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"Investigative reporter Evelyn Pringle shares even more, in another one of her online articles, titled "The Bush Administration's FDA", as follows: Since the bush administration took control of the FDA, editorial pages in the major newspapers, along with respected medical journals, have broadcast outrage over the agency's failure to protect the public from an industry focused on profits only." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"The drug price no-negotiation provision was secured at the behest of the drug industry and the President by one of the Bush Administration's key point men in the House of Representatives, former Congressman Billy Tauzin, then Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Tauzin steered the bill through the House, condoning much of the arm-twisting used to secure its passage." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"Carmona says that during his tenure his speeches were censored by the bush administration and he was stopped from providing accurate scientific information to the public on a variety of issues. If it doesn't "fit into the ideological, theological, or political agenda," he told a congressional committee in 2007, it "is ignored, marginalized, or simply buried." "The job of surgeon general is to be the doctor of the nation," he lamented, "not the doctor of a political party." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"In Talking Back to Prozac (1994), I pointed out that Prozac was approved under the first bush administration and that George Bush had been a member of the board of directors of Eli Lilly, the manufacturer of Prozac. I also pointed out that Vice President Dan Quayle was from Indiana, the home state and international headquarters for Eh Lilly. At the time the FDA was approving Prozac, Quayle employed former EH Lilly personnel on his own staff, and Quayle had considerable leverage over the FDA as the chair of a special committee that was investigating its operations." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"The program deserves more attention, especially as the bush administration has announced its intention to reduce the program's funding by roughly 30 percent.49 "While the bush administration talks up its voluntary efforts to address climate change, these backroom cuts show that this is mostly hollow rhetoric," said Steven Nadel, executive director of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. "This is a big step backward at a time when the United States needs to show forward motion on energy efficiency and climate change issues." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Even after the woes that Big Pharma experienced between 2004 and 2007—the withdrawal of Vioxx from the market, the loss of half of the injectable flu vaccines because of quality control problems, and a growing public awareness of profiteering and an all-too-cozy relationship with the Bush administration—no one should worry unduly about the industry's fortunes." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "Under the bush administration, FDA has undermined enforcement and betrayed its consumer-first legacy. FDA must start enforcing the law and return to a culture that places public health concerns ahead of industry profits."53 In the drug industry generally, marketing dominates science. The drug companies consistently spend almost double on marketing what they do on research.54 As omnipresent as drug ads on TV have become, expenditures on advertising make up only a very small portion of the marketing budget." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"As if that weren't bad enough, Congress was not even allowed to see Medicare's own estimate of the real cost of the prescription drug bill before it voted (this estimate was $100-$200 billion higher than the projected cost that the bush administration was presenting to Congress). Medicare's chief actuary, Richard S. Foster, told the New York Times that he had been ordered not to provide this information to Congress and ordered not to respond directly to Congressional requests for data. Foster said that his understanding was that Medicare officials "would try and fire me" for doing so." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"The natural place to start is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which under the bush administration appears to have perceived itself as being a client of Big Pharma rather than serving the American public. The FDA is part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which itself is part of the executive branch of the government, reporting to the president of the United States. The FDA regulates, or is supposed to regulate, the industries that make up, remarkably, almost one-quarter of the American economy." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"The bush administration told Americans that the United States must invade Iraq because of proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was connected to Al Qaeda; while the mental health establishment told us, over an even longer period of time, that depressed patients need serotonin- and other neurotransmitter-enhancing drugs because a deficiency of such chemicals caused depression. The bush administration and the mental health establishment have now retreated from their earlier positions, but neither has spent a great deal of time or energy acknowledging errors." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"Investigative reporter Evelyn Pringle shares even more, in another one of her online articles, titled "The Bush Administration's FDA", as follows: Since the bush administration took control of the FDA, editorial pages in the major newspapers, along with respected medical journals, have broadcast outrage over the agency's failure to protect the public from an industry focused on profits only." