Anne Harrington
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 Placebo giving is quackery.64
It might have been quackery in the eyes of Cabot, but most physicians still felt it was a form of quackery too useful to give up. Moreover, the late-nineteenth-century narrative about "the power of suggestion" provided a new rationale for continuing to practice this "humble humbug."65 What if it were possible to think about the placebo less as a form of quackery and more as a form of suggestive psychotherapy? This was the defense of the practice offered in 1945 by Oliver Hazard Perry Pepper, a prominent Philadelphia-based physician in the interwar period. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 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." Anyone who promotes good nutrition through supplements, vitamins or herbs is labeled a "quack," and anyone who dares question the sanctity of the cult of pharmacology is discredited, attacked and sometimes even arrested and jailed. |
| REPPED: The closer you look at conventional medicine, the more you realize just how much it's based on quackery. From the exaggerated claims of drug advertisements (which imply that swallowing patented chemicals will solve your life problems) to the absurd pro-drug, anti-nutrition regulatory proclamations by the FDA, the modern U.S. "sick care system" has become the laughing stock of the world.
Americans pay, by far, the highest fees in the world for health care services, and yet we simultaneously suffer the highest rates of degenerative disease in the world. |
Anne Harrington
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| It might have been quackery in the eyes of Cabot, but most physicians still felt it was a form of quackery too useful to give up. Moreover, the late-nineteenth-century narrative about "the power of suggestion" provided a new rationale for continuing to practice this "humble humbug."65 What if it were possible to think about the placebo less as a form of quackery and more as a form of suggestive psychotherapy? This was the defense of the practice offered in 1945 by Oliver Hazard Perry Pepper, a prominent Philadelphia-based physician in the interwar period. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The whole thing is rotten at the core, steeped in corruption and quackery, and lacking any real ethics. These companies aren't out to create a better future for humanity, they're out to create better profits for themselves -- even if it means marketing potentially harmful cold medicines to children.
It's about time the world woke up and realized that these cold medicines are pure quackery. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When those instruments are available, homeopathy will seem to be common sense, but today it is considered fringe science or quackery by the defenders of conventional medicine because they don't see how it could possibly work. They leave no room in their belief systems for the possibility that something could operate outside their current understanding. As long as there is no microscope for seeing homeopathic energy, the stodgy, egoistic defenders of evidence-based medicine will call it quackery. Of course, this is the same thinking that once called the germ theory quackery. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| This FDA advisory panel vote represents a landmark defeat for Big Pharma which has promoted cold medicine quackery for so many decades that very few people realized cold medicines should be questioned at all. Fortunately, some bright-minded pediatricians have apparently decided to take action to protect children instead of protecting Big Pharma. An official from the American Academy of Pediatrics has openly stated that the cold medicines don't work in children under six years old and may, in fact, be dangerous to their health. |
| It's about time the world woke up and realized that these cold medicines are pure quackery. And someday, when enough sane scientists speak out, this whole system of pharmaceutical medicine will be demolished and replaced with something that actually works to enhance health (like drinking fresh juices from leafy green vegetables and citrus fruits). In the mean time, don't be suckered by over-the-counter medicines. Nearly all of them are laced with toxic chemical additives (such as coloring chemicals and chemical sweeteners), and virtually none of them do anything to actually help the body heal. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Even if you already know the real story about the quackery of modern psychiatric medicine, this film delivers a jaw-dropping emotional ride through the corruption, deceit and downright psychotic behavior of an entire industry. A couple of CounterThink cartoons (by yours truly) also make the film, detailing FDA corruption, Big Pharma's junk science and the grand hoax of modern psychiatry.
(See my most recent CounterThink cartoon, just released today: Fidozac, the antidepressant drug for dogs!)
