Today's
pharmaceutical industry mirrors the hyping and marketing
of radioactive products in the early 1900's
At the turn of the 20th century, radioactive products were
thought to be good for you. Manufacturers made, marketed
and sold products like radioactive tablets (designed to give
you more energy!), radioactive water storage containers,
and even radioactive bottled water. Many of the people behind
the marketing and hyping of these products, by the way, were
physicians. (A few decades later, physicians were also spokespeople
for cigarette companies and touted the "health benefits" of
smoking cigarettes...)
Today, of course, we know that drinking radioactive water
will give you cancer. It's one of the most dangerous things
you can do, aside from sucking down brand-name hot dogs made
with sodium nitrite, another cancer-causing ingredient. So,
today, we all think it's crazy to take products that actually
cause cancer, right?
Think again: today's so-called "modern medicine" borrows
much from the hyping and marketing of radioactive products
by promoting bad medicine in the form of pharmaceuticals.
Prescription drugs are marketed today in much the same way
that radioactive products were marketed and hyped a hundred
years ago. We're told that all these chemicals are good for
us! We're promised that there are no negative side effects,
or very few. Our doctors insist that they, too, take all
these drugs. And so as consumers, we blindly purchase and
consume large quantities of antidepressant drugs, statin
drugs, drugs for diabetes, drugs for osteoporosis... and
the list goes on.
Yet these chemicals actually do far more harm than good.
Not one prescription drug actually addresses the underlying
problem when it comes to chronic disease. Instead, they simply
mask symptoms and thereby lead patients to continue with
the lifestyle choices that gave them the disease in the first
place. As a result, pharmaceuticals now kill 100,000 Americans
each year and injure another two million. And that's from
prescription drugs that are used as directed!
Pharmaceuticals are the modern-day equivalent of radioactive
products: they're both forms of sophisticated quackery. Today,
however, the quackery is more complex, and because so many
scientists are involved, it seems credible. Yet drug companies
can make any chemical appear useful by manipulating test
results or designing clinical trials in a certain way that's
guaranteed to produce the results they're looking for. And
just in case something goes wrong during the clinical trials,
drug companies have two simple solutions: 1) kick people
out of the trial who aren't showing a positive response to
the drug, and 2) hide any study results that aren't positive,
only turning over the "good" trials to the FDA
for approval. It's a simple recipe, actually, and the whole
process masquarades as "scientific medicine" when,
in fact, it's nothing of the kind.
Modern medicine is quackery. Prescription drugs are toxic
chemicals that merely mask symptoms. And you're no healthier
by taking prescription drugs than you would be by taking
radiation pills. In fact, come to think of it, radiation
is one of modern medicine's treatments for cancer! And if
that doesn't kill you quickly enough, there's chemotherapy,
too, which will destroy your immune system in a matter of
days or weeks, making you dependent on a lifetime of additional
prescription drugs. What a con!
You see, there's truly nothing new under the sun. Today's
hype about statin drugs and other prescriptions is just a
rehash of the hyping and marketing of radioactive "health" products
from a hundred years ago. |
