Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Guess which five will show up in a published peer-reviewed article in the medical journals? They also don't tell you about the influence of medical journals themselves.
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. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 In medical journals?" Ingrid asked. "I've seen glutathione in natural-food stores for years—in capsules of course. Supposed to be a powerful antioxidant, isn't it? And it's in medical journals?"
"More and more natural-treatment research is appearing in major medical journals. Universities seem to be trying to make up for all the time they've lost since the 1940s—time spent ignoring or criticizing natural medicine."
"No apologies for that, are there?" Ingrid noted.
"No, and no credit given either—but back to Mr. Jangaard. Please check with Dr. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 To organized medicine, in order for something to be proven true, it has to be published in its pharmaceutically motivated medical journals. Information must pass through the gatekeepers of its alternate universe. The gatekeepers are, of course, the heads of the American Medical Association and American Heart Association and people who decide what gets printed in medical journals. Meanwhile, the only organizations that can afford to conduct studies that are considered valid are the highly profitable drug companies. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 It's worth explaining what this means, since you're liable to see many references, in ads for prescription drugs and in medical journals, to drug trials of this kind. Sick people tend to feel better when receiving treatment of any kind. A century or more ago, medical researchers learned that giving patients even a sugar pill—one that looks identical to the drug being tested but has no real effect— could make some patients feel better. So in order to figure out how effective a new drug is in reducing symptoms, researchers compare its effect against that of a placebo: a sugar pill. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Nevertheless, from the articles and editorials that appear in medical journals, doctors should know that the once-revered publications have been cannibalized by the pharmaceutical corporations. If a doctor bases his treatment recommendations on material from suspect sources, isn't he compromising more than his integrity? How about his patients' lives?
In a 2003 article in The Observer, Antony Burnett, the public affairs editor, claims that many medical journal articles supposedly written by well-known academics or doctors have in fact been "ghostwritten" by pharmaceutical companies. |
Ray D. Strand
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 Right Stuff-Wrong Era
McCully reported his homocysteine theory in several medical journals in the late sixties and early seventies and was initially welcomed with great enthusiasm. Dr. Benjamin Castle, the chief of his department, fully supported Dr. McCully and showcased his work to a prestigious panel of experts. But by the mid-seventies, the homocysteine theory had lost most of its momentum.
Dr. Castle retired, and the new chief of the department asked Dr. McCully to seek his own research funding or to leave. His lab was moved into the basement. |
| Instead, I have painstakingly researched mainstream, credible medical journals that the medical community greatly respects, such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, British Lancet, and many others.
Another reason doctors haven't accepted the nutritional supplement idea as good preventive medicine is that most practicing physicians don't fully understand the cause of degenerative diseases. |
| Marco Diaz made an impressive review of all of the studies that had appeared in mainline medical journals since Dr. Steinberg had first presented his theory. Diaz concluded that patients with the highest levels of antioxidants in their bodies indeed had the least amount of coronary artery disease.5
Animal studies done during this time also supported Dr. Steinberg's theory." Antioxidants and their supporting nutrients have become the new hope in the war against our number-one killer: heart disease. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| If a doctor is enterprising enough to "research" the pros and cons of any drug pushed at him by a pharmaceutical rep, he can find supporting information in most medical journals. These journals not only accept corporate advertising dollars, but regularly contain ghostwritten and/or bought-and-paid-for research articles that tout the merits of the latest and greatest offerings from the world of pharmaceuticals.
When Congress approved direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceutical products, they subverted the time-proven doctor-patient relationship. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 At first, pharmaceutical companies stepped up advertising, some of which ran for four pages, in the medical journals and weekly magazines sent to doctors' offices. Soon, such ads constituted the medical journals' major source of funding, and while they continue to deny it, publishers are influenced by the pharmaceutical industry in choosing which articles to print. |
Anne Harrington
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 Photographs of "hypnotizable hysterics" in various poses and states began to fill the medical journals, and Charcot himself became famous for his public demonstrations of these states and poses, executed with great showmanship before audiences of students, colleagues, and select members of the general public.
