FDA wants to regulate homeopathy....Wooo peddlers wailing in anguish

[whollygoats]

So...Just how many Americans actually use homeopathic remedies?

The American Journal of Public Health has made a stab at trying to estimate this through a survey of some 35,000 CIM (complimentary and integrative medicine) users. They suggest that about 2% of the American public purchases and uses homeopathic remedies.

What they did not suss out is how many of those users also rely upon medical advice from a regular physician. I suspect that a huge percentage of that 2% also cover their bets with physician care and rely on homeopathic remedies for those things which medicine is notoriously bad about treating....transient respiratory infections and back pain. Yeah, it is woo. But it seems that a vanishingly small proportion of the public relies upon it, particularly exclusively, for their health care.

Whereas, more than 98% of the population relies upon the US medical community to provide trustworthy, cost-effective, and efficacious therapy. It seems rather clear to me that large segments of that population have been and is being preyed upon and handed over as sacrifices upon the altar of the bottom line for the dispassionate investors who want only profit, and care not at all how many suffer and die, in whatever manner, securing that profit.

I have no problem with homeopathic remedies being 'regulated', but I would never trust the FDA to do it, as they are a complete set of stooges, in cahoots with, and subject to, the pharmaceutical industry. For those not aware of it, the pharmaceutical industry now pays the FDA to expedite the approval of new pharmaceuticals....they subsidize the FDA. Aside from the typical revolving door of regulators to industry executives and vice versa, they also take money from the subjects they regulate. Pfffft....Huge stinking conflicts of interest.

 

[Juma]

So...Just how many Americans actually use homeopathic remedies?

The American Journal of Public Health has made a stab at trying to eistimate this through a survey of some 35,000 CIM (complimentary and integrative medicine) users. They suggest that about 2% of the American public purchases and uses homeopathic remedies.

What they did not suss out is how many of those users also rely upon medical advice from a regular physician. I suspect that a huge percentage of that 2% also cover their bets with physician care and rely on homeopathic remedies for those things which medicine is notoriously bad about treating....transient respiratory infections and back pain. Yeah, it is woo. But it seems that a vanishingly small proportion of the public relies upon it, particularly exclusively, for their health care.

Whereas, more than 98% of the population relies upon the US medical community to provide trustworthy, cost-effective, and efficacious therapy. It seems rather clear to me that large segments of that population have been and is being preyed upon and handed over as sacrifices upon the altar of the bottom line for the dispassionate investors who want only profit, and care not at all how many suffer and die, in whatever manner, securing that profit.

I have no problem with homeopathic remedies being 'regulated', but I would never trust the FDA to do it, as they are a complete set of stooges, in cahoots with, and subject to, the pharmaceutical industry. For those not aware of it, the pharmaceutical industry now pays the FDA to expedite the approval of new pharmaceuticals....they subsidize the FDA. Aside from the typical revolving door of regulators to industry executives and vice versa, they also take money from the subjects they regulate. Pfffft....Huge stinking conflicts of interest.

What planet are you from? Of course anyone wanting to have FDA to ” expedite the approval of their pharmaceutical” has to pay a fee for that to happen. Who else should pay for it? That is in no way corruption.

 

[whollygoats]

So...Just how many Americans actually use homeopathic remedies?

The American Journal of Public Health has made a stab at trying to eistimate this through a survey of some 35,000 CIM (complimentary and integrative medicine) users. They suggest that about 2% of the American public purchases and uses homeopathic remedies.

What they did not suss out is how many of those users also rely upon medical advice from a regular physician. I suspect that a huge percentage of that 2% also cover their bets with physician care and rely on homeopathic remedies for those things which medicine is notoriously bad about treating....transient respiratory infections and back pain. Yeah, it is woo. But it seems that a vanishingly small proportion of the public relies upon it, particularly exclusively, for their health care.

Whereas, more than 98% of the population relies upon the US medical community to provide trustworthy, cost-effective, and efficacious therapy. It seems rather clear to me that large segments of that population have been and is being preyed upon and handed over as sacrifices upon the altar of the bottom line for the dispassionate investors who want only profit, and care not at all how many suffer and die, in whatever manner, securing that profit.

