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The false gods of scientific medicine revealed: It's a cult, not a science Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The end result is that today's so-called "scientific medicine" has almost no resemblance to genuine science at all. The word "science" is simply used as a cover story for what's really going on behind the scenes -- a massive campaign of pro-drug propaganda, arm-twisting, public brainwashing, media control and regulatory failures that all add up to one thing: A system of medicine that is the greatest con ever perpetrated on the American people. Where is the skepticism about conventional medicine? Conventional medicine is almost entirely justified by truly bad science.

The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George See book keywords and concepts

What interested me most was how a traditional Eastern treatment was integrated with Western scientific medicine in a clinical setting like this. In China, separate medical schools train physicians in each tradition, but each school is well aware of and accepting of the other's approach. Whereas physicians being trained in Eastern medicine receive considerable training in modern scientific medicine, the allopathic physicians in China are much more aware and embracing of traditional approaches.

Alternative Medicine?: A History Roberta Bivins See book keywords and concepts

Despite the challenges of'scientific medicine' and the wholesale reform of the institutions and practices of orthodox medicine, homeopathy entered the twentieth century in strength. In Britain, it continued to have the support of the royal family and much of the social elite as well as a large middle-class following. British homeopathy differed from its US counterpart in its enduring reliance on medically qualified 'converts' as practitioners, and on a well-to-do client base.

Often silent in the face of'scientific medicine', such practitioners still had to satisfy their patients at the bedside, where doctors still struggled to establish themselves as the exclusive interpreters of the body. Day-to-day medicine remained a social art, and the laity, heterodox practitioners, midwives, and others still claimed the right to observe the body and pronounce upon it authoritatively. Patients demanded particular cures based on what they saw, and acupuncture's near-invisibility in the medical press limited lay awareness of the technique as well.

What If Medicine Disappeared? Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea See book keywords and concepts

But to call "complaints about the body illnesses, despite the objective evidence of illness," wrote psychiatrist and critic Thomas Szasz, "is a violation of elementary rules of logic, an offense against scientific medicine, and an act of medical hubris." Indeed paging through the DSM is an odd exercise, for it lists without in great detail traditional and serious personality traits along with problems most of us would consider less serious, for example, ones related to caffeine intake.

By the 1930s," according to one historian of medicine, diphtheria had become "the paradigmatic disease of the so-called bacteriological revolution and the symbol of the triumph of scientific medicine in the control of infectious disease."8 In many ways, "diphtheria was the darling of the bacterial revolution. A disease that had strangled thousands of helpless children every year suddenly became controllable."9 Thus, were the new powers of medicine. To believe in science and medicine is to believe in progress, and visa versa. To be modern is to believe that medicine is and must be a science.

This is a great accomplishment of scientific medicine. WHAT IF? What if surgery disappeared? The excision would be significant. More than 23 million operations per year would not be done. Surgery's absence would be noted particularly in obstetrics and cardiology. Birthing without obstetric laceration or breaking of the amniotic sac, let alone C-section or episiotomy, would now by necessity happen in a natural way. A variety of gynecological conditions would not be subject to the purported amelioration of major surgery.

Alternative Medicine?: A History Roberta Bivins See book keywords and concepts

Britain's colonies were regarded by her 'germ-enthusiasts' and proponents of 'scientific medicine' as essential laboratories for the proving and deployment of germ theory. With scientific progress increasingly seen as an emblem of national prominence, even a wealth of germs could become grounds for nationalistic pride and competitiveness.

The world according to the FDA and Big Pharma Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

No new discoveries are necessary, nor are any paradigm shifts in scientific medicine. It is important that we all reject any new ideas or beliefs that threaten our existing ideas or beliefs. Drug corporations should be protected because they have the best interests of the general public in mind. The future health of the entire world depends on the research being conducted right now by drug companies. Americans are lucky to pay the highest prices in the world for medication.

What If Medicine Disappeared? Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea See book keywords and concepts

To ignore the placebo effect and mind-body therapies is to snub scientific medicine, and as well miss a potentially great and valuable lesson about health and illness. 8 A WORLD WITHOUT MEDICINE in which we reprise the findings of this book, consider our future options, and pose a difficult question We were on our deck again, finishing a bottle of wine and the remains of a fine meal in the fading light of a warm summer night. The trees on the far side of the pond were showing their first signs of bright color, surely a misleading sign.

