Years ago, William Faloon of the Life Extension Foundation flat-out called the FDA "the single biggest cause of death for American citizens."
The FDA is a glaring example of why REGULATION of business must be a NON-GOVERNMENT FUNCTION (as with the National Fire Protection Association, a self-funded nonprofit founded in 1896, and Underwriter Labs -- now just UL -- founded to regulate the fledgling electrical industry in 1894). Whenever GOVERNMENT is used as a regulator, corruption immediately creeps in and prices rise, safety diminishes, and pay-to-play becomes the norm.
REAL regulation protects the public by seeking an optimal balance of safety and cost; GOVERNMENT regulation protects and enriches corporations, institutions, and protected classes.
Here's an excerpt from a randomly-chosen article by Faloon, focusing on the (very roughly) eight million deaths the FDA may have caused by unreasonably delaying access to a single drug that was widely and safely used elsewhere.
A recent study on the mortality risk-reducing effects of metformin enabled our scientific team to conduct a startling calculation.1
More than eight million Americans may have died because of the 37-year delay in this one drug becoming available.
Although there is significant uncertainty with this estimate, it’s more than all Americans killed in all wars since the inception of this country!
I’ve written books exposing flaws in today’s drug-development process that was long ago rendered obsolete.
This article summarizes the loss of life that theoretically may have occurred because type II diabetics were denied access to metformin and how these tragedies can be prevented.
I also discuss cancer treatments using “off-label” drugs that are demonstrating remarkable survival improvements.
In 1995 I was given an ultimatum by the FDA.
Either I stop educating Life Extension® readers about lower cost drugs from other countries or I would face criminal charges and years in prison.
I respectfully declined to accept the FDA’s censorship dictate that would deny Life Extension® readers access to lifesaving medications.
Having just defeated the FDA in a nine-year legal battle, I was confident the public would continue to support our efforts to accelerate the availability of more advanced medications.
To put the situation into context, the Internet was in its infancy in the mid-1990s. Americans could not readily find pharmacies in other countries to send them medications.
By censoring Life Extension® magazine, as the FDA attempted, few Americans would know about better ways to treat their disease.
This included drugs like metformin for type II diabetics and ribavirin as an adjunctive hepatitis C medication.
Years ago, William Faloon of the Life Extension Foundation flat-out called the FDA "the single biggest cause of death for American citizens."
The FDA is a glaring example of why REGULATION of business must be a NON-GOVERNMENT FUNCTION (as with the National Fire Protection Association, a self-funded nonprofit founded in 1896, and Underwriter Labs -- now just UL -- founded to regulate the fledgling electrical industry in 1894). Whenever GOVERNMENT is used as a regulator, corruption immediately creeps in and prices rise, safety diminishes, and pay-to-play becomes the norm.
REAL regulation protects the public by seeking an optimal balance of safety and cost; GOVERNMENT regulation protects and enriches corporations, institutions, and protected classes.
Here's an excerpt from a randomly-chosen article by Faloon, focusing on the (very roughly) eight million deaths the FDA may have caused by unreasonably delaying access to a single drug that was widely and safely used elsewhere.