Guest guest Posted May 20, 2006 Report Share Posted May 20, 2006 http://www.ahealedplanet.net/mdaq.htm Medical Dark Ages Quotes (part 6) By Wade Frazier " " ...In most of the affluent populations I have considered, the prevalence of coronary disease is associated with the consumption of sugar. Since sugar consumption is only one of a number of indices of wealth, the same sort of association (to coronary disease) exists with fat consumption, cigarette smoking, cars... " " Professor Ian McDonald of Guy's hospital in London...has found that, in young men, sugar raises the level of cholesterol in the blood, and especially...tri-glycerides. " " I did not agree..to having my article censored. ...The published report of the conference gives my name as a participant, but you will not find in it the paper I read. ...Scientists as a group are no more, and no less, influenced by emotional and irrational reactions than other people are. " " ...Directors of a large food-manufacturing firm (...At one extreme (: one) said it was not his job to protect people from themselves; he was not forcing people to eat his products, and if they chose to do so at the risk of harming themselves, it was of their own free choice. " - John Yudkin, MD, Professor of Physiology and Nutrition and Dietetics, Queen Elizabeth College, London. Sweet and Dangerous. " What is the explanation for the blind eye that has been turned on the flood of medical reports on the causative role of carbohydrates in overweight, ever since the publication in 1864 of William Banting's famous " Letter on Corpulence " ? Could it be related, in part, to the vast financial endowments poured into the various departments of nutritional education by the manufacturers of our refined carbohydrate foodstuff? " - Robert C. Atkins, MD, Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution, c. 1972. " Freedom of the press is reserved for those who own one. " - A. J. Liebling. " Business spends annually $500 million to $1 billion (in 1970's dollars) to promote its editorial and institutional point of view. " - Mark Green, " How Business is Misusing the Media. " The New York Times, 1977. " My estimate is that about 94,000 cancer fatalities for the future are being induced with each year of medical diagnostic X-rays (in US). " - John Goffman, MD, PhD, co-discoveror of four isotopes and four nuclear processes, Physics Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley, and about five lines of other credentials, awards, inventions, books, etc " ..Radiation...the biggest lobby ...in the world. It's involved in university research. ...industries...the whole medical profession.., the whole military establishment, and the economic and military policy of the country depends on people being willing to handle radio-active materials. " " The NCI sent (,)...to review our funding(,)...people connected with the nuclear establishment...It was a pretty much foregone conclusion, that if you send people in to review the funding, who stand most to be hurt by this research, the funding will be denied. " - Dr. Rosalie Bertell, Bio-statistician - Non Fiction Television, WNET, PBS, The Cancer War by Ralph Moss, PhD and others, 1983. " ...The connection between TV and real life violence....NCTV has found 15 reviews of the scientific literature since 1976 and every one concludes that a causal connection exists. (i.e.. TV influences behavior, as advertisers well know - Ed.)...NCTV has now found 700 scientific studies and reports from the US and 15 other nations...The overwhelming consensus of this research is that a significant and important connection exists...All age levels, social classes, ethnic backgrounds, and IQ levels are negatively affected in a variety of ways. " (Other) " 'Clean up TV' (groups) make no mention of trying to decrease violence, only sex. " - NCTV (National Coalition on Television Violence), NCTV News, 1981. " ...Based on (1400) energy crisis stories seen on...CBS, NBC, and ABC (,) correspondents relied on government sources more than 55% of the time. ...Outside sources - independent experts... - were consulted less than 3% of the time. (On) possible solutions to the crisis, the government was consulted a whopping 77% of the time. " - " A New Study of Network Coverage Reveals Disturbing Omissions " , TV Guide, 1982. " Day and night the telescreens bruised your ears with statistics proving that people today had more food...lived longer, worked shorter hours, were bigger, healthier, stronger, happier, more intelligent, better educated, than the people of 50 years ago. Not a word of it could ever be proved or disproved. ..The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth. ..A party member is required to have...the right instincts. ...Attitudes demanded of him are never plainly stated...He is a person naturally orthodox...In Newspeak, the expression of unorthodox opinions, above a very low level, was well nigh impossible. " - George Orwell, 1984. c.1948. " ...Poetic injustice...having made over Japan in our own image. The Japanese, ...are now, next to us, the greatest consumers of meat in the world. " - Mother Jones, A Sourcebook On Health and Survival. " The role and weight to be accorded medical testimony in Administrative hearings before the Post Office Department was established....These decisions enunciate a rule that informed medical consensus and the 'universality of scientific belief' may be established through the testimony of a (one, single - Ed.) medical doctor. " " If the fraud charges are proven, fraud order...is issued, a promoter can receive no funds through the mail..., shut off. All mail sent to him is returned to the sender marked 'Fraudulent'. " - J. Edward Day, Postmaster General, US Post Office. " The US Postal Service has prosecuted a disproportionate number of health book authors and publishers and chiropractors. The Post Office has refused to respond to our Freedom of Information Request for a copy of its policy manual which sets out the basis by which cases are selected for prosecution. The (Post Office) will not open their consumer complaint files to the public or to the Congress so you can see if it is going after the real criminals. ...or...if anyone complained...except the AMA. " - Clinton Miller, Executive and Legislative Advocate, National Health Federation. - Last four paragraphs above in " Statement of Clinton Ray Miller...before the Subcommittee of Postal Personnel and Modernization " , US House, 1982. " The Postal Service may require...that any officer or employee designated by the Postal Service be given access at reasonable times, to inspect or copy any books, records, documents, or other objects that the Postal Service has reason to believe relate to any matter under investigation... " " Any person ...who fails to comply...or..engages in conduct which assists any such person to...fail to comply...shall be liable to the US for a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed $10,000 for each day...Separate penalties may be assessed ($20,000/day)...The resumption through the use of any instrumentality of interstate commerce of any activity with respect to which a cease and desist order has been issued... shall...be a failure to comply... " - A Bill, S. 1407, with amendments, US Senate, 1981. (300 Co-sponsors in House). " Welcome to the new Dark Ages. Get ready for 1984....The (bill)would:...Authorize...600,000 post office employees to 'demand' 'access' without search warrant to any home, business, private library...'to inspect'...(; and) Forbid the shipment..not only by mail, but by any other 'instrumentality of interstate commerce' including airlines, parcel service, trucks or your own auto. " ... " The history of medicine and health care shows that nearly all progress has started with unorthodox ideas which were opposed to the 'weight of informed medical and scientific opinion'. " - Maureen Salaman. President, National Health Federation in " Statement ...before the subcommittee on Postal Personnel and Modernization " , on H.R. 3973 and S. 1407., 1982. " It is especially imperative for Congress to exercise careful judgment in this area, because of the difficulty under existing laws, in obtaining judicial review of Postal Service abuses. ...We strongly oppose the legislation's infringement of rights guaranteed under the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. " - John Shattuck, Director, ACLU, Washington Office. " ...The charges concern medical practices in fields where knowledge has not yet been crystallized in the crucible of experience. For in the science of medicine, as in other sciences, experimentation is the spur of progress. It would amount to condemnation of new ideas without a trial, to give the Postmaster General power to condemn new ideas as fraudulent, solely because some cling to traditional opinions with unquestioning tenacity. " - US Supreme Court, Reilly vs. Pinkus, 339 U.S. 269 (1949). Last two paragraphs from US House subcommittee, 1982. " Individuals for whom no orthodox cure is available surely are entitled to select a health care approach.....This right (is) specifically within,,,the 1st, 4th, 5th, 9th, and 14th amendments to the (US) Constitution....To be insensitive to the very fundamental civil liberties....