Hypocritical NBC News Attacks, Ridicules Colloidal Silver

While the big TV networks rake in billions of dollars a year from Big Pharma for advertising some of the most crippling, side-effect-laden drugs in the world, their news departments relentlessly attack safe, natural remedies like colloidal silver.

Here’s another example -- fresh from the archives of the otherwise prestigious NBC News – demonstrating the hypocrisy of the major news media, particularly when it comes to reporting on colloidal silver…

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Obviously, NBC News is running out of sensationalistic topics for the “Body Odd” section of their online news site.

In fact, in a recent articleby “science writer” Tia Ghose, the giant news network chose to regurgitate, in National Enquirer-style, some of the same tired old canards about colloidal silver we’ve all seen in the past. 

From the very first paragraph, onward, NBC News ominously warns its readers that those who drink too much colloidal silver “turn a disturbing shade of blue-gray, a condition known as argyria.”

Of course, as I’ve pointed out over and over and overand over again, colloidal silver CAN indeed cause argyria – i.e., a blue-gray skin staining.  This has been known for over 60 years.  So it’s nothing new.

What NBC News Left Out

But what NBC News selectively fails to point out in their article is that in order to create argyria, you have to use this otherwise safe, natural infection-fighting substance irresponsibly, in great excess, and for long periods of time. 

That’s because when colloidal silver is used regularly, for months or years on end, and in super-high doses or excessively high concentrations, the body’s normal elimination processes (i.e., kidneys, liver, and sweat glands) can get overwhelmed by the excess silver.

As a result, the body can begin to store some of the tiny silver particles in the tissues and organs.

And if excessive colloidal silver consumption is continued, the body then begins pushing some of the tiny silver particles out to the skin in an effort to get rid of it. 

Finally, when enough sunlight hits the embedded silver particles in the skin, they begin to oxidize (i.e., tarnish), turning the skin a bluish-gray or even slate gray color.

It’s very similar to the photographic process that uses silver to create photo negatives.  In essence, the skin becomes “tattooed” a grayish blue color wherever the silver particles are.

Never Harmed Anybody

But when colloidal silver is used responsibly, with moderation and common sense, it has one of the most benign safety profiles of all nutritional supplements. 

Indeed, the safety profile for colloidal silver is so good, the FDA has admitted under past Freedom of Information Act requests that it has no negative public safety data whatsoever on the supplement, as I’ll show you in just a moment.  

The point being, of course, that moderate, responsible and common-sense usage of colloidal silver has never harmed anybody. 

But NBC News selectively leaves that little bit of information out of their article.  Why do you think they’d leave out such an important fact?

Colloidal Silver Safety Record

Indeed, NBC News utterly failed to acknowledge in their article that colloidal silver is sold in virtually every well-stocked health food store in every city in North America, and that there’s an estimated 10 million users of the infection-fighting substance in North America alone.

The giant news network also failed to acknowledge that colloidal silver is one of the most popular water disinfectants used throughout Mexico, Central and South America, where the colloidal silver product called Microdyn is routinely recommended by the governments of those countries. 

And the network failed to acknowledge that in Europe, colloidal silver is used in the drinking water supplies of thousands of cruise ships and cargo ships,to safely sterilize and disinfect the drinking water.  

NBC News also failed to acknowledge that colloidal silver has even been used on the Space Shuttle as well as the Russian Space stationto disinfect the water for astronauts and cosmonauts on long space journeys. 

But I don’t suppose you’ve heard of any blue-skinned astronauts or cosmonauts lately, have you?  How about blue-skinned cruise ship passengers?  Blue-skinned Mexicans, Central Americans, or South Americans? 

I thought not.

What’s more, NBC News failed to acknowledge that colloidal silver is used widely throughout Third World developing countries to help disinfect the water supply, and as a result is directly responsible for saving literally hundreds of thousands of lives from dysentery and other infectious diseases.

So you’d think with all of this colloidal silver usage worldwide, there would be a veritable global epidemic of blue people everywhere you look, wouldn’t you?

But what’s the reality?

In over 120 years of colloidal silver usage worldwide, in a wide variety of consumer applications, and with millions and millions of current users worldwide…

…only a relatively tiny handful of people have ever managed to turn themselves blue, and then, only when they took egregiously excessive amounts of colloidal silver for long periods of time.

That’s what NBC News fails to tell you.  And whydo they selectively fail to give you this information? 

It’s because if they gave you those details you’d have the proper perspectivefrom which to judge their propagandistic claims about colloidal silver. 

You’d see that their claims are sensationalistic at best, and bordering on corrupt at worst. 

But they won’t give you those details, because they don’t want you to have them. 

The bottom line is that when it comes to reporting on colloidal silver, they’ve stooped to National Enquirer-style journalism on behalf of their pharmaceutical company masters. 

Indeed, the biggest piece of information NBC News fails to acknowledge is that even the FDA has sheepishly had to admit, when faced with Freedom of Information Act requests for information on colloidal silver’s safety, that they don’t have any significant negative consumer data on the substance:

FDA Admits:  No Clinical Data Showing

Colloidal Silver to Be Unsafe for Human Use

For example, here’s one Freedom of Information Act request to the FDA, asking for all of their negative data on colloidal silver. 

