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Group of doctors accuses drug companies of inventing fictitious diseases to sell more prescription drugs Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The drug companies are inventing so many fictitious diseases that they should hire their own intellectual property attorneys and seek patents on those diseases. Imagine if you owned the patent for diabetes... you could charge royalties for any person in the country who was diagnosed with the disease. Or, if you owned the patent for cancer, you could reap a fortune by charging patients $5 or $10 a month just to have cancer. After all, when cancer cells divide, they are replicating the gene sequence of a cancer cell.

There are lots of drugs readily available for DD, just as there are for other fictitious diseases like social anxiety disorder or fear of public speaking. Is there really a person alive who isn't afraid of public speaking in the first place? This isn't a brain chemistry disorder. This is a Big Pharma con game of redefining natural emotions as being 'brain chemistry imbalances'. And that's one of the many games played by Big Pharma. They redefine normalcy as illness, and once they give it a disease name, suddenly everybody's taking prescription drugs for it.

Incessant disease mongering turns Americans into profit-generating guinea pigs for Big Pharma (opinion) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Back in 2005, I even made up my own list of fictitious diseases, including Obsessive Hosiery Dislocation Disorder (i.e. losing your socks in the laundry). Click here to read my full list of fictitious diseases. A nation of hypochondriacs The bottom line in all this? Drug advertising has turned America into a nation of hypochondriacs. By simply inventing some disease name, then getting easy FDA approval for a drug to "treat" it, drug companies can create a billion-dollar market where none existed previously.

Health guru launches online Disease Mongering Engine that instantly generates hilarious fictitious disease names Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The engine, created by author and natural health guru Mike Adams, is intended as a parody of conventional medicine and the over-diagnosis of Americans with fictitious diseases. "Drug companies actually invent fictitious diseases, then profit by selling drugs to treat those fictitious conditions," Adams explained. By using an online software engine to generate disease names and descriptions that seem real, Adams hopes to demonstrate that just because a disease name sounds real doesn't mean it is.

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The invention and marketing of fictitious diseases via television advertising has proven instrumental to the drug industry's successful pushing of medically unjustified drugs onto consumers. (See the Disease Mongering Engine to invent your own fictitious diseases and disorders right now!) The survey further revealed 54 percent of consumers think that viewing drug advertisements allows them to "take charge of their health care." The survey did not, however, reveal whether these people were in fact suffering from deterimental cognitive side effects at the moment they were taking the survey.

Health guru launches online Disease Mongering Engine that instantly generates hilarious fictitious disease names Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Drug companies actually invent fictitious diseases, then profit by selling drugs to treat those fictitious conditions," Adams explained. By using an online software engine to generate disease names and descriptions that seem real, Adams hopes to demonstrate that just because a disease name sounds real doesn't mean it is. The Disease Mongering Engine can generate more than 73,000 unique disorders, syndromes and dysfunctions.

Group of doctors accuses drug companies of inventing fictitious diseases to sell more prescription drugs Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It's being called 'disease mongering' and the college explains that pharmaceutical companies are taking the National Health Service to the brink of collapse by hyping both these diseases and the assortment of prescription drugs used to treat their symptoms. The diseases named by the college as being over-hyped include hypertension, osteoporosis, high cholesterol, anxiety and clinical depression. The college says that these diseases are inappropriately treated with drugs and that many of the physicians prescribing such drugs have financial ties with the pharmaceutical companies.

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Other fictitious diseases include high cholesterol (it's not a disease, it's just a symptom), hypertension (also not a disease, but rather a symptom), and even osteoporosis (not a disease, just fragile bones caused by dietary and lifestyle habits that can be easily reversed). Diseasification - The process of spreading the fictitious diseases through the population. This is how drug companies get rich: by manufacturing disease and convincing people they now suddenly suffer from it. See "Spontaneous Mass Diagnosis," below.

The quackery of modern medicine (opinion) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Heart disease rates continue to rise, diabetes is now an epidemic, and yet the drug companies, mass media and FDA increasingly promote new fictitious diseases in the hopes that they can sell even more dangerous prescription medications to people who actually don't need them. Now here's the funny part in all this: Desperate defenders of conventional medicine -- with all its toxic chemicals, drug-induced deaths and fraudulent science -- have the gall to call natural medicine "quackery.

