Health Ranger - Mike Adams - AMA demands end to drug advertising (part 1 of 4)
Aired: 2018-03-21
Duration: 13:17


=== AMA Calls Ban on DTC Drug Ads (06:30) ===

[00:00:00]  Welcome to my show Alright, you're not going to believe the news here.
[00:00:06]  You really won't believe it.
[00:00:07]  You're going to think this is a hoax.
[00:00:08]  So I'll read it to you and then you can decide if it's a hoax.
[00:00:12]  Maybe I'm pulling your leg.
[00:00:13]  So here it is.
[00:00:15]  From the American Medical Association website.
[00:00:18]  Wink, wink.
[00:00:19]  Is it true or is it not true?
[00:00:20]  Let's find out.
[00:00:21]  Okay.
[00:00:22]  The AMA calls for a ban on direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs and medical devices.
[00:00:29]  Whoa!
[00:00:30]  Hold your horses there, Texas Sam.
[00:00:34]  The American Medical Association wants to ban drug advertising to consumers?
[00:00:39]  What?
[00:00:41]  Is this a hoax or is this real?
[00:00:43]  I dare you to find out.
[00:00:45]  It turns out it's real.
[00:00:46]  It's actually real.
[00:00:47]  I checked it three times because I thought it might have been a hoax, too.
[00:00:51]  I never thought I would see this in my lifetime.
[00:00:54]  But let me explain to you what this is really all about.
[00:00:58]  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.
[00:01:08]  Look, the entire medical system is on the verge of collapse.
[00:01:10]  It's on the verge of imploding.
[00:01:13]  It is in desperation survival mode.
[00:01:16]  That's what this is all about.
[00:01:17]  They're trying to call for an end to drug advertising to make drugs more affordable because...
[00:01:24]  They realize that as drugs are becoming more and more expensive, people are just looking for alternatives.
[00:01:29]  No one can afford these drugs anymore.
[00:01:30]  The prices are ridiculous.
[00:01:32]  They go up 500% a year.
[00:01:33]  No one can afford them.
[00:01:35]  Everybody's going bankrupt.
[00:01:36]  The whole Obamacare failed system of sick care maintenance is going bankrupt because of prescription drug advertising to consumers.
[00:01:45]  So let me explain what this is all about.
[00:01:48]  First of all, you've got to understand that in most countries around the world, it is illegal to advertise prescription drugs to consumers.
[00:01:55]  It has been that way forever.
[00:01:58]  Only in the United States and I think one other country, maybe it's Australia, is it legal to advertise directly to consumers.
[00:02:07]  I'm talking about advertising prescription drugs.
[00:02:09]  Why is this?
[00:02:10]  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.
[00:02:23]  There's no reason, there's no logical explanation for doing that.
[00:02:26]  Consumers are not trained in medicine specifically.
[00:02:29]  Consumers are not trained in pharmacology.
[00:02:32]  Consumers are not trained in the interactions of prescription drugs.
[00:02:35]  Consumers can't go buy the drugs themselves.
[00:02:37]  They're not over-the-counter drugs.
[00:02:39]  They're prescription drugs.
[00:02:41]  So a doctor is the one who should be making the assessment.
[00:02:45]  A doctor is the one who should be determining what's the best thing for their patient.
[00:02:52]  It makes no sense whatsoever from a true medical sanity point of view to advertise these drugs directly to consumers.
[00:03:00]  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...
[00:03:10]  Thugs.
[00:03:11]  Mafia.
[00:03:12]  Total mafia here.
[00:03:13]  Some of the worst corporations on the planet.
[00:03:16]  Not quite the worst.
[00:03:17]  Monsanto would be the worst.
[00:03:19]  But these are right next in line.
[00:03:21]  You know, GlaxoSmithKline.
[00:03:24]  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.
[00:03:34]  IG Farben.
[00:03:36]  Let's see.
[00:03:36]  Who else do we have out there?
[00:03:38]  Eli Lilly.
[00:03:39]  Oh yeah, our favorite little teen HPV vaccine injector right there.
[00:03:46]  Just harming so many children with that.
[00:03:48]  Anyway, the list goes on and on.
[00:03:50]  Lots and lots of pharmaceutical companies.
