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January 2011 edition 108
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The downfall of science and the rise of intellectual tyranny
Friday, January 21, 2011
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/031073_science_tyranny.html#ixzz1BlDrIq64
The very reputation of so-called "science" has been irreparably damaged by the invocation of the term "science" by GMO lackeys, pesticide pushers, mercury advocates and fluoride poisoners who all claim to have science on their side. It seems that every toxin, contamination and chemical disaster that now infects our planet has been evangelized in the name of "science."
Where "science" used to be highly regarded in the 1950's, today the term is largely exploited by pharmaceutical companies, biotech giants and chemical companies to push their own for-profit agendas. Actual science has little to do with the schemes now being pushed under the veil of science.
To make matters even worse for the sciences, many so-called "science bloggers" have been revealed to have financial ties to the very same companies whose profits are shored up by their activities (http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/08/...).
Rather than defending any sort of scientific truth, science bloggers have become the internet whores of Big Pharma, Monsanto, pesticide manufacturers, chemical companies and toxic mercury factories. There's hardly a dangerous chemical in widespread use today that the science bloggers haven't venomously defended as safe and effective. Many are just blatantly paid off by corporate entities to run around the internet pushing GMOs, chemicals and vaccines.
This realization has caused the science bloggers to be widely ridiculed by intelligent people who see right through their thinly-veiled (but well-funded) disinformation campaigns. Where science bloggers once had credibility, they now are seen as intellectual prostitutes for dangerous corporate agendas that benefit powerful companies at the expense of environmental health and human health.
If they weren't doing all this in the name of science, it wouldn't be so bad, actually. If they called themselves "corporate whore bloggers" instead of "science bloggers," their actions wouldn't be so harmful to the reputation of science itself. But, to the great detriment of actual science, they insist on calling themselves "science bloggers."
Now the reputation of "science" itself is suffering
Because the for-profit GMO sellouts, poison pushers, vaccine zealots and corporate front groups continue to conduct their activities under the false name of "science," the term is losing its meaning. This should be cause for alarm among those who practice legitimate science. (Where are the astrobiologists when you need them?)
As we've seen all too frequently, "science" can be easily distorted or exploited to achieve a desired political or profiteering goal. But the ruse is rather apparent -- the public is awakening to the science fraud and learning that the term "science" doesn't really mean what it used to. It's suffering a loss of reputation to such a degree that the term "science" no longer means a system whereby intellectually honest people search for the underlying truths of how nature operates. Today, "science" is used not to search for truth, but to distort the truth.
Replace "science" with "fraud" to understand the spin
Instead of seeking knowledge and understanding, for example, "science" is used as an intellectual bludgeon to halt rational skepticism and discussion on topics such as GMOs, vaccines, mercury fillings, fluoride in the water, the mysterious deaths of animals, the collapse of honeybee populations and so on. It's a kind of intellectual tyranny that has been invoked against those who oppose any kind of corporate agenda that can be dressed up to look like actual science.
In several contexts, the term "science" has become synonymous with "fraud." As in the following headlines (replace "science" with "fraud" as you read them):
"It has now been revealed that the researchers who made up the fictitious study results were engaged in SCIENCE."
Or:
"When asked how he came up with the fabricated clinical trial data upon which the FDA approved the drug, discredited researcher Humphrey Brokendata explained he was only engaged in SCIENCE."
In fact, the vast majority of the popular news reports you might read about so-called "scientific" findings make a whole lot more sense if you replace the word "science" with "fraud." For example, imagine the words being exchanged in these headlines:
· GMOs backed by solid SCIENCE
· FDA insists its drug approvals are based on SCIENCE
· Monsanto claims the SCIENCE behind its seed technology is better than ever
· Vaccines stand their ground this flu season thanks to SCIENCE
You see how suddenly everything makes more sense on these particular topics when you replace "science" with "fraud?"
This isn't a stretch, either. The "scientific" agenda behind GMOs, for example, has absolutely nothing to do with real science. It is a corporate for-profit agenda that seeks control over the world's food supply while forcing farmers to buy seeds year after year from one centralized corporate entity. That's not science. It's just a monopolistic crime against humanity to assault the basic rights of people to be able to grow their own foods and harvest their own seeds without worrying about those seeds being contaminated with genetic pollution from genetically engineered crops.