( the choice...of the person whose body is being ravaged (by disease), is to display slight understanding of the essence of our free society and its constitutional underpinnings. " - Judge Luther Bohanon, US District Court, Oklahoma City, Dec 5, 1977, Rutherford v. US. " The freedom of the individual to select his preferred system of medical care and free competition among physicians and alternative systems of medical care are prerequisites of ethical practice and optimal medical care. " " A physician should expose, without fear or favor, incompetent or corrupt, dishonest or unethical conduct on the part of members of the profession. " - AMA, Current Opinions of the Judicial Council of the AMA, 1981. " Where medically significant alternatives for care or treatment exist, or when the patient requests information concerning medical alternatives, the patient has the right to such information. " - AHA, A Patient's Bill of Rights, 1972. " Congress did not intend to empower the FDA to interfere with medical practice by limiting the ability of physicians to prescribe according to their best judgment. " - US District Court Judge Robert E. Varner, decision, June 28, 1978. " ...The 4th Amendment ( the governing principle...is that 'except in certain carefully defined classes of cases, a search of private property without proper consent is unreasonable unless it has been authorized by a valid search warrant...' ...The manufacture and distribution of food and drugs has not yet been specifically held to be among these exceptionally regulated industries....The inspection of any place thought by FDA agents to contain the regulated articles....(is) ...an unconstitutional authorization of unlimited exploratory searches.... " - US District Court Judge Robert M. Duncan, July 14, 1977, FDA Search and Seizure. " At least one member of the (Medical Grievance Committee, Board of Regents, University, State of New York) which conducted the hearing evidenced a wholly unfair and partial attitude. ..This doctor effected a cure (of cancer) when the so-called orthodox methods of treatment had failed, and now he has been punished for it. It is not fraud or deceit for one already skilled in the medical art, with the consent of the patient, to attempt new methods, when all other known methods of treatment had proved futile, and least of all when a patient's very life had been despaired of. Initiative and originality should not be thus effectively stifled... " - Appellate Division, NY State Supreme Court, Stammer vs. Board of Regents of University of State of New York, 262 App. Div. 372, 29 N.Y.S. " Utopians have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters. " - Sir Thomas More (1478-1535). " When this country was originally formed...the first rule that was passed by every single body in the 13 original states said (that) two people shall be banned from this colony: felons and lawyers. " - Rosemary Furman (on Phil Donahue Show, Donahue transcript #12161.). " ...If the American bureaucracy turns its attention on you ( ...The men who sit in judgement on you will be the men who originally complained against you. ..You may...be ordered to stop doing something which is right. Perhaps you will be saved the burden of defending yourself by being tried in absentia. ..At a trial where all the witnesses testified in your favor,...the courts will nevertheless uphold your conviction...Final arguments were made in front of Commissioners, but the decisions were written in a secret back room by an entirely separate group of men. " - Lowell B. Mason, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission, The Language of Dissent. (in Suzanne Caum, Cancer Cures Crucified). " ...Whole plants differ in their effects from refined drugs (...Plants are dilute preparations (of) the active principles...Plants usually go into the body through the mouth and stomach, whereas purified chemicals can be put...by snorting or injecting...directly into...bloodstreams without giving...bodies a chance to process them. Other compounds in drug plants...may modify the active principles, making them safer... " " ...Society's blunders in trying to control the abuse of drugs (...Prohibition of opiates (and other drugs and plants) has directly spawned an ugly criminal underworld...Addicts with habits costing $100's a day...resort to daily criminal activity...to avoid unpleasant symptoms of withdrawal. ...Heroin maintenance...supplying addicts with pure (un-contaminated) legal heroin in (a) supervised setting (no: driving, firearms, health insurance - ed.) has been proposed...,but our society (is) unwilling to abandon its prohibitionist mentality. ....Major drug trafficers...are powerful enough to stay in business. Instead, drug law enforcement falls disproportionately on small-scale dealers and users. ...In some states, people convicted for small-scale dealings of drugs...are treated more harshly than rapists, armed robbers, and even murderers. " - Andrew Weil, MD, Harvard Medical School, Professor of Addiction Studies, University of Arizona and other credentials, and Winifred Rosen (author Cruisin for a Bruisin, etc.), Newberry Award nominee; Chocolate to morphine: Understanding Mind Active Drugs. " ...A juvenile detention home (...Neither the boys nor the staff of the home were told that the aim of the menu changes was to reduce sugar intake, or that the boys behavior was being studied. ...The 24 boys on the sugar-reduced diet showed a 45% lower incidence of formal disciplinary actions than the boys on the earlier diet. " " With the repeated successes of nutritional methods, one would think that ortho-molecular treatment would be revolutionizing our criminal justice system. Unfortunately, it is not. Ignoring scientific evidence and thousands of clinical reports, many in psychiatric, law enforcement, and rehabilitation communities, still dismiss dietary treatment as quackery. The ortho-molecular approach isn't 'high-tech' enough; it isn't complicated and expensive, it doesn't require powerful drugs and armies of MD's - how could it possibly be effective? " - Barbara Reed, Chief Probation Officer, Cuyahoga Falls Municipal Probation Department (testifier at US Senate select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs); Nutritional Guidelines for the Counselor. Section 7 In 1979 US government appropriation to fight smoking: $29 million; In 1979, amount US government spent in price subsidies, farm loans, and other direct support for the tobacco industry: over $1 billion. - sheet found in ACS distribution shelf. " Since I have been associated with the NCI Advisory Committee for the Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer Program, I feel very strongly that nutrition research has been consciously ignored...by the NCI. The Advisory Committee's final resolution, before it was abolished, was that a minimum of $15 million should be spent on new research programs. ...No such action was ever taken, even though Congress subsequently recommended that the NCI spend a minimum of $7.5 million...At the time our committee was terminated, there was a backlog of 119 projects needing a total of $26 million....I think people who have training in clinical human nutrition are oftentimes not individuals who are medical doctors, but people who have a training in nutrition by another, different route. " " ...The juice of the lemon ( consider the tremendous beneficial effects that this single dietary modification has had upon the seafaring nations...Uncomplicated solutions to seeming complex problems of the past are often ignored... " - Peggy C. Fry, PhD, Assistant Professor and Chief Nutrition Service, Children and Youth Project, University of Texas Health Science Center, (In Nutrition and Cancer Research Hearings, Subcommittee on Nutrition US Senate 1978). " The AMA protects the image of the food processors by its constant propaganda that the American food supply is the finest in the world, and that (those) who question this are simply practicing quackery. The food processors, in turn, protect the image of the AMA and of the drug manufacturers by arranging for the USDA and its dietitic cronies to blacklist throughout the country and in every public library, all nutrition books written for the layman, which ( preach simple, wholesome nutrition and attack ...both the emasculation of natural foods and orthodox American medical care, which ignores subtle malnutrition and stresses drug therapy, ( " as distinct from vitamin therapy " ) for innumerable conditions. The drug manufacturers vigorously support the AMA since only MD's can prescribe their products. " - Miles H. Robinson, MD; Professor, University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt Medical Schools, exhibit in Vitamin, Mineral, and Diet Supplements, Hearings, US House of Representatives, 1973. " During the early years of Hitler's regime, the government's medical program was looked upon by many observers as one of the greatest props in the totalitarian state. " - Canadian House of Commons committee report, March 16, 1943. " ..The German government health insurance plan is obligated by law to pay for a special four week treatment with nutritional therapy in post-intensive care hospitals every year for up to five years after the intensive care of every cancer patient... " - International Association of Cancer Victims and Friends, Dade County Chapter, Holy Cancer. " We found that medical expenses for people who had been paying at least $10,000 a year decreased