and guaranteed
income stream to the pharmaceuticals, Bush's Homeland Security Act of 2002
completes the giveaway by making any bioterror countermeasures mandatory
for the entire population of the United States at the sole discretion of
the president or the secretary of health and human services.5 In combination
with state laws titled Model Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA), the government
is authorized to quarantine, isolate, imprison or fine anyone who refuses
to take these untested drugs and vaccines.6 Detailed plans have already
been drawn up by the Pentagon and Department of Defense to use the military
to enforce these compulsory injections and medical treatments,7 and state
public health departments have used portions of their bioterrorism budget
to identify large sites such as stadiums, malls and cinemas to hold mass
vaccinations.8
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- Despite the creation of a massive new market paid for
with guaranteed government subsidies and exempt from the usual approval
process, the pharmaceuticals pushed for and received even more special
treatment. The Homeland Security Act provides full liability protection
for the vaccine manufacturers in the first pilot program to be sponsored
by Bush under the legislation, the smallpox vaccination program. This liability
protection was clearly needed, as the vaccine has caused a vastly higher
rate of death and injury than was officially anticipated. But with blanket
liability protection, what incentives remain for the pharmaceuticals to
develop biowarfare drugs and vaccines that are safe for human use?
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- Dangers of "standard" pharmaceutical drugs
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- The pharmaceutical industry already kills well over 100,000
people every year from correctly prescribed drugs in hospitals alone.9
This does not include deaths occurring outside the hospital or from incorrectly
prescribed medications, or the millions of disabilities each year. To further
put this in perspective, the death rate from illegal drugs is 20,000 per
year; the initial death rate from the Union Carbide chemical disaster in
Bhopal, India was 20,000; and 58,000 Americans died in the Vietnam War.
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- Contrary to what most people believe, drug companies,
not the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or independent researchers,
finance and control virtually the entire process of testing and bringing
new drugs to market. Because pharmaceutical companies finance the vast
majority of all drug trials, they design and structure the studies, select
and pay researchers, choose the patients, analyze the test results, closely
oversee the writing and publication of the final studies and release the
drugs through their massive sales network to the medical profession. No
independent source confirms or oversees the research, analysis or final
conclusions.10
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- The subjects of drug trials are generally young healthy
men, even though the target market for the drug may be women, children
or the elderly. Many of the paid subjects are "regulars" who
supplement their income by hiding their participation in multiple drug
trials when not enough time has passed for the previous drugs to fully
leave their systems. The fraud begins at the onset of the drug trial, as
drug companies will frequently drop large numbers of subjects who show
what the industry classifies as a "sensitivity" or "bad
reaction" to the drug. In other words, test subjects who experience
exactly the kind of toxic reaction the trial is supposed to be tracking
are dropped from the results simply because it occurs early in the trial.
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- Drugs are frequently tested on much smaller numbers of
people and for shorter periods than is generally thought. Psychiatric drug
trials typically last only four to six weeks, and no psychiatric drug has
ever been shown (i.e., tested) to be safe for long-term use. In many drug
trials, only one or two dozen subjects actually finish the trial. Doctors
who regularly prescribe Prozac believed that the drug had been tested on
more than 10,000 patients before they prescribed it to their patients,
a figure they had read in Eli Lilly marketing material. In fact, Dr. Peter
Breggin went to great lengths to count the actual number of patients who
had completed the trials and found the total number to be 286, a far cry
from the thousands that the public had been led to believe.11
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- While most people believe that a drug that gains FDA
approval has gone through many successful drug trials that have proven
it to be substantially more effective than the placebo, in fact the entire
drug trial system works on a simple "pass/fail" basis. When the
company submits the trial results to the FDA and the FDA finds the drug
insufficient or even harmful and rejects it, the company can simply drop
and manipulate portions of data from the very same trial, submitting different
permutations of the numbers over and over again until the FDA finally accepts
the drug. It takes only two successful trials, even with small numbers
of patients, and includes trials that had been previously rejected by the
FDA but later passed with reworked numbers, for the FDA to approve a drug.
