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Big Tobacco and Big Pharma: same tactics, different chemicals

 

Saturday, June 25, 2005

Big Tobacco and Big Pharma: same tactics, different chemicals

Have you ever thought about the similarities between pharmaceutical

and tobacco companies? They're striking. Both sell products that kill

people when used as directed. The statistics are readily available for

pharmaceuticals, which kill around 100,000 Americans each year

according to the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Big

Tobacco, which makes tobacco products that are partly responsible for

hundreds of thousands of cases of cancer in the United States each

year. These are the facts from industry. Industry critics (such as

myself) would argue that those numbers are actually much higher.

 

But let's look at other similarities. Aside from marketing products

that actually kill people when used as directed, both industries are

engaged in the blatant distortion of scientific evidence in order to

mislead regulators and the public.

 

With Big Tobacco we saw the suppression of studies that said nicotine

was addictive, or of studies linking the inhalation of tobacco smoke

to lung cancer. In the pharmaceutical industry, we see even worse

distortions of clinical studies. We see studies that are designed to

minimize the appearance of negative risks associated with these drugs,

such as heart attacks, stroke, mental disorders, suicide attempts, and

violent behavior. Even after studies are completed, the results are

highly distorted as well. Drug companies pick and choose which studies

they want to publish. They may do twelve different studies on a

particular drug, and if six of them say the drug is safe and

effective, while the other six studies say the drug is dangerous and

useless from a medicinal point of view, they pick the six they want

and bury the others. They forward the six they want to the FDA. The

FDA looks at those six and says, " This sure is scientific! " , and they

approve that drug application. I'm not making this up.

 

In the late 1990's, drug advertising appeared on television. That is,

of course, another similarity between Big Tobacco and Big Pharma: they

both use direct-to-consumer advertising to create demand for their

products. For many years, tobacco companies sponsored sporting events;

in fact, they still attempt to sponsor many sporting events. In the

pharmaceutical industry, we see heavy magazine and television

advertising, and hundreds of millions of dollars spent lobbying

doctors, buying them gifts, trips (to Hawaii, believe it or not), air

tickets, and stays in luxurious resorts. All doctors have to do is

show up, sign in, and act like they're attending a continuing medical

education course. They then can leave for the entire day, and go on

the beach, go fishing, go surfing, and do whatever they want. It's an

all-expenses-paid vacation.

 

Some people say, " No, that's ridiculous. That doesn't happen. " I've

actually been in Hawaii, talking to doctors who were attending such an

event. I saw the entire room of about four hundred MD's, and these

people just signed in, then they left to go surfing with me! So I know

how the system works, I've seen it firsthand. All the doctors out

there who might be listening to this, you know how it works too. A lot

of these continuing medical education courses are really just a joke.

 

Doctors pushed cigarettes for decades

Another interesting similarity between cigarettes and prescription

drugs is that doctors have a history of supporting them both very

strongly. You might say, " Wait a minute, doctors don't support smoking

and cigarettes. " Sure they do, if you just go back far enough. In the

seventies and eighties, they began to figure out that smoking is bad

for you. Before that, however, doctors could actually be found as

spokespersons for cigarettes. They said that cigarettes made you healthy.

 

You can find, in archives of old magazines like Time, that some

doctors are even in advertisements stating, " Smoking, it's good for

your smile " . They also said smoking helps you concentrate, and that

it's good for your nervous system. They made many ridiculous claims

about cigarettes. We tend to forget about that today, but doctors were

paid to be spokespersons for tobacco companies, and this went on for

decades.

 

Today, of course, old school doctors are strongly in support of

prescription drugs. But new doctors, the smart doctors, whom I hope

you're visiting, are questioning the safety of prescription drugs.

They are looking outside of conventional medicine for solutions, in

terms of disease prevention and even the simple treatment of symptoms.

