Subject: Conflict of interest at FDA (guru). Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 092144 -0500 From: Roy BeaversTo: guru -------------------------------------------------- > Hi everybody: This quick message is mostly for the Americans. I have just returned from breakfast where I picked up a copy of today's USA TODAY (Sep 25,2000). Get it!! And save the top headline story -- also an excellent full story inside -- FDA ADVISERS TIED TO INDUSTRY. It is one of the best of a number of recent disclosures about "conflict of interest" in our government today.... The very situation that guru has been talking about on EMF-L for years..... (See "conflicts" file on my website. Also, much has been written in years past -- in the archives.) In this case, USA TODAY is writing about the same agency that has charge of the research on possible cell phone (handset) health hazards...!!! Great story, USA TODAY ... Well Done!!! Now, don't stop.... There is more of this corruptive cancer in virtually ALL of the rest of our government -- including the White House and the Congress.....!!! The kind of conflict of interest reported in this story is endemic in the U.S. government. And, judging by recent news items out of Europe (Germany, Israel, etc.), this "American sickness" is not confined to the U.S of A...... It is a cancerous condition that (along with globalization) has begun to undermine the most fundamental democratic foundations of many Western nations.... It a sickness that turns democracies into oligarchies.... Oligarchies that serve the interests of the RICH $$$$$$ special interests and the global (no national loyalty) $$$$$$$ corporations ... rather than their people.... In today's story, USA TODAY is writing about the pharmaceutical industry -- but the same can be written about other agencies and other governmental scenarios in banking, energy, telecommunications, chemicals, agricultural conglomerates, etc...... We must continue to light the candles on this story wherever it appears in our western society....!! It is also part of the story of the "inertia and malfeasance" that has controlled the destiny of the EMF saga...... Cheerio..... Roy Beavers (EMFguru) roy@emfguru.com It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness..... WEBSITE: http://emfguru.com People are more important than profit$$ Archive provided courtesy of WaveGuide, http://www.wave-guide.org Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.emfguru.com