And the drug does not have to show a substantial benefit over the placebo,
only that it is "marginally" better than the placebo.12
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- Drug companies also systematically obscure adverse drug
reactions and even deaths that occur during the trials by simply deleting
or mislabeling them in the data submitted to the FDA. Suicides that occurred
during the testing of Prozac were systematically mislabeled as "no
drug effect" or "depression," so that when the FDA examined
the drug data, patient suicides could not be found and counted.13 Suicide
was one of the first major problems encountered when Prozac was released
on the market, leading to multiple deaths and lawsuits. Most of the very
symptoms fueling the current debate about the dangers of anti-depressant
drugs were known and documented by the drug companies during the trials,
but the drugs were released anyway.
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- Manipulating research results
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- Until 1991, 80 percent of drug testing was done by medical
university research departments, giving the pharmaceutical companies "brand
names" such as Harvard or Stanford Medical School to associate with
their research data. Since the 1990s, however, the pharmaceutical companies
are cutting costs by using commercial for-profit centers to perform the
majority of all drug testing.
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- It is well documented that if for-profit centers do not
produce positive results for pharmaceutical companies, the drug companies
take their lucrative contracts to another of the hundreds of competing
centers. An analysis of 70 studies of specific cardiac drugs showed that
96 percent of authors with ties to the pharmaceutical company produced
favorable results, while only 37 percent of independently funded studies
of the same drugs showed favorable results.14 Additionally, many of these
centers have been found to have financial stakes in the outcome of their
own trials, standing to benefit financially from a drug's approval and
subsequent marketing. Many have been sued for deaths and injuries that
occurred during fraudulently structured drug trials after producing poor
quality data and using inadequately trained investigators to test drugs
on subjects who were not informed of the drugs' known dangers or told of
the financial conflicts of interest.15
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- Drug companies retain the right to stop the publication
of any study that does not show favorable results, including studies that
show dangerous or deadly reactions. Should a company-funded study show
negative results, drug companies have been known to delay the publication
of the negative study, quickly fund a new study that produces a favorable
response and then publish only the positive results.16 Dr. James O. Kahn
conducted a study that concluded an AIDS vaccine didn't work and had a
multimillion dollar lawsuit initiated against him by the corporate funder
of the study after it tried unsuccessfully to block publication of the
data.17 And since both negative drug data studies and information on the
frequency of these heavy-handed tactics are suppressed, we have no way
of knowing how many drug studies with negative results have been censored
by the very pharmaceutical companies that sponsored them in the first place,
even if the drug's release ends up causing multiple injuries and deaths.
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- Adverse reaction reporting system designed to fail
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- Most people don't know that the release of a new drug
is actually the final phase of the drug trial-Phase IV. After the drug
has been approved by the FDA, thousands and even millions of patients taking
the newly released drug are unknowingly participating in the largest, most
poorly controlled medical experiment in the world.
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- The fraudulent and deceptive practices of the pharmaceuticals
continue during Phase IV when adverse reactions of injury and death are
supposed to be tracked and reported to determine if the drug should be
pulled from the market. However, not only is the adverse reporting system
entirely voluntary, but 90-99 percent of all adverse reactions are never
reported, according to the head of the FDA for most of the 1990s, David
Kessler.18 Imagine the true death rate if this fact were taken into account.
Forty percent of all doctors don't know that an adverse reporting system
even exists. When a group of doctors was studied to determine how many
adverse reactions they reported, it was found that only 6 percent of all
reactions were reported-and these doctors knew that their rate of reporting
adverse reactions was being monitored. And no program or oversight of any
kind exists to ensure that reports made directly to the pharmaceutical
companies are then reported to the FDA-the process is run entirely on the
"honor system."
