"dr_jeff" wrote in message
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On 9/28/10 7:51 PM, carole wrote:
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On 9/28/10 6:50 PM, carole wrote:
"Bob wrote in message

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Really? The pharmaceutical industry does not determine which journal
articles are published. Further, with the internet, they can't surpress
anything.

don't kid yourself, the mass media, the medical journals, and school
textbooks are tightly controlled.

The conspiracy theory rears its ugly head.

Rather, modern medicine and science require that hypotheses and theories
be supported with evidence.

And for that very reason, they derail alternative therapies on cooked up
reasons before they get the chance to do any studies.

There's NCCAM - National Center for Complementary and Alternative
Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Medicine. Though they spent
about $1 billion in research on conjecture-based medicine (alternative
medicine), they have yet to find any evidence that any alternative
medicine works better than placebo.

The reason why research on alternative therapies are derailed is that
there is no scientific reason to believe that they work and no evidence to
support them.


The Government Is Lying to You about Alternative Cancer Treatments
http://www.burtongoldberg.com/page43.html
"Like many American taxpayers, until recently I believed that the Office of
Alternative Medicine (OAM), within the National Institutes of Health in
Washington, D.C., was there to provide citizens with information about
alternatives in disease treatment.

When I recently inquired what OAM had on alternative cancer treatments, I
was shocked to discover that all they offer is party-line conventional
methods courtesy of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) which seems to exist
solely to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on unproductive research and
the suppression of effective alternatives.

Until earlier this year, OAM sent out a free copy of the "Cancer" chapter
from our Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide to those who needed
information on alternative cancer treatments. This has stopped abruptly. Now
OAM sends out a 3-page statement that dismisses "unconventional" treatments
as being essentially worthless and unproven. Here's what their "Cancer
Facts" sheet says: [see website] ........

The OAM was set up a few years ago at the instigation of a few
well-intentioned members of Congress. Granted, they gave OAM only a few
million dollars to work with to investigate the claims and successes of a
burgeoning medical field, but the project was launched with a good measure
of enthusiasm, integrity, and promise.

However, the fatal mistake was placing OAM within the NIH. This is like
asking the fox to guard the chicken coop. How can NIH, dedicated to
conventional methods, objectively oversee the investigation of alternatives?
What NIH can oversee quite skillfully is the adulteration, perversion, and
ruin of a publicly-funded office that was supposed to fairly inform the
taxpayer about new and alternative treatments for disease.

From what I've heard through the Washington grapevine, the OAM has been
sanitized and made submissive by NIH, so that it is now an obedient and
unproductive bureaucracy. People who know about alternative medicine are
being forced out while people who are indifferent to it or lack any working
knowledge of it are pushed to the forefront. Projects are being derailed,
funds are wasted, and public information activities are staffed by people
unsympathetic to alternative medicine."


ie the fox watching the hen house.


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carole
www.conspiracee.com
"Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the
argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." -William Pitt (1759-1806)