Dianetics week

May the 9th was the 59th anniversary of the publication of the book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, so to celebrate I'm having a Dianetics week on this blog. Here is the first post - a video introduction to Dianetics:

Mental Health Screening

Watch this short video if you care about the future of your children: Mental Health Screening

Gulf War Syndrome - A Solution?

Here is an article by a Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps (retired) who is a veteran of the Gulf War and was suffering from Gulf War Syndrome. He found a program that handled the symptoms. Let's hope this solution can be more broadly used to help the vets who still suffer from this terrible affliction.

Gulf War Illness: Effective Treatment for Veterans Needed

Vitamin C is useless/not useless/dangerous - medical profession can't make up its mind

It seems that the properties of Vitamin C (as well as other vitamins) keep changing according to the necessities of the profits of the pharmaceutical industry. The drug companies say that vitamins are useless and don't do you any good, but then they find out that the cell protecting properties of vitamin C get in the way of the cell destroying properties of chemotherapy so they have to put out propaganda about the dangers of vitamin C for people on chemo - totally contradicting their earlier pronouncements that vitamin C does nothing for the health of your cells.

Read the full article here: In Cancer Scare Story, Medical Researchers Admit Vitamin C Protects Cells from Free Radical Damage

Prescription Drugs More Deadly Than Cocaine, Heroin, Amphetamines

Here is a startling article about just how deadly prescription drugs can be: Prescription Drugs More Deadly Than Cocaine, Heroin, Amphetamines.

More people die from prescription drugs each year than from cocaine, heroin and amphetamines put together! In fact the medical profession itself estimates that about 100,000 people die each year from "correct" prescriptions but critics estimate that it is much higher (See Death by Medicine for the details).

Hopefully this will make you think twice before blindly accepting the opinion of "authorities" regarding the safety of medical drugs.

Medical Ethics: Conflict of Interest

Thanks to Jim Gatos for pointing me to this article: Are Perks Compromising MD Ethics?. Here is the video (forgive the ad that it starts with.)



Of course the answer to the question, "Are perks compromising MD Ethics?" is clearly, "Yes!" And it's "Yes!" to the tune of $57 billion a year. That means the drug companies are spending more on corrupting doctors than they are on any other form of marketing.

And consider this: if they can afford to spend $57 billion on perks and "consulting" fees to doctors then how much are they making from these drugs?

Now don't get me wrong, drugs have their place. If a person is dying of cancer and needs a strong pain killer to help make their last few days bearable then I say give 'em the drug. If someone just had a major operation and needs a pain killer then go ahead. But I call it criminal when a doctor prescribes highly addictive drugs such as Oxycodone or Methadone when the patient does not need such dangerous medication and the doctor prescribes them simply because one drug company gives him better perks or more money than another.

That may have been the case in the video and the result was the death of a 12-year-old girl.

I think it's time Congress acted and the proposed law on disclosure of payments to doctors by drug companies should be passed as soon as possible.

What do you think?

Take your meds - get worse

Another psychiatric drug maker is being sued for billions over side-effects of it "wonder drug". Actually the only "wonder" of the drug Seroquel is that it is still on the market.

The side-effect is diabetes and estimated cost to the company of the litigation will be around $10 billion. There are currently 2,500 cases pending against the drug maker AstraZeneca including suits from three US states.

But is the drug off the market? Is AstraZeneca attempting to make up the damage it has done to all those people who now have diabetes thanks to its dangerous drug? No. They are fighting on to protect their shareholders from loss. Shame that AstraZeneca, like most other drug companies, cares for the almighty dollar more than the health and welfare of the people who use its drugs.

Read the article: Astra CEO in London trial will take stand