Tuesday, January 04, 2005

politics: The FDA

The FDA is your friend. Really. It's here to help you. We're serious. Don't you trust us?

When a federal agency owes its allegiance to anybody other than the populace of the United States, it ceases to have any reason to exist, especially when thereason it was created was to protect those people, not to act as a cheerleader for corporate food and drug producers.

Vioxx started the flood. NSAIDs are the latest. Can we trust anything the FDA approves anymore? Or should we go back to herbs, poultices, leeches, witchcraft?

(Yes, yes, please, no nastygrams for equating herbal remedies with leeches and witchcraft ... it's called hyperbole for effect. Thank you.)

So let's see, FDA, Halliburton, Tom DeLay and the Ethics Committee, the EPA ... everywhere, it's completely evident that the Republican power structure is completely bereft of morals and blinded by power.

Cheesy sci-fi reference of the day ... at the beginning of every episode of Crusade, Galen asked, "Who do you serve? And who do you trust?"

Who do you serve, you bastards? And who do you trust?

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