Unraveling the lies about the antioxidant study on vitamins E and C Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

That these figures would even be quoted as something resembling "scientific medicine" is laughable. The defenders of pharmaceuticals have become so desperate to discredit antioxidants and nutrition in general that they have now resorted to quoting study results from people who didn't even take the vitamins! I'm not sure if this strategy is brilliant or idiotic: It's brilliant because the mainstream media swallows the story hook, line and sinker (journalists aren't very skeptical anymore...). It's idiotic because it's based on a logic gap so large you could drive a circus convoy through it.

Cold medicine scam finally exposed after decades of harming children Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

So much for the "gold standard" of so-called "scientific medicine," huh? The FDA was fully aware of this over three decades ago when an FDA panel pointed out in 1972 that such products had never been tested on children. Apparently, the FDA saw no need to actually engage in real science regarding the safety of these products and continued to allow them to be sold by the billions (literally billions of doses per year) to unsuspecting parents. Cold medicines are just the beginning of this medical scam The truth here is that most pharmaceuticals are medical hoaxes.

Antidepressants, Bipolar Disorder and the Chemical Enslavement of Humankind by Drug Companies Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

There is nothing resembling scientific medicine in any of this. It's all a grand marketing scam, contrived by those who have a financial interest in the sales of yet more pharmaceuticals. Our families, our children and even our pets are now being exploited by these Big Pharma criminals and psychiatric quacks. We're losing not just a generation of minds to this mass chemical warfare being perpetrated on our population; we're actually losing our souls. We're giving away what it means to be human by surrendering our experiences to "chemical containment.

The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders John E. Sarno, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

The failure of scientific medicine to stem the tide of chronic pain disorders is unfortunate enough, but it has failed as well in another even more crucial sphere. There is abundant anecdotal evidence in the medical literature that psychological factors influence more serious disorders like those of the autoimmune group, cardiovascular conditions, and cancer. Yet scientific medicine has paid scant attention to this evidence in its research, with the National Institutes of Health conspicuous in its indifference.

The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George See book keywords and concepts

Many, including myself, believe that CAM and Western scientific medicine can coexist. I tend to prefer the expression "integrative medicine" over CAM and for ten years directed an Office of Integrative Studies at Case Western Reserve University. In academic scholarship, integrative studies implies trans-disciplinarity: a search for synthesis and not just reductive approaches. In health care, the word integration challenges all approaches to provide holistic care for patients.

What If Medicine Disappeared? Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea See book keywords and concepts

In this thinking, the cardiologist has cast aside scientific medicine and medical ethics, and has become an unlikely pawn of the patient. Ultimately, as we have claimed previously, such explanations improperly blame the patient for the doctor's inadequacies. Second, cardiologists simply do not believe the results of statistical studies. What they see from their own patients is what forms their conclusions. Moreover, stenting does relieve symptoms. Ergo, it works. Ergo, we might say, the doctor eschews systematic data for individual and uncontrolled (and perhaps self-serving) observation.

Such logic does not bode well for the future of scientific medicine. What about routine screening? It is not only expensive, but also its results are for the most part not impressive. The 2003 Task Force report card is not very good. Many screening procedures are given grades of "C" (e.g., routine electrocardiography for middle-aged adults) and "D" (routine thyroid function tests). For cancer screening, false positives not only cause considerable anxiety, but also generate possible risk from follow-up intervention. Only for cervical cancer is screening effective.

The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World Lynne McTaggart See book keywords and concepts

Two years before, also in the Christmas issue of the BMJ, he had published an article claiming that alternative medicine masquerading as scientific medicine was like a cuckoo chick in a reed warbler's nest.3 The begging noises of the interloper chick are indistinguishable from those of its warbler counterparts; indeed, as it grows, the cries of the cuckoo are so loud that they match the noise of eight little warblers. The warbler parents ignore any clues that they have an impostor in their midst and continue to nourish the cuckoo chick—to the detriment, even death, of their own offspring.

Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs Melody Petersen See book keywords and concepts

Merck, were run by marketers or businessmen who had little or no training in scientific medicine. In 2001 Peter Dolan, a young executive who had made his early mark promoting Jell-O for General Foods, became the chief executive of Bristol-Myers Squibb. The drug company Novartis hired the Pepsi marketer Thomas Ebeling and by 2000 had given him responsibility for running its global pharmaceutical business. When Randall Tobias took over as the head of Eli Lilly in 1993, he had spent most of his career as an executive for the phone company AT&T.

Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey See book keywords and concepts

Any one of the processes involved in healing a superficial cut—the clotting of the blood for example—is incredibly complex, so much so that if the mechanism fails, as it does with hemophiliacs, advanced scientific medicine is at a loss to duplicate the impaired function. A doctor can prescribe drugs to replace the missing clotting factor in the blood, but these are temporary, artificial and have numerous side effects. The body's perfect timing will be absent, as well as the superb coordination of a dozen related processes.

