Hans Ruesch's CIVIS (Centre for Information on Scientific Vivisection) Foundation For A Medicine Without Vivisection

Hans Ruesch is the father of the new scientific antivivisection movement and author of the groundbreaking books, excerpted below, proving  vivisection a scientific fraud.

1. All animal experiments (aka vivisection) must be rejected both on medical and ethical grounds.

2. Animal experimentation destroys respect for life and hardens the experimenter against the suffering of human patients. Callousness towards animals turns imperceptibly but inevitably into callousness towards human beings.

3. Experiments on animals are not a proper way to diagnose, research or heal human ailments. The organic, anatomical, biological, metabolic, genetic, histological and psychic differences between man and animals are so substantial that knowledge obtained from experiments on animals is not only worthless but misleading, and can be very harmful and even fatal when applied to humans, especially to the sick (pharmacological disasters, therapeutical errors, etc.).

4. Animal experiments are not carried out in the interest of mankind, but only of the experimenters themselves and their financial backers, as there has never been a single statistical proof that their results are applicable to human beings, whereas proofs of the opposite are countless.

5. Animal experiments lull the public, especially doctors and patients, into a false sense of security that prevents them from warding off illnesses.

6. Most of today's diseases are not organic in origin but have psychological, social, alimentary, environmental and iatrogenic (due to doctors and therapies) causes. None of these factors can be reproduced in their complexity in animals. That is why orthodox medicine has no causal treatments to offer. It can't prevent or cure the common cold, insomnia, rheumatism, arthritis, cancer, nor any of the other traditional diseases, the number of which it has only managed to increase, meanwhile producing new ills such as SMON, various herpes and allergies, leukemias, Multiple Sclerosis, AIDS, Ebola, etc. By concentrating its attention on symptoms, orthodox medicine obscures the recognition of causes.

7. Sick care is one of the many victims of vivisection. The many billions of dollars squandered yearly on useless animal torture should rather go to the assistance of the ailing. With the biggest budget for animal experimentation in the world, the United States should also be the healthiest of all nations - but it is one of the sickest, mentally and physically, only seventeenth in the statistics of life expectancy, behind many underdeveloped countries where animal research is unknown.

8. While health depends primarily on prevention and individual lifestyle, the healing of ills can in no way be obtained by animal experiments, but only by application or integration of some of the many "soft' disciplines that are spurned by official medicine because of its fixation with animal experimentation and profits rather than health; for example - dietetics, psychosomatics, psychotherapy, exercise, fasting, yoga, environmentalism, epidemiology, vegetarianism, veganism, homeopathy, chiropraxis, osteopathy, naprapathy, diathermy, electrotherapy, hydrotherapy, heliotherapy, faith healing, herbalism, acupuncture, urinotherapy (Amaroli), macrobiotics, and more, which have all proven effective, and economical as well.

9. Medical research must be holistic, concern itself with the entire person, adopt methods of research and treatment that relate to the causes and the patients, instead of veterinarian results applied to humans, which at best replace acute symptoms with chronic illness.

10. The veterinary education should equally follow humane principles: no more deliberate infliction of maladies and mutilations on healthy animals, but considerate treatment of spontaneous diseases and natural accidents. For all these reasons, to demand the total abolition (prohibition by law) of animal experimentation is not only possible but necessary.

Hans Ruesch's CIVIS, Via Motta 51, POB 152,CH - Massagno, Switzerland

THE MYTH OF A FREE PRESS

In his book, Medical Nemesis, Ivan Illich pointed out that to promote just one drug, Valium, Hoffmann-La Roche spent $200 million in 10 years and commissioned 200 doctors a year to produce scientific articles about its properties.

This kind of activity is common practice in the pharmaceutical community and explains why many people keep spending money to buy pills which might kill them. According to the all-wise Food and Drug Administration of the United States, and the New York Times which often prints as scoops what CIVIS wrote decades ago, more than 100,000 people a year die in American hospitals from adverse reactions to medication, making drug reaction one of the leading causes of death in the US. We are still hoping to see some day the "scoop" in the N. Y. Times that the medical pundits have at last discovered the reason for this mass killing. The reason is vivisection, of course, aka animal experimentation, and it can be explained by the simple fact that animals react differently from people, except perhaps on the emotional realm.

But the truth about vivisection is regularly suppressed by the media, because the practice has a financial and political monopoly. The rare times a media event against vivisection on scientific grounds is set up to inform the public of the massive damage to human health resulting from animal experimentation, the media willing to report it request the participation of some "scientists" (read vivisectors), in the name of "balance" and "fairness" and in order to show "both sides of the issue." But this journalistic zeal is totally absent whenever the media advertise "breakthroughs" due to animal experimentation. Statements made by conformist scientists are never challenged by editors or reporters, no matter how absurd they may be.

"WE ARE INTELLECTUAL PROSTITUTES"

John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff for the New York Times, and one of America's best loved newspaper journalists, called by his peers "The Dean of his Profession", was asked on the occasion of his retirement in 1953 to give a toast before the New York Press Club. And in so doing made the following monumentally important statement:

"At this date in the world's history there is no such thing as an independent press in the United States todav. You know it and I knowit. Thereis not one of you who dareds to write your honest opinion, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the newspaper I am connected with.

Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street before twenty four hours looking for another job. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammom, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. Since you know it as I know it, what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

IN THE "HOME OF THE FREE AND LAND OF THE BRAVE"

Morris A. Bealle was the author of The Drug Story, the book that has never been admitted into any American bookstore but was already in its 95th printing when we first heard of it in 1979 and managed to get hold of a copy. Bealle had died in 1972, but his widow, Peggy, who corresponded with us up to the year she passed away in 1990, let us have some pertinent information about the harassment her husband had to go through, like all those who try to reveal unwelcome information about the drug industry. Items from her letters to H.R.:

His experience was much like yours. I will never forget the long hard day's work he put in in an effort to let the public know the truth in so manv ways. He said many times "the truth is the only thing I can write." His experience with the great AMA lobby in Washington, also the Food and Drug Administration, is unbelievable. He wrote a book, "The House of Rockefeller", in 1969 but after publishing it, no bookstore would ever display it and the more than usual suppression persisted. He suffered all the experiences you had....

My husband has been dead 9 years, so naturally - even though I retain poignant memories of his great love for me, I have forgotten some of the details of some of this harassment which no doubt helped to end his life. l often remember, however, when after much hard work and expenses, when my husband had approximately 20,000 to 30,000 promotion letters, pamphlets etc. already in the Post Office they were held there and sometime afterwards postal inspectors would appear in his office with orders implicit that such material could not be sent through the mail. You can imagine how frustrating etc. such action was, this was the only way he had to let the public know about his work and every effort was made to deny him the privilege. Of course, he would do the job over and finally get the work to the public but it was a very hectic time. The American Medical Association had power over just about everything. They had always had the most important lobby in Washington and many of our Senators and Congressmen owed their election to them so all they had to do was use their power with the Post Office Committee and even its Chairman.