Hank:

With the Republican party in charge there's abundant evidence that it
serves the interests of the big pharmaceutical companies, not the citizens
it is elected to represent. I'll quickly add that at least one Democratic,
Senator Ted Kennedy, is an immense disgrace in his championing of the
special interests of pharmaceutical giants with a pending Senate bill aimed
at wiping out compounding pharmacies to protect the drug industry giants.

The FDA is staffed and led by persons who play musical chairs with jobs
there, then in the pharmaceutical and food industry - including academics
who thrive on grant money from the giant corporations. The American people
have been sold down river for corporate monopolistic interests - it's a
disgrace.


> [Original Message]
> From: Hank Kearns <hkearns4@...>
> To: <Hitdigest@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: 4/3/2007 7:14:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [HIT Digest] Re: Darden Book
>
>
> On Mar 21, 2007, at 1:31 PM, Seth Breidbart wrote:
>
> > Hank Kearns <hkearns4@...> top-posted:
> >
> > > People who use illegal drugs to enhance their physical stature are
> > > frauds.
> >
> > What about people who use legal drugs?
> >
> > Who decides which drugs are illegal? What qualifications do they
> > have?
> >
> > What about people who use drugs that are legal where they use them,
> > but might be illegal elsewhere (e.g. caffeine)?
> >
> > I know: let's eliminate everybody who ever drank coffee or tea or ate
> > chocolate.
> >
> > Seth
>
> My main point was, as a culture we cannot put those people who use
> illegal performance drugs on a pedestal, and we should try to keep
> those people from competing with other people who should not have to
> nor want to use performance enhancing drugs. Sadly, this seem more
> and more difficult. People are able to beat the system, and that will
> probably always be the case. A case in point is Lance Armstrong. I
> hope he is a clean athlete, but if I had to make a wager, I would
> say, he probably took some illegal performance enhancing drug, just
> like the American who was disqualified from the Tour de France. We
> are in a sad situation, in my point of view.
>
> If someone is so insecure with themselves that they need to take
> steroids and other such drugs to look a certain way, let them be my
> guest. I just have a problem when they have an unfair advantage (and
> it is huge) when competing against clean athletes.
>
> Our FDA has a lot of room to improve, but I would like to think that
> even with the Republican Party in charge, we can intelligently
> differentiate between a drug that is relatively safe, like caffeine
> and anabolic steroids which can be devastating.
>
> Perhaps in the brave new world there will be ways to take steroids in
> a safe manner. Perhaps in a later time we will give them to our
> newborn safely. I don’t know, but right now that is not the case. I
> hope we never get to that point, but who knows.
>
> Hank Kearns
>
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