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“…when you believe in things that you don’t understand, then
you’re suffering… Superstition ain’t the way.” - S.
Wonder
“This is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to
blind you to the truth.”
-------- Morpheus The
Matrix
IN THIS CHAPTER:
¨ Definitions of
allopathic and holistic ¨ The Germ Theory ¨ The military model of
health ¨ Food vs. drugs ¨ Side effects ¨ Media control ¨ The
American Madness Association ¨ Scientific studies rarely involve science ¨
Tons of cash - their trough runneth over ¨ 4th leading cause of death in the
U.S. ¨ Raw statistics on diseases ¨ The Illusion of Medical Freedom ¨
Animal Sacrifice
A NORMAL LIFE
Here is what a
normal life should be like:
You're born. You get no drugs and no
vaccinations. During childhood you have the usual illnesses, but conservative
treatment gets you through them without antibiotics or drugs, and you build your
natural immune defenses. You don't eat white sugar, white flour, too much meat
or cheese, or drink milk or soft drinks. You concentrate on whole grains,
fruits, vegetables, and a clean, natural diet. You never learn to drink coffee
or to smoke cigarettes. The only pills you take are powerful whole food vitamins
and enzymes and minerals, which are part of your daily intake. You drink at
least 1 liter of water every day. Into adulthood, you never get sick: no colds,
no flu, no headaches, no diabetes, no ADD, no "thyroid problems," no panic
attacks, growing pains, fatigue, or digestive disorders, no high blood pressure.
The only pains you experience come from accidental injury. Perhaps you do
moderate exercise or sports activity to maintain mobility and general fitness.
You look to the care of your spine. Your entire adulthood is spent in this
disease-free mode. As you age, your mind gets sharper. You experience no
arthritis, cancer, or osteoporosis, no Parkinson's or Alzheimer's. Finally one
day after 90 or 100 years, you flicker like a candle and go out.
The
above paragraph may be useful in choosing a doctor. Some doctors will say all
this is impossible; which for them is true. So don't choose them. All this is
possible; moreover, thousands and thousands of people are living it. So listen
only to those who can help you achieve such a condition of living health.
Because now we've arrived at the threshold of a time when good health and a
powerful immune system are not only advisable; they are the very determinants of
survival.
********** Two opposing viewpoints of health and
disease have been evident since ancient times. The conventional view, or
Allopathic (literally, “other disease”) sees problems coming from outside the
body. Or simply, the cause of disease comes from outside, then invades the body
and the person gets "sick." The Germ Theory. Allopathic philosophy says that
when the body has symptoms like pain, fever, or nausea, that means the person
has caught some bug, some disease and needs to have these symptoms “treated” -
i.e., covered up. Usually with drugs. If the disease localizes itself in one
certain part of the body and won't go away, then that part of the body may have
to be cut out with surgery. That's the allopathic viewpoint: disease,
symptoms, drugs, surgery.
The holistic view is different.
Holistic philosophy says that the cause and cure of all disease lie within the
body. The parts of the body are interrelated in ways that are so complex, so
sophisticated, so elegantly orchestrated and exquisitely tuned, as Deepak Chopra
says, that all medical technology has only the crudest, faintest understanding
of just a few basic mechanisms. In most cases, the body can heal itself if
provided with the opportunity. It does this from the inside out - from the brain
and spinal cord, outward through the nervous system, to every organ, and cell.
For every time you have ever been sick, there have been hundreds of times when
your immune system has conquered a disease without any overt symptoms being
expressed. The mysteries of the body - its inner workings - are actually the
most evolved systems in the universe. We are dealing with the life forces, the
life substances - that which can never be viewed in dissection or isolated in
laboratory culture. To influence these subtle, delicate interweavings, natural
cures seek to nourish and encourage the body back into a condition of balance,
by gentle support.
For the sake of clarity, here is a chart that
describes attributes of each view:
[see page
8]
PARTS/WHOLE
Allopathic is the medicine of specialists:
cardiologists, eye doctors, gynecologists, urologists, gastroenterologists,
orthopedists, podiatrists, endocrinologists, neurologists, kidney doctors. They
divide up the body and pretend to treat the parts in isolation. Like a
car.
Early allopaths, called mechanists, saw the body as a machine
that could be separated into component parts, and treated on that basis. Much
easier to understand that way. Blame it on Descartes, the mind/body guy. To this
end, the mechanists devised powerful potions with specific, quick, sometimes
violent effects, which pretended to focus on the one “sick part.”
Before
1880, most medicine consisted of folk remedies, basic herbs, and crude surgery
and dentistry. For centuries, there had not been much radical change in the area
of medicine. Superstition was as much a part of medicine as the actual remedies
themselves. The use of leeches and bleeding was still common, the reason being
to "let out the bad blood," which was in the same category with getting rid of
evil spirits. Even drilling holes in the skull - the art of trephination -
which had been around since the time of the Pharaohs, was still done.
In Europe and America, the “night air” was thought to bear the noxious
spirits of disease. Many a sickroom was sealed off tight, sometimes in the
daytime as well. This superstition persists today, in places that might surprise
you.
Surgery came about from the mechanistic outlook: if a part
became too big a problem, cut it off. Quickly, before it gets a chance to heal.
If the patient survives, that means the surgeon “saved his life.” Surgery
through the ages has been associated with a surprising lack of scientific
foundation. In Europe, from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, surgeons and
barbers were the same people. It was not until the time of the American
Revolution that England’s King George the Third decreed that barbers and
surgeons were two separate professions. The deification of surgeons, complete
with Boxster and villa on the Côte D’Azur - this is only a recent
development.
For another view on how civilized and “scientific” surgery
is, one might read the descriptions of lobotomies which are graphically cited in
Wiseman’s Psychiatry: the Ultimate Betrayal. You won’t believe you are
reading about something that has taken place in this country during this century
(spike through the eye?) {see p. 9] To treat a body part in isolation can be
very dangerous, because of the complexity of interrelationships within the body,
and our limited knowledge of the whole picture.
Or a jammed tailbone left
out of place for years may cause infertility by interfering with nerve
transmission to sex organs - simple biomechanics.
Or antibiotics. As we
saw in Chapter 3 on antibiotic resistance ( ANTIBIOTICS )
treating a minor infection with powerful antibiotics can disrupt both the
digestive and immune systems, since they require normal
bacteria.
Examples are endless, but the point is that if no one is
looking at the Big Picture, treatment can easily get sidetracked by chasing
symptoms - just treating the part that hurts, in isolation, pretending that only
that part is affected. Meanwhile the underlying cause gets a chance to really
become entrenched. Lot of wasted time. Couple of years go by, and the patient
has an irreversible disease, the simple result of Nobody Driving the Bus.
By contrast, holistic healers, or vitalists, consider the entire
body as a group of interrelated, interdependent systems. No single part exists
or can be treated in isolation. The whole thing is greater than the sum of its
parts. Diseases are seen as general conditions that have localized, after a
slow, gradual process, perhaps years of neglect. Vitalists seek to encourage the
body’s innate life forces by common sense means - pure air, pure water, pure
food, functioning nervous system, clean blood.
The holistic outlook
realizes that after centuries of dissecting and treating and theorizing, what we
actually know about the body’s innermost workings is only rudimentary, at best.
This may account for the abysmal failure of drug therapy for degenerative
conditions, which comprise 80% of all disease - arthritis, hypertension, cancer,
chronic fatigue, colitis, on and on.
Nobel laureate Alexis Carrel puts it
this way:
“There are diseases of the stomach, of the heart, of the nervous
system, etc., but in illness the body preserves the same unity as in health. It
is sick as a whole. No disturbance remains strictly confined to a single organ.
Physicians have been led to consider each disease as a specialty by the old
anatomical conception of the human being. Only those who know man both in his
parts and in his entirety are capable of understanding him when he is
sick.”
- Man, The Unknown p79
History’s most
famous nurse had an even simpler opinion:
“The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak,
uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There
are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.” -
Florence Nightengale, 1860
One of the finest surgeons of his
day, Carrel (p75) explains the profound and fundamental difference between the
body and a machine, by naming the bridge which allopathy will never cross:
embryology. Huh? That’s right. All the cells of the adult body evolved
from the union of two original cells, and therefore share a common DNA, a common
version of life. The OJ Simpson trial has acquainted the lay public with the
implications of DNA identity from the minutest traces. Because of this
commonality among the cells of one person’s body, even if the cells are found in
totally different tissues, there is a communication and a connection at levels
about which science can only guess, at this time. Machines have parts which are
made of many different substances, possibly collected from a variety of
locations across the face of the earth. The parts of the body all came from
exactly the same place and have exactly the same genetic blueprint. No machine
can know itself, repair itself, or replicate itself. No machine ever built a
human.
THE GERM THEORY
The idea here is that bugs from
somewhere outside the body invade it and make it sick and require certain drugs
to make the body better again. In the chapter on antibiotics we will see why
this idea became so popular so fast. Starting with Louis Pasteur, then to
Alexander Fleming, down to modern chemotherapy and the quest for the Holy Grail
cure for AIDS, we find that rich rewards have always motivated those licensed to
manufacture, sell, and prescribe THEORETICAL cures for disease. Not real
actual cures, but drugs that are supposed to cure diseases, because that’s the
theory. The Germ Theory. The promise of untold riches then enlisted the opinion
makers, those who decide what spin to put on reality - the main ones today being
the editors of the New York Times and the Washington Post, the
Tavistock Institute, United Press International and Associated Press, who set
the tone for the rest of the country. (Ruesch, Coleman, Horowitz)
That’s
how we know what the drugs are supposed to do. Because we read it in the
newspaper, or a magazine or worse yet, in an AD in the newspaper or magazine.
Unsurpassable dog-wagging, par excellence.
Holistic doctors like Dr. Dean
Black explain that viruses don’t cause flu any more than freeways cause
accidents. The responsible variable for getting the flu is not the presence or
absence of virus, but rather the strength or weakness of the individual’s immune
resistance. (Health At the Crossroads p18) Obviously two people can be
living with the same sick person who has the flu. The virus has the same access
to both people, but only the weak one will get the flu. They both got exposed to
the virus, and that’s the point: the virus doesn’t cause the flu. A depressed
immune system does. The terrain, not the germ, as Pasteur himself finally
admitted on his deathbed, when there were no more awards or money to be
gained.
MILITARY VS. NURTURING
[See p.12] ... enemy
pathogens, radium implants, palladium implants, cut out the diseased organ,
conquer bacteria, gain victory over illness, annihilate the bad cells, on and
on. Except for the 40 years of antibiotic success, now coming to a conclusion,
the military approach hasn’t been that successful.
