If you pulled back the curtain.........

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The false gods of scientific medicine revealed: It's a cult, not a science

Promoters of conventional medicine claim that all the drug marketing, FDA

approvals, surgical procedures, chemotherapy and all other treatments are based

on " hard science. " The term " science " is invoked with hilarious frequency:

Science journals, science-based medicine, proven medical science and so on. As

you might have guessed, however, there's surprisingly little genuine science to

be found in the common practice of conventional medicine. Rather, what passes

for " science " today is a collection of health myths, half-truths, intellectual

dishonesty, self delusion, fraudulent reporting and wishful thinking.

Take clinical trials, for example. These are supposed to be the " gold standard "

of scientific study, and yet it has been well demonstrated that these studies

almost always produce results beneficial to the organization providing the

funding. The wishes of the study sponsors, not true scientific methods,

determine the study outcomes. This is accomplished through an elaborate system

of fraudulent trial design, selective reporting, dismissing study subjects who

don't produce the desired outcome, statistical distortions and the application

of career pressure to the researchers who carry out such studies. (Researchers

who don't produce the desired results get blackballed by the industry.)

The end result is that today's so-called " scientific medicine " has almost no

resemblance to genuine science at all. The word " science " is simply used as a

cover story for what's really going on behind the scenes -- a massive campaign

of pro-drug propaganda, arm-twisting, public brainwashing, media control and

regulatory failures that all add up to one thing: A system of medicine that is

the greatest con ever perpetrated on the American people.

Where is the skepticism about conventional medicine?

Conventional medicine is almost entirely justified by truly bad science. And yet

so-called skeptics, who are supposed to exercise clear thinking about all

subjects, never seem to question the fraudulent science behind prescription

drugs. The mass drugging of children for fictitious diseases, for example, seems

to be okay with such skeptics, who are too busy bashing homeopathy and

acupuncture to take an honest, critical look at the junk science behind

prescription drugs, it seems.

Ultimately, these so-called quack-busting skeptics only question certain

selected topics. All drugs get an automatic thumbs up, no matter how ludicrous

the underlying science, while all natural therapies are automatically and

routinely criticized by skeptics who equate their own lack of understanding with

proof that something mysterious can't possibly work. They say homeopathy can't

work, for example, simply because they can't find any mechanism to explain how

it could work. That's tantamount to saying that nothing new will ever be

discovered because skeptics already know everything there is to know about the

way the universe works.

Let's face it: Neither conventional medicine, nor its promoters, has attained

any real membership in the club of genuine scientists. Real scientists are

people like Feynman, a legendary author, lecturer and infinitely curious

individual who never allowed his own ego to cloud his open mind about the laws

of the universe. If Feynman were alive today and observing the so-called

" science " backing conventional medicine, he'd probably laugh out loud at the

utter lack of scientific merit found in the drug studies published in so-called

" scientific journals. "

The Church of Medical Truth

While defenders of conventional medicine don't have membership in the club of

genuine science, they are card-carrying members of another organization: The

Church of Medical Truth (similar to the Ministry of Truth from 1984). In this

Church, the beliefs of members (doctors, FDA bureaucrats, media reporters, etc.)

are handed down from the high priests, and those beliefs -- that all drugs are

good, all vitamins are bad, etc. -- are blindly followed by the faithful, who

dare not question those beliefs on any genuine scientific basis.

This is how doctors have come to believe the incredible: That food has nothing

to do with health, that antioxidants will kill you, that herbs interfere with

drugs, and that only drugs can treat or cure disease. It's a cult-like belief

system handed down by the high priests of conventional medicine, and if this

intricate web of false beliefs was actually subjected to genuine scientific

scrutiny, it would crumble into a thousand pieces of junk science and marketing

propaganda.

Conventional medicine, as practiced and promoted today, has nothing whatsoever

to do with good science, but everything to do with promoting a particular

cult-like worldview that says only doctors can treat or cure disease, not

patients, or nature, or nutrition. And its proponents and practitioners are not

scientists, but rather part of the congregation of the Church of Medical Truth.

Mainstream media stories that parrot the cult-like beliefs of conventional

medicine are the singing of the church choir, and the altar boys getting

sodomized in the back room by high priests are like the public being chemically

assaulted by pharmaceuticals. (A kind of " medical violence " perpetrated against

the general public.)