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- On the rare occasions when adverse reactions are reported,
as much as 50 percent of the basic information, such age or sex, is simply
left blank. Additionally, the reporting system is divided into thousands
of highly delineated classifications, such as "insomnia," "restlessness,"
"hyperactivity"-160 different terms exist for central nervous
system symptoms alone. While it may be good science to have a record of
all the various gradations of side effects, this system artificially lowers
the percentage of side effect occurrences so the FDA or drug company can
say that "less than 1 percent" suffer from any given symptom,
making the probability of side effects seem very small. A more accurate
use of the classifications would be to tally related symptoms in a family
of side effects, for example, adding together "insomnia, restlessness
and hyperactivity" for a total percentage of nervous system side effects
that would result in higher but more accurate numbers. Eli Lilly classified
sexual side effects for Prozac as "decreased libido 1.6 percent, ejaculatory
problems 1.9 percent, impotence 1.7 percent," etc., but if you add
the numbers of sexual side effects together, the total is closer to 18
percent, a vastly higher number. However, even those numbers are inaccurate,
as subsequent studies of Prozac have shown the real percentage of sexual
side effects is between 50 and 70 percent of all users.19
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- Although the number of dangerous effects and deaths are
vastly underreported by the drug companies, people notice the problems
and stop taking their medications. Fifty to 75 percent of patients quit
taking their blood-pressure and cholesterol-lowering medications within
one to two years, but the FDA and drug companies keep no record of the
vast numbers of patients who drop their medications due to adverse effects.
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- Marketing department controls drug recalls
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- These problems are built into the system itself, as the
pharmaceutical companies have used their considerable financial muscle
to defang the FDA through their powerful congressional lobby, reducing
its role to a minimum. Because it works on an honor system, the FDA simply
assumes that the drug companies are giving it accurate information. The
FDA reviews only a small sample of data, asks a few questions, rarely checks
the original data from the trials, accepts the drug label as written verbatim
by drug company executives, rarely issues warnings of dangerous effects
and has to be bullied and pushed by consumer groups into pulling a drug
off the market, even after multiple deaths have already occurred.
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- The obvious conclusion is that because drugs involve
the health and welfare of the public, reporting and tracking adverse drug
reactions should be mandatory and all data from the drug trials open to
public scrutiny. Currently, only the laborious process of a Freedom of
Information Act request will open the drug trial data to the public. Even
then, much of the information on adverse reactions or deaths is blacked
out by the drug companies as "proprietary trade secrets."
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- In a profound conflict of interest, as the marketing
department attempts to bring sales of a new drug to "blockbuster"
status for potential billions of dollars per year, this same marketing
department is responsible for tracking and reporting any evidence of harm
or death that would take their multimillion-dollar investment off the market.
Clearly, this is a system designed to fail with no incentive for change,
since the end result has been to produce massive profits for the pharmaceuticals,
even at the expense of our lives.
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- Homeland Security: forced vaccinations and drugs
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- The existing dangers of standard pharmaceutical medicines
can only increase exponentially with the lack of human testing and fast
track approval of the newly created class of bioterror drugs and vaccines.
Bush's Homeland Security Act allows any untested drug and vaccine to be
forced on the public, making refusal a crime. Along with the MEHPA laws20
and already existing public health laws, the government is then authorized
to enforce the quarantine of individuals and entire cities, confiscate
property from anyone who resists and take control of roads into and out
of your city and state, in case anyone might try to leave town to avoid
being medicated or vaccinated. The government can also confiscate all communication
devices such as telephones or computers, and can seize your house, car,
food, clothing and firearms.
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- The military is authorized to enforce the law, presumably
holding down anyone who resists vaccination and escorting resisters or
those too ill to take the shots to jail or the quarantine area for isolation,
with the length of time to be determined by the state. An "actual"
event of bioterrorism isn't even necessary; a "potential" emergency
will suffice, and the power to declare this emergency resides entirely
with the secretary of health and human services and the president.
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- Bush's smallpox debacle
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- The first program deployed through the draconian Homeland
Security Act was Bush's smallpox vaccination program. While not mandatory
for civilians, vaccination was mandatory for military personnel under threat
of court martial, dishonorable discharge or jail. With great fanfare, Bush
announced that 500,000 health-care workers would be vaccinated beginning
in January 2003, to be followed shortly by 10 million emergency personnel.
Right from the start, hundreds of hospitals and health-care unions across
the nation refused to participate, citing concerns about adverse effects
and compensation problems. By summer 2003, the program had ground to a
halt. Numerous states had suspended it due to the high number of deaths
and injuries and a lack of volunteers willing to subject themselves to
the very real danger of the vaccine with no credible threat of an actual
smallpox attack.
