Opposing Digits

David Wright wrote:

> Oh, stick it in your ear, Carole. First I get that tired old whine
> from you "You're not interested in alternative medicine, you're just
> here to trash it." Then I get that numbskull Gohde trying to trash me
> because I *am* using alternative medicine, as I've mentioned in
> another thread that you're apparently too busy to read.

David, here is something to stick in your ear. :)

I have received no reports of factual error, to date.

The best way to attack strength is by constantly picking at its weakest
points.

Medicine has some very well known weak points that are worthy of
everyone's scorn.

1. Knock the high cost of health care in America.
2. Knock iatrogenic deaths.
3. Knock the sleaziest people of medicine.
4. Knock instances of health fraud being committed by conventional
medicine.
5. Knock the flu vaccination industry.
6. Knock the well known failures of conventional medicine.

Knock the high cost of health care in America
-----
The most favorable response will come from attacking the high cost of
medicine. Physicians are directly affected by the high cost of
malpractice insurance just as much as the patients are. Why does
health issuance cost so much? And, why in a few decades is the cost of
health insurance expected to be totally unaffordable? Why are people
without health insurance, but willing to pay cash, being forced to
endure all manner of verbal abuse as part of the process of receiving
health care? Why are physicians forcing patients to pay for tests that
serve no purpose other than to protect doctors from lawsuits?

See:
http://www.nchc.org/facts/cost.shtml
http://www.yourdoctorinthefamily.com/grandtheory/section2_4.htm
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04284/392799.stm


Knock iatrogenic deaths
-----
Deaths from adverse drug reactions (ADR) has widely been reported to be
the 3rd leading cause of death in America. The practice of
conventional medicine can be dangerous to your health. Why is there a
conspiracy by conventional medicine to cover up totally unnecessary
deaths caused by conventional medicine? And, why are doctors not
routinely prosecuted for manslaughter or criminal negligence for these
wrongful iatrogenic deaths? The demographic group mostly likely to be
receiving highly dangerous polypharmacy by physicians are the elderly.

See:
http://www.nutritioninstituteofamerica.org/research/DeathByMedicine/DeathByMedicine1.htm
http://www.surgicenteronline.com/hotnews/5bh39405091724.html
http://www.healingdaily.com/Doctors-Are-The-Third-Leading-Cause-of-Death-in-the-US.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/print?id=1211180
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~issues/fall95/polypharmacy.html
http://www.healthhub.ie/index.cfm/loc/6-7-3/articleId/F4EB5455-8908-47DB-BCAF9A23005CCF01.htm


Knock the sleaziest people of medicine
-----
Try knocking the sleaziest people associated with conventional
medicine. Quackpots are the easiest targets to pick on. Nobody likes
bigotry, even in medicine. Attack the bigots of medicine: The
Crackpots.

See:
http://www.quackpotwatch.org/
http://www.bolenreport.net/
http://www.wcanews.com/archives/2002/may2202c.htm

Academic science kooks, like Montygram, are also good choices because
they exhibit nutty behavior.

The sleaziest physicians are the shrinks. Shrinks write more multiple
drug prescriptions than any other branch of medicine. Shrinks write
prescriptions for the medicalization of life, such as for social
anxiety. Shrinks, also, are the ones who are turning our school
children into life long drug addicts.

See:
http://www.asfar.org/zine/2nd/drugs.html
http://psychrights.org/Research/Digest/ADHD/MedicatingKids.pdf
http://www.aacap.org/publications/policy/ps41.htm
http://www.liftingtheveil.org/foster13.htm
http://www.antidepressantsfacts.com/2004-09-22-suicide-rates-doubled-5-14.htm


Knock instances of health fraud being committed by conventional
medicine
-----
Nobody is in favor of health fraud. Point out instances of health
fraud, like hospitals promoting through advertisement medically
unnecessary diagnostic tests, like expensive CT scans, for very
questionable health benefits. Ask whether routinely recommended
diagnostic tests, like mammograms are really medically necessary, or
are they just conventional medicine trying to scam the public out of
their money? Many public health authorities are actually against them.