The real science on GMOs indicates that reasonable people have every right to be concerned about the DNA pollution of the foods that feed our world. But through the blasphemous invocation of the term "unscientific," the GMO pushers attempt to characterize rational, reasonable people who hold concerns about GMOs as "unscientific." As if they didn't believe in the Law of Gravity or Newtonian physics for macro-sized objects.
The scientific community loses credibility by the day
This endless assault on common sense by those who use the term "science" as a cover for dangerous global experiments in plant and human biology will only further discredit the scientific community. When you see "scientific" doctors and dentists putting their reputations behind things like water fluoridation -- which is the blatant mass pollution of the water supply with a toxic hazardous waste chemical -- it's no surprise why the street cred of so-called "scientific thinkers" continues to erode.
This is all very sad to see, of course. I consider myself a proponent of scientific thinking, and I strongly value the Scientific Method as one approach to gaining knowledge. I'm educated in microbiology, genetics, physics and have acquired a considerable amount of scientific knowledge in many other areas. I'm currently studying M-theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-theory) and the intersection of quantum physics with consciousness. (There's a taboo topic in conventional scientific circles for ya -- don't talk about consciousness, for God's sake! To quote Einstein, God may not play dice with the universe... but consciousness does!)
As a proponent of scientific discovery, even I have to admit that science has lost its credibility due in large part to the corporate takeover of science. Whereas science was once a popular and highly respected field of study for young thinkers, very few people in America enter the sciences these days. More and more people are waking up to the reality that many of the great evils that have been unleashed upon our world have been conducted in the name of science: GMOs, seasonal flu vaccines, plastic food containers, pesticides, mercury poisoning, fluoride in the water supply, psychiatric pharmaceuticals and so on.
Science, it turns out, hasn't saved us: It has quite possibly doomed us. The destruction that has already been unleashed upon our world in the name of science may not be reversible in the era of humankind. We may be setting ourselves up for a global food supply catastrophe due to GMOs and pesticides, for example, and literally billions of human beings may ultimately die from it. "Science" was the invocation behind GMOs and pesticides, even though in truth the whole scheme was pulled off through what can only be called "junk science" or "selected science."
Real science is a valid tool when used with integrity
Again, it saddens me to see science misappropriated in this way, because true science is a valid and valuable method by which human beings can seek to gain understanding about the universe in which we live. It is not the only pathway to knowledge, of course (a frequent mistaken assumption by those who are steeped in it), but it is a valuable one nonetheless. Yet thanks to today's corporate-led "scientific" schemes involving GMOs, vaccines, pesticides and other chemicals, the value of science itself is being rapidly lost to the intellectual tyranny demonstrated by those who destroy our world in the name of science.
Where real scientists once used to welcome debate and discussion, today's "science" advocate operate with the intellectual finesse and flexibility of a two-ton block of granite. You either agree with them or you are branded an idiot. There is no discussion, no debate, no thought and no real science involved. On so many of the big issues that matter today -- vaccines, GMOs, mercury, fluoride, pesticides and so on -- the "science" position is that of a self-proclaimed dictator (or tyrant) who believes he causes things to be true and factual through the mere act of stating them. That isn't science. It's just an advanced form of arrogant bullying framed in the language of science and carried aloft by a never-ending stream of corporate dollars.
It is, in essence, intellectual tyranny.
Science may yet destroy us
It was Oppenheimer who, after playing a key role in the invention of the atomic bomb, quoted these words from the ancient Hindu text known as the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
Today, a very large segment of the scientific community is engaged in much the same behavior: Destroying our world through the incessant and utterly unscientific advocacy of dangerous, destructive interventions that threaten our food, our waterways and the very future of life on Earth.
So-called "science," it seems, may ultimately be the destroyer of life as we know it on our planet. And yet "science" is worshipped by its followers as the savior of life on Earth. There is a dangerous disconnect in that situation. Perhaps one of Biblical proportion.