Following the request, you’ll find the FDA’s short but revealing reply:

October 14th, 1999

Food and Drug Administration
U.S. Department Of Health and
Human Services
Public Health Service
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857

Dear Sirs/Madam,

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act and in regard your August 17th, 1999 ruling regarding colloidal silver, could you please supply the following documentation on which you based your decision?

1. The number of deaths related to the consumption of colloidal silver.

2. The number of allergic reactions to the consumption of colloidal silver.

3. The number of harmful drug interactions from both OTC and prescription drugs when combined with colloidal silver.

4. The number of reported cases of Argyria from colloidal silver made with the AC or DC electrical process.

5. The number of cases of Argyria from colloidal silver that did not contain protein stabilizers.

Thank you for your time and consideration of this request.

Sincerely,

[name removed]

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Here’s the FDA short but very revealing response to this Freedom of Information Act request for negative consumer information on colloidal silver:

Public Health Service
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
Office of Training and Communication
Freedom of Information Staff HFD-205
5600 Fishers Lane 12 B 05
Rockville, Maryland 20857
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

November 3, 1999

In Response Refer to File: F99-22589

[ Name Removed ], WA 98408

Dear [ name removed ]:

This is in response to your request of 10/14/99, in which you requested adverse events associated with the use of Colloidal Silver.

Your request was received in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research on 10/25/99.

We have searched the records from FDA's Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) and have been unable to locate any cases that would be responsive to your request.

Charges of $3.50 (Search $3.50, Review $0, Reproduction $0, Computer time $0) will be included in a monthly invoice.

DO NOT SEND ANY PAYMENT UNTIL YOU RECEIVE AN INVOICE.

If there are any problems with this response, please notify us in writing of your specific problem(s). Please reference the above file number.

Sincerely,

Hal Stepper
Freedom of Information Technician
Office of Training and Communications
Freedom of Information Staff, HFD-205

As you can see, the FDA response for information on negative consumer data on colloidal silver was underwhelming to say the least.

Indeed, they had nothing negative to say about colloidal silver when given the chance to reveal its supposed dangers.

Big Pharma’s Influence on the News

So why is NBC News railing against the supposed dangers of colloidal silver when even the FDA has been forced to admit the consumer safety profile of this infection-fighting natural substance is remarkably clean? 

And why hasn’t NBC News acknowledged that some of the most popular and widely used drugs in the world have far more crippling (and even deadly) side effects, including many of the drugs that NBC routinely advertises on its own network, such as Tylenol, which is now the world’s #1 leading cause of acute liver failure resulting in 56,000 cases per year of liver poisoning, 26,000 hospital admissions and about 500 deaths annually due to liver failure?

Could it be because Big Pharma spends something like $4 billion annually on media advertising for their drugs?

Yes, that’s billion with a “b.” And yes, that’s every single year– with some $3.1 billion of this money going directly to television advertising according to the New York Times. 

Could it be that NBC and the other major television networks have a vested financial interest in promoting Big Pharma’s side-effect laden drugs, while discrediting natural health remedies such as colloidal silver?

Could this be why the big networks so snidely portray natural health remedies as dangerous modern-day versions of “snake oil” – even as they collectively rake in billions of dollars annually from the big drug makers in return for promoting some of the most deadly and side effect-laden drugs in the world?

I’ll leave those questions up to you to answer for yourself.  But I think in your heart of hearts you already know the answer.

Setting the Record Straight

With all of that out of the way, let’s take a quick look at some of the specific claims made against colloidal silver in the NBC News article.

In the very first paragraph of the article, NBC News claims that colloidal silver may be “the weirdest” of all “unproven health remedies.” 

That highly biased statement sets the tone for the rest of the NBC News article, as the reporter attempts to portray colloidal silver usage as something out of a carnival sideshow.

The author goes on to state in the fourth paragraph that “Enthusiasts of colloidal silver believe the metal's antibacterial properties will keep them from getting sick,” but “There’s no proof it works…” 

So what’s wrong with the claim?  It’s completely biased and decidedly untruthful. 

·       First of all, the NBC News article fails to acknowledge all of the studies demonstrating colloidal silver’s profound effectiveness against serious life-threatening pathogens like MRSA.

·       The NBC News article also fails to acknowledge the studies demonstrating colloidal silver’s effectiveness against a number of viruses.

·       The NBC News article also fails to acknowledge the plethora of bona-fide medical experts who recommend colloidal silver usage for healing infections and related illnesses.  In fact, NBC News fails to provide any balance to their article whatsoever by interviewing or quoting these medical experts. 

·       And the NBC News article fails to acknowledge the dozens upon dozens of clinical studies and white papers that have demonstrated the profound infection-fighting benefits of colloidal silver. 

