Wednesday, August 15, 2012 by: Jon Rappoport
(NaturalNews) In a stunning interview with Truthout's Martha Rosenberg,
former FDA drug reviewer, Ronald Cavanaugh, exposes the FDA as a relentless
criminal mafia protecting its client, Big Pharma, with a host of mob strategies.
http://truth-out.org
Cavanaugh: "...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."
Cavanaugh 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 Cavanaugh swam against
the tide, until he realized his life and the life of his children was 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.
Cavanaugh'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.
Cavanaugh 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.
Read the entire landmark interview for yourself and see what the
FDA really is. 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.
Twelve 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.
http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com
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.
Jon Rappoport
The author of an explosive collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, Jon was a candidate
for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. 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 seminars on global politics, health,
logic, and creative power to audiences around the world.
www.nomorefakenews.com
About the author:
The author of an explosive new collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, Jon
was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of
California. 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 seminars on global politics, health, logic,
and creative power to audiences around the world.
www.nomorefakenews.com