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

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For those who think medicine is

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[sSRI-Research] MODERN MEDICINE'S DECEIT & WHY I ABANDONED

IT

 

 

 

 

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MODERN MEDICINE'S DECEIT & WHY I ABANDONED IT

 

Shane Ellison M. Sc.

August 20, 2005

NewsWithViews.com

 

 

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.

 

 

Footnotes:

 

1, Sally, A. et al. Estrogen Plus Progestin and the Incidence of

Dementia

and Mild Cognitive Impairment in Postmenopausal Women. Journal of the

American Medical Association. 2003;289:2651-2662.

Chen CL, Weiss NS, Newcomb P, Barlow W, White E. Hormone replacement

therapy

in relation to breast cancer. Journal of the American Medical

Association.

2002 Feb 13;287(6):734-41.

Spurgeon, D. Long Term use of HRT Doubles Cancer Risk. British

Medical

Journal. 2003 Jul 5;327(7405):9

Yoneva T. Taniguchi K. Tsunenari T. Saito H. Kanbe Y, Morikaw K,

Yamada-Okabe H. Identification of a novel, orally bioavailable

estrogen

receptor downregulator. Anticancer Drugs. 2005 Aug;16(7):751-6.

Labrie, F. et al. EM-652 (SCH 57068), a third generation SERM acting

as pure

antiestrogen in the mammary gland and endometrium. The Journal of

Steroid

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 1999 Apr-Jun;69(1-6):51-84.

2, Starfield, Barbara. Is US Health Really the Best in the World?

Journal of

the American Chemical Society, July 26, 2000-Vol 284, No.4.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7503122/

3, There were an estimated 58,000 U.S casualties in the Vietnam War

4, Moride Y, Haramburu F, Requejo AA, Begaud B. Under-reporting of

adverse

drug reactions in general practice. British Journal of Clinical

Pharmacology, 1997 43: 177-181.

5, Tejal K. Gandhi. et al. Adverse Drug Events in Ambulatory Care.

The New

England Journal of Medicine. Volume 348:1556-1564. April 17, 2003.

Number

16.

© 2005 Shane Ellison -

 

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Shane holds a Master's degree in organic chemistry and has first-hand

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understands

that Americans want and deserve education rather than prescriptions.

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