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"content": " \n \n\n\n\n \n\r\n\t\t\t \n\n\n\n\n\n\nby Jon Rappoport\nAugust 29, \r\n\t\t\t2018\r\n\t\t\tfrom \nJonRappoport Website\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\tMore than any other reporter, I have continued to champion and \r\n\t\t\tspread the word about Dr. Barbara Starfield's revelation:\r\n\t\t\t\n\nThe US medical system \r\n\t\t\t\tkills 106,000 people a year with its medicines. \n\nExtrapolate that number \r\n\t\t\tfor a decade: \n\nmore than MILLION \r\n\t\t\t\tDEATHS.\n\nI have reported, many \r\n\t\t\ttimes, on Starfield's review \"Is \r\n\t\t\tUS Health Really the Best in the World,\" published in the \r\n\t\t\tJournal of the American Medical Association on July 26, 2000.\n\r\n\t\t\t \n\nI interviewed her in \r\n\t\t\t2009, when she told me that her death numbers (106,000 per year) \r\n\t\t\twere conservative, and that the federal government was doing NOTHING \r\n\t\t\tcomprehensive to fix the ongoing disaster\n\r\n\t\t\t \n\nImagine that, coming from \r\n\t\t\ta doctor who was a revered public health expert at the Johns Hopkins \r\n\t\t\tSchool of Public Health.\n\r\n\t\t\tSince I've written more articles about Dr. Starfield's revelations \r\n\t\t\tthan any reporter around, I also know the reaction of the mainstream \r\n\t\t\tpress over the years: \n\nSILENCE. And more \r\n\t\t\t\tsilence. And more...\n\nSo this time, I thought \r\n\t\t\tI'd explain the main reasons for the silence.\n\r\n\t\t\tOn one obvious level, it stems from the fact that the pharmaceutical \r\n\t\t\tindustry buys enormous amounts of ads on and around news media. Do \r\n\t\t\tnot bite the hand that feeds you.\n\r\n\t\t\tAnd of course, blaming the medical system for a million deaths per \r\n\t\t\tdecade
well, if you're the New York Times and you're making this \r\n\t\t\tinto a take-no-prisoners ongoing building story, you're going to \r\n\t\t\tincur considerable heat. Blowtorch heat.\n\r\n\t\t\tThen there is this: nowhere in the medical literature is there any \r\n\t\t\tevidence, based on published studies of drugs, that these substances \r\n\t\t\tdo such catastrophic damage. In fact, the studies and reports of \r\n\t\t\tclinical drug trials are largely glowing. \n\r\n\t\t\t \n\nOnly one conclusion can \r\n\t\t\tbe reached: the medical literature is rife with fraud from top to \r\n\t\t\tbottom. This fact would immediately throw the reputations of the \r\n\t\t\tmost prestigious medical journals in the world into garbage \r\n\t\t\tlandfills.\n\r\n\t\t\tIndeed, we have, on the record, an editor of one of these \r\n\t\t\tpublications broadly confessing to a mind-boggling reality, Dr. \r\n\t\t\tMarcia Angell, editor of The New England Journal of Medicine \r\n\t\t\tfor 20 years, has written:\n\n\"It is simply no \r\n\t\t\t\tlonger possible to believe much of the clinical research that is \r\n\t\t\t\tpublished, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or \r\n\t\t\t\tauthoritative medical guidelines. \n \n\nI take no pleasure in \r\n\t\t\t\tthis conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my \r\n\t\t\t\ttwo decades as an editor of The New England Journal of \r\n\t\t\t\tMedicine.\"\n\nNY \r\n\t\t\t\tReview of Books, January 15, 2009\n\n\"Drug \r\n\t\t\t\tCompanies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption\"\n\nNext:\n\nif the press dug deep \r\n\t\t\t\tinto the guts of the Starfield story,\r\n\t\t\t\t\nthe FDA, which must approve all \r\n\t\t\t\tmedical drugs before they are released for public use, would go \r\n\t\t\t\tdown with a blinding crash. \n \n\nNo one would be able \r\n\t\t\t\tto defend the Agency. Its profound criminal alliance with Big \r\n\t\t\t\tPharma would come full force to the surface.\n\nMultiple medical schools \r\n\t\t\twould come under the gun for their relationships with\r\n\t\t\t\nBig Pharma, and their basic \r\n\t\t\tpractice of teaching monopolistic drug medicine and not nutritional \r\n\t\t\tmedicine. \n\r\n\t\t\t \n\nThese schools pretend \r\n\t\t\t\"the evidence of safety and efficacy\" for drugs is wide-ranging and \r\n\t\t\tinvariably clear. \n\r\n\t\t\t \n\nTherefore, they, the \r\n\t\t\tschools, are abetting what amounts to a capital crime.\n\nAnd what of the \r\n\t\t\t\t\tbasic Hippocratic oath to \"first do no harm\"? \n \n\nWhere is that \r\n\t\t\t\t\tvaunted pledge that tries to establish the practice of \r\n\t\t\t\t\tmedicine as supremely ethical?\n\nAs you can see, a whole \r\n\t\t\tlong line of dominos would fall, if the Starfield story were \r\n\t\t\tpursued, \nby the mainstream, with time, \r\n\t\t\tenergy, money, and passion for the truth. \n\n\r\n\t\t\tFinally, we arrive at a psychological and even philosophical reason \r\n\t\t\tfor press silence on this ongoing holocaust: \n\nfor millions of \r\n\t\t\t\tpeople, the institution of medicine is a foundational pillar of \r\n\t\t\t\tReality in the world. Attachment to it is, in a way, \r\n\t\t\t\tmythological. \n\nLoyalty to the medical \r\n\t\t\tsystem runs the gamut from hope for raw physical survival to \r\n\t\t\tspiritual sustenance. \n\r\n\t\t\t \n\nCreating doubt, \r\n\t\t\twidespread doubt, about such a powerful building block of \r\n\t\t\tExistence - that would be tinkering with the very structure of \r\n\t\t\tthings, \n\n\"meddling with the \r\n\t\t\t\tprimal forces of nature.\"\n\nBut here, on these pages, \r\n\t\t\tI'll meddle with anything I want to. \n\r\n\t\t\t \n\nIf you can't handle that, \r\n\t\t\tso be it. If I want to make a true fact into a sledgehammer and use \r\n\t\t\tit over and over, I will. And on this issue of medical caused \r\n\t\t\tdeaths, I'd be crazy not to...\n\r\n \n\n\n\nReturn \r\n\t\t\tto Big-Pharma Industry - The Healthcare Rip-Off\n\n \n " |