Health guru launches online Disease Mongering Engine that instantly generates hilarious fictitious disease names Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

See the cartoon at http://www.newstarget.com/021665.html Some of the diseases created by the Disease Mongering Engine include Pathological Nervous Anticipation Disorder (PNAD), Hypoactive Disorganized Stress Syndrome (HDSS) and Delusional Antisocial Personality Syndrome (DAPS). To generate more fictitious diseases, visit: www.NewsTarget.com/Disease-Mongering-Engine.asp About the source: NewsTarget.com is one of the most popular independent natural health news sources on the web.

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The mass drugging of children for fictitious diseases, for example, seems to be okay with such skeptics, who are too busy bashing homeopathy and acupuncture to take an honest, critical look at the junk science behind prescription drugs, it seems. Ultimately, these so-called quack-busting skeptics only question certain selected topics.

The hoax of modern medicine: Seven facts you need to know Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

An estimated 30 percent of all traffic accidents are now caused by people on medication, and yet the drug companies are pushing even more drugs for yet more fictitious diseases -- because, you know, there's always a way to add yet one more pill to the daily chemical intake, right? Over the last ten years alone, there has been a forty-fold increase in the number of children being diagnosed with bipolar disorder. That's a 4000% rise in the number of children with this so-called "disease." Gee, why isn't the CDC involved?

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Drug companies are now among the richest corporations in the world, and they got there by inventing fictitious diseases, then selling drugs to people who mostly don't need them. See my CounterThink cartoon, Disease Mongers, Inc. to learn more about this topic. Meanwhile, the American people are the most diseased people in the world among advanced nations. We spend more on health care than anyone, we pay the highest prices for medications, and we're constantly told that we have the best medical technology in the world.

Incessant disease mongering turns Americans into profit-generating guinea pigs for Big Pharma (opinion) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

People need to start taking responsibility for their own behavior and stop blaming fictitious diseases (or bad genes) when things don't work out the way they want. Secondly, we've got to end the ridiculous practice of direct-to-consumer drug advertising. There is absolutely no justifiable reason why prescription drugs should be marketed directly to patients on television. It is only allowed because it is profitable, not because it serves any scientifically justifiable function in society.

Click here to read my full list of fictitious diseases. A nation of hypochondriacs The bottom line in all this? Drug advertising has turned America into a nation of hypochondriacs. By simply inventing some disease name, then getting easy FDA approval for a drug to "treat" it, drug companies can create a billion-dollar market where none existed previously. All they have to do is convince everyone they're sick or diseased, and given the complete lack of medical skepticism among consumers, doctors and regulators these days, that's frighteningly easy.

Simply visit my Disease Mongering Engine and you can get filthy rich inventing your own fictitious diseases starting right now! I'm not the only one who has come up with hilarious ways to make fun of disease mongering by the drug industry. Justine Cooper created an entire website dedicated to a fictitious disease and a fake drug for treating it. The site, www.Havidol.com, claims to be a patient education site for Dysphoric Social Attention Consumption Deficit Anxiety Disorder, or DSCDAD for short.

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It was legalized in 1998 by the FDA, following political pressure and influence from the drug companies who knew that being able to promote fictitious diseases and push brand-name drugs would result in windfall profits. (Some drugs are sold at markups as high as 300,000% over the cost of their ingredients.) The makers of Vioxx and Paxil had studies that indicated safety problems for years, but did not release those results to the public.

Kevin Miller's New "Generation Rx" Documentary Exposes Mass Betrayal of Children by FDA, Big Pharma Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Even the psychiatric scientists who voted these fictitious diseases (like "ADHD") into existence have no idea what they really are. At one point in Generation Rx, a psychiatrist is asked to offer a clear definition of ADHD. His answer? A 45-second fumbling of words, hesitations and stammering nonsense of such stupidity that it makes you wonder if the psychiatrist is, himself, on crack! Nowhere in his answer does he offer anything resembling rational thought. Generation Rx is full of shocking little gems like this.

