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"I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as used now, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind--and all the worse for the fishes."- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1860)-
"Most of the tens of thousands of drugs on the world market are either unsafe, ineffective, unnecessary or a waste of money." Health Action International 1986, cited by Robert Sharpe, PhD in The Cruel Deception
"I had not been exploring Big Pharma for more than a couple of days before I was hearing of the frantic recruitment of third world 'volunteers' as cheap guinea pigs. Their role, though they may not ever know this, is to test drugs, not yet approved for testing in the US, which they themselves will never be able to afford even if the tests turn out reasonably safe." -- John le Carre
"It's rare to find an American over the age of 60 who isn't taking medication for a heart or cardiovascular problem. And it's not uncommon to see men in their late thirties or early forties taking cholesterol-lowering medication. I have no doubt that one of the reasons for this widespread drug use is the ability of pharmaceutical firms to advertise on television…."
Dr David G Williams Alternatives vol 9 no 5, Nov 2001
"As a general rule, prescription drugs cause imbalances in the body ranging from depletion of vitamins and minerals, to constipation and lowered immune function. -Earl L Mindel, RPh, PhD, Prescription Alternatives , p.vii
"Most medicines derive from one big contradiction: Our government demands that we test all drugs on animals prior to continuing human trials, and it admits that applying animal data to humans is a "leap of faith". No wonder, then, that each year tens of thousands of people get sick from legal pharmaceuticals. And many of them die. And no wonder our diseases go uncured.": C. Ray Greek, MD & Jean Swingle Greek, DVM in Sacred Cows and Golden Geese p. 58
"In part because of possible major differences in responses to drugs in animals and man, the knowledge gained from studies in animals is often not pertinent to human beings, will almost certainly be inadequate and may even be misleading." Dr Arnold D. Welch, Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine cited by Ray and Jean Swingle Greek ibid
Recent (1950) synthetic drugs often achieve rapid and spectacular effects in abolishing the symptoms of disease, but the patient is likely to be left with a protracted convalescence, needing tonics to help him over the effects of the drugs. Such treatment is neither scientific nor a credit to medical science and the healing art.
"What are the errors behind this line of treatment? First, there is the fundament fact that animals differ widely from man in habits and reactions, so that treatment based on animal response is bound to be misleading, if not harmful."--H. Fergie Woods, MD, member of the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Physicians, June 1950.
(Describing vivisection) "A legal system allowing pharmaceutical companies to market harmful products….It is an unscientific practice and should be outlawed, but this is prevented by financial interests, largely Swiss banks and the pharmaceutical industry which control Switzerland."
Dr Louis De Brouwer, French medical researcher and writer.
"Using a mouse to try to relate to the human condition--there is a fundamental ignorance...The role of experimental pathology in drug research--I've never seen it play any useful role. The model doesn't give us any clue to where to start chemically"(because the chemicals act differently in animals than in humans).
Sir James Black, pharmacologist, 1988 Nobel Prize in Medicine winner in Merck (sic!) Centennial Lecture at College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University reported in Cornell Chronicle April 23, 1992
As many of you are already aware, the drugs and surgery the existing medical establishment has foisted on you are not the solution to better health, but merely their methods of making more money off of you by treating only diseases - diseases their paradigm helped to foster in the first place.
Dr Joseph Mercola (http://www.Mercola.com) online newsletter Aug 24, 2002.
"One problem, says Prof (Mark) Fishman, is that companies are used to going about drug discovery in an orderly, linear manner. Drug companies study compounds first in their laboratories, then in animals and last in people. "This can't continue to happen," says Prof Fishman, "because when you move to animals and then to humans, things fall apart…..Prof Fishman questions traditional research methods, such as the routine use of mice in pre-clinical trials. Mice are very different from humans, he points out, so cannot be seen as equivalent. -Financial Times September 17, 2002 Prof. Fishman will head
Novartis' new pharmaceutical research department moved from Basle to Boston. He is head of Massachusetts General's cardiology department and on Harvard's medical faculty.
The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than the arrival of twenty asses laden with drugs.
Thomas Sydenham, 17th century physician
How sad that nearly one child a day has died due to side effects from drugs.
You can be sure that if this were a food or supplement there would be an enormous uprising and demands to address this issue that would likely result in the rapid removal of the offending product from the market. But, when the cause of death is due to a drug, the problem is universally ignored and nothing is done to limit the exposures. Joseph Mercola, MD
"The best guess for the correlation of adverse reactions in man and animal toxicity data is somewhere between 5% and 25%.
Dr Ralph Heywood, former scientific director of HLS
"With the average drug, only 30% derive a benefit while as many as 10% will experience adverse reactions. In America, approximately 100,000 patients die annually as a result of unpredictable effects of drug therapy."
Peter Goodfellow of SmithKline Beecham at Novartis drug symposium 1999
"Veterinarians do not tell mothers how to treat their children and human physicians should not tell owners how to treat their pets. Human and animal
metabolisms vary widely." Dorothy Murray, DVM
"Using human cells for testing the effects of a drug will be more scientifically valid than using other species." Dr Paul Skett
"The benefits of new drugs are always over-estimated and the risks of trying them out in research always under-estimated. Dr Jeremy Booth
". . . people do accept that medication, almost any medication, has risks.
Aspirin has risks! Anti-hypertensive medication has risks. Even penicillin
has risks." JoAnn E Manson, MD Professor of Medicine, Harvard
"Clearly drugs are sometimes appropriate and can save a person's life. But most of the time they are unnecessary, cause harm and cause the patient to divert much of their hard-earned income to the drug companies, which further perpetuates this indirect physician subsidy." Joseph Mercola, MD
"One probable reason for such common occurrence of strokes is over-the-counter (OTC) medications. I believe there are thousands of strokes, and other health problems, caused by these 'harmless' drugs." Dr David Williams
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