See:
http://www.northamericanconsumersagainsthealthfraud.org/
http://www.usdoj.gov/dag/pubdoc/hipaa01fe19.htm
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Tests/ct.html


Knock the flu vaccination industry
-----
Are you against vaccinations in general? Then the easiest vaccine to
attack is the flu vaccine. It has very little going for it. The
theory behind it is laughable. The people most in need of the shots are
documented to have received little benefit from taking them. Try
knocking the annual health scare that is always being manufacture by
the vaccination industry, such as the coming bird flu pandemic to your
neighborhood.

Every year, flu vaccine manufacturers have to predict which strains of
the flu will be prevalent, and the vaccine is a mixture of three flu
strains. But if the manufacturers guess wrong, the vaccine is useless,
and nobody is protected against the flu. This is a fact, NOT wishful
thinking on my part.

These decisions are made by a WHO-sanctioned committee in the spring
because it takes several months to gear up for vaccine production. So,
comparing it to weather forecasting these flu industry crackpots think
that they can accurately predict what the weather will be nine months
from today. Does anybody take the flu vaccination industry seriously?

The success of a given influenza vaccination depends largely on the
antigenic match between the 3 influenza vaccine strains and the virus
strains actually circulating during a given flu season. Each year the
influenza virus experiences what these crackpots call an antigenic
drift or a shift. Shift variants cause people to escape any immunity
from prior vaccinations or infections. This was the case for the
influenza pandemics of 1918, 1957 and 1968. "In fact, in almost all
years, by the end of the flu season, some new strain or some new drift
species will show up," said Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the CDC,
during a press conference on Nov. 17, 2003. The 1997/1998 season is on
record for having had a considerable mismatch between the H3N2 vaccine
component and the prevalent epidemic influenza A(H3N2) virus. In the
2003-04 flu season the vaccination protected against H3N2 Panama, H1N1
New Caledonia and Influenza B Hong Kong. As expected, a Fujian variant
of the H3N2 Panama was detected by global surveillance in Australia
early in 2003. Since the flu vaccination industry is so slow to
respond it was too late to include that strain in the influenza vaccine
for that flu season. This missing strain was in fact responsible for
most of the influenza-related deaths during the 2003-04 flu season.


See:
http://media.www.universitychronicle.com/media/paper231/news/2004/01/29/News/Flu-Shot.May.Be.Overrated-591937.shtml?sourcedomain=www.universitychronicle.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com
http://www.csmmh.org/flualert.htm
http://www.mercola.com/2004/oct/23/flu_crimes.htm
http://www.medkb.com/uwe/Forum.aspx/alternative/7941/HYPING-VACCINES-AN-INVESTIGATION
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16208317


Knock the well known failures of conventional medicine
-----
One of the most dramatic failures of conventional medicine was their
campaign to wipe out tuberculosis (i.e., TB). It was a miserable
failure that has been widely reported upon.

See:
Holme C. Tuberculosis: story of medical failure
BMJ. 1998 Oct 31;317(7167):1260.
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/317/7167/1260
PMID: 97948

Conventional medicine's failure to control malaria worldwide will
provide you with an even bigger laugh! Conventional medicine has failed
miserably at trying to control malaria worldwide. This fact alone
strongly suggests that medicine had nothing to do with the eradication
of malaria in America. Medicine's malaria vaccine is a total farce

http://archive.idrc.ca/books/reports/1996/01-05e.html
"In 1987, Dr. Manuel Elkin Patarroyo, a biochemist from Colombia,
developed the first synthetic vaccine against the Plasmodium
falciparum parasite. The vaccine is still being developed and has not
yet proven to reduce deaths in Africa."

Malaria was eradicated in America by controlling the mosquitoes, just
like the plague disappeared from Europe with better rat control.
Medicine had next to nothing to do with it. It was a natural
bi-product of land development in the South, that drained the swamps,
that conquered malaria in America. Even if the use of DDT helped to
control the mosquitoes it certainly was NOT the result of medicine.

For more vaccine failures see:
http://www.garynull.com/Documents/Vaccines/VaccinesOpinion/vaccines-2ndop04Effects.htm
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# posted by madthumbs @ 5:00 PM