EIGHT MEDICAL LIES AND WHY I ABANDONED MEDICINE

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8 Medical Lies and Why I Abandoned Medicine

 

By Shane Ellison, M.Sc.

 

Early to Rise © 2005

 

 

By education and by trade, I was a drug chemist. My passion for

science motivated a successful career in drug design and synthesis –

in both academia and industry. As a scientist, I witnessed first-hand

the priorities of international pharmaceutical companies (Big Pharma),

which ranked wealth first and health a distant second.

 

 

 

In the pharmaceutical industry, making money supercedes science.

Science no longer prevails in medicine. Instead, modern medicine has

been democratized. Drug approval is a simple matter of 51% telling the

other 49% that a prescription drug is safe and necessary. The outcome:

deadly drugs are approved for use among misinformed medical doctors

and patients. Herein lies a story of deceit and a chemist's

abandonment of modern medicine.

 

 

 

My suspicion of modern medicine began while I was employed by Eli

Lilly to design a new generation of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)

drugs. Such drugs include tamoxifen and raloxifene. Initially, these

drugs were thought to block estrogen receptors (excess estrogen can

initiate cancer growth) and thereby halt cancer. As time progressed,

though, it was learned that they were also capable of activating

estrogen receptors. The end result was a biochemical environment

favorable to cancer growth among users.[1] The Journal of the American

Medical Association recognized this trend and stated " our data add to

the growing body of evidence that recent long-term use of HRT is

associated with an increased risk of breast cancer and that such use

may be related particularly to lobular tumors. "

 

 

 

The risk of cancer associated with HRT drugs was obscured from doctors

by drug companies. This can be seen by the fact that tamoxifen is the

gold-standard used by medical doctors to fight cancer among their

patients, particularly breast cancer. This explains why medical

doctors might not notice its ability to cause cancer – the patient

already has it.

 

 

 

At any rate, my task was made clear: Design HRT " knock-offs " that are

effective without causing cancer.

 

 

 

My attempt to design safer alternatives was unsuccessful. And after

one year, the project was ended. However, access to HRT drugs like

tamoxifen was not. They remained on the market.

 

 

 

The fuel driving the continued use of HRT drugs was disinformation via

Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) advertising. Since 1962, monitoring DTC

advertising has been the sole responsibility of the Food and Drug

Administration (FDA). But in a ghastly conflict of interests, the FDA

granted the duty of DTC advertising to the pharmaceutical companies in

1997. Officially, this was done as a means of " promoting health

awareness to ensure health and safety. " Unofficially, it was done to

sell more drugs. DTC advertising dictated that all women over 50

should use HRT to remain healthy. Women scurried to their doctors to

ask if " HRT was right for them. " My suspicion grew into conflict.

 

 

 

The disinformation campaign behind HRT drugs was not an isolated case.

I learned that drug advertising and science are frequently in direct

opposition 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 attack

away. Science proves otherwise.

 

 

 

DTC advertising dictates that depression is a disease that must be

treated with prescription drugs. Science proves otherwise.

 

 

 

DTC advertising dictates that ADHD is a disease and that our children

must be treated with amphetamines. Science proves otherwise.

 

 

 

DTC advertising dictates that infants must be vaccinated to prevent

childhood illness. Science proves otherwise.

 

 

 

DTC advertising dictates that blood pressure must be controlled via a

lifetime of servitude to prescription drugs. Science proves otherwise.

 

 

 

DTC advertising dictates that chemotherapy is your first line of

defense against deadly cancer. Science proves otherwise.

 

 

 

DTC advertising dictates that Type II diabetes must be treated with

daily insulin use. Science proves otherwise.

 

 

 

By spreading the aforementioned health myths, DTC advertising forges a

belief among the general public which asserts that drugs – not

lifestyle habits and nutrition - confer health and longevity. And

although, in reality, medicine is only necessary for sick people in

times of emergency, DTC advertising has been wildly successful in

convincing people that being healthy requires a lifetime of

prescription drug use. While it's true that the advertising usually

mentions the potential side effects of drugs, doctors tend to discount

them. They simply regurgitate the pharmaceutical-company line that

" the benefits of a drug outweigh the risks. " Don't believe it.

