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Not to impugn the honor of William P. Hoar's intentions in "Between the Lines" (May 17 issue), but his information is a bit incomplete. According the Los Angeles Times, the California Association of Physicians and Surgeons, and even the CDC's own admission, well over 100,000 people in this country die each year from "properly" administered prescription drugs. This is considerably more than "distress" to "someone, somewhere, sometime."
Likewise, roughly 36,000,000 adverse effects are reported annually, resulting in more than 2,000,000 hospitalizations--all from drugs that the FDA has pronounced "safe and effective." The media cartel will neither headline this nor investigate it.
Numerous researchers have reported that the FDA receives money from the very entities it is supposed to be regulating, and one consequence of this is the suppression rather than promotion of cancer cures (this is ...