·       And finally, the NBC News article writes off thousands of anecdotal reports of colloidal silver’s profound healing qualities as being nothing more than figments of the overly-active imaginations of users of the substance.

In other words, there was no attempt whatsoever made by NBC News to provide a balanced and unbiased look at colloidal silver and its usage. 

The entire article was the journalistic equivalent of a drive-by shooting. 

Indeed, the author of the NBC news article ventures into the realm Red Herring journalism by sneaking in a link to another online article about the Fugate clan of Troublesome Creek, Kentucky.

The Fugates, of course, have bluish-looking skin due to a genetic blood abnormality called methemoglobinemia, which is apparently compounded by intermarriage between members of this isolated clan.

The article about the Fugate clan has absolutely nothing to do with colloidal silver usage, or with argyria. 

Indeed, it appears to be linked to by NBC News solely as a means of connecting colloidal silver usage with a freakish occurrence of nature. 

But far from being a freakish occurrence of nature, colloidal silver is among one of the most well-studied and commonly used forms of natural protection from infectious microorganisms, with dozens of clinical studies to its credit. 

New Study?

Finally, what really galls me about this propaganda piece disguised as a “news” article from NBC is that it purports to be an announcement of a new clinical study that has for the first time ever demonstrated the biological pathway through which colloidal silver causes argyria.

Here’s a direct quote from the NBC News article:

“The team found that stomach acid strips silver atoms of one electron (electrons have a negative charge), making a positively charged silver ion, or salt.

The silver ion then seeps into the bloodstream through channels normally only used by other salts. From the bloodstream, the salts wind up in the skin.

When light hits the skin, electrons from the surrounding area immediately bond to the silver ions, turning them back into silver atoms.

The chemical conversion results in darker particles, and the skin turns blue. The same chemical reaction is used to develop black-and-white prints.”

Ignoring the erroneous idea that a positively charged silver ion is a “salt” (it most definitely isn’t)…

…and ignoring the fact that no mention whatsoever is made of the decided worldwide dearth of cases of argyria…

…have we learned anything new from the NBC News article?

Nope.  Not a thing. 

While NBC News essentially touts this new study as being groundbreaking in nature, the reality is this: 

It’s been known for over six decades that the condition known as argyria is basically similar to the photographic process in which silver is converted by light to produce a pigment. 

For example, Wikipedia.com explains:

“Chronic intake of silver products can result in an accumulation of silver or silver sulfide particles in the skin.

As in photography (where silver is used due to its reactivity with light), these particles in the skin darken with exposure to sunlight, resulting in a blue or gray discoloration of the skin.

          This condition is known as argyria.”

And the 1987 clinical study, Argyria: the Intradermal “Photograph,” a Manifestation of Passive Photosensitivity” states:

“X-ray microprobe and electron microscopic study was made of the remarkable blue-black pigmentation that sunlight elicits in patients with argyria…

…Similarities are demonstrated between the darkening of the skin and the darkening of a photographic film following light exposure…

…This passive photosensitivity reaction leads to silver tattooing of the light-exposed skin and to photographic imaging in the film.”

In other words, the whole idea touted by NBC News that this is newinformation borders on the ludicrous. 

The NBC News article simply uses the announcement of the new study as an empty pretence to ridicule the idea of colloidal silver usage, and most importantly, to scare away their readers from even thinking about using it. 

The Real Purpose of the Article

Finally, the NBC News article states, regarding colloidal silver and argyria, “To avoid looking like a Smurf, it's probably best to avoid the health tonic altogether.”

And there you have, in a nutshell, the entire purpose of the NBC News hit piece.

But do you see anynews articles from NBC News saying "To avoid becoming one of the 56,000 people per year who end up with Tylenol poisoning or the 500 people per year who end up dying from acute liver failure due to Tylenol poisoning, it's probably best to avoid pain-relieving drugs like Tylenol altogether?"

Of course not.  After all, such a statement – however true it might be -- would cost NBC tens of millions of dollars or more in annual advertising revenues.  

The bottom line is that the entire NBC News article on colloidal silver was cleverly designed to sow into the minds of their news readers the erroneous notion that they’ll ‘turn blue’ if they even consider using the substance.

Wrong Again…

Finally, the NBC News article concludes by saying “…there’s no known way to reverse” argyria.

Yet even that statement is a complete falsehood. 

Nearly 10 years ago Dr. Allison Vidimos of the famous Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, OH developed a method for using a laser light to reverse mild cases of argyric skin staining.

And she’s taught this technique around the world ever since.  Indeed, there are now doctors from the east coast to the west coast and around the world successfully practicing the technique, which is basically very much like tattoo removal using laser light. 

Years ago I wrote about this successful technique for reversing argyria in my book, The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual. 

And I wrote about it again in my more recent article, Colloidal Silver:  Harmful to the Human Body?

Pure Propaganda

So basically, the only significant fact the NBC News article got right is that excessive use of colloidal silver can cause argyria – a fact that’s been widely known for some 60-plus years (though it is only true for a small subset of users). 

