Here’s an article that will sober up many who trust medicine and medical studies.
Just printed in Newsweek, “Why almost everything you hear about medicine is wrong,” this report spells out truth long known by many, by rarely admitted by few.
Reporter Sharon Begley cites recent studies that prove medical studies from the past to be wrong. Drugs people thought were safe are not safe, in fact can be very harmful, and so on… There are many examples. But this isn’t all. She doesn’t rely on isolated examples to prove her point. Some experts are claiming the whole premise of medical study is wrong-headed, she states, and thus most all studies are leading believers astray, and in harmful directions.
She wrote:
But what if wrong answers aren’t the exception but the rule? More and more scholars who scrutinize health research are now making that claim. It isn’t just an individual study here and there that’s flawed, they charge. Instead, the very framework of medical investigation may be off-kilter, leading time and again to findings that are at best unproved and at worst dangerously wrong. The result is a system that leads patients and physicians astray—spurring often costly regimens that won’t help and may even harm you.
Another “off-kilter” aspect of the entire “off-kilter” medical investigation framework is the animal testing required by government agencies.
In the foreward of the book “Sacred Cows and Golden Geese” (co-authored by C. Ray Greek, M.D. and Jean Swingle Greek, D.V.M.) Jane Goodall writes:
“I have a growing conviction that many animal data are not only obtained unethically, at huge cost in animal suffering, but are also unscientific, misleading, wasteful (in terms of dollars and effort) and may be actually harmful to humans. … Here, at last, is a book that exhaustively examines and synthesizes the literature on this subject. … [T]he authors use factual, scientific arguments to explain how, in their view, the infliction of suffering on animals in medical research is … a real betrayal of the scientific method. Animal experimentation is unethical and cruel. It hurts animals, it is expensive, and it is so often detrimental to the very species it professes to be helping – our own.”
Any system that bases its so-called knowledge and purported facts on cruelty, lack of integrity, deception, false claims, can’t hope to succeed, can it?
Fixing the broken system boils down to this statement in Science and Health: “When needed tell the truth concerning the lie. Evasion of Truth cripples integrity, and casts thee down from the pinnacle.”
So now that some of the biggest lies in medicine are being exposed, I trust that people will demand methods of health care that rely on truth-telling and that are founded on love for all mankind and creaturekind. That would be truly life-saving.
Oops, I meant to write “foreword” (not “foreward”) above.