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In his parting remarks in 1960, out-going U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower surprised the nation by warning against the growing power and influence of the "Military-Industrial Complex" -- two powerful allies that were conspiring to increase our defense budget beyond the national interests -- for their own profits.

Today, we are being warned about the "Medical-Industrial Complex", an unholy alliance of physicians and medical manufacturers who appear bent upon making money without regard for the cost to the nation or to individual patients. Treatments that are more expensive and yet less effective are being promoted on television, on the internet, and in print.

During the 1990s, the U.S. Public Health Service recommended (in 1992 and again in 1996) that non-invasive, no-risk therapies should be attempted first, before patients resort to risky, costly, and actually less effective methods. But the financial giants would not be put out of business so quickly by "behavioral therapies"; they have begun to fight back against the government's own recommendations.

The Empire Strikes Back is an on-going series of investigative reports that expose the promotion of these well-financed "treatments". To our horror, the Food and Drug Administration appears powerless to stop the proliferation of exaggerated claims and understated side effects.

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