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In 2011 having realized that scientific fraud was the norm for industry funded work and their key opinion leaders (KOLs), I restarted a new grouping of articles.  The three key areas of focus are medical myths, the harm down by the Western diet, and what to do about it.   All those with a “/r” (for “recommended”) have been posted since 2011.


 


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1/23/18 Pandemic causes        #181   RECOMMENDED WETERN DIET PANDEMIC   /rpc


1/1/18 myths food, drugs, body  #180 RECOMMENDED MYTH BUSTER  /RMB


1/13/17  cancer           #176   RECOMMENDED CANCER, DIET, MACROPHAGE   /rcdm.    2/13/17    Neurodegenerative   #177    RECOMMENDED NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES, KETONES  /rndk


Diabetes 6/1/17          #178    RECOMMENDED DIABETES  /rt2d


Wellness class 6/26/17     #179   RECOMMENDED WELLNESS CLASS   /rwc


 


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#31 TABLE OF CONTENTS healthfully, over 1,200 pages downloaded per day.

 

#7  TABLE OF CONTENTS skeptically, over 8,000 pages downloaded per day.

 

#201 TABLE OF CONTENTS CURRENT NEWS , over 900 pages downloaded per day

 

#209 THE ARTISTS

 

# 220 POD CASTS & U-TUBE, for those who like the visual on skeptical issues

 

#158   RECOMMENDED GATEWAY PAGE  Gateway to the research on pharma and health

 

#152 RECOMMENDATIONS--CONCISE Bad drugs, good drugs, contra pharma

 

#161  RECOMMENDED HEALTHFUL Improving health including diet and nutritional science

 

#157 Video documentaries, mostly YouTube Healthful diet, bad pharma, GMOs etc. with description

 

 

 BUSINESS PROBLEMS:

#158   RECOMMENDED GATEWAY PAGE

#152  RECOMMENDATIONS--CONCISE Drugs to avoid and take

#159  RECOMMENDATIONS--LONG Topics developed

#160  RECOMMENDED EXPOSING PHARMA Profits before people

#161  RECOMMENDED HEALTHFUL Nutrition in depth, diet myths, plus diets

#156  RECOMMENDATIONS NON-TECHNICAL SUMMATIONS  Simple info and advice

#157  RECOMMENDED MORE BAD PHARMA More profits before people

#166  RECOMMENDED CRITICS  Those who expose bad pharma  

#167  RECOMMENDED ARTICLES ON DIET AND FOODS

#168  RECOMMENDED ARTICLES ON DIETARY ISSUES

#176   RECOMMENDED CANCER, DIET, MACROPHAGE Cause and starving cancer

#175  RECOMMENDED DIETARY TOPICS BY JK

 #173  RECOMMENDED HEART ISSUES  heart

#169 RECOMMENDED JOURNAL ARTICLES

#170 RECOMMENDED MORE JOURNAL ARTICLES

#172  RECOMMENDED DIET JOURNAL ARTICLES

#177    RECOMMENDED NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES, KETONES

#174  RECOMMENDED DIET TESTIMONIALS

#177   RECOMMENDED WELLNESS CLASS  

#17    QUACKERY  (at skeptically.org)

#135  NSAIDS

#102  QUACK THEORIES & PRACTICES (at skeptically.org)

#41   MEDICAL CRAP

#130  MEDICAL CRAP MORE,

#132  IMAGINARY CONDITIONS

#134  ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

#136  ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH

#137  DRUG NEWS--DISAPPOINTING

#141  BIG PHARMA AT WORK

#145  MANAGED HEALTH CARE

#146  FDA  Exposing the façade of regulation

#147  FOR THE CHILDREN

#162  CORPORATE DRUGS

#150  BLOOD THINNERS AND ACETAMINOPHEN

#152 INDIGESTION DRUGS

#151  FAILED DRUGS

#159  CRITICS

                    

 

GENERAL INFORMATION:

