8 Medical Lies and Why I Abandoned Medicine
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8 Medical Lies and Why I Abandoned Medicine
Date: 8/19/05 Author: Shane Ellison, M.Sc.
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8 Medical Lies and Why I Abandoned Medicine, By Shane Ellison, M.Sc., Early
to Rise © 2005, www.earlytorise.com
By education and by trade, I was a drug chemist. My passion for science
motivated a successful career in drug design and synthesis – in both
academia and industry. As a scientist, I witnessed first-hand the
priorities of international pharmaceutical companies (Big Pharma), which
ranked wealth first and health a distant second.
In the pharmaceutical industry, making money supercedes science. Science no
longer prevails in medicine. Instead, modern medicine has been
democratized. Drug approval is a simple matter of 51% telling the other 49%
that a prescription drug is safe and necessary. The outcome: deadly drugs
are approved for use among misinformed medical doctors and patients. Herein
lies a story of deceit and a chemist’s abandonment of modern medicine.
My suspicion of modern medicine began while I was employed by Eli Lilly to
design a new generation of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) drugs. Such
drugs include tamoxifen and raloxifene. Initially, these drugs were thought
to block estrogen receptors (excess estrogen can initiate cancer growth)
and thereby halt cancer. As time progressed, though, it was learned that
they were also capable of activating estrogen receptors. The end result was
a biochemical environment favorable to cancer growth among users.[1] The
Journal of the American Medical Association recognized this trend and
stated "our data add to the growing body of evidence that recent long-term
use of HRT is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer and that
such use may be related particularly to lobular tumors."
The risk of cancer associated with HRT drugs was obscured from doctors by
drug companies. This can be seen by the fact that tamoxifen is the
gold-standard used by medical doctors to fight cancer among their patients,
particularly breast cancer. This explains why medical doctors might not
notice its ability to cause cancer – the patient already has it.
At any rate, my task was made clear: Design HRT “knock-offs” that are
effective without causing cancer.
My attempt to design safer alternatives was unsuccessful. And after one
year, the project was ended. However, access to HRT drugs like tamoxifen
was not. They remained on the market.
The fuel driving the continued use of HRT drugs was disinformation via
Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) advertising. Since 1962, monitoring DTC
advertising has been the sole responsibility of the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA). But in a ghastly conflict of interests, the FDA
granted the duty of DTC advertising to the pharmaceutical companies in
1997. Officially, this was done as a means of “promoting health awareness
to ensure health and safety.” Unofficially, it was done to sell more drugs.
DTC advertising dictated that all women over 50 should use HRT to remain
healthy. Women scurried to their doctors to ask if “HRT was right for
them.” My suspicion grew into conflict.
The disinformation campaign behind HRT drugs was not an isolated case. I
learned that drug advertising and science are frequently in direct
opposition to each other. For example:
DTC advertising dictates that lowering cholesterol prevents heart disease.
Science proves otherwise.
DTC advertising dictates that an aspirin a day will keep heart attack away.
Science proves otherwise.
DTC advertising dictates that depression is a disease that must be treated
with prescription drugs. Science proves otherwise.
DTC advertising dictates that ADHD is a disease and that our children must
be treated with amphetamines. Science proves otherwise.
DTC advertising dictates that infants must be vaccinated to prevent
childhood illness. Science proves otherwise.
DTC advertising dictates that blood pressure must be controlled via a
lifetime of servitude to prescription drugs. Science proves otherwise.
DTC advertising dictates that chemotherapy is your first line of defense
against deadly cancer. Science proves otherwise.
DTC advertising dictates that Type II diabetes must be treated with daily
insulin use. Science proves otherwise.
By spreading the aforementioned health myths, DTC advertising forges a
belief among the general public which asserts that drugs – not lifestyle
habits and nutrition - confer health and longevity. And although, in
reality, medicine is only necessary for sick people in times of emergency,
DTC advertising has been wildly successful in convincing people that being
healthy requires a lifetime of prescription drug use. While it's true that
the advertising usually mentions the potential side effects of drugs,
doctors tend to discount them. They simply regurgitate the
pharmaceutical-company line that “the benefits of a drug outweigh the
risks.” Don’t believe it.
