carole
2010-08-20 09:33:59 UTC
There is no bias against alternative remedies.
Pig's arse there's not.
There is a massive campaign to discredit alternative medicine, all starting
off with the AMA.
* * *
The Assault on Medical Freedom
http://www.sonic.net/mde/masscfids/main/PJLisa.html
Stephan Cooter's [re]View
Acting as an undercover agent, author P.J. Lisa gained access to the secret
files of the AMA's Chicago Department of investigation under the guise of
collecting information to expose "mental health quackery."
The first three days gave Lisa access to hundreds of photocopies of memos,
minutes, and other documents that launched a 10-year search for answers that
proved little about the existence of quackery in alternative medicine, but
much about an organized propaganda machine that intended to discredit and
destroy all alternatives to drugless medicine and all foreign drugs. Lisa
found fresh, hard documentation to prove that a "totalitarian
medical-pharmaceutical police state" had been organized since 1847, the
birth of the AMA, and a conspiracy slowly developed, funded by the
pharmaceutical industry and the AMA, to ust the insurance industry, the US
Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, the IRS, the US Postal
Service, and and many other state and federal agencies as pawns in the game
of establishing a single medical monopoly.
The AMA was pictured as a greed-motivated trade union from its very
beginning that had ethical conduct and quality of medical education as its
official purpose, but in reality was more interested in systematically
eliminating all competitors to is monetary and political interests.
Funded by the Carnegie Foundation, Abraham Flexner was ostensibly empowered
to investigate the quality of medical education in all 161 medical schools
that existed in 1910. In reality, Flexner knew in advance what he would
find. He used consistency with "modern scientific medicine" as a tool to
glorify AMA drug-oriented medical schools at the same time discrediting all
alternative colleges of medicine that didn't use Rockefeller's brand of
science and Rockefeller's industries. In league with the Rockefeller
billions, Flexner helped destroy the credibility and funding sources for
nearly all schools that used drugless-medicine. 161 medical schools became
81 by 1919; medical graduates declined from 5,747
to 2,658. "Overcrowding" of a profession had been the public AMA theme
song decrying the threat to "opportunities of those already in the
profession to acquire a livelihood."
Alternative medicine and even Sears catalogue of home remedies were seen as
competitors to be wiped out.
Although MD-oriented trauma care is acknowledged to be the best in the
world, allopathic MD-oriented drug medicine was reported by the
Congressional Office of Technology Assessment to he only 15 - 20% effective
as a medical approach. Despite this, the AMA's board of directors stated
mission was to publish articles that attacked effective alternative
treatment as "quackery".
This propaganda machine slowly expanded over the years. By 1964, the AMA's
Committee on Quackery extended its membership to become the Coordinating
Conference on Health information. CCHI membership included AMA officers,
The American Cancer Society, The American Pharmaceutical Association,
The Arthritis Foundation, The Council of Better Business Bureaus, The
National Health Council, which invited the FDA, The Federal Trade
Commission, US Postal Service, The Office of Consumer Affairs, US and State
Attorney Generals' Offices, and the IRS to attend national meetings. CCHI
officials allegedly asked the FDA to prosecute drugless "quackery" targets
that had regional or national notoriety beginning to intrude on market share
of the legal drug lords and the doctors prescribing drugs. The Federal
Trade Commission was asked to get injunctions against competitive
advertisements, the US Postal Service to put mail watches on clinics,
manufacturers, and individual doctors who used alternative therapies in
order to discredit and destroy competition from chiropractic, acupuncture,
homeopathy, naturopathy, vitamin therapy, Japanese cancer vaccines,
alternative books on cancer treatments, all alternative cancer treatments
and all alternative drugless arthritic treatments.
Lisa's book, like Breggin's Toxic Psychiatry, Beasley's Betrayal of Health,
Mendelsohn's Confessions of a Medical Heretic, Carter's Racketeering in
Medicine, and a growing number of other similar books, is unique in the
detail of its hard documentation from minutes of CCHI's meetings and
evidence which shows federal agencies complying with CCHI's targets and
goals. Court injunctions have been successfully levied against everything
from books to importing acupuncture needles as a result.
**Lisa's evidence suggested that by 1984, this medical conspiracy had
targeted vitamins, minerals, enzymes, raw milk, and laetrile, as well as a
plan to exclude chiropractic and other alternative health care from
insurance coverage.
Any product, store, doctor, or manufacturer of any competitor to drug
health care was the subject of media discrediting, licensing board
harassment, seizure or raid. The FDA and Pharmaceutical Advertising
Council had entered into an agreement to form a joint anti-quackery
campaign. Key congressional leaders were invited to meetings and asked to
join in the effort. Initially, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Medicare, Aetna, the
Health Association of America were fed a black list of doctors and
treatments that were "questionable" and asked to exclude them from coverage.