#31 INDEX  

#35   HEALTH

#36   WOMEN'S MEDICAL ISSUES

#45   MALE HORMONE REPLACEMENT

#148  FEMALE HORMONE REPLACEMENT

#171  SEX

#154  FOOD

#50   ASPIRIN THE BEST NSAID

#133  THE HEART

#144  HEART MEDICATIONS & TREATMENTS  

#44    ON CANCER

#139  CANCER VARIOUS TISSUES 

#155 CANCER TREATMENTS

#165. CONDITIONS & TREATMENTS

#49    TOBACCO

#131   LONGEVITY

#143  OBESITY

#46    MEDICAL SCIENCE

#47    MEDICAL NEWS

#48    DRUGS AND CONDITIONS

#140   HEALTH & BODY

#138   DISEASES

#142   GERIATRIC PROBLEMS

#149  PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS

#163 NATURALISTIC TREATMENTS (positive)

#153 EFFECTIVE DRUGS

 

MISCELLANEOUS:   

#1 ENLIGHTENMENT

#32 HOME 

#37   BIOGRAPHICAL

#38   LINKS ELSEWHERE

#33  PROSE SATIRE

#34  RHYMED POEMS

#39  RHYMED POEMS ROMANTIC

#40  RHYMED POEMS MELONCHOLY

#42  RHYMED POEMS SOCIAL MESSAGE

#43  RHYMED POEMS SATIRE

#209 THE ARTISTS

#210 SHORT STORY, ETC.

 

 

 

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There is grass-root revulsion to the current corporate health industry, with pharma doing the most harm.  The best account of bad pharma is by Danish Prof. Peter Gotzsche in his 2013 book Deadly Medicine and Organised Crime:  How big pharma has corrupted healthcare.  Prof. Gotzsche’s book has won the British Medical Book Award given by the BMA (British Medical Association which is comparable to our AMA).  Further endorsement comes from the Richard Smith former Editor-in-Chief of the BMJ (British Medical Journal) and Drummond Rennie, Deputy Editor of JAMA (Journal of American Medical Association) which are 2 of the 4 leading English medical journal.   The President’s Lecture on YouTube by Harvard Professor Marcia Angell confirms Prof. Gotzsche’s book. Pharma is worse than you can imagine.       

 

Harvard Prof. Marcia Angell, MD., former Chief Editor of NEJM wrote:  We certainly are in a health care crisis, ... If we had set out to design the worst system that we could imagine, we couldn't have imagined one as bad as we have.”  Author of the Truth About Drug Companies, and former Editor in Chief of NEJM.  Her excellent lecture on YouTube presenting the evidence

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Cholesterol not a cause of cardiovascular disease
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click on graph for link to the cholesterol myth

As covered in the 1st and 2nd classes, mere presence does not prove causation, no more than firemen being at a fire proves they started it.  And it get worse, in ruptured plaque that caused a death, cholesterol content has in autopsy studies was found to be between 7% and 22%  Cholesterol is part of the healing process, used to build new cells.   This creating a condition--in this case hypercholesterolemia--and then through their KOLs convince physicians and the public that it need a drug treatment has been repeated over and over again.  It is why two leading French physician wrote a book on useless drugs, and why one of them said what he did in the quote below.

On point is the statement by Dr. Evens in The Guardian:  “The pharmaceutical industry is the most lucrative, the most cynical and the least ethical of all the industries. It is like an octopus with tentacles that has infiltrated all the decision-making bodies:  World Health Organizations, government agencies, parliaments, high administrations in health and hospitals and the medical profession." He is the author of "The Guide to the 4,000 Useful, Useless or Dangerous Medicines" (Sept 2012), with Dr. Bernard Debre is director of the prestigious Necker Institute, Dr. Philippe Even is a member of the French Parliament. F. Pharma

More from the interview:  "However, Even accused the industry of having a get-rich-quick attitude to making medicines and said it was interested in chasing only easy profits. "They haven't discovered very much new for the last 30 years, but have multiplied production, using tricks and lies."


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Industry claims that the reduction in deaths from heart attacks is because of their drugs for cholesterol and hypertension.  The reduction comes not from their drugs --which have been shown not to be worth their side effects--but from the reduction in smokers which has dropped from 46% of adults in 1974 to 16% in 2016.

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