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The Suppression of Alternative Medical Therapies 107
more drag companies sabotaged DMSO because it threatened so many of
their profitable products. One drag company executive reportedly told the
leading DMSO researcher:
I don't care if it is the major drug of our century—and we all know it is—
it isn't worth it to us.
Who had the power to keep such a miraculous drug off the shelves
Surely not just an FDA Commissioner flexing his muscle. Was it a combination
of drag companies whose individual profits were threatened by
the miracle drag's possibilities
[It is] not our [FDA] policy to jeopardize the financial interests of the
pharmaceutical companies.
—from testimony before Congress of
Dr. Charles C. Edwards, at the time commissioner of the FDA
It has also been surmised that FDA Commissioner Goddard used DMSO
in 1966 in an attempt to become the medical dictator of America. In the
years that followed, FDA officials simply refused to expose the agency's
"dirty laundry." Hence the on-going suppression of what many recognize
as "the major drag of the century." In any case, Goddard instilled fear into
honest researchers and physicians as no previous FDA Commissioner had
done. He rained careers. He introduced an intensified police force mentality
into the FDA with his emphasis on hiring ex T-men and G-men. He
consciously blacklisted scientists as punishment for opposing him. And
members of his agency, either with his encouragement or his acquiescence,
openly began ignoring the Constitution for the sake of promotions
and power.
Pat McGrady, Sr.'s book, The Persecuted Drug: The Story of DMSO,
detailed what Goddard's FDA did. McGrady described "the no-knock system,
the photocopying of private papers, bugging, punitive investigations,
slander and libel, character assassination, forgery, lying and blackmail."
One scientist declared to McGrady:
For the first time in my life I know fear. I'm afraid for my family and
myself. I'm afraid for doctors and scientists. And I'm more afraid for our
country. I can't believe these things are happening in the United States.
Another noted researcher maligned by Goddard's FDA observed:
The academic community and industry are so completely intimidated
that one cannot look for any leadership to counteract some of the punitive
actions of the FDA.... I am very pessimistic concerning the future