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AMA Calls Ban on DTC Drug Ads
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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. | |
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Doctors And Drug Company Kickbacks
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| 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. | |
| Thank you for listening to this episode of the Health Ranger Report. | |
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