Conventional medicine is a cult, not a science - full story

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Thanks for bringing this to the group's attention, Robert. I think that THIS story deserves full coverage to make sure no one misses it:The false gods of scientific medicine revealed: It's a cult, not a science

Monday, July 02, 2007 by: Mike AdamsPromoters of conventional medicine claim that all the drug marketing,

FDA approvals, surgical procedures, chemotherapy and all other

treatments are based on "hard science." The term "science" is invoked

with hilarious frequency: Science journals, science-based medicine,

proven medical science and so on. As you might have guessed, however,

there's surprisingly little genuine science to be found in the common

practice of conventional medicine. Rather, what passes for "science"

today is a collection of health myths, half-truths, intellectual

dishonesty, self delusion, fraudulent reporting and wishful thinking.Take

clinical trials, for example. These are supposed to be the "gold

standard" of scientific study, and yet it has been well demonstrated

that these studies almost always produce results beneficial to the

organization providing the funding. The wishes of the study sponsors, not true scientific methods, determine the study outcomes.

This is accomplished through an elaborate system of fraudulent trial

design, selective reporting, dismissing study subjects who don't

produce the desired outcome, statistical distortions and the

application of career pressure to the researchers who carry out such

studies. (Researchers who don't produce the desired results get

blackballed by the industry.)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. 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. 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.Let's face it: Neither conventional medicine, nor its

promoters, has attained any real membership in the club of genuine

scientists. Real scientists are people like Richard Feynman, a

legendary author, lecturer and infinitely curious individual who never

allowed his own ego to cloud his open mind about the laws of the

universe. If Feynman were alive today and observing the so-called

"science" backing conventional medicine, he'd probably laugh out loud

at the utter lack of scientific merit found in the drug studies

published in so-called "scientific journals."The Church of Medical TruthWhile

defenders of conventional medicine don't have membership in the club of

genuine science, they are card-carrying members of another

organization: The Church of Medical Truth (similar to the Ministry of

Truth from 1984). In this Church, the beliefs of members (doctors,

FDA bureaucrats, media reporters, etc.) are handed down from the high

priests, and those beliefs -- that all drugs are good, all vitamins are

bad, etc. -- are blindly followed by the faithful, who dare not

question those beliefs on any genuine scientific basis.This is

how doctors have come to believe the incredible: That food has nothing

to do with health, that antioxidants will kill you, that herbs

interfere with drugs, and that only drugs can treat or cure disease.

It's a cult-like belief system handed down by the high priests of

conventional medicine, and if this intricate web of false beliefs was

actually subjected to genuine scientific scrutiny, it would crumble

into a thousand pieces of junk science and marketing propaganda.Conventional

medicine, as practiced and promoted today, has nothing whatsoever to do

with good science, but everything to do with promoting a particular

cult-like worldview that says only doctors can treat or cure disease,

not patients, or nature,

or nutrition. And its proponents and practitioners are not scientists,

but rather part of the congregation of the Church of Medical Truth.

Mainstream media stories that parrot the cult-like beliefs of

conventional medicine are the singing of the church choir, and the altar boys getting sodomized in the back room by high priests are like the public being chemically assaulted by pharmaceuticals. (A kind of "medical violence" perpetrated against the general public.)This