approximately 80% over the two years spent in our (holistic) program. ..Blue (Cross and) Shield is not likely to pay for what we do. " - C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD, President American Holistic Medical Association; Self Help for Patients. " Dr. Nathaniel W. Boyd...was an invited guest speaker at the recent annual national convention of the American Osteopathic Association....He has treated more than 8,000 patients..Boyd's method ( ..injection of sclerosing agents to promote fibrous tissue growth in weakened areas that cause hernias and hemorrhoids. ...His success rate with hernias is an incredible 95%. ...In 1974 Boyd's license was suspended for six months because he had advertised...As the Medicare program edges toward bankruptcy, it refuses ...to pay $600 for non-surgical treatment of hernias, preferring instead to pay for the surgical methods, which today cost a minimum of $3,000. " - Liberty Lobby, Spotlight, Feb 11, 1985. " Between 16 and 20% of every dollar paid in malpractice insurance went to compensate the victim; the rest was paid to lawyers and medical experts. In (malpractice) cases, doctors are vulnerable only to the charge of having acted against the medical code, or the incompetent performance of prescribed treatment, or of dereliction out of greed or laziness. The problem, however, is that most of the damage inflicted by the modern doctor does not fall into any of these categories. It occurs in the ordinary practice of well trained men and women who have learned to bow to prevailing judgement and procedure, even though they know ( " or could or should know " ) what damage they do. " " The USDHEW calculates that 7% of all patients suffer compensable injuries while hospitalized .....One out of every five patients admitted to a typical research hospital acquires an iatrogenic (Caused by the treatment process) disease, one case in thirty leading to death. Half of these episodes result from complications of drug therapy; amazingly, one in ten come from diagnostic procedures. " - Ivan Illich, Medical Nemesis, c. 1975. " ...Patients in cancer wards being fed a hospital diet of syrup-stewed fruits, custard, ice-cream, pastries, pies, and adulterated, preserved vegetables, is demonstration of the most infamous professional negligence. " " The doctor (treating cancer:) No one expects more of him than he goes through the standard rigmarole. ...If he tried an unorthodox method and, even after a period of success, it failed, he could find himself the object of litigation. As long as he sticks to orthodox methods of certain failure, he is totally safe. " " ...Alternative medicine has grown from ( 'old wives tales'...common sense...experience and observations... " " If a researcher, working in a well recognized field, makes a small discovery, it is likely to be published in a learned journal. ...a tiny step into the still unknown. ...However, let someone take an unexpected leap forward, ... and his action will tend to engender surprise, criticism, perhaps ostracism, and ...lack of acceptance. " - Dick Richards, MD, The Topic of Cancer: When the Killing Has to Stop, c. 1982. " ..The Senate Aging Committee termed pacemaker fraud and abuse a billion dollar scandal, alleging that 30-50% of all pacemakers prescribed were not medically necessary. " - American Association of Retired Persons, 1983 Federal and State Legislative Policy. " ..31% of all hospitalized patients on the medical wards suffered adverse affects that were probably or definitely drug related. ...At least 1% of all admitted patients...died of an apparent drug reaction. ....2 to 8% of all drug doses given in hospitals are in error: wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong route of administration, wrong patient, or failure to give the prescribed drug. ...(Calculate) this....%...applied to all patients admitted to all hospitals in the US: ...32 million admissions per year... " - Milton Silverman, PhD, biochemistry and pharmacology, Stanford U and U of California Medical School; President, National Association of Science Writers and many credentials, and Philip R. Lee, MD, Stanford U, Assistant Secretary for Health, USDHEW and other credentials; Pills, Profits, and Politics. " ...The willingness of the representatives of both international and local capital to allow malaria to spread in some areas of the world is part of the repressive underdevelopment of those areas.....Only mosquito and parasite resistance (to pesticides) appears to be a 'purely technical' problem. ...Bureaucratic ineptitude could explain only the initial period (before)...widespread publicity and criticism of the programs... " " ...Capital tries to undercut...through shortages, especially in energy and food. ...Education in the US ...(...the campus upheavals of the late 60's have now been replaced by underdevelopment in the form of fiscal crisis, budget cuts, accountability, and restructuring. " - Harry Cleaver, Dept of Economics, U of Texas, Austin, " Malaria, the Politics of Public Health and the International Crisis " , The Review of Radical Political Economics, Spring 1977. " ...Americans...automatically equate dissension with disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and political forms, as sedition and subversion. ...( " The growing reluctance of Americans to criticize, and their increasing tendency to condemn those who, in ever dwindling numbers, will still voice dissent " ) is disturbing, deplorable, and truly dangerous. " " Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In the meantime, the public is lulled into a perilous somnolence, spoon-fed pap, and palpable untruths, many of which are turned out by special-interest and pressure groups and well organized propaganda machines. " " Some of our newspapers and magazines are more concerned with the welfare of their advertisers than they are with the dissemination of news and the discussion of matters of lasting importance. ...Radio, television, motion pictures, popular books - all contribute...to...the stifling of dissent on all but the most banal levels. ...a renunciation of the most basic and precious of democratic principles. " - J. Paul Getty, ( " the richest man in the world " - Fortune, Oct. 1957), How to be Rich. " Xerography and Polaroid film were developed by small innovator-entrepreneurs only after larger firms turned down the ideas. " " The 1969 increase in capital gains taxes from 25% to 49% dried up venture money, especially for small companies. From 1969 to 1975, the amount of new capital acquired annually by small firms sank from $1.5 billion to $15 million (1% of previous level). " - " The Sad State of Innovation " , Time, Oct 22, 1979. " Styling cars sells cars and safety does not. " - Lee Iococca. " ...Francis W. Davis...developed power steering for autos...during the early 1920's...Major auto manufacturers...figured their engineering staffs could come up with something similar that could get around his patent. After all, their available engineering talent and resources went far beyond those of a lone inventor. ...The manufacturers tried to invent their way around Davis but without success. 26 years later, in 1952, Chrysler introduced power steering..using Davis' early, expired patents. " - D. Dial, " The Creative Spark vs. The Status Quo; or, Why Big Companies aren't interested in New Ideas " , (In Michael Brown, Suppressed Inventions and How They Work). " Only about 40 years ago, Professor Herman Oberth, the teacher of Dr. Werner von Braun, offered his book, By Rocket to Interplanetary Space to about 10 different publishers. Each sent it back to him. " ... " In his day, Professor Goddard was called 'moon-mad Goddard'. But...the (US) House passed a bill to establish...(a) National Goddard Day. " " Franklin was the subject of laughter at the English Academy of Science when he reported his discovery of the lightning rod. They refused to print his report. " ... " Finsen, discoverer of the curative powers of ultra-violet rays, was persecuted too...yet after his death, a monument was erected in his honor. " - Rho Sigma Ether - Technology: a Rational Approach to Gravity-Control, c. 1977. " ..I did have on occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them (UFO's)...They were at a higher altitude than we could reach with our jet fighters of that time. ...Those few astronauts who have continued...in the UFO field...do so very cautiously. There are several of us who do believe in UFO's and who have had occasion to see a UFO on the ground or from an airplane. " - US Astronaut Gordon Cooper, UN Conference on Flying Saucers, Nov 28, 1978, (in UFO Review). " Our president Jimmy Carter has stated that he believes in UFO's because he has seen one. ..in 1973 (at) the Thomaston, Georgia Lions Club. About 20 other people also...watched it for ten minutes. President Carter was quoted as saying it was the darndest thing he had ever seen, and that he would never again make fun of people who say they have seen UFO's " - Winfield S. Brown, UFO's Key to Earth's Destiny. " People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our government. ...One of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. " - Dwight D. Eisenhower. " Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. " - Dwight Eisenhower. " ...Senate Doc. # 259. The 65th congress(...The coal companies made between 100% and 7,856% on their capital stock during the war (to end all wars, WWI). ...The leather people sold your Uncle Sam hundreds of thousands of saddles for the calvary. But there wasn't any calvary overseas! " " ...