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You will see how this industry exploits children and cripples them mentally for the rest of their lives just so that it can sell drugs for fictitious diseases like Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). You will witness the corruption, fraud, and bribery that take place every day in this industry where drug companies routinely buy off doctors, as long as those doctors continue to push prescription drugs onto patients who generally don't need them—and will most likely be harmed by them.

Introducing nine new made-up diseases for drug companies to exploit with mind-altering drugs (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

REPPED: As the drug companies are running out of real diseases to boost their pharmaceutical sales, they're increasingly inventing new, fictitious diseases in order to scare people into thinking they have some sort of disorder or dysfunction. Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is perhaps the best known fictitious disease invented to sell psychotropic drugs, but there are many other made-up diseases such as General Anxiety Disorder (GAD).

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That means marketing products, inventing fictitious diseases and making sure that patients get on a lifetime regimen of artificial synthetic chemicals sold at outrageous prices. And it all comes back to the suit. I think the suit is a symbol of greed, capitalism and disconnection with humanity. It's also a symbol of a disconnect with the self, because by wearing a suit, we take on a business personality. You suppress your heart and your intuition, and you rely on, project and expose only your intellect. And that's too bad, but that's the way society operates today.

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Explanation: drug companies frequently invent new, fictitious diseases, and then try to sell you drugs to treat those made-up afflictions. Examples include ADHD, FSD (female sexual dysfunction), General Anxiety Disorder, and other made-up diseases that have no purpose other than selling drugs. Essentially, Big Pharma wants to define everyone as diseased in some way, and then convince people they need a lifetime of prescription drugs to "manage" those diseases. From the moment you're born, the drug companies say, you're already diseased. 12.

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Help those around you gain the knowledge to prevent these fictitious diseases, and do your part to stop poisoning your body with cancer-causing foods (like processed meats and most manufactured foods) and substances (like popular personal care products that contain cancer-causing fragrance chemicals). If you want to find the cure for cancer, just BE the cure for cancer. Go outside and get some sunlight. That's prevention for at least three different types of cancers right there. Drink some water. Take some herbs, vitamins and immune-boosting nutritional supplements.

Helping people with symptoms None of this talk, by the way, means I don't think we should be helping people with the symptoms of these fictitious diseases. When a person has been diagnosed with cancer, their experience of that cancer is very real, even if the labeling of their disease isn't. I'm a strong proponent of helping patients heal and, more importantly, giving them back the power to heal themselves. I've spent time volunteering in nursing homes and senior centers. I've conducted energy healing on numerous people.

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Therefore, the idea that you can cure or reverse these fictitious diseases is invalid at its very premise. Cancer is no infectious disease The idea that you can reverse cancer by taking a synthetic chemical compound or prescription drug is, at its very core, nonsense. Because there is no such infectious disease as "cancer," there is no microbial invader. In fact, there isn't even a tissue or a physical element that you can point to and look at under a microscope and say, "That is cancer." Some people mistakenly say, "Well, sure you can.

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They actually invent fictitious diseases, things like 'fear of public speaking' or what they call 'social anxiety disorder' in order to create a market for synthetic chemicals that they try to convince people to take for a lifetime. And the amount of harm that's done by these drugs is immeasurable. And yet it's all done in the name of profit. The bottom line is that the impulse to steal from others for your own personal gain is, sadly, hardwired into human behavior.

Big Pharma scare tactics: How the pharmaceutical industry influences American consumers Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

I think that's why you see such a strong push to convince people they have to buy prescription drugs here in the United States at ridiculous prices to treat fictitious diseases that don't even exist, and then stay on those drugs for a lifetime. The report that the pharmaceutical lobby tried to fund a fiction novel designed to scare Americans away from buying drugs from Canada doesn't surprise me. I think this industry would do anything to make more money. I think it would put people's lives at risk, and I think it has done this and will continue to do so.

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It is an outdated system of medicine based on the invention of completely fictitious diseases for the sole purpose of marketing high-profit drugs to people who don't need them. This isn't to say that there aren't useful drugs in the industry. Insulin is clearly very important for type 1 diabetics (and many acute type 2 diabetics also). Antibiotics can be lifesavers, and even statin drugs can temporarily address acute, dangerous cholesterol levels that could cause a sudden heart attack.

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