Later, critics would rather cruelly—but with some justice—compare Charcot's public lectures to the stage performances of the lay magnetiz-ers Charcot and his colleagues had taken to condemning as dangerous amateurs. |
| I remember sitting in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, books and old medical journals piled up on the table before me, and thinking, "I have no idea what to do, because it is clear that the understandings of hypnosis are not just changing over time. The mental and physiological experience of hypnosis—what it is—is changing too; and changing in ways that clearly reflect changing social expectations and mores." Eighteenth-century patients of Anton Mesmer felt animal magnetism shooting through their bodies; patients of J. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Secondly, a team of many part-time researchers helped me review dozens, if not hundreds, of medical studies, most of which were recent and all of which were published in respected peer-reviewed medical journals. In the critical, initial stages of my research for SUGAR SHOCK!, the industrious, thorough, dedicated Mary Kittel (1969-2004) helped spearhead my research efforts. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Since 1997, Harley and James have published numerous other studies in top medical journals that continue to affirm their conclusions about Epstein-Barr. And in the fall of 2006, Harley was given the first ever Excellence in Scientific Mentoring Award by the American College of Rheumatology for his achievements in helping young researchers, like Judi James, to make their mark resolving cutting-edge research questions such as this one. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 The major medical journals regularly publish letters from practitioners that semihumorously document disabilities such as espresso machine operator's arm or video game player's finger.
In fact, applying catchy syndrome names to cumulative trauma disorders represents a long-standing medical tradition. In much of this sport of disease naming, an underlying theme of social role and class distinction is far from subtle.38
New vocations linked to changing technologies have always provided the most popular monikers. |
Devra Davis
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 Walton reviewed 165 separate studies published in medical journals over a twenty-year period. All of the studies that found aspartame safe happened to be sponsored by industry. Every single one that questioned its safety was produced by scientists without industry ties.
The Ecologist quotes the Bressler report directly:
The question you have got to ask yourself is: why wasn't greater care taken? |
| In the 1930s and 1940s, leading medical journals in Germany and a number of other industrializing countries frequently warned about the dangers of food preservatives, industrial toxins and coal-tar based artificial colorings while arguing for "natural" products to be employed in drugs, cosmetics and foods.68
Just outside of Munich, the lovely suburb of Dachau in 1933 was the site of the world's first concentration camp. News of its creation that year made the front page of the New York Times, where it was depicted as a place for political prisoners and degenerates. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| The far-reaching problems sugar can cause are well documented in medical journals throughout the world, and new sugar-disease connections are made each year."
Clearing the Carb Confusion: The Pitfalls df Processed Carbs and the Benefits df Quality Carbs
If you're like many Americans, you're probably confused when it comes to the subject of carbohydrates. It's time to give you the skinny on these much-talked-about but often-misunderstood foods so you'll understand why and how to pick "smart" carbs.