The rest of the article was pure propaganda.  And NBC News has pretty much destroyed any credibility it might have had in regards to unbiased reporting on natural health topics. 

The bottom line is that if you stripped away all of the reporter’s bias and skillfully employed propaganda from the NBC News article, and added just a tiny bit of factual data, the entire news article could have easily been summed up thusly:

In a press release, scientists from Brown University claim to have simulated the biological pathway through which excessive long-term use of colloidal silver can cause argyria.

Argyria is a cosmetic skin condition that has afflicted only a tiny number of the estimated 10 million colloidal silver users across North America, and which according to the FDA causes no apparent health concerns.

In this simulation, the researchers demonstrated what has already been known about argyria for some 60 years: 

When a large enough number of silver particles are carried through the body to the skin over long periods of time, the skin can become stained blue or bluish gray in a photographic-like process.

But instead of reporting truthfully, the reporter chose to abandon all journalistic principle and weave her own bias into the article, using cleverly chosen words and website links to strike fearful emotional chords in the minds of NBC News readers. 

You’re Fired!

As a journalist and author with over 30 years of writing and editorial experience, I can assure you I’d have fired any reporter who brought me such a deceptive and poorly researched piece of propaganda disguised as journalism.   

But NBC News chose instead to print the piece. 

Worse yet, NBC News chose to end the article with an embedded video of poor old Paul Karason, the so-called “colloidal silver blue man,” who openly admits he used high concentrations of colloidal silver excessively for over ten years and ended up staining his facial skin a bright blue. 

Of course, there would be nothing wrong with including that video, had NBC News bothered to mention the fact that Karason is an unusual case and is not at all representative of the millions of responsible colloidal silver users around the world. 

But instead the news network chose not to do reveal that critical detail, demonstrating their own complicity in the biased reporting. 

What NBC News Won’t Tell You

To learn more about the use of safe, natural colloidal silverfor fighting infection and disease, just click the link in this sentence and scroll through some of the web pages linked in the navigation bar on the left-hand side of the page. 

I suggest checking out the “Clinical Studies and Reports” page, for example, which lists dozens of clinical studies on colloidal silver that you can read right on the website. 

You might also want to check out the “What the Experts Say About Colloidal Silver” page, which lists literally hundreds of positive quotes on colloidal silver from medical and scientific research experts. 

Then, while you’re at it, check out the “More Great Articles About Colloidal Silver” page for over 100 in-depth articles on colloidal silver. 

And finally, if you’re a real brave soul, check out the “Testimonials” page as well.  There you’ll learn exactly how hundreds of experienced colloidal silver users have used the substance safely and effectively to heal numerous forms of infectious illness and disease.

Meanwhile, I’ll be back next week with another great article on colloidal silver…

Yours for the safe, sane and responsible use of colloidal silver,

Steve Barwick, author
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual

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Important Note and Disclaimer:  The contents of this Ezine have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.  Information conveyed herein is from sources deemed to be accurate and reliable, but no guarantee can be made in regards to the accuracy and reliability thereof.  The author, Steve Barwick, is a natural health journalist with over 30 years of experience writing professionally about natural health topics.  He is nota doctor.  Therefore, nothing stated in this Ezine should be construed as prescriptive in nature, nor is any part of this Ezine meant to be considered a substitute for professional medical advice.  Nothing reported herein is intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.  The author is simply reporting in journalistic fashion what he has learned during the past 17 years of journalistic research into colloidal silver and its usage.  Therefore, the information and data presented should be considered for informational purposes only, and approached with caution.  Readers should verify for themselves, and to their own satisfaction, from other knowledgeable sources such as their doctor, the accuracy and reliability of all reports, ideas, conclusions, comments and opinions stated herein.  All important health care decisions should be made under the guidance and direction of a legitimate, knowledgeable and experienced health care professional.  Readers are solely responsible for their choices.  The author and publisher disclaim responsibility and/or liability for any loss or hardship that may be incurred as a result of the use or application of any information included in this Ezine. 

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Big Pharma Shuns Silver; Blackmails U.S. Government Into Paying for New Antibiotic Drugs With Taxpayer Money

While numerous clinical studies have demonstrated the amazing effectiveness of colloidal silver and other forms of antimicrobial silver against drug-resistant pathogens, Big Pharma continues to ignore the evidence.  Instead, they’re now forcing U.S. taxpayers to pay through the nose for the development of new classes of antibiotic drugs. And they’re lowering the safety testing requirements on those new drugs, which means they’ll be even more toxic and dangerous than ever.  Here’s the story you won’t hear anywhere else…

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Back in December 2011 I wrote an article explaining that Big Pharma was essentially attempting to blackmail the U.S. government (as well as European governments) by threatening to stop all research into new antibiotic drugs…unless the government agrees to fund such new research with taxpayer money.

In other words, the big drug companies – which collectively make hundreds of billions of dollars in profits every year -- want us to pay for their research and development costs, and then charge us through the nose for the new drugs they’ve developed with our ownmoney!

