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Is
Big Pharma Funding the Radical Anti-Silver Environmentalist
Groups?
At least one
reader feels I’m not doing a very good job of exposing the idea that Big Pharma is manipulating or even orchestrating the radical
environmental groups that have been attacking antimicrobial silver. I’ll let you decide…
Hi,
Steve Barwick here, for www.TheSilverEdge.com...
After
publication of my latest article, “How Many Scare Tactics and Lies About Antimicrobial Nanosilver Can Friends of the Earth Cram
Into a Single Email?” (see article here) several readers wrote to politely chastise me.
One felt that my article was too long and laborious
to read, and that I needed to give a short series of “action steps” instead of
so many details.
I wrote back explaining that the time to take action
was long past…
…that I’d written many, many articles since late 2008 urging colloidal silver users to act
against the egregious tactics of the radical environmentalists who have been
trying to force the EPA to restrict the public’s access to silver-based
products…
…and in those articles I’ve provided a number of “action
steps” that could be taken, particularly when public comments on the matter
were being requested by the EPA.
Finally, I explained that there’s not much left to
do now but sit back and wait as the EPA wrangles over new regulations for
products containing antimicrobial silver.
Will the new regulations affect the sale of safe,
natural colloidal silver?
We simply don’t know yet, because the EPA and the
radical environmentalist groups behind the drive to regulate silver as a
“pesticide” have become very tight-lipped about it…
…ever since they got their hands
slapped by colloidal silver users during the initial stages of the
campaign to force the EPA to regulate silver-based products as “pesticides.”
My best guess at the moment is that the EPA will
implement new rules and regulations regarding the use of antimicrobial silver
in consumer products such as computer keyboards, kitchen cutting boards, toothbrushes,
shampoos, soaps, etc. But I’m betting
they’ll initially leave colloidal silver out of the fray.
However, after the regulations have been set in
stone, I have little doubt the radical environmentalists will start pushing the
EPA to include over-the-counter colloidal silver products in their regulations,
in accord with the Friends of the Earth White Paper that recommended all colloidal silver products be either banned, or
regulated as “drugs.”
Big Pharma’s Influence
Another reader felt I have failed to drive home the
contention that the radical environmental groups behind the campaign to
regulate silver-based products are being orchestrated by Big Pharma.
Here’s my response to that charge…
Back
in early 2009 I wrote an article voicing my strong
suspicions that Big Pharma might be funding the
radical environmental groups that were working so hard to remove all products
containing antimicrobial silver – including colloidal silver – from the
marketplace:
"The environmental groups behind the petition to regulate silver
particles as ‘pesticides’ get the bulk of their funding, to the tune of
millions of dollars a year, from donations from corporate and individual
sponsors, as well as from government grants.
My best guess is that Big Pharma
is funding these groups through one or more surreptitious pathways to pursue
this avenue of silver regulation.
After all, who stands to benefit more than Big Pharma from restricting silver’s availability to the
general public?"
I
later published an article by intrepid
natural health journalist Tony Isaacs, who exposed how Big Pharma
appeared to be using its charitable foundations to fund the radical environmentalists.
In
the preface to that article, I wrote:
|
Boy did we hit the nail on the head. It now appears
that at least two big drug companies -- Merck and Pfiizer
-- have for many years been using charitable foundations to pour tens of
thousands of dollars… …and in some cases even millions of dollars
worth of funding into some of the very environmental groups now actively
engaged in promoting the petition to have "nano-silver" products
regulated as "pesticides." |
Tony’s article, which you can read at the link above, went on to expose
exactly how the radical anti-silver environmentalists were being funded to the
tune of millions of dollars in some cases, by certain charitable foundations associated
with Big Pharma.
Finally,
in October of 2009 I wrote an article about the
lawsuit threat received by natural health journalist Tony Isaacs for exposing
the links between the radical environmentalists and Big Pharma’s
charitable foundations.
Here’s
an excerpt from my lead to that article:
In a recent twist in the battle
between environmental groups and colloidal silver users, a spokesman for the
International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA) has not-so-subtly
threatened to sue investigative reporter Tony Isaacs over his articles…
…in which he reported finding funding
links between charitable foundations associated with major drug companies such
as Merck and Pfizer, and environmental groups directly associated with the
petition to force the EPA to regulate silver-based products, including some of
the leading brands of colloidal silver.
Since
that time, I’ve referenced and linked to these articles on numerous
occasions.
Nevertheless,
at least one reader feels I’m not doing a good enough job of hammering home the
idea that Big Pharma appears to be orchestrating the
environmentalist campaign to have antimicrobial silver more stringently
regulated by the EPA.
Indeed,
one well-known colloidal silver manufacturer has repeatedly written me,
politely chastising me for failing to do a good enough job of exposing what he
believes to be the manipulation of environmental groups by Big Pharma in a quest to censor and heavily regulate
silver-based products.
Here’s
his most recent email, which I received after posting my latest
article
titled “How Many Scare Tactics and Lies About Antimicrobial Nanosilver Can
Friends of the Earth Cram Into a Single Email?”:
Hi Steve,
Another
superbly written and very passionate piece you’ve written here.
And another well-intended, equally passionate suggestion from me. This time it’s very concise and to the point:
I wish to God
your pieces on this subject all focused heavily on the core – CORE – issue
behind all this, which is that big pharma is funding
and orchestrating all of this and using the environmental groups as their front
men…
…and the
reason for this drive is solely to keep the “information flow” censored about
the far-reaching antimicrobial benefits of silver…
…because that information allows colloidal/ionic silver manufacturers
(and consumers who make it themselves) to compete with the multi-billion-dollar
antibiotic industry.
