The Real Health Scare

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The Real Health Scare

 

CTM Comment: Recently the UK's Daily Telegraph published an Opinion entitled

'The Real Health Scare', wherein alternative approaches to disease were given

the usual panning. Here, one CTM member certainly felt the newspaper had simply

gone a pill too far.

 

Sir,

 

Your leading article on 21 March could hardly have been more inaccurate had that

been the intention. Your own scientific correspondent, Robert Matthews, has

drawn attention to the totally unscientific nature of the testing of drugs -

particularly on animals. Dr James Le Fanu has written on food supplements " it is

surprising that nutritionists are better informed on these matters than we

medical doctors " . Dr Sarah Brewster often gives informed comment on

" alternatives " . Perhaps the most damning statement in your columns on the

uncertainties of allopathic medicine was that revealed by Dr Julian Kenyon that

an increasing number of oncologists and other doctors, while happily

recommending chemotherapy to their patients, will run a mile rather than use it

on themselves or their families.

 

Vernon Coleman MD states that more than 50% of pharmaceutical drugs are

positively harmful with overall medicine doing " more harm than good " and

iatrogenic disorders are now very high on the list of factors causing premature

death. Matthias Rath MD claims that only 2% of medical drugs are proven to be

beneficial. A recent issue of the British Medical Association Journal claims

that only 6% of the claims made in drug information leaflets issued by

pharmaceutical companies (and on which doctors rely for prescribing) have any

scientific basis whatsoever. The work of the late Max Gerson MD, who Albert

Schweitzer MD considered " one of the most eminent geniuses in medical history " ,

has been quite deliberately suppressed. The late Mendelsohn MD considered that

only 10% of allopathic medical procedures were of proven value.

 

While I accept the premise that " anecdotes make bad science " , I have myself

benefited dramatically from " alternatives " when all " conventional " means have

failed. And the same applies to many members of my family and many friends.

 

People spend money on alternatives because they work when conventional medicine

fails them. Given the same genuine freedom of choice that exists in food,

housing, and clothing (all more important than medicine), then there would be an

enormous increase in the use of alternatives and a reduction of allopathic

usage. Conventional medical resources would then be released for what is does

best.

 

The great majority of " dis-ease " arises anyway from lifestyle choices like poor

nutrition, lack of exercise and abuse of recreational drugs. To encourage the

belief that a " pill " will somehow reverse this is pernicious indeed. Another of

your columnists, Dr Dalrymple, has pointed out that doctors are often under

irresistible pressure to prescribe drugs when they know they are useless because

that is what the patients demand and doctors will suffer verbal abuse - even

physical attack - if they do not comply.

 

Geoffrey J Sherman MBE

Commander, Royal Navy

Pembrokeshire, UK

 

 

 

 

 

 

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