In a startling moment of honesty, an FDA spokesperson recently made this announcement: "The FDA obviously has a friendly relationship with drug companies compared to our relatively cool relationship with supplement makers. So of course we're likely to apply more lenient standards to drug companies while pretty much sticking it to supplement companies."

The news about Gardasil keeps getting worse. A report has recently come to light revealing that docs from as many as three respected medical associations accepted money from Merck to promote this dangerous and unnecessary vaccine.

Is whistle blowing an act of courage, betrayal or revenge? It depends on what end of the whistle you're on, and boy was Pfizer on the wrong side of that whistle this week.

It is a modern-day tragedy that millions of women in the U.S. have been scared by Merck’s powerful ad campaign to become “one less” victim to cervical cancer by getting vaccinated with Gardasil. Sadly, now an increasing number of formerly healthy girls are turning into “one more” victim of vaccine adverse reactions.

It’s like a scene from a summer blockbuster movie. In a grim moment, one official reports to another official that the (fill in the blank: monster, robot, alien, force of nature) is “unstoppable.”

That’s the word that World Health Organization officials recently used to describe the H1N1 virus. Unstoppable. And with that, the WHO and the CDC have officially started their joint campaign to ratchet up the H1N1 fear factor in earnest – preparing everyone for the moment when we’ll be called on to line up and get our H1N1 shots.

It‘s not uncommon to hear someone who takes a statin drug (like Crestor, Lipitor or Zocor) complain of muscle aches and pains. But that‘s a fairly benign trade-off, right? After all, these drugs help lower your cholesterol.

Well, not so fast. Statin drugs are far more dangerous than Big Pharma wants you to know. In fact, even those "benign" aches and pains could be much more serious than you think.

The ever intrepid New York City Health Department launches a new campaign today: Stop drinking soft drinks or else you are “Pouring on the Pounds.”

You'd think it would be a given. You go to the pharmacy and pick up your prescription, secure in the knowledge that the only people who know what medications you're on are you, your doctor, and your pharmacist.

Not so.

This summer, Texas Congressman Ron Paul introduced two important health freedom bills. Together, the "Health Freedom Act" and the "Health Information Protection Act" would help to limit the power of my old adversary, the Food and Drug Administration.

Don't forget that the FDA plays a major role in each of the two potential disasters I've already sounded the alarm about this week -- so I'm all for anything that helps keep this inept, out-of-control federal agency at bay.

As I’ve stated before, I’m not anti-vaccine, but rather pro-vaccine safety and choice. Both of the issues – vaccine makers being inoculated against lawsuits, and the fast-tracking of vaccines that contain documented dangerous ingredients – are surefire ways to ensure that vaccine safety is largely ignored.

Add to that the potential for mandatory swine flu vaccinations and the probability for disaster skyrockets.