[00:03:52]  And they're horrible.
[00:03:54]  They are highly unethical.
[00:03:55]  All they want to do is make money by pumping you full of drugs.
[00:03:58]  They don't care if you need those drugs.
[00:04:00]  They don't care if you're even sick.
[00:04:01]  They will invent fake diseases to push their drugs.
[00:04:05]  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.
[00:04:16]  And so here's how a typical ad looks.
[00:04:20]  They have a drug.
[00:04:21]  We'll call it Abilify, right?
[00:04:24]  Isn't that one of the big ADHD drugs out there?
[00:04:27]  I think it is.
[00:04:30]  I don't keep track of all these drugs, so I don't even know all their names.
[00:04:33]  But the two biggest categories, by the way, are statin drugs and ADHD drugs.
[00:04:39]  Wait a minute.
[00:04:40]  The top three would be statin drugs, blood pressure drugs, and ADHD drugs, or psychiatric drugs.
[00:04:46]  So They're making billions of dollars on this, and the ads look like this.
[00:04:51]  Oh, we have a sweet little boy, and he's surrounded by lovey-dovey families and swans, magical unicorns.
[00:05:00]  No, that would be for little girl ads.
[00:05:03]  The little boy has magical baseball catch mitts.
[00:05:08]  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?
[00:05:21]  And then they show the logo, Abilify.
[00:05:25]  Okay, so these ads impart no information to the consumer that could be used by a consumer to make an informed, rational decision.
[00:05:37]  None whatsoever.
[00:05:37]  These ads are designed to do nothing but create an emotional association.
[00:05:42]  In neuro-linguistic programming, this is called anchoring.
[00:05:47]  It means that you create an emotional state and then you anchor your logo to it.
[00:05:51]  This is what Coca-Cola does.
[00:05:53]  This is what Pepsi does.
[00:05:55]  This is what the Marlboro Man was all about back in the big tobacco days.
[00:05:59]  And this is what the drug companies do.
[00:06:02]  They create a strong emotional state and then they show their brand and then they anchor you to it.
[00:06:07]  And at the end of every ad, what do you hear?
[00:06:08]  Ask your doctor about Abilify.
[00:06:11]  Ask your doctor about committing suicide with chemotherapy.

=== Doctors And Drug Company Kickbacks (06:33) ===

[00:06:16]  No, they don't say that.
[00:06:17]  That's what they should say.
[00:06:19]  Ask your doctor about activating the school shooter hiding inside your teen boy.
[00:06:24]  All he needs is psychiatric drugs to unleash the inner killer.
[00:06:29]  That's what it should be.
[00:06:30]  Actually, if it were like truth in advertising, you know, that's what it should be.
[00:06:34]  Hey, ladies, get on the pill.
[00:06:38]  You can control your reproductive choices up until the day that you're infertile because of the pill, the side effects, you know, whatever.
[00:06:48]  All right, I'm not going to continue on that.
[00:06:51]  But here's the deal.
[00:06:55]  These ads are BS, right?
[00:06:57]  But they cause patients to go into their doctor's office and start demanding that damn drug that they saw on television.
[00:07:05]  I want my Abilify.
[00:07:07]  I want my Vioxx or whatever.
[00:07:11]  I don't know what's the latest statin drug.
[00:07:13]  Drug X, SuperFi, whatever.
[00:07:17]  And they go in there and they demand that.
[00:07:20]  And they don't even know what it does, a lot of them.
[00:07:22]  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.
[00:07:31]  Doctor, give me that drug!
[00:07:33]  And you know, a lot of these doctors are like, hell yeah, man, I'm getting kickbacks anyway.
[00:07:38]  I'm just going to prescribe whatever they want.
[00:07:41]  And the glorified drug dealers is what they've become.
[00:07:44]  So the doctors have become medical morons.
[00:07:47]  All they do...
[00:07:49]  Well, I shouldn't say all they do.
[00:07:51]  There are good doctors out there.
[00:07:53]  But a lot of the lame ones, what they do primarily is that patients come into their offices and they just let them talk.
[00:08:01]  So what drug do you want, man?
[00:08:04]  And the patient's like, well, I saw something on TV. It was this amazing drug.
[00:08:08]  And he was like, ask your doctor.