Media hype always
talks about the progress we’re making and that “breakthrough” cures are right
around the corner, but in reality our nation’s health is one of the worst of all
industrialized countries in the world, as we will see. Our infant mortality is
appalling. We are #22 on the world list. John Robbins cites that babies in the
U.S. have a better chance of survival if they are born in taxicabs than if they
make it to the hospital! (Robbins, p. 302)
Cancer incidence, heart
disease, and now infectious disease rates are all on the rise in the U.S., when
the raw data is confronted. (Chapter 17)
We’re not winning, we’re not
overcoming disease. Worse yet, the eradication of disease was never even a goal
of organized medicine. Too many natural cures have been suppressed and buried
over the past 75 years to entertain the illusion that the goal of medicine is
health. (The Cancer Industry) The goal of medicine is more medicine,
i.e., wealth. It is a market-driven industry, and any idea that stands in the
way of profit is fair game for persecution and attack. This story is told in
some detail in works by Ralph Moss and Leonard Horowitz, among many
others.
Nurturing, by contrast, is a holistic concept. It means employing
methods which are gentle, minute, and slow acting, working to support the innate
systems of the body instead of arrogantly overpowering them.
Holistic
foods and supplements try to match the low intensity of the natural healing
efforts of the body. We’re talking low tech here; less is more. A nurturing
approach to heart disease, for example, would be a cleansing diet, low in dairy
and harmful fats, along with gentle antioxidant and enzyme supplements to help
break down arterial plaque. Holistic methods never have harmful side effects.
They work to detox the system, on the cellular level, and support cell
nutrition, using whole food vitamins, minerals, enzymes, live foods, and
selected herbs. In this way the disease condition is naturally, gradually
rejected and not allowed to co-exist in the vitalizing, healing biological
terrain.
DRUGS V. FOOD
Dr. Dean Black talks about two
things that happen every time we take a drug:
what the drug does to the body ¨ how the body adapts to the
drug.
This is called the Bi-Phasic Effect. For
example, there are two main types of heart drugs: beta blockers and calcium
channel blockers, but they both do the same thing: inhibit the heart muscle from
“pumping too hard.” That’s the first phase: block the muscle. What happens next
is the body’s response: it slows down. The body’s overall oxygen demands haven’t
changed, but the drug is preventing those demands from being met. The tissues
can’t get the oxygen they need for normal cell nutrition, so they stop building
and they stop repairing normally, as the body learns that it’s not going to be
getting any more oxygen from the blood. That’s Phase Two. Result: gradual
overall loss of strength, tissue breakdown. Ever know any people who got
healthier or stronger or got completely better while they were taking heart
medication?
[See p.14] ...the pancreas shuts down totally since it no
longer senses any sugar in the blood which would require it to make insulin.
Short-term benefit, long-term weakening.
A third example:
chemotherapy. The theory of this powerful toxin for “attacking” tumors is
the illusion used as The Closer every time the procedure is sold to a
frightened, panicked cancer patient: that this poison will kill the tumor. Two
problems with that. First, no chemotherapy has ever been invented that is
specific for the tumor. The whole body is poisoned. That’s why people get sick,
lose their hair, and their digestive systems. Second problem is exactly the
Bi-Phasic Effect: the tumor regresses a little, but when the chemo wears off,
the tumor returns with a vengeance. By now many, many people have had some
family experience with this phenomenon. Know what we’re talking about? ( CANCER
)
Medical history up until the late 1800s is a long list of bizarre,
toxic poisons, with a healthy sprinkling of incantation and superstition for
good measure. An amazing chronicle by Morris Bealle documents a pharmacopeia of
wacky concoctions that allopaths through the ages tricked their gullible
patients into swallowing:
pigeon dung grasshopper sputum antimony (a
poison) pitch nutmeg dried beetles (given to George Washington the
night he died) hog’s lice sheep droppings dried skunk
bellies powdered fox lungs powdered human skull viper’s flesh human
urine saliva from a fasting person lead mercury rhinoceros
skin putrid elephant flesh
- Bealle, p154 ff
This is
just a partial list. Makes Shakespeare’s reference to “eye of newt and toe of
frog” in Macbeth appealing by comparison. The above items were mainstays of
practice, not weird oddities somebody looked up. About half the items on this
list are from a Pharmacopeia that is less than two hundred years old, so it’s
not all from the Dark Ages. But look at the modern similarities:
· gold salts for rheumatoid arthritis - only recently given up
·
Premarin, the #1 synthetic estrogen drug in the world, made from horse
urine!
· vaccines still made from pus from horses, cows, sheep,
rabbits and monkeys (Horowitz)
· synthetic cyanocobalamin (Vit. B12)
from deactivated sewage
· vast majority of pharmaceuticals derived
from coal tar and petroleum (Bealle)
· chemotherapy drugs from nitrogen
mustard (like the poison gas)
· the 4,000 poisons tested to find the
50 or so modern chemotherapy drugs (Moss)
How far have we
really progressed?
Pharmaceutical drugs artificially alter the systems
of the body in one of two primary ways:
slow down system operations ¨ accelerate system operations.
Does this have anything to do with a return to health?
Rarely.
[See p. 16] In Morris Bealle’s amazing narrative, we find that
the idea of JD Rockefeller to create an entire industry of “medicines” from
industrial waste heaps - this notion was inspired by his father William
Rockefeller, way back in the 1860s. The original snake oil salesman complete
with travelling wagon, “Old Bill” used to sell country people bottles of raw
petroleum as a cure for cancer! (Bealle p5) A New York farmer, William had
himself listed as a physician in the Cleveland directory when he moved there
from upstate in 1850. (Chernow)
OLD BILL AND NUJOL
The
bottled petroleum was variously hawked as a cure for liver problems, cholera,
TB, bronchitis, and of course, cancer. Rockefeller called the product Nujol. It
cost $2 a barrel to make Nujol from crude petroleum. Incredibly, this product
continued to be manufactured and sold until the late 1940s by a branch of
Standard Oil called Stanco, Inc. in New York. At one point they actually added
carotene to Nujol because someone figured out that drinking this crude petroleum
derivative depleted the body of vitamins! Royal Copeland, health commissioner of
New York City, made a fortune selling Nujol on the radio, and later became a US
Senator. (Bealle)
Most modern pharmaceuticals are made from coal tar and
petroleum derivatives, as well as are many over the counter “medicines,” like
Vaseline Petroleum Jelly, and also many synthetic supplements. So there is a
natural historical progression from William Rockefeller’s Nujol to JD
Rockefeller’s drug empire, in all its convoluted intertwinings, linking coal,
railroads, oil, and gasoline with medical education, drug manufacturing, the
insurance cartel, and international banking. Before the antitrust decision of
1911, Rockefeller controlled 90% of the country’s oil industry. This is the
subject of Chernow’s work: Titan: The Life of John D Rockefeller. Oil to
drugs, oil to drugs - for them, it was a natural.
THE POLITICS OF
HEALTH
Let’s go back a little further. Since the time of the earliest
shamans and witch doctors and healers, it became apparent that the control of
health and sickness was a position of power. [See p. 17]
What happened?
How did the allopathic drug-and-surgery approach gain such an ascendancy over
holistic medicine in such a short time? Why do people today think that only
pharmaceutical drugs and expensive, dangerous hospital procedures and surgeries
are the only “scientific” health care? Because one school of thought competed
for acceptance, and ultimately gained the upper hand, by the usual means:
representing the big money, lobbying for influence, patronage, kickbacks, hiding
the failures, and extolling the successes, and most of all, by controlling the
publishing industry and the lawmakers.
Allopathic mindset controls
American health care today. The largest medical budget in the history of the
world - $1.2 trillion per year - is controlled by powerful interests who
have a drug for every symptom and multiple drugs for every illness. The story of
how allopathic power gained ascendancy over natural healing methods is a
fascinating, colorful story, perhaps one of the best-kept secrets of modern
times. The story has been kept out of mainstream media and therefore out of
mainstream awareness. But the evidence is there, right below the surface and can
be uncovered with just a little research and persistence. For more historical
background, please refer to the chapter on antibiotics.
SHORT VERSION
OF WHY THINGS STAY THIS WAY
Down through the decades, clear-thinking
authors who can’t be bought are routinely suppressed and forgotten, “dashed to
bits on the rocks,” as Goethe would put it. Henry Lindlahr, JH Tilden, Antoine
Bechamp, Edward Howell, Harvey Wiley, Weston Price, Gunter Enderlein, Max
Gerson, Royal Lee, Alexis Carrel, Otto Warburg, Stan Bynum - who knows these
names today? These guys were some of the finest doctors who ever drew breath,
for the simple reason that they really lived in pursuit of health for their
patients, not money and fame for themselves or new ways of brainwashing people
to act as guinea pigs for the latest drugs. In general, their work was buried
with them. The boys who were running things, with profit as their only goal, had
no use for doctors whose main concern was the health of their
patients.
Today health is not the focus of health care. With Managed Care
taking over in the 90s, the whole system is no longer run by doctors. It's run
by corporate execs, MBAs, trained to one objective: profit. Today the
researcher who advances is the one who comes up with new drugs or new tests or
new “proof” for existing drugs. Today the name of the game is Crowd Control. An
art mastered.
A very powerful summary of how the Whole Enchilada was
set up may be found in a 1992 masterwork that is already out of print and
difficult to find: The Naked Empress by Hans Ruesch. It is no accident
that this book and its predecessor Slaughter of the Innocent cannot be
found in bookstores at the mall. Ruesch tells the story that the puppeteers
don’t want people to know about, with meticulous documentation and undeniable
backup. It is the story of the original alliance among · the German
and American chemical giants · the Swiss and American pharmaceutical
giants · the Rockefeller/Hearst media and publication empire · and
supporting acts like the AMA, Congress, the FDA, the FTC, British
Parliament, and the WHO
Morris Bealle further explains how
Rockefeller saw his chance to shape the entire infrastructure
¨ by standardizing the content of medical education throughout the
country
¨ by giving huge grants to the major drug companies
¨ by
taking control of Hearst’s publishing empire, which was then on the verge of
bankruptcy
WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY
When looking at
the evolution of the American “health care” system, we see that an opportunity
arose, never before available to any other gang in history. From the beginning,
organized medicine, i.e.: · Rockefeller oil interests · medical
education · hospital groups · medical doctors · drug companies ·
and the AMA
sought to be exclusionary of all other health care
systems, and to destroy them whenever possible. No monopoly of this magnitude
had ever been possible before on such a scale. Why? Medicine was something that
could be used, that could be plugged right into the colossal Rockefeller
infrastructure and be fed by the imponderable financial and political resources
available to the greatest fortune ever assembled in the history of the world at
that time. It couldn’t miss!
