For those who think medicine is scientific: A whistleblowers story.

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SSRI-Research@Sat, 22 Apr 2006 10:17:56 -0400[sSRI-Research] MODERN MEDICINE'S DECEIT & WHY I ABANDONED IThttp://www.newswithviews.com/Ellison/shane19.htmMODERN MEDICINE'S DECEIT & WHY I ABANDONED ITShane Ellison M. Sc.August 20, 2005NewsWithViews.comBy education and by trade, I was a drug chemist. My passion for sciencemotivated a successful career in drug design and synthesis - in bothacademia and industry. As a scientist, I witnessed first-hand theprioritiesof international pharmaceutical companies (Big Pharma), which rankedwealthfirst and health a distant second.In the pharmaceutical industry, making money supercedes science.Science nolonger prevails in medicine. Instead, modern medicine has beendemocratized.Drug approval is a simple

matter of 51% telling the other 49% that aprescription drug is safe and necessary. The outcome: deadly drugs areapproved for use among misinformed medical doctors and patients.Herein liesa story of deceit and a chemist's abandonment of modern medicine.My suspicion of modern medicine began while I was employed by Eli Lilly todesign a new generation of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) drugs. Suchdrugs include tamoxifen and raloxifene. Initially, these drugs werethoughtto block estrogen receptors (excess estrogen can initiate cancergrowth) andthereby halt cancer. As time progressed, though, it was learned that theywere also capable of activating estrogen receptors. The end result was abiochemical environment favorable to cancer growth among users. [1]TheJournal of the American Medical Association recognized this trend andstated"our data add to the growing body of evidence that recent long-term use ofHRT

is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer and thatsuch usemay be related particularly to lobular tumors."The risk of cancer associated with HRT drugs was obscured from doctorsby drug companies. This can be seen by the fact that tamoxifen is thegold-standard used by medical doctors to fight cancer among theirpatients, particularly breast cancer. This explains why medicaldoctors might not notice its ability to cause cancer - the patientalready has it.At any rate, my task was made clear: Design HRT "knock-offs" that areeffective without causing cancer.My attempt to design safer alternatives was unsuccessful. And after oneyear, the project was ended. However, access to HRT drugs liketamoxifen wasnot. They remained on the market.The fuel driving the continued use of HRT drugs was disinformation viaDirect-To-Consumer (DTC) advertising. Since 1962, monitoring DTCadvertisinghas been

the sole responsibility of the Food and Drug Administration(FDA).But in a ghastly conflict of interests, the FDA granted the duty of DTCadvertising to the pharmaceutical companies in 1997. Officially, this wasdone as a means of "promoting health awareness to ensure health andsafety."Unofficially, it was done to sell more drugs. DTC advertising dictatedthatall women over 50 should use HRT to remain healthy. Women scurried totheirdoctors to ask if "HRT was right for them." My suspicion grew intoconflict.The disinformation campaign behind HRT drugs was not an isolated case. Ilearned that drug advertising and science are frequently in directopposition to each other. For example:DTC advertising dictates that lowering cholesterol prevents heart disease.Science proves otherwise.DTC advertising dictates that an aspirin a day will keep heart attackaway.Science proves otherwise.DTC

advertising dictates that depression is a disease that must be treatedwith prescription drugs. Science proves otherwise.DTC advertising dictates that ADHD is a disease and that our children mustbe treated with amphetamines. Science proves otherwise.DTC advertising dictates that infants must be vaccinated to preventchildhood illness. Science proves otherwise.DTC advertising dictates that blood pressure must be controlled via alifetime of servitude to prescription drugs. Science proves otherwise.DTC advertising dictates that chemotherapy is your first line of defenseagainst deadly cancer. Science proves otherwise.DTC advertising dictates that Type II diabetes must be treated with dailyinsulin use. Science proves otherwise.By spreading the aforementioned health myths, DTC advertising forges abelief among the general public which asserts that drugs - not lifestylehabits and nutrition - confer health

and longevity. And although, inreality, medicine is only necessary for sick people in times of emergency,DTC advertising has been wildly successful in convincing people that beinghealthy requires a lifetime of prescription drug use. While it's true thatthe advertising usually mentions the potential side effects of drugs,doctors tend to discount them. They simply regurgitate thepharmaceutical-company line that "the benefits of a drug outweigh therisks." Don't believe it.Western Medicine's plague of deception is deadlier than any virus, illicitdrugs, and terrorism combined. Well-documented in scientific journals andreported by media outlets nationwide, FDA approved drugs are killing anestimated 106,000 people every year.[2] That equates to one individualdyingevery five minutes from "approved" drugs - 300 people dying every day.Whichis twice as many deaths in a single year from "approved drugs" as

