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March 7, 2025 - The David Knight Show
15:36
Black Box Cover-Up: People Dead or Disabled as FDA & Pharma Shifts Blame to Physicians & Pharmacists
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this article on zero hedge from epic times The headline is, The Drug Warnings You May Never See Until It Is Too Late.
And what it is talking about is exactly the same thing that has injured Whistler.
Levofloxacin goes by the name of Lavaquin and other, I mean, they keep, if you go back, Cipro, 1980s.
They keep changing it, intensifying it, changing the name so they don't know what it is, making it more dangerous.
And this is a horrible story, and this began in the story of this 27-year-old daughter in 2023 that they talk about.
This is how his began as well.
And, you know, it's just infuriating, beyond belief.
To hear these physicians and pharmacists saying, well, it happens to some people.
It's very rare.
It's very rare.
It just doesn't matter.
I just want to strangle the people that I hear that from.
Like Fauci.
You just want to punch them in the nose.
You're killing people.
You're crippling people.
And you're hiding the numbers.
You're manipulating the numbers.
And your only response is, well, it's rare.
It's rare.
No, it's not rare.
Define rare.
You don't.
Anyway, here's the story.
Here's her story.
In 2023, her 27-year-old daughter, Elisa, was prescribed a seven-day course of Levoquin, also known as Levofloxacin, for pneumonia at an urgent care clinic in Arizona.
Neither she nor her mother had ever heard of the drug or the risks that it carried.
I picked up a prescription and on a word was said, I had never even heard of black box warnings.
A boxed warning, often called a black box warning because of its bold black border, is the FDA's most serious safety alert.
It signals to doctors and pharmacists that a drug carries serious risks.
The lady that I talked to, I can't remember her name, I didn't write it down.
I interviewed her and she is on the...
Consumer board and her husband was killed with SSRI. And she did investigations, found out how common it is.
And she worked really hard and finally got a black box warning on it.
But do they tell you the black box warnings?
Halfway through the treatment, Alyssa's arm began to tremble, causing her to drop coffee cups.
Within days, she was overwhelmed by unexplained symptoms.
Nerve pain, muscle weakness, relentless joint pain.
This is still going on with Whistler.
Even washing dishes became painful.
Unable to work, she moved back to Michigan to live with her mother.
I don't know if she'll ever be able to walk again, says her mother.
And we just thank God and thank you for your prayers that he is now walking.
Although he has a great deal of difficulty just doing the most simple things.
And it varies from day to day.
So we would really appreciate your continued prayers.
This fluoroquinolone antibiotics drug class has been flagged by the FDA's highest safety warning.
In 2008, the agency cautioned that these antibiotics could cause permanent nerve damage, tendon ruptures, severe effects on muscles and nervous system.
But these people, like us, were never warned.
The urgent care doctor called it a strong antibiotic, and the pharmacy technician dispensed it without comment.
Same as with us.
Elisa's experience is more common than many think.
Black box warnings often arrive years after a drug has been widely prescribed.
Even then, many patients remain unaware until they suffer the consequences firsthand.
Here's what happens with our corrupt FDA. They don't run tests.
They don't care.
They go with the data that is provided to them by the criminal poisoners that we call pharmaceutical companies.
Then if something happens after a very long time, as they point out, they may put a black box warning on it and say, okay, we're done.
We warned you.
Just like Laura Loomer.
Remember that?
Tim Pool, Laura Loomer.
And you had Luke Grodowski say it.
Why can't Trump just say they're dangerous and I made a mistake and all this kind of stuff?
And they stood up for him.
Ah, it's four years ago.
Who cares?
Except they cared about the election that was four years ago.
And Laura Loomer said, well, I knew not to get it.
It's on you if you took it.
Is it really?
Is it really?
Is there no responsibility for the people who are telling you that you've got to get it, that you ought to get it, that it's wonderful, that it's a miracle, that it's the equivalent of the moonshot?
And they may be telling you the truth about that.
Telling you that it's God's miracle?
I mean, I've seen people, and I'll name the names.
Franklin Graham.
You got Al Mohler.
You got a bunch of people like that that were telling you these lies.
Franklin Graham may have even believed it because he wound up getting pericarditis.
But they don't pull back.
They don't tell people the truth.
And so, you know, this is the pattern.
The drug companies are allowed to do whatever they wish.
As I've said before, FDA... It stands for free to do anything.
The pharmaceutical companies that it's supposed to regulate are free to do anything.
FDA. Then if people complain enough about it, they'll put a black box warning on it.
But guess what?
Then they don't tell people about the black box warning.
The physician doesn't tell people about it.
The pharmacist doesn't tell people about it.
So then if you get it and you have an issue, now the FDA is protected and the pharmaceutical company is protected and they've shifted the liability from themselves to the physician and to the pharmacist.
And then it becomes a he said, she said contest if you want to sue them.
Black box warnings appear at the top of drugs prescription information, printed, and online materials.
However, they're often missing from prescription labels.
And the other information is not given to you by many pharmacies like ours.
It leaves the patients uninformed about serious risk.
Black box warnings vary in severity.
Some flag life-threatening risks, such as organ failure or suicidal thoughts, like SSRIs.
Others highlight serious but non-fatal side effects, like permanent nerve damage or birth defects.
Some warnings focus on strict prescribing rules to prevent misuse or abuse.
I've gotten to the point now where I go online, and even online, I'm at the point now where I just don't take any prescription drugs.
Like I said before, I'm not just anti-vaccine.
I'm anti-pharma.
These people have been given a license to kill, like 007. They do it for money.
They are poisoners, and they will do anything for money.
