Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  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. That's why they've constructed an intellectual moat in order to keep all such bad ideas out of the Church of Logic.
I've also learned from these omniscient rationalists that there is no such thing as mysterious, invisible energy vibrations. | | More importantly, I've also learned from these skeptics that the universe operates in pure Newtonian fashion like a giant pinball machine, and that free will, creativity, love, intuition and faith are merely illusory notions invoked by chemical balances in the brain that should be treated with psychiatric drugs. Because, of course, people who actually FEEL anything are obviously irrational and have no place in our pinball machine universe. | | Many of these extreme skeptics, I've also learned, don't even believe in their own free will, since consciousness (they've explained to me) is merely a fleeting projection of a physical brain that operates like a wondrously complex Turing machine. This has me pondering an important question: Who does a skeptic think is offering the opinions of skepticism if that same skeptic does not believe in the existence of his own consciousness? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  And yet so-called skeptics, who are supposed to exercise clear thinking about all subjects, never seem to question the fraudulent science behind prescription drugs. 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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | By "extreme skeptics," I don't mean actual critical thinkers who apply genuine open-minded curiosity to the world around them, I mean the pseudoscientific zealots who berate anyone who believes in acupuncture, massage therapy, homeopathy, herbal medicine, sunlight therapy, breath therapy, meditation or any number of other natural healing modalities. They think vitamins are useless, acupuncture is quackery, and that all medical treatment should be limited to drugs, surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. | | Everybody else, on the other hand, does exist, which is why we are all laughing so hard at the skeptics -- the only group of people in the history of human civilization to vehemently argue for their own irrelevance, and then to prove it through pompous babble aimed not at any effort to discover real truth, but rather to protect their own fragile egos and hollow philosophical scaffolding.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste. | | Normally, I would call such a person a complete idiot, but most skeptics are actually well educated. They are clearly not idiots. Rather, they are purveyors of self-aggrandizing reductionism who suffer under the cult-like illusion that hyper-rational, compartmentalized, Descartian logic is the one and only way to arrive at any sort of truth. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | All drugs get an automatic thumbs up, no matter how ludicrous the underlying science, while all natural therapies are automatically and routinely criticized by skeptics who equate their own lack of understanding with proof that something mysterious can't possibly work. They say homeopathy can't work, for example, simply because they can't find any mechanism to explain how it could work. That's tantamount to saying that nothing new will ever be discovered because skeptics already know everything there is to know about the way the universe works. | | 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. |
Anne Harrington
See book keywords and concepts |  Coda
Today, debate about the nature and efficacy of the placebo effect continues apace, with skeptics attempting to assimilate placebo responses to other factors such as spontaneous remission and "regression to the mean," and advocates continuing to assert the reality of this effect.74 In some very recent twists, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have been recruited in an effort to visualize the beneficial effects of placebo treatments on brain functioning. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  I'm one of the biggest skeptics on the planet, and when possible, I like to see things validated by scientific investigations. That said, I'm also not one of these people who needs a double-blind, randomized controlled study published in a peer-review journal before I can believe it. As my friend, nutritionist Robert Crayhon is fond of saying, "there's no double-blind study to prove that water puts out fire, but the entire New York City fire department operates on the presumption that it's a good working hypothesis!"
So What Is Natural Medicine, Anyway? |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
See book keywords and concepts |  By training, we are skeptics of all the professions, our own included, whose members are always (as they should be) influenced by training and vested interests, and whose ideologies are always self-serving. Note that we are not saying that the professions have a negative impact on American life. We don't believe that proposition. Rather, professionals, like everyone else, have certain positions, certain interests, that inevitably affect their behaviors and their views of what they believe to be self evident and good. | | If careful study documents that patients who get annual examinations feel better, behave healthier, undergo more appropriate screening, and trust their physicians more than patients who do not have annual physical examinations, skeptics would need to reconsider the value of this yearly ritual.
Direct and intended worth is of course an important issue, but not the only issue. "If low-tech maneuvers, such as listening to patients' chests, engender patients' confidence, we might consider including them in periodic health examinations despite their lack of proven benefit on more tangible outcomes. | | As profound skeptics of medicalization, we agree. We would add that the cash could be spent, perhaps more wisely—and could perhaps promote better health—for a vacation, mountain or sea, depending upon one's preferences.
In our assessment of emergency medicine, one more issue must be addtessed. As we have seen in previous chaptets, mistakes in all branches of medicine—as in all branches of life—are made. Some patients are incorrectly diagnosed. |
Bill Sardi
See book keywords and concepts |  Acta Haematologica 84: 139-43, 1990]
For skeptics, it has been confirmed that nattokinase is orally absorbed from the intestinal tract and that it cleaves to blood clotting factors. [Biological Pharm Bulletin 18: 1194-96, 1995]
Other enzyme products may also be useful. For example, a commercial brand enzyme product, Wobenzym, was found to break up lymph congestion in cancer patients. |
Anne Harrington
See book keywords and concepts | | At one point in his article, Cousins noted that some skeptics of his story had suggested that everything that had happened to him had been a "mere" placebo effect. Well, Cousins said, if that were true, then did it not imply that it was time to take a fresh look at placebo effects? Given the magnitude of the changes in health that he had personally experienced, on what possible basis could medicine assume that effects of placebos were either ephemeral or insubstantial? A bit like Charcot eighty years earlier, Cousins invoked the object lesson of Lourdes. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts | | However, PSA skeptics say that this trend could also be the result of better treatment, not just better diagnosis.