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"While in Los Angeles several years ago, I heard Patti Davis, daughter of Ronald Reagan, attack the bush administration for its opposition to stem cell research. Since people had pointed out to her that she might be articulating excessive hope for stem cells and AD, she insisted that there is no such thing as false hope. While I appreciated Patti's sentiment, I disagree. Creating high expectations and then dashing hope when the great weight of reality crashes down potentially creates more misery and suffering in the long run and is ethically and scientifically questionable." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Congress has cut corporate profits taxes, and a pro-business bush administration has created an environment in which businesses have felt more free to avoid taxes. But it cannot be assumed that this situation will continue forever; corporate tax cuts cannot continue without risking some public backlash. Cost cutting cannot go on ad infinitum. Cost cutting by laying off workers is a controversial move that has a good chance of a political response, such as raising taxes on corporations. It also carries with it the possibility of disrupting pretax earnings in the future." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Veterans complained about access and difficulties establishing eligibility to be cared for by the VHA system because the bush administration withdrew the promise of benefits to vets who made over twenty-five thousand dollars or whose illness was not directly service related. Yet these complaints were about access, not the quality of the care received by veterans who are enrolled in the system. Those who get their care from the VHA consistently report high levels of satisfaction. "I couldn't be happier," says Raymond B. Roemer, a World War II veteran who spent eleven months in a German POW camp." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Lilly has multiple ties to the bush administration. The BMJ points out that George Bush senior was on Lilly's board of directors and Bush junior appointed Lilly's CEO, Sidney Taurel, to a seat on the Homeland Security Council. Lilly also made $1.6 million in political contributions in 2000, 82% of which went to Bush and the Republican Party.19 But the most crushing evidence that the plan had been inspired for financial gain came from another whistle-blower, Allen Jones, who had been an employee of the Pennsylvania Office of the Inspector General, before he was sacked for speaking up." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"The doors have been revolving for many decades, but during the George W. bush administration they practically came off their hinges, with more than one hundred top officials swinging through the doors. Michael Taylor and Linda Fisher were prime examples. Michael Taylor was a lawyer working for Monsanto. Then he was hired as a legal advisor for the FDA's Bureau of Medical Devices and Bureau of Foods, then back to Monsanto, and finally as executive assistant to the commissioner of the FDA." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.) "Thanks to its growing political influence within the bush administration, Big Agribusiness has been able to pack USDA with appointees who have a background of working, lobbying, or performing research for large food processing companies and trade associations. Conversely, there are virtually no high-level appointees at USDA with ties to family farm, labor, consumer, or environmental advocacy groups. Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, agrees: "Right now you would have a hard time finding a federal agency more completely dominated by the industry it was created to regulate." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

"For the bush administration and the biotech industry, Scheele was key to reopening Europe's lucrative market. The Clinton administration had also been an avid proponent of exporting America's agricultural biotechnology, and was equally unsuccessful in convincing the Europeans to ease their strict controls. European farmers had the potential to make the difference for firms like Monsanto, DuPont, Pioneer, and others making a profit or turning a loss on their multi-billion-dollar investments in genetic engineering. Into her office, she recalled, came representatives from the U.S." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"Watching the bush administration USDA blame the Canadians for our first mad cow cases, and shortly thereafter threaten a Kansas meat packer, Creekstone Farms, for the "crime" of wanting to test all of their cows at slaughter for Mad Cow disease. No wonder millions of Americans no longer trust the government or the media. No wonder millions of consumers are turning away from industrial meat and food and voting with their pocketbooks for healthy, sustainable, locally produced organic foods. But voting with our consumer dollars is not enough." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

