Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
reply to post by qver74
My motivations are in the initial post - to deny ignorance. It is clear to me that there is a lot of it here on ATS - so I try to do my bit.
Ok, let's deny ignorance here:
Anti-depressants work no better than sugar pill but have horrible side effects including worse depression and suicide.l
I used the Freedom of Information Act to force the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, which licenses drugs, to let me see all the trials the drug companies had run to get the most popular antidepressants approved.
That's when I got another shock.
More than half of the trials showed no difference at all between the drugs and the placebos - but most of those negative trials had never been published.
Controversial: 'Some researchers have been outraged by my work on the effects of antidepressants'
In other words, the benefits of antidepressants were even smaller than I'd thought, but the drug companies had hidden the data showing this.
Big Pharma has bought out our government and continually publishes lies. Now they are pushing to take away healthy natural remedies and label vitamins as unhealthy and controlled substances while our food becomes less and less nutritous even vegatables and legumes.
So are they:
A: stupid and don't know any better?
B: trying to harm us?
“…The first task is population control at home. How do we go about it? Many of my colleagues feel that some sort of compulsory birth regulation would be necessary to achieve such control. One plan often mentioned involves the addition of temporary sterilants to water supplies or staple food. Doses of the antidote would be carefully rationed by the government to produce the desired population size.” – Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb, p.130-131
“If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.” - Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, leader of the World Wildlife Fund – quoted in “Are You Ready For Our New Age Future?,” Insiders Report, American Policy Center, December ’95
“A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.” – Ted Turner – CNN founder and UN supporter – quoted in the McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, June ’96
“The world has a cancer, and that cancer is man.” – Merton Lambert, former spokesman for the Rockefeller foundation
“In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it’s just as bad not to say it.” – Jacques Cousteau
I'll let people decide for themselves.
) I keep reasonably up
to date with various research outcomes and so forth...and partake in numerous research and evidential studies as well...there is just so much
conflicting information out there...so much that if you were to prescribe purely based on the latest evidential effectiveness you'd be changing
a patients 'drug of choice' on a daily basis. 
