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Originally posted by SirCoxone
who abuses unicorns? show them to me and I'll deal with it.
Originally posted by adeclerk
Just find a unicorn who is a medical doctor, and then starts telling people they can heal all their ailments with pieces of copper and crystal.
Originally posted by bsbray11
Originally posted by SirCoxone
who abuses unicorns? show them to me and I'll deal with it.
I didn't realize your real purpose in this thread was actually comedic relief. My bad.
Originally posted by adeclerk
Just find a unicorn who is a medical doctor, and then starts telling people they can heal all their ailments with pieces of copper and crystal.
More comedy instead of a serious rebuttal?
Seriously, show me where the FDA has ever went on a witch-hunt of a book-burning for unicorn-related literature.
Originally posted by adeclerk
They burned books on Stevia in the 90s. Maybe that's a cover up as well.
In 1991, after receiving an anonymous industry complaint, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) labeled stevia as an "unsafe food additive" and restricted its import.[30][57][58] The FDA's stated reason was "toxicological information on stevia is inadequate to demonstrate its safety."[59] This ruling was controversial, as stevia proponents pointed out that this designation violated the FDA's own guidelines under which natural substances used prior to 1958, with no reported adverse effects, should be generally recognized as safe (GRAS) as long as the substance was being used in the same way and format as prior to 1958.
Stevia occurs naturally, requiring no patent to produce it. As a consequence, since the import ban in 1991, marketers and consumers of stevia have shared a belief that the FDA acted in response to industry pressure.[30] Arizona congressman Jon Kyl, for example, called the FDA action against stevia "a restraint of trade to benefit the artificial sweetener industry."[60] To protect the complainant, the FDA deleted names in the original complaint in its responses to requests filed under the Freedom of Information Act.[30]
Stevia remained banned until after the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act forced the FDA in 1995 to revise its stance to permit stevia to be used as a dietary supplement, although not as a food additive — a position that stevia proponents regard as contradictory because it simultaneously labels stevia as safe and unsafe, depending on how it is sold.[1]
Originally posted by bsbray11
Originally posted by adeclerk
They burned books on Stevia in the 90s. Maybe that's a cover up as well.
I think you're right, because Stevia is a natural herb substitute for sugar, that is much healthier for you than sugar and even moreso than Splenda and all the other big-name brands.
You can't patent a herb.
Next you'll tell me that the FDA is genuinely concerned for everyone's health, to pay no attention to the fact that heads of the FDA are shuffled back and forth between pharmaceutical companies when they're not working for the government, and to pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.edit on 16-6-2011 by bsbray11 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by adeclerk
Yeah the stevia suppression may be an actual conspiracy by the artificial sweetener companies. But Reich's books were burned because he was claiming the efficacy of a medical device, the orgone accumulator, which has never been shown to work. It's no secret.
Originally posted by bsbray11
Originally posted by adeclerk
Yeah the stevia suppression may be an actual conspiracy by the artificial sweetener companies. But Reich's books were burned because he was claiming the efficacy of a medical device, the orgone accumulator, which has never been shown to work. It's no secret.
So your other instance of FDA book-banning only emphasized my point that they don't perform fascist banning or destroying of literature for honest reasons.
Remember they didn't just burn Reich's books and papers on orgone, but his work in psychology, such as "The Mass Psychology of Fascism." Now who would want to destroy every copy of that, that they could get their hands on? A fascist, maybe? Let me guess, fascists are good now too?
Originally posted by adeclerk
We've never had a fascist government in the United States, so, no. Fascism: An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. Sounds more like the Tea Party to me.
If you want a copy of that book, though, you can get it here.
Originally posted by bsbray11
That's fortunate for us, yes. But it doesn't take away from the fact that the FDA did try to eradicate the book several decades ago.
Originally posted by adeclerk
You're right, but it's still irrelevant to the fact that orgone doesn't work.
Originally posted by bsbray11
Originally posted by adeclerk
You're right, but it's still irrelevant to the fact that orgone doesn't work.
This statement doesn't become any more logical the more you repeat it. His orgone research is what triggered the entire FDA crack-down. The FDA doesn't just go around burning all the work of any quack doctor. That isn't their place.
Between burning all of Reich's others work, and the Stevia controversy, we've already seen two examples, one of them immediately related to Reich himself, that the FDA is involved in high corruption.
Originally posted by bsbray11
Originally posted by adeclerk
You're right, but it's still irrelevant to the fact that orgone doesn't work.
This statement doesn't become any more logical the more you repeat it. His orgone research is what triggered the entire FDA crack-down. The FDA doesn't just go around burning all the work of any quack doctor. That isn't their place.
CPG Sec. 140.100 Seizure of Books that Constitute Misleading Labeling
For many years, the agency has recommended the seizure not only of violative articles but also the labeling which causes them to be violative.