These new doctors are noticing that people get healthier when they get

off of prescription drugs. Alternatively, they use prescription drugs

only as a temporary measure in order to give the patient enough time

and education so that they can put into effect long term lifestyle

changes that, in turn, eliminate the need for the drugs.

 

Of course, this frustrates the drug companies, since they want people

to take these drugs for a lifetime. They claim that it's good for you,

but actually, it's only good for their bottom line when you become a

daily user of their overpriced product. Good doctors are recognizing

that. They recognize statin drugs do have a temporary role in dealing

with an acute symptom, which might be extremely elevated cholesterol

that represents an immediate risk to the person's health or even life.

So they may use a statin drug on a temporary basis, only for a few

weeks or a couple of months at most. They meanwhile help patients

undergo major, fundamental reforms in their lifestyle consisting of

food choice, dietary habits, and physical exercise, avoidance of

environmental toxins, lower levels of chronic stress, better sleep,

better hormonal balance, and so on.

 

Marketing to children

Here's another similarity between Big Tobacco and Big Pharma: They

both love to market to children. For years, tobacco companies have

been trying to edge and wiggle their way into the adolescent market,

targeting teenagers and children. They used Joe Camel, a cartoon

character, to sell cigarettes, because they knew that if they could

get adolescents hooked on nicotine, they had a customer for life. It's

not rocket science to figure out the marketing tactic there for Big

Tobacco.

 

Pharmaceutical companies don't have the same addictive quality for

their drugs. You're not necessarily psychologically or physiologically

addicted to drugs in the same way as nicotine. However, by starting a

kid early on drugs, they can create a paradigm where that kid grows up

thinking that he is a diseased person, and that he is that label. So

if they get a kid diagnosed as ADD or ADHD, then that child will

associate that label with himself or herself, and will continue on in

life with the belief that they have some sort of disease or brain

chemical imbalance. And they'll even tell other people, " I'm ADD " or

" I'm bipolar, " as if that's who they are.

 

That, of course, is not who they are. That's a completely fictitious

label; it's been made up, and it's been placed upon them. But the

trick is that by placing these labels upon these children, the drug

companies know that when those children grow up, they identify

themselves with those diseases, and they readily accept the idea of

taking more prescription drugs as long as the doctors put more labels

on them. So as they grow up, they'll find more labels, being told,

" You have a syndrome X, you need this drug " or " You have high blood

pressure and that's a disease, so you need this drug to lower your

blood pressure. " If you take a child and you get them used to the idea

of associating their identity with labels of diseases, then you create

a lifelong customer for the pharmaceutical industry. Big Pharma knows

this, and their marketing people understand this.

 

Some people will do anything for a paycheck

Another interesting similarity between Big Tobacco and Big Pharma is

that both are staffed by people you might consider to be ordinary,

everyday people. They might be your neighbors, people that you

wouldn't think would be harmful, and who aren't necessarily evil.

They're just regular, everyday people trying to succeed in their jobs.

Yet, they are part of a machine that is creating tremendous pain and

suffering, along with destruction, disease, and distortion in our society.

 

It makes you wonder, what kind of people would go work for tobacco

companies? Who would do that? What kind of person would go work for a

pharmaceutical company? Who are these drug reps? I've met a lot of

these drug reps. They're everyday, nice people; people you might have

as friends. Maybe you are a drug rep because you just needed a job.

But I think it's important to note that there's a great tendency for

human beings, when they need jobs, to set aside their ethics. They

tend to dissociate themselves from the long term effects of what they

are doing.

 

Historically, we saw this of course in Nazi Germany, where people were

members of the Nazi party. They were part of a machine that was

creating tremendous evil, pain and suffering, and destruction in many

different ways. (I'm not talking just about the Holocaust here.)

 

They were part of this machine, yet they felt the need to succeed in

their particular role in that machine. They dissociated themselves

from the pain and suffering the machine was ultimately causing.

Perhaps they saw themselves as just a cog in a big wheel. Maybe they

felt like they just had no other options. I suspect that some of the

same psychology is at work today in people who work for pharmaceutical

companies, or people who work for tobacco companies.

