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 Drug-pushing medical journals
Drug company advertising brings in hundreds of millions of dollars a year that fund these medical journals and pay the salaries of the editors who determine which studies the journal will and won't accept. So guess what gets into the journals? That's right -- the studies that promote prescription drugs. The benefits of these drugs are routinely exaggerated and the risks are routinely minimized.
When something goes wrong with the drug and it starts killing tens of thousands of Americans, guess what? They convene a decision panel. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The only truly honest, independent, peer-reviewed medical journal operating today is PLoS Medicine, an open-source journal that takes no money from drug companies. Notice that the autism/mercury link study did not appear in PLoS Medicine? No, it had to be published with a home field advantage in a pro-drug publication that maintains a strong bias in favor of pharmaceuticals and chemicals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Pizzorno: Two years ago I became the editor of a new journal called Integrative Medicine, A Clinician's journal, and what I've done with this journal is create a resource for clinicians, although it can also be read by the educated layperson, and on my board, my editorial board, I have medical doctors, I have naturopathic doctors, I have chiropractors, I have PhDs, I have people from acupuncture, people from nutrition -- basically I'm bringing people from all of the healing arts together to talk about how we can work collaboratively together in the best interests of our patients. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The only truly honest, independent, peer-reviewed medical journal operating today is PLoS Medicine, an open-source journal that takes no money from drug companies. Notice that the autism/mercury link study did not appear in PLoS Medicine? No, it had to be published with a home field advantage in a pro-drug publication that maintains a strong bias in favor of pharmaceuticals and chemicals. |
| REPPED: While the mainstream press is widely reporting a new study "disproving" any link between autism and mercury-containing thimerosal in vaccines, no one has bothered to point out that the study was published in a medical journal stacked full of ads from the very same drug companies that manufacture and market vaccines. |
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| Write-ups of those practices are then distributed to physicians around the country who follow the procedures. The journal Nature has revealed that 70 percent of these panels are rigged with decision-makers who have conflicts of interest.
Conventional medicine tries to say this is all evidence-based. They say you should trust all this information because doctors are trained in medical school and their studies are published in peer-reviewed journals. |
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| From the outset, the fact that this study appears in a pro-drug, pro-psychiatry journal should bring pause to any scientific-minded person. There is obviously a serious conflict of interest here, especially if this study is to be taken as "fact" and applied to public health policy. There also need to be a close look at any financial links between the researchers involved in this study and various vaccine manufacturers, as virtually all pro-drug "science" (if you can call it that) being published these days is influenced by Big Pharma money. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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 Many of the studies have been published in impressive journals, such as the journal of Conflict Resolution, the journal of Mind and Behavior, and Social Indicators Research, which means that they would have had to meet stringent reviewing procedures. A recent study, the National Demonstration Project in Washington DC, conducted over two months in 1993, showed that when the local Super Radiance group increased to 4000, violent crime, which had been steadily increasing during the first five months of the year, began to fall, to 24 per cent, and continued to drop until the end of the experiment. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Mike: And then your journal, on the other hand, kind of balances the scale by showing where it works together.
Dr. Pizzorno: Yes, and where it doesn't work together, so we pay just as much attention to drug/herb/nutrient interactions where you have adverse effects. We want to give people good quality, objective, unbiased information about how to practice better medicine, and in many ways, I don't care what you call it, because I think there's a lot of wisdom out there. I think we all have to use the best wisdom available. |
| Pizzorno: Well, I think that's a wonderful trend to see, because I think that indeed there's a lot of negative information and adverse outcomes information on the drugs that has not been properly presented to the clinicians. Our journal doesn't do much original research. We're more interested in integrated protocols, where clinicians have thought through how to do things, and then show how those, how they work, either through controlled studies or through anecdotal reports of patients. So we're not doing basic drug research, and we don't even have, for example, articles on single herbs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You see this in journals like the journal of Clinical Nutrition or College Nutrition. Look at who funds them: The Monsanto Company, and they used to be sponsored by G.D. Searle. They're not going to want to put articles in their journal that will infuriate their primary source of income. Even medical and nutrition journals are controlled by these people.
Mike: It's the unholy alliance between the scientific community and big business.
Dr. Blaylock: Right. Another big scandal concerning the research is something new we found. |
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| REPPED: The journal Nature has published studies showing that 70 percent of the drug decision panels run in this country are rigged with decision-makers who have strong financial ties to the very drug companies whose products are affected by these decisions.
So much for evidence-based medicine. Drug approval decisions have little to do with evidence and everything to do with materialistic greed and cold, hard cash. That cash is doled out to decision-makers in the form of research grants, consulting fees and outright bribes. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 Downloads page, and click on Success journal. In chapter 10, we provide the instructions for keeping your journal.
