If freedom of speech means anything at all, it means the right to express ideas others disagree with. For 14 hours, employees were held at gunpoint while FDA agents smashed medical equipment and ransacked the offices. Making unapproved claims about high-potency vitamins. As a result of FDA policies, the free flow of medical information has been reduced to a trickle. Symposiums have nearly been brought to a halt . . .
Press conferences announcing new applications . . . are for the most part eliminated.
Hundreds of lifesaving uses for existing drugs and devices have been banned, and medical manufacturers have begun to leave America. No one knows. Congress didn't bother to define it. Even worse, human-rights groups say electronic reporting of prison rapes or international atrocities such as massacres in Chechnya, could be a crime under this act. The Decency Act is being challenged in court and will be reviewed by the Supreme Court.