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"Fluoride, the most consumed drug in the USA, is deliberately
added to 2/3 of public water supplies theoretically to reduce
tooth decay, but with no scientifically-valid evidence proving
safety or effectiveness..."
By Dr. Domenick J. Maglio
"Most Americans are too busy in their daily lives to face the obvious: we are a
society dependent on drugs. We fought only half the war on drugs. 'Just Say No'
should have targeted not only street drugs but all detrimental drugs including prescription ones..."
Welcome to the town of Allopath
This brief and entertaining animated presentation by
raises very serious concerns about how allopathic medical approaches to
illness often confound causes with effects or strain to blame disease on
inexplicably pathogenic microbes, a problem apparent with the HIV causation
theory of AIDS.
He's in the lead of a drive to curtail effects of industry freebies
How one doctor stands up to the drug industry, described here
as a "well-oiled marketing machine" that spends about
$7.2-billion a year wooing doctors with gifts and another
$18-billion on free sample drug give aways.
From "The Deniers" series by Lawrence Solomon
"...Most of my interviewees either discount or disparage the
conventional
wisdom... many say their peers generally consider it to have
little or no
credibility. In one case, a top scientist told me that, to
his knowledge, no
respected scientist in his field accepts the [official]
position."
By Liam Scheff
When Dr. Fishbein first arrived at the NIH, his
attention was on an African
drug trial completed in 1999, called HIVNET 012 — a
study of the drug
Nevirapine in pregnant women in Uganda. Fishbein
learned that the study was
deeply flawed, the drug dangerous, and the results had
been covered-up. But
all of this was an open secret. The flaws were common
knowledge inside the
division when I arrived, Fishbein said. So why hadn't
they been corrected?
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By Alan Cassels
"After 12 years of conducting research in and around
the pharmaceutical
industry, I have developed a single, compelling
hypothesis. Orthodox
medicine, which is supported by, partnered with and
sometimes dependent upon
the pharmaceutical industry, has worked to squash the
competition and
effectively deprive us of alternatives to prescription
drugs primarily
vitamins and herbal treatments and other potentially
useful treatments."
By Richard Smith
"Medical journals have devolved into information
laundering operations for
the pharmaceutical industry," according to Richard
Horton, editor of the
Lancet. Marcia Angell, former editor of the New
England Journal of Medicine,
lambasted the industry for becoming "primarily a
marketing machine" and
co-opting "every institution that might stand in its
way." Jerry Kassirer,
another former editor of the New England Journal of
Medicine, argues that
the industry has deflected the moral compasses of many
physicians and that
there is a "cycle of dependency…between journals and
the pharmaceutical
industry."
By Frank Furedi
"The charge of denial has become a secular form of
blasphemy ... The heretic
is condemned because he has dared to question an authority
that must never
be questioned. Here, ‘overwhelming evidence’ serves as the
equivalent of
revealed religious truth, and those who question 'scientists
of unquestioned
reputation' — that is, the new priestly caste — are guilty
of
blasphemy ... 'Denial' has become part of a secular
inquisition that
stigmatizes free thinking."
By Lorne Gunter,
"Since 2003, the upper layer of the Atlantic has lost 25% of
the extra heat
it had built up in the past three decades..The broad
consensus among solar
scientists is that the Earth's warming is almost entirely
explicable by
increased solar activity that began about 100 years ago, and
which will end
around 2020…But these inconvenient truths would be bad for
the cause..."
A new mental health surveillance test with close to 90%
false positive
results is currently recommended for use among all American
children by the
US government. Backed and promoted by pharmaceutical
companies and
questioned by liberals and conservatives alike, the tests
come under fire in
two articles from opposite ends of the political spectrum
that both reach
the same conclusion: tests are a drug industry dream come
true and a public
health nightmare. See a mini-documentary on the Teen Screen
Controversy at
YouTube.
The LA Times reports on the contraidictory activities of the
Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation which has more than $60 billion at its
disposal, an amount
higher than the gross domestic products of 70 percent of the
world's
nations. The Gates Foundation invests millions of dollars in
corporations
which pollute the same areas of Africa that are targeted for
vaccines and
medicines made by companies that Gates also funds.
By Joe Rojas-Burke
"Years ago, Dr John Epley took aim at a medical curse that
has disabled
millions of people and defied treatment. He came up with a
cure that was
astonishingly simple. No surgery. No pills. Now, think:
Would his colleagues
cheer his stroke of ingenuity by spreading the news — and
practice — of
the treatment to relieve suffering? No. Inexplicably, they
rejected him,
ridiculed him, heaved accusations that threatened his
license to practice
medicine..."
By Evelyn Pringle
To date, Lilly has agreed to pay about $1.2 billion to settle claims with
roughly 26,000 litigants who alleged among other things, that Eli Lilly
company promoted the sale of Zyprexa for off-label uses and concealed the
health risks associated with the drug. A lawsuit filed on behalf of private
health insurers accuses Lilly of violating racketeering laws, in part, by
bankrolling nonprofit groups to promote Zyprexa for unapproved uses and to
downplay the medicine's side effects.
By Evelyn Pringle
According to the non-profit human righs organization
MindFreedom, executives
at the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly hid dangerous adverse
effects of the
drug Zyprexa from the public. Further, they charge that Eli
Lilly company
knew about adverse effects caused by Zyprexa for a decade
but kept the
information secret engaging in "criminal behavior" and
demonstrating a
"willingness to kill people for profit."
By H. Gilbert Welch, Lisa Schwartz and Steven Woloshin
According to the three doctors who authored this 2007 New
York Times essay,
"for most Americans, the biggest health threat is not avian
flu, West Nile
or mad cow disease. It’s our health-care system...The larger
threat posed by
American medicine is that more and more of us are being
drawn into the
system not because of an epidemic of disease, but because of
an epidemic of
diagnoses."
By Michael Fumento
"As the weather turns colder in the northern hemisphere and the flu
starts
making its annual rounds, the media and their anointed health experts
are
chirping and squawking once again about how we could be blindsided by
pandemic that some have estimated could kill a billion persons
worldwide. A
year ago, I clucked at all this, laying out the evidence that the
alarmists
were wrong, that avian influenza would not become readily
transmissible from
human to human and therefore not become a global epidemic..."
By Richard Shears
In this report from the UK, scientists accuse major pharmaceutical
firms of
inventing new diseases and "medicalizing" problems like high
cholesterol or
the symptoms of the menopause in a bid to sell more products.
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