Of course, they use sensationalistic scare tactics to make their point, claiming we’ll all end up dying of superbug infections if we don’t foot the bill for their research and development into new and more powerful classes of antibiotic drugs.

What About Antimicrobial Silver?

But in my previous article, I pointed out that in study after study after study after study after study after study after study it’s been demonstrated that colloidal silver and other forms of antimicrobial silver kills drug-resistant super-pathogens.

I also pointed out that studies from BYU have demonstrated that existing prescription antibiotic drugs often regain their full effectiveness against super-pathogens when colloidal silver is added to the drug regimen. 

So there’s really no reason spend billions of dollars of taxpayer money on the development of new drugs, when antimicrobial silver can be used to staunch the tide of super-pathogen infections, instead.

Here It Comes…

But Big Pharma has no intention of looking into antimicrobial silver.  After all, silver is a natural substance, and even if you could patent it as a drug and sell it for hundreds of dollars a prescription, people can still make and use their own antimicrobial colloidal silver for just pennies in the comfort and privacy of their own homes.

So Big Pharma ignores silver in the fight against drug-resistant infections.  And now they’re forcing governments to tap into the taxpayer’s wallets for new drug development.

Indeed, according to an article in the June 19, 2012 issue of Infectious Disease News, the U.S. government has simply caved in to Big Pharma’s demands, and is now going to start paying for pharmaceutical company research into new antibiotic drugs with your tax money and mine. 

Below is a brief excerpt from the article.  Be sure to note how the author repeatedly uses the word “incentives” in place of the phrase “taxpayer money.” But don’t be fooled by the semantics.  It’s yourmoney they’re funneling to Big Pharma in order to give them the “incentive” to develop more antibiotic drugs:

“The United States House and Senate members have announced a bipartisan agreement on the FDA’s Safety and Innovation Act, which includes language to address antibiotic research and development and to bring new antibiotics to the country, according to an Infectious Disease Society of America statement.

IDSA has advocated for such antibiotic incentives, and hopes that the incentives spark interest in this area of medicine. Their 10 x ’20 initiative outlines the need to bring antibiotics to people who need them in the United States and abroad. They say that other incentives will be necessary to reach these goals.

Possible incentives include tax credits for research and development, public-private collaborations and the Limited Population Antibacterial Drug mechanism to streamline FDA approval, which the IDSA recently proposed.”

Translation:  The U.S. government is going to provide “incentives” (read: taxpayer money) to the big drug companies as a means of “sparking their interest” in developing new antibiotic drugs.  What’s more, once Big Pharma gets started, they’re going to need “other incentives” (i.e., code for massive tax breaks on their profits) in order to reach their goals.  Finally, they’re also going to need “streamlined FDA approval” of these drugs by no longer requiring stringent safety testing.  

Well, that’s awfully comforting, isn’t it? 

We pay for their development of the drugs out of our taxes.  Then Big Pharma sells the drugs back to us for massive profits.  And now the drugs will be more toxic than ever. And on top of that, Big Pharma will ultimately pay no taxes on the profits they reap from these drugs.  Such a deal, huh?

The Illusion of Humanitarianism

Of course, Infectious Disease News tries to make it sound like the government came up with this idea as a humanitarian means of “incentivizing” the big drug companies to work harder on developing new antibiotic drugs.  But nothing could be further from the truth.

As I pointed out in my previous article, the entire scheme was concocted by Big Pharma from day one.  And if you don’t believe me, perhaps you’ll believe the architects of the scheme – i.e., the Infectious Disease Society of America – who have explained in glowing and approving terms on their own web site how Big Pharma has pulled it off.

There you’ll read how 14 major drug companies backed the plan, which is called the “10x’20 Initiative” because it “aims to encourage the development of 10 new systemic antibiotics by the year 2020.”  Isn’t that precious?

And of course, just as I warned, Big Pharma used sensationalistic and apocalyptic scare tactics to get the plan implemented by Congress:

“We’re on the brink of a medical catastrophe – more and more patients are succumbing to drug-resistant infections for which we have no good treatment options, and yet the number of new antibacterial drugs being developed is plummeting,” said Thomas G. Slama, MD, president of IDSA. “We are engaged in ongoing discussion with congressional leaders to help them appreciate just how serious this problem is…”

The Big Shakedown

Of course, the whole thing reeks to high heaven of an organized crime shakedown.  And that’s exactly what it is.

According to the book, The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It, by Marcia Angell, “Drug companies often decided to stop making important drugs in order to free up capacity for drugs with bigger market potential.”

In other words, it’s not that the antibiotic drugs are unprofitable to produce. They’re very profitable.  It’s just that other drugs, such as heart drugs, diabetes drugs, arthritis drugs and others are even more profitable because patients have to take them for a lifetime. And the big drug companies would rather produce the most profitable drugs possible, even though it means millions of lives will be lost as a consequence of cutting back on the production of lessprofitable drugs like antibiotics.

