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Fire the FDA!
While Americans everywhere face financial devastation as their employers go belly up, there appears to be one safe haven for the morally bankrupt and professionally incompetent –our own bloated and corrupt FDA.
The situation is so bad in fact, that NINE of the FDA’s own scientists recently wrote a letter to President Obama citing gross mismanagement at all agency levels and laxity in protecting consumers against new products. Here’s the real kicker. According to these scientists… “there is an atmosphere at FDA in which the honest employee fears the dishonest employee, and not the other way around.”1
Among their other concerns, scientists have been threatened with reprisal and told to ignore the agency’s own regulations, manufacturers have excluded FDA overseers from strategic meetings fearing they would be “biased,” and the agency has allowed manufacturers to sell their products WITHOUT obtaining necessary approval.1
The agency is so far gone that they don’t even hide their shoddy oversight practices from government investigators. According to the New York Times, FDA officials admitted to the inspector general’s office of the Department of Health and Human Services that they don’t bother checking whether doctors have a financial interest in the drugs and medical appliances on which they conduct clinical trials because it “was not worth the effort.”2[...]
Dangers of Sleep Apnea!
Sleep apnea, a condition in which breathing stops for more than 10 seconds during sleep, can cause more damage to your health than just lost and restless sleep. Constant gaps in breathing, sometimes as many as 30 per hour, can create elevated blood pressure levels and increase your resting heart rate.
