on the other hand mercola is also making money off people flocking to his site, full of panic that "the man" is out to get them and mercola is here to save the day by giving them all the info they need to know

60,000 people died over like 5 years? how many people died over the same time period in africa because they didn't have a simple pill to fight tuberculosis or an antibiotic to fight a minor infection?

the drug companies are out there to make a buck to be sure, but it's a bit off base to be suggesting that they are premeditatedly trying to kill people - in many cases, the side effects are not known until later - there is only so much that a FDA trial can do before releasing the drug for public consumption... there is plenty of red tape involved in releasing a new drug, supposedly to protect you... but guess what, life isn't guaranteed.
how many people die every day in a car accident, or how many people choke to death eating a pretzel? everything has a risk... does the FDA knowingly clear drugs that it *knows* are going to cause more harm than good... do drug companies even design such drugs?

the sad fact is that people are sheep and want to be controlled and told what to do and think... so many people develop heart disease and diabetes because they live and eat like fat pigs... and no one raises any fuss about our armies bombing other nations so that we can take their resources; the population doesn't even rise up when the government is taking a third of their income in taxes, and not giving you any information or say in what they do with it

not only are they not paying attention, they don't even care