I suspect that one day a future alien civilization will study the history of humankind and attempt to determine how we destroyed ourselves. After sorting through the decomposed rubbish of the long-extinct human civilization, one alien will turn to the other alien and nod its head to say, "It seems their civilization was based on SCIENCE FRAUD."
P.S. For the record, I am not opposed to actual science, nor the use of the Scientific Method as one avenue through which wisdom may be gained. There are other methods of gaining wisdom, however, such as spirituality, meditation, the study of consciousness and even quantum connections between sentient beings. All of these non-science methods are utterly disregarded by the "scientific" community which believes so strongly in its own dogma that the brains of its top scientists have no room left for any ideas other than their own. That is, by the way, the very definition of a closed mind. It also happens to be the reason why conventional science only advances at the speed at which its dogmatic intellectual tyrants retire or perish.
Suggested Reading:
Some of my favorite books that have influenced my deeper understanding of real science:
In Search of the Multiverse: Parallel Worlds, Hidden Dimensions, and the Ultimate Quest for the Frontiers of Reality by John Gribbon
http://www.amazon.com/Search-Multiv...
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
http://www.amazon.com/Structure-Sci...
Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness by Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner
http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Enigm...
The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena by Dean Radin
http://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Uni...
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/031073_science_tyranny.html#ixzz1BlDkhGoS
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Terminal cancer patients routinely exploited by high-profit screening scams even as death approaches
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
www.naturalnews.com
Want to know the disturbing truth about the greed-driven cancer industry? I've written about it using blunt language here on NaturalNews, and awareness is spreading. People are sick of pinkwashing nonsense, and they're wising up to the fundraising "run for the cure" scams that only funnel more money into corrupt, Pharma-dominated cancer non-profits.
Now a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association sheds new light on just how cruel and greedy the cancer industry really is. It turns out that even when cancer patients are terminal -- meaning they're expected to die soon -- the cancer industry herds them into yet more screening, mammograms, biopsies and lab tests in order to generate more profits from Medicare before the patient expires.
It turns out they're still irradiating women with mammograms even though these women already have "incurable" cancers! (Incurable by conventional medicine, that is.)
Even according to cancer industry doctors, patients who have less than 10 years left to live receive no benefit from cancer screening. So why are such patients being subjected to a barrage of cancer screening tests? Because the tests make more money for the cancer industry!
Hurry, make more money before they die!
It's almost as if they're saying, "Gee, these patients are about to expire, and we can't bill Medicare if they're already dead, so hurry up and run some tests before they die!"
Never mind the fact that such tests don't help the patient at all. In fact, these tests can be invasive, painful and psychologically damaging. They put patients through hell in order to rake in some additional profits in the last few days, weeks or months before the cancer patient dies.
That's the truth about how the cancer industry really operates. To them, people are just profit machines to be exploited.
This is now evidenced by the cancer industry's own actions, by the way. It's one thing to accuse the cancer industry of being driven by greed (which I've done on many occasions), but it's another thing entirely for the industry to be caught red handed in a study published in JAMA and funded by the National Cancer Institute that documents this systematic abuse of patients.
Turning a human being into sick profits
The sad, sick truth of the matter is that both cancer screening and cancer treatments are profit centers for hospitals and cancer clinics. The more people they can screen, diagnose and treat with toxic chemotherapy, radiation or surgery, the more money they can collect off that person before they die.
A dying cancer patient is a cash cow to the cancer industry because doctors can try almost anything and say they're holding out for "hope" that something might work. It's called "heroic medicine" but there are no heroes, really. Just cowards in the form of the cancer doctors exploiting patients for profit. Many conventional doctors have come to realize that a terminal cancer patient is like a blank check that they can cash in for huge financial gains.
I knew a cancer patient described as terminal by the doctors who was offered an "experimental" cancer drug which would involve a series of weekly injections. The only catch? The bill was $14,000 a month and you have to pay out of pocket since no insurance would cover it.
Drug companies and cancer doctors pressure cancer patients to try these useless "experimental" therapies not as a way to actually cure their cancers but as a way to extract their entire life savings before they die.