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- While the public was repeatedly told that the expected
death rate from the vaccine would be one to two per million, in fact, there
have been three deaths among the approximately 36,000 civilians vaccinated
(including the few hundred embedded reporters). This makes the actual death
rate 80 times higher than what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) told the public to expect. Serious adverse reactions such as brain
swelling, heart inflammation, heart attacks, uncontrolled ulceration of
the skin and more, are one in 583, seven times higher than the CDC's original
guesstimate of one in 4,000. It is virtually certain that even these numbers
are vastly underreported since, once again, the adverse reporting system
for the program was not mandatory, mirroring the same shoddy and incomplete
tracking system that benefits the pharmaceutical industry.
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- Before the program began, many health-care professionals
expressed grave misgivings about reintroducing the live virus in the smallpox
vaccine back into the population and accurately predicted the higher rates
of death and injury. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
has called the smallpox vaccine the most dangerous of all vaccines ever
produced, because it contains a live virus of unknown origin. In fact,
while the virus in the vaccine is supposed to be cowpox, even the CDC admits
that it is not. Several independent labs have analyzed the vaccine and
cannot identify the virus, a terrifying fact that is actually verified
by the CDC while simultaneously ignored by mainstream medicine.21
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- Historically, the smallpox vaccine was responsible for
so many side effects and deaths during its use that a medical diagnosis
"Vaccination Disease" was actually created during the 1800s.
Vaccination Disease was diagnosed when the vaccinated patient exhibited
exactly the same kinds of skin, heart and lung problems that we see today
in Bush's vaccination program. These historical facts are readily uncovered
from 200 years of medical literature and were cited by the many voices
expressing concern about reintroducing the smallpox vaccine into the public
body before the program began.
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- Bush and the CDC continue to deny the extent of deaths
and injuries even at the expense of people's lives, and the media began
to minimize and censor the actual death and injury rates only weeks after
they occurred. As the deaths followed one after another in March and April
2003, headlines read "First death: Nurse dies after smallpox vaccination";
"Second worker dies of heart attack after smallpox vaccination";
and "Coroner rules [smallpox] vaccinations contributed to reservist's
death." Yet, by June 2003, mainstream media articles were not only
ignoring the earlier deaths, they continue to use the old, inaccurate figure
of one or two deaths per million rather than the newly updated, more truthful
numbers.
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- Even if the program were to end, it is clear that the
pharmaceutical industry and the White House have invested considerable
political capital in the future of smallpox vaccinations. The first countermeasure,
Project BioShield, calls for is the development of millions more doses
of yet another smallpox vaccine. Mysteriously, the National Institutes
of Health is also investing millions of dollars in eight to 10 additional
treatments for smallpox itself, money that increases pharmaceutical profits
at the expense of the real, pressing and urgent health-care needs the public
faces today.
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- Bad drugs on steroids
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- The deadly manipulation and fraud so prevalent in the
current pharmaceutical system could lead to explosive consequences when
fewer safeguards, less testing and the intentionally fraudulent adverse
tracking system are combined with the terrible power of deadly pathogens
such as ebola, plague and anthrax. One of the many hazardous provisions
of Project BioShield calls for a massive expansion of America's biological
and chemical warfare production by building a network of several dozen
new bioweapons laboratories all over the United States. This would turn
pharmaceuticals into bioweapons factories, but without the government oversight
and safety regulations normally accorded these dangerous pathogens. Because
the pharmaceuticals will have to create and store these infectious agents,
it is the drug companies in partnership with the U.S. government that are
endangering the public, and a groundswell of resistance from the cities
where the new labs are to be built has already begun.22
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- It is an unfortunate fact that the pharmaceutical companies
cannot protect us from chemical and biological warfare attacks. Any number
of agents could be used, from simple small releases of readily available
chemicals to complex, genetically engineered viruses against which no vaccine
could ever be created and mass produced in time, even if the vaccines worked.