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits. " No one told these American soldiers they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the ships on which they were going to cross might be torpedoed by submarines built with US patents. " " It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country...but the profits...skyrocket... " ....We can all make more money out of peace than we can out of war... " - US Marine Corps Major General (Retired) Smedley Butler, Distinguished Service Medal,...4th officer to receive two Congressional Medals of Honor before WWI, War is a Racket, c. 1935. " Since the end of WWII, 25 million people have died in war somewhere in the world. War has been fought in as many as 12 countries at one time. ...In 1981 the world spent about $22 for military purposes for every $1 it spent on development aid to poor countries. " - War vs. Development, Oxfam America News, Winter 1983. " The idea of constructing shields of any material at all, for protection against uranium and plutonium is only a temporary expedient. The time will come when the shields will be as dangerous as the cores. - Walter Russell PhD, American Academy of Sciences; (lauded by Nicola Tesla as 1,000 years ahead of his time) and Lao Russell, Atomic Suicide? c. 1957. " Peace is our Profession " - Strategic Air Command and US air Force letterhead, motto. " If the Air Force is truly sincere about their commitment to peace, they would develop peace corps, peace academies, and dialogues with the peace movement. " ...Deployment of even 1% of the nuclear weapons would disrupt the planet for human habitation. If your 'best' weapons are unusable, they are obsolete. ...It is time for a new philosophy. Mankind could never reached the moon by an aircraft with propellers. Peace tactics are the only alternative. Peacefare... " - Kim C. Gates, AC1, USAF, " Rebuttal to Letter of Reprimand " (followed by honorable discharge). " One of the signs (you) displayed (said): QUESTION AUTHORITY. Comments or slogans of this nature cannot and will not be condoned. " - C.L. Wilson, 1st Lieutenant, USAF, Commander, Hq. Sq. Section; 93 CSG/CCQ; " Letter of Reprimand " , Jan 5, 1984. " ...Over 100 million animals will die this year in our nation's hospitals, universities and government and commercial labs...most of them for no scientific or medical reason. ...scalded, suffocated, frozen, electrocuted, mutilated, or starved....Last year,...American taxpayers spent $4 billion on government-funded animal torment. ....encourag(ed by) the powerful animal supply industry...pushing many species ( " primates " ) to the brink of extinction. " - leaflet, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. " ...Chemicals(...We not only don't know what's going on out there is dangerous - we don't even know what is going on out there. It's what we don't know that can really hurt us - kill us. ...It is time we started putting chemicals to the test - not people. It is time we gave people of this country some reason to believe that every time they take a breath, or eat, or drink, or touch, they are not taking their life into their hands. It is time that, down here on earth, we took a couple of small sensible steps on behalf of human health and life... " - EPA Administrator Russell Train, speech at National Press Club, February 1976. " Mechanical and chemical technology can exact a high price in terms of erosion and human health. ...I have become increasingly uneasy about the state of agriculture and what it portends for the future of rural America. - Secretary of Agriculture, Bob Bergland, in Heartland, Summer, 1981. " The chief fault of many American diets is that they provide too little of the essential minerals and vitamins. This fault is due in large measure to the fact that refined foods are consumed in such amounts that the intake of mineral and vitamin-rich natural foods is lower than it should be. " -Food and Life, USDA Yearbook for 1939. " Today, despite the tremendous amounts of pesticides being used, approximately one-third of the drops planted in the US fail to reach harvest due to pest damage. ...Ironically, these problems are caused by the very chemicals formulated to control pests. ( increasing...resistant insects(,) loss of...beneficial insects... " " An estimated 40,000 people were treated for pesticide poisoning in 1978. (US?). The actual number of poisonings may be even larger since many cases are not reported or are misdiagnosed. ...The symptoms of pesticide poisoning often mimic those of common illnesses (flu -ed.). " " Integrated Pest Management is an inter-disciplinary approach( ....Crop-Pest Eco-Systems....In...single plant communities, natural ecological balances are altered, leaving crops highly susceptible...Biological Controls...( Preservation of natural enemies (and their) habitats...Predators...introduced from other countries. ...Disease causing micro-organisms (attacking pests) ....Phero-mones...Pest resistant plant (varieties) ...Cultural Controls...( crop rotation, and removal of crop residues which shelter pests after harvest. ...Proper timing of crop....life-cycle...'Trap Crops'...Urban( ...Pesticide treatments were reduced 99%... " - USEPA, Integrated Pest Management, EPA 600/8-80-044, Sept. 1980. " A decade ago the World Health Organization estimated every year at least 500,000 people were poisoned - and 10,000 killed - by pesticides in the third world. ...Since then...Dr. P. Deemar, toxicology director of Thailand's Ministry of Agriculture, estimates that 500,000 people are poisoned by pesticides in Thailand alone. ...Citizens of the industrialized countries are also victims when we eat pesticides in the food we import. " - Food First, Institute for Food and Development Policy, Food First News, Fall 1982. " ...The export of banned pesticides (in, made by, and) from the industrial countries (US) to the third world. ..(is) later returning to us in the food we import (from) the third world. " - David Weir and Mark Shapiro; Center for Investigative Reporting; and Food First, Circle of Poison. " Anyone who speaks up against food adulteration in any of the many forms, is subject to 'name calling'. The most common epithets are 'food faddist' or 'food fakir'. If...you are offending...some of our largest and most influential corporations...We can be certain that the public relations counselors will go to work...-even if that requires a bit of character assassination.... " - Dr. Edward J. Ryan, Editor, Dental Digest. " Our agricultural colleges continue to graduate specialists who become vocational agricultural teachers in the schools, and county agents, who go forth to extol the virtues of poison insecticides, herbicides, and commercial fertilizers. " - Joe Nichols, MD, President, Natural Food Association; Please, Doctor, Do Something!. " My position is that radical mastectomy is archaic. For some strange reason, in the US, surgeons continue to mutilate women by removing muscles and excessive tissue even though modern knowledge and cancer therapies have outmoded this form of crippling surgery. " - George Crile, Jr., Emeritus Consultant in Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Ivy Cancer News, Nov. 1974. " Though it is a great frustration to realize that less than 10% of all cancer patients are willing to make necessary lifestyle changes (My experience can certainly vouch for that, and the number comes from hard research.), required by most alternative cancer therapies, all we can really do is inform the patient as thoroughly as possible and then let him or her make the final decision. ...( To undergo the Orwellian nightmare of conventional cancer treatments or ..(the) non-toxic alternative, the Utopia choice of Earth as a beautiful place...Pro-Life Freedom of Choice... " - Hellfried Sartori, MD, MPH, MS, U. of Graz Medical School, Austria, President, Life Sciences Universal (1200 Medical Centers Worldwide) Cancer 1984. " That cactus went right through my eye. It left my eye flat. They took me to a doctor, and he said, 'We'll have to take the eye out.' ...I fought like a tiger. I said, 'No! Leave the eye alone. I am sure it will grow back.' The doctor said, 'You're too young to know.' ...But in a year's time that fluid came back, and that eye is just as good as the other one today. " - Bernard Jensen, DC, ND (Author, The Science and Practice of Iridology), FACT Journal. " Some doctors blame the patients for demanding treatment. ..