 

But this psychological deception is harder to do today, at least when

working for tobacco companies. It's hard to lie to yourself and say,

" This is a healthy product. " You'd have to be living in some alternate

universe, where you've seen none of the science about how dangerous

cigarette smoke is to human health. In the pharmaceutical industry,

however, there are a lot of people who are lying to themselves, and

it's easier to lie to yourself saying, " We are searching for the cure

for cancer! " or " We're going to solve osteoporosis and we're going to

end suffering! " They think they're part of a machine that's going to

end suffering. Thus, they think if they succeed in marketing and

creating more money and more profits for their company, then fund more

research, they can find all these solutions to disease.

 

Thus, they fall for something I call " The Big Lie, " which is the idea

that we can solve health problems by creating ever more

technologically advanced or complex synthetic chemicals and compounds

that, if introduced into the human body, can suddenly reverse all of

these diseases which have been created by years and years of abuse

through lifestyle, lack of nutrition, exposure to environmental

toxins, and so on.

 

The Big Lie of the pharmaceutical industry

It's a big lie that you can cure cancer or diabetes by coming up with

the right chemical, or that you can even cure depression by altering

brain chemistry with the right chemical. This is a big lie. It's as if

medical science has gone down the wrong pathway for so long that they

can't even see the fact that they're lost. They're lost in the forest,

and they can't even see the trees. All they can do is continue to try

to come up with more and more chemicals they think are treating these

diseases.

 

They think the only reason they haven't cured cancer yet is because

they don't have enough money, that it's just a money problem. " Give us

more money and in a couple more years, and we'll have cancer cured. "

That's been the promise they've held out for decades. The reason they

think they can cure these diseases if they just have enough money and

enough time is because conventional medicine remains stuck in the

paradigm of germ theory. And the germ theory says that every disease

is based on an organism or an invading element, whether it is a virus

or bacteria, and if you just have the right chemical compound, then

you can cure that infectious disease.

 

Of course, this was quite valid in the day of penicillin, and it's

still valid today for basic, simple infections. But the germ theory

does not apply to chronic, degenerative diseases such as cancer,

osteoporosis, Alzheimer's disease, arthritis, diabetes, cardiovascular

heart disease, Crohn's disease, clinical depression, inflammatory

diseases, and so on.

 

Chemical-based medicine is a Newtonian view of health

That model of germ theory simply does not apply today. It doesn't mean

that germ theory is false, but these chronic degenerative diseases

exist in a different realm. For example, regarding physics and the

laws of motion, Newtonian physics operate on a large scale; it talks

about the interaction between the motion of objects and gravity and

momentum. That is a very valid realm of physics and science. And it

creates predictable observations and outcomes that match the

mathematics. But when you go into quantum mechanics, or when you get

to the subatomic level, the rules begin to change. You're now dealing

with quantum physics. Quantum physics disagrees with Newtonian

physics. But it doesn't mean that quantum physics is wrong, or that

Newtonian physics is wrong, it's only that it's applied in a different

context. The same is true with medicine.

 

We still have the old germ theory, which I equate to Newtonian

physics, trying to be applied to today's epidemic diseases, which

shouldn't even be called diseases, because invading microorganisms do

not cause them. They are created as a result of many different inputs,

or causes that the patient undergoes, or those which the patient

chooses to engage in. To call them diseases is really not accurate.

Therefore, the idea that you can cure or reverse these fictitious

diseases is invalid at its very premise.

 

Cancer is no infectious disease

The idea that you can reverse cancer by taking a synthetic chemical

compound or prescription drug is, at its very core, nonsense. Because

there is no such infectious disease as " cancer, " there is no microbial

invader. In fact, there isn't even a tissue or a physical element that

you can point to and look at under a microscope and say, " That is cancer. "

 

Some people mistakenly say, " Well, sure you can. You can take a tumor

out of the body, and you can put that under a microscope and call it

cancer. However, that's not cancer. That's the side effect of cancer,

because cancer is a systemic failure of the immune system. It's a

systemic disease. It is actually a condition. It is a lack of the

body's ability to self-regulate its own cell growth, to clean up its

own blood, tissues, bones, bone marrow, and so on.

