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In the summer of 1692, Salem, Massachusetts, was the site of the most deadly witch hunt in American history. Accusatory musings of two preadolescent girls set off a frenzy of hysteria that resulted in 20 executions, 19 by hanging and one by crushing. Another 150 people were imprisoned, and 17 perished. A few years later, […]

David Smith and his wife Diane are Christian missionaries. They have a seven-month old daughter, Abigail, and are expecting a second child in December. They are living a nightmare that began three years ago when David found out he had the early stages of Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He lived through four terrible months of radiation therapy, […]

Paul Gallo is a 75-year-old retired schoolteacher living in Oradell, New Jersey. He was prescribed DHEA by a physician to improve his memory and general health and frequently ordered it from Europe, which is perfectly legal. They Wrongfully Arrested Him… When his last shipment arrived, Paul received a phone call to pick it up from […]

Folks, remember Joe McCarthy in the 1950s? Well tyranny is back, only worse. We are in the midst of an ugly struggle for power by the FDA and those who support giving the FDA more power over the nutritional supplement industry. They are today’s crop of bureaucratic tyrants. Whereas Joe McCarthy’s witch hunt was based […]

In his book, Racketeering in Medicine, the Suppression of Alternatives, James P. Carter, MD, professor at Tulane University, writes, “The FDA serves as the pharmaceutical industry’s watchdog, which can be called upon to attack and destroy a potential competitor under the guise of protecting the public.” To this end, the FDA will even burn books and intended to […]

This is a Tale of Two Sweeteners, full of sound and fury, signifying that the FDA has sold you and your kids to the drug companies again, and you are unwitting receptacles of a sweetener that has obvious toxicity. The Dark Side of Aspartame If you drink diet sodas or add Equal or NutraSweet to your coffee, […]

For years I’ve been voicing my concerns about the dangers of the popular cholesterol-lowering drugs Lipitor, Mevacor, Zocor, Pravachol, Lescol, and Baycol (which was recently taken off the market). These drugs block the enzyme HMG-CoA reductase in the liver, which shuts down the liver’s capacity to manufacture cholesterol, and as a result, cholesterol levels drop. […]

There were three sharp cracks of the gavel, and everyone stood at attention. “The Honorable Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons having business before the Honorable Supreme Court of the United States are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for […]

An obvious source of information for healthcare consumers is nutritional supplement labels. Believe it or not, until recently, it’s been illegal for manufacturers to print consumer-friendly information on their products’ labels. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has suppressed virtually all scientific information on supplement labels that would explain how to use them to prevent […]

May 25, 1999, was a bluebird spring day. I was on the lawn in front of the nation’s Capitol, along with Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Congressman Peter DiFazio (D-Oregon). I had called a press conference to announce that I and three others had petitioned the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) […]