Printed material that promotes the use of a product is labeling within the meaning of the Act. In order to be labeling, the printed material must "accompany" the product in any one of several ways which have been well established by the courts. Although all accompanying materials constitute labeling, the extent to which they "accompany" it may be direct or indirect. For example, some printed material may consist of a printed sheet bearing the name of a particular product, stating its intended uses and directions for use, and naming the manufacturer and/or distributor. Some printed material may contain statements about several products, which statements occupy a reasonably small portion of the material, for example, one chapter in a book of twenty chapters. Additionally, this labeling may be printed not on behalf of the manufacturer or distributor of a product but by an unrelated publishing company, and may be sold routinely in book stores as well as in certain locations where its association with a product evidences the fact that it is labeling.
Over the years, courts have condemned and ordered destroyed labeling that was seized along with the product. In three cases, a claimant challenged the court's authority under the Act to seize, condemn and destroy labeling, arguing that these actions are contrary to the free speech protections of the first amendment. The courts have rejected these challenges although one court overturned the seizure of books displayed near a violative article by concluding that the books were not labeling, in that they did not "accompany" the article, rather than by reaching the first amendment issue.
Originally posted by bsbray11
Originally posted by SirCoxone
who abuses unicorns? show them to me and I'll deal with it.
I didn't realize your real purpose in this thread was actually comedic relief. My bad.
Originally posted by adeclerk
Just find a unicorn who is a medical doctor, and then starts telling people they can heal all their ailments with pieces of copper and crystal.
More comedy instead of a serious rebuttal?
Seriously, show me where the FDA has ever went on a witch-hunt of a book-burning for unicorn-related literature.
Originally posted by adeclerk
Again, you are detracting from the fact that orgone doesn't work.
The FDA might be corrupt, I won't make a judgement until I do some more research.
Orgone hasn't worked. Hasn't busted a cloud. Hasn't made rain. Hasn't healed. Etc.
Originally posted by Uncinus
Originally posted by bsbray11
This statement doesn't become any more logical the more you repeat it. His orgone research is what triggered the entire FDA crack-down. The FDA doesn't just go around burning all the work of any quack doctor. That isn't their place.
Yes it is:
Originally posted by bsbray11
Then why was Reich paid by farmers in Maine for ending a drought when no rain was forecast?
According to Reich's findings, however, the presence of well-formed jet contrails is a general indicator of a healthy cloud-forming atmosphere.
Again, you are detracting from the fact that orgone doesn't work. The FDA might be corrupt, I won't make a judgement until I do some more research. Orgone hasn't worked. Hasn't busted a cloud. Hasn't made rain. Hasn't healed. Etc.
From the standpoint of social development, the family cannot be considered the basis of the authoritarian state, only as one of the most important institutions which support it.
It is, however, its central reactionary germ cell, the most important place of reproduction of the reactionary and conservative individual.
Being itself caused by the authoritarian system, the family becomes the most important institution for its conservation. In this connection, the findings of Morgan and of Engels are still entirely correct.
...it tells how Reich watched, at first naively, then with amazement, and finally with horror, at what the Little Man does to himself;
how he suffers and rebels;
how he esteems his enemies and murders his friends;
how, wherever he gains power as a "representative of the people," he misuses this power and makes it crueler than the power it has supplanted.
Reich has us to look honestly at ourselves and to assume responsibility for our lives and for the great untapped potential that lies in the depth of human nature.
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
Originally posted by bsbray11
Then why was Reich paid by farmers in Maine for ending a drought when no rain was forecast?
Because he was able to convince them that he had caused the rain.
Originally posted by Frater210
Hi, again, Bsbray11.
Remember at the beginning of this thread when Uncinus pointed out that your Reichian Rubber Chicken was based on a misunderstanding of Reich's material?
Listen, guys, there all sorts of 'snake-oil' and 'miraculous devices' out there and you don't see the FDA or whatever running around having weekly book burnings and scientist lynchings. I know there are exceptions such as Royal Rife and those get me upset, too, but lets us stay focused on Reich for a moment.
Yeah, he had dangerous ideas, but before you go and misunderstand Reich, make sure you know which ideas were dangerous; Reich was trying to tell us that We are the source of the 'Fascism'...
Hope I've been helpful.
Yes and I remember you would never elaborate on what you were talking about so maybe we will see something different here for a change.
You are not actually explaining anything about this "complicated" subject.
I'm beginning to think you are intentionally distracting away from his work with orgone
Not hardly. If you're going to say Reich was lying about orgone but serious about everything else then just come out and put it like that.
Originally posted by Frater210
I didn't say it or that I would explain it; Uncinus did.
You are not actually explaining anything about this "complicated" subject.
I did not offer to.
But that's OK, because Reich is complicated; so I would like to help out.
What I have explained, Bsbray11, is the part of Reich that is complicated and probably had more to do with his harassment. But instead of pick it up and examine it you just blew right by it.