 

This is the nature of cancer; you can't put that under a microscope

and look at it. In the germ theory of disease, however, scientists are

always trying to look at cancer under a microscope, where they can put

it down and say, " This is the microbe, see? There's the virus " or

" There's the bacteria " or " There's the parasite. " They still try to do

that today by saying, " Alzheimer's is based on the nervous system. Put

it under a microscope and there you can see plaque. Plaque on the

nervous system. " They think that's the cause of the disease. It's not,

it's just a side effect.

 

Big Pharma = big-time poverty

Getting back to the main point of this, which is Big Tobacco and Big

Pharma, we were talking about why people work for these organizations

when these organizations are actually doing such evil, or engaging in

the creation of such pain and suffering, and even death. Here in the

United States, we're also talking about economic poverty created by

both of these companies.

 

Tobacco companies make people poor, because they hook them on a

product that's expensive to buy; and they have to keep buying it,

because they're addicted to it. You'll notice that people who smoke

tend to be on a lower economic scale. Part of that is the vicious

feedback cycle; if you start smoking, you will get poorer. As you get

poorer, you will continue to smoke more because life is terrible and

you need your nicotine high just to feel okay. Thus, it's a downward

spiral into oblivion.

 

Much the same is true with prescription drugs in terms of the economic

scale and the loss of good, clear decision making abilities. One thing

I've noticed is that when people begin taking prescription drugs, not

only do they immediately suffer a big economic hit (remember that 50

percent of all bankruptcies in the United States today are due to

medical bills, including prescription drugs), they also tend to lose

the ability to make good decisions.

 

Many of these drugs, especially statin or antidepressant drugs, for

example, affect people's mental acuity. They result in a loss of

lucidity, which results in people no longer comprehending the big

picture, and no longer making good decisions. When people can't make

good decisions, they ultimately decide to allow the doctor to keep

prescribing them more prescription drugs. They don't have the mental

awareness to say no to the drugs. They keep taking more drugs, and

they lose even more awareness. They get even less responsive, and

retain less decision-making ability, and this just becomes another

downward spiral.

 

As this is happening; they are being drained of their finances. So day

after day dollars are leaving their pockets and being stuffed into the

pockets of the corporate CEOs and the shareholders of the

pharmaceutical companies. There's this huge transfer. Imagine dollar

bills with little wings flying out of the pockets of people all around

the country and flying into the corporate CEOs' pockets in the big

buildings of the giant pharmaceutical companies of this country. That

is happening every single day. I believe it's an exploitation of

people for economic gain, for greed, by the pharmaceutical companies.

 

Profits first, people second

This, of course, is classic behavior that we saw from Big Tobacco. It

was all about greed, it was all about marketing products. They didn't

care about the resulting effect they were creating in their customers.

In fact, the tobacco companies really only wanted to make sure their

product didn't kill customers so fast that they lost a paying

customer. They most likely didn't mind that it was giving them

disease; they just wanted the customer to stay alive long enough to

keep buying more product.

 

To some degree, this mindset is still present in the pharmaceutical

industry. You see this incredible insensitivity to the human condition

in Big Pharma. You see press releases and memos from inside the

pharmaceutical companies saying , " We can't wait for the Alzheimer's

wave to come. We can sell a lot of drugs! Look at all those

Alzheimer's patients out there! " Obviously I'm paraphrasing, but this

is the kind of attitude we see. They look at diseases as

opportunities, and that's sick! To look at a disease and how it's

sweeping across the nation and affecting millions of people, and have

dollar signs ringing up in your eyes and thinking, " Wow! This is

great! We can make so much money selling drugs to all these people who

are going to have Alzheimer's, or dementia, or osteoporosis. " That's

what goes on every single day in the back alleys of Big Pharma; or

rather, I should say, in the executive office suites of Big Pharma.

