MMS supporting studies question

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I'm new to this list and, btw, am on day 5 at 10 drops with no ill

effects except for one massive burb shortly after dosing.

I've been in contact with a software developer who is struggling

with a very rare form of blood cancer. I don't know him personally,

but I got him interested to some degree. After sending him the

miraclemineral.org website he sent me the short message below. I'm

guessing it's fairly typical of those who are used to only looking

at solutions from the medical establishment. He seems like a fairly

straight shooting guy thus the somewhat blunt directness in my

response. I don't think I need to be too diplomatic with him.

The reason I'm sharing the draft of my proposed response to him

before sending it is fourfold:

1. Do you think I got the facts straight?

2. Are any of the clinical trials (they seem more like field tests

to me really) reported in any medical journals or anywhere else

besides Jim's book?

3. Is there any other significantly compelling documentation

anywhere that lends third party credibility to the MMS protocol?

4. Do you have any other suggestions?

Thanks for your help. Jim

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> let me know when it is published in a medical journal.

Steve, I used to be the marketing director for a medical device

manufacturer, so I know from the inside how the medical publication

game is played. No, you won't be seeing this in a journal in the

near future.

For starters, since this protocol involves substances that are

available in the public domain at minuscule cost, there's no profit

incentive for the drug companies (the typical sponsors of medical

research) to fund traditional, broad based, double blind, clinical

trials that are required for studies to get published in such

journals and also are part of the FDA approval process.

Then there's the hurdle of peer review which, when closely and

honestly examined, is mostly a " good ol' boy " network that tends to

protect a closed establishment that doesn't look favorably on

radical new solutions that come from " out of network. "

I may be wrong, but I'm guessing you're fairly new to an " up close

and personal " confrontation with the " political " side of the medical

industry. Be aware, that it's not at all like your industry in

which someone can develop a new elegant solution, secure a patent or

copyright, offer the product to the scrutiny of and receive

favorable evaluations from a few well-regarded reviewers, and you're

pretty much out of the starting gate.

New drugs coming to market can cost almost a billion dollars in R & D,

clinical trials, marketing etc. before a dime is made. The FDA is

part of this exclusive club (with the same faces flowing back and

forth between government " regulatory " jobs and top industry

positions), so the deck is pretty well stacked in favor of

healthcare solutions that will carry that 20 year patent guarantee

of making big profits to pay back such a large investment. And make

big profits they do. Pharmaceuticals are our economy's shining star.

They're not so great, however, if you have a disease (especially an

obscure one with little profit potential) and need a cure that's

currently not available. Ever see the film " Lorenzo's Oil? " It's

the fact-based account of a bright person who discovers a solution

for her own son's " untreatable " health problem and who runs head on

into a system that's determined not to have an interloper challenge

its control.

Sadly and ironically, however, most prescription drugs make only a

relatively small incremental difference in rates of morbidity over

existing treatments, placebos or even NO treatment at all. That's

because medical treatments in our culture rely on " magic bullets "

like drugs and procedures as opposed to finding root causes and

correcting them. Lifestyle and other long term environmental

conditions that constitute the petri dishes in which chronic

diseases incubate and grow are routinely ignored so the blame can be

laid at the feet of things like invasive organisms that can be

fought with antibiotics or our genetic inheritance as " causes "

rather than the " tendencies " that they really are in all but a few

very rare cases.

So no, Steve, I won't be contacting you again to let you know about

a study in a medical journal. The additional links below will just

have to do. And it's not because something might not be published

tomorrow in a foreign journal where things like this tend to come to

light somewhat sooner. It's because you're obviously a bright guy

and, more importantly, YOU are the one in a battle for your life.

In case you've wondered, I'm 57, look and physically perform in all

respects as if I were 37, don't need to take a single prescription

drug or OTC remedy and never plan to. I'm too busy keeping my

immune system in top shape and teaching others pro bono how to do

the same and how simplify their lifestyle to become both healthier

and happier.

But if you care about turning over ever possible rock and

discovering a solution...or the most efficacious one that won't

further compromise your health in the process like chemo often

does...you'll research the MMS protocol yourself, despite it's

current very " unslick " packing, to find out if it does what its

developer and those who've used in Africa and other Third World

places say it does.

But if you've been sold on the notion that only Western

industrialized society's Pharmo-Medical Complex can restore your

health, then that's the only place you'll be looking.

Best of luck, Steve, whatever you decide to do.

Jim Catano

jimcatano@...