 

 

 

Western Medicine's plague of deception is deadlier than any virus,

illicit drugs, and terrorism combined. Well-documented in scientific

journals and reported by media outlets nationwide, FDA approved drugs

are killing an estimated 106,000 people every year.[2] That equates to

one individual dying every five minutes from " approved " drugs - 300

people dying every day. Which is twice as many deaths in a single

year from " approved drugs " as the total number of U.S. deaths from the

Vietnam War.[3] This does not count death by hospital medical error,

which adds 98,000 deaths to the atrocity.[4] If not killed, an

estimated 2 million people are victims of drug-induced illnesses.[5]

These may include drug-induced obesity, cancer, kidney disease,

autism, depression and heart failure.

 

 

 

Hypnotized by DTC advertising, people are oblivious to the ill effects

of prescription drug use. This is evidenced by their willingness to

swallow whatever " the doctor ordered. " They drug their children, hop

the borders to smuggle inexpensive prescription drugs back into the

U.S., beg their congressman for discounts and pay a lifetime of

insurance fees in order to snatch up these silent killers. The

avalanche of DTC advertising has smothered common sense.

 

 

 

For the general public and medical doctors to fully grasp the effect

of Modern Medicine's Deceit, they have to judge the situation by what

a drug is actually accomplishing, rather than what the drug company

ads and pharmaceutically-compliant politicians insist. The health

benefits of prescription drugs are illusory. Step away from the

hypnotic drug ads, close the ghost-written medical journals, discard

research studies dominated by statistical contortionists and give

yourself a prescription-drug reality check: Very few prescription

drugs have any value outside of emergency medicine and those that do

can usually be replaced with safer and less expensive natural

medicine. This was a troublesome lesson for me, as an aspiring drug

chemist, to learn. Unfortunately, it was not the only one.

 

 

 

Humanitarianism among Big Pharma has been abandoned. The technical

skills of chemists are not being used for humanitarian purposes. They

are being used in a deadly game of profiteering. Those at risk are

not the misinformed, high-paid medical doctors but rather their

patients. Becoming aware of this ripple effect of DTC advertising led

to my abandonment of modern medicine.

 

 

 

I had to face the cold, hard facts: Western Medicine has become a

billion dollar empire not out of keen science, but rather deceit. The

end result has been one nation under drugs. This subjugation has set

a standard of health in America that, by definition, is sick care

disguised as health care.

 

 

 

Forward thinking chemists recognize the deadly trend. But few have

the luxury of speaking out or resigning. The majority of chemists in

the U.S. are foreigners. Their career secures them the right to live

and work in the U.S. This demands allegiance to their employer,

regardless of the end result of their labors. Admittedly, that this is

an intentional act of Big Pharma is speculative.

 

 

 

Individuals outside of the drug industry often question my conflict

with Big Pharma. How can a single person denounce a philosophy adhered

to by millions of medical doctors? That is simple: I ignore the

majority thinking that is steeped in disinformation. I stand firm in

science. Truth in science requires only one scientist to verify

reproducible results in the face of pharmaceutical tyranny.

 

 

 

Science proves that habits, not drugs, create and eradicate disease.

The current devastation of prescription drugs is a warning that

healthy lifestyle and nutrition habits must replace blind worship of

prescription drugs in the pursuit of life-extension. As people obtain

better health intelligence and heed this warning, drug use will

recede. A new model of health care based on common sense, not

profiteering, will emerge.

 

 

 

About the Author

 

 

 

Shane Ellison is dedicated to stopping prescription drug hype in its

tracks. To this end, he has made it his mission to introduce healthy

lifestyle habits as well as safe and effective nutritional supplements

to the public. With his keen ability to sift through scientific

literature and weed out fact from fiction, Shane has empowered

thousands to assert their health freedom by saying " no " to

prescription drugs. Learn more at www.healthmyths.net

 

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