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Quotes about Drug Profits from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
"With some of his drug profits, he granted scholarships to medical students, but not one penny did he give to any of the chiropractic or natural therapy schools, even though he himself used homeopathy, knowing full well that the drug empire he was erecting was a scam. One way he helped build his medical monopoly was funding, with millions of dollars, only those medical schools that made medical students memorize the uses of his thousands of patented drugs." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)
| "How Can We Stop Canada from Undermining Our drug profits?" "How Can We Convince the Public that Canadian Drugs are Unsafe?" "How Can We Control The Public's Access to Vitamins?" "How Can We Promote Government Supported Drug Coverage?" "How Can We Control What's Covered By Patients' Insurance?" "How Long Can We Effectively Continue Our Deception?" "How Can We Reduce Our Legal Liability For Risky Drugs?" "This Drug is Too Profitable To Pull, So What Can We Do About It?" - Dr. David W. Tanton; Ph.D., A Drug-Free Approach To Healthcare, Revised Edition (Get the book.)
| "As drug profits skyrocketed, so also did injuries and deaths suffered from abusing these drugs. There was a 1000% increase in these reported for Ritalin alone in children aged 10 to 14. According to Mr. Haslip, "This now equals or exceeds reports for the same age group involving cocaine."
As a physician and father, I became increasingly disturbed as the numbers of children labeled ADHD skyrocketed." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)
| "The FDA continues to fully support the practice, not surprisingly, as it has now become the primarily gatekeeper through which drug profits are generated. Without the brand pushing, disease mongering, and fraudulent health claims made in such advertising, most consumers would never be interested in the drugs. Today, direct-to-consumer advertising has become an embarrassment to the scientific community and one of the greatest examples of the Big Pharma / FDA conspiracy designed to exploit the public for maximum profits, regardless of who is harmed in the process.
See www.StopDrugAds." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)
"Disease mongering: Convincing someone to take a dangerous medicine for a normal condition to create more drug profits.
Disease mongering is also founded on the idea that diseases are complex and mysterious, and that finding cures will take billions of dollars and decades of research. In reality, most health conditions have simple underlying causes that are inexpensive to prevent or treat using natural health strategies (see the second half of this book)."
- Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)
| "For four decades these companies have consistendy been first in return of revenues, assets, and equity, fifth in profit growth and fourth in total return for investors. drug profits surpass ad other Fortune 500 companies, and they have for forty years outperformed Standard & Poor's 500 Index by 10% every year. Ad this mind-boggling wealth is made on drugs for cancer, cholesterol, smoking, hair loss, impotence, ulcers, menopause and depression. "Blockbuster drugs are harvested out of chronic diseases," Simpson reports." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.)
| "This is because a large proportion of the money being laundered worldwide comes from drug profits. The other compelling reason is that making hard drugs legal would reduce crime by more than 50 percent in some cities. Many policemen would endorse this approach.
At wholesale prices, the world drug trade is said by the U.N. to be worth more than $500 billion a year, second only to crude oil in World Trade and about equal to the legal GNP. of (say) the U.K. or Italy." - Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.)
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