Mike/ Antidepressant expose'

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In a message dated 04/08/2000 11:29:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

UnbrknCh8n writes:

 

<< Not suprisingly, many of the concepts mentioned in El's

post go against standard academic teachings. >>

 

Not meaning to make you feel defensive, simply perhaps a path

to seeing deeply... but who is the largest funder of academic teachings

do you think? Outside the standard donor and tuition fees, the

pharmaceutical industry is the largest funder of medical schools

and research institutions ... unfortunately, a conflict of interest.

 

I am sure you have your patients' very best interests at heart,

but most people do not sufficiently educate themselves with respect

to their own illnesses and take physicians and psychiatrists word

as something close to God. I have seen a sister, Saskia, do this

and she grew up with family physicians and psychiatrists and

should know better. Listening to the surgeon (husband)

instead of her nutritionist, cost her a painful trip to the hospital.

 

So, you see, it is only that we wish to express another side of the

coin, to ask for the voice of simple logic and reason. To ask

people not to take one person's knowledge as law or God, you

see? Most people, unfortunately, do not educate themselves

even with respect to their own diseases, their own bodies,

their own lives.

 

We simply present another side, and in all fairness, one that is

desperately needed against the weight of billions of dollars invested

in the "voices of authority" yes?

 

Just a few thoughts,

Annette

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In a message dated 4/8/00 4:37:59 PM, Rainbolily writes:

>Not meaning to make you feel defensive, simply perhaps a path

>to seeing deeply... but who is the largest funder of academic teachings

>do you think? Outside the standard donor and tuition fees, the

>pharmaceutical industry is the largest funder of medical schools

>and research institutions ... unfortunately, a conflict of interest.

 

Yep, I agree. However, having been on the faculty of a medical school,

I can say that I myself haven't seen instances of researchers fabricating

or falsifying data due to their funding sources. But I do think that non-

pharmaceutical remedies (including nutritional ones) have far fewer

resources devoted to them b/c of the source of med school research

funding (drug companies).

>So, you see, it is only that we wish to express another side of the

>coin, to ask for the voice of simple logic and reason. To ask

>people not to take one person's knowledge as law or God, you

>see? Most people, unfortunately, do not educate themselves

>even with respect to their own diseases, their own bodies,

>their own lives.

 

Wonderful! I am all for education and diversity of opinions However,

I do have trouble with the conspiracy theory-like notion that the majority

of Western society is being taken advantage of by the evil pharmaceutical

companies (especially since I see both psychiatric and non-psychiatric

medications literally saving lives on a daily basis).

 

This is not to say that I would trust the executives from drug companies

to watch my house while I am on vacation, but neither do I think that they

are the devil incarnate.

 

I appreciate your point of view, and admire the passion with which you

forward it.

 

Namaste-

 

Mike