How can we know if the pharmaceutical drugs being prescribed today are harming us?

History helps! When doctors prescribe drugs they are invariably "safe and effective". We discover the patient harm drugs cause only after taking them for years, and sometimes decades.

This statement/assertion can be authenticated on a regular basis. Take just two recent examples, this CHD article, Pfizer sued over birth control link to brain tumours. And this ‘The Vaccine Reaction’ article that outlines the discovery that Covid-19 vaccines have been found to cause 6 autoimmune disorders.

Conventional medicine often prides itself on such revelations. It demonstrates, they say, their commitment to keeping us safe from drugs that cause patient harm.

Perhaps, but only to the most limited extent!

What we should all learn from such articles is that we can be prescribed, and take drugs for years, often decades, before the harm they can cause is discovered by the pharmaceutical medical establishment. These ‘discoveries’ are not made during drug development, they are made only after being sold to us as “safe and effective”. We take them, and continue to take them, on this understanding - and as a result we get ill.

Even after this we face years of the harm caused being denied and discounted by our doctors, and the medical profession making it as difficult as possible for patients to prove that it was the drugs that caused them to be sick.

And throughout this tedious process, no action is taken. Conventional medicine continues to prescribe the implicated drugs. “There is no proof…”! How long will it be before these two articles are taken seriously, how long before the medical profession accepts that birth control is linked to brain tumours; or that the Covid-19 vaccines can damage our immune system? Or indeed that “the benefits of the drug outweighs the disadvantages”. Or that “there is no alternative” to pharmaceutical medicine.

So the history of pharmaceutical drugs demonstrates that we can never be certain that any drug, considered “safe and effective” today, will not be found to be dangerous and ineffective tomorrow. The long and ongoing history of banned and withdrawn drugs amply demonstrates this.

Pharmaceutical medicine has never been “safe and effective”. This is regularly demonstrated, even in the mainstream media when it bothers to report on known or suspected drug harm. Serious adverse drug and vaccine reactions are only ‘discovered’ after long periods of time. Therefore, any drug anyone is taking today should be, must be considered suspect - at the very least.

Postscript 15 January 2026

I posted this blog on Blogger, who quickly deleted (censored) it. I wrote to my followers on Blogger as follows:

“For all my regular readers on this platform I need to inform you that once again “Blogger” has seen fit to delete my post,“How can we know if the pharmaceutical drugs being prescribed today are harming us?’

The Blogger platform is part of Google, which is a censorship organisation that does not allow us to write anything too critical about the Pharmaceutical Medical Establishment.

However, the article on Blogger was first published on my ‘Safe Medicine’ Substack platform, and can be read there, in full, by clicking on this link. If you want to follow my writing can I suggest that you ‘follow’ me on Sustack instead of Blogger.

Blogger says that the article “was flagged for review” and they “determined that it violates our guidelines”. Why was it deleted? They said:

“Your content has been evaluated according to our Misleading content policy.”

I do not write ‘misleading’ material. My only interest in writing these articles is to assist people to think more clearly about what is “safe”, and what is not “safe” medicine. The content of the deleted article can be simply outlined.

• All pharmaceutical drugs are tested before they are given to patients, and usually described as “safe and effective”. However, as drugs are consumed by patients more evidence of patient harm is discovered, and has to be added to the information listed about the drug. I know of no pharmaceutical drug that has not followed this pattern. As a result many drugs have been withdrawn or banned because of this because they were deemed “unsafe”. Therefore we can assume that all currently prescribed drugs will follow the same pattern, that is, we are prescribed drugs that are not as “safe and effective” as we have been led to believe.

There is nothing ‘misleading’ about making this argument, although the pharmaceutical medical establishment might prefer us not to understand this. If so there is a counter-argument to be made - but clearly conventional medicine prefer not to enter into such a debate.

Perhaps they are not too confident about winning it!