From: isds11990012@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Re: Creed.
Date: 29 Sep 92 01:08:48 GMT
Organization: Memphis State University

In article <SCG.92Sep28101031@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, 
    scg@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Scott Goehring) writes:

> isds11990012@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
> 
>>Many of these drugs are dangerous.  I think everyone has already
>>heard about the dangers of Prozac, but what you probably didn't hear
>>is that Eli Lilly, Prozacs manufacturer plead guilty to several
>>counts of withholding evidence from the FDA.
> 
> As I recall, the charges you mention here deal not with Prozac but
> with an different drug, one which, as I recall, was/is used to treat
> arthritis and can cause birth defects.  Hardly relevant.
> 

   Its very relevant.  I never said the charges were withholding evidience
on Prozac.  All I said is that they withheld evidence.  Eli Lilly
withheld evidence that its drug was damaging people in order to make a 
profit.  That is what happened.  They PLEAD GUILTY.  They KNEW that
they were doing it.  It wasn't an oversight.  They KNEW what they were
doing was wrong and didn't care who it hurt as long as the kept the 
dollars coming in.

   Drug Companys, governments, and vested interests have a LOT of power
when it comes to manipulating the public opinion.  They have lots of
money to pay writers to smear anyone or anything that they see as a threat
to their profits.  They don't mind lying about things either.  They don't
care if they tell the truth or not as long as their revenues are
protected.

   You may or may not believe that Scientology is dedicated to its goals.
You might not even believe that its goals are achievable.  But I just
don't know how you can't see that certain people in positions of power are
directly opposed to those goals ever being realized.  I mean, if there
are no more depressed people, who will buy Prozac??  Do you really think
that Psychiatrists and Drug Companys are going to put themselves out
of business?  Hell no.  They are motivated by SURVIVAL just like everyone.

    Take a look at the big problems facing the world.  The Really BIG 
problems.  Drug Addiction, War, Rising Fuel Costs, Bloated Governments, etc.
Without a lot of effort, you can see that Somebody is profiting from the
problem.  In other words, solve the problem and you take away someones
position of status or power and their means of making a living.

     You see what I mean?  

     Drug Companys pay big research grants (bribes) to members of the FDA
to research (endorse) their drugs.  Nearly every member of the FDA is also
a member of the AMA.  The FDA is more concerned with ensuring that the
profits of established medicine are protected.  Thats why they try to 
outlaw vitamins.  Thats why they went after Chiropractic a few years ago.
And thats why they went after Scientology.

     They don't care one bit wether they tell the truth or not because they
know they own the media and they can hush it up quickly if they ever get
caught and then they can distort the truth of what happened.

      With Scientology, you have a group of people who are willing to 
stand up to them and say NO.  Their profits would be threatened if people
knew we were right.  They get very desperate and pay someone to print a
vulgar smear article in some magazine that they have control over.

      This is true.


John Holifield


   

    

   
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