NAKED EMPRESS or The Great Medical Fraud
Hans Ruesch THE HUMBUG DOGMA THE 'LAWMAKER'
It is not only scandalous but also tragic that the Drug Trust is permitted to flood the market with its products on the grounds that they have been thoroughly tested for effectiveness and safety on animals, and that the Health Authorities, meaning the Government, abet this deception, which is nothing but confirmed fraud. For both sides are well aware that animal tests are fallacious and merely serve as an alibi - an insurance against the day when it is no longer possible to conceal the disastrous side effects of a drug. Then they can say that "all the required tests have been made" - that they have obeyed the Law.
But they don't say that they themselves have imposed those laws, because the Lawmaker has no choice in any and all medical questions but to submit to the dictates of the "medical experts." And who are they? Agents of the Chemo-Medical Syndicate, whose links to the Health Authorities are so close that they usually overlap. So they, and no one else, impart binding orders to that mysterious and omnipotent individual, identified anonymously as "The Lawmaker."
It is this outrageous state of affairs that once caused Dr. James D. Gallagher, Director of Medical Research of Lederle Laboratories, to declare:
"Another basic problem which we share as a result of the regulations and the things that prompted them is an unscientific preoccupation with animal studies. Animal studies are done for legal reasons and not for scientific reasons. The predictive value of such studies for man is meaningless - which means our research may be meaningless. (Journal of the American Medical Association, March 14, 1964.)In fact, the so-called "medical experts" that have imposed animal tests as the touchstone of medical research are among the principal participants in the greatest fraud that has ever been perpetrated, mainly for profit motives, to the detriment of mankind, in all history. To bring exhaustive proof of this assertion, with which a growing number of medical people are in full agreement, is the purpose of this exposé.
SUPERSTITION
Anybody who has ever taken care of a housepet or any other animal has learned, either through personal experience or from a veterinarian, that one ought never to administer a human medicine to animals, for they may die from it. What does this mean? Obviously, than an animal's organism reacts differently from that of a human, and that a medicine that benefits one could harm the other. Nor do veterinarians prescribe to people.
But even people who are fully aware of this basic fact have been conned, through press agentry and the venality of the mass media, into accepting animal tests as a sure-fire safeguard, and will declare unthinkingly, regardless of logic and of all available evidence; "Since new medicines must be tested, I prefer that they be tested on animals rather than on me."
This seemingly humanitarian ointment contains two gigantic flies:These are fallacies that have been imposed, like religious dogmas that may not be disputed, upon the great majority of people through systematic brainwashing. It begins for most of us long before the age of reason: first, in the likewise thoroughly conditioned family, in primary school next; through higher education, and the media afterwards. And in spite of the patent and steadily growing evidence to the contrary, most people keep clinging to this belief with the same unshakeable conviction with which in former times the masses believed in the effectiveness of holy water against disease, and in the humanitarian justification of heretic-burning __ being done for the sake of the wretched sinner's own soul. And yet today's errors are far more evident than the medieval ones.First, that we constantly need new medicines;
Secondly, that animal tests give satisfactory information.
It was Claude Bernard, the apostle of today's veterinary-based medical research, who made these and similarly silly statements in his most famous "work", Introduction to Experimental Medicine, which in 1865 laid the groundwork for today's "official" medicine, and which has become the Bible of the so-called medical researchers __ all the growing, grievous proof of its erroneousness notwithstanding.
"Everything that is [experimentally] obtained with animals is perfectly conclusive for man. Experiments made on animals with noxious substances or in detrimental conditions are perfectly conclusive for the toxicology and hygiene of man. The research on medical or toxic substances is also entirely applicable to man from the therapeutic point of view."
In fact there is no such thing as "Science" in medicine __ if we give to the word its original meaning of "Knowledge", instead of "Research", which is the meaning it has acquired in the United States today. Current Medical Science is nothing but a false dogma, imposed almost universally, by no matter what means, legitimate or not, by a smoothly organized coterie that in all industrialized nations forms the Medical Power, in close alliance with the Chemical Syndicate. Their purpose, as will be demonstrated in the following chapters, is not the people's health, which is just being used as a pretext for extorting large sums of money, but the aggrandizement of their own wealth and might.
