b'millioninjuries,themaga- this is still unforgiveable.1.36milliondisabili- zineisjust ties, and 300,000 excess deaths with es- careless. As F.Drugs Are Dangeroustimated economic costs totaling $147.8ScottFitzgeraldanalo- AndrewSaul,Editor-in-Chiefof billion). 5 gouslyobservedinhisthe OrthomolecularMedicineNews The list of deadly prescription drugsfinenovelTheGreatService, and someone fastidiously com-is nearly endless, and they are the thirdGatsby,theyweremitted to optimal health for many de-leading cause of death after heart dis- careless peopletheycades now, has pointed out that, even ease and cancer in the United Statessmashed up things andwhen properly prescribed and taken as and Europe. And approximately one- creaturesandthenre- directed, legal drugs kill some 106,000 half of those who died were actuallytreated back into their money or their vastAmericanseachandeveryyear.At taking their drugs according to theircarelessness or whatever it was that keptover 2,000 deaths each week (and some doctorsexactdirections. 6 Thepa- them together, and let other people cleandoctors estimate the toll to be much tients did nothing wrong other thanup the mess they had made. Maybe thehigher),thatisquiteadeathrate. 7to put their faith and trust in a med- Scientific American is just careless in itsYet, the FDA remains pathetically un-icalsystemthatisascarelesswiththought and words, but carelessness canaccountable as do the pharmaceutical their lives as First World War generalsalso kill, and where health is concernedcompanies under its purview.ceaselesslyorderingtroopsoverthe top to charge into the face of deadly machine gun fire. Legal drugs kill some 106,000 Americans In publishing this editorial that di-rects attention away from deadly drugseach and every yearand onto safe nutraceuticals, the Scien-tific American has blood on its hands.at over 2,000 deaths each week.Perhaps, charitably, we could say that H ealtHF reedomN ews /s ummer2023 7'