World Without Cancer The Story Of Vitamin b17 G Edward Griffin

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.Garrison, The Dictocrats, op.cit., pp.70, 71.1.Ambruster, Treason's Peace, op.cit., p.213.286 WORLD WITHOUT CANCER: Part TwoTHE PROTECTION RACKET 287could put the firm that hired them at a tremendous advantageS.E.Massengill Company of Tennessee.The previous year, oneover its competitors.hundred and seven people mostly children had died fromHere, again, we find the classic pattern of governmentingesting an anti-biotic substance known as "Elixir of Sulfanila-bureaucratic power being used, not for the protection of themide." The chemist had tested the compound for appearance,people as is its excuse for being, but for the aggrandizement offlavor and fragrance, but had not tested it for safety.individuals holding that power and for the elimination of honestThe attendant publicity resulted in public acceptance ofcompetition in the market place.The voters approve one exten-increased powers to the FDA requiring all drug manufacturers tosion of government power after another always in the naivetest each new compound for safety and to submit the results ofexpectation that, somehow, they will benefit.But, in the end, theythose tests to the agency for approval prior to marketing.Theinevitably find themselves merely supporting a larger bureauc-FDA also was empowered to remove from the market anyracy through increased taxes, paying higher prices for theirexisting substance it believed to be unsafe.consumer goods and losing one more chunk of personal freedom.From a strictly theoretical point of view, the first part of thisThere are almost no exceptions to this rule, as will be obviouslaw was beyond reproach, but the second part was a colossalif one but reflects for a moment on the results of governmentmistake.It is logical to require a food or drug manufacturer toentry into such areas of economic activity as prices and wages,take reasonable steps to insure the safety of his product.It is alsoenergy conservation, environmental protection, health care andlogical to require him to place appropriate warnings on hisso on.product labels where there is a possibility that its improper useAs the Frenchman, Frederic Bastiat, observed over a hundredcould result in harm.But to give a government agency the poweryears ago, once government is allowed to expand beyond itsto prohibit the marketing of a substance because it feels it isprime role of protecting the lives, liberty and property of itsunsafe this was the crack in the dike that eventually destroyedcitizens; once it invades the market place and attempts tothe barrier against the rushing flood waters of favoritism andredistribute the nation's wealth or resources, inevitably it fallscorruption.After all, most drugs could be removed from theinto the hands of those who will use it for "legalized plunder."shelves on the truthful assertion that they are unsafe; and, as weThere is no better way to describe the governments of the worldhave seen, the process by which some are removed and otherstoday and the government of the United States is no exception.allowed to remain is not always a scientific one.The FDA was added to the ever-lengthening list of govern-As Science magazine reported:ment regulatory agencies in 1906, largely as a result of theThe FDA is not a happy place for scientists to work.Severalcrusading efforts of a government chemist by the name of Harveyresearchers showed the students [who were gathering data on theWashington Wiley.Spurred on largely by the organized dairyFDA] atrocity logs in which they kept detailed accounts of assaultsindustry which wanted the government to pass laws whichon their scientific integrity.The most common complaint was thatwould hinder competition from non-dairy substitutes, Wileythe FDA "constantly interferes" with medium and long-rangebecame nationally famous through his books and speechesresearch projects, at least partly from fear that the results willagainst "fraud and poison" in our food.Pioneering the pattern embarrass the agency [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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