Were people less healthy 100 years ago? Not
really. Cancer was practically unknown in the 1800s, with an incidence of less
than 5 per 100,000. Heart disease had a similar incidence: the word “heart
attack” was unknown. Degenerative diseases were a tiny fraction of what they are
today. Infectious diseases, like smallpox and tuberculosis, that had been the
scourge of the human race for so many centuries were on the decline, long before
mass inoculations were required, primarily because of improvements in
sanitation. (Michael Alderson)
During most of the past 100 years now, the
prevailing allopathic view has been able to convince people that it is normal to
be born in a hospital, get an array of childhood diseases that require treatment
with drugs and vaccines, experience any number of mysterious "growing pains"
until maturity, then gradually begin a process of degeneration and decline,
punctuated by the appearance of specific "diseases" which each demands one or
more drugs to "keep it under control," experience any number of mysterious "old
age" pains, and then finally when the body has endured all these diseases, it
ultimately collapses in decay and ruination, a victim of its ‘natural’ course of
decline.
The allopathic view has convinced American women that menopause
is a medical condition, that childbirth is a medical emergency, and that the
uterus and the ovaries have no use after child-bearing years. The allopathic
view has convinced parents that antibiotics should be given to children at the
slightest sign of a cold, even though there are no drugs for viral infections,
which cause the vast majority of colds. The allopathic view has convinced most
people that death itself is a medical emergency, a medical condition that must
be monitored, controlled, and regulated; in America today people may not die
without their doctor’s permission, because so many procedures may be billed for
right up to the end. The gateways to and from life itself seem to have been
claimed as the private property and domain of one special type of health
care.
All these ideas are insane.
WHY ARE DRUGS
ALWAYS SYNTHETIC CHEMICALS?
The word synthetic in this context means
two simultaneous things: · manmade · found nowhere in
nature
If a natural substance, such as the progesterone found in the
wild yam, for example, is found to have some therapeutic value, a chemical copy
of it will be derived, usually from completely unnatural, synthetic chemical
sources. Despite its obvious therapeutic superiority, the natural compound
itself will virtually never be used by drug companies, for one and only one
reason: it is not patentable.
This is the central focus of the
entire pharmaceutical industry: patentability. Huge profits only come from a
product for which ownership can be claimed. If a compound occurs naturally, it
is easily available and inexpensive, and no one can say he invented it. To
understand this simple idea is to get a first glimpse of the most controlled,
organized system of legislated drugging in the history of the world. Fortunes
are amassed at the expense of our national health, our individual health, our
children’s health, and the lives of those hundreds of thousands who die every
year from prescription drugs.
[See p. 23]
Great care was
taken to camouflage big German money tied up with Rockefeller interests, what
with WWII in full swing. But Bealle tells one unforgettable story that leaves no
doubt of the alliance. (p9) Right before the American invasion of Germany,
American bombers were flying nightly raids on Germany’s big industrial cities.
American aviators were under strict orders to ‘surgically’ protect the huge IG
Farben chemical plant in the middle of Frankfurt. Indeed, when our grounds
troops went in, they found the plant untouched, even though all around it, the
rest of Frankfurt was in total devastation from thousands and thousands of
American bombs.
Think of the power behind such an order - from the
industrialists to the Cabinet to the military commanders to the
pilots.
After the war, the real gravy train began between the chemical
and the pharmaceuticals industries, as orchestrated by the Rockefeller
organization. Huge endowments were made to some 200 major drug companies by the
Rockefeller circle (Ruesch), among them:
Lever Brothers Colgate
Palmolive Procter & Gamble Sterling Drug Swift &
Company Miles Laboratories Bristol Meyers
- Bealle, p 31
As the war was winding down, Operation
Paperclip was set into motion under Henry Kissinger - a program of smuggling
the best scientific minds of the Third Reich into the U.S., giving them new
identities and new positions in American biomedicine and science.
(Horowitz)
Bealle lists the following universities endowed by Rockefeller
between 1915 and 1945:
Harvard Medical School Johns
Hopkins Stanford Columbia University Duke Tufts New York
University Cornell
With all this money floating around, it is notable
that in all this century, not one dime of all Rockefeller’s billions was
ever given to a school or a researcher involved with natural healing methods,
those that did not sell drugs.
Any more questions why drugs are always
synthetic chemicals? These are interlocking empires. Bealle goes on further to
list the directors of many of these drug companies, chemical companies,
universities, and banking institutions and shows what a spider’s web can be
drawn. The set-up is very complex, but with an overriding control. This chapter
only hints at the extent of the forces involved. The reader is directed to
Ruesch and Bealle and Horowitz for a reality check you won’t find in Reader’s
Digest.
SIDE EFFECTS
Just another Medspeak term. Chemicals
don’t have side effects in the human body; they just have effects. Using the
term ‘side effect’ is pretending that the drug actually had the one main effect
it was supposed to have, and all these other responses are just extraneous,
minor reactions. The body doesn’t think like that. All its systems work together
in a complex symphony of sophisticated chemical reactions and defenses. When a
drug comes in, everything happens at once: most of the energy is expended trying
to neutralize the drug and to isolate it and get rid of it. The reason for this
is simple: drugs don’t cure disease. No matter what you read, diseases are not
drug deficiencies. In the body, drugs are simply toxic, foreign
chemicals.
According to the Journal of the American Medical
Association, Apr 1998, side effects to prescription drugs are now at least
the FOURTH leading cause of death in the United States! (Lazarou) This
amazing study escaped the attention of mainstream media, for obvious reasons.
The researchers did a meta-analysis, comparing 39 different studies of drug side
effects. This was only the second meta-analysis ever done in mortality from drug
side effects. Their findings: · At least 106,000 Americans die
from drug reactions every year
· At least 2.21 million Americans have
adverse drug reactions requiring hospitalization.
The researchers
emphasized that these figures are only for drugs which are “properly prescribed
and properly administered,” and only takes into account hospitalized patients!
This does not even include the thousands of other deaths from wrong
prescriptions and errors in administration, or patients who are at home.
The study probably does not portray an accurate picture of the true
numbers involved, according to JAMA’s own editor David Bates, in an
editorial appearing on p.1216 of the same issue. Why not? Because of routine
underreporting of adverse incidents by hospital staff, in order to avoid
scrutiny from regulators and patient attorneys. Stands to reason. Bates actually
estimates that as few as 1 in 20 adverse drug reactions actually gets reported!
Using stats like that could easily make adverse drugs reactions the #1 cause of
death in the US, which may actually be true. But since there’s really no way to
track it, they backed off and just stuck with fourth place. And this is
JAMA, not the Chiropractic Report or some New Age newsletter from Santa
Cruz.
Different studies give different figures. The famous Ralph Nader
study of 1993 put the figure at 168,000, saying the same thing, that this
was a minimum estimate. Whatever the figures, we’re starting to get the idea
that drugs may not be conducive to longevity.
Any doctor will tell you
that all drugs have side effects. What he may not tell you is that most drugs
have only side effects. Except for life-threatening conditions, most drugs
impose an additional burden upon the body which usually hinders its efforts to
cleanse itself. Rarely is it a good trade to exchange the side effect for the
shaky, short-term benefit of a body on drugs.
Another problem is cross
side effects, also called interactions. Let’s say a person is taking
medications for two separate conditions, each being treated by a separate
physician. The side effects of the two drugs together may not be simply additive
- just piling on top of each other. They may be geometric - meaning that in
the presence of the second drug, the first drug’s side effects are multiplied by
a factor of many times. The result may be death.
In an article called
“Deadly Drug Duos” the author gives several examples of potentially fatal
interactions:
Erythromycin (a common antibiotic) + Seldane (an
antihistamine) = heart attack
This combination killed so
many people that Seldane was finally removed from the market in Dec
97.
[See p.26] What does the Hippocratic Oath really mean, when you
reflect that Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine himself said,
“I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such
counsel.”
Anyone ever look at the Physicians’ Desk
Reference? 3200 pages of side effects. There seems to be some conflict here,
what do you think?
FAIR WARNING? INSERT THIS
The newest
trick in the Deniability Department is the insert. Here's how it works:
there are so many side effects and so many new drugs coming out that doctors
cannot possibly keep up with all the data. Many drugs have deadly effects if
used in combination with other drugs, or if used on people who have certain
conditions. So the FDA has given the drug companies a break, which is the quite
the same as saying they're giving themselves a break, because the FDA members
ARE the drug companies. They have decreed that if the manufacturer prints all
the dangerous information - the side effects, interactions, and other warnings -
in a #1 font on a tiny piece of paper that folds up into the bottle of drugs -
this constitutes Fair Warning. Oh yes, and the manufacturer must also send each
doctor a letter telling about the insert.
The problem is that less
than 1% of physicians ever read the insert! (Rubin) Four major drugs had to
be pulled off the market in the past two years because too many people were
dying who would not have died had the physician read the insert. These drugs
are:
Rezulin Posicor Duract Propulsid
The last
of these remained on the market until Aug 2000, even though many deaths had
occurred from its use. The same happened with the other three drugs - they
remained on the market for up to a year after FDA had found out that people were
dying by taking them. Why?
"There are very strong economic and political pressures when a company
has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop a drug." - Jerry Avorn,
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston USA Today,, 3 May
00
Always the money - what a shock.
These drugs represent
a pattern of economic behavior that now controls FDA policy: i.e., as long as
all the complicated instructions are in microprint on the label insert, the drug
will be put out on the market, even though it may cause liver failure, aplastic
anemia, heart failure, or death. Then when enough people have died or have
required liver transplants or other serious interventions, the drug is SCHEDULED
to be pulled off the market. And then months or a year later, the drug actually
comes off the market. (Rubin) But often only the domestic market - the drug may
still be sold abroad!
This insane system is actually the vehicle by which
so many drugs come and go every year in the American drug market.
THE
SECRET HORROR OF DRUG RESEARCH
In Chapter 16 on synthetic estrogen,
HRT you will
read about the barbaric, infernal torture to which millions of horses continue
to be subject at this time, in the preparation of the dangerous and unproven
drug Premarin.
In sales, this is one of the top five drugs in the
U.S. - a billion dollars per year. Reading that chapter and then checking
its sources, the reader is better prepared to suspect the truth of the
prodigious research conducted by Hans Ruesch and presented in his books Naked
Empress and Slaughter of the Innocent.
Ruesch proves with
hundreds of references that the standard research method in the pharmaceutical
industry, since the time of Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard, has been
vivisection. Vivisection is a collective term that means the cutting and
poisoning and shocking and beating and starving and decapitating and denervating
and any other torture that man has ever devised, of defenseless animals, for
“medical research.” No anesthetic. We call them “laboratory animals” so that we
can pretend they are somehow lesser beings than our own household
pets.