There are no back alleys; they're doing quite well financially.

 

Exploiting the public for financial gain

Whether it's Big Tobacco or Big Pharma, the similarities are very

obvious at this point. It's all about making money, and selling a

product to people. It's about exploiting the public for financial

gain, while disregarding the true effects of your company's products

on the public health. That, to me, is a crime. It's not just a crime

in the legal sense, but in the spiritual sense, a crime against a

fellow human being. To exploit their pain and suffering for your

financial gain is unethical and immoral. It's bad karma and it should

be against the law.

 

Instead, many of these companies are actually propped up today.

Business magazines talk about them as great successes, and their CEOs

are named as some of the most successful business people in the

country. They sit on various boards, and they're influential people. I

ask myself, " What great good have these people accomplished? " Nothing!

Where are the cures for any of these diseases?

 

Where are all the cures?

I haven't seen a single cure for any disease come out of the

pharmaceutical industry since insulin came out. And that doesn't even

cure diabetes, although it does regulate blood sugar. So where are the

cures? Where is this big turnaround in health if everybody's taking so

many drugs? If drugs are so good for everybody, shouldn't we be the

healthiest population in the world? Where are those statistics? Well,

they don't exist!

 

We're the most diseased population in the world, the most diseased in

the history of the world. We have never seen a population this

diseased, and we're taking more drugs than anybody. We're spending the

most money on healthcare. We're supposed to have the greatest

healthcare system in the world, yet we're the sickest!

 

We're the craziest in this country, too. We have more mental

disorders, behavioral disorders, school violence -- we have people

shooting their friends and classmates -- we have more people with

dementia and Alzheimer's than we've ever seen before. So where are all

these medicinal miracles? They're nowhere. The whole thing is a giant

distortion and an illusion. Pharmaceuticals offer us nothing. It's

just like nicotine and cigarettes. They offer us nothing other than a

quick fix; nothing other than something to try to make us feel

comfortable in the short term. Meanwhile, they are destroying our

health from the inside out. In both cases, they're also destroying us

economically.

 

Class action lawsuits: the downfall of Big Pharma?

The last similarity between these two companies is the class action

lawsuits. Of course, Big Tobacco has fended off a lot of lawsuits.

There was a Big Tobacco settlement a few years ago where the states

got involved, and I think there is just such a lawsuit coming against

the pharmaceutical companies.

 

I think the pharmaceutical companies have dug their own grave. They

have over-hyped, over-promoted, over-prescribed, over-pushed, and

over-advertised all these prescription drugs. As a result, they now

have over 40 percent of the population taking drugs. This means that

as the facts start to come out about how these drugs are killing

people and causing disease, and sometimes causing the very disorders

they claim to treat, there's going to be a huge backlash -- a major

class action lawsuit.

 

Most of the adults in this country will probably be involved. We've

got drugs out there that are extremely dangerous, even

over-the-counter drugs like non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs,

which, by the last study I saw, are killing 16,500 Americans per year

just from gastro-intestinal bleeding alone. These are the numbers from

one of the drug safety researchers at the FDA. That's just one drug,

one over-the-counter drug, killing 16,500 a year. I think there's a

big backlash coming, just like there was against Big Tobacco.

 

Times are changing; people are realizing that pharmaceuticals are not

safe, that they need to look beyond drugs. They need to look beyond

these magic pill solutions and start taking responsibility for their

own health. People are figuring out that if they go to the doctor and

believe everything their doctor tells them, they'll most likely end up

on one or more prescription drugs that will turn out to be unsafe

years down the road, after the damage has been done. Most of these

drugs are just giant experiments. And people are just guinea pigs to

the drug companies. These drugs are not well tested. They're not in

widespread use. All these trials have been carefully selected and

constructed, but afterward they are distorted anyway. These are not

safe drugs, but the drug companies know they can make enough money to

fend off the lawsuits and even settle with patients, so they still

come out ahead, even when their drugs literally kill people by the

thousands.