The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George See book keywords and concepts

Modern scientific medicine depends on plants and animals as a source of chemical substances that might hold therapeutic benefit. Ginkgo biloba. There is some evidence that ginkgo may have a positive effect on cognition and memory by promoting blood flow to the brain, but it is not proven or approved by the FDA. The mechanism of action of ginkgo is uncertain but it is thought by some to promote blood flow. As with many herbals, it difficult to know the composition of the substances that you're buying.

Alternative Medicine?: A History Roberta Bivins See book keywords and concepts

Shared Boundaries: Medical Systems before 'Scientific Medicine' Imagine a world in which your health depended not just on your own actions or inactions—what you ate or drank, how long you slept, your sexual activity, your level of exposure to healthy or DB ASTROLOGIA I. 'Astrological man' from Gregor Reisch, Margarita Philosophica, c.1503. Note that specific areas or organs of the body are associated with particular astrological signs, and that the signs themselves are linked to particular humoural traits and temperaments. Compare this to Chinese Five Elements theory. 2.

Experiment shows medical doctors to be glorified drug dealers, easily manipulated by drug companies Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Instead, they're just part of the drug racket, part of the system of organized medicine that masquerades as "scientific medicine." Where's the science in scientific medicine? I find the circular logic involved in all this fascinating, because we've again shown how the prescribing behavior of doctors is not rational. When a patient names a drug, all that training, rationality, and scientific thought just gets thrown out the window in favor of circular logic. For example, the organized medical community claims that all drugs approved by the FDA are scientifically sound.

The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George See book keywords and concepts

Whereas physicians being trained in Eastern medicine receive considerable training in modern scientific medicine, the allopathic physicians in China are much more aware and embracing of traditional approaches. Hence, it was acceptable for a man with scientifically diagnosed dementia to be receiving acupuncture treatment in a Western-style hospital. This is an integrative model America would be wise to learn from. Various schools of acupuncture exist, each emphasizing different energy meridians—the force lines that are said to exist in the body, upon which different types of needles are placed.

The traditional approaches of modern medicine form the foundation of our care, but we can build on the strengths of unconventional approaches, and build in the power of spirituality, which so many patients bring to the healing process. scientific medicine tends to want to go to war with nature, whereas integrative approaches are more ecological and see human beings as a part of nature rather than somehow separate.

Alternative Medicine?: A History Roberta Bivins See book keywords and concepts

By the end of the nineteenth century, 'scientific medicine' was ascendant (though not monolithic). Rapid profes-sionalization, though important to the survival of other nineteenth-century medical systems, was not enough to preserve the visibility and status they had achieved; the weight of state intervention in medicine tipped the balance in favour of an orthodox biomedical monopoly. If epidemic and infectious diseases could not yet be cured, they could in theory be prevented by state-sanctioned and -funded public health measures designed to fight the filth and contagion of germs.

Neither was as harsh, or as deeply committed, as scientific medicine to enforcing the exclusivity of medical professional's ability to read and interpret the body's signs. But despite these similarities, the cases of mesmerism and homeopathy in India are in important ways quite different. The story of mesmerism in India illustrates the complex relationship between medicine and what has become known as orientalism.

The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention Dawson Church See book keywords and concepts

It is a remarkable testament to their powers of observation that so many discoveries on the leading edge of modern scientific medicine are utilizing the same energy pathways they considered so important thousands of years ago. Whether activated by an exercise regimen like T'ai Chi, an electromechanical stimulation method like acupuncture, a biofeedback or EDS machine, or your belief system, the point of therapy is to restore full function and balance to the body's electromagnetic energy system. Frequencies of Healing The uses for electricity in medicine continue to expand.

The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders John E. Sarno, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Another trend in contemporary scientific medicine is its preoccupation with studying the anatomy, physiology, and chemistry of the brain, at the expense of studying its dynamic relationship to the body as a whole. Neuroscience can be enormously important and of consuming interest, but what is learned of the physical brain may be either detrimental or irrelevant to clinical medicine.

There is abundant anecdotal evidence in the medical literature that psychological factors influence more serious disorders like those of the autoimmune group, cardiovascular conditions, and cancer. Yet scientific medicine has paid scant attention to this evidence in its research, with the National Institutes of Health conspicuous in its indifference. Put bluntly, emotional factors should be studied as risk factors in these life-threatening disorders, and they are not.

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