By 1986-88, a computer data base created by this conspiracy helped to deny
insurance claims by hundreds of insurers. One myth we have all heard was
created by this kind of unholy alliance: "vitamins only produce expensive
urine." At the same time officials of the FDA cooperated by attacking food
supplements that were proving to be competitors to drug treatment. Merck,
Sharpe, Dohme, Roche, Lederle, and Burroughs-Wellcome diversified into giant
producers of vitamins with massive TV campaigns to promote their sales.
These companies were never raided by FDA inspectors; only the drugless
manufactures were. Vitamin E alone has now become a $338 million a year
market.
Few of the FDA raid-seizure operations were ever motivated by interests
protecting the safety of the consumer. Instead, the FDA's own health Fraud
Consumer Report of 1988 targeted cancer, arthritis, and other food
supplement treatments that were known to be "very effective to somewhat
effective." Lisa's point: safety or effectiveness was not the real issue -
identification of serious competition to drugs was the issue.
**The middle third of the book is devoted to case histories of companies,
professions such as chiropractic, chelation therapy, naturopathy,
acupuncture, wholisitic dentistry, and homeopathy that had been targeted for
harassment, delicensing, or discrediting.
The last third of Lisa's book deals with useful advice for both doctors and
consumers for fighting back to retain or regain their health freedom.
Sections include how to challenge insurance companies that deny claims,
legal remedies from small claims courts to Insurance Company State
Regulatory Commissions, and private suits.
One fascinating avenue mentioned is filing a complaint with the Federal
Trade Commission which is partly empowered to investigate and enforce
anti-trust violations. Enough information is given in Assault Against
Medical Freedom to be useful for individuals and groups to right wrongs
brought against them by a conspiracy that still threatens to take away our
medical freedoms, despite the passage of Senate Bill 784. It's a book
entirely worth reading and a book worth acting on before it is too late.
"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, and I did not speak up
because I was not a Communist....Then they came for the Catholics, and I did
not protest because I was a Protestant....Then they came for me, and by that
time there was no one left to speak up."
Clinton's Health Reform as presently written levies penalties against
individuals choosing to take advantage of alternative medicine; $50,000 for
each offense to the patient, another $50,000 for each doctor. Should the
Health Reform Bills ever pass in their present state, everyone may be
covered, but all alternative medicine will be outlawed. (Townsend letter
for Doctors, Nov. 1994). When the federal government becomes a health
monopoly, the Sherman anti-trust laws no longer apply. Anti-monopoly laws
apply only to private industries.
carole
www.soiltheory.com
Pig's arse there's not.
There is a massive campaign to discredit alternative medicine, all starting
off with the AMA.
* * *
The Assault on Medical Freedom
http://www.sonic.net/mde/masscfids/main/PJLisa.html
Stephan Cooter's [re]View
Acting as an undercover agent, author P.J. Lisa gained access to the secret
files of the AMA's Chicago Department of investigation under the guise of
collecting information to expose "mental health quackery."
The first three days gave Lisa access to hundreds of photocopies of memos,
minutes, and other documents that launched a 10-year search for answers that
proved little about the existence of quackery in alternative medicine, but
much about an organized propaganda machine that intended to discredit and
destroy all alternatives to drugless medicine and all foreign drugs. Lisa
found fresh, hard documentation to prove that a "totalitarian
medical-pharmaceutical police state" had been organized since 1847, the
birth of the AMA, and a conspiracy slowly developed, funded by the
pharmaceutical industry and the AMA, to ust the insurance industry, the US
Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, the IRS, the US Postal
Service, and and many other state and federal agencies as pawns in the game
of establishing a single medical monopoly.
The AMA was pictured as a greed-motivated trade union from its very
beginning that had ethical conduct and quality of medical education as its
official purpose, but in reality was more interested in systematically
eliminating all competitors to is monetary and political interests.
Funded by the Carnegie Foundation, Abraham Flexner was ostensibly empowered
to investigate the quality of medical education in all 161 medical schools
that existed in 1910. In reality, Flexner knew in advance what he would
find. He used consistency with "modern scientific medicine" as a tool to
glorify AMA drug-oriented medical schools at the same time discrediting all
alternative colleges of medicine that didn't use Rockefeller's brand of
science and Rockefeller's industries. In league with the Rockefeller
billions, Flexner helped destroy the credibility and funding sources for
nearly all schools that used drugless-medicine. 161 medical schools became
81 by 1919; medical graduates declined from 5,747
to 2,658. "Overcrowding" of a profession had been the public AMA theme
song decrying the threat to "opportunities of those already in the
profession to acquire a livelihood."
Alternative medicine and even Sears catalogue of home remedies were seen as
competitors to be wiped out.
Although MD-oriented trauma care is acknowledged to be the best in the
world, allopathic MD-oriented drug medicine was reported by the
Congressional Office of Technology Assessment to he only 15 - 20% effective
as a medical approach. Despite this, the AMA's board of directors stated
mission was to publish articles that attacked effective alternative
treatment as "quackery".
