A brief half century after the discovery of DNA, medical scientists are closing in on an understanding of the basic building blocks of human chemistry. They’ve mapped the human genome and spelled out the biochemical interactions of cells. There’s even a new science called systems biology. It harnesses computers to biology to produce complex models of body functions, the protein interactions that actually make us tick, which can provide clues to what might happen in living, breathing humans if medicines are used to adjust the levels of one of those proteins.

Insomnia sufferers, listen up. You have nothing to lose but your thrashing and yawning. At last, you’re getting real attention.

Insomnia affects roughly 70 million people in the U.S. alone. This situation is far more serious than it may appear at first. “The evidence linking sleep disorders and heart disease is strong enough that cardiologists now routinely question patients about whether they snore and if they feel tired during the day.” (1)

Don’t look now, but the American psyche is being run over by Roche’s! And if you are reading this warning in Canada, Europe or Australia, I am confident that Roche Pharmaceutical’s brainwashing scheme will soon be headed your way, too, if it hasn’t already reached your shores.

The AIDS Establishment Endorses The Experiments On Foster Kids At ICC

I have in front of me two certificates of death. Both were children. Both died in the autumn of 2004, while partaking in what some call a clinical trial, and others call a medical experiment, under the auspices of a well-funded “nursing facility” in Harlem for HIV-positive orphans called Incarnation Children’s Center (ICC). According to the AIDS orthodoxy, these children died of AIDS. There is no reason to believe anybody wanted them to die, least of all those who knew them and cared for them. But serious questions remain unanswered about these and other deaths that have occurred in the course of ongoing clinical trials involving foster children in the United States.

Medicine is not science, it is an altered state of consciousness, at least according to the article “Why doctors can’t keep up with drug warnings” by Canadian family physician Jean Marmoreo in the April 9, 2005 issue of Canada’s Globe & Mail newspaper (Marmoreo, 2005). It might be obvious to some that pharmaceutically-driven medicine is at a point of crisis, with many people losing their faith and looking for alternatives. But, according to Marmoreo, the problem is us, the great unwashed, the peasants. We just don’t understand that doctors are simply too busy too keep up with problems in the armamentarium.

When I visit my parents for lunch or dinner, I feel like I’m at a dope party. They’ve got their drugs all lined up in front of them at the table, and what really irks me is that they don’t even know why most of these drugs were prescribed for them. I’ve tried to reason with them about the dangers associated with prescribed medications, and I’ve even scolded them about ingesting drugs they know nothing about. They’re not listening!

The Mishandling Of Pain

My basic belief that medicine as a whole has sold out to the pharmaceutical companies really hit home this summer. My newly-married 26 year-old healthy daughter, Holly, finally admitted to me that she had been suffering a really bad headache for over a week. She didn’t tell me, because she didn’t want to worry me. Well, of course I was worried. And feeling guilty, because I made her drive that first headache weekend out of town for a family gathering.

‘In fact, a thorough review of the medical literature shows that even during the first year of treatment, the overall reduction of symptoms is modest.’

Now that’s an interesting sentence. You may recognize it from the recent Health News Analyzer (written by Nicholas Regush) quoting an article in the Lancet. It’s just the sort of sentence that causes me to close my eyes and take a few deep breaths. The sentence refers to a report in the Lancet criticizing beta-interferons in the treatment of multiple sclerosis. They don’t do much good apparently, and there is no long-term evidence to say that they do.

The Marvels Of Marketing And Medication

Would you put Lotrimin – the athlete’s foot medicine – in your aching ear, even if your physician told you to do it? Might not this potion hurt your ear – or worse – cause you a weird systemic reaction equal to a curse in Deuteronomy? What is the connection, anyhow, between a red, itchy foot and an ear that hurts like a bad toothache?

Try An Experiment With Your Mother-In-Law

Does the expiration date on a bottle of a medication mean anything? If a bottle of Tylenol, for example, says something like "Do not use after June 1998," and it is August 2002, should you take the Tylenol? Should you discard it? Can you get hurt if you take it? Will it simply have lost its potency and do you no good?

AND YOU THOUGHT THE RADIO SCANDALS OF THE 1950S WERE BAD?

The same kinds of people who now work in the promotion departments of the big pharmaceutical companies have worked elsewhere. Their trail can be found in our everyday language.

When I look it up in the dictionary, "Payola" is a contraction of the words "pay" and "Victrola" (record player). This word entered the English language via the record business.

When disc-jockey Alan Freed was fired from WABC Radio in 1959, the practice of accepting money and gifts for playing certain songs on his popular program had become a national scandal and the subject of a Congressional investigation.

The man who coined the phrase "rock n’ roll" had also accepted gifts from record companies which, though legal at the time, were later found to be inappropriate.

So, did we suffer grievous harm from what Freed did?

According to the courts, we did. Before Alan Freed's indictment, payola was not illegal, however, but commercial bribery was. After the trial, the anti-payola statute was passed and payola became a misdemeanor, a penalty up to $10,000 in fines and one year in prison.

Rest assured, if you listen to music there is some modest protection from obviously fraudulent radio practices.

However, if your doctor accepts a gift, such as cash or a vacation trip from a drug company in exchange for his/her participation at an "educational seminar" or "professional training session", and then writes you a prescription, say, for an unnecessary (and expensive) anti-depressant, that’s perfectly legal!

Why are we protected from unscrupulous record company types, but not from the influence of unscrupulous pharmaceutical company types?

This is all about having an effective lobby group, isn’t it?