[Mb-civic] interesting comparison

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If the auto industry operated like Big Pharma: fifteen things  you might 
notice
1. Your average car would cost $4.5 million,  representing a 30,000% markup 
over cost, which is typical for prescription  drugs. Automakers would justify 
this price by saying they needed the money to  fund research and development, 
but in reality, most of their research would be  funded by taxpayer dollars 
through government grants and university research  centers.  
2. That exact same car could be purchased in Mexico or Canada for under  
$5,000.  
3. Automakers would lobby Congress to outlaw or regulate alternative forms of 
 transportation such as bicycles and airplanes, forcing Americans to rely  
exclusively on cars. Explanation: the _drug  industry_ 
(http://www.newstarget.com/012467.html)  works hard to discredit alternative medicine, herbs and 
_nutritional  supplements_ (http://www.newstarget.com/001247.html) , hoping to force 
consumers to rely on drugs alone.  
4. Cars with no safety systems (no seatbelts, no airbags, no crumple zones)  
would be declared perfectly safe by federal regulators. Car companies, rather  
than address this lack of safety features, would focus on publicizing the  
dangers of riding bicycles. Explanation: _the  FDA_ 
(http://www.newstarget.com/003526.html)  currently approves deadly drugs as "safe." Meanwhile, drug  
companies ignore the dangers of their own drugs and, instead, try to get people  to 
believe that herbs or vitamins are dangerous.  
5. The manufacturers of those cars with no safety systems would grow tired of 
 being sued by customers who were injured in their cars, and they would lobby 
 Congress to pass "legal reform" that would immunize all car companies 
against  class action _lawsuits_ (http://www.newstarget.com/008291.html) . 
Explanation: drug companies are currently  trying to get Congress to pass laws that 
would make it illegal for consumers to  sue for damages. This would shield them 
from the financial consequences of their  dangerous products that kill hundreds 
of thousands each year.  
6. All auto imports would be banned, forcing consumers to buy only U.S.  
manufactured cars. And if you bought a _Toyota_ 
(http://www.newstarget.com/008230.html)  and drove it to the U.S., you might be arrested  or searched. 
Explanation: the FDA works hard to maintain a U.S. monopoly on  all _prescription drug_ 
(http://www.newstarget.com/001551.html)  sales. The agency once famously  
conducted a "drug raid" search of a bus load of senior citizens returning from  
Canada who had purchased nothing more than prescription medications.  
7. Car companies would heavily publicize the release of new car models each  
year, but in reality, the new models would essentially be "me-too" cars with 
no  real improvements over those made in the 1970's. Explanation: most  
prescription drugs, even though they are touted as "breakthrough" drugs, are  little 
more than me-too drugs that do nothing different than older, off-patent  
drugs.  
8. Car crash dummy tests that produced fatalities and other disturbing data  
would be censored by the _auto industry_ 
(http://www.newstarget.com/003938.html) , never to see the light of day. Any  safety scientist who produced such 
results would be blackballed from ever  conducting crash tests again. 
Explanation: drug companies routinely bury  clinical study results that show the dangers 
of their drugs. They specifically  design studies in a way that exaggerates 
benefits and minimizes risks.  Researchers who don't "play ball" and help 
distort these drug trial results are  blackballed and will never find work in the 
industry again.  
9. Car dealers would be visited by hoards of automobile sales reps promising  
bribes, first-class vacations, free food and free cars as long as those car  
dealers would push the right products onto consumers. Explanation: drug  
companies spend billions each year on handouts to _physicians_ 
(http://www.newstarget.com/010618.html) , including outright bribes, fully-paid  vacations to 
exotic _resorts_ (http://www.newstarget.com/005144.html)  (disguised as 
"Continuing Medical Education"  programs), free drug samples, and a never-ending supply 
of free lunches and  other food items.  
10. Driver's education programs would be cancelled nationwide. Instead of  
teaching people how to avoid accidents or repair damaged cars, automakers would  
encourage people to keep buying new cars. Explanation: _organized  medicine_ 
(http://www.newstarget.com/011224.html)  doesn't teach healthy safety or 
_disease  prevention_ (http://www.newstarget.com/001552.html) . Instead, the entire 
system is designed around waiting for  people to get sick, then treating them 
with expensive drugs, surgeries and other  _medical  procedures_ 
(http://www.newstarget.com/001243.html) . The system actually encourages chronic illness 
by  neglecting to teach prevention.  