(which is too) powerful and dangerous...for mild (illness)...Patients demand more considerate care, more natural healing techniques, and discussion of alternatives - and doctors rarely give in on these issues. " - Robert Mendelsohn, MD, (lecturer on " who are the Real Cancer Quacks? " ; Chairman Medical Licensing Committee, State of Illinois, etc.) Confessions of a Medical Heretic. " We are not at all sure that the state is serving the public interest by enforcing a professional monopoly. " - Florence Stroud, RN, Member Calif. Board of Medical Quality Assurance, in American Medical News, 1983. " The FDA was ordered by Congress ( " Agricultural Act of 1938 " ) to stop two years of experiments designed to learn the dangers of poisoning from lead and arsenic, commonly used as insecticides until largely replaced by DDT, and the test animals were ordered killed - a procedure Consumer's Research compared to the Nazi book burnings. " " Many 'health stores' sell naturally grown products. ..but they also have much junk. There are quacks and frauds in their ranks, just as there are among chemical growers and processors who enjoy favors of the Government. " - William Longwood, Pulitzer Prize winner in Journalism, The Poisons in Your Food, c. 1960. " Many of the plants familiar to the 'wise woman' or the 'witch doctor' really do have the healing powers that tradition attaches to them! There is no doubt that the judicious use of such herbs, flowers, and other plants for palliative purposes in primary health care can make a major contribution towards reducing a developing country's drug bill. - Dr. Halfdan Mahler, Director General, WHO, " The Staff of Aesculapius " , World Health, Nov. 1977. " ...The empirical application of plants to the ailing human body over thousands of years has...culminated in the development of many useful drugs ....It is easy to make fun of medieval recipes; it is more difficult and may be wiser to investigate them. " - Dr. Jonathan Hartwell, NCI, " Plant Remedies for Cancer " Cancer Chemotherapy Reports, May 1960. " In a noted 1943 Harvard study, there were no cases of toxemia, congenital anomalies, or neonatal deaths among a group of well-fed woman. In contrast two-thirds of the children born to women who were on poor prenatal diets had congenital abnormalities, dies, or (had) neurological dysfunction. and 44% of the mothers had developed toxemia... " - Tom Brewer, MD, Tulane Medical School, The Pregnant Issue: Medicate or Educate?, 1982. " Animals fed on raw milk and raw meat reproduce homogeneous litters and the usual causes of death are old age and injuries....The cats fed pasteurized milk...show skeletal changes, lessened reproductive efficiency, and their kittens present progressive constitutional and respiratory problems. ...Cooked meat (fed) cats commonly (have) heart problems,...infections of the (organs), inflammation ....parasites...abortions... " - Francis M. Pottenger, Jr, MD, author of 55 articles, Pottenger's Cats: a Study in Nutrition, c. 1983. " ...During the summer of 1978 in Rhode Island, 300 advanced...members of TM (Transcendental Meditation) split up into small groups to meditate...The entire state of Rhode Island benefitted. Statistics revealed: the state murder rate dropped 50%, traffic deaths decreased 48%, suicides dropped 45%, total deaths decreased 11%. Statisticians, state officials, psychiatrists...attested to the ...success of the experiment. Dr Charles Hill, President, Rhode Island Medical Society, admitted we can... " - Linda Clark, MA, editor, Linda Clark's Good Health Keeping Newsletter. " ...In the history of medicine and science, no chronic or metabolic disease has been cured by factors foreign to the diet, (or) to biological experience. " " The agent which cures prevents, and the agent that prevents cures. " - Dr. Ernst T. Krebs, Jr. in Spotlight, 1978. " According to recent ACS reports, the discovery of the anti-tumor properties of beta-carotene (nutrient " from which the body makes vitamin A " ) is one of the most important developments in cancer research of the past ten years, i.e., since the passage of the National Cancer Act. ...The NCI and the NIH...did not participate in the initial development or funding of the beta-carotene studies!...The NCI has promoted...retinoic acid and retinoids, chemically related peripherally to vitamin A...The chemicals were known by the NCI to be dangerous to...animals even before the NCI tests with the retinoids were initiated; however, these chemicals (retinoids and acid) were inaccurately represented as being less toxic or more efficacious than (Vitamin A and beta-carotene).....We have been applying to the NIH for grant support on (beta-carotene) since 1974. However, the NCI had consistently rejected both (the) grant requests and the concept of using beta-carotene, until the collapse of the retinoic acid studies. ....We found that beta-carotene increased the effectiveness of tumor therapeutic agents, whereas retinoic acid only served to increase the toxicity of the chemotherapeutic agents. ...When novel studies were proposed, the NCI seemed determined to stamp them out. They were so restrictive as to discourage the development of even one concept that did not conform to their dogma. ...The NCI and the NIH are...creating unnecessary confusion among scientific workers who were misdirected by the distortions...I fear that some members of important sections of the NCI may have been more concerned with service to themselves and their associates than to the public or the extramural scientific community, and repeatedly have made grievous errors. ...Your (legislative) committee might determine if these errors can be rectified, and procedures altered to prevent repetitions of grievous errors by the NCI and NIH. " - Eli Seifter, MD, Professor of Surgery and Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, (in letters to US Senators Orrin Hatch and Harrison Schmitt, 1982). " Cancer politics: To suggest people eat less meat infuriates the cattlemen's association. To suggest people eat less candy angers the confectioner's association. To suggest people eat more fresh vegetables throws the canners association into fits. " - Ross Hume Hall, PhD, principal cancer researcher, Roswell Park Memorial Institute and other credentials, " Cancer and Nutrition " , En-Trophy Review. " The hospital that feeds you refined sugar, white bread, canned soup, bouillon cubes, and frozen vegetables should be closed by the health department as a menace to the public health. " - Dr. David Reuben, Everything You Always to Know About Nutrition, c. 1978. " ...The introduction of trans-trans-linoleic acid in the 1920's in margarines and refined vegetable oils was a main cause of the pandemic of myocardial infarction (coronary heart disease), and ...since 1960, orthodox medicine has been fostering (promoting) a cause of this disease as the cure. " - Wayne Martin, " Margarine ( " Not Butter " ) the Culprit? " , Lancet, 1983. " Avoid foods that don't interest you ( ..cauliflower, corn, broccoli, beans... " " Hints( ...add milk powder...Choose from: ...Angel food cake, Popsicles,...Hard and jelly candies...Use mixes, frozen ready to eat main dishes, and take out foods whenever possible. ...fry....Microwave oven... " " Recipes...high in nutritional value(...non-dairy creamer....ice cream...condensed milk...soft shortening...chocolate chips...sugar...oil...baking soda...baking powder...salt... " - OCC (Office of Cancer Communications), NCI, Eating Hints..., NIH Publication 80-2079; January 1980. " ...Recipes...selected (..ice cream...carbonated beverages...processed sharp cheese spread....sausage or hot dog...lard or shortening...sugar...soda...baking powder...all purpose flour...baking soda...salt...cooked or canned vegetables....chocolate...malted...ice cream, jello...coffee, coffee substitute, carbonated beverages...bread (,) enriched white...pureed, baby, or whole cooked (..canned or frozen)...sweets as desired, hard candy,...jellies, jams... " - ACS, Nutrition, for Patients Receiving Chemotherapy and Radiation Treatment, c. 1974. " Allowed foods: Carbonated beverages...fruit flavored drinks...sugar candy...salt...ice cream...chocolate...cereals...refined...oils..pork...fudge...lollypops...crisp bacon... " - Diet, Nutrition and Cancer Program, NCI, Diet and Nutrition: a Resource for Parents of Children with Cancer., NIH Publication 82-2038, May, 1982. " In..categories which make up about...eight % of the incidence, 5-year survival rates have actually fallen - those are cancers of the lip, penis, esophagus, vulva, and bone, and invasive cancer of the cervix (all where the prognosis is worse now than in the 1950's). " - Newsday, Jan 10, 1977, article submitted by Senator Robert Dole, into Nutrition and Cancer Research, Hearings, Subcommittee on Nutrition, US Senate, 1978. " After approximately two decades and several billion dollars....Among the various types of cancer that account for 78% of the incidence..the upward trend in survival rates has not exceeded a few %....a far gloomier picture than has been generally conveyed to a hopeful public by our leading cancer research institutions...A generally passive lay press has been the means of transmission. " " Papanicolaou published for 15 years before anyone would listen to him, but now you find (the) ACS extolling the virtue of the Pap test. " - Daniel S. Greenberg, (Editor, Science and Government report; columnist New England Journal of Medicine), " Cancer: Bad News " , Washington Post, January 19, 1975. " In many quarters, the superiority of combination therapy ( " surgery and radio-therapy) is accepted as established dogma, and re-examination of treatment policies as heretical. Despite the confident air of this position, a life-sparing effect, specifically attributable to the radio-therapeutic component of combination regimens has not been proved. " - Morrow and Di Sala, " The Role of Post-Operative Irradiation... " , American Journal of Roentgen-ology, Aug, 1976. " ..This issue will explore..all forms of cancer therapies, even those frowned upon, and, in some