thetotalnumber of U.S. deaths from the Vietnam War.[3] This does not countdeath byhospital medical error, which adds 98,000 deaths to the atrocity.[4]If notkilled, an estimated 2 million people are victims of drug-inducedillnesses.[5] These may include drug-induced obesity, cancer, kidneydisease, autism, depression and heart failure.Hypnotized by DTC advertising, people are oblivious to the ill effects ofprescription drug use. This is evidenced by their willingness to swallowwhatever "the doctor ordered." They drug their children, hop theborders tosmuggle inexpensive prescription drugs back into the U.S., beg theircongressman for discounts and pay a lifetime of insurance fees in order tosnatch up these silent killers. The avalanche of DTC advertising hassmothered common sense.For the general public and medical doctors to fully grasp the effect ofModern Medicine's Deceit, they have to judge the

situation by what adrug isactually accomplishing, rather than what the drug company ads andpharmaceutically-compliant politicians insist. The health benefits ofprescription drugs are illusory. Step away from the hypnotic drug ads,closethe ghost-written medical journals, discard research studies dominated bystatistical contortionists and give yourself a prescription-drug realitycheck: Very few prescription drugs have any value outside of emergencymedicine and those that do can usually be replaced with safer and lessexpensive natural medicine. This was a troublesome lesson for me, as anaspiring drug chemist, to learn. Unfortunately, it was not the only one.Humanitarianism among Big Pharma has been abandoned. The technicalskills ofchemists are not being used for humanitarian purposes. They are being usedin a deadly game of profiteering. Those at risk are not the misinformed,high-paid medical doctors but

rather their patients. Becoming aware ofthisripple effect of DTC advertising led to my abandonment of modern medicine.I had to face the cold, hard facts: Western Medicine has become a billiondollar empire not out of keen science, but rather deceit. The endresult hasbeen one nation under drugs. This subjugation has set a standard of healthin America that, by definition, is sick care disguised as health care.Forward thinking chemists recognize the deadly trend. But few have theluxury of speaking out or resigning. The majority of chemists in the U.S.are foreigners. Their career secures them the right to live and workin theU.S. This demands allegiance to their employer, regardless of the endresultof their labors. Admittedly, that this is an intentional act of Big Pharmais speculative.Individuals outside of the drug industry often question my conflictwith BigPharma. How can a single person denounce

a philosophy adhered to bymillionsof medical doctors? That is simple: I ignore the majority thinking that issteeped in disinformation. I stand firm in science. Truth in sciencerequires only one scientist to verify reproducible results in the face ofpharmaceutical tyranny.Science proves that habits, not drugs, create and eradicate disease. Thecurrent devastation of prescription drugs is a warning that healthylifestyle and nutrition habits must replace blind worship of prescriptiondrugs in the pursuit of life-extension. As people obtain better healthintelligence and heed this warning, drug use will recede. A new modelof health care based on common sense, not profiteering, will emerge.Footnotes:1, Sally, A. et al. Estrogen Plus Progestin and the Incidence of Dementiaand Mild Cognitive Impairment in Postmenopausal Women. Journal of theAmerican Medical Association. 2003;289:2651-2662.Chen CL, Weiss

NS, Newcomb P, Barlow W, White E. Hormone replacementtherapyin relation to breast cancer. Journal of the American Medical Association.2002 Feb 13;287(6):734-41.Spurgeon, D. Long Term use of HRT Doubles Cancer Risk. British MedicalJournal. 2003 Jul 5;327(7405):9Yoneva T. Taniguchi K. Tsunenari T. Saito H. Kanbe Y, Morikaw K,Yamada-Okabe H. Identification of a novel, orally bioavailable estrogenreceptor downregulator. Anticancer Drugs. 2005 Aug;16(7):751-6.Labrie, F. et al. EM-652 (SCH 57068), a third generation SERM actingas pureantiestrogen in the mammary gland and endometrium. The Journal of SteroidBiochemistry and Molecular Biology. 1999 Apr-Jun;69(1-6):51-84.2, Starfield, Barbara. Is US Health Really the Best in the World?Journal ofthe American Chemical Society, July 26, 2000-Vol 284, No.4.http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7503122/3, There

were an estimated 58,000 U.S casualties in the Vietnam War4, Moride Y, Haramburu F, Requejo AA, Begaud B. Under-reporting of adversedrug reactions in general practice. British Journal of ClinicalPharmacology, 1997 43: 177-181.5, Tejal K. Gandhi. et al. Adverse Drug Events in Ambulatory Care. The NewEngland Journal of Medicine. Volume 348:1556-1564. April 17, 2003. Number16.© 2005 Shane Ellison - Sign Up For Free E-Mail AlertsE-Mails are used strictly for NWVs alerts, not for sale______Shane holds a Master's degree in organic chemistry and has first-handindustry experience with drug research, design and synthesis. Heunderstandsthat Americans want and deserve education rather than prescriptions. Hisshocking ebook surrounding cholesterol lowering drugs can bedownloaded forFREE as a pdf file at www.health-fx.net/eBook.pdf. His book Health

MythsExposed is available at www.healthmyths.netE-Mail: shane "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo.

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