This is not intended to say anything bad about churches. I believe in Freedom of

Religion just as I do Freedom of Speech. But I don't believe in giving a group

of doctors and drug pushers the exclusive right to claim their particular

beliefs are the one true " science, " to the exclusion of all else, especially

when their so-called science is really just another competing system of beliefs

founded on circular logic ( " Drugs are safe because they are subjected to

scientific scrutiny in studies specifically designed to show that drugs are

safe. " )

What skeptics should really be considering

Consider these facts about modern medicine:

• There is currently no requirement whatsoever that surgical procedures be

scientifically proven as either safe or effective before being widely performed

on the public.

• Chemotherapy has been scientifically proven to be worthless at curing cancer,

enhancing quality of life or protecting the health of the patient. In fact,

chemotherapy kills patients, and even the ones who survive it are left with

permanent damage to their brain ( " chemo brain " ), kidneys, liver and other

organs. Chemotherapy is a medical hoax with absolutely no scientific validity.

The size of a tumor is not a measure of the degree of cancer that exists on a

patient's body, and shrinking a tumor is not a meaningful measure of a cancer

treatment's success.

• The rapid rise in depression, ADHD and other mental or " behavioral " disorders

is so large that it can only be explained by either an infectious epidemic (in

which case the CDC should be involved) or rampant disease mongering where drug

companies invent diseases and push them onto children and adults in order to

sell more drugs. Anyone who believes that ADHD is a real disease that has

inexplicably stricken 1000% more children over the last twenty years is kidding

themselves. This " disease " is pure fiction, and there is absolutely no blood

test, no MRI, no lab test, nothing to diagnose ADHD other than the opinion of

someone who most likely earns kickbacks from Big Pharma.

• Nearly all pharmaceuticals receiving FDA approval today have been tested on

only a few thousand people for a very short period of time (as little as six

weeks in some cases). Yet, from such limited testing, the FDA declares the drugs

to be safe for everyone, even for long-term use, without a shred of evidence

that such long-term use is safe.

• No scientific testing whatsoever has been done to fully document the toxic

effects of combinations of medications. Deadly drug interactions are simply

noted after the fact. Consumers who take multiple prescription drugs are

literally serving as Big Pharma's guinea pigs.

• There is currently no requirement whatsoever that drug side effects noticed by

doctors be reported to the FDA. The entire system of reporting is purely

voluntary.

• The entire paradigm of pharmaceutical medicine makes no sense. Chemicals are

used to treat " biomarkers " or measurable biochemical states, yet disease and

dysfunction is complex and always involved more than a single measurable number.

Cholesterol drugs, for example, may artificially lower cholesterol numbers, but

they completely ignore the root cause of elevated cholesterol. This is why

cholesterol drugs have been scientifically proven worthless in preventing heart

attacks or other fatal cardiovascular events.

• Most drugs don't work on most people. Claims of benefits are highly

exaggerated by reporting their relative percentage rather than absolute

percentage of efficacy. For example, if two people out of 100 normally get

breast cancer, and a drug causes that number to be reduced to one person out of

100, the drug company will claim a " 50% reduction in breast cancer! " when, in

reality, it's a 1% reduction across the population. Yet the drug will be

marketed to everyone as a breast cancer " prevention " strategy. And yet 99% of

the people who take it will experience no benefits from it. Most drugs are

useless. A drug only has to work on about 5% of test subjects to receive FDA

approval.

Someday, future medicine may actually be based on open-minded curiosity about

the laws of nature and how human beings may attain a higher state of health. But

until then, we're living in the Dark Ages of medicine, where the power of the

Church of Medical Truth seems absolute, and its own modern-day Inquisition

conducts routine search-and-destroy missions on any health practitioner who

dares to question the power of the Church.

Real science is about the search for truth and an understanding of the laws of

nature, but modern medical science (conventional medicine) is little more than a

search for profits at the expense of public health. It has nothing whatsoever to

do with genuine science. And as the public wises up to this, the future of

conventional medicine doesn't have a prayer.

After the collapse of Western medicine, real health care will inevitably end up

returning to its roots: The healing power of nature.

By Mike