cases, actively thwarted, by organized medicine. " ... " The medical establishment would have us believe that before all treatment procedures become acceptable for general use, they are subjected to exhaustive studies which have proven both safety and effectiveness. This belief is reinforced by ('medics') criticism of the non-medical cancer treatments, the most damning is: 'They are unscientific.' " ... " ...Surgical and radiation treatments...do not lend themselves to double-blinding or use of placebo. " ... " According to JAMA, over 30 different surgical procedures have been introduced over the years for the relief of angina and myocardial blood supply, yet only two were subjected to the appropriate controlled studies. " - Maryann Napoli, Editor, and Arthur Levin, Master of Public Health, Director, Center for Medical Consumers, and Health Care Information, Inc., Health Facts, " Cancer.... " , January 1979. " It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect. " - Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). " (The) percent distribution of persons with...limit in major activity...due to chronic conditions, under 17 (years old, in:) 1967 (was) 1.1%, in 1976 (was) 1.9%. - National Center for Health Statistics, Vital and Health Statistics. " ...Pathological states are the consequence of several determinate factors acting simultaneously...The manifestations of any given agent differ profoundly from one person to another. ...Each noxious agent can express itself by a great variety of different pathological states. ...Different agents can elicit similar reactions. ...The total environment and the (interior medium) constitute a multifactorial system... " - Rene Dubos, MD, Professor, Rockefeller Institute; Professor, Harvard Medical School (Mary) Lasker Award; Ways of Health. " Most diseases can be detected only after symptoms appear....Repetitious annual exams of healthy individuals seem to be profitable only for the physician. " - Dr. Richard Spark, Harvard Medical School, in George Berkley, PhD, Cancer.... " ...One third of cancers found in Health Insurance Plan study were not felt by the clinician. ..Two-fifths of the cancers were noted by the surgeon, but not detected by the radiologist. In only one-fifth of the cases were the cancers found by both physicians. " - Philip Strax, MD, Early Detection. " The fact that a patient survives for five years after an operation does not imply that he is cured. ...The number of recurrences drops after five years only because the total number of survivors has dropped...In reality, the curves show that between one month and ten years, the rate of death remains constant. " - Lucien Israel, MD, NCI consultant, French Hospital Director, Conquering Cancer, last four paragraphs in Cameron Stauth (many credentials), The New Approach to Cancer. " There isn't one shred of evidence that early diagnosis does any good, except perhaps in the cancer of breast, cervix, and bladder. " - Dr. James Peters, NCI Division of Cancer Cause and Prevention Director. " Doctors...from the Office of Info. Tech. at Harvard U.(...Their appraisal of 46 surgical or anesthesia breakthroughs...suggested...only 13% were highly preferred (and)...in nearly half the cases the new therapy was no better than the therapy it replaced. ...About 12% of the innovations increased complications... " " In 1971, the Joint Task Force of the USDA, in..An Evaluation of Research in the US on Human Nutrition...(concluded) that (in the US) a more fundamental (less " convenience food " ) diet...would result in 1.2 million fewer cases of heart and vascular disease each year, 64,000 fewer cancer deaths and 120,000 fewer cases of cancer each year, 49 million fewer cases of respiratory infections, 3 million fewer cases of birth defects, 8 million fewer cases of arthritis, 2 million cases of diabetes either avoided or improved, 3 million fewer cases of osteo-porosis, 16,200 fewer cases of blindness, 3 million fewer cases of allergies, and 2 and one-half million fewer mental health problems necessitating hospitalization. " - Jeffrey Bland, PhD, Biochem, and a bunch of credentials, Your Health Under Siege. " ...Cancer patients are constantly being urged to go to their doctors as soon as the 'danger signals' appear...The implication is always that patients...with the shortest possible duration of symptoms, will have the best prognosis. The results of this study certainly do not support this. " - G.H. Green, Associate Professor, School of Obstetrics and Gynecology, U. Aukland, New Zealand, " Duration of Symptoms and Survival Rates for Invasive Cervical Cancer. " Australian and New Zealand OB/Gyn, Nov. 1970. " Taking a biopsy often aggravates and stimulates growth - and does not indicate how many secondary tumors have developed. " - Dr. Charles Mayo, (in Dr. Lynn Dallin, Cancer Causes and Natural Controls). " ...The resort to a biopsy is a confession of failure, due to clinical inexperience or lack of data from other methods of diagnosis. " - Dr. Ewing, Beaumont Foundation Lecture, (in Boyd, Textbook of Pathology, (in Health Research, Is Cancer Curable? c. 1954.)). " There seems to be little doubt that cancer can be spread from the primary site to distant tissues through..the numerous ways that surgical manipulations (e.g. biopsy, therapy) could be responsible for this phenomenon. " - Vincent Vita, Director, NCI, and Steven Rosenberg, MD, PhD, Chief Surgeon, NCI, and S. Hellman, MD, Director of Radiation, Harvard Medical School.; Editors, Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology. " ...Establishing a diagnosis....'benign' or 'malignant' is not an exact science. In spite of the aura of infallibility..pathologists are human...( the super specialist (with) 'tunnel vision'...Histo-techs...make grievous errors...( proper patient...sample...injuries to the tissues...Pathologists are not omniscient...(; some) afflicted with such delusions. ...Trapped by semantics. ...A 'guessing game' when patients' lives are at stake. " - Roger Terry, MD, " Pathology of Cancer " , Clinical Oncology: A Multi-disciplinary Approach, ACS. " ...All too many...scientists...have forgotten that not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything counted, counts. " - Denis Burkitt, MD, (of Burkitt's Lymphoma), in Judith Glassman, The Cancer Survivors. " ...Half or more of the numerical data published by scientists in their journal articles is unusable because there is no evidence that the researcher accurately measured what he thought he was measuring, or no evidence that possible sources of error were eliminated or accounted for. " - Dr. Richard W. Roberts, Director, National Bureau of Standards), in Robert Mendelsohn, MD, Confessions of a Medical Heretic. " It is not enough to show that drug A is better than drug B on the average. One is invited to ask, 'For which people ( " & why " ) is drug A better than drug B, and vice versa? If drug A cures 40% and drug B cures 60%, perhaps the right choice of drug for each person would result in 100% cures. " - Lancelot Hogben, MA, with five lines of medical credentials, Annual Review of Medicine, 1958. " ...To test new materials..., it was reasoned that the primary mouse cancer used should...respond the best to the then existing anti-cancer drugs. Accordingly, ...leukemia has become the standard for testing....This has resulted in the development of several drugs that are highly effective clinically against (A.L.L.) leukemia, chorio-carcinoma..., but of only limited effectiveness against the commoner (solid) cancers. ...There are anti-cancer agents with a high degree of effectiveness against a solid tumor ( " melanoma " ) although totally ineffective against the leukemias. ...We suggest...each material...be tested on...solid tumor regardless of its effectiveness...against the leukemias ( " during initial primary screen " ). " - Dr. Roy Asplund, " Isolation of Anti-Tumor Poly Saccharide Fractions from Yucca... " Growth, 1978. (in John Hinerman, The Treatment of Cancer with Herbs, c. 1980). " ...I am told that I cannot discover anything more because I had discovered other concepts in the past and those are now regulations. ....I am the senior author of the randomized clinical trial. Now, I am told by the FDA that, if I don't do a randomized clinical trial, I can't do research. ...When I ask them where they got that dumb idea, they cite my publications. " - Dr. Emil Freirich, head Developmental Therapeutics, MD Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute (in Pat McGrady, Jr., " The Cancer Patient's Quandry " , Newsday, Sept 30, 1982. " If a useful (therapy) became available...it would be difficult to find an adequate number of experienced investigators to test it. The great danger might not be that a useless material was judged useful, but rather that a worthwhile one was rejected by inexperienced investigators. " - Ernest Herrman, PhD (in Postgraduate Medicine, May 1964) (in Independent Citizens Research Foundation for Study of Degenerative Diseases), Is the Answer to Cancer Just Around the Corner?, c. 1964. " In the early 1700's, two physicians...learned about pinkroot's efficacy from the Indians. The word soon spread to the general public, who praised this worm treatment, particularly against roundworms, for the next 200 years. Pinkroot fell into disuse in the early 1900's, simply because greedy herb dealers adulterated or even substituted shipments of true pinkroot with quantities of other plants... " - Michael A. Weiner, PhD, nutritional ethno-medicine, U of Calif, Berkeley, Earth Medicine - Earth Food,: Plant Remedies, Drugs, and Natural Foods of the North American Indians, c. 1972. Extra material There are some sections of my original medical essay that are not appropriate for my essay today, but are very good reading. I refer to and link to these sections from my medical essay. The first section has to do with Dr. Bruce Halstead. The second has to do with Jimmy Keller. First, some Medical Dark Ages quotes about Halstead. " ...Adequate dosage by the most effective and least toxic route. ....