"There were reports, after a letter was sent by the industry to Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson, that the bush administration was inclined to side with the sugar industry. 1, and many other scientists, were being encouraged at that time to contact our congressional representatives to stop this outrageous strong-armed tactic by the U.S. sugar companies. So, for added sugars, we now have two different upper "safe" limits: a 10% limit for the international community and a 25% limit for the U.S. Why such a huge difference? Did the sugar industry succeed in controlling the U.S." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"An American, not to mention a Belgian, might even be forgiven for taking comfort in our "litigious society" as a backstop against the weakening of the country's regulatory forces by the bush administration. But transatlantic ignorance can cut both ways. Pollet, anyway, could not be expected to know that back in the United States his employer has been one of the leading backers of a nationwide campaign to weaken that critical second limb of consumer protection." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"While the bush administration talks up its voluntary efforts to address climate change, these backroom cuts show that this is mostly hollow rhetoric," said Steven Nadel, executive director of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. "This is a big step backward at a time when the United States needs to show forward motion on energy efficiency and climate change issues." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"In the process, Donkers has discovered that the United States is indeed not only the bush administration, but also a country hungry for new means of breaking the stalemate that has long characterized efforts at environmental reform. This includes business people who see flaws in the shortsighted perspective now dominating Washington, and with state officials who, in the absence of federal leadership, are taking matters into their own hands and looking beyond Washington toward Brussels as a source of inspiration for environmental initiatives in state capitals across the country." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"The George Herbert Walker bush administration, with its cronies at the American Council for Science and Health (ACSH, an alleged science-based organization whose mission seems to be to defend the worst polluters in the land) together with Ketchum and Edelman (two whorish worldwide PR agencies), labeled me a threat to national security for revealing the pesticides and industrial chemicals in our food supply and particularly for pointing out that the raisins in your child's lunch contained fresh residues and metabolites of DDT." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Bush administration wanted opened. "Industry and the administration don't like REACH because they fear that environmental actors around the world could use that toxicity data to demand replacement of hazardous chemicals in their own countries," commented Stacy Vandeveer, a professor of political science at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"Yet efforts at reform, including attempts by the George W. bush administration to privatize Social Security, have gone nowhere. This failure partly reflects the reality that those who benefit from an all-encompassing social safety net are growing in numbers—and political clout. Ironically, the retirement-related concerns in the private sector seem almost inconsequential in comparison. Nonetheless, they are another layer on an ever-growing fiscal disaster, a burden that must ultimately be paid for in one way or another." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"This is the background for the Bush administration's attack on the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. The key legislation protecting the rights of the American people for free access to natural therapies and to freedom of health choice. If this fundamental human right to natural health is taken away the health of billions of people will be compromised and tens of millions of them will pay the ultimate price for generations to come. This public health notice was written by a medical doctor! I wholeheartedly support Dr. Rath's work and courage. I WAS RIGHT!" - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"Shift in Power Balance May Mold Summit," the Wall StreetJournalnotes that the Bush administration's decision to allow Russia to store spent nuclear fuel ahead of a gathering of top nations reflected a "shifting power balance between a United States facing challenges on several fronts and a Russia moving to reassert itself on the world stage." The United States is also losing the ability to influence alliances it might once have anchored or refused to sanction." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"And then, to add insult to injury, the bush administration "negotiates" a Medicare Benefit Program that claims to be saving health consumers millions of dollars by offering them 15 percent discounts on brand-name drugs. Clever. Only in America can people be convinced to believe they're getting a bargain while they're paying 100,000 percent over cost for chemicals that will actually harm them. And conventional medicine has the audacity to call herbalists snake oil salesmen! This focus on finding cures to justify today's drug cost is, of course, an outright lie." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"His book is a narrative, told through the people who are living with the daily effects of global warming, but it is also a damning critique of American environmental policy under the Bush administration: "Climate change begins and ends in America. We all know that the United States is the world's largest polluter, and yet the sheer weight of responsibility that Americans now carry of the world's plight has barely touched the national psyche." Let this book be the impetus for a much-needed wake-up call. The Discovery of Global Warming by Spencer R." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

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