Below is an article which appeared in yesterday’s (06/10/2013)
Open Page of the Hindu.( with some inputs of mine in italics/coloured).
Modern (Western) Medical profession
comprehensively ( inclusive of all supportive
functions like equipments(machines) and pharmacy and other infrastructure like
hospitals) is supposed to be ‘noble’
(daivee) and life-caring & Life-giving .(a step above God with respect to
benignity) . That is how it is projected in these modern times,
especially with its obsession toward
promoting organ donation, arresting death. But behind this veneer of
service and care, it is plain self-gratification/seeking of the players involved. They will not even
spare children, who are entirely
defenseless and without a clue.
“Inventing diseases to sell drugs
I
have known of many tricks of the trade of the pharmaceutical lobby but not this
one till very recently although I had a hunch that this could be there. At the
same time, I am happy that there are people with some conscience(small
inner voice) pricking them before death at least. Of late, when
one opens any newspaper or journal there are articles on a recent disease in
children by name ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and our
paediatricians bend over backwards to make the diagnosis and start our children
on dangerous chemical drugs at that tender age.
Now comes the bombshell. American psychiatrist,
Dr. Leon Eisenberg (87), made a statement to a German magazine, Der Spiegel , a couple of months before his death
that ADHD is a fictitious disease which they put together for the benefit of
drug companies in the new disease classification in the American Psychiatry
Association’s DSM ( Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Diseases ).
In his book, Inventing
Diseases, Professor Jerg
Blech, another German, gives a graphic description of hypertension having been
discovered as a disease needing drug treatment through the German plan ofWell
Man clinics in nice
air-conditioned vans, with beautiful nurses, parked around Church squares and
shopping malls to give people a free check-up, a dangerous activity when one
feels healthy and happy.
Any one that walks in becomes a patient. Actually, it
was Leon Eisenberg who once asked his new brilliant resident who is a patient?
Pat came the reply: A man/woman who sees any doctor becomes a patient! What
rattled Leon further was the answer to his second query: When does that person
become normal again? “Rarely ever, if ever, was the answer.” Maybe, this is the
reason that pricked his conscience.(small inner voice)
There is no proof or test to find out exactly what
chemicals are “out of balance” in the brain for ADHD or any other disorder.
Most of those drugs are unnecessary as they are known to provoke suicide and
homicide. “Since that DMS conference in 1968, Dr. Eisenberg's contribution
to mental disease by
invention and committee
consensus has resulted in drugging millions of children from preschool
age through high school. It is currently estimated that up to 20 % of
children from nursery school and kindergarten through high school and in foster
homes have been prescribed Ritalin. Commonly prescribed for kids “diagnosed” or
better still, labelled with ADHD, Ritalin was tested a little over a decade ago
by the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). The BNL study determined that
Ritalin is pharmacologically similar to cocaine with perhaps even worse brain
damaging potential,” writes Mike Adams in his recent blog.
Dr. Irwin Savodnik, Assistant Clinical Professor of
Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, was of the opinion that “the very
vocabulary of psychiatry is now defined at all levels by the pharmaceutical
industry.” This racket has been going on ever since and has been able to get
even health insurance to cover their dark deeds.
Vaccination is another fertile ground
for the industry where most of what it sells has dubious value.
Lead researcher, Dr. Diane Harper, who was instrumental in creating Gardasil,
and cervarix, admitted back in 2009 that the vaccines were essentially useless and more dangerous than
the very conditions they were hailed as preventing and treating? A 2009
article published by CBS News, in fact, which is still available online,
reveals the truth about these vaccines. (“You will at once
then see that nine-tenths of the
activities that are today going on throughout the world and which are
engrossing our attention would fall into disuse." EXCERPT FROM A SPEECH AT
TRIVANDRUM, 17 September 1927 Taken from
The Penguin GANDHI Reader ,Edited
by : RUDRANGSHU MUKHERJEE Page: 210)
One
particular quote, which was pulled out, using the Wayback Machine, reveals that
both Gardasil and Cervarix do nothing to prevent cervical cancer, which is
their primary claim to fame. “The rate of serious adverse events [from
Gardasil] is on a par with the death rate of cervical cancer,” admitted Dr.
Harper at that time, refuting a pro-Gardasil piece published by Slate.
“Gardasil has been associated with at least as many serious adverse events as
there are deaths from cervical cancer developing each year.”
Dr. Harper dropped a bombshell when she told
reporters that the public health benefit of getting vaccinated with Gardasil
“is nothing,” adding the vaccine has led to “no reduction in cervical cancers.”
She quickly withdrew her statements saying the media has distorted her story,
almost on the lines of Indian politicians!
Dr. Harper went on to admit that deaths from Gardasil
had been underreported by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), which has given the illusion that the vaccine is somehow safe. The vast
majority of HPV infections resolve themselves on their own within a year and
nearly all of them within two years. She also admitted that an extremely small
number of people experience symptoms from infection. Millions of young girls
and now even boys, some as young as nine years old, have received the vaccine
since 2006. Some of what she said then is still on line.
Recently, Dr. Puliyal from New Delhi, an expert in
this field, exposed the myth of another childhood vaccine, the pentavalent
vaccine. But that does not seem to stir the conscience (small
inner voice) of our greedy powers that be! (Greed
(lobha) is asuric, leading to gross/tainted/dark karma- Gita Chapter 16).
When I just retired as Vice-Chancellor of Manipal University in 2003, the
Deputy Commissioner of Udupi district wanted me to retract an article of mine
on polio dangers for malnourished children, which information had, by then,
even entered the British Pharmacopoeia. As I refused to do that, he made my
colleagues in the university release a paper statement that “I had forgotten my
medicine and people should not give heed to my article as the whole university
was fully with the government in vaccinating even the malnourished children!”
They obliged him, I cannot but pity those statements and our commitment to
truth in medical science.
We can go on and on till the cows come home on the
fraud in medical research but I highly recommend the following article in the Atlantic Magazine of November 20th, 2010 by Davis
Freedman on the important topic: Lies,
Damned Lies and Medical Research .
The article is a result of a long interview with Professor John PA Ioannidis of
Stanford University, who has been pioneering the work to expose these frauds
successfully. He is a much respected member of the American medical scene. “Honesty is the best policy when
there is money in it.” — Mark Twain.
( The writer is a cardiologist
and former
Vice-Chancellor of Manipal University. His email: hegdebm@gmail.com )”
Link: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-openpage/inventing-diseases-to-sell-drugs/article5205680.ece
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