True science presupposes free information and exchange of different points of view. In the medical field, this does not exist today. The many honest and courageous doctors who have tried to voice opinions in contrast with the accepted doctrines imparted by the Faculties __ for instance, by warning people of the cancer racket or the effects of certain mass vaccinations imposed from above in the interest of the lucrative, job-providing industries __ have all been quickly discouraged from continuing or silenced, have been regularly excluded from the news-making medical conventions (that's why all candidates must submit months beforehand the texts of the lectures they intend to deliver), and have been relegated to the bottom rung of the professional ladder, from where they can't express successfully any opinion-making view; or they have been expelled outright from the medical community. We shall examine other forms of censorship later.
And it is because of such systematic censorship, running parallel with a constant flow of bombastic medical propaganda, that occasional outbursts of candor, such as the preceding statements by Dr.Gallagher, and the following one by Dr. Modell, have quickly fallen into the trough of oblivion, never again to be resurrected by their chastened authors.
205,000 PREPARATIONS
Already over 20 years ago, Dr. Walter Modell of Cornell University's Medical College, whom Time had described as "one of America's foremost drug experts," wrote in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics:
"When will they realize that there are too many drugs? No fewer than 150,000 preparations are now in use. About 15,000 new mixtures and dosages bit the market each year, while about 12,000 die off... We simply don't have enough diseases to go around. At the moment the most helpful contribution is the new drug to counteract the untoward effects of other new drugs. (Time, May 26, 1961)Since 1961, the number total of medical preparations marketed world-wide has risen to some 205,000 and the new maladies have increased in the same proportion.Thus humanity is not faced with the need of "developing" new drugs, but much rather of reducing drastically the number of drugs extant, and this would automatically reduce also the number of existing diseases. Most people know what should be done to keep one's liver, kidneys, lungs and heart healthy. What most people don't know - the systematic brainwash sees to that - is that the ingestion of little miracle pills not only fails to repair any physiological damage, but worsens it, by adding new poisons to an already mismanaged organism.
According to the Food and Drug Administration, 1.5 million Americans had to be hospitalized in 1978 as a consequence of taking drugs (which were supposed to "cure" them of something or other). And some 30 percent of all hospitalized people get further damaged by the therapy that is imposed on them. The number of people killed in the USA by the intake of drugs has been estimated at some 140,000 each year.
In fact, today the medical care industry is the second biggest business in North America, exceeded only by food production and distribution. The situation is very similar in all industrialized countries whose citizens are amply "protected" by a Health Insurance system that encourages the use of drugs and expensive therapies, and extracts, from the gullible lower citizens, billions in tax money that flow directly into the coffers of the Chemo-Medical Syndicate.
LET THE DOCTORS STRIKE
So it is hardly a coincidence that during a 29-day physicians' strike in Israel in 1973, the national death-rate was the lowest ever. According to statistics released by the Jerusalem Burial Society, the number of funerals dropped by nearly 50 percent on that occasion.
The same thing happened 1976 in Columbia, when November marked the end of a 52-day strike by doctors in Bogota, the nation's capital. The National Catholic Reporter pointed out that during those eight weeks the death rate in Bogota went down 35 percent. The National Morticians Association of Columbia confirmed the fact.
The identical phenomenon came to pass a few years ago in California, and 1978 in Great Britain.
If doctors were really interested in prolonging people's lives, they might all well consider a perpetual strike and go fishing, as Prof. Robert S. Mendelsohn, MD , the famed writing and practicing physician, suggests.
And yet nothing seems able to shake the dogmatic conviction of the thoroughly brainwashed majority that medical art has never stood as high as today - not even when a host of medical authorities tell them differently.
- from NAKED EMPRESS or the Great Medical Fraud, CIVIS, p. 9-13.
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