It could
readily get out of control with more information flow and cost them billions of
dollars, with a big B.
Period!
THAT is what
this is all about, and that’s what you should be saying from the rooftops in
these pieces.
Everything
else you’re saying is also of course vital and priceless.
BUT it still
seems like “maybe” they’re right and “maybe” you’re just disgruntled for
competitive reasons (some people think environmental groups are generally
genuine, man)…
…UNTIL you
shine the spotlight on that one core bottom-line fact, at which point it all
falls right into place!
People then
understand that the money that the environmental groups are taking from big pharma has a direct motivation and thus clearly a direct
tainting effect on those groups.
They
understand that the cries from the environmental groups should now, therefore,
suddenly be taken with an enormous grain of salt for that reason alone (without
having to digest, research, and make judgments about all the other phenomenal
supportive things you point out, or, better yet, in addition to it).
And, they see
by virtue of understanding that core issue that, indeed, it is the very
benefits that silver provides that is so incredibly threatening to big pharma in the first place…
…hence their
elaborately orchestrated campaign to ultimately do one thing and that is censor
what was becoming an out-of-control flow of information enlightening the public
about the antimicrobial benefits of silver.
Your articles
on this subject should have ten times the impact with that core issue spelled
out clearly and repeatedly.
I hope that
resonates this time.
(Sigh.)
-- Name withheld
Have I Failed
to Cover All of the Bases?
Well,
there you have it.
I’m
not particularly convinced I’ve done a bad job reporting on the craziness being
perpetrated by radical environmental groups who’ve been working overtime to
push the EPA to more stringently regulate commercial products that incorporate
antimicrobial silver into their makeup.
And
frankly, I don’t see anyone else out there writing the number of articles I’ve
written on this subject.
Furthermore,
I believe there’s much more to the
story than the glaring likelihood that these environmental groups are being
manipulated, orchestrated or otherwise influenced by Big Pharma.
For
example, I believe it’s important to cover the numerous lies the environmentalist groups have told…
…the
unbelievable levels of sensationalism they’ve engaged in…
…the
dirty tricks they’ve pulled…
…the
two-faced way they’ve operated…
…the
ridiculous scare tactics they’ve engaged in…
…the
poorly constructed studies they’ve touted…
…and much more.
Each
of these topics are, in my opinion, vital parts of the
story that need to be told.
Here
are just a few of the articles I’ve written since the radical environmentalist
groups first unleashed their campaign against antimicrobial silver in late 2008:
·
Emergency Alert: Stop EPA From Further Regulating Colloidal Silver as a
"Pesticide" (Jan. 6, 2009)
·
Act NOW to Help Save Colloidal Silver From EPA Regulation! (Jan 9, 2009)
·
Special Update on the Battle to Save Colloidal Silver From Regulation By
the EPA (Jan 23, 2009)
·
Updated Contact Information for Stopping the EPA
from Regulating Colloidal Silver (Jan 24, 2009)
·
Colloidal Silver and "NanoSilver":
What's the Difference? (Feb 25, 2009)
·
Will the EPA actually ban products containing silver nano-particles? (Feb
26, 2009)
·
Why do the environmentalists have such a dread fear
of silver nano-particles? (Feb 28, 2009)
·
Dirty Tricks in the Battle to Save Colloidal Silver from EPA Regulation
(Mar 5, 2009)
·
Update on EPA Petition to Regulate Silver as a "Pesticide" (Mar
23, 2009)
·
Are Colloidal Silver Nanoparticles Harmful to Human Cells? (July 31,
2009)
·
Exposed: More Environmentalist Claptrap Against Colloidal Silver (August
6, 2009)
·
Act Quickly -- Tell the EPA to Keep Their Hands Off Colloidal Silver
(October 20, 2009)
·
Antibacterial Nanosilver and Those Sneaky Environmentalists (November 18,
2009)
·
Environmentalists: Silver Is Toxic to Fathead Minnows (July 29, 2010)
·
Environmentalists: Silver Nanoparticles a Threat to Plant Life! (December
27, 2010)
·
Gloom in the Trend Toward Silver-Based
Antimicrobial Products? (July 20, 2011)
In the future, I’ll continue to do my part and cover
this evolving story with the attention to detail I feel it deserves.
And I’ll continue to voice my opinion on the idea
that the radical environmentalists are – wittingly or unwittingly – doing the
work of Big Pharma in their attempts to restrict
access to antimicrobial silver…
…and that integrating antimicrobial silver into
commercial products is in my opinion the ONLY sure-fire answer to the growing
infectious disease crisis faced by this nation as well as the rest of the
world.
Unfortunately, Big Pharma
views antimicrobial silver as the #1 competition to their failing prescription
antibiotic drugs.
And as we all know, they’ve worked diligently to prevent the public
from learning more about the many healing benefits of antimicrobial silver.
So for that reason alone I’ll continue to write
about colloidal silver…
…and the many phenomenal infection-fighting benefits
of antimicrobial silver in general…
…as well as the radical environmentalist
crusade to prevent the general public from having access to commercial products
that utilize antimicrobial silver…
…and the ongoing battle to prevent the people
from learning more about the many healing and protective benefits of colloidal
silver.
I know I can’t please everyone. I’m not everybody’s cup of tea. But I’ll do the very best I can.
And hopefully in the meantime, rather than merely
criticize, others might step in and pick up the slack where they feel I fall
short.
So until the next issue, I remain…
Yours for the
safe, sane and responsible use of
colloidal silver,
Steve
Barwick, author
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
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