Only occasionally does the film retreat from its pressure-cooker drama. |
Mark Sircus
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 Vociferous and over-zealous protestation by oncologists, who are convinced that nutrition in cancer treatment is inherently worthless and tantamount to quackery, is embarrassing to the institution of medicine. It exposes many of these doctors as little more than medical automatons, who do only as they have been taught, adhering to established medical orthodoxy, extracting money and making profits for drug companies on the backs and lives of cancer patients. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 Add to this a large helping of magic, of belief in judicial astrology, and of downright quackery, such as the use of bezoar stones (calcoli found in the gastrointestinal tracts of animals), and you will appreciate that the medical knowledge brought by the Spaniards to the New World was largely ineffectual.
In contrast, while the Aztec ticitl or doctor used a good deal of magic in his or her cures, and while Aztec disease etiology also had an overall theoretical scheme made up of contrary principles (such as "hot" vs. "cold"), native medical practices were light years ahead of the Spaniards'. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| REPPED: Another example of outright quackery by pharmaceutical companies has finally gathered enough steam to achieve mainstream news coverage: Cold medicines are useless, say pediatricians who petitioned the FDA to ban the marketing of such products to children. Last month, an FDA advisory panel partially agreed with the recommendation, and voted to declare that such medicines should not be used in children younger than six. |
Anne Harrington
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| What if it were possible to think about the placebo less as a form of quackery and more as a form of suggestive psychotherapy? This was the defense of the practice offered in 1945 by Oliver Hazard Perry Pepper, a prominent Philadelphia-based physician in the interwar period.66 Pepper noted that so far as he knew, his was the first article on placebo use ever to appear in the published medical literature. Sometimes, he then went on, a doctor had nothing to offer except the force of his authority and the comforting rituals of his trade. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Any talk of a "cure" is immediately considered quackery regardless of its merit.)
Conventional medicine offers no hope for either individual health or the health of the population at large. Its greatest achievement was the invention of antibiotics to battle infectious disease, and it often seems that conventional medicine hasn't achieved any meaningful progress since. In fact, the system is stuck in the germ theory of medicine, believing that every disease or condition (including degenerative disease) can be treated with a synthetic chemical. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 The AMA's fight to make chiropractic disre-spectable and brand it "quackery" was similarly reprehensible. "For over 12 years and with the full knowledge and support of their executive officers, the AMA paid the salaries and expenses for a team of more than a dozen medical doctors, lawyers, and support staff for the expressed purpose of conspiring [overtly and covertly] with others in medicine to first contain, and eventually, destroy the profession of chiropractic in the United States and elsewhere," writes journalist Kenny Ausubel in When Healing Becomes A Crime. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 For most practicing physicians, the material that follows is viewed with suspicion at best, quackery at worst. For healing happens despite the physician, independently of an elaborate and expensive system of treatment. Physicians want no part of the placebo effect, for it messes up their experimental designs, and worse, it undercuts their authority. The very idea of mind-body medicine lies outside the medical model. For it to be taken seriously would require a considerable reconceptualization of what is meant by the notions of health and illness.
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| Use was higher among those with college incomes and higher incomes, perhaps a surprising finding, considering the labels "unscientific" or "quackery" that are often attached to these practices.
The most commonly treatments were herbal medicines,7 massage, megavitamins, self-help groups, folk remedies, energy healing, and homeopathy. Alternative medicine was most often used to treat chronic conditions such as back problems, anxiety, and headaches. The authors suggest that some of the above are "more alternative," some "less. |
| One panelist, a prominent historian from Emory University, who had written widely on quackery, disagreed. Moertel cannot be a quack, he asserted, because he is using the scientific method in an attempt to advance medicine. In other words, MD medicine cannot by this particular definition be considered illegitimate.
Well, perhaps.