The only effective way to reduce or end the threat of biological and chemical
attacks against the United States is to develop "right relations"
with other nations around the world by stopping America's ceaseless march
toward imperialist domination.
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- The next phase of the pharmaceutical "war on terror"
will take place in the media and the minds of the public, where more and
more "emerging diseases" will be sensationalized in an atmosphere
of hysteria and fear, justifying the giveaway of billions of dollars to
the drug companies. From the recommendation of the smallpox vaccine for
the monkey pox outbreak when the vaccine has never been proven to stop
monkey pox infection, or the quarantine of individuals who had only a cough
and a mild fever out of fear of SARS, every new cough can be classified
as a deadly disease, and every new fever will create fear of an unknown
illness to move the public one step closer to acceptance of total vaccination
or force feeding of drugs never before tested on humans.
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- For Bush to purchase millions of doses of a 30-year-old,
untested, ineffective and deadly smallpox vaccine without even a threat
of a smallpox attack, jeopardizing the lives of uninformed citizens, is
a criminal act of biowarfare directed against the American public. Unfortunately,
the next round of "protection from biowarfare agents" may not
be voluntary, and the newly created pharmaceutical war machine will needlessly
drug the American public to death for corporate profits.
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- 1 Public Citizen's Congress Watch, The Other Drug War:
Big Pharma's 625 Washington Lobbyists (Washington, DC: Public Citizen,
July 2001), p. i. The full report is available online at http://www.Citizen.org/congress/"campaign/"special_interest/reports_da
te/articles.cfm?ID=6537. The pharmaceutical industry spent $177 million
on lobbying, $65 million on issue ads and $20 million on campaign contributions.
Of the contributions directly to political parties, the majority (68 percent)
went to Republicans.
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- 2 The $5.6 billion for the Project BioShield was included
in the Homeland Security Appropriations bill signed by Bush on October
1, 2003. See the http://www.whitehouse.gov press release of October 1,
2003.
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- 3 Marc Kaufman, "FDA acts to speed bioterror medicines,"
Washington Post, May 31, 2002.
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- 4 After a definitive review and close study of medical
peer-review journals and government health statistics, these authors found
that the American medical system is responsible for hundreds of thousands
of deaths and millions of adverse events each year. By Gary Null PhD, Carolyn
Dean MD ND, Martin Feldman MD, Debora Rasio MD, Dorothy Smith PhD, available
online at http://www.mercola.com/2003/nov/26/death_by_medicine.htm.
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- 5 "The secretary shall specify in such [bioterror
emergency] declaration the substance or substances that shall be considered
covered countermeasures. . ." Homeland Security Act of 2002, Section
304(c)(p)(2)(A)(ii).
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- 6 Model Emergency Health Powers Act (commonly referred
to as MEHPA). See Center for Public Law and the Public's Health for State
Legislative Activity Table available online at http://www.publichealthlaw.net/Resources/"Modellaws.htm;
see also http://www.909shot.com/ActionAlerts/"what_you_need_to_know.htm
for updates on which states have passed these draconian laws.
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- 7 Ellen M. Grossman, "U.S. officials mull a military
role in enforcing smallpox quarantine," Inside the Pentagon, December
19, 2002; Pamela Hess, "Pentagon plans for smallpox outbreak,"
United Press International, December 13, 2002.
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- 8 Michelle Hillman, "Smallpox program may be sick,"
Metro West Daily News, May 17, 2003.
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- 9 Jason Lazarou, Bruce H. Pomeranz and Paul N. Corey,
"Incidence of adverse drug reactions in hospitalized patients: A meta
analysis of prospective studies," Journal of American Medical Association,
April 15, 1998, 279(15): 1200-05. This study found more than 100,000 deaths
per year and 2,000,000 severe side effects in U.S. hospitals alone. However,
this study did not include deaths from pharmaceutical drugs that occur
outside the hospital, or deaths from prescription errors by doctors or
pharmacists. Additionally, because 90-99 percent of all adverse drug reactions
are never reported (see footnote 18), this figure should be adjusted substantially
upwards.
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- 10 Thomas Bodenheimer, "Uneasy alliance-clinical
investigators and the pharmaceutical industry," New England Journal
of Medicine, May 18, 2000, 342(20):1539-44.
