Critical medical anthropologists such as Hans Baer take the position
that most illnes and disease are the result of poverty and inequality,
along with occupational and environmental factors. These conditions, in
turn, are themselves consequences of society's social and political
organization.
Accordingly, the best way to improve the health of any polulation is to
reorganize society, change the status quo.
PESTICIDES
AND POLIO:
The Chemical Causes
" In 1985, I unintentionally began to suspect that there was a
correlation between the last great polio epidemic and the last great
inundation of DDT. After a few hours of research I was surprised to find
several confirming correlations. Further research impressed a lawyer and
an editor, but they wanted more research and sources.
I wrote and received encouragement from the late, great, Dr. Mendelsohn,
whose most famous book is The Confessions Of A Medical Heretic. I
received a criticism from the esteemed Dr. Wootan who was featured on 60
Minutes following the controversial removal of his medical license. He
motivated me to think more critically of my "discovery." Dr. Wootan has
written articles about such heretical things as the normalcy of fever in
illness (see Mothering Magazine).
Research was shelved as a private revelation until by 1998, a theory was
concluded, that industrial neurotoxins caused the polio epidemics.
Thanks to Peter Duesberg for revealing virology's more obvious
contradictions.
Later, the statistical numbers were found, enabling the generation of
comparative graphs of polio incidence and pesticide production. The
heretical scientific articles from the 1950s were discovered last.
This research was triggered in 1985 by an anti-vaccination pamphlet
written by a homeopathist (apologies, no source). His observations were
that vaccinations arrived after the decline of polio and that polio was
a disease going through its natural epidemic cycle.
This critique of orthodoxy, which I didn't entirely agree with, spurred
me to open Wesbster's Dictionary, Encyclopedia Britannica, and computer
listings of periodicals, then later, textbooks on biochemistry,
virology, epidemiology, and toxicolgy. Much later, rare numeric data was
found, herein displayed in the pesticide-polio graphs, and lastly, the
heretic writers, Biskind, Scobey, et al. Thus, truly independent
researchers, half a century apart, with different methodologies have
crossed the same paths, made similar conclusions, and revealed vast
differences between the single public view and the various scientific
views.
Jim West Health And Research Publications .
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has his own site.
These are not good times for the pharmaceutical corporates or the new
biotechnology upstarts. The stock market may be a calamity, but the
pharma sector is trending towards catastrophe.
Johnson and Johnson stocks nosedived Friday 19th July, 2002, as the Food
and Drug Administration began asking questions about its Puerto Rican
operations. But that was only the latest in a series of disasters.
Special Feature The Real Causes of
Mad Deer/Cows & vCJD
By Medical Detective, Mark Purdey
Forget
the media hype -here's the truth.
Groote Eylandt manganese mines in
Northern Australia supplied a highly
concentrated manganese oxide to the
livestock feed market in the UK from
the early 1980s onwards – just prior
to the emergence of BSE in the UK.
"As I lay in bed, the nightly
rioting of Abroginal youngsters began. I could hear them clambering
beneath the raised floor of my hut. The Missionaries had told me
stories of spear fights, child torture and women being stripped naked
and gutted alive with machettes. This kind of insane behaviour was
unique to the most intensive manganese hotspot region of Groote,
Northern Australia -making Angurugu the most violent community in the
whole of Australia. In the morning an Aboriginal youngster was found
unconscious and close to death -he had been
repeatedly cracked over the head with a shovel."
"I remembered the mineral
analysis study that was carried out on the brains of mass murderers who
had been electrocuted on death row. Their brains showed a hundred fold
higher level of manganese than the levels found in those who had died of
natural causes."
Mad Cows or Mad Scientists?
By David Crowe on RedFlasgWeekly.com
Most
people do not realize that there is a non-infectious explanation for Mad
Cow disease and other spongiform encephalopathies and chronic wasting
diseases. This is due to the reluctance of scientists, health and
agriculture bureaucrats and most of the media to question a theory that
affects public health once it is active policy.
Critical Eye Understanding
Chemical Intolerance
By Don Richard Paladin
Wash. State Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Network
With
some researchers suggesting as many as 15% of our population have
chemical intolerance or chemical sensitivity, one wonders why our
government has done little to prevent many people from becoming
chemically injured. There are many people world wide who have become
disabled by chemicals their bodies do not seem to be able to detoxify.
Many of us are involved in a network of chemically injured people world
wide who are trying to bring understanding and justice to this issue.
Those who are opposed to recognition of chemical injury created their
own network, it appears to some, to prevent recognition of chemical
injury. Because the financial stakes are so high, they have effectively
gone after advocates of the chemically injured. The opposition to
recognition of CI appear to have the odds in their favor. Unfortunately
for them they do NOT have truth on their side.
New Medicine Can Anybody Explain
What's Up with HIV, Please?
By Jan Spreen
Thousands of scientists are studying
AIDS all over the world, billions of dollars are invested every year in
HIV research and any article in any newspaper confirms the fact that HIV
causes AIDS. Fight HIV and you fight AIDS. Get rid of HIV and you get
rid of AIDS, because science has definitely proved that HIV causes AIDS.
Anyone will confirm this.
Anyone?
Anyone. Just read the newspapers.
The newspapers, ok. But I don’t read
newspapers exclusively.
Well, watch TV. Everybody will
confirm..
Medicine Out To Lunch. What if it's All Been
A BIG FAT LIE?
A Blockbuster Full-length expose
By GARY TAUBES, New York Times.
The
American medical establishment spent 30 years ridiculing Robert Atkins,
author of the phenomenally-best-selling ''Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution''
and ''Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution,'' accusing the Manhattan doctor
of quackery and fraud, only to discover that the unrepentant Atkins
was right all along. Or maybe it's this: they find that their very
own dietary recommendations -- eat less fat and more carbohydrates --
are the cause of the rampaging epidemic of obesity in America. Or, just
possibly this: they find out both of the above are true.
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LEGAL ADVICE. THE DECISION WHETHER OR NOT TO VACCINATE IS AN IMPORTANT AND
COMPLEX ISSUE AND SHOULD BE MADE BY YOU, AND YOU ALONE, IN CONSULTATION WITH
YOUR HEALTH CARE PROVIDER.
"A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth."
-- Albert Einstein, letter to a friend, 1901
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education."
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to William C. Jarvis, September 28, 1820
"What's the point of vaccination if it doesn't protect you from the unvaccinated?"
-- Sandy Gottstein
"Who gets to decide what the greater good is and how many will be sacrificed to it?"
Forget
the media hype -here's the truth.
"As I lay in bed, the nightly
rioting of Abroginal youngsters began. I could hear them clambering
beneath the raised floor of my hut. The Missionaries had told me
stories of spear fights, child torture and women being stripped naked
and gutted alive with machettes. This kind of insane behaviour was
unique to the most intensive manganese hotspot region of Groote,
Northern Australia -making Angurugu the most violent community in the
whole of Australia. In the morning an Aboriginal youngster was found 
"I remembered the mineral
analysis study that was carried out on the brains of mass murderers who
had been electrocuted on death row. Their brains showed a hundred fold
higher level of manganese than the levels found in those who had died of
natural causes." 
The
American medical establishment spent 30 years ridiculing Robert Atkins,
author of the phenomenally-best-selling ''Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution''
and ''Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution,'' accusing the Manhattan doctor
of quackery and fraud, only to discover that the unrepentant Atkins
was right all along. Or maybe it's this: they find that their very
own dietary recommendations -- eat less fat and more carbohydrates --
are the cause of the rampaging epidemic of obesity in America. Or, just
possibly this: they find out both of the above are true.
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