is not intended to say anything bad about churches. I believe in

Freedom of Religion just as I do Freedom of Speech. But I don't believe

in giving a group of doctors and drug pushers the exclusive right to

claim their particular beliefs are the one true "science," to the

exclusion of all else, especially when their so-called science is

really just another competing system of beliefs founded on circular

logic ("Drugs are safe because they are subjected to scientific

scrutiny in studies specifically designed to show that drugs are safe.")What skeptics should really be consideringConsider these facts about modern medicine:• There is currently no requirement whatsoever that surgical procedures be scientifically proven as either safe or effective before being widely performed on the public.• Chemotherapy has been scientifically proven to be worthless at curing cancer, enhancing quality of life or protecting the health of the patient. In fact, chemotherapy kills patients, and even the ones who survive it are left with permanent damage to their brain ("chemo brain"), kidneys, liver and other organs. Chemotherapy is a medical hoax with absolutely no scientific validity. The size of a tumor is not a measure of the degree of cancer that exists on a patient's body, and shrinking a tumor is not a meaningful measure of a cancer treatment's success.• The rapid rise in depression, ADHD and other mental or "behavioral" disorders is so large that it can only be explained by either an infectious epidemic (in which case the CDC should be involved) or rampant disease mongering where drug companies invent diseases and push them onto children and adults in order to sell more drugs. Anyone who believes that ADHD is a real disease that has inexplicably stricken 1000% more children over the last twenty years is kidding themselves. This "disease" is pure fiction, and there is absolutely no blood test, no MRI, no lab test, nothing to diagnose ADHD other than the opinion of someone who most likely earns kickbacks from Big Pharma.• Nearly all pharmaceuticals receiving FDA approval today have been tested on only a few thousand people for a very short period of time (as little as six weeks in some cases). Yet, from such limited testing, the FDA declares the drugs to be safe for everyone, even for long-term use, without a shred of evidence that such long-term use is safe.• No scientific testing whatsoever has been done to fully document the toxic effects of combinations of medications. Deadly drug interactions are simply noted after the fact. Consumers who take multiple prescription drugs are literally serving as Big Pharma's guinea pigs.• There is currently no requirement whatsoever that drug side effects noticed by doctors be reported to the FDA. The entire system of reporting is purely voluntary.• The entire paradigm of pharmaceutical medicine makes no sense. Chemicals are used to treat "biomarkers" or measurable biochemical states, yet disease and dysfunction is complex and always involved more than a single measurable number. Cholesterol drugs, for example, may artificially lower cholesterol numbers, but they completely ignore the root cause of elevated cholesterol. This is

why cholesterol drugs have been scientifically proven worthless in preventing heart attacks or other fatal cardiovascular events.• Most drugs don't work on most people. Claims of benefits are highly exaggerated by reporting their relative percentage rather than absolute percentage of efficacy. For example, if two people out of 100 normally get breast cancer,

and a drug causes that number to be reduced to one person out of 100,

the drug company will claim a "50% reduction in breast cancer!" when,

in reality, it's a 1% reduction across the population. Yet the drug

will be marketed to everyone as a breast cancer "prevention" strategy.

And yet 99% of the people who take it will experience no benefits from

it. Most drugs are useless. A drug only has to work on about 5% of test subjects to receive FDA approval.Someday,

future medicine may actually be based on open-minded curiosity about

the laws of nature and how human beings may attain a higher state of

health. But until then, we're living in the Dark Ages of medicine,

where the power of the Church of Medical Truth seems absolute, and its

own modern-day Inquisition conducts routine search-and-destroy missions on any health practitioner who dares to question the power of the Church.Real science is about the search for truth and an understanding of the laws of nature, but modern medical science

(conventional medicine) is little more than a search for profits at the

expense of public health. It has nothing whatsoever to do with genuine

science. And as the public wises up to this, the future of conventional

medicine doesn't have a prayer.After the collapse of Western

medicine, real health care will inevitably end up returning to its

roots: The healing power of nature.###About the author:

Mike Adams is a natural health researcher and author with a strong

interest in personal health, the environment and the power of nature to

help us all heal He has authored and published thousands of articles,

interviews, consumers guies, and books on topics like health and the

environment, impacting the lives of millions of readers around the

world who are experiencing phenomenal health benefits from reading his

articles. Adams is a trusted, independent journalist who receives no

money or promotional fees whatsoever to write about other companies'

products. In 2007, Adams launched EcoLEDs, a maker of energy efficient LED lights that greatly reduce CO2 emissions. He's also the founder of a well known HTML email software company

whose 'Email Marketing Director' software currently runs the NewsTarget

subscription database. Adams also serves as the executive director of

the Consumer Wellness Center,

a non-profit consumer protection group, and enjoys outdoor activities,

nature photography, Pilates and adult gymnastics. He's also author of

numerous health books published by Truth Publishing and is the creator of several consumer-oriented grassroots campaigns, including the Spam. Don't Buy It! campaign, and the free downloadable Honest Food Guide. He also created the free reference sites HerbReference.com and HealingFoodReference.com.

Adams believes in free speech, free access to nutritional supplements

and the ending of corporate control over medicines, genes and seeds.

Known on the 'net as 'the Health Ranger,' Adams shares his ethics,

mission statements and personal health statistics at www.HealthRanger.org--- In oleander soup , robert-blau wrote:>> Tellin' it LIKE IT IS . . .> > insider(NewsTarget) > > NewsTarget Insider Alert (www.NewsTarget.com) >