Sanjay Gupta:
GUEST: "…a lot of the websites appear to be very professional… uh… it's hard to distinguish …that… this looks like a legitimate website…but the story behind this website MAY BE … that it's hosted on a server in RUSSIA … the pills are being manufactured in INDIA…and the money is going…point of sales…to elsewhere in the world…Because of the legitimacy of that Web site …that professional appearance that it may represent…the consumer is going to feel more inclined…more willing to…uh…attain…the life style drugs from this venue."
DR. GUPTA: "Is there anything here that raises a red flag for you?"
GUEST: "Well for me…what you see MAY NOT BE what you're getting."
It's the words "MAY NOT BE."
One of the most used terms, MAY BE, leads one to think that you are saying that you are absolutely certain - when in fact you are actually saying that you are speculating. Where is the proof?
• Many legal corporate web sites are hosted in many nations around the world around the world iincluding Russia.
• Most items that Americans buy are made in China, India, and many other parts of the world.
• Money (point of sale) is always going to somewhere else in the world.
This should not be the indictment of online pharmacies, since that is how business is conducted today by most large American corporations.
So let's continue with the money in this conspiracy to defame online pharmacies.
And who is Directi, anyway? I couldn't figure out what they will really do, (directi.com/), except that they go by the names: LogicBoxes, ResellerClub, WebHosting, and Skenzo.
And all things considered the scare tactics about drugs received from India, Russian, and other "questionable" places in the world, guess where they (Directi) are located. You guessed it, MUMBAI, INDIA!
Who Is Really Helping the Consumer?
So let's see……. US licensed internet pharmacies operating in order to save the credit card holder money and time by selling (with a prescription) FDA compliant medicine is scrutinized and shutdown by the NABP, an organization that is representative of pharmacists with brick and motor stores-pharmacists who are losing millions of dollars in sales to these same Internet pharmacies.
In other words……. here is what they are doing.
• The NABP sets up the VIPPs accreditation (only 39 sites and most are Internet sites for large brick and mortar drug stores) to discriminate against the over 12,000 Internet sites that are not VIPPs compliant.
• Then, LegitScript hires or asks Directi (a registrar) to shut down or severely restrict the competitors (non-VIPPS online pharmacies) from even existing on the Internet.
• Then, CNN and CBS news do special segments with lots of fear mongering to get the public confused, once more, about the evils of drugs coming from an unknown source.
Come on folk; you'll find only a handful of pharmaceutical companies in the world? Except for a smallish number of illegitimate drug manufacturers, the drugs are all created by the same corporate giants.
Just what exactly is actually going on here?
I suspect it is the same power grab we've observed in the world of capitalism since the beginnings of the principle. "There's gold in them hills!" There's money to be made in drugs and anyway that competition can be removed from the field of opportunity is fair. "All's fair in Love and War."
When the brick and mortar corporate drug stores saw that their gains were being eaten up because of the "new" online pharmacies, they (the big drug stores) broke into action. Was Dr. Sanjay Gupta Wrong To Suggest That Online Pharmacies Are Not Safe?
GUEST: "…a lot of the websites appear to be very professional… uh… it's hard to distinguish …that… this looks like a legitimate website…but the story behind this website MAY BE … that it's hosted on a server in RUSSIA … the pills are being manufactured in INDIA…and the money is going…point of sales…to elsewhere in the world…Because of the legitimacy of that Web site …that professional appearance that it may represent…the consumer is going to feel more inclined…more willing to…uh…attain…the life style drugs from this venue."
DR. GUPTA: "Is there anything here that raises a red flag for you?"
GUEST: "Well for me…what you see MAY NOT BE what you're getting."
It's the words "MAY NOT BE."
One of the most used terms, MAY BE, leads one to think that you are saying that you are absolutely certain - when in fact you are actually saying that you are speculating. Where is the proof?
• Many legal corporate web sites are hosted in many nations around the world around the world iincluding Russia.
• Most items that Americans buy are made in China, India, and many other parts of the world.
• Money (point of sale) is always going to somewhere else in the world.
This should not be the indictment of online pharmacies, since that is how business is conducted today by most large American corporations.
So let's continue with the money in this conspiracy to defame online pharmacies.
And who is Directi, anyway? I couldn't figure out what they will really do, (directi.com/), except that they go by the names: LogicBoxes, ResellerClub, WebHosting, and Skenzo.
And all things considered the scare tactics about drugs received from India, Russian, and other "questionable" places in the world, guess where they (Directi) are located. You guessed it, MUMBAI, INDIA!
Who Is Really Helping the Consumer?
So let's see……. US licensed internet pharmacies operating in order to save the credit card holder money and time by selling (with a prescription) FDA compliant medicine is scrutinized and shutdown by the NABP, an organization that is representative of pharmacists with brick and motor stores-pharmacists who are losing millions of dollars in sales to these same Internet pharmacies.
In other words……. here is what they are doing.
• The NABP sets up the VIPPs accreditation (only 39 sites and most are Internet sites for large brick and mortar drug stores) to discriminate against the over 12,000 Internet sites that are not VIPPs compliant.
• Then, LegitScript hires or asks Directi (a registrar) to shut down or severely restrict the competitors (non-VIPPS online pharmacies) from even existing on the Internet.
• Then, CNN and CBS news do special segments with lots of fear mongering to get the public confused, once more, about the evils of drugs coming from an unknown source.
Come on folk; you'll find only a handful of pharmaceutical companies in the world? Except for a smallish number of illegitimate drug manufacturers, the drugs are all created by the same corporate giants.
Just what exactly is actually going on here?
I suspect it is the same power grab we've observed in the world of capitalism since the beginnings of the principle. "There's gold in them hills!" There's money to be made in drugs and anyway that competition can be removed from the field of opportunity is fair. "All's fair in Love and War."
When the brick and mortar corporate drug stores saw that their gains were being eaten up because of the "new" online pharmacies, they (the big drug stores) broke into action. Was Dr. Sanjay Gupta Wrong To Suggest That Online Pharmacies Are Not Safe?
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