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March 21, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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AMA demands end to drug advertising (part 1 of 4)

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	Welcome to my show Alright, you're not going to believe the news here.
	You really won't believe it.
	You're going to think this is a hoax.
	So I'll read it to you and then you can decide if it's a hoax.
	Maybe I'm pulling your leg.
	So here it is.
	From the American Medical Association website.
	Wink, wink.
	Is it true or is it not true?
	Let's find out.
	Okay.
	The AMA calls for a ban on direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs and medical devices.
	Whoa!
	Hold your horses there, Texas Sam.
	The American Medical Association wants to ban drug advertising to consumers?
	What?
	Is this a hoax or is this real?
	I dare you to find out.
	It turns out it's real.
	It's actually real.
	I checked it three times because I thought it might have been a hoax, too.
	I never thought I would see this in my lifetime.
	But let me explain to you what this is really all about.
	And the history of this, very briefly, so you understand what a freaking big deal this is and how desperate the drug industry has become and how desperate Western medicine has become.
	Look, the entire medical system is on the verge of collapse.
	It's on the verge of imploding.
	It is in desperation survival mode.
	That's what this is all about.
	They're trying to call for an end to drug advertising to make drugs more affordable because...
	They realize that as drugs are becoming more and more expensive, people are just looking for alternatives.
	No one can afford these drugs anymore.
	The prices are ridiculous.
	They go up 500% a year.
	No one can afford them.
	Everybody's going bankrupt.
	The whole Obamacare failed system of sick care maintenance is going bankrupt because of prescription drug advertising to consumers.
	So let me explain what this is all about.
	First of all, you've got to understand that in most countries around the world, it is illegal to advertise prescription drugs to consumers.
	It has been that way forever.
	Only in the United States and I think one other country, maybe it's Australia, is it legal to advertise directly to consumers.
	I'm talking about advertising prescription drugs.
	Why is this?
	Because there is no justifiable medical reason to advertise prescription medications, which can only be prescribed by a physician, to end users, consumers, in other words.
	There's no reason, there's no logical explanation for doing that.
	Consumers are not trained in medicine specifically.
	Consumers are not trained in pharmacology.
	Consumers are not trained in the interactions of prescription drugs.
	Consumers can't go buy the drugs themselves.
	They're not over-the-counter drugs.
	They're prescription drugs.
	So a doctor is the one who should be making the assessment.
	A doctor is the one who should be determining what's the best thing for their patient.
	It makes no sense whatsoever from a true medical sanity point of view to advertise these drugs directly to consumers.
	So, in 1997, the FDA, under extreme pressure from the criminal pharmaceutical industry, which, let's face it, is run by a bunch of absolute...
	Thugs.
	Mafia.
	Total mafia here.
	Some of the worst corporations on the planet.
	Not quite the worst.
	Monsanto would be the worst.
	But these are right next in line.
	You know, GlaxoSmithKline.
	Bayer, which was part of the German conglomerate that committed war crimes against Jews in World War II. Yep, that's where Bayer came from.
	IG Farben.
	Let's see.
	Who else do we have out there?
	Eli Lilly.
	Oh yeah, our favorite little teen HPV vaccine injector right there.
	Just harming so many children with that.
	Anyway, the list goes on and on.
	Lots and lots of pharmaceutical companies.
	And they're horrible.
	They are highly unethical.
	All they want to do is make money by pumping you full of drugs.
	They don't care if you need those drugs.
	They don't care if you're even sick.
	They will invent fake diseases to push their drugs.
	And then they use this advertising that they got legalized in 1997 to brainwash consumers to ask for brand name drugs that they don't even understand.
	And so here's how a typical ad looks.
	They have a drug.
	We'll call it Abilify, right?
	Isn't that one of the big ADHD drugs out there?
	I think it is.
	I don't keep track of all these drugs, so I don't even know all their names.
	But the two biggest categories, by the way, are statin drugs and ADHD drugs.
	Wait a minute.
	The top three would be statin drugs, blood pressure drugs, and ADHD drugs, or psychiatric drugs.
	So They're making billions of dollars on this, and the ads look like this.
	Oh, we have a sweet little boy, and he's surrounded by lovey-dovey families and swans, magical unicorns.
	No, that would be for little girl ads.
	The little boy has magical baseball catch mitts.
	And he's warm, fuzzy, rolling in the grass at the park, and there's beautiful music, and everything's wonderful, and the narrator says, doesn't your child deserve an opportunity to learn?
	And then they show the logo, Abilify.
	Okay, so these ads impart no information to the consumer that could be used by a consumer to make an informed, rational decision.
	None whatsoever.
	These ads are designed to do nothing but create an emotional association.
	In neuro-linguistic programming, this is called anchoring.
	It means that you create an emotional state and then you anchor your logo to it.
	This is what Coca-Cola does.
	This is what Pepsi does.
	This is what the Marlboro Man was all about back in the big tobacco days.
	And this is what the drug companies do.
	They create a strong emotional state and then they show their brand and then they anchor you to it.
	And at the end of every ad, what do you hear?
	Ask your doctor about Abilify.
	Ask your doctor about committing suicide with chemotherapy.
	No, they don't say that.
	That's what they should say.
	Ask your doctor about activating the school shooter hiding inside your teen boy.
