Big Pharma is hardly safe...

Deputy Mike Hadley preaches democracy and is generally a champion of openness. He stimulates and engages better than most deputies in open debate. So why does he so purposefully seek to restrict freedom of choice when it comes to health treatment? When I suggested cancer patients should be able to choose between chemotherapy and GcMaf, he told me it was the most irresponsible suggestion I had ever come up with.

Deputy Hadley referred us, as readers, to Cancer Research UK's site for its take on GcMaf and invited us to 'judge for ourselves.' So why does he not want patients to be able to 'judge for themselves' when choosing how they are treated?

If there was no misprint, Deputy Hadley said Big Pharma never markets products which aren't safe. http://ssristories.com/index/php shows the effects of Prozac and other drugs. And then there's Thalidomide and Vioxx, not to mention the suffering of animals and poverty-struck humans in the so-called Third World, who have involuntarily been made the subjects of Big Pharma's 'pre-marketing' experiments.

Big Pharma usually warns that its products may cause indigestion, nausea, rashes, vomiting, headaches, blackouts, dizziness and/or drowsiness. 'Do not exceed recommended dose.' Take enough tablets in one gulp and they'll cause death. Does any of that sound safe to you? 'Don't take if pregnant' or 'with alcohol' or 'if operating machinery.' Do you know anyone who doesn't operate a machine?

Sometimes the body will naturally relieve a headache with a nose bleed. But what if you've already taken aspirin, which thins the blood, to cure the headache? You bleed for too long, faint, bang your head on the floor and end up anaemic with another headache. So, is aspirin a headache cure which thins the blood as a side-effect, or a blood thinner which cures pain as a side-effect? Neither. There is no such thing as a side-effect. An effect is an effect. Look it up in the dictionary.

Big Pharma's products do what they say on the tin in terms of relieving symptoms, but they are like Hitler; he did what he said he would in his manifestos – with more besides. If you learn the history and planned future of Codex Alimentarius or the EU, which drive the regulations which are reducing our vitamin intake and are restricting choice on food supplements and health treatments, you will see that this is an appropriate comparison.

Codex Alimentarius is slow genocide being unwittingly implemented by blinkered or greedy politicians and civil servants the world over.

MATT WATERMAN,

Flat 2,

3, Burnt Lane,

St Peter Port,

GY1 1HL.