But hey, don’t worry.  After all, if the U.S. government will just funnel plenty of taxpayer money into the coffers of Big Pharma, the drug companies will do us a great big favor and work on developing a few more of these less profitable antibiotic drugs.  But just 10 more, mind you.  And then…well…we’re apparently on our own unless we keep the flow of taxpayer money (er…uh…I mean “incentives”) coming.

You know how it works:  Once the taxpayers are forced by Big Brother to pick up the tab for Big Business, it never ends. They just keep demanding more.  It’s called Corporate Welfare.  And it’s the biggest scam in town.

Colloidal Silver to the Rescue!

Meanwhile, if you see the handwriting on the wall, you know it’s time to learn how to make and use colloidal silver with a high-quality Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge.

I won’t say any more than that, because I just don’t think it’s necessary.  You either get it at this point, or you don’t. 

Big Pharma and their cronies in the FDA (and in Congress) are shaking down the entire population.  And now that they’ve managed to tap into the taxpayer trough, the infectious disease crisis is simply going to get worse and worse. 

Why?  Because that’swhere the money is now – a never-ending supply, compliments of the U.S. taxpayers.  And the only thing Big Pharma really cares about is money.  So please don’t suffer under the delusion that they’ll actually stop the so-called superbug crisis if we’ll pay them to develop new antibiotic drugs.

To Big Pharma, human life means nothing compared to billions of dollars in easy taxpayer money.  But you can even-up the odds by learning how to make and use your own high-quality antimicrobial colloidal silver silver.

Yours for the safe, sane and responsible use of colloidal silver,

Steve Barwick, author
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual

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Important Note and Disclaimer:  The contents of this Ezine have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.  Information conveyed herein is from sources deemed to be accurate and reliable, but no guarantee can be made in regards to the accuracy and reliability thereof.  The author, Steve Barwick, is a natural health journalist with over 30 years of experience writing professionally about natural health topics.  He is nota doctor.  Therefore, nothing stated in this Ezine should be construed as prescriptive in nature, nor is any part of this Ezine meant to be considered a substitute for professional medical advice.  Nothing reported herein is intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.  The author is simply reporting in journalistic fashion what he has learned during the past 17 years of journalistic research into colloidal silver and its usage.  Therefore, the information and data presented should be considered for informational purposes only, and approached with caution.  Readers should verify for themselves, and to their own satisfaction, from other knowledgeable sources such as their doctor, the accuracy and reliability of all reports, ideas, conclusions, comments and opinions stated herein.  All important health care decisions should be made under the guidance and direction of a legitimate, knowledgeable and experienced health care professional.  Readers are solely responsible for their choices.  The author and publisher disclaim responsibility or liability for any loss or hardship that may be incurred as a result of the use or application of any information included in this Ezine.

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Big Pharma Ignores Colloidal Silver, Says Taxpayers Must Fund Research Into New Antibiotic Drugs Or Risk Dying of Superbug Infections!

Did you ever wonder why the European Union banned the sale of colloidal silver back in January of 2010, just as new studies began demonstrating how effective it is against the growing threat of antibiotic-resistant super-pathogens?

Is it any coincidence that Big Pharma is now threatening to let millions of people DIE of superbug infections unless taxpayers start footing the bill for the needed new antibiotic drugs…and that the governments of the European Union are now the first ones to have caved in to their demands?

Hi, Steve Barwick here, for www.TheSilverEdge.com...

According to this news article, Europe is in the grip of a massive superbug crisis that shows no sign of abating.

At the same time, Big Pharma has purposely -- and callously -- cut back on research and development into new antibiotic drugs to combat the superbug crisis.

This has left the nations of the European Union in a life-threatening bind.

EU governments are now being forced to institute programs through which European taxpayers will foot the bill for Big Pharma’s research and development of new antibiotic drugs.

Afterwards, the drug companies will be allowed to sell the drugs they’ve developed on the taxpayer dime for massive profits.

So taxpayers foot the bill both ways.

They pay for the research and development of the new antibiotic drugs through higher taxes, and then they pay for the new "wonder drugs" developed at their expense.

As Andrew Witty, Chief Executive of the drug company GlaxoSmithKline said about the new plan to have taxpayers foot the bill for the development of new antibiotic drugs to fight the superbug crisis:

“The Commission's plans were a welcome step forward that could help bring more antibiotics to market. Unfortunately, the current commercial model doesn't stimulate the innovation needed in this area.

We need a fundamentally different approach and public-private collaboration, with the sharing of information and funding, provides us with a significant opportunity to reduce the hurdles in our way."

Translation:

“Make the taxpayers foot the bill for all of our research and development costs, and we’ll develop some new drugs to help combat the superbug crisis.

Otherwise, you can all eat shit and die if you get a superbug infection because we’re not going to develop any more drugs if we have to pay for the research and development out of our own profits.”

Folks, these big drug companies make hundreds of billions of dollars a year selling drugs at exorbitant prices that cost them only pennies to produce.

And now they want the beleaguered taxpayers to foot the bill for all of their research and development costs for new antibiotic drugs to fight super-pathogens…

…or else they’ll just sit back on their haunches and allow millions of people worldwide to die from superbug infections each year!