No one has ever been cured by chemotherapy
The conventional cancer industry, you see, has cured no one. There isn't a single person who has ever been cured by chemotherapy because chemotherapy does not cure cancer, it only poisons the body. In fact, cancer doctors practicing today will tell you straight up that "there are no cures for cancer" which is they are "looking for the cure" by selling pink products and taking your donation money.
The cancer industry, you see, has a zero percent success rate at curing cancer. Think about it: After billions of dollars, three decades of research, and millions of cancer victims dead from chemotherapy and radiation, the cancer industry has not produced even a single success story of someone who was CURED of cancer. Not a single one!
How's that for a failed approach to cancer? And they claim that if they only had a few billion more dollars, then they would be able to find the cure. Do you smell something fishy with that?
Meanwhile, in the world of natural medicine, people are cured of cancer every day. Well, technically they are not cured from the outside but rather are healed from the inside so that their cancer disappears and they regain full immune system health. It's so common in the world of natural health that the really good cancer doctors don't even consider cancer to be much of a challenge. I know of one cancer doctor who produces cancer cures every week at his clinic in Florida. But he has one rule: He will not see patients who have poisoned their bodies with chemotherapy. "They're too far gone and cannot heal themselves," he explains.
No wonder the conventional industry has zero success stories of people cured of cancer. Now, sure, they have some "remission" stories of people who temporarily "conquered" cancer, but guess what? Cancer always comes back in those people! And why? Because their body's defenses have now been poisoned by chemotherapy, making them even more vulnerable to tumor growth.
Cancer patients come and go, you see, but the cancer industry keeps churning along, trading bodies for dollars, causing unimaginable human suffering just so it can keep itself alive with an infusion of new daily profits. Now, even the peer-reviewed medical journals are starting to see the ugly truth of just how profit-driven this industry really is.
I am confident that one day this present era of medicine will be characterized as a "Dark Ages" of medicine, driven by egos, profits and greed. Chemotherapy will be seen as utterly senseless, and radiation therapy as barbaric. Future generations will look back upon the pinkwashing, the "Run for the Cure" fundraising and the free mammogram drives and just shake their heads in disbelief, wondering, "How could they have all been so stupid?"
The answer to that is complex, of course. Some people aren't stupid. They're the ones reading NaturalNews and taking charge of their health to prevent cancer in the first place. There are lots of smart, informed people around who don't buy into the cancer industry's ridiculous propaganda and disease fear mongering. It's the masses, however, that fall for the cancer industry quackery that has now become so routine that almost no one questions it.
And in understanding their stupidity, you have to remember that they've all been dosed with fluoride in the drinking water and injected with brain-harming seasonal flu vaccines. They're also living on chemically-altered, genetically modified processed junk food. Thus, they probably don't have their full mental faculties up and running, and it's difficult for them to think clearly enough to resist cancer industry propaganda.
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Common painkillers triple risk of stroke
19 January 2011
Common painkillers such as aspirin and ibuprofen double the risk of a heart attack, and triple the chance of stroke.
Two of the less common painkillers - Arcoxin (etoricoxib) and Voltarol (diclofenac) - were the most dangerous, quadrupling the chances of a fatal heart attack, say researchers from the University of Bern, Switzerland.
The researchers were alerted to the potential dangers of anti-inflammatory painkillers following the withdrawal of Vioxx (rofecoxib) after it was found to cause heart disease and death.
Vioxx was a COX-2 inhibitor, a 'new generation' anti-inflammatory supposedly safer than the older NSAIDs (non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drugs), such as aspirin. But the researchers found that the risk exists across the entire family of drugs when they analysed the results of 31 drug trials, involving 116,429 participants.
The researchers conclude that the drugs - many of which can be purchased without a prescription in pharmacies - are not safe, and should be taken with great care.
(Source: British Medical Journal, 2011; 342: c7086).
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'Just-in-case' statin drug use is dangerous
Many people who reach their mid-fifties will be on a cholesterol-lowering statin drug, often as a 'just-in-case' measure. But the practice offers no benefits, and it could even be harmful, a new study suggests.
