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The Assault On Medical Freedom -
http://www.whale.to/a/lisa_b.html

by P. Joseph Lisa c 1994
http://www.groupsrv.com/religion/about83774.html


Section: The Problem

Chapter 3 - Rising Out of the Ashes



"Research shows that during the first one hundred years of the AMA's
existence it formed councils and committees which sat in judgement of
its economic competitors. These committees would "investigate" the
various alternative health-care systems and would then report on their
findings and make determinations and recommendations that the public
should stay away from such "quackery." The CCHI and the AMA's
Committee on Quackery continued to serve this function from 1963 to
1975. However, when the writing was on the wall, Doyl Taylor saw that
his propaganda department was "going down for the count." He
apparently took steps to see that his work continued even if he
weren't around to supervise the AMA's campaigns against the "quacks."


Etc. Words, words. Note no attempt to discuss any of the specific
matters that the American Medical Association and most other medical
organistaions throughout the world have taken a stand on (cancer quackery of
many types, homeopathy, spinal manipulation to treat and prevent diseases
of other bodily organs, etc) If those whining about supposed assaults on
health freedom ever got down to specifics, they would be forced to justify a
wide variety of serious quackery, and some pretty dumb medical ideas.

You will find this omission in all "health freedom" writings. Yet the
value of any medical product surely lies overwhelmingly in the results of
its use, not the degree to which it conforms to ideals that may dominate in
other arenas of human activity, such as freedom of speech and the equality
of mankind. It's clever. Once instinctive responses to threats to our
freedom are aroused, we may not notice the scant relevance of this ideal to
the issue at hand..

So, readers, where has the AMA gone wrong? None of the cancer quacks
mentioned by the now-disbanded AMA committee on questionable cancer
treatments ever showed that they were able to cure patients with
established cancer, as claimed. Not Gerson, not Hoxsey, not Kelley, not
Livingstone-Wheeler, not the promoters of Laetrile, nor Hoffer, nor Revici.
In fact we now know for certain that most of these things don't work as they
are still often claimed to from an examination of these persons' own
records. See
http://www.users.on.net/~pmoran/canc...ve_studies.htm

This is not about health freedom, it is about the protection of a massive
industry that is raking in billions of dollars and that could use tighter,
not less regulation in terms of quality control and what kind of claims it
can make without being able to justify them to a reasonable standard. You
would not buy a car or a toaster without expecting certain standards to be
met. Are those standards an assault on your freedom?

PM




accomplish this end."