('Laetrile') is about 44 times more toxic when given by mouth than by intra-muscular injection, and 21 times more toxic than intravenous injection. ...When the patient is on high doses of vitamin A, alcoholic beverages are absolutely prohibited. " " An excellent example of what not to eat is the nutritional program as recommended in the booklet published in 1974 by the American Cancer Society, Inc. under the misnomer of 'Nutrition.' " - Bruce W. Halstead, MD, author of several books. " A little after 7 am...25 officers...and California FDA, raided Halstead's residence...The LA county DA's office charged Halstead (consultant to World Health Organization; commander, US Navy; director, World Life Resources Institute) with some 24 counts including 'conspiracy, 'grand theft', unlawfully selling drugs for cancer treatment, and 'fraudulently providing a treatment to arrest cancer.'...The DA took all of his cancer patients' records and refused to give him either a list or receipt for them. " - Choice, 1984. " The Committee for Freedom of Choice in Medicine...has filed a complaint with the United Nations Center for Human Rights, charg(ing)...'medical genocide' and accus(ing) the AMA and ... FDA...(this) complaint was spurred by the recent raid on the home and office of Bruce Halstead, MD... " - Medical Freedom Group takes Complaint to UN. " , Spotlight, 1984. Halstead may be one of America's most brilliant physicians. His battles with the medical gangsters continue to this very day. On The Winds web site is a recent interview with Halstead. From their web site: " A decades-long dispute between a highly respected physician/scientist and the State of California ended with the elderly doctor, Bruce Halstead, on criminal probation and stripped of his license to practice medicine. " In light of this and other recent actions taken by state governmental authorities in cooperation with such U. S. institutions as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the FTC (Federal Trade Commission), the government appears to be engaged in a concerted war against a domain of the healing arts known as alternative medicine. This war, ostensibly for the protection of American citizens from unscrupulous " quacks, " has apparently moved into a new phase. The FDA's pursuit of medical " public enemies " is no longer restricted primarily to non-MD practitioners not trained at established medical schools--those the general public largely considers the unorthodox fringe of the medical world. These federal agencies are now engaging the force of the government's legal machinery in the prosecution of physicians practicing " conventional medicine " --those who have dared to recognize and even incorporate into their practices the efficacy of holistic natural remedies. " Dr. Halstead is a graduate of Loma Linda University, a medical school which, to those in the field of the human physiological sciences, ranks as one of the more prestigious schools of medicine and scientific research in the world. " The 77-year-old physician is currently on probation under the State of California, Los Angeles County, for his activities involving the prescribing of alternative medication, specifically for his cancer patients. Dr. Halstead has been suspended from any form of medical practice. " In fact, " he told The WINDS, " I can't even talk to a patient about nutrition. " " When his home and clinic in San Bernardino County were raided by the Los Angeles District Attorney, " I challenged their legal jurisdiction, " Halstead informed The WINDS, " since I had never lived or worked in Los Angeles County, but that did not matter. I was a legal novice and had not yet learned that jurisdiction and venue were merely legal fantasies which have no meaning in actual fact for the alternative health physician. " (Nor, apparently, does the constitutional doctrine of habeas corpus). " Dr. Halstead was charged with twenty-eight counts of conspiracy, grand theft and violations of the Health and Safety Code, along with twenty felony and misdemeanor counts. " The prosecutor wanted me to go to prison for eight years, " he told The WINDS, " but the court ultimately reduced the sentence to 32 months. I was offered, on at least ten different occasions, the 'opportunity' of plea bargaining for a crime which I did not commit, " Halstead explained. " My reply was 'not until hell freezes over.' " " The assault upon alternative medicine " is not just against me, " he said. " They're after everybody and everything " connected with the field. " Perhaps something else Dr. Halstead revealed to The WINDS has played a part in the FDA's zeal to relegate him to the medical " scrap heap " . " We have been monitoring the illicit regulatory activities of the FDA and the cancer establishment, " Halstead claims, " and are in constant contact with a network of organizations and attorneys dealing with their illegal health activities in this country which are steadily driving up our national health costs. " " Is it not interesting how money keeps introducing itself into the mix? Halstead concurs making the ominous assertion that, " Cancer is the sacred cow of the medical industry. More people make money by treating cancer than there are victims dying from the disease. " " Dr. Halstead, acclaimed as a genius even among his peers, has authored hundreds of books and research publications. Among them are benchmark works such as Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals of the World which the U.S. Navy considers of such importance as to fund a project to put the entire three-volume tome on CD-ROM. The WINDS obtained a copy of Dr. Halstead's Curriculum Vitae, the academician's equivalent of a resume. The following qualifications belong to a man whom the government deems dangerous to his patients, incompetent to practice medicine and academically inadequate to determine what is harmful or beneficial to human physiology: - Eleven years teaching on the medical faculty of Loma Linda University. - Specializes in global preventive medicine, tropical diseases and biotoxicology. - Assistant Director on the School of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, Loma - Linda University, Loma Linda, California. - Assisted in developing a global preventive military medical program at the U.S. - Naval Medical School, Bethesda, Maryland. - Lectured on biotoxicology at the School of Aerospace Medicine, U.S. Air Force, San Antonio, Texas. - Conducted Arctic expeditions for the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and National Institutes of Health, studying poisonous and venomous marine animals, and potential drugs from the sea. - Contributor to Dorland's Medical Dictionary and the Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th Ed. - Engaged in marine scientific research with the Jacques Cousteau Society, traveling extensively with the Cousteaus for eighteen years. Additionally, Dr. Halstead has been deeply involved in the study of the use of oriental herbal therapy on immune deficiency disorders. After a 25-year effort into medical/biological research, " I was shocked, " Dr. Halstead exclaimed, " to find upon my Rip Van Winkle return to clinical medicine that dangerous toxic drugs, all FDA approved, had proliferated to a frightening extent--over 1.54 billion prescriptions written in the U.S. per year. " I found, " Halstead continues, " that many of these drugs destroy your immune system and are carcinogenic. New and awesome medical technologies were also being spawned, mind-blowing in both their diagnostic capability and staggering costs to the consumer. " However, in evaluating this new drug and health technology, I did not find a commensurate improvement in either morbidity or mortality statistics in chronic degenerative afflictions such as cardiovascular disease and cancer. Costs had increased, but not the overall health index. We had dropped to about 23[rd] position among the nations of the world in health care. " " This data, presented by an eminent physician/scientist, raises the logical question as to whether this may be a reasonable explanation as to why the strike by New York doctors several years ago resulted in a decline in the city's overall death rate. " At this point in time, " Halstead concludes, " I have the profound conviction that America is on a disaster course in health care both economically and therapeutically...A dangerous therapeutic mind set exists in this country that it is better to die in an orthodox fashion than to survive in an unorthodox manner. " " In reference to his implication that the government would rather allow an individual to die than to condone the application of " unorthodox " treatment, Dr. Halstead