Health: Modern Medicine's Deceit & Why I Abandoned It]

[Guest guest]

Hi y'all,

 

An old one I sent to the list. I was searching for one I sent a couple

of years ago .. an article that showed the actual cost of production vs

the sales price of hundreds of medications .. can't find it now .. but

the percentage of profits on some medications were in the 5,000% range.

 

There is a need for doctors and hospitals .. alternative/complementary

treatment is not sufficient .. but there is need for improvement in the

care given in the hospitals .. and lowering of the cost of medication.

 

While in the USA, I listened to a talk on C-Span by the Director of the

Government Accounting Office .. totally non-partisan because he dislikes

both the Democrats and the Republicans. ;-) The main subject was the

future of Social Security .. how the system was going to run out of cash

soon and the need for revision. The main point he made was .. that its

not payment of Social Security checks .. nor the money that the gummit

is spending to fight wars and combat terrorism .. that is gonna break

the US Gummit Bank .. its the cost of Medicare. He went on to explain

that we need to reign in the cost of medical treatment .. bring it down

to a reasonable level of profit.

 

Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com

 

 

Butch Owen <butchbsi

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:49:52 -0800

Health: Modern Medicine's Deceit & Why I

Abandoned It

 

MODERN MEDICINE'S DECEIT & WHY I ABANDONED IT

 

by Shane Ellison M. Sc.

 

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.

 

http://www.newswithviews.com/Ellison/shane19.htm

[Guest guest]

I love this! After 14 years of going to doctors and 5 major surgerys, I have

discovered to get 4, 5 or more different oppinions before I do another sugery.

Last doc removed the cartilidge out of my ankle and now I'm walking bone on

bone. Like when did I give him permission to do that??? Needless to say I am

doctor shy and if I had the cash I would go somewhere else for treatment. The

way the US handles Medical Incusrance and patient care is sad, especially for

the elderly and Vets who have served in the armed forces. I know many people

that must choose between food or precription medications. This is a crime. Our

people should be treated with more respect and diginity. Marcus Welby where are

you????

Gloria

 

Butch Owen <butchbsi wrote:

Hi y'all,

 

An old one I sent to the list. I was searching for one I sent a couple

of years ago .. an article that showed the actual cost of production vs

the sales price of hundreds of medications .. can't find it now .. but

the percentage of profits on some medications were in the 5,000% range.

 

There is a need for doctors and hospitals .. alternative/complementary

treatment is not sufficient .. but there is need for improvement in the

care given in the hospitals .. and lowering of the cost of medication.

 

While in the USA, I listened to a talk on C-Span by the Director of the

Government Accounting Office .. totally non-partisan because he dislikes

both the Democrats and the Republicans. ;-) The main subject was the

future of Social Security .. how the system was going to run out of cash

soon and the need for revision. The main point he made was .. that its

not payment of Social Security checks .. nor the money that the gummit

is spending to fight wars and combat terrorism .. that is gonna break

the US Gummit Bank .. its the cost of Medicare. He went on to explain

that we need to reign in the cost of medical treatment .. bring it down

to a reasonable level of profit.

 

Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com

 

 

Butch Owen

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:49:52 -0800

Health: Modern Medicine's Deceit & Why I

Abandoned It

 

MODERN MEDICINE'S DECEIT & WHY I ABANDONED IT

 

by Shane Ellison M. Sc.

 

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.

 

http://www.newswithviews.com/Ellison/shane19.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

~May the light of the Goddess' Moon shine upon you always~

 

" Life is not measured by the numbers of breaths we take, but by the moments that

take our breath away "