 

But that's the big trend coming -- massive nationwide lawsuits against

the pharmaceutical companies with the states and the Attorney General

getting involved. People like Eliot Spitzer, a fantastic champion of

protecting the public and going after corrupt corporations will play a

part. We've got states right now suing drug companies for all kinds of

billing fraud. We're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars in

fraud, in which these pharmaceutical companies would just over-bill

states.

 

I saw statistics in which some drug companies were billing states, I

believe, $900 for a bottle of electrolyte solution for IVs. This

should be about $20, and it's being billed at $900. It was a long list

of items being overcharged. The states were shelling out this money to

the pharmaceutical companies, being scammed one day after another,

just like the American people are being scammed.

 

I say the pharmaceutical industry is the greatest con ever perpetrated

on the American people. It's a huge con, and they've got everybody

behind it. They've got the FDA backing it up, they've got the doctors

and the medical profession, and even the medical schools and the

medical journals behind it. A lot of the mainstream media as well,

because the drug companies spend so much money in advertising that

they can pick up the phone and talk to the editors of these big

magazines and news networks. They have influence because they spend

the bucks. It's a huge con and it has far-reaching implications, and

its roots are deep and widespread throughout society. It's going to be

difficult to get rid of this, but times are changing.

 

History will not judge Big Pharma kindly

Some day, Big Pharma will be looked at in much the same way that Big

Tobacco is looked at today. Today, Big Tobacco is not doing so well

here in the United States. What has Big Tobacco done? They have turned

to the international market. The American people finally figured out

that cigarettes are a dangerous product and started passing laws about

not selling cigarettes to minors, restricting the advertising of

tobacco companies, and so on. But the tobacco companies figured out

that they can exploit other countries. " Let's go sell cigarettes in

China. "

 

Guess what, the smoking rate in China is skyrocketing. They're selling

a whole lot of cigarettes over there, and killing a lot of Chinese

people in the meantime. We're talking about Hong Kong, China, Taiwan,

Japan, Thailand, North and South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore,

Indonesia, and all throughout Southeast Asia. We have a huge smoking

problem and it's the American cigarette companies that are over there

exploiting those populations and literally poisoning and killing those

people just to make a buck, because they figured out they couldn't

make their money over here in the US anymore. The game was up. They

got caught red handed here in the US.

 

Eventually some of those other countries will figure it out too.

Hopefully, we eventually won't have a tobacco industry in this country

or anywhere in the world. That would be ideal. Hopefully, people don't

need to inhale these deadly products.

 

When the backlash happens against Big Pharma, we're going to see the

same thing. Big Pharma here will finally have to get creative and try

to sell their products overseas. They will very likely start

exploiting Asia again. There's a whole lot of people over there, they

need drugs too. They'll go over there and try to discredit traditional

Chinese medicine, and they will try to discredit herbs and

acupuncture, just like they've done here in the US. They will create a

market where they force people to have only one option for treating

diseases or symptoms: prescription drugs.

 

The same scam worked here in the US. They convinced most people that

drugs are the answer, even doctors, who are smart people. Why not try

it in Asia as well? I'm sure they will. They're doing it already. They

will just accelerate it as they become exposed here in the US, as

people learn the truth about the dangers of prescription drugs.

 

A few legitimate uses of drugs

With all this talk about the pharmaceutical industry, you might say,

" Mike, don't you have anything good to say about the pharmaceutical

industry? " Yes, sure. It's great to have antibiotics if they're used

properly, which they aren't. They're overused today. It's great to

have anesthetics. If you need a surgical procedure because you've been

in a car crash or you've experienced some kind of physical trauma or

injury, you need anesthetics. You need antibiotics during that

surgery. You need this technology to help put you back together

physically.