In the years that have passed, we have stopped using the term "quack," except in cases of obvious fraud. Other terms, ones which do not prejudge, better describe those who practice outside the generally approved boundaries of contemporary medicine. |
Bill Sardi
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 Unfortunately, both cries of 'quackery' and persecution from the medical establishment have driven this caustic cancer therapy research, started by Nobel Prize winner Dr. Otto Warburg, underground." [Pharmacology Biochemistry Behavior 21 Suppl 1:7-10, 1984; Pharmacology Biochemistry Behavior 21: 11-13, 1984]
However, Sartori's research, conducted nearly two decades ago, also included vitamins, chelating (mineral removing) agents, selenium and a special diet. So his results cannot be solely attributed to the effects of cesium. |
Charles Barber
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 All sciences have to pass through an ordeal by quackery," wrote the psychologist Hans Eysenck. "Chemistry had to slough off the fetters of alchemy. The brain sciences had to disengage themselves from the tenets of phrenology . . . Psychology and psychiatry too will have to abandon the pseudo-science of psychoanalysis . . . and undertake the arduous task of transforming their disciplines into a genuine science."57 "Psychology itself is dead," writes Michael Gaz-zaniga, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth, in The Minds Past. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Similarly, the term "quackery" or "quack" is also used by the defenders of conventional medicine to describe anything outside the realm of conventional medicine. If it's not something they control, own the intellectual rights to, or profit from, the defenders of conventional medicine call it quackery, regardless of its merit as a genuine healing therapy. The real quacks, though, are the old, out-of-touch zealots of conventional medicine who can now best serve humanity by either retiring or dying. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Losing weight to promote health was called quackery. Not smoking for health was called quackery. The list goes on and on.
CHELATION CURES HEART DISEASE AND OTHER DISEASES
There are two types of chelation, oral chelation and intravenous chelation. Oral chelation can be done at home. There are many oral chelation products on the market. You can go to the internet and search under "oral chelation" and see a host of various products; they are very good. If you want faster results, find a healthcare practitioner in your area that does intravenous chelation. |
| It was said that washing your hands before surgery was quackery; it was said that NOT doing bloodletting was quackery Think of all the things we've done over the years that were accepted medical practices—putting leeches on people's bodies, bloodletting, taking mercury (which we now know kills you)—all common and accepted medical practices. Think of all the drugs that were commonly used that are now off the market because they have been proven to be ineffective and dangerous. |
Stacy Malkan
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 There is quackery up the gazoo," said Ralph Bronner, son of legendary soap maker Dr. Bronner. "Any company reading your book could do what we've done tomorrow."
To Ralph that means "constructive capitalism," which he explained in his theatrical, run-on sentence kind of way: "Constructive capitalism is where you share the profit with the workers and the Earth from which you made it. You and I are brothers and sisters because of one eternal loving Father, and we should take care of each other and this planet. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 Then I explain how alternative medicine can slide down into quackery. The book ends with a careful look at cutting-edge research aimed to better understand debilitating symptoms and some promising treatments that are already on the horizon.
My approach to illness has been shaped by my interaction with patients. So I often use patient stories to make points in the book. Rest assured that I have changed all patient names to ensure confidentiality. |
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From Complementary Medicine to quackery t's useful to draw lines between treatments that are beneficial, those that are not beneficial but are essentially harmless, and those that are not only useless but potentially harmful.
You already know that allopathic (or Western) medicine is beneficial, even though the treatments doctors prescribe often come with the bite of unwanted and potentially dangerous side effects. Despite this cost, traditional medicine's evidence-based progress over the decades has led to fantastic results. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Any talk about healing with nutrition is quackery.
The human body is incapable of healing itself. Health can only be enhanced through chemical or surgical intervention. Patients have no role in determine their own health outcome.
"Science" is whatever we say it is.
Anything that disagrees with our definition of science is "unscientific."
The "Scientific Method" is the process by which we decide what is science.
Conflicts of interest don't count if we all mean well.
What's really interesting about these beliefs is that they stand in direct conflict to reality. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They think vitamins are useless, acupuncture is quackery, and that all medical treatment should be limited to drugs, surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
These extreme skeptics are truly impressive in the depth of their knowledge: There is nothing true in the universe that they don't already know. All science has already been discovered, they proclaim, and therefore all new "whacky" ideas about vibrational healing, energy medicine or nutritional therapy are based on nothing but quackery. |
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