b'The Anti-Homeopathy AgendaAnd yet it is curious that this recent FDA action against homeopathic eye drops is taking place against a general backdrop of anti-homeopathic propa-ganda. The FDA itself helpfully warns on its website Do not use ophthalmic products that:[a]re labeled as ho-meopathic, as these products should not be marketed. 6 This seems like a rather stark and ill-informedopinioncomingfroma Federal agency actually created by a homeopath.Then,formorefun,justGoogle search American Association of Ho-meopathic Pharmacists statement on eye drops and, yes, you will see as the first result the AAHPs statement, but following that will be nearly countless links such as Every homeopathic eye drop should be pulled off the marketDuring the eight years covered inFDA-Approved Drugs Are (Slashdot),Everyhomeopathiceyethe chart, there were only two prob- More Dangerousdrop should be pulled off the marketable deaths from homeopathic agentsTheFDAwantstoimposeupon (ArsTechnica),Stopusinghomeo- (as they like to call them). But evenhomeopathyanallopathicregula-pathic eye drops (Popular Science),those two deaths come under a cate- toryregimeusingthesamerisk-Eyedrops from CVS, Rite Aid and oth- gory of Dietary Supplements/Herb- basedenforcementapproachthat ers carry possible infection risk, FDAals/Homeopathic, with the first deathhas brought consumers such disasters says (PBS), and Whats Driving Pa- involving the use of yohimbe, and theasVioxx(60,000-500,000deaths), 12tients Towards Homeopathy? (Reviewsecond supplement, botanical andAvandia (83,000+ deaths), Ibuprofen of Ophthalmology). The knives are allcocaine. 10Thats hardly conclusive ev- (17,000 deaths/year), and chemother-out, it seems, for homeopathy.7 idence for even one death genuinelyapy (9 million since year 2000). 13Thats attributable to a homeopathic remedy.right, we havent had any deaths from So Where Are All the Bodies? And as for the other adverse eventshomeopathic products in thirty years, The AAHP was determined to findoutcomes, the vast majority of themsowereallyneedtomakesureit out what the true facts about the risksare classified as minor and moderate.catches up with modern medicine and of homeopathy might be after the FDAThe few major adverse events are initshundred-thousand-deaths-per-cited10,311reportedadverseeventstheexceptionallylowsingledigits.year sterling record under the FDAs relatedtohomeopathicagentsinIn all, this is an incredibly impressivewatchful regulatory eye. 14the 2012 American Association of Poi- safetyrecordforhomeopathicrem- TheFDAissupposedtoprotect sonControlCentersAnnualReportedies, a record that allopathic drugsthe lives of American citizens; what it (AAPCC). An analysis showed that thehave never achieved. actually does is protect the grotesque number of exposures to homeopathicInterestinglyenough,COVID-19profits of the big pharmaceutical com-medicines in any given year is less thanintroduced an increase in ocular com- panies, at the expense of American one percent of all pharmaceutical re- plaints, which homeopathy could eas- lives, in a complete abuse of its mis-ports to AAPCC, which is proportion- ily and safely address, such as dry eye,sion. In fact, if you put FDA corrupt ally below the rate of the market shareconjunctivitis, and other such condi- into an online search engine, you will for homeopathic medicines. 8 tions. As noted in a 2021 meta-analy- be swamped with examples.Further analysis was done, and sta- sis, one in ten people with COVID-19The FDA aspires to a risk-based tistics compiled for homeopathic agentsexperienced ocular issues. 11The allo- approachtoenforcingconsumer from the 20122019 Annual Reports of thepathic pharmaceutical industry mighthealth and well-being. But as it wor-American Association of Poison Controlhavemoreoculardrugsplannedries itself sick about the chipped paint Centers National Poison Data Systemand in the pipeline, with a new post- on the windowsill, the entire house is (NPDS), which can be seen in the follow- COVID-19 market emerging and theburning down to the ground. In fact, ing chart from the AAHP website:9 competition needing to be eliminated. the FDA Commissioner Robert Califf H ealtHF reedomN ews /w iNter2023 7'