With unrelenting data, Ruesch tells the shocking story of how
animal research has always been the Prime Alibi for testing drugs, for the past
century. It’s a regulatory, legal thing - before drugs can be approved by the
FDA, they have to be “tested” for certain periods of time and to certain
specifications. And since these are potentially toxic chemicals, we wouldn’t
want to test them on humans, now would we?
So that leaves animals: rats,
horses, dogs, mice, cats, monkeys, apes, etc. Millions and millions of all these
species have been sliced, diced, caged, poisoned, etc. in specific “studies”
which have specific “conditions” that will supposedly teach us all about a drug
and what it will do to a human once it is approved and marketed. We are
brainwashed to accept such a set-up with mindless mantras like “better sacrifice
a rat than a child” etc.
Ruesch exposes the follies and fallacies of the
whole monstrous system, with facts and principles which cannot be challenged. In
the first place, animal physiology is entirely different from human. No one in
his right mind would give a household pet a human drug, because it might kill
the animal or make it sick, right? And why is that? Different physiologies.
Ruesch gives example after example of substances that are harmless to animals
but fatal to humans, and vice versa. That much is obvious.
Next, Ruesch
explains about the money. It’s billions, and it’s all over the place.
It’s in procurement of the animals from nature, or raising them in the labs.
It’s in research grants for drug “testing.” It’s in medical publications. It’s
in careers for hundreds of thousands of researchers. It’s in sweetheart
arrangements with regulating agencies, who control a drug’s approval. It’s in
politics, and legal arrangements which control drugs and their “safety” and
“proof of efficacy.” It’s in the billions in profit a drug company can make once
a drug has been approved and effectively marketed. It’s in advertising. It’s in
medical education and training.
It’s in vaccines.
Any moron
knows that animal testing of drugs for humans is meaningless and a waste of time
because of different physiologies. This simple fact is borne out by the dozens
of drugs that are taken off the market every year once it becomes impossible to
hide the number of deaths and side effects occurring in humans. Ruesch cites
many researchers who state the exact same thing - that the tests they have
conducted are irrelevant to the effect of a drug on humans. They also state how
the same tests are often conducted over and over, year after year, killing more
and more animals, even though the outcomes are already known. Redundancy, legal
CYA stuff. Or else just padding or extending a research grant.
NOT
NICE TO FOOL WITH MOTHER NATURE
What is less commonly known, but
becoming more and more undeniable, is that nature is beginning to balance
itself, to reciprocate, to retaliate against us for having gone against her for
so many decades by killing all these innocent animals. To cite just one example,
there’s SV-40. For the complete story, look in Chapter 2 - The Sanctity
of Human Blood ( VACCINES ). SV-40 is
a virus which is normal in monkeys, but not in man. Different physiology,
remember? In the 1950s, polio vaccines were being prepared how? In Africa, using
the kidneys of 50,000 monkeys. Those monkey kidneys had SV-40, which
never bothered the monkeys. But though we may be descended from the ape, we have
evolved major differences in physiology. Researchers estimate a minimum of 10
million doses of that polio vaccine were given to people before anyone even
knew what SV-40 was. (Horowitz) SV-40 has a latency period in humans of about 25
years. So let’s see, what new disease popped up in the human species in the
1980s, which now is present in some 30 million people? (See
Horowitz)
THE STANDARD COVER-UP: THE INFILTRATORS
Now PC
tells us how uncool it is to be mean to animals. In some places you can be
arrested for shooting a cat with a BB gun. Hollywood actors get a lot of mileage
protesting this or that animal cause or spotted owl crisis, or this or that
media event. [See p. 28]
Ruesch points out how anti-vivisectionist views
are dealt with by the Thought Police who control publications and media in this
country. First of all, his books, which are pivotal works in the area of drugs
and animal testing, are out of print and can only be found with difficulty. Big
surprise.
But worse, Ruesch shows how those whose fortunes are dependent
on vivisection - the systematic killing of lab animals - have insidiously
infiltrated the animal rights organizations and de-fused them by a very
effective method. (p 39) These infiltrators ally themselves with the
anti-vivisectionists. And since they are better trained and better funded, they
beat the real animal rights people at their own game. The infiltrators pretend
they’re on the side of the poor animals, and they actually disagree with animal
experimentation in every way except medical. From a moral standpoint, from an
ethical standpoint, from an economic standpoint, these phony “animal rights”
people will object to animal experimentation. But they’re very well trained, and
they will never object from a medical standpoint. They won’t talk about
different physiologies, and endless repetition of tests and falsified data and
how the test outcomes don’t mean anything. That way when the mainstream speakers
come in and talk about how animals are humanely treated, and always put to sleep
painlessly, and how important it is to test animals instead of people, most
listeners will just be confused and figure that animal testing is a necessary
evil, if they care at all in the first place. In this way the real issues of
mass torture and mutilation which continue year after year, are never brought
forward. It is brilliant.
In the movie Wall Street, Gordon Gekko
tells Bud that he should always remember something about WASPS. They love
animals, but they hate people. Maybe Gordo should stick to LBO’s.
Just
because we invented Palm Pilots, violins, Honda RC30s, Best of Greens, laser
surgery, and Cabo San Lucas doesn’t necessarily mean that we are the superior
species on this planet, and that we can do whatever we want and get away with
it. We also invented global war, AIDS, lawyers, sewage, county government,
thalidomide, HMOs, Muzak, commuter lanes, and TV sitcoms.
In the area of
mass murder of animals, Ruesch’s works stand alone in scope and verifiability.
And they’re buried. These days few people know the whole story, and those who do
simply have no platform from which they may be heard. Don’t believe this chapter
at face value; follow up. Check references.
1000 ROTTING
BUFFALOES
The guy they named Seattle after, Chief Sealth had his own
ideas:
“The white man must treat the beasts of this land as his brother. I
am a savage and I do not understand the other way. I have seen a thousand
rotting buffaloes on the prairies, left by the white man who shot them from a
passing train….What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man
would die from great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beast,
also happens to man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth
befalls the sons of earth.”
- quoted by Dufty, p.
116
Think we’re going to get away clean? Mother Nature
Always Bats Last.
FOOD
is a much safer healing remedy than
drugs, with rare exception. Hippocrates also said
“Let food be thy
medicine and medicine be thy food.”
Fairly straightforward - nothing
about Prozac or fen-phen in there. Maybe they didn’t have Taco Bell in ancient
Athens…Or Long’s Drugs...
With food, there is no rebound Bi-Phasic
Effect. There’s only one single nurturing effect. Instead of altering body
systems the way drugs do, nutrients activate and support those
systems.
Don’t let’s complicate things - let’s keep it on a cellular
level. Humans are groups of a few trillion or so cells. Cell membrane,
cytoplasm, DNA, organelles - these are the cooperating parts of a living cell. A
cell needs two things in order to operate indefinitely: nutrients and waste
removal. Diminish either, and cell life is shortened. Obviously we will last
only as long as our cells. Remember the famous Alexis Carrel experiment where he
kept chicken liver cells alive in a petri dish for 28 years just by adding
nutrients and removing wastes, every day.
So the food that we take into
our mouth should contain nutrients, to feed the cells. Nutrients include
vitamins, minerals, enzymes, water, oxygen - cool stuff like that. Real food has
all these, carried on a framework of fiber. Thus is the cell nourished. The only
wastes in our body should be cellular wastes: the by-products of cell
metabolism, cell life-functions. These small waste molecules can easily be
removed through the blood and lymph systems, with virtually no stress on the
body. There should be no wastes left over from the food itself. Waste like that
is the big problem - the cause of aging and degeneration and cell breakdown.
With modern processed food, the foods of commerce, often more than half of it is
indigestible, inert, clogging waste, which lodges anywhere it can: ·
the joints · the blood · any organ · the skin · the colon · the
muscles
Real food nourishes and cleanses. Real medicine. No side
effects; no debris left over, no toxicity.
Food is a different kind of
medicine from drugs. Food is medicine we take when we’re well - in order to stay
well, in order to build our reserves of immunity and resilience. Its effects are
slow and mild and cumulative. Each day of health is an opportunity to load up on
vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and usable nutrients and to make deposits in the
Health Account. Following this paradigm, people get healthier as they get older,
not sicker, the way we’ve been led to believe through Rockefeller-type media
control.
Classical Chinese herbology, which is the basis for acupuncture,
has always divided herbs into two groups:
· food herbs, (kingly or
superior) · medicinal herbs (assistants)
Food herbs, like
echinacea, carrots, radishes, etc., can be eaten all the time, with no Bi-Phasic
Effect where the body reacts. Medicinal herbs, like goldenseal and a thousand
others, produce a mild controlling effect, and therefore are only to be used
temporarily. (Black p87) Herbology is a very complex subject, and has been
around for several millennia longer than modern synthetic pharmaceutical theory.
When you hear somebody talking “about the dangers of herbs” implying they should
be avoided entirely, it generally seems to be someone with no background
whatsoever in herbal therapy.
If we should get sick, that’s the time to
stop eating and give the body a chance to catch up with its detoxification
efforts. Years ago, Colorado’s famed JH Tilden, MD put it this way:
“It is a crime to feed anything to the sick. No food should be
given until all symptoms are gone…The life of the patient depends upon getting
rid of the putrid food still remaining in the bowels, before enough putrescence
is absorbed to cause death."
- Toxemia Explained p
99
So much for ‘feed a cold, starve a fever.’ Dr. Tilden, and
other holistic healers, felt that there is really only one disease - toxemia -
blood poisoning, from indigestible intake. Morris Bealle concurs:
“…cancer is simply an extreme form of toxemia, just as the common
cold is the mildest form of toxemia.”
- The Drug Story,
p78
If the immune system is strong enough and mobile enough,
even infectious agents will be unable to gain a foothold. The only way to insure
such a perpetual detoxed state is clean blood.
Hippocrates himself
concurs:
“As in the blood, so is the man - he is just as weak, just as
strong.”
The big difference between foods and drugs,
especially when talking about chronic, degenerative disease is that only foods
can heal because only foods rely on the inner healing systems of the body by
providing simple gentle, support in physiologic doses. Drugs which overpower the
delicate interwoven systems of the body can never bring health long-term,
because they come in huge powerful pharmacologic doses, toxic by their very
nature.
THE AMERICAN MADNESS ASSOCIATION
The political
branch of the allopathic powers in the U.S. is called the AMA. The American
Medical Association is the second largest lobby in Washington, right behind oil.