Western Medicine’s plague of deception is deadlier than any virus, illicit
drugs, and terrorism combined. Well-documented in scientific journals and
reported by media outlets nationwide, FDA approved drugs are killing an
estimated 106,000 people every year.[2] That equates to one individual
dying every five minutes from “approved” drugs - 300 people dying every
day. Which is twice as many deaths in a single year from "approved drugs"
as the total number of U.S. deaths from the Vietnam War.[3] This does not
count death by hospital medical error, which adds 98,000 deaths to the
atrocity.[4] If not killed, an estimated 2 million people are victims of
drug-induced illnesses.[5] These may include drug-induced obesity, cancer,
kidney disease, autism, depression and heart failure.
Hypnotized by DTC advertising, people are oblivious to the ill effects of
prescription drug use. This is evidenced by their willingness to swallow
whatever “the doctor ordered.” They drug their children, hop the borders to
smuggle inexpensive prescription drugs back into the U.S., beg their
congressman for discounts and pay a lifetime of insurance fees in order to
snatch up these silent killers. The avalanche of DTC advertising has
smothered common sense.
For the general public and medical doctors to fully grasp the effect of
Modern Medicine’s Deceit, they have to judge the situation by what a drug
is actually accomplishing, rather than what the drug company ads and
pharmaceutically-compliant politicians insist. The health benefits of
prescription drugs are illusory. Step away from the hypnotic drug ads,
close the ghost-written medical journals, discard research studies
dominated by statistical contortionists and give yourself a
prescription-drug reality check: Very few prescription drugs have any value
outside of emergency medicine and those that do can usually be replaced
with safer and less expensive natural medicine. This was a troublesome
lesson for me, as an aspiring drug chemist, to learn. Unfortunately, it was
not the only one.
Humanitarianism among Big Pharma has been abandoned. The technical skills
of chemists are not being used for humanitarian purposes. They are being
used in a deadly game of profiteering. Those at risk are not the
misinformed, high-paid medical doctors but rather their patients. Becoming
aware of this ripple effect of DTC advertising led to my abandonment of
modern medicine.
I had to face the cold, hard facts: Western Medicine has become a billion
dollar empire not out of keen science, but rather deceit. The end result
has been one nation under drugs. This subjugation has set a standard of
health in America that, by definition, is sick care disguised as health care.
Forward thinking chemists recognize the deadly trend. But few have the
luxury of speaking out or resigning. The majority of chemists in the U.S.
are foreigners. Their career secures them the right to live and work in the
U.S. This demands allegiance to their employer, regardless of the end
result of their labors. Admittedly, that this is an intentional act of Big
Pharma is speculative.
Individuals outside of the drug industry often question my conflict with
Big Pharma. How can a single person denounce a philosophy adhered to by
millions of medical doctors? That is simple: I ignore the majority thinking
that is steeped in disinformation. I stand firm in science. Truth in
science requires only one scientist to verify reproducible results in the
face of pharmaceutical tyranny.
Science proves that habits, not drugs, create and eradicate disease. The
current devastation of prescription drugs is a warning that healthy
lifestyle and nutrition habits must replace blind worship of prescription
drugs in the pursuit of life-extension. As people obtain better health
intelligence and heed this warning, drug use will recede. A new model of
health care based on common sense, not profiteering, will emerge.
About the Author
Shane Ellison is dedicated to stopping prescription drug hype in its
tracks. To this end, he has made it his mission to introduce healthy
lifestyle habits as well as safe and effective nutritional supplements to
the public. With his keen ability to sift through scientific literature and
weed out fact from fiction, Shane has empowered thousands to assert their
health freedom by saying "no" to prescription drugs. Learn more at
www.healthmyths.net
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[1] Sally, A. et al. Estrogen Plus Progestin and the Incidence of Dementia
and Mild Cognitive Impairment in Postmenopausal Women. Journal of the
American Medical Association. 2003;289:2651-2662.