relates the following event he presented in his court trial: " During my final oral argument I recounted the incident when defendant Alfred Dix and his wife had their home raided by the Los Angeles District Attorney. Mr. Dix had been using and selling the herbal drink. " [The doctor is here speaking of a specific compound of Japanese herbs (ADS) from which a tea is made that many clinical trials, according to Halstead, have proven very effective in the treatment of cancer]. " Mrs. Dix had been diagnosed as having terminal abdominal cancer. She had had surgery, nine different types of chemotherapy, and over ninety different treatments of radiation, all of which had failed. Her doctors told her that she had only 30 to 45 days to live. She was bedridden, had given up hope, and was preparing to die. She and her husband had even contacted a mortician to make funeral arrangements. " Mr. Dix then came in contact with ADS [the herbal compound]. After taking ADS for about ten days, Mrs. Dix began to feel better, started doing housework, shopping, traveling, and started entertaining again. I met Mr. and Mrs. Dix one day in the lobby of a hotel in Pasadena. She was walking, mentally alert, happy and laughing, and stated emphatically that she was feeling great. No aches or pains - thanks to ADS. " At the time of the raid at the Dix home, the D.A. confiscated all of her ADS. Her husband begged and tearfully pleaded with the D.A. to release enough of the ADS for his wife's use. The D.A. refused to release any of the tea to her. " The next time I saw Mrs. Dix was in the courtroom. She looked pale, in a weakened condition, unable to walk, crestfallen and anguished. A few days later she died - a broken woman, a victim of the land of the free and the home of the brave. " What has happened to our national ideal of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness? Why has the prosecution denied Mrs. Dix the right to retain a cup of harmless adaptogenic tea which she purchased for her own cancerous condition? What has happened to her civil liberties? " I could not think of a single tyrannical country in which this scenario could have taken place. " And here is a first-person account about Jimmy Keller, his treatment, and how they took care of him. " My wife Kathy had fully-metastasized ovarian cancer which had spread throughout her abdomen. She had large and growing tumor masses basically everywhere below the diaphragm when we brought her to Jimmy Keller's clinic in March of 1991. She was unable to walk fully erect, had hard masses in her stomach area, was very weak and suffering abdominal pains and digestive distress because of the growths. " She had been earlier mis-diagnosed (rather reprehensibly so in my opinion) with fibroid tumors of the uterus. Her cancer was discovered in a surgery (intended to remove her uterus and ovaries) on 5 February 1991, immediately upon opening her abdomen with a huge T-shaped incision. A biopsy was taken and she was stapled-up immediately. The surgeon returned his fee within hours, and we were left with a dismal prognosis. " A longtime acquaintance who had experienced a near-miraculous and seemingly permanent recovery from an apparent brain tumor, recommended us to the Keller clinic. We spoke to Jimmy and several others by phone and decided to attempt his treatment. " Mr. Keller interviewed us upon our arrival at the Tijuana clinic, and detailed what we could expect. He was guardedly optimistic, explaining that the surgery would have caused the cancer to spread aggressively (it had, in spades). He said the fact Kathy had not undergone chemotherapy, and that she was young and basically healthy meant her chances were good of making dramatic progress. He said the daily treatments would make her very tired and she must sleep long hours. He said she would almost certainly experience " pulling " sensations in the areas of the tumors as the masses shrank. He told us the process of recovery would involve a stringent diet which must be maintained indefinitely, as well as the treatments, and would require many months and repeated visits to the clinic. " The daily therapy consisted of a grab-bag of alternative approaches; Mr. Keller seemed to use every therapy he knew which had any chance of success. Kathy was given everything from pancreatic enzymes to Laetrile, in a constantly-varying daily routine. " But it consisted of two very essential items which were never omitted: an IV drip of saline solution containing a very large dose of Vitamin C; and an intravenous serum, normally added to the same saline solution, which we were told consisted of amino acids and polypeptides. " This last serum was the one totally unique aspect of their treatment, and it was to that which they attributed the lion's share of their success. And success it was. " I will not detail their stories here, but we were surrounded with people whose tales of recovery were consistently heartening, and sometimes bordered on the incredible. " A typical day at the clinic consisted of arrival at 9AM; an interview with Mr. Keller in which he used a technique (which I had never before seen) of body-response to his questions which led him to prescribe the day's mix of therapies. Items and proportions changed daily. Laetrile some days, not others. More serum one day, less another. All based, apparently, in a method of physical feedback where he pressed downwards upon the patient's extended arm as he asked questions or named medicines. The arm's resistance to pressure seemed to vary and provided Keller his response. Keller also seemed to examine his patients' outward appearance very closely, and asked searching questions about diet, sleep, how they felt, and so forth. An assistant noted his comments on the day's therapy for each patient. " We then sat upon chairs, arranged throughout the several rooms and hallways of the small clinic, and with about 40 to 60 other patients, were provided with the IVs, injections and tablets. I assisted with some aspects of my wife's treatment, including needle " sticks " and IV " pushes. " Usually we were done by noon or so, then went " home, " Kathy usually to bed-rest. " As to cost, the various medicines involved specific charges for each; generally, as I recall, a day's treatment would cost anywhere from $150 to $250. " I remained there with my wife for about a week, and attended all her visits to the clinic. We set her up in a kitchenette -equipped motel room near the border. " We bought her all the elements of the very strictly organic and vegetable-laden diet Keller had prescribed. " I then returned to my work in Seattle, but stayed in constant contact with Kathy by phone. As she had done from the beginning, she reported the " pulling " sensations predicted by Mr. Keller, and slept a large proportion of every day. She was not very descriptive of her progress during this time; I later learned it was because she wanted to surprise me. " The initial surprise, though, was not a happy one, when Kathy called to report the incident of Jimmy's abduction. She had been there for about three weeks. She was slated for just a few more days' treatment, then to be sent home for about a month before another stint at the clinic. Mr. Keller had no more told her this than he was assaulted and taken by force from the clinic by three armed men. My wife physically fought one of them, and was threatened with a gun for her trouble. " Upon her return, I was flabbergasted at what I saw. She was utterly transformed to a state of emphatic *health*. It was nothing less than amazing. Kathy walked fully upright. Except for a few small hard masses in the lower abdomen, all evidence of her tumors was gone. She was more energetic and alert than I had *ever* seen her. She had the complexion of a robust child, peaches and cream, rosy cheeks! Never before had she had such an appearance. " Though this triumph was overshadowed by the knowledge that the clinic was closed and no more treatment would be available, Kathy's wonderful condition persisted for months. She woke early and slept light. She practically bounced out of bed, something she'd never done before. " Her energy was remarkable. It required about four months before she began to experience the symptoms of digestive distress again, and several more before the growths became as strongly evident as before. " Our tale from there is much like those of many another sufferer of that cancer. Other efforts to duplicate Keller's treatment, on which we spent thousands, were unsuccessful. We were finally left with nothing but surgery (a colostomy, finally necessary to keep Kathy alive) and the usual spiral of chemotherapy. " Kathy died, a remarkable three years after her diagnosis, on 16 March 1994, of liver failure. But for an almost-successful attempt at killing her with Taxol (which weakened her terribly and after which her doctor recommended euthanasia to our horror), Kathy would probably have lived many months longer. I am convinced Kathy would have lived a fraction of that time without Jimmy Keller's amazing treatment. The Next Section: Fluoridation: A Horror Story (161K) Return to My Home Page (The address on the Internet of my home page is http://www.ahealedplanet.net/home.htm) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You are posting as a guest. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.