(AMA News, 8 Jun 79) Researching its history, one is taken by the idea
that the AMA is not concerned with health, longevity or improved quality of life
for the American people. The AMA is a political body, a trade lobby, nothing
more. Its pretension in presenting itself as a synonym for the medical
profession, or the power that governs American medicine is something John
Robbins says would be like the American Bar Association calling itself the
American Justice Association. (Robbins p96)
The AMA is a voluntary
organization and has no legal authority over medical doctors. The AMA, as any
trade lobby, is focused on one thing and one thing only: increased profits and
power for its constituents - its members, the drug cartels and the hospital
associations. The AMA is a media octopus, whose control is pervasively felt in
newspaper opinions, magazines, medical journals, medical textbooks, TV, the FDA,
the FTC, the insurance industry, and in especially in Congress. We’re not
talking about influence here; we’re talking about control. Big
difference.
Media octopus? That’s right. Every day the AMA sends one
minute messages to 5,000 radio stations; every week the AMA sends news
releases to some 4,000 “scientific” journalists. (Robbins, p182). JAMA
is the most widely read and accepted of all U.S. medical journals, with a
circulation of over 750,000. Quite a feat for a trade union publication,
wouldn’t you say? Think this type of pervasive influencing has anything to do
with the constant stream of “breakthrough” drugs and procedures we’re always
hearing about on radio, TV, and the newspapers, disguised as hard
news?
[See p33] The AMA’s first real leader, Morris Fishbein, never
graduated from medical school and never practiced medicine a day in his life.
His credentials were all political. (Bealle) His focus was simple: end medical
freedom in the U.S. Any natural cure, or holistic therapies that did not involve
the sale of pharmaceuticals or the advancement of surgery were suppressed,
maligned, and actively persecuted by Fishbein’s attack dogs - the FDA and the
FTC. For decades holistic healers and cures were vilified and crushed. That
story is told in some detail in Lisa’s Assault on Medical Freedom, and
also in Bealle’s The Drug Story. This is a dark chapter in mankind’s
history; the more you find out about it the less you want to know. It’s not
really paranoia or fostering negativity but more a spirit of history that pushes
us to try and understand the forces in play today, and the fundamental upheaval
that strives to achieve some equilibrium from the treachery of the
past.
It was Fishbein who arranged the marriage of the medical profession
to the tobacco industry, which cozy liaison was to last some forty years. Mr.
Fishbein along with Philip Morris, set up the program of cigarette advertising
in JAMA which lasted for over 20 years. Also found in old issues of any popular
magazine, like Life and Time in the 30s, 40s and 50s, these ads have medical
doctors constantly extolling the various benefits of tobacco: good digestion,
relaxation, on and on. Ads like
“nine out of ten doctors
recommend ______ cigarettes”
were ubiquitous, as any old timer can
tell you.
Here’s an ad run in the Journal of the American Medical
Association in 1933:
“Patients with coughs were instructed to change to Philip Morris
cigarettes. In three out of four cases the coughs disappeared
entirely.”
Even after studies in 1925 and again in 1938 very
clearly showed the link between tobacco and cancer, Fishbein continued to run
the ad campaign for many years. (Robbins, 204) That is power. For this favor
Fishbein was paid more per year than his salary as director of the AMA. (Rorty)
In Chapter 11 of Reclaiming Our Health, John Robbins has
masterfully summarized the meretricious partnership between medicine and
tobacco.
Even with lung cancer leading the list of cancers in America
today, it’s still easy to see the power of the tobacco/medical industry by
reading the disclaimers in cigarette ads. Remember just a few years ago where
they had to put “The Surgeon General has determined that smoking is dangerous to
your health”? Notice how that has been recently downgraded to the
current:
“Surgeon General’s Warning: Quitting Smoking Now Greatly Reduces
Serious Risks to Your Health”
These words are very carefully chosen, and
change with the winds of politics and compromise. What’s next? “Surgeon General
says you really shouldn’t smoke”?
In 1963, the AMA formed the little club
which they called “The Committee on Quackery,” [See p. 36]
... It’s
still taking place today with the ongoing 1998 Koren case, in which the Federal
Trade Commission, as a front for “unidentified” parties, is trying to change
what chiropractic has been for the past 100 years and to muzzle chiropractors
from describing the proven benefits of their art. The FTC will probably lose,
but with the unlimited funds of the taxpayers’ dollars, the FTC really doesn’t
care whether it wins or not. The allopathic political goal is the same as it has
always been: to harass and eliminate the purveyors of holistic medicine - anyone
involved in the health care field who does not employ drugs and surgery. After
this lawsuit is settled, they’ll certainly come up with something else - it
hasn’t changed since 1847.
UNSCIENTIFIC? GET SOME NEW
MATERIAL!
Allopathic medicine has always criticized holistic medicine
with the same complaint down through the years, persisting intact to the present
time: the same thing over and over - alternative medicine is unscientific,
unproven, not supported by controlled clinical trials, undocumented in
peer-reviewed journals, and anecdotal. They don’t really say Alternative doesn’t
work; just that it’s unproven. What this implies of course is that mainstream
allopathy is objectively scientific and proven by clinical
research.
There are two big problems with such claims:
1. it’s
apples and oranges 2.“science” is really not that
scientific
Apples and oranges. Two different things, totally
different paradigms. Alternative medicine is not just a different way to cure
the diseases we might get. It is not competing with anyone in the Disease Care
market. Holistic medicine doesn’t cure diseases. It promotes a healthy condition
which is not conducive to disease, by purifying the biological terrain, to allow
the body to express its natural potential. All the time.
Healthy people
don’t get sick. No colds, no headaches, no arthritis, no diabetes, no heart
disease, no cancer… they don’t get sick. Holistic medicine doesn’t wait around
for some disease or other to show up. Holistic medicine is something you do
every day whether you feel good or bad. It’s not a cure - it’s a lifestyle.
Improved quality of life.
Dean Black talks about empirical data being
just as valid as controlled studies. Empirical means that what is commonly
apparent and successful over a number of years does not need to be “proven.”
Here’s an example: For centuries, horse owners have customarily put
goldfish in their horses’ watering troughs in order to keep algae from forming.
Now, no one may have ever conducted formal studies to prove it works, but anyone
with a brain in his head knows empirically that the water stays cleaner and has
to be changed less often if goldfish are kept in the troughs.
Much of
allopathy is also empirical. Aspirin, for example. Probably the most common drug
in the world, but it has never been proven in scientific trials. Controlled
tests for aspirin’s effectiveness have never been done. But it’s a drug, with
very consistent results: 20,000 tons of aspirin are consumed every year.
(Limits to Medicine)
For that matter, surgery itself has never
been subjected to clinical trials! It’s just a tradition – empirical. And with
modern elective, exploratory surgeries and the latest ‘prophylactic’ surgeries
(not the Trojan kind; the just-in-case kind), the mood seems now to be
frivolous, cavalier about whacking off this or that body part.
In a
different way, the strength of holistic methods often lies in their empirically
demonstrable value. Chiropractic, for one, has been around for over 100 years,
with millions of people being cared for. The benefits of spinal correction are
easily shown and easily understood. Chiropractic doesn’t have to be “proven”
except to a defense lawyer or someone with a political agenda to attack it. Same
way with acupuncture. The 12 meridians and the thousands of herbs employed by
acupuncturists - none of this has been “proven” by strict “scientific” studies.
After 4000 years, acupuncture is still around, and people still choose it as a
helpful treatment. Also for the minute dilutions employed by homeopathic
medicine - these have never been written up in NEJM after double blind
studies showed their effectiveness.
Allopathic posturing pretends that
all drugs and procedures have been thoroughly tested in objective scientific
research studies, which guarantees both safety and effectiveness. There are some
basic problems with such a wish.
First of all, in the “controlled”
study, scientists pretend they are testing some drug by isolating just one
single variable, and holding all other factors the same, in order to prove the
effectiveness of the drug. The only way to do this is to place the subjects in a
position of uncertainty and helplessness: the “double-blind” study. That means
that supposedly neither the researchers nor the subjects know who’s getting the
drug and who’s getting the placebo sugar pill. The point is, the whole structure
of such a design is flawed. Why? Because we’re dealing with the innate healing
systems of the human body. It doesn’t respond normally in a situation of
helplessness and uncertainty. That’s not its normal condition. That’s not how
people live their lives. So the outcomes of such artificial situations as the
sacred double blind study are going to be essentially meaningless when applied
to the normal everyday physiology of a healthy human.
Rene' Dubos saw
through this mirage back in 1957:
“Ideally, the experimenter works in a closed system, affected only by
the determinants that he has introduced, under the conditions he has selected.
Naturally, however, events never occur in a closed system. They are determined
and modified by circumstances and forces that cannot be foreseen, let alone
controlled.” - The Mirage of Health
That’s the first
problem.
Then there’s the problem of the politics of reporting
data. Fraud in reporting of data used in medical journal articles is
rampant. John Braithwaite, MD, a UN researcher and the author of a study
entitled “Corporate Crime in the Pharmaceutical Industry” has
meticulously documented the indigenous type of phony data associated with
“studies” in many countries, even those that are reported in the “peer-reviewed”
journals:
“Data fabrication is so widespread, that it is called ‘making’ in the
Japanese pharmaceutical industry, and ‘graphiting’ or ‘dry labeling’ in the
United States…Pharmaceutical companies face great temptations to mislead health
authorities about the safety of their products….Inquiries into scientific fraud
in the US have shown that there is a substantial problem of safety testing of
drugs in the US, just as has been documented in Japan.”
You
don’t even have to think about it to realize why. A drug company may spend $100
million and five years doing testing to try and get a drug approved by the FDA.
Since they are paying for the “research” themselves, guess what happens to data
that is coming out unfavorable to their expectations? Often the study is
cancelled. With the researchers trying to get funding for the next phase of
research - are they going to be rewarded for positive or negative data about the
drug being studied? Which one?
CLINICAL EXPERIENCE IS
ANECDOTAL
Anecdotal is another favorite word used to slam
holistic medicine. Allopaths say that holistic methods are unscientific because
results are simply anecdotal, meaning case by case. The real meaning of
anecdotal, however, is case history. In actuality, in the practice of
medicine nothing is more important than the case history. That’s how people’s
lives really are affected by illness and by health; case history is what really
happens to people, real people - the patients who really walk in the door. The
point here is that actual case histories cannot be controlled by studies bought
and paid for by those whose interests are best served by a certain outcome.
“Scientific” studies and reporting can be controlled by political and economic
consideration - unwanted research topics never get funding; unwanted data often
is ignored or not reported. By contrast, patients who actually walk in the door
are not subjects in a research project.
