I gotta call BFD on that story LCD.  Our founding fathers, as clearly expressed by Declaration of Independence signer Benjamin Rush and reinforced by the almost forgotten ninth amendment, never intended for any one group to hold a monopoly over medicine.  Neither did they ever intend for the government to decide for the sovereign citizens whom they declared to have unalienable rights how they chose to address their private health issues.

Furthermore, the FDA was created with the intention of making sure that our medicines and foods were safe - not to decide whether or not something constituted "real medicine".  The government and the alphabet agencies that have assumed extra-constitutional powers need to take their hands off alternative medicine and natural supplements unless there is indisputable proof of harm.

So what if there is quackery and something does not work as advertised?  That is what civil courts are for.  If something does cause harm, that is what civil AND criminal courts are for.  Once a substance or treatment is proven to be harmful, ONLY then, should there be any actions taken to bar them.  Alternatively, if the FDA felt they had solid proof that something was harmful either before or after it reached the marke and they would be willing to swear upon penalty of criminal action that they have such proof, perhaps something could be barred.  However, if it is ever proven that they purposely lied to protect their benefactors in mainstream medicine, as they have repeatedly done since the evil days of Morris Fishbein, a few nice time outs in jail should put an end to those kind of nefarious actions in short order.

Every year, over 100,000 people die in hospitals from the side effects of properly prescribed and administered drugs.  When you add in the home deaths from mainstream drug side effects, the number rises to around 140,000 deaths per year.   Meanwhile, one is hard pressed in any given year to attribute even a dozen deaths around the world to supplements and only a handful from all forms of alternative therapies.

Instead of lack of oversight of patented toxic and invasive therapies and our food production facilities, our officials are determined to go after therapies and supplements without even proof of harm?  We protect Vioxx, Gardasil. Avandia, Fosamax and Aspartame, yet persecute and suppress Washington cherry growers, bitter melon tea makers, and stevia?

We allow drug makers to essentially self test their products and fund studies designed to return unfavorable results on natural vitamins and minerals, and cry that we do not have enough money or personnel to properly do required follow up inspections of fast tracked drugs and other approved drugs or conduct inspections of food processing and factory farm facilities, yet spend untold manhours and funds conducting witch hunts against non-toxic and non-invasive competition to drug makers?

What is wrong with this picture?  When you figure out the answer, you will be a long way towards figuring out what is wrong with our health and health freedoms in general.