Are you beginning to see why the European Union banned the sale of colloidal silver back in 2010?

With no alternative natural means of fighting superbug infections, the taxpayers of the European Union now have no choice but pay Big Pharma billions of dollars annually to develop new antibiotic drugs for them!

Some people say the bankers run the world. But I’ll tell you what: There’s little doubt in my mind Big Pharma is right up there with them.

Coming to America!

And don’t think the same thing won’t happen here.

The very same propaganda campaign used in Europe to force the taxpayers to pay Big Pharma’s research and development costs for new antibiotic drugs is already being implemented here in the U.S., too. In fact, the propaganda campaign for it has been underway since last year.

“We're running out of antibiotic drugs," said Dr. Brad Spellberg of UCLA Medical Center, an infectious disease expert. He says the pharmaceutical companies have stopped making enough antibiotics because it's just “not profitable.”

Indeed, according to the Infectious Disease Society of America, as of 2010 only a mere five of the 13 biggest pharmaceutical companies are still even considering developing new antibiotic drugs.

And according to an article in Newsweek magazine, the drug companies now claim profits are just not high enough to justify the development of new antibiotic drugs, particularly when compared to the money that can be made by developing drugs for chronic, long-term diseases such as cancer, heart disease or even baldness:

“Medications that treat cancer or chronic conditions like diabetes, heart disease, or even baldness are simply much more lucrative [than antibiotic drugs].

That’s because a single course of the most expensive antibiotics (linezolid and daptomycin) runs just seven days and sells for $1,000 to $2,000, while a single course of, say, any given cancer treatment runs for weeks to months and costs from 10 to 20 times as much.

Chronic-disease medications, which a patient typically takes for the rest of his or her life, yield even higher returns. It doesn’t matter that bacterial infections are infinitely more common than cancer or even heart disease; antibiotics are still less profitable…

… The future will almost certainly be different. Antibiotics will cost more and do less. They will also be less readily available than we are accustomed to.”

Ahhh…did they just say ya’ll gonna die because we’re not making enough money off your stupid infections, but if you’ve got cancer, heart disease or are going bald we’ve got you covered with expensive drugs you can take for the rest of your life?

I think you read that right, my friend!

According to the book, The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It, by Marcia Angell, “Drug companies often decided to stop making important drugs in order to free up capacity for drugs with bigger market potential.”

Translation: It’s not that the antibiotic drugs aren’t profitable to produce. It’s that other drugs are much more profitable. And the drug companies would rather produce the more profitable drugs, even though it means millions of lives will be lost as a consequence of cutting back on the production of the less profitable drugs.

According to an article in Time magazine titled “The Desperate Need for New Antibiotics,” David Payne, head of GlaxoSmithKline's Antibacterial Discovery Performance Unit says “incentives” would certainly help his research team, which is one of the few left in major pharmaceutical firms that continue to develop new classes of antibiotics.

"A lot of people don't appreciate that in big companies it's a pretty competitive environment for funding for each of the therapeutic areas.

Incentives would offer a way for us to accelerate our program and increase our probability of success."

Of course, “incentives” is the new code word for taxpayer funding. Mr. Payne wants the government to provide taxpayer dollars as an “incentive” to develop more antibiotic drugs. Otherwise, the death rate from the superbugs is going to soar.

Why don’t the drug companies simply fund the needed research out of the hundreds of billions of dollars in profits they make each year from the sale of their other prescription drugs?

Well, why should they, when they can simply stop producing new antibiotic drugs until death rates from the super-pathogens skyrocket to the point that the governments of the world are forced to start ponying up taxpayer money to fund the research, instead?

Says a November 2010 article in the New York Times:

“While the notion of directly subsidizing drug companies may be politically unpopular in many quarters, proponents say it is necessary to bridge the gap between the high value that new antibiotics have for society and the low returns they provide to drug companies.”

Fear-based propaganda, my friends, pure and simple!

Indeed, with characteristic disingenuousness, Big Pharma with its hundreds of billions of dollars in annual profits is actually pleading poverty in an effort to goad the government into using taxpayer money to fund the development of new antibiotic drugs…

…which of course the drug companies will make additional billions of dollars in profits from.

What About Colloidal Silver?

Meanwhile, a growing body of largely ignored clinical research demonstrates that a few cents worth of colloidal silver daily, properly administered, will generally cure just about any superbug infection.

In fact, study after study after study after study after study after study after study have demonstrated that silver kills drug-resistant super-pathogens.

This has actually been known since the 1970’s, when Dr. Robert O. Becker, M.D. of Syracuse Medical University began his pioneering research into the infection-fighting qualities of electrically generated silver ions. At that time, he wrote:

"All of the organisms that we tested were sensitive to the electrically generated silver ion, including some that were resistant to all known antibiotics…In no case were any undesirable side effects of the silver treatment apparent."

-- Dr. Robert O. Becker, M.D., Syracuse Medical University

And the simple fact that silver kills antibiotic-resistant microbes has been re-confirmed time after time. As recently stated in a 2010 clinical study published in the World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology:

"Infections caused by drug-resistant microorganisms result in significant increases in mortality, morbidity, and cost related to prolonged treatments.