Hundreds of case histories,
anecdotal individual cases, year after year accumulate to give a doctor the most
valuable source of information possible: clinical observation. The years of
experience and clinical observation - these are not to be trivialized as
something intrinsically inferior to the “real science” that gets published in
medical journals.
Mainstream medicine may use this “anecdotal” ploy not
only against holistic ideas, but also against any medical ideas or research that
is beginning to stray outside the fold of Pharmaceutical Economics. New ideas
are not welcome until the Angle has been figured out. For now, just remember
this - the word “anecdotal” is a red flag that means “probable snowjob
ahead.”
SCIENTIFIC?
At least 100,000 deaths a year
from prescription drugs that were correctly prescribed and administered - wait a
minute. All these drugs are tested by randomized, double blind controlled
clinical trials, right? So they’re all “scientifically proven” to work, right?
Employing the most rigorous of scientific testing procedures, only the drugs
that have made it through all that are allowed to be put on the market, right?
So what’s all this posturing about, that alternative medicine isn’t reproducible
in clinical trials, LIKE REAL MEDICINE IS. Here we have the finished products of
their own scientific processes, so I want to know, why are 160 of them taken off
the market every year only to be replaced by about the same number? And why are
they killing all these people? Many are starting to notice this!
Here’s a
recent example. The FDA recently approved a new vaccine for Lyme Disease. (M2
Presswire 12/23/98) Only problem is, they’re admitting it’s only 50%
effective. Now think about that! This is a new drug that has successfully
passed through the whole ritual of tests and approval, and now doctors are
allowed to prescribe it and sell it. At 50% efficacy! What about the other 50%?
But this vaccine is now “scientifically” tested! No wonder side effects of
correctly prescribed prescription drugs is now the FOURTH leading cause of
death.
Here’s another example of science. Ciba-Geigy, the Swiss drug
giant who brought Ritalin to the world, was ordered by a Tokyo court to pay
$17 million in damages when it was proven that their drug Oxychinol had
caused at least 100 deaths and 30,000 cases of blindness or paralysis. (Ruesch,
p 18) What was the drug for? Indigestion when travelling! The drug was sold
under 168 different names in Japan alone. After they were fined, Ciba-Geigy
continued to market the drug all over the world! (Geneva Press Conference on
SMON)
It comes down to this: if allopathic medicine is so scientific
and meticulously proven, why does it have such a deplorable showing when it
comes to effectiveness? How are we doing with disease? Are we getting healthier
or sicker year by year? If it’s working so well why are people spending now $30
billion dollars out of their own pockets for alternatives (JAMA, Apr 98) many of
which are really shaky.
Especially now, with the Internet in operation,
it is getting much harder to cover up the inability of allopathic medicine to
deliver the goods:
- Continual increase in degenerative
diseases
1 in 12 babies born in America with birth defects (Lesso, p5)
U.S is #22 in infant mortality compared with other nations
(UNICEF)
largest health budget in history - $1.2
trillion
Increased numbers of deaths from cancer and heart disease
every year (Vital Statistics 1950-1994)
Access to
non-mainstream uncontrolled media sources like the Internet
Increase
in iatrogenic disease and deaths (caused by hospitals) (Jonas, p
1616)
Increase in deaths and complications from standard childhood
vaccinations (Sanctity of Human Blood)
THEIR TROUGH
RUNNETH OVER
Now I don’t want to belabor the idea, but it’s
fundamental in any discussion of modern American health care not to get too warm
and fuzzy about philosophical issues without acknowledging what really
determines the direction of mainstream medical policy: profit. The Coin, not the
Quonh. Today’s HMOs are no longer run by doctors; they’re run by corporate
execs. As you try to understand how things could have gotten this out of hand,
try and keep the following in mind:
- between 1959 and 1979 the consumer price index rose by 74%.
In that same period, the cost of medical care went up by 330%
-
Limits to Medicine, p.2
- in 1939, the medical budget was $3.5
billion (Carrel, p 80)
- In 1985,the medical budget was at $360
billion per year (Alan Levin)
- In 1991, the medical budget was
at $750 billion per year (Alan Levin)
- In 1999, the medical
budget was over $1.2 trillion per year
Ideas that get in
the way of this Machine get opposed by any and every means.
WHAT DO
AMERICANS DIE FROM?
Every year 2.3 million Americans cash in
their chips, buy the ranch, go to meet Elvis... (Vital Statistics, 1999)
Here’s why:
Adding up these top ten causes comes to about
1.8 million. According to Vital Statistics, the standard publication of
the National Health Service and the Centers for Disease Control, the other half
million deaths come from miscellaneous causes like homicide, AIDS, snakebites,
and less common diseases.
But watch how statistics are twisted. From the
following sources, we now know that at least 400,000 deaths are caused by
prescription drugs and medical error.
“150,000 to 300,000
Americans are injured or killed each year because of medical negligence (i.e.,
mistreated diseases, surgeries, drug reactions, misprescribed drugs.)”
--Wall Street Journal, Jan. 13, 1993.
Right up there with
deaths from medications come deaths from medical error. Besides the 100,000
people dying from drugs every year an additional 180,000 patients die
each year from medical mistakes, being injured while in the hospital, and
another 1 million are injured. This is from Journal of the American Medical
Association, July 5, 1995, 274:29-34.
A more recent source is the
startling admission of David Lawrence, MD, the Chief Executive of the nation’s
largest HMO – Kaiser Permanente. In the 15 July 1999 issue of the Oakland
Tribune, Dr. Lawrence states that medical mistakes now kill some 400,000
Americans every year, more than all the deaths from alcohol, firearms and
tobacco combined. (Rosenblatt)
Different sources different figures -
Ralph Nader, JAMA Apr 98, JAMA, July 5, 1995, Wall St.
Journal, Oakland Tribune Jul 99. But all agree on one idea: more
Americans are dying of prescription drugs every year than died in the entire
Vietnam War (55,000) and the Battle of Gettysburg (50,000) put together.
Probably way more. Where is the objection? Where is the
outcry?
Anybody clocking this? The most conservative medical estimates
put the total deaths per year from prescription drugs and hospital errors
together at 300,000 per year. It’s probably 10 times more, as the editor
of the Apr 98 JAMA stated in his editorial on p 1216. If the number of
deaths from these two causes combined is only twice as many as these lowest
conservative figures, that puts medical error and drug side effect deaths as the
Number One cause of death in the U.S. today, which is more than likely.
Now going back to the top ten causes of death above, see the overlap?
Medical error is not even listed by Vital Statistics as a cause of death. How
many of these medical mistakes and drug effects caused the heart attacks or
strokes, which are listed? Nobody knows – they don’t track it. But again, it’s
very possible that medical error and prescription drugs are the number one cause
of death in the U.S. today, especially considering the estimate of the
JAMA editor that only 10% get reported.
No wonder your
grandfather doesn’t want to go to the hospital. That’s called the Survival
Instinct.
A DOUBLE STANDARD
Allopaths want holistic cures
to be subject to the same “rigors” of scientific testing as “real drugs” must go
through.
Allopaths hope to give the impression that mainstream
pharmacology and standard hospital procedures are “backed by scientific
research” and are therefore not only safe, but superior to any procedures of
Alternative Medicine. In this way, with the help of the legislature and the twin
Doberman FDA and FTC, natural cures will be forced out of the market. $5.8
billion every year is spent reinforcing the inaccurate notion of the “scientific
validity” of mainstream medicine into the public awareness: in commercials,
medical publications and general media. (CLA, Jan 99)
Scientific? Fully
80% of surgical procedures have never been tested for safety or efficacy in
clinical trials. As for The Machines glittering all throughout the hospital,
there are no standards of efficacy for an instrument to be introduced into
practice, except incorporation into the insurance billing codes. No machine ever
has to be proven to be of any value whatsoever. The patient’s long-term welfare
is not an issue. In addition, it is an
“…amazing fact that physicians are not required to be certified by
any independent professional organization to show they know the proper use of
the medical devices they operate…”
- Medicine on Trial p
47
Did I mention that drugs are now the leading cause of death
in the U.S.?
Science stopped being scientific when the legislature
started being controlled by the drug and oil lobbies. And that was a while ago.
Why then does the public instinctively regard alternative methods as less
scientific than drugs and surgery, even though paradoxically, holistic methods
are being chosen more and more?
It’s a one-word answer:
CONDITIONING
First of all, commercials. Drug
advertising is the largest single source of revenue to TV, most medical
journals, and many nonmedical publications. How long can you watch TV without
seeing a drug ad? Five minutes? Ten? Whose commercials do you see at the breaks
in the “expose¢s” on some natural health technique? Three guesses. Only logical
- the drug advertisers are TV’s bread and butter. Do you think the drug
companies want to see shows that illustrate the value of some holistic natural
cure?
Second, medical publications. This is becoming a really
embarrassing. The two most respected medical journals in the U.S. are Journal
of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of
Medicine. Get any issue of either of these and start leafing through it. You
will notice that the full color drug ads literally crowd out the articles. So
what point of view do you think is going to be supported in the few articles
that actually get printed in between all these centerfolds? It’s not uncommon
even to see full-page ads for MacDonald’s in these top two medical journals!
Talking about nutrition! Peer-reviewed? What good is that when all the “peers”
are fighting for crumbs off the same plate?
The third area we see the
Drug Cartel’s advertising millions is in the popular press: newspapers,
magazines, books. Anyone who thinks a newspaper exists to report the news has
not been paying attention. All this First Amendment stuff is phony posturing -
the printed media is the only business that tries to pretend that it’s not a
business. Newspapers exist to make money. They make money by selling newspapers,
by advertising, and by presenting favorable images for those in power. Ever
notice how at least once a week, there is a feature story about the latest
“breakthrough” drug or procedure? It may be real general, or might even be a
teaser, like it’s ‘coming soon,’ often with very tentative or shaky research.
But these articles, even though they look like reporting, are not reporting.
They are advertising, and are paid for. Dictated by the press releases of the
AMA. Check out the credentials of the “Health Science” editor. His last
assignment was probably movie reviews.
More than a century ago, Leo
Tolstoy put it like this:
“All newspaper and journalistic activity is an intellectual
brothel from which there is no retreat.” - Letter to Prince V.
1871
No different in Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker,
or any of the giant glossy magazine conglomerates like Conde' Nast - look at the
big ads. These ads are an indicator of the point of view you’ll see represented
in the “objective” reporting in the articles. It’s all there, just below the
surface.