 

Traditional, organized Western medicine has a place. I don't deny

that. Even prescription drugs can have a place if used temporarily,

only for short term treatment of acute symptoms and acute conditions,

and only when paired with education and lifestyle changes that can

help that patient eliminate the very causes of the conditions that

created that disease in the first place. The pharmaceutical industry

does have a place; but frankly, it's only justified role in society is

maybe something like one-twentieth of its current size. We don't need

40 percent of the population taking pharmaceuticals at any one time,

we only need about 2 percent. The other 38 percent should be on

nutritional healing programs. They should be on lifestyle changes,

strength training, physical exercise, exposure to natural sunlight,

and consumption of fresh water on a more regular basis. They also need

healing foods and healing therapies. They don't need drugs.

 

Where is the shame of doctors?

Doctors will some day look back on this and they will be embarrassed

that they supported prescription drugs for so long. They will be

embarrassed in the same way as they are today about the truth that

they promoted cigarettes. No doctor is proud of being associated with

a profession and with an American Medical Association that has

actually promoted these things in the past. The American Medical

Association has even been convicted twice in the federal courts of

conspiracy, for conspiracy to discredit chiropractic medicine.

 

This is a history that doctors shouldn't be proud of. Perhaps a lot of

them don't even know this history, but this is the real history of

medical doctors in this country. In the future they will look back to

today and say, " We are ashamed that we promoted all of these drugs,

that we prescribed them without teaching patients how to be healthy.

We are ashamed of our profession, and it's time to make some changes. "

They indeed should be ashamed, because right now old school medical

doctors are doing tremendous harm.

 

The first rule of medicine: Do no harm. That has been forgotten,

because every time a doctor sees a patient, spends three minutes with

that patient, writes a prescription, and sends them out the door to go

to the pharmacy, that's doing harm. That is irresponsible medicine. In

fact, it is not even healing at all. It's not even being a doctor.

 

The word " doctor " means " teacher " , according to the Latin root. Where

is the teaching in our doctors today? It's not present, except in the

really great doctors. But by and large, the run-of-the-mill general

practitioners are not teaching anybody anything. They're writing

prescriptions and getting them out of the office.

 

Some say, " We don't have time to teach people. " Then, what are you

doing? What are you doing as a doctor? What are you doing in this

profession if you don't have time to help people? Didn't you get into

medicine because you wanted to help people? Stop wasting your time

being a slave of the drug companies. You will be embarrassed about

that some day, believe me; instead, go study naturopathy. Go learn

nutrition (see related ebook on nutrition). Go help people in

meaningful ways. Don't be part of the machine that is causing pain,

suffering, destruction, and death in our society and around the world

right now. That machine is set up for one purpose, which is financial

profit. Refuse to be part of that machine.

 

Just say no to prescription drugs

For the rest of us, we can cause the vanishing of both Big Tobacco and

Big Pharma by simply not purchasing their products. We can go

somewhere else, we can do something different. We can use homeopathic

remedies or acupuncture to treat our acute systems. We can use

nutritional healing and lifestyle changes to prevent chronic disease

so that we don't become a patient in the first place. We won't suffer

from Alzheimer's and dementia and these so called " aging diseases, "

which really have almost nothing to do with aging; but modern medicine

loves to describe it that way to try to make you think it's inevitable.

 

We can make these changes. We don't have to be a customer of organized

medicine. We can say " No " to cigarettes; we can say " No " to

prescription drugs. We can find alternatives. I encourage you to take

responsibility for your own health, to seek out those alternatives and

use them. Don't be a victim. Don't be exploited by tobacco companies

or pharmaceutical companies just so that you can make their CEOs rich

at your expense.

 

Overview:

 

* Big Tobacco and Big Pharma: same tactics, different chemicals

 

Source: http://www.newstarget.com/008291.html