11. Companies would make up new reasons why you need more automobiles, hoping 
 to convince you to buy a dozen or more. They might say you need one car to 
make  you feel happy, another for basic transportation, a third to match the 
color of  your house, and so on. Explanation: drug companies frequently invent 
new, _fictitious  diseases_ (http://www.newstarget.com/002884.html) , and then 
try to sell you drugs to treat those made-up  afflictions. Examples include 
ADHD, FSD (female sexual dysfunction), General  Anxiety Disorder, and other 
made-up diseases that have no purpose other than  selling drugs. Essentially, _Big 
 Pharma_ (http://www.newstarget.com/001552.html)  wants to define everyone as 
diseased in some way, and then  convince people they need a lifetime of 
prescription drugs to "manage" those  diseases. From the moment you're born, the 
drug companies say, you're already  diseased.  
12. Car advertising would show happy, healthy people driving down country  
highways with the wind blowing through their hair. But once you get the car, you 
 find out it breaks all the time, it doesn't perform as promised, and after a 
 couple of years, it won't even start anymore. Explanation: prescription  
drugs are advertised with images of happy, healthy, youthful, energetic people.  
But the reality is that once you start taking prescription drugs, the health 
of  your entire body and nervous system (brain included) starts to go downhill. 
 People who take lots of prescription drugs are nearly always extremely  
unhealthy, with obvious disease physiology and muddled _cognitive  function_ 
(http://www.newstarget.com/002287.html) .  
13. Cars would be hyped to buyers with fancy, full-color brochures touting  
all the benefits of the vehicle. But federally-mandated warnings about car  
safety problems would be printed in 6-point type on a tiny label hidden under  
the driver's seat. Explanation: drug companies are required by the FDA to  print 
safety warnings on certain _product  labels_ 
(http://www.newstarget.com/008880.html)  and advertisements, but these warnings are almost always  presented 
in an impossible-to-read format and are, therefore, routinely ignored  by 
doctors and patients alike.  
14. Driving certain cars would have unexpected side effects. Driving one car, 
 for example, would make you extremely aggressive and violent... perhaps even 
 suicidal. Driving another car might make all your muscles hurt. And a third 
car  might make you feel an instant loss of sexual drive. Explanation:  
prescription drugs always have unintended side effects. Antidepressant drugs  cause 
violent behavior and suicides. Statin drugs can cause severe muscle pain  
(rhabdomyolysis) and loss of cognitive function. They also block the production  
of cholesterol, the precursor to sex hormones.  
... and finally ...  
15. Cars would be sold to you with high-priced features like a sunroof, air  
conditioning, 6-CD changer, navigation system and other items, but upon  
delivery, you would find none of the features you paid for. The car would be  
completely different from the one you thought you bought. Explanation: drugs  are 
sold to patients with hyped-up promises of multiple health benefits. But  once 
people start taking the drugs, they find the benefits were exaggerated. In  
other words, the drug they end up taking is nothing like the drug they thought  
they purchased -- the drug advertised with all the features and benefits on  
TV.  
This list was authored by Mike Adams, the _Health  Ranger_ 
(http://www.newstarget.com/009302.html) . To see more list-oriented commentary on organized 
medicine  and the drug industry, check out:  
_The top  ten reasons why the U.S. needs more pharmaceutical companies_ 
(http://www.newstarget.com/002042.html)   
_The top  ten things we'd see if the FDA were put in charge of the criminal 
justice  system_ (http://www.newstarget.com/002455.html)   
_The top  ten things you'd be able to do if you didn't live under a system of 
health  oppression masquerading as modern medicine_ 
(http://www.newstarget.com/001681.html)   
And be sure to read the ever-popular organized medicine fable, _Welcome to 
the  Town of Allopath_ (http://www.newstarget.com/008674.html) 

Overview:
    *   If the _auto industry_ (http://www.newstarget.com/003938.html)  
operated like Big Pharma: fifteen  things you might notice
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