People who don't have heart problems shouldn't be taking a statin drug, which can cause liver problems, kidney failure and muscle weakness, say researchers from the Cochrane Collaboration. As we age, cholesterol also becomes more important, and helps the brain function efficiently. Some cases of dementia in the elderly are caused by too low levels of cholesterol rather than ageing.
Lead researcher Fiona Taylor says: "The decision to prescribe statins in this group (older people with no heart problems) should not be taken lightly."
Doctors routinely prescribe statins to most patients over the age of 55 or so; low-dose versions of the drugs are also available at pharmacies without a prescription.
(Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2011; 1: CD004816).
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Antibiotics and Kefir ("mala")
January 13, 2011 Written by JP
You've probably been told by family, friends and possibly even a physician or two to eat yogurt to counteract some of the adverse effects of antibiotics. The justification is that probiotics in yogurt replenish many of the healthy bacteria that are wiped out by such medications. But there's another fermented dairy product on the block that you might also want to consider. Kefir is a drinkable source of probiotics that generally contains a higher proportion and broader range of active cultures than yogurt. This reality forms a strong theoretical basis for considering kefir during and after any antibiotic regimen.
The December 2010 issue of the Journal of Medicinal Foods makes the case for using kefir alongside antibiotics. An antibiotic regimen known as "triple therapy" is commonly employed to eradicate H. pylori in infected patients. This harmful bacterium is associated with intestinal inflammation, stomach cancer and ulcers. A 14-day randomized, double-blind study examined the effects of combining kefir or a placebo (milk) with three powerful antibiotics (amoxicillin, clarithomycin and lansoprazole). The kefir and placebo were given at a dosage of 250 ml or about 8 ounces twice-daily. The participants returned for an examination after 45 days. Questionnaires and a urea breath test were used to assess side effects and treatment success. The patients receiving the kefir-enhanced therapy achieved significantly higher H. pylori eradication - 78.2% vs. 50% in the placebo group. What's more, those given the probiotic beverage reported "less frequent and less severe" side effects. (1)
Another group of researchers from St. Luke's Medical Center in Duluth, Minnesota successfully employed kefir in 8 patients with "recurrent episodes of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea". Antibiotic therapy using oral metronidazole or vanomycin was combined with daily kefir consumption. The dosage of antibiotics was gradually reduced and ultimately withdrawn. According to the author of the paper, "All eight successfully resolved their infection and did not experience any further diarrhea after completion of treatment". Clostridium difficile infection or CDI is a leading cause of hospital-acquired, intestinal disease. Its incidence is increasing and so too is the virulence. New strains of C. defficile are leading to "increasing morbidity and mortality" in vulnerable populations. This is all the more reason why safe and effective adjuncts such as kefir need to be considered and employed where indicated. (2,3,4)
Kefir was the subject of a highly publicized trial that appeared in the August 2009 edition of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. The Georgetown University lead study examined the effects of a popular children's kefir product on antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD). The trial itself was well designed and a most welcome opportunity for kefir to shine. Unfortunately, the findings didn't reveal statistically significant benefits to kefir with live cultures vs. kefir containing heat-killed microbes. Future interventions using other products may help elucidate whether this finding is specific to kefir used here. Until then, I can tell you that the product in question (Probugs) contains a considerable amount of added sugar. The only type of kefir I recommend and use is the traditional, no-sugar added variety. (5)
Before combining kefir or yogurt with antibiotics, please be aware of the potential for adverse interactions. Many people express worry that taking probiotics in close proximity to antibiotics will nullify the benefits of the probiotics. This is a reasonable concern. However, there's an even more pressing matter at hand. Dairy products contain a protein known as casein which may negatively affect the activity of select antibiotics. That's why it's important to inquire with your pharmacist and/or physician prior to selecting a probiotic food. One can often avoid such problems by consuming dairy a few hours apart from antibiotics or even selecting non-dairy sources of probiotics such as coconut milk kefir. That is also a good strategy to help keep the antibiotics from negating the benefits of the probiotics. (6,7,8)
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