You said it man. Here’s my issue.
If I hadn’t spent literally days last fall going through the lawsuit documents and depositions, there would be far fewer people who saw the rigged research studies and FDA collusion. Only a handful of people who read USPLabs’ two huge, unsearchable response PDFs would have understood the anomalies inside.
All you would have seen are a bunch of abstracts on nih.gov
that don’t tell you the full truth.
The other side would have been limited to Hi-Tech issuing press releases, some social media posts that disappear and never show up in the search engines, and maybe some forum discussions on AM that also get buried. Everything else would be the talking points from ‘industry trade’ websites that are afraid to take risks or do the deep dive.
Now I am happy to take some of that information burden on, because it’s something I’m obviously passionate about - with our without anyone’s sponsorship.
My question is, where else has nonsense like this gone down where there wasn’t a motivated blogger with a web presence who was willing to spend tons of time looking for the truth? What else have we been misled about?
And trust me, I’m not tooting my own horn here. It’s not about that. I know I’m not going to stop the FDA from using dirty tactics. I just want people to know how disgusting those studies the FDA cited when taking the hatchet to USPLabs truly were.
So I’m just wondering what else is happening where there isn’t a Jared Wheat or a PricePlow to go and take these risks in exposing these fiascos. What else are we being lied to about? What about those who cannot afford to fight back in court?
In short, this situation has really shown me how the sausage is made, and the process stinks. It is sad that my first instinct is to believe the opposite of what they tell me (the food pyramid being one such example). It is shameful how this whole thing has gone down, and now the FDA seems to have doubled down on irrational.
I’m not anti-government. In this thread, I even suggest ways for the government to actually fix things up - a pro-government stance. I want 21 CFR 111 enforced.
But if my tax money pays for something that’s not a matter of national security, I want it to be 100% full access and open source, down to every last email. Otherwise I want no part of it. It shouldn’t take a millionaire businessman with an army of lawyers and an interested blogger/entrepreneur to expose something like this.
This is no longer a government of the people and for the people, and it hasn’t been for a very long time.
/rant.