In the past couple of years, a bold step was taken in magazine
advertising: marketing new drugs directly to the consumer, so they’ll know which
drugs to ask the doctor for. Ads that formerly only appeared in medical journals
are now popping up in magazines found at any newsstand. (Life, June 1999,
pp 13, 60, 117) Take a step back from this brazen commercialism and see what the
industry is actually doing. They’re cutting out the middleman. Now we have lay
people with no medical training or credentials whatsoever who think they are
informed enough to self-prescribe a drug just because they saw a two-page ad in
Life or Newsweek. What about case history, side effects, drug interactions, or
the opinion of an experienced physician in deciding the appropriateness of a
medication for a given patient? What’s wrong with this picture? Any doubts about
who’s really running the show?
WHITE PUNKS ON DOPE
With
some 12,000 drugs remaining on the market at any one time (Gorman), almost 100
new drugs are approved every two years. (FDA Medical Officer’s Report,
1998) Let’s see - why would that be? Why after all those millions and all those
years of scientific testing would a company not be absolutely certain that a
drug would be safe and effective? Why? Why are there always new drugs? They’re
not getting better and better every year; our health is not improving because of
the increased quality of our drugs. Here’s why: the real testing is done on
human patients, after the drug hits the market. When enough people die or get
major side effects, as with DES, chloramphenicol, thalidomide, fen-phen,
Seldane, rotavirus vaccine, and dozens of others, AND a drug gets bad press,
only then will the FDA pull it off the market. Even then the drug often
continues to be sold in Europe, Asia, or South America!
Take a guess how
many drugs are found to have major side effects after they are placed on the
market:
“Overall, 51 percent of approved drugs have serious adverse
effects which are not detected prior to approval.”
- JAMA
1998; 279:1571-1573
Who are the lab rats here? Is this the high
standard to which allopaths would hold holistic cures? The point is, they demand
that the scientific proof they pretend to have for pharmaceuticals should be
required for alternative therapies as well, but without all the false reporting
and manipulation of data. Standards, anyone? Make mine a
Double.
HERE’S HOW WE’RE REALLY DOING:
The following tables
document the increase in several leading killer diseases, and tell the story
about infant mortality as well:
Cancer continues on the rise. From the
cancer chapter,( CANCER you’ll
remember this chart: Mortality from Cancer in the U.S.
source: Vital Statistics of the United
States vol.II 1967-1992
In 1994, mortality went to 220 per
100,000. (CA Journal for Cancer Clinicians Jan 97)
Seen these
figures in Newsweek lately? How about the
Chronicle?
Heart disease, of course, is the #1 killer of
Americans. The most common kind is called chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,
or COPD. Look at these death rates:
COPD YEAR--- DEATHS per
100,000
1970 --- 15 1980 --- 24 1900 --- 34 1993 --- 39 1994
--- 39 source: Statistical Abstracts of the U.S. p.
94
Let’s see how we’re doing with diabetes, the seventh
leading cause of death in the U.S.
How about asthma incidence? Are all those kids walking
around with inhalators getting better?
Here is a graph from the
National Health Interview Survey, ADR 277 NIH. Top line shows asthma
prevalence. Bottom line shows office visits for asthma. [See p50]
Think
asthma has declined since 1994? Check out the headline story on the front page
of the San Jose Mercury on 4 Sep 99: “Asthma at Epidemic Levels.” This
article quotes CDC figures stating that asthma incidence has risen from 6.7
million cases in 1980 to 17.3 million cases in 1999. Every year, 5000 of
these cases are fatal, despite over $14 billion per year currently spent
on treatment. (Borenstein)
Septicemia, or blood infection, is also
moving up the ladder:
I don’t think Semmelweis, Pasteur, or Alexander Fleming
would be too impressed by these modern figures of Americans dying from blood
infections every year in the 1990s.
Our babies aren’t doing that
great either:
INFANT MORTALITY RATES AND RANKS:
[ See
p.52]
Slovenia? We’re behind them? And Italy? Half of Italy is Third
World. And Greece spends one tenth of our medical budget PER CAPITA!
Now
we could go on and on with this, but I think you may be getting the idea. People
are getting tired of watching their grandparents die, and then a generation
later, watching their parents die of the same diseases. It’s only fancy dancing
and playing with statistics that is vainly trying to keep up the illusion that
everything’s fine. You can spin it any way you want, but one immutable fact is
just sitting there like the elephant in the living room: we don’t have health
care in this country; we have Disease Care, and it’s NOT WORKING.
The above charts are the unadorned figures, kept well hidden by
confusing analyses of dozens of other factors. Age, race, sex, and geographic
area data can easily obscure the bottom line: that as a nation we’re getting
sicker, not healthier.
“The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It
consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on
inhumanly low levels of personal health.” - Ivan Illich, Medical
Nemesis
Medical researcher John Lesso also is less than taken
by the effectiveness of the mainstream approach:
“Allopathic medicine, also known as ‘modern medicine,’ has
unfortunately been largely ineffective in dealing with most diseases, and more
than often it introduces further problems. Ironically, most of our present-day
afflictions are the direct result of inappropriate lifestyle and environment,
and therefore can usually be prevented.” - “Health In Crisis,”
intro
People are beginning to spend several billion dollars per
year out of their own pockets for simple, natural healing methods not covered by
their “health plans.” Each year, it’s more. The dwarfing of natural medicine by
mainstream medicine is becoming less apparent year by year as the failures of
drugs and surgery become more difficult to hide. A study that appeared in JAMA,
Nov 1998, showed that the American people now make 629 million visits to
alternative practitioners every year, compared with 386 million visits to their
primary doctors! (Eisenman) The entire budget for alternative care is between
$21 and $32 billion. And 46% of the population are going to alternative medicine
practitioners these days. A fundamental shift has started.
Doesn’t really
sound like “alternative” is quite the right word any more, does
it?
ALLOPATHIC SUPERIORITY
In fairness, the allopathic
approach does have its areas of supremacy and brilliance, however. If I am in a
motorcycle accident on the freeway and get opened up or broken up, don’t take me
to a holistic healer. Allopathic mainstream medicine has evolved the most
advanced emergency trauma procedures in history. For truly life-threatening
situations, as long as they don’t get carried away when they see four-star
coverage, the mainstream approach should be chosen.
Other areas of
advanced and valuable technology include eye surgery, wart removal, teflon joint
replacements, and arthroscopic procedures, after holistic supports and
nutritional approaches have failed.
CHRONICS
Almost
80% of medical treatment in this country however is for chronic
conditions: in 1995, the number or people with 1 or more chronic illnesses was
estimated to be almost 100 million. (JAMA, November 13, 1996) The authors
of this study concluded that medical treatments are often not effective for
chronic conditions, which is obvious when looking at the above statistical
charts. So we’re talking about $800 billion out of the $1.2 trillion medical
budget that isn’t really doing its job. Some re-vamping may be in order. That
was your money!
Q & A
With just a faint glimmer of
doubt cast upon any given medical situation and diagnosis, perhaps now the
reader will be motivated to get a second opinion, not a second medical opinion,
but a second health opinion, a holistic one - an opinion based not on what is
good for the doctor or the hospital or the insurance company, but what is best
for the patient’s long term health. Apply the following simple principles to any
medical decision that must be made:
1.What is the motivation of the
professional giving the recommendation? If I am convinced, does he get
money?
2. What are the side effects of the recommended drugs? Cross
effects with other drugs? What did the manufacturer of that drug say about
long-term use? For what duration of time was the drug designed by the
manufacturer? What is the prescribing doctor’s time schedule for monitoring the
effects of the drug? How will I sleep?
3. What is being covered up by
the recommended drug? For pain medication, what would the pain be telling me
that I now will not know? For anti-inflammatories, will the underlying cause of
inflammation still remain, now that the body is unable to bring about its normal
response to a toxic irritant? For antibiotics, what are the side effects of
having no good bacteria in the body? What are the effects on digestion, and on
the immune system? For cough suppressants, what will remain in me that will now
be unable to be expelled, since I am not able to cough? For anti-histamines,
what toxins are being allowed to remain in the body now that the natural
histamine-mediated process of cell detox is being inhibited by the drug?
4. What happened to the last 10 people who followed this recommendation
for this condition?
5. If surgery is being recommended, what are the
chances the “diseased” area could heal on its own in time? How long would
that take? What is the worst that could happen by waiting as long a possible?
How long could I wait? How long would the doctor have his own sister wait?
Convince me that I really don’t need the diseased part, that after it is cut
away, that I’ll never miss it or have any further use for it. What was it doing
there in the first place? What less radical, or even holistic alternatives has
the surgeon ever tried that didn’t involve surgery?
6. What holistic
practitioners are there who have another rec- ommendation? What proof do they
offer? What is their success rate? What are the side effects? What are their
credentials?
7. Does the doctor think my questions are too stupid to
answer? Does he give me the impression that I have no right to be questioning
him about anything, but that I should just follow his advice blindly?
8.
Am I being rushed? Am I being intimidated into a course of action before I feel
I have enough information to make a decision? Could the reason for the hurry be
money, as though they want to act now with a radical procedure before the
condition has a chance to improve on its own, or before I change my
mind?
THE ILLUSION OF MEDICAL FREEDOM
Medical freedom is
the idea that the individual should have a choice of any therapeutic system he
feels will restore health. Unfortunately this freedom was left out of the
Constitution. The father of American psychiatry, Benjamin Rush, a signer of the
Declaration of Independence, had wanted to include it, realizing the problems
its omission might spawn. Rush said that if medical freedom were not guaranteed
and specified, it was likely that one group of doctors would monopolize health
care by passing legislation to outlaw their competition - other types of health
care.
He sure called that one.
Dr. Schulze points out:
“Over the past 80 years, organized medical groups and
pharmaceutical companies, using lawyers, bribes, lobbies, insurance companies,
and the strong arm of the FDA, have been very busy. They have corrupted elected
officials to pass laws to remove any competition. They have crushed Natural
Doctors, Natural Medicine, and Self-Care. Their goal is to monopolize health
care and make us dependent on medical doctors and drugs. They have made many
healing herbs, foods, and even nutrients illegal…Organized medicine has
…outlawed words for other health professionals to use, such as Diagnose and
Cure. Just by using these words you can be arrested for “Practicing Medicine
Without a License.”
Examples are endless. Under the guise of
“protecting the public” laws are passed and the twin Dobermans of the AMA - the
FDA and the FTC - may be commanded to attack any natural healing method that
doesn’t promote drugs and surgery. To cite just a few:
· The 150-year war
against homeopathy, the AMA’s first rival, whose destruction was targeted in the
AMA’s founding charter.