The following exercises are designed to help you learn how to adopt healthier attitudes. They will provide the foundation for building your increased self-esteem, and your personal journal will serve as a testimony to your success.
EXERCISE #1: CREATING A POSITIVE
GOAL STATEMENT
Learning to set goals in a way that results in a positive experience is critical to your success. |
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| So, one of the key elements of our journal is integrated care protocol. So we'll look at a condition like diabetes, for example, and look at when you use, say, the herbs, when you use the nutrients, when you use the drugs, how the drugs and herbs interact with each other, and provide an integrated care profile so that we can provide the best quality care for our patients. |
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 The American journals really don't like to pick on the dairy industry, and reject many of these articles, but we find, there's a really great journal, one of the world's respected journals, called the Lancet, the British journal. And the Lancet, June 4, 1994, I believe it was, they published a study on sudden infant death syndrome showing that the lung tissue in the cells shows bronchial inflammation similar to asthma from dairy proteins. So children are having their last meal before they die, and what it is, is a bottle of cow's milk formula. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 Peter Lemon of the University of Western Ontario in the journal of the American College of Nutrition suggests that people who are physically active may require 1.6 grams per kilogram, or about twice as much protein a day to meet metabolic needs than was previously thought. After studying bone metabolism in elderly women, Dr. Jane Kerstetter of the University of Connecticut says in the American journal of Clinical Nutrition that healthy women need an average of 1.2 grams per kilogram per day, or 0.55 gram per pound of body weight of protein per day to maintain bone mass. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 The echinacea study, which was reported in a major American medical journal, the New England journal of Medicine, was particularly thorough. People may continue buying echinacea, but, if it works, it does so because of their belief in its efficacy rather than because it has a specific antiviral effect.
Nutraceuticals
Echinacea is an example of a nutraceutical, a class of food-based chemicals that are thought to have an effect on health. |
| A recent editorial in the British journal of Psychiatry, a major journal in its field, calls for abolishing the SD diagnosis and using a term such as "medically unexplained illness" instead. But we'll see how long it takes doctors to come around to this view.
Rather than calling medically unexplained symptoms "nothing wrong," a more rational approach has been to try to come up with clinical case definitions of these disorders; that way, researchers can identify groups of patients to study and apply scientific reasoning (not just opinion) to solve their cases. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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| In chapter 10, we provide the instructions for keeping your journal.
The following exercises are designed to help you learn how to adopt healthier attitudes. They will provide the foundation for building your increased self-esteem, and your personal journal will serve as a testimony to your success.
EXERCISE #1: CREATING A POSITIVE
GOAL STATEMENT
Learning to set goals in a way that results in a positive experience is critical to your success. The following guidelines can be used to set any goal, whether short or long term, including your desired weight. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The American journals really don't like to pick on the dairy industry, and reject many of these articles, but we find, there's a really great journal, one of the world's respected journals, called the Lancet, the British journal. And the Lancet, June 4, 1994, I believe it was, they published a study on sudden infant death syndrome showing that the lung tissue in the cells shows bronchial inflammation similar to asthma from dairy proteins. So children are having their last meal before they die, and what it is, is a bottle of cow's milk formula. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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| Downloads page and click on Success journal. Here are the instructions for keeping your journal.
Each morning fill in the date, write out your goal statement, and sign your commitment to this goal. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The journal of the American Medical Association accepted money from tobacco companies for many years while it ran their full-page advertisements in the journal. |
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 The same year, Chesterfield began running ads in the New York State journal of Medicine, with the claim that its cigarettes were "Just as pure as the water you drink... and practically untouched by human hands."
In medical journals and in the popular media, one of the most infamous cigarette advertising slogans was associated with the Camel brand: "More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette." The campaign began in 1946 and ran for eight years in magazines and on the radio. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The study, entitled "Lifespan Exposure to Low Doses of Aspartame Beginning During Prenatal Life Increases Cancer Effects in Rats" has been accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), the most widely-read environmental science journal in the world.
This is the second study conducted by the Ramizzini Foundation documenting the cancer-causing effects of aspartame in animals. Most sane people, when faced with such evidence, would ask the obvious questions: Could aspartame also cause cancer in humans? |
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| JAMA kicks off two decades of cigarette advertising
The journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published its first cigarette advertisement in 1933, stating that it had done so only "after careful consideration of the extent to which cigarettes were used by physicians in practice." These advertisements continued for 20 years. The same year, Chesterfield began running ads in the New York State journal of Medicine, with the claim that its cigarettes were "Just as pure as the water you drink... and practically untouched by human hands. |
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