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- 11 Dr. Peter Breggin, The Anti-Depressant Fact Book:
What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, and
Luvox (Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2001), p. 148.
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- 12 Dr. David Ginsberg, The Investigators Guide to Clinical
Research, CenterWatch, Inc.; 3rd edition (January 2002); Dr. Jay Cohen,
Overdose, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam (2001); Stephen Fried, Bitter Pills,
Bantam (April 1998).
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- 13 Breggin, p. 6.
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- 14 Henry Thomas Stelfox, Grace Chua, Keith O'Rourke and
Allan S. Detsky, "Conflict of interest in the debate over calcium-channel
antagonists," New England Journal of Medicine, January 8, 1998, 338(2):101-06.
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- 15 Thomas Bodenheimer and Ronald Collins, "The ethical
dilemmas of drugs, money, medicine," Seattle Times, March 15, 2001.
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- 16 Bodenheimer, "Uneasy alliance."
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- 17 Bodenheimer and Collins, "Ethical dilemmas."
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- 18 David Kessler, " Introducing MedWatch: A new
approach to reporting medication and device adverse effect and product
problems," Journal of American Medical Association, July 2, 1993,
269(21): 2765-68.
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- 19 M.J. Gitlin "Psychotropic medications and their
effects on sexual function: diagnosis, biology and treatment approaches."
Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, September 1994, 55(9):406-13.; J.G. Modell,
C.R. Katholi, J.D Modell and R.I DePalma, "Comparative sexual side
effects of bupropion, fluoxetine, paraxetine and sertraline," Clinical
Pharmacology and Therapeutics, April 1997, 61(4):476-87; A.L. Montejo-Gonzalez,
G. Llorca, J.A. Izquierdo, A. Ledesma, M. Bousona, A. Calcedo, J.L. Carrasco,
J. Ciudad, E. Daniel, J. De la Gandara, et al; "SSRI-induced sexual
dysfunction: fluoxetine, paroxetine, sertraline and fluvoxamine in a prospective,
multicenter and descriptive clinical study of 344 patients," Journal
of Sex and Marital Therapy, Fall 1997, 23(3):176-94; "Dutch study
attempts to quality sexual dysfunction profiles among SSRIs," Primary
Psychiatry, 1997, 4(7):22-3; M.D. Waldinger, M.W. Hengeveld, A.H. Zwinderman
and B. Oliver, "Effects of SSRI antidepressants on ejaculation: a
double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study with fluoxetine, fluvoxamine,
paroxetine, and sertraline," Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology,
August 1998, 18(4):274-81; M.H. Pollack, S. Reiter and P. Hammerness, "Genitourinary
and sexual adverse effects of psychotropic medication," International
Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 1992, 22(4):305 27; K.J. Bender, "New
antidepressants: a practical update," Psychiatric Times, February
1995, 12(1):2; and R.M. Hirschfeld, "Management of sexual side effects
of antidepressant therapy," Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 1999,
60 Suppl 14:27-30, discussion 31-5.
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- 20 See http://archive.aclu.org/issues/privacy/Model_health_feature.html
for an analysis by the American Civil Liberties Union of the repressive
MEHPA laws.
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- 21 Jonathan B. Tucker, Scourge (Grove Press, New York,
2001), p. 37. "The vaccine strain being employed around the world
was not cowpox virus that Jenner had used, but an entirely different orthopoxvirus
that did not exist in nature and became known as "vaccinia."
In 1939, Allan Downie of the University of Liverpool in England determined
that vaccinia was genetically distinct from both variola and cowpox. Where
vaccinia virus had come from, and when it had become the primary virus
used to vaccinate against smallpox, remained a mystery." And "Public
Forum on Smallpox" meeting held by the CDC on June 8, 2002 in St.
Louis, Missouri in which Dr. Harold Margolis, CDC senior adviser for smallpox
preparedness, stated that vaccinia is not cowpox, but rather a completely
different virus.
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- 22 Mark Martin, "Bioweapons proposal worries neighbors,"
San Francisco Chronicle, February 5, 2003.
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