	All he needs is psychiatric drugs to unleash the inner killer.
	That's what it should be.
	Actually, if it were like truth in advertising, you know, that's what it should be.
	Hey, ladies, get on the pill.
	You can control your reproductive choices up until the day that you're infertile because of the pill, the side effects, you know, whatever.
	All right, I'm not going to continue on that.
	But here's the deal.
	These ads are BS, right?
	But they cause patients to go into their doctor's office and start demanding that damn drug that they saw on television.
	I want my Abilify.
	I want my Vioxx or whatever.
	I don't know what's the latest statin drug.
	Drug X, SuperFi, whatever.
	And they go in there and they demand that.
	And they don't even know what it does, a lot of them.
	They're just like, I saw this thing on TV, and all these people, they look so happy, and they were like in the park doing Tai Chi, man, and I want that drug.
	Doctor, give me that drug!
	And you know, a lot of these doctors are like, hell yeah, man, I'm getting kickbacks anyway.
	I'm just going to prescribe whatever they want.
	And the glorified drug dealers is what they've become.
	So the doctors have become medical morons.
	All they do...
	Well, I shouldn't say all they do.
	There are good doctors out there.
	But a lot of the lame ones, what they do primarily is that patients come into their offices and they just let them talk.
	So what drug do you want, man?
	And the patient's like, well, I saw something on TV. It was this amazing drug.
	And he was like, ask your doctor.
	So here I am.
	I'm asking my doctor.
	And the doctor is like, well, this ought to make you feel better.
	And writes it out on a prescription.
	Goodbye.
	And then the doctor gets a kickback from that drug company, right?
	Get free vacation to Hawaii.
	Or, oh, here's five grand to give a lunch speech for, quote, drug education.
	Yeah, there you go.
	And so they're all getting bribed and paid off.
	Well, again, I shouldn't say all.
	The bad ones are.
	The majority of them are.
	There are good doctors out there like complementary and alternative medicine doctors.
	I'm not trying to say bad things about those people.
	I applaud them, actually.
	But I'm talking about the general practitioners, the mainstream doctors that are just nothing but glorified drug dealers.
	So anyway, they're dealing all these drugs, and they're getting kickbacks, and they're just filling their patients full of toxic chemicals that are causing liver damage, which is actually a bonus for them because the liver gets damaged, and then the patient comes back.
	They've got more side effects.
	Hey, doctor, I'm back, man.
	My liver's all jacked up.
	I don't know.
	Something's wrong.
	What do I need?
	And then the doctor writes him another prescription.
	Awesome, man.
	I saw that drug on TV, too.
	Now I got two drugs.
	And then the doctor, you know, pretty soon, I'm on a third drug.
	Now I got five drugs.
	And then they're just like living at the pharmacy, waiting in line, going through the drive-thru every day at the pharmacy, got to pick up their drugs.
	And meanwhile, the drug companies are just cashing in, ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching.
	And it's all because of this direct-to-consumer drug advertising on television, which has turned our medical system into just a system of brainwashed morons and zombies.
	Just whatever logo they see on TV, they just go in and ask for that.
	The doctor, whatever people ask for, they just write it out.
	They don't even know.
	You don't even have high blood pressure, man.
	I don't care.
	It's not on TV. And they just write it out.
	And they make the money, and that's it.
	The system goes.
	Except here's the big problem.
	The prices keep going up.
	And so the more drugs people are on, the more expensive everybody's health insurance becomes.
	And the more health exchanges start pulling out of Obamacare, causing that system to be headed for an absolute financial implosion, by the way.
	And then cities are going bankrupt.
	And states are going bankrupt.
	Pension programs.
	You know, city government health care insurance systems.
	Families are going bankrupt.
	Employers are going bankrupt.
	So they just start firing people.
	Like, we can't even afford your health care.
	Just lay them off or replace them with people from Bangladesh or somewhere else who have an internet connection and can do the same job for one-tenth the price.
	So, you know, the whole system just starts crashing down.
	Or...
	Even more to the horror of the drug companies, people just start turning to herbs and essential oils and homeopathy.
	They're like, wow, these herbs cost one one-hundredth the price of the pharmaceuticals, and they work better, and they also don't cause heart attacks.
	That's amazing.
	And so they just start using herbs or they just start using nutrition or superfoods or something else.
	I mean, no one can afford the medicine anymore because these drug companies spend all their money running TV ads and magazine ads.
	Like 70%, something like that, of their total expenditures in a year go to marketing with only maybe 25% to 30% go to actual R&D. They're spending way more money on the TV ads than they are developing anything.
	Why do they even need to develop anything?
	All they've got to do is run ads and convince brainwashed, zombied out, dumbed down, idiotic consumers to just go to their doctor and ask for the Billify.
	That's all they've got to do.
	It doesn't even matter what the drug does.
	It doesn't even matter if they have a disease.
	It doesn't even matter what the drug's made of.
	All they've got to do is ask for that name.
	The doctor's like, uh-huh, write it out.
	That's it.
	That's the medical system in a nutshell, and it's insane, and it's going to come crashing down.
	And that is why the AMA has started to take this action.
	Anyway, I'll have more analysis on this in the second part of this, so stay with me.
	This is Mike Adams here on TalkNetwork.com.
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