I have no problem with homeopathic remedies being 'regulated', but I would never trust the FDA to do it, as they are a complete set of stooges, in cahoots with, and subject to, the pharmaceutical industry. For those not aware of it, the pharmaceutical industry now pays the FDA to expedite the approval of new pharmaceuticals....they subsidize the FDA. Aside from the typical revolving door of regulators to industry executives and vice versa, they also take money from the subjects they regulate. Pfffft....Huge stinking conflicts of interest.

What planet are you from? Of course anyone wanting to have FDA to ” expedite the approval of their pharmaceutical” has to pay a fee for that to happen. Who else should pay for it? That is in no way corruption.

Conflicts of Interest as a Health Policy Problem: Industry Ties and Bias in Drug Approval

Report details possible conflict of interest issues for FDA advisors

Expedited drug review process: Fast, but flawed

Ethicist Carl Elliot notes on page 60 in his book, White Coat Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine (Beacon Press, Boston, 2010), that in the late 1980s and the 1990s, the pharmaceutical industry was changing...

"Its ethos was changing from that of the country-club establishment to the aggressive, new-money entrepeneur. Impressed by the success of the AIDS activists in pushing for faster drug approvals, the drug industry increased pressure on the FDA to let companies bring drugs to the market more quickly. As a result, in 1992 Congress passed the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, under which drug companies pay a variety of fees to the FDA with the aim of speeding up drug approval (thereby making the drug industry a major funder of the agency set up to regulate it). In 1997, the FDA dropped most restrictions on direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs, opening the gate for the eventual Levitra ads on Super Bowl Sunday and Zoloft cartoons during daytime television shows. The drug industry also became a big political player in Washington: by 2005, according to the Center for Public Integrity, its lobbying organization had become the largest in the country."

It seems the view is not particularly clear in Sweden and Australia. I suspect that the way things happen there are not the same as the ways things happen here. I'm on planet USA; I've lived here all my life, from since before most vaccines were even available. The greater portion of my working life was spent assisting medical researchers, health care providers, and prospective practitioners and postgraduate candidates with information needs at a public health sciences university library. Some of my views are heterodox, but hardly heretical. I am not a scientist, nor even a science hobbyist. I AM opinionated.

The question is: What planet are YOU on?

 

[whollygoats]

Ethicist Carl Elliot notes on page 60 in his book, White Coat Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine (Beacon Press, Boston, 2010), that in the late 1980s and the 1990s, the pharmaceutical industry was changing...

"Its ethos was changing from that of the country-club establishment to the aggressive, new-money entrepeneur. Impressed by the success of the AIDS activists in pushing for faster drug approvals, the drug industry increased pressure on the FDA to let companies bring drugs to the market more quickly. As a result, in 1992 Congress passed the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, under which drug companies pay a variety of fees to the FDA with the aim of speeding up drug approval (thereby making the drug industry a major funder of the agency set up to regulate it). In 1997, the FDA dropped most restrictions on direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs, opening the gate for the eventual Levitra ads on Super Bowl Sunday and Zoloft cartoons during daytime television shows. The drug industry also became a big political player in Washington: by 2005, according to the Center for Public Integrity, its lobbying organization had become the largest in the country."

Psssst....For those interested, Elliott's chapter on medical research subjects in White Coat Black Hat, was published in the New Yorker as an article, which is linked in his bio footnotes.

 

[phands]

French University Says It Will Stop Offering Diplomas in Homeopathic Medicine



love it - the writing is on the wall for this foolishness....

A French medical school will no longer offer a degree in homeopathy after more than a hundred medical professionals questioned the practice.

The Université de Lille Faculty of Medicine announced the decision following the publication earlier this year of an open letter signed by 124 medical experts who said, correctly, that there was no evidence that homeopathy worked.

Homeopathy, like other practices called “alternative medicine”, is in no way scientific. These practices are based on beliefs that promise a miraculous and safe recovery. In September 2017, the Scientific Council of the Academies of European Sciences published a report confirming the lack of evidence of the effectiveness of homeopathy. In most developed countries, doctors are prohibited from prescribing homeopathic products.
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Of these practices which are neither scientific nor ethical, but very irrational and dangerous, we wish to dissociate ourselves completely.
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The professionals also said they were concerned that public universities and health care providers have limited resources, and any money going towards homeopathy (as a treatment or topic) was taking money away from remedies that might actually help patients. Among their several recommendations was a moratorium on degrees for “practices whose effectiveness has not been scientifically demonstrated.”

http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/...op-offering-diplomas-in-homeopathic-medicine/

 

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