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The Suppression of Alternative Medical Therapies 111
G. E. Griffin, author of World Without Cancer, made explicit the fundamental,
systematic wrong which has emerged out of the various crosscurrents
that make up the FDA—underpaid civil servants playing it safe;
drug companies and their Washington lawyers putting unending pressure
on the bureaucrats; academic medicos controlling the approval process
and restricting the individual doctor's choice; revolving door employment
between FDA and universities/drug companies, and behind-the-scenes
political deals. According to Griffin, the FDA did two things: (1) they
"protected" the big drug companies and were subsequently rewarded; and
(2) they attacked—using the government's police powers—those who
threatened the big drug companies, be it a young company with a new
product such as DMSO, or natural health store products such as food, vitamins,
minerals or other self-healing (non-drug, non-doctor) methods.
Griffin wrote the following about the FDA:
First, it is providing a means whereby key individuals on its payroll are
able to obtain both power and wealth through granting special favors to
certain politically influential groups that are subject to its regulation. This
activity is similar to the "protection racket" of organized crime: for a
price, one can induce FDA administrators to provide "protection" from
the FDA itself.
Secondly, as a result of this political favoritism, the FDA has become
a primary factor in that formula whereby cartel-oriented companies in
the food and drug industry are able to use the police powers of government
to harass or destroy their free-market competitors.
And thirdly, the FDA occasionally does some genuine public good
with whatever energies it has left over after serving the vested political
and commercial interest of its first two activities.
There is only one solution. No reform will work. No changing of personnel
will have any long term effect. No new laws dealing with regulations.
Only one solution.
It was provided by a southern doctor now living in New York City who
has observed the monster in action for many years. Raymond Keith Brown,
M.D., outlined the solution in his book, Cancer, AIDS and the Medical
Establishment. He described how the power which FDA has to approve
drugs and technology has to be eliminated and replaced with the solitary
role of testing for effectiveness and safety, the results being the basis for
FDA labeling. The individual physician and individual patient would regain
the responsibility to use or not use a given-drug or technology.
Dr. Brown recommended that
The FDA should follow a simple rating system for effectiveness
and safety. Effectiveness would fall into one of three categories