Ron Paul introduces bills to end FDA censoring of health claims & end FTC censorship of health info

Got this in my email. What are your thoughts on this?

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CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL INTRODUCES 3 BILLS TO RESTORE CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT; END FDA CENSORSHIP OF HEALTH CLAIMS; AND END FTC CENSORSHIP OF HEALTH INFORMATION

Washington, D.C.: Today on the floor of the House of Representatives, Congressman Ron Paul introduced three bills that would restore constitutional government; end FDA censorship of health claims; and end FTC censorship of health information.

HR 3396: The Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act. This bill prohibits regulations promulgated from regulatory agencies from going into effect unless passed into law by Congress in the way in which the Constitution designates. Under Article I of the Constitution, the Congress of the United States, our elected representatives, are the ones given the exclusive power to make laws. In violation of the non-delegation doctrine, about 90% of all law created by the federal government is the product of unelected heads of bureaucratic agencies, not our elected representatives. From 1934 to the present, the Congress of the United States has delegated executive, legislative, and judicial governing power to these agencies. The founding fathers warned that this combination would give birth to tyranny, self-dealing, and corruption and would be the death of liberty. Because the unelected bureaucracy makes the laws, the nation has been transformed from a republic into a bureaucratic oligarchy. Congressman Ron Paul’s Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act restores constitutional government by returning to Congress the responsibility to make laws, thereby making them once again accountable for the laws to those who elect them.

HR 3395: The Health Freedom Act. This bill removes FDA’s power of prior restraint over all nutrient-disease relationship claims. Under the bill, the FDA may not prohibit any statement concerning a nutrient affecting a disease (including treatment effects) from being made in the market and may only act against a statement once made if it possesses clear and convincing evidence that the statement is false. Presently the FDA blocks an enormous quantity of truthful information concerning the effects of nutrients and foods on disease from reaching consumers. That barrier is removed by the Health Freedom Act, but the Act preserves the power of the government to prosecute those who communicate falsehood. The essential purpose of the First Amendment is to disarm the federal government of the power to impose a prior restraint on speech. The FDA has imposed a prior restraint for decades to the health detriment of the public. Passage of the Health Freedom Act will restore constitutional governance by reasserting the supremacy of the First Amendment over the Food and Drug Administration.

HR 3394: The Health Information Protection Act. This bill prevents the Federal Trade Commission from taking action against any advertiser that communicates a health benefit for a product unless the FTC first establishes based on clear and convincing evidence that the statement made is false and that its communication causes harm to the public. Presently, the FTC reverses the Fifth Amendment burden of proof on the government when it charges advertisers with deceptive advertising and then demands that they prove their speech true based on contemporaneously held documentation or be deemed to have advertised deceptively. The Fifth Amendment requires that FTC bear the burden of proving advertising deceptive. It may not constitutionally shift the burden to the advertiser to prove its statements not deceptive. The First Amendment requires that FTC not act against speech unless the speech is probably false. It may not constitutionally accuse a party of false advertising yet lack proof that the advertising is false and condemn advertising based on an absence of documentation concerning the truth of the statement rather than the presence of evidence establishing the falsity of the statement.

Dr. Paul’s introduction of these three momentous bills offers hope to those who presently perceive themselves as disenfranchised and seek a return to constitutional government.

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This legislation will finally allow me to exercise my first amendment right to freely advertise Telly's Olde Snake Oil Medicinal Tonic as the best cure for pancreatic cancer, erectile dysfunction, and vapors.

Well, they have final oversight over the bureaucracy that makes rules in Congress' name, so he's wrong, there. The buck stops on Capital Hill.

He wants unsubstantiated claims made by the purveyors of certain 'health' products to go by unchallenged. Um, no.

He wants the FTC muzzled against those that would claim preposterous benefits from their quack medicine.

Another big No Way.

Ron Paul is beholden to the forces that want to make money off quack medicine. You got a product, you need to prove it is both SAFE and EFFECTIVE, otherwise your claims are bogus.

the first one say Congress has to vote on and approve of EVERY regulation from EVERY Federal agency. Besides the point that Congress doesn't know its ass from a hole in the ground about most things regulated by Federal agencies, this would require hundreds of votes a week and nothing would ever get done again.

The other two allow the sale of dried bird shit and John de Conquer root as a cancer cure.

are scary-ass crazy.

Doctor No says "Yes" to quackery.

No one got any "male enhancement" from Smilin' Bob's company.
Just let it go. Let it go...

(Thanks for all the Enzyte commercials Orrin!) Now Paul wants to allow disease claims? Why do I suspect that Dr. Ron, much like Hatch, has a stake in a 'patent medicine' company?

confidence.

There is about him the kook factor, and it is visible and consistent.

I respect that he's a physician and I respect that he is working from the basis of an elected office, no matter my misgivings about his legislative posture, but laws affect everybody, so ultimately, Paul is more kook than Congressman, IMO.