[00:08:09]  So here I am.
[00:08:10]  I'm asking my doctor.
[00:08:11]  And the doctor is like, well, this ought to make you feel better.
[00:08:15]  And writes it out on a prescription.
[00:08:16]  Goodbye.
[00:08:17]  And then the doctor gets a kickback from that drug company, right?
[00:08:20]  Get free vacation to Hawaii.
[00:08:23]  Or, oh, here's five grand to give a lunch speech for, quote, drug education.
[00:08:28]  Yeah, there you go.
[00:08:29]  And so they're all getting bribed and paid off.
[00:08:32]  Well, again, I shouldn't say all.
[00:08:34]  The bad ones are.
[00:08:35]  The majority of them are.
[00:08:36]  There are good doctors out there like complementary and alternative medicine doctors.
[00:08:40]  I'm not trying to say bad things about those people.
[00:08:44]  I applaud them, actually.
[00:08:45]  But I'm talking about the general practitioners, the mainstream doctors that are just nothing but glorified drug dealers.
[00:08:53]  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.
[00:09:07]  They've got more side effects.
[00:09:08]  Hey, doctor, I'm back, man.
[00:09:10]  My liver's all jacked up.
[00:09:11]  I don't know.
[00:09:12]  Something's wrong.
[00:09:13]  What do I need?
[00:09:14]  And then the doctor writes him another prescription.
[00:09:17]  Awesome, man.
[00:09:18]  I saw that drug on TV, too.
[00:09:19]  Now I got two drugs.
[00:09:21]  And then the doctor, you know, pretty soon, I'm on a third drug.
[00:09:25]  Now I got five drugs.
[00:09:27]  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.
[00:09:34]  And meanwhile, the drug companies are just cashing in, ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching.
[00:09:40]  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.
[00:09:49]  Just whatever logo they see on TV, they just go in and ask for that.
[00:09:52]  The doctor, whatever people ask for, they just write it out.
[00:09:55]  They don't even know.
[00:09:56]  You don't even have high blood pressure, man.
[00:09:58]  I don't care.
[00:09:59]  It's not on TV. And they just write it out.
[00:10:02]  And they make the money, and that's it.
[00:10:04]  The system goes.
[00:10:05]  Except here's the big problem.
[00:10:06]  The prices keep going up.
[00:10:09]  And so the more drugs people are on, the more expensive everybody's health insurance becomes.
[00:10:14]  And the more health exchanges start pulling out of Obamacare, causing that system to be headed for an absolute financial implosion, by the way.
[00:10:24]  And then cities are going bankrupt.
[00:10:26]  And states are going bankrupt.
[00:10:27]  Pension programs.
[00:10:29]  You know, city government health care insurance systems.
[00:10:32]  Families are going bankrupt.
[00:10:33]  Employers are going bankrupt.
[00:10:34]  So they just start firing people.
[00:10:36]  Like, we can't even afford your health care.
[00:10:38]  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.
[00:10:47]  So, you know, the whole system just starts crashing down.
[00:10:50]  Or...
[00:10:51]  Even more to the horror of the drug companies, people just start turning to herbs and essential oils and homeopathy.
[00:10:59]  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.
[00:11:09]  That's amazing.
[00:11:10]  And so they just start using herbs or they just start using nutrition or superfoods or something else.
[00:11:14]  I mean, no one can afford the medicine anymore because these drug companies spend all their money running TV ads and magazine ads.
[00:11:21]  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.
[00:11:37]  Why do they even need to develop anything?
[00:11:40]  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.
[00:11:49]  That's all they've got to do.
[00:11:50]  It doesn't even matter what the drug does.
[00:11:52]  It doesn't even matter if they have a disease.
[00:11:53]  It doesn't even matter what the drug's made of.
[00:11:55]  All they've got to do is ask for that name.
[00:11:57]  The doctor's like, uh-huh, write it out.
[00:11:59]  That's it.
[00:12:00]  That's the medical system in a nutshell, and it's insane, and it's going to come crashing down.
[00:12:05]  And that is why the AMA has started to take this action.
[00:12:09]  Anyway, I'll have more analysis on this in the second part of this, so stay with me.
[00:12:14]  This is Mike Adams here on TalkNetwork.com.
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