This propaganda machine slowly expanded over the years. By 1964, the AMA's
Committee on Quackery extended its membership to become the Coordinating
Conference on Health information. CCHI membership included AMA officers,
The American Cancer Society, The American Pharmaceutical Association,
The Arthritis Foundation, The Council of Better Business Bureaus, The
National Health Council, which invited the FDA, The Federal Trade
Commission, US Postal Service, The Office of Consumer Affairs, US and State
Attorney Generals' Offices, and the IRS to attend national meetings. CCHI
officials allegedly asked the FDA to prosecute drugless "quackery" targets
that had regional or national notoriety beginning to intrude on market share
of the legal drug lords and the doctors prescribing drugs. The Federal
Trade Commission was asked to get injunctions against competitive
advertisements, the US Postal Service to put mail watches on clinics,
manufacturers, and individual doctors who used alternative therapies in
order to discredit and destroy competition from chiropractic, acupuncture,
homeopathy, naturopathy, vitamin therapy, Japanese cancer vaccines,
alternative books on cancer treatments, all alternative cancer treatments
and all alternative drugless arthritic treatments.
Lisa's book, like Breggin's Toxic Psychiatry, Beasley's Betrayal of Health,
Mendelsohn's Confessions of a Medical Heretic, Carter's Racketeering in
Medicine, and a growing number of other similar books, is unique in the
detail of its hard documentation from minutes of CCHI's meetings and
evidence which shows federal agencies complying with CCHI's targets and
goals. Court injunctions have been successfully levied against everything
from books to importing acupuncture needles as a result.
**Lisa's evidence suggested that by 1984, this medical conspiracy had
targeted vitamins, minerals, enzymes, raw milk, and laetrile, as well as a
plan to exclude chiropractic and other alternative health care from
insurance coverage.
Any product, store, doctor, or manufacturer of any competitor to drug
health care was the subject of media discrediting, licensing board
harassment, seizure or raid. The FDA and Pharmaceutical Advertising
Council had entered into an agreement to form a joint anti-quackery
campaign. Key congressional leaders were invited to meetings and asked to
join in the effort. Initially, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Medicare, Aetna, the
Health Association of America were fed a black list of doctors and
treatments that were "questionable" and asked to exclude them from coverage.
By 1986-88, a computer data base created by this conspiracy helped to deny
insurance claims by hundreds of insurers. One myth we have all heard was
created by this kind of unholy alliance: "vitamins only produce expensive
urine." At the same time officials of the FDA cooperated by attacking food
supplements that were proving to be competitors to drug treatment. Merck,
Sharpe, Dohme, Roche, Lederle, and Burroughs-Wellcome diversified into giant
producers of vitamins with massive TV campaigns to promote their sales.
These companies were never raided by FDA inspectors; only the drugless
manufactures were. Vitamin E alone has now become a $338 million a year
market.
Few of the FDA raid-seizure operations were ever motivated by interests
protecting the safety of the consumer. Instead, the FDA's own health Fraud
Consumer Report of 1988 targeted cancer, arthritis, and other food
supplement treatments that were known to be "very effective to somewhat
effective." Lisa's point: safety or effectiveness was not the real issue -
identification of serious competition to drugs was the issue.
**The middle third of the book is devoted to case histories of companies,
professions such as chiropractic, chelation therapy, naturopathy,
acupuncture, wholisitic dentistry, and homeopathy that had been targeted for
harassment, delicensing, or discrediting.
The last third of Lisa's book deals with useful advice for both doctors and
consumers for fighting back to retain or regain their health freedom.
Sections include how to challenge insurance companies that deny claims,
legal remedies from small claims courts to Insurance Company State
Regulatory Commissions, and private suits.
One fascinating avenue mentioned is filing a complaint with the Federal
Trade Commission which is partly empowered to investigate and enforce
anti-trust violations. Enough information is given in Assault Against
Medical Freedom to be useful for individuals and groups to right wrongs
brought against them by a conspiracy that still threatens to take away our
medical freedoms, despite the passage of Senate Bill 784. It's a book
entirely worth reading and a book worth acting on before it is too late.
"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, and I did not speak up
because I was not a Communist....Then they came for the Catholics, and I did
not protest because I was a Protestant....Then they came for me, and by that
time there was no one left to speak up."
Clinton's Health Reform as presently written levies penalties against
individuals choosing to take advantage of alternative medicine; $50,000 for
each offense to the patient, another $50,000 for each doctor. Should the
Health Reform Bills ever pass in their present state, everyone may be
covered, but all alternative medicine will be outlawed. (Townsend letter
for Doctors, Nov. 1994). When the federal government becomes a health
monopoly, the Sherman anti-trust laws no longer apply. Anti-monopoly laws
apply only to private industries.
carole
www.soiltheory.com