Most important, you need to know that carbohydrates fall into two categories. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 Traditionally, case histories written by doctors, published in medical journals, provided the incentive for other physicians to test new ideas. Eventually, when a consensus developed, a new treatment became incorporated into the practice of medicine. During the past 50 years, however, the medical profession, in its attempt to become more scientific, began to doubt and, eventually, to dismiss anecdotes as valueless. Today, they are not considered scientific. Judgment based upon testing the validity of anecdotes has been replaced by a reliance on statistics. As a consequence, P |
Roberta Bivins
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 Harriet Martineau, a noted author, traveller, political essayist, and in the later years of her life, invalid and mesmerism enthusiast, reflected in her controversial Letters on Mesmerism:
The systematic disingenuousness of some medical journals on this subject, and the far-fetched calumnies and offensive assumptions with which it is the regular practice of a large number of the Faculty to assail every case of cure or relief by Mesmerism, looked very much as if they were in conflict with a powerful truth, and as if they knew it. |
| Both types of account circulated widely, aided by the then-common practice in European and American medical journals of reprinting 'digests' of each other's more prominent articles. Perhaps even more effective in spreading information about the 'new' technique were the enthusiastic accounts of foreign medical students in Paris. Such first-hand descriptions of near-miraculous cures engaged personal as well as social networks, and helped to transmit the hands-on practice of acupuncture. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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| At the same time, the consequences of ignoring our positive nutrient dependencies go largely undiscussed, even in medical journals. Vitamin dependencies induced by genetics, diet, drugs, or illness are most often regarded as medical curiosities. The Hoffer-Osmond discovery that schizophrenics, forming about 1% or 2% percent of the population, are dependent on multi-gram doses of niacin remains a psychiatric heresy. The Irwin Stone-Linus Pauling idea of population-wide, genetically-based hypoascorbemia has received negative attention, when it has received any attention at all. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Each year, tens of thousands of articles are published in hundreds of medical journals, only a few dozen of which rank in the top tier, the must-read category. Publishing in them is highly competitive, and each article must be peer-reviewed, or vetted by experts for accuracy and credibility.The journals that are most familiar to the public, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Annals of Internal Medicine, are also the publications that physicians consider the authoritative sources, their most cherished repositories of medical knowledge. |
Ron Garner
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 Murray Vimy, Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Calgary and Practitioner of Dental Medicine, published articles in more than forty medical journals around the world on the dangers of mercury. Tests and experiments with mercury and amalgams, which he conducted, established that mercury travels throughout the body via the blood to cells, where it is converted to inorganic mercury, which is an "extremely dangerous poison." It settles mostly in the kidneys, liver, and brain. He stated that mercury is more toxic than lead or arsenic. |
Ray D. Strand
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| After all, when negative studies were publicized in the lay media or medical journals, I would tell myself, "See, you were right all along about those vitamins. It's a shame that these charlatans have played such scams on my patients."
Part of the reason I have changed my mind about vitamins is the quality of our diet.
The Typical American Diet
I have a confession to make right here, right now: I have actually eaten out in a fast-food restaurant. All right, if you must know the gritty details, I had a
Big Mac, French fries, a large Coke—super-sized, even—and a hot apple pie. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| He was head of the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Division at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York, and had contributed scores of papers to top medical journals on two particularly difficult-to-treat autoimmune diseases of the digestive tract, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Mullin was an expert on both of these inflammatory bowel diseases—which afflict 1 million Americans, one hundred thousand of whom are children—and patients lined up to see him for the kid-glove care he gave to their cases. |
Andreas Moritz
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 All this is changing now since recent disclosure of flawed and bad research in medical journals, such as omitting crucial data concerning the arthritis drug Vioxx, or publishing two papers by the South Korean researcher Dr. Hwang Woo Suk, who fabricated evidence that he had cloned human cells.
"Journals have devolved into information-laundering operations for the pharmaceutical industry, say Dr. Richard Smith, the former editor of BMJ, the British medical journal, and Dr. Richard Horton, the editor of The Lancet, also based in Britain. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| The multiple urges to image are so great that doctors ignore a mountain of data available in the medical journals telling them that many of the tests they are ordering are failing to help their patients. For instance, according to the American College of Radiology, patients with uncomplicated low-back pain (meaning there are no signs of serious disease, such as cancer) should not receive imaging studies. Not only is the image a waste of time and money, but it often leads to unnecessary back surgery. |
| They placed ads in the medical journals, and they sent sales reps, or "detail men" (and they were all men in those days), to doctors' offices, where they could calmly and rationally go over in detail the most appropriate uses of their companies' products. This antipathy for consumer advertising was on display in a remarkable set of letters sent by pharmaceutical executives to Representative John Dingell, who solicited their opinion on the subject in 1982. |
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