IMPROVING ACCURACY
In recent years, several variations of the PSA test have been used to improve its accuracy and limit the number of men who are advised to get a biopsy. They are...
•Free vs. bound PSA. The majority of PSA floats through the bloodstream bound to protein molecules, while a smaller portion of PSA is free. Evidence has shown that when PSA is produced by cancer, higher levels than usual are in the bound form and a smaller proportion is free. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
See book keywords and concepts |  If it is as easy as that, the skeptics say, if we were not meant to mix starch and protein together, then why do these two occur naturally in all foods? Yes, they do occur naturally in all foods, but they are not found in an equally concentrated form in all foods.
The second argument favored by the skeptics is that early man could not have combined his food correctly. My answer is that early man ate simply and would not have mixed his foods. We know from research that without refrigeration, early man ate whatever food was most readily available. |
Devra Davis
See book keywords and concepts |  Finally, you have to be prepared to deal with a phalanx of skeptics that will arise as certain as the sun, whenever a report suggests that a highly profitable business or technology may be the source of illness.
Myfather, Harry Davis, as a toddler in the family-owned dry-cleaning anc in 1923, the year before he survived a massive explosion of benzene.
In G-d we trust. All others must provide data.
In i 98 i I was fired by Ronald Reagan. It was nothing personal. Thousands of us were let go at the same time. | | This symphony of expert skeptics allowed tobacco advocates to perpetuate a culture of doubt about the risks of their product.10
Charles Taylor, the former medical director of the ACS, told the Breslows that Hammond was nearly broken by pressure from the ACS board to refrain from taking a public position on something he had shown to be a major danger to public health. In meeting after smoke-filled meeting with the board, Hammond's pleas were repeatedly dismissed. | | Look again at how Evarts Graham chided the skeptics on the hazards of tobacco smoking in his Lancet commentary. For agents that can cause cancer two decades after exposures begin, is it fair to insist that we must have proof that such harm has happened in many groups? Can we really require researchers to repeat studies showing that the same exposures have caused the same cancers in other groups similarly exposed before we can agree to change policies to prevent additional harm? |
Ray D. Strand
See book keywords and concepts |  I encourage physicians to be open-minded skeptics and examine the benefits they can offer their patients through nutritional supplements. Rather than relying on RDAs or trying to attack oxidative stress with one vitamin at a time, we must learn how cellular nutrition is the best approach to handling the underlying problem of oxidative stress.
Most importantly, we need to keep in mind the overall concept of oxidative stress, and understand the health benefit patients can realize by building up their bodies' natural antioxidant defense system. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  They have an organization called The International Network of Cholesterol skeptics (http://www.thincs.org/). If the science doesn't scare you off, it's worth a visit to get a "second opinion." (Also worth checking out: Ravnskov's "The Cholesterol Myths," available both as a book and online at http://www.ravnskov.nu/mythl.htm).
Lowering cholesterol is big business. In 2005, the two top-selling drugs on Forbes magazine's list of pharmaceutical juggernauts were Lipitor and Zocor, both cholesterol-lowering statin drugs. Together, they did a combined business of more than $13 billion. |
Bill Sardi
See book keywords and concepts | | Thorax 44: 1047-48, 1989] So, despite its skeptics, mistletoe therapy persists.
A crude survey of patients with blood and lymphatic cancer showed that patients lived 1 1.4 years after mistletoe extract treatment and only 8.6 years without it, but it is not known whether the patients in both groups were in similar stages of cancer. [Forsch Komplementarmed Lkass Naturheilkd 7: 139-46, 2000]
In another study where cancer patients were matched in pairs for type and stage of cancer, the patients receiving mistletoe extracts survived about 4.23 years compared to 3. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  But I'm sure you've had your share of skeptics on this. How do you answer the skeptics? How do you deal with them?
Dr. Whitcomb: Well, if you went to USC, and your buddy went to UCLA, you're both going to say your school's better than the other person's. I think that's kind of like how chiropractics and medicine is. We kind of look at a lot of the things they do and ask, "Why in the world would you do that to a person that has this?" Migraine headaches, for example -- they're pretty easy to fix with a chiropractor, but [MDs] are just medicating and letting them suffer with it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Where are the skeptics on this issue? Where are the quack busters on the drugging of our children? The silence is deafening. They have nothing to say about the lack of science behind psychiatric disease mongering. They aren't skeptical at all. Clear thinking, it seems, isn't allowed when the conclusions might question the institutions of modern medicine. And thus, the skeptics reveal themselves as little more than purveyors of medical dogma; protectors of a drug-the-children medical cult that demands unquestioning obedience to its profit-minded beliefs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Gravity is pure bunk, say skeptics
A few skeptics are questioning whether gravity exists at all. Quack buster Dr. Mallard Duckworth added that people who believe in gravity have a "delusional" belief in some unproven, invisible force that simply does not exist. "There is no such thing as gravity," Dr. Duckworth explained as he slammed a book down on his desk. "This is pure quack science. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  I may be one of very few genuine skeptics taking a serious look at this video, because most so-called skeptics running around the internet today have already made up their minds on everything (they either dismiss all UFOs as nonsense without even bothering to look at the evidence, or at the other extreme, they automatically believe all UFO videos without any sense of healthy skepticism).
For me though, I take a look at everything with an open mind and decide if it makes any sense. |
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