By Matthew Hayward
July 25th, 2013. More on USA Today and its front page attacks on alternative medicine.
I love how they start with, "For a man heading to prison for selling dangerous weight-loss pills..." There is mention of one person dying from a workout. Dietary supplement, then it is later said that the person purposely overdosed. Again how can an argument about safety be brought up when the FDA approves drugs that kill tens of thousands of people yearly? This is all about money and big businesses that use the courts, papers, public opinion, and Congress to enhance their monopolies.
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Why are ‘USA Today’ and other news outlets losing readers and viewers? Could it have anything to do with the fact that they all read the same script? Yesterday I heard the catchphrase Chrysler blinks, but only after… on two radio stations and three TV news programs. I am confident if a person wanted to, they could comb over yesterday's and today’s news and find identical words in many more places than I annoyingly stumbled across.
But who is feeding them all the same stories? How does it work? Is there a story that gets broken, and the rest of the news agencies just copy it without changing a word? This is likely part of what is going on, but what is the point of having different news outlets if they are reporting the same things with the same words?
Some differences are notable with TV news like MSNBC and FOX. These so-called news outlets should not be included as they do not report the news but rather spin the news. Yes, both of them use propaganda sound bites and lack journalist integrity, just like the papers. They don’t repeat what everyone else is saying; they spin it into a Democrat Verse Republican issue and actively instigate division.
So back to the ‘USA Today.’ Today’s front page features an article on ‘alternative medicine.’ Just finishing a class at The Evergreen State College on health and nutrition where we read books and did research on the health care system and ‘alternative medicine,’ this caught my attention. I was excited at first glance, ‘this is great the ‘USA Today’ is going to slam the pharmaceutical industrial complex and show people how natural practices, exercise, and foods are healthier and better ways of treatment than many of the VERY harmful FDA-approved drugs that are getting large companies very rich.’
To my dismay, I read on. “Book hammers an industry that has been gaining traction with millions of Americans.” The article goes on to talk about the risks and potential side effects of alternative medicine. It also goes so far as to bring money and special interest into the fold.
Are you kidding me? Do they really think they can get away with trying to claim that a 34 billion-dollar-a-year business can compete with the lobbying of a multi-trillion-dollar industry that controls the FDA? And you want to talk about side effects. Something like 100,000 people a year die from taking prescription drugs. However you slice it, around 1000,000 people die preventable deaths yearly in the hands of the mainstream medical system.
Disclaimer: I believe in modern medicine and encourage anyone with a life-threatening illness or injury to seek professional ‘mainstream’ medical help. That said, I encourage you to do everything possible to try and keep from getting sick, all of which are natural actions, diet, etc. I also encourage you all to question medicine and consider alternatives, especially when there is either a long history of horrible side effects (there usually is) or if the drug is so new there is not enough history to know what it might do to you (Do not trust the often skewed test results that have been proven to be misleading and wrong).
Trust but verify; whatever comes from the government is not something to trust. Whatever comes from the media is definitely not something you can trust. Life is short and full of gambles, educate yourself and gamble wisely.
July 25th, 2013. More on USA Today and its front page attacks on alternative medicine.
I love how they start with, "For a man heading to prison for selling dangerous weight-loss pills..." There is mention of one person dying from a workout. Dietary supplement, then it is later said that the person purposely overdosed. Again how can an argument about safety be brought up when the FDA approves drugs that kill tens of thousands of people yearly? This is all about money and big businesses that use the courts, papers, public opinion, and Congress to enhance their monopolies.
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