THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

I  have repeatedly made the point that there are hundreds of thousands of people who are looking  for a picture  of a  starving child or a violation of Political Correctness with all the desperation Americans used to reserve for finding gold  ore.   This  is of enormous, immediate,and practical importance.

In the 1950s when my brother was an intern it was well known that clinics for the poor got better drugs than the rich people did.   The reason  for this was well-known, one of  those  Public Secrets I talk about.   Poor  clinics could use new drugs, whereas drugs used in regular hospitals had to go through the whole many-years-long end of clearance process with the FDA.

Please note that what was universally known was that poor patients were getting BETTER drugs.   If you needed a drug that was still going through the  final stages of FDA approval, you got them if you were poor, you couldn't get them for love nor money in a regular clinic or hospital.

Needless to say, even back then,  organizations saw  a gold mine.  A major campaign exposed the outrageous fact that drugs that were not ready for prime time were OK  to be used on poor people.    Lots of people made lots of money pushing this cause.

So  by the 1960s the poor people were only getting  drugs which had gone through the WHOLE clearance process.   So they got the same outdated stuff the rich did.

Even today it is well known that "all new drugs are nonaddictive."   Valium was approved by the FDA as nonaddictive.  So was just about every other addictive drug now on Schedule 2 (Schedule 1 drugs are illegal, like heroine.  There is Schedules 3 and 4, going down the count to over the counter).

My point is that even the endless regulatory process used  by the FDA does not really make drugs safer.   In fact, until equality raised  its ugly head, it was well known that, on average, early   approval for the poor made their drugs famously more modern and  better.

The regulation is not to  make things safer.  Regulation depends on how much money  can be raised on an issue.

If you had looked at the facts, this was a clear conclusion sixty years ago with the Public Secret that poor folks got better drugs than the rich did.

But no one  looks at the basics.

There's gold in them thar hills!   There is MONEY in a Conspiracy Theory where the Rich and Powerful (says the left) or the Establishment (says the right},  secretly plot Evil.

There is not a dime to be made by explaining reality as I just have.