Take your pills?

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We told ya so " just doesn't cut it. Barely ten days after Truth

Publishing warned the public about the dangers of medical

experimentation on humans, a disastrous pharmaceutical experiment

has left six men fighting for their lives.

The scene was a living medical hell, say witnesses. After being

injected with the anti-inflammatory drug TGN1412, patients began

tearing their shirts off, screaming that their heads were going to

explode. One patient's head swelled to triple its normal size, and

patients were soon passing out, vomiting, or screaming in sheer

terror.

 

Within minutes after the injections, patients were suffering from

severe breathing attacks, convulsions and excruciating pain. And

now, after the incident, they are fighting for their lives after

having their organs permanently damaged. Only the two who were given

placebos escaped the horrors. (It gives new credence to the safety

of mind/body medicine, homeopathy and the placebo effect, doesn't

it? Take a placebo, and you probably won't die.)

 

As reported in The Sun, a U.K. newspaper, the girlfriend of one of

the victims had this to say about her boyfriend's status shortly

after the experiment went terribly wrong: " He was completely

lifeless, like a shell. He can't even move his eyelids. This machine

is pumping out his lungs and his face is puffed out like The

Elephant Man. A day ago he was fine and now they are saying he could

die at any moment. The doctors say they are in the dark because they

don't know the drug or what it can do. They don't know what they are

dealing with. "

 

The Independent reported, " One victim was named as trainee plumber

Ryan Flanagan, 21, of Highbury, north London. His family were told

he could not breathe unaided, and his head and neck had swollen to

three times their normal size. "

 

The eight patients were all part of a clinical drug trial run by an

American drug company (Parexel). The drug, TGN1412, was hoped to be

tested and approved as a treatment for arthritis, leukemia and

multiple sclerosis. I'm not sure that the results experienced by

these eight men would dissuade an FDA decision panel from

recommending approval for the drug, but it's possible. Or maybe it

will simply be approved with a black box warning.

 

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The placebo effect proves to be good medicine in twelve month study;

mind/body medicine is more powerful than drugs and surgery

(Concept: placebo)

Drug companies around the world, of course, are now concerned they

won't be able to sign up more human guinea pigs for their own

experimental drug trials. The drug industry relies heavily on

exploiting the poor as human guinea pigs (see Human medical

experimentation in modern times: How immigrants, poor people,

minorities and children are modern-day guinea pigs for Big Pharma ),

for without poor people to run experiments on, there can be no

official declaration that the drugs are safe enough for everyone

else to take.

Not coincidentally, the multiple organ failure suffered by the

victims in this particular drug trial is not uncommon to see from

the long-term use of FDA-approved drugs being widely prescribed

today. People aren't falling over screaming from most drugs, but

they are experiencing long-term liver damage, kidney damage, and

brain damage due to the toxicity of common drugs prescribed to treat

arthritis, depression, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and

other conditions.