health conspiracies
Theory: The FDA exists to increase profits for drug companies.
Facts: The FDA was caught conspiring with the chemical industry to conclude that Bisphenol-A, the plastics chemical, is harmless to human health. The FDA based its evaluation of BPA on a report authored by the American Chemistry Council (ACC), a trade group that represents chemical companies and plastics manufacturers. The FDA also recently approved 18 new drugs from Ranbaxy Laboratories even though the company is under investigation for making substandard medications and fraudulently trying to cover their tracks. Ranbaxy is accused …
Theory: The government is trying to control its citizens using a human biochip implant.
Facts: Microchipping first began in 1983 and was sued for monitoring fisheries. Today it is widely used by zoos, in home pets, lab animals, tracking endangered wildlife, automobiles and more. In 2004 the first microchip was approved by the FDA for use in humans. The FDA approved version is called VeriChip and is a human-implantable radio-frequency identification (RFID) microchip. VeriChip was originally intended for identify verification purposes, such as assisting people with Alzheimer disease or tracing children. …
Theory: AIDS is a man-made disease meant to eradicate African Americans and homosexuals. Some theorists also say there is a cure for the disease being withheld by the government.
Facts: The cause of AIDS is the HIV virus (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), as discovered by Dr. Robert Gallo in 1984. Many in the scientific community believe that the HIV virus jumped from African monkeys to humans in the 1930s. As of 2009, nearly 33 million people have been infected by the virus globally. In 1978 more than 1,000 nonmonogomous homosexual adult males …
