Posted by Squiggles on December 3, 2006, at 13:32:37
In reply to Re: Illness increases vulnerability to the irratio, posted by linkadge on December 3, 2006, at 13:18:44
> >What medicine does is bring them into the >mainstream by testing them and making them safe >and appropriate for individual cases. That's why >the FDA and other agencies exist. It eliminates >risk and regulates crime in the trade of these >substances.
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> The FDA does not make drugs safe. It just works to quantify the dammage that they can cause.
> And it also works to denounce the theraputic value of anything that cannot be patented.And what reason does the man-on-the-street have
to trust "natural" substances sold in health food stores, and not the FDA? Are you proposing that I should enter into a political fight because you have found evidence of FDA corruption but not
in the health food arena? Can you prove what you are saying; can you provide legal recourse for bodily harm, in case you are wrong?Squiggles
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