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I wanted to publish a personal thank you to all the readers and supporters who have read and responded to this week's articles on health freedom, the FDA, the covert attacks on NaturalNews and natural medicine in general. You are a sharp group of thoughtful, skeptical readers, and the comments you've posted are almost universally right on the money. I wish I had time to personally answer them all.
But I don't. So instead, I'm posting some follow up clarifications and comments in the hope of answering some of the more common questions we've been receiving here at NaturalNews.
By far, the most questions have been asked about my mention of Scientology as being a target of FDA raids. Some readers have railed against Scientology, and others have even said I was "endorsing" Scientology by merely mentioning them in the article detailing various FDA raids. Let me be clear here: Scientology was included in the article for the simple reason that they were raided by the FDA. If the FDA had broken down the doors of a building belonging to the Nation of Islam (or any church / organization), I would have mentioned the Nation of Islam instead. And the idea that my mentioning of any organization is somehow an endorsement of that organization is utterly illogical and has no basis in reality.
I do not selectively censor the mentioning of any particular church, self-help group or political organization simply based on their current popularity or level of conformity with the beliefs of mainstream America. My purpose in the article was to document FDA raids, and since the FDA chose to target Scientology, that's what got included in the story. I have no intention of endorsing, debating or debunking anything whatsoever about Scientology. In fact, I know almost nothing about the organization other than the fact that I strongly agree with its position against modern psychiatry, as pursued by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (www.CCHR.org)
On issues of religion, I happen to believe in genuine Freedom of Religion, and that means there's room in my belief system for other people to practice whatever kind of religion they want, even if it's eccentric or unpopular. I also believe in personal liberty, meaning that I respect individuals' rights to determine in their own personal way whatever system of belief serves them best.
Remember: If you don't believe in freedom of religion for OTHER people's religions, then you don't believe in it at all. My beliefs intersect with many religions and religious figures. For example, I am an avid reader of the Dalai Lama's books and consider his investigations into the workings of the mind to be fascinating from both a scientific and spiritual viewpoint.
Health freedom movement?Next question: Many readers have correctly pointed out that there is a tremendous amount of disagreement in the so-called "health freedom movement" about the FDA's new CAM Guidelines. Some people say they're no big deal and there's nothing to get worried about. Others, like me, say they're of serious concern. What's up with this? Why the disagreement?
The truth is there's no such thing as any organized health freedom movement. Anybody can call themselves a member of the health freedom movement simply by stating so. And it is a well-known fact in health freedom circles that one out of every two people who say they belong to the health freedom movement are actually on the payroll of either the pharmaceutical companies or the U.S. government and acting with the intention of creating chaos, noise and confusion by getting the real people in the health freedom movement to turn on each other.
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