The deceptive shift in mainstream medicine towards alternatives

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The shift in mainstream medicine is to give token mention of

alternative therapies and supplements instead of outright denial -

and the ONLY reason that they are doing this is to attempt to stem

the tide of an increasing number of people looking outside mainstream

medicine after half a century or more of broken promises, false

hopes, ineffective treatments that address only the symptoms of

disease and illness instead of the underlying causes and a continued

onslaught of side-effect laden drugs that lock us into a lifetime of

managed illness.

 

When you look closely, you find that even the most positive of

references to any non mainstream treatment or supplement alway

carries with it a caveat about needing more study - study they know

is unlikely to come if the treatment or supplement is not patentable.

 

Another deceptive feature of this shift is the increasing acceptance

of degreed " naturopathic doctors " approved by state boards - which

sounds good on the surface until you find that these new mainstream

approved naturopaths are subject to much of the same indoctrination

that mainstream doctors are, that they are pretty much forced to

advise patients to use mainstream therapies first and that they have

only a limited number of alternative therapies to choose as

complimentary or alternative therapies. In other words, they are

pretty much in the same box as traditional doctors are. Like putting

love beads on next to the stethoscope. Mainstream lite.

 

Look at the fiasco we had here for awhile when one of the mainstream

lites attempted to enlighten us about how the only real and qualified

naturopaths were the state licensed ones. Not coincidentally his

light no longer shines on this forum.

 

This is not accepting natural and alternative medicine - it is merely

an attempt to bring it into the fold and co-opt it and proceed to

conduct business as usual. And their business is the total control

of our bodies and what we are allowed to put in them or how we are

allowed to treat them.

 

Don't be fooled by the same old wolves in natural sheep's clothing.

 

 

 

to natural and other alternatives, and thus giving token mention of --

- In oleander soup , robert-blau wrote:

>

> Oh, yeah, all good points. (That's why we post these things.) It's

> interesting, however, to see even a subtle shift in their official

> attitude. Also, I think the material might provide useful background

> (when taken with the appropriate grain of salt, especially on the

issue

> of efficacy.) Also, it DOES makes a good and inteesting listing.

> Obviously, one would be prudent not to be overly optimistic about

the

> organization itself.

>

> RB

>

> Posted by: " Tony "  

> Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:05 pm (PST)

>

> The most interesting part of the information to me is what an

> incredible con job the ACS does by appearing to give lip service to

> alternative treatments, foods, vitamins, etc - but when you look

every

> single one says " not proven " , " dangerous " or " needs more study " .

>

> The ACS is a evil, industry controlled group that has the dubious

> distinction of being the worlds least charitable non profit

> organization - meaning that fewer dollars actually get passed on

> compared to those that are collected. And the ones that do get

passed

> on go almost exclusively to mainstream research of the same old

cut,

> butn and poison methods that have failed for over half a century.

>

> The board of the ACS is riddled with members of the cancer industry

with

> obvious conflicts of interest and the ACS itself, with all of it's

> exorbitant salaries and benifits, and lack of charity, depends on

> maintaining the status quo. It is the same conflict of interest

that

> permeates mainstream medicine and the agencies and foundations that

are

> interconnected to it.

>

> I have no respect and no trust for anything the ACS has to say -

and

> can only imagine what might be if the collosal amount of money they

> have collected over the years had been applied to diet, nutrition,

> nutrition, lifestyle, poison, prevention and all of the unproven

> alternatives to cutting out, burning or poisoning symptoms while

> destroying major organs and immune systems under the guise of

treatment.

>

> For more information about the ACS, see our file section here for

the

> article about the worlds least charitable organization.

> >

> oleander soup , robert-blau@ wrote:

> >

> > The American Cancer Society's Guide to Complementary and

Alternative

> > Cancer Methods

> >

> > Lots of interesting information, even from the ACS.

> >

> > ACS :: Complementary and Alternative Therapies

> > http://www.cancer.org/docroot/eto/eto_5.asp

>