· The 11-year antitrust suit against the AMA won
by chiropractors in 1989 proved a short-lived victory. Since then, DCs have been
systematically pushed out of a large portion of insurance coverage in the
country. (Lisa)
• The FTC’s recent attack on a definition of
chiropractic that has been in effect for over 100 years
· The recent
attack by the FDA on holistic nutrition companies which claim specific health
benefits
· Systematic persecution of doctors who have had extensive
clinical success treating cancer with natural, non-drug medicines: Burzynski,
Donsbach, Kelley, Anderson, Schulze, Hoxsey, Naessens
(Options)
PRACTICING SANITY WITHOUT A LICENSE
To
question a system of disease care that is too market-driven to be interested in
health - that’s a sane course. Step back from the whole picture a moment and
look what has happened here: the triumvirate of Disease Care that rules America
today - the AMA, the FDA, and FTC - have been empowered by the legislature to
make it a capital crime to “practice medicine without a license” or to claim to
cure disease without a medical license. OK. So tell me, where did they derive
that power from? Who gave them the right to determine what constitutes
“medicine” and what doesn’t? Where were we when we gave them permission to
determine what branches of the healing arts should be available to us any time
we wish? How is science able to be legislated? How can any real scientific
progress take place?
The illusion the allopaths have sold the people is
that such legislation is “for the protection” of the people, to protect them
from fraud, and that people might be distracted by wacky unscientific quacks who
will deter them from getting the real “scientific” medicine they need. But which
is the more sacred trust - medical freedom of choice or protecting the people
from fraud? The people can protect themselves from fraud. In fact that’s exactly
what medical freedom is: to have the right to decide for oneself what is fraud
and what is useful. Otherwise it’s the Fox guarding the Chicken Coop.
For true medical freedom to exist, a wide range of health options must
be available at all times, even wacky ones. The effective ones will
survive. The choice should not be subject to legislation for the obvious reason
that politics and big money control the legislators. That’s what we’ve seen all
through history - people dying by being forced to take medications that were
deemed the most scientific at the time, which coincidentally meant the ones
researched and paid for the powers who controlled both the medical research
facilities AND the legislature that enforces the findings of that
research.
In America today, there is only the most grudging type of
medical freedom in effect. Peripheral alternative therapies are allowed to flit
around the perimeter, subject to being targeted and attacked any time the
Triumvirate gets a notion to make an example of somebody. Control of the media,
“science,” and the court system can put a stop to practically any holistic
practitioner or company, as evidenced in Walters’ book of vanished, suppressed
technologies (Options).
Illegal for anyone but an MD to claim to
cure disease? Who are the quacks? Look at allopathic cure rates for degenerative
disease, cited above, in the past 75 years. Their primary “cure” - prescription
drugs - is now the fourth leading cause of death, by their own
statistics! Who’s making false medical claims here? Are they pretending nobody
notices this? Ever notice the only types of “fraud” charges ever levied by the
Triumvirate are against natural non-drug non-surgical cures? The true fraud runs
rampant.
But today with the online flow of information as yet ungoverned
in this country, allopathy is looking around for something to change into. And
it’s coming soon to your town: Alternative Lite. Refer to that
chapter.
BOTTOM LINE?
Just remember this: holistic medicine
says the body can usually heal itself. Allopathic medicine says it can’t, and
requires powerful interventions. Allopathic is constantly posturing that it
“understands” the body well enough to chemically take control “for its own
good.” Unfortunately our disease statistics prove otherwise.
Seems like
a good idea then to try the least risky approach first, the one most likely to
enhance the body’s own delicate, finely-balanced healing processes. These should
lead the way, and should control the prioritization of treatment protocol. If
non-invasive, natural means fail, then and only then should allopathic methods
be used, with the obvious exception of emergency treatment for
trauma.
QUICK CURE VS. LIFESTYLE CHANGE
The illusion of
allopathy is that diseases are just drug deficiencies: menopause is an estrogen
deficiency, headache is an aspirin deficiency, diabetes is a fake insulin
deficiency, thyroid disease is a fake thyroid hormone deficiency, depression is
a Zoloft deficiency… We’ll diagnose your disease and give you the drug that
cures it. Many people want an immediate cure, and they’d rather not participate
in the process if at all possible, thank you. What they really want is something
to stop the annoying symptoms - the cough, the joint pain, the fatigue, the
bloating, the cancer - that at the same time will allow them to continue their
present course of self-abuse.
Allopathic medicine has no problem with
such a mindset.
Allopathic medicine is more than happy to reinforce the
notion of Don’t Worry About It, We’ll Take Care of Everything. Allopathy wants
people to abdicate responsibility for their own health. More compliant drug
customers. How many times have you heard your doctor tell one of your family not
to worry about a serious side effect of some drug or procedure, with the
reasoning that our “cure rates” for that side effect are “very good.” Go ahead
and eat whatever you want; diet has nothing to do with this disease… Uninformed
people buy this sales pitch every day.
The holistic cure is slower, less
dramatic, and unfortunately requires some effort on the part of the patient.
Since the holistic cure doesn’t chase symptoms, it’s really not over when the
patient “feels better.” Since the holistic cure is from the inside out - from
the nervous system and the blood on out - symptoms come and go day by day as the
body retraces its steps back to health. Some days the patient feels fine, other
days he may feel like hell - doesn’t really matter if it’s part of the healing
process. The difference is that it’s a lifestyle change. A mental paradigm shift
opens up the world of a hundred possible daily boosts to overall health, always
asking - how can I support the immune system, how can I reduce fatigue, how can
I maximize nerve flow, how can I build up my nutrient reserves, how can I
improve detoxification, how can I improve stamina... Everything the patient puts
in his mouth, everything he does is a health decision that takes these questions
into consideration. Finally the patient can say - OK, I’ve got it from here, and
takes back the wheel of the Bus. Until that line is crossed, the patient will
always be playing catch-up, by pretending to think that someone else can know
his own body better than he does.
Many people are getting tired of seeing
their parents die from the same diseases their grandparents died from.
They're turning in desperation to safer, more sensible, less
insurance-driven methods, such as homeopathy, perfect diet, acupuncture,
massage, chiropractic, chelation, colonic therapy, whole food supplements,
exercise, stress reduction, and blood detoxification. Many medical doctors are
incorporating holistic methods into their practices, as they see the obvious
failures of too many drugs.. The focus is on wellness, continually improving
health. In Chapter 5, Alternative Lite, you will see how some medical doctors
and the drug companies are trying to pretend like Alternative Medicine was their
idea all along, instead of jumping off the pharmaceutical Titanic, like they’re
doing now.
LET’S GET REAL
It’s amusing when
super-optimistic holistic people think that General Enlightenment is coming,
that soon everyone is going to be taking enzymes and antioxidants instead of
Prozac and Synthroid, and that those evil allopaths are going to see the error
of their ways and suddenly realize that health can only come from inside, not
outside the body: wow, sorry, you guys were right all along! How obtuse of us!
Here, you chiropractors and homeopaths, take charge of our hospitals!
And then will follow the great transformation to gentle, natural
methods, supplements, and procedures, replacing the $1.2 trillion
drugs-and-surgery show. And our health will skyrocket!
The truth is,
allopaths will never get it. They can’t get it. Why not? Simple: different
objectives. The objective of allopathy is not, never has been, and cannot be the
promotion of health as a normal condition. Allopathy cannot accept the idea that
the universal intelligence inside the body, which evolved our species from the
ocean, and developed every body system over countless millennia, that this
intelligence is wiser and more powerful than manmade chemicals. Chemicals which
are marketed by the merchants who control both law and
medicine.
Allopathy needs the merchants, and the merchants need
allopathy.
For a reality check, take a walk around your local hospital.
Look at all that concrete, all that glass, all those floors, all the cars in the
parking lot. Think how many hospitals are in your town. How many are in your
state, in the U.S.? This is a system that has to be fed, that will defend
itself. The financiers who run the whole allopathic setup are not predicting its
demise any time soon, just because a few people are realizing it doesn’t work.
They’ve had bigger problems than that before. The $1.2 trillion budget of 2000
is projected to be $2 trillion by the year 2010. The 3 billion Rx's
written this year will climb to 4 billion by 2004. (USA Today, 3
May 00)
So it’s not a question of the more sensible, effective,
humanistic model taking over. Never has been and never will be. Look how well
they hide statistics of 400,000 people per year killed - medicine kills way more
people every year than die of AIDS (43,000 in 1995, according to the CDC.) Or
from accidents. People don’t talk about that, and they rarely hear about it.
Health care will always be ruled by those who control the means of information,
the same people who are in a position to make the most money off the sale of
drugs. The New Age spirit is not going to throw off the yoke of pharmaceutical
economics. It’s way too big! Before the holistics get too festive about the $30
billion per year now spent for all alternative therapies combined, consider that
Americans spend $54 billion per year on soft drinks. - (Wall St.
Journal) Check out the 5-year chart for the symbol KO on the
NASDAQ.
Here’s what’s really going to happen, actually it’s already
happening: organized medicine must respond to the exploding popularity of
Alternative therapies. They’ve already started, and the message is loud and
clear: natural methods do work, we’ve always known that, and we have the best
natural medicines, which won’t interfere with your heart medication, your
estrogen, your allergy shots, or your antidepressants. Feel good naturally, and
safely! And consult your doctor.
Wow, I should write commercials! Point
is, the push to subsume Alternative Medicine is already in full operation.
Organized medicine will use the huge information machine at its disposal in
order to confuse, dilute, and obscure the basic principles of natural healing
methods, with the goal of trying to engulf Alternative Medicine into its own
sphere. I have tried to put some perspective on this phenomenon in the chapter
entitled Alternative Lite (HOME )
This is not to
say that the holistic movement isn’t growing. Of course it is. Chiropractic, the
third largest health care service, behind dentistry, now cares for about 10% of
the population, and shows consistent improvement in quality of life. Herb sales
alone account for $4 billion. Acupuncture is being incorporated into many major
medical plans. The real Alternative Medicine will do what it has always done:
convert people to a more holistic lifestyle, one by one, by sheer attrition.
Brick by brick.
Something founded on universal healing principles
appeals to people on a level outside and above the influence exerted by loud,
expensive, blatant advertising. People sense the truth of the holistic way:
nurture the body, encourage it, support its own wisdom, remove interference and
toxicity, and it will heal. Considering the comparative size and strength of the
two opposing forces, expanded awareness will continue to be a slow, uphill
progression, whose trajectory will depend on the ability of holistic teachers to
demonstrate universal principles of healing, growth, and life.
Some 300
years ago, the German philosopher Wilhelm Leibniz predicted all this. He
said there would be a scientific revolution, a long period of scientific
analysis and overspecialization in which “science” would be worshipped over all
else. No universal thinking would be considered. Then finally, Leibniz said, the
wheel would turn and there would be an awakening to a holistic view, and many of
the “scientific” approaches would be abandoned as barbaric and obsolete.
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