They don't care about any of this stuff.
I would never trust them with anything.
Just an unbelievable criminal class, and they're co-conspirators in government at the free-to-do-anything FDA. So you go online.
If you're scared and you don't know any natural things to do with this stuff, right?
You know, there's natural antibiotics that we've now found.
There are natural treatments for cancer, like apricot seeds, B17. Again, you can find those at rncstore.com.
Use the code NIGHT for 10% off, but I'm not saying that to sell this stuff, folks.
I'm saying this because I'm fed up.
I'm fed up with the lies and the killing.
I'm fed up with the death that is coming from the lives that have been destroyed with this.
Disgust me.
How do we allow this to continue?
But if it's your family, what you need to do is you need to look beyond even like, you know, the online drug stuff, which is just going to regurgitate.
What the other stuff is.
And when I went back and investigated this after Whistler got hurt with it, I didn't see the black box label on, what is it, the standard, when you look for adverse effects, WebMD, thank you, yeah, and others of that ilk, you don't see it.
But you will see things like user groups and things like that.
You have to search a little bit more.
You might even use some of the AI chatbots because what they do is they'll go through and summarize a lot of things.
They just go out and summarize websites for you really quickly.
But if you're looking for something like that, sometimes that might get you a clue as to what to look for more specifically.
But really look after it because, again, you're not going to see these black box labels on WebMD either.
And the pharmacist isn't going to tell you.
And the doctor's not going to tell you.
Black box warnings were first introduced by the FDA back in 1979, and it was an antibiotic.
It was an antibiotic that was linked to rare, rare, but fatal blood disorder.
Why didn't the FDA stop that?
Right?
Why didn't they stop it?
Instead, they put a black box label on it.
Again, it's really bad.
People are dying.
So, okay, well, we're not going to pull it.
We'll put a black box label on it.
I have a friend of the family back in the early 90s whose wife was killed by the pharmaceutical industry and the FDA. And when he investigated this, he found that they knew about this drug.
They approved the drug without doing any tests.
Then there was a big pushback.
And it was so bad that they didn't just put a black box warning label on it.
They removed it completely.
Then the pharmaceutical company protested, and I guess they bought some of the politicians on the inside, you know, some of these so-called scientists who were politicians.
You know, they got a big bribe-me label that they wear on their back.
And so they approved it again.
His wife got it, and she died.
He said, what's going on with this?
I remember that.
It was just amazing.
So I say, I don't trust the government.
I don't trust the pharmaceutical companies with any of this stuff.
If you do it, you're playing Russian roulette.
As of 2022, more than 400 medications had black box warnings.
These are 400 medications that should be gone.
The first rule ought to be, first, do no harm.
It doesn't matter if it's rare.
And what does rare mean, anyway?
Does it mean 1,000 people?
Does it mean 400,000 people?
Certain percentage?
Is it 1%?
Is it one-tenth of a percent?
Is it 10%?
Is it 20%?
Is it, you know, millions of people with the vaccine?
As long as you can keep it quiet, you can say it's rare.
So in 2023, the FDA issued more black box warnings than in any previous year.
That, after extending a long-term increase that lasted over a decade.
2023 alone accounted for 40% of all black box warnings issued over the past decade compared to 12% in 2022. So when you look at this, this is becoming their standard thing.
And I really believe that the pharmaceutical drugs are becoming more and more poisonous and more and more concentrated, working at the cellular level as they're doing their, you know, just like they're going to mRNA, they're going to genetics, they're going to other things like that.
They're becoming far, far, far more dangerous, folks.
Again, this is your warning.
The agency stated that determining the frequency and causes of these warnings over time would require too much manpower.
And it doesn't think that's an efficient use of resources.
What are you there for?
They're there for the pharmaceutical company.
So what is behind the surge?
Well, some people say that more high-risk drugs are making it to the market.
I think that is the case.
Social media has transformed.
Now drug safety concerns come to light.
Patient forums, advocacy groups frequently highlight potential risk.
And that's the only place that you'll find it.
You won't find it at WebMD.
You won't find it at the pharmacist or your doctor.
You will only find it on these forums.
The FDA is not going to tell you.
None of these people will.
They're criminals.
First, do no harm.
Ought to be the rule to them.
A 2021 study said that media discussions often identify drug risks months or even years after the fact.
And that's social media, I should say.
Up to nine years before regulators take any action.
And then what is the action?
Again, it's just slapping a black box label on it and saying we're done.
Litigation in this area has skyrocketed.
They said many doctors don't realize that not informing a patient about a black box warning can be used in court to imply that they did not inform a patient about any warnings.
Black box warnings can shift the duty to warn from the drug manufacturers, from the FDA, to the doctors, to the pharmacists.
That's the whole point.
It's just passing the buck.
I'm not responsible for this, and yet they are.
They are.
The people who are the most responsible for it, quite frankly, of course, the physicians that are there, just to rubber stamp all this stuff, they said when they put out the black box warnings and they did surveys of physicians, the physicians aren't even reading this stuff.
What are they reading?
They're reading the propaganda that's coming from the drug companies.
The drug companies send them all this blue sky.
Slick stuff.
Maybe they send them like they did through the opioid crisis.
Maybe they send them on vacations and tell them how wonderful their drug is and all the rest of this stuff.
And these doctors are not doing due diligence.
They don't care.
They don't care.
Well...
They have liability in this, but it's a difficult thing to prove.
80% of these warnings could result from post-marketing studies, meaning that serious risks become evident only after widespread use.
The FDA requires strong evidence before adding a warning, but they don't require any evidence before they put it out to the public.
What a reprehensible agency.
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