The antibacterial activity of silver nanoparticles against some drug-resistant bacteria has been established…

Hence, we challenged different drug-resistant pathogens of clinical importance (multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, ampicillin-resistant Escherichia coli O157:H7 and erythromycin-resistant Streptococcus pyogenes) with a suspension of silver nanoparticles.

By means of a luciferase-based assay, it was determined that silver nanoparticles:

(1) inactivate a panel of drug-resistant and drug-susceptible bacteria (Gram positive and Gram negative),

(2) exert their antibacterial activity through a bactericidal rather than bacteriostatic mechanism, and

(3) inhibit the bacterial growth rate from the time of first contact between the bacteria and the nanoparticles."

-- World J Microbiol Biotechnol (2010) 26:615–621

What’s more, studies from BYU have demonstrated that simply adding colloidal silver to an existing prescription antibiotic drug that has lost its effectiveness against the superbugs, increases the efficacy of that drug manifold, and renders it effective against the superbugs once again!

So really, it appears there’s no need to develop new antibiotic drugs to fight the superpathogens. Just add a little bit of colloidal silver to the existing drugs, and they become supercharged!

This too has been repeatedly documented by other researchers. The most recent study was conducted by clinical researchers at the Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology & Regenerative Medicine and University of Seville at Seville, Spain:

“Recently, due to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and the use limitations of antibiotics that can cause serious diseases and is an important public health problem (Furuya & Lowy, 2006), the synergetic effect of silver nanoparticles with antibiotics has been studied combinating silver nanoparticles with different antibiotics like ampicillin, kanamycin, erythromycin and chloramphenicol against gram positive and gram negative bacteria.

The antibacterial activities of these antibiotics increase in the presence of silver nanoparticles against gram positive and gram negative bacteria determined by the disk diffusion method.

…The antibiotic molecules contain many active groups such as hydroxyl and amino groups, which reacts easily with silver nanoparticles by chelation, for this reason, the synergistic effect may be caused by the bonding reaction with antibiotic and silver nanoparticles.”

-- Silver Nanoparticles Interactions With the Immune System: Implications for Health and Disease, CABIMER-Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology & Regenerative Medicine

Want more evidence that antimicrobial silver is the clear solution to the growing super-pathogen crisis. Here are just a few insightful articles you might want to read:

· Colloidal Silver Cures MRSA

· Colloidal Silver Cures CRPK

· Colloidal Silver Cures Pseudomonas

· Colloidal Silver Cures Salmonella

· Colloidal Silver Cures Streptococcus Pyogenes

· Colloidal Silver Cures E. Coli

· Colloidal Silver Curse Listeria

Meanwhile, the drug companies continue to ignore silver-based antimicrobials as the only viable, immediate solution to the ever-growing crisis of super-pathogens.

And why?

Clearly, it’s because they’re not looking for a quick, safe and effective solution to the millions of deaths per year caused by the super-pathogens worldwide.

Instead, they’re pushing the governments of the world to tap deeper into the taxpayer’s pocketbooks to pay for research and development into new classes of antibiotic drugs.

And of course, because the pathogens become resistant to most new drugs within a matter of months or years, the taxpayer-funded research and development of new drugs will be a never-ending source of revenue for Big Pharma.

The bottom line is that when the taxpayers have to foot the bill for the R&D, then new antibiotic drugs will be developed.

And these new drugs will represent billions upon billions of dollars in pure profits for Big Pharma, because they won’t have to pay for their own research and development.

Can You See The Handwriting On the Wall?

What does this tell you?

Well, if you’re intelligent, it should tell you to start stocking up on colloidal silver, because the drug companies are about to use the same blackmail tactic here in the U.S. they just finished using in the EU.

This means the super-pathogen crisis is going to get a lot worse here, first. That’s the leverage the big pharmaceutical companies intend to use to force the government to start providing taxpayer money to fund their research into the development of new antibiotics.

So you’ll want to have plenty of this powerful, infection-fighting elixir available in the interim.

Of course, colloidal silver is costly, with tiny four-ounce bottles going for as much as $30 apiece in health food stores.

Therefore, you might want to consider obtaining a new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator so you can make all of the high-quality colloidal silver you could ever need for just a few pennies per one-quart batch, any time you need it to protect yourself and your family.

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Or, check out this link to learn how thousands of experienced colloidal silver users are already curing their own infections with high-quality, homemade micro-particle colloidal silver.

Frankly, making your own high-quality micro-particle colloidal silver the simplest and most effective way in the world to tell Big Pharma where to shove it, while protecting yourself and your family from infection and disease at the same time.

The time has clearly come for people to take their health and well-being into their own hands, and tell the big drug companies to pound sand.

Owning the means of colloidal silver production is one of the most effective ways you can do that.

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Yours for the safe, sane and responsible use of colloidal silver,

Steve Barwick, author

The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual

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