Chen CL, Weiss NS, Newcomb P, Barlow W, White E. Hormone replacement
therapy in relation to breast cancer. Journal of the American Medical
Association. 2002 Feb 13;287(6):734-41.
Spurgeon, D. Long Term use of HRT Doubles Cancer Risk. British Medical
Journal. 2003 Jul 5;327(7405):9
Yoneva T. Taniguchi K. Tsunenari T. Saito H. Kanbe Y, Morikaw K,
Yamada-Okabe H. Identification of a novel, orally bioavailable estrogen
receptor downregulator. Anticancer Drugs. 2005 Aug;16(7):751-6.
Labrie, F. et al. EM-652 (SCH 57068), a third generation SERM acting as
pure antiestrogen in the mammary gland and endometrium. The Journal of
Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 1999 Apr-Jun;69(1-6):51-84.
[2] Starfield, Barbara. Is US Health Really the Best in the World? Journal
of the American Chemical Society, July 26, 2000-Vol 284, No.4.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7503122/
[3] There were an estimated 58,000 U.S casualties in the Vietnam War
[4] Moride Y, Haramburu F, Requejo AA, Begaud B. Under-reporting of adverse
drug reactions in general practice. British Journal of Clinical
Pharmacology, 1997 43: 177-181.
[5] Tejal K. Gandhi. et al. Adverse Drug Events in Ambulatory Care. The New
England Journal of Medicine. Volume 348:1556-1564. April 17, 2003. Number 16.
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Back To Stories <<<
8 Medical Lies and Why I Abandoned Medicine
Date: 8/19/05 Author: Shane Ellison, M.Sc.
Source: www.earlytorise.com
8 Medical Lies and Why I Abandoned Medicine, By Shane Ellison, M.Sc., Early
to Rise © 2005, www.earlytorise.com
By education and by trade, I was a drug chemist. My passion for science
motivated a successful career in drug design and synthesis – in both
academia and industry. As a scientist, I witnessed first-hand the
priorities of international pharmaceutical companies (Big Pharma), which
ranked wealth first and health a distant second.
In the pharmaceutical industry, making money supercedes science. Science no
longer prevails in medicine. Instead, modern medicine has been
democratized. Drug approval is a simple matter of 51% telling the other 49%
that a prescription drug is safe and necessary. The outcome: deadly drugs
are approved for use among misinformed medical doctors and patients. Herein
lies a story of deceit and a chemist’s abandonment of modern medicine.
My suspicion of modern medicine began while I was employed by Eli Lilly to
design a new generation of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) drugs. Such
drugs include tamoxifen and raloxifene. Initially, these drugs were thought
to block estrogen receptors (excess estrogen can initiate cancer growth)
and thereby halt cancer. As time progressed, though, it was learned that
they were also capable of activating estrogen receptors. The end result was
a biochemical environment favorable to cancer growth among users.[1] The
Journal of the American Medical Association recognized this trend and
stated "our data add to the growing body of evidence that recent long-term
use of HRT is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer and that
such use may be related particularly to lobular tumors."
The risk of cancer associated with HRT drugs was obscured from doctors by
drug companies. This can be seen by the fact that tamoxifen is the
gold-standard used by medical doctors to fight cancer among their patients,
particularly breast cancer. This explains why medical doctors might not
notice its ability to cause cancer – the patient already has it.
At any rate, my task was made clear: Design HRT “knock-offs” that are
effective without causing cancer.
My attempt to design safer alternatives was unsuccessful. And after one
year, the project was ended. However, access to HRT drugs like tamoxifen
was not. They remained on the market.
The fuel driving the continued use of HRT drugs was disinformation via
Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) advertising. Since 1962, monitoring DTC
advertising has been the sole responsibility of the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA). But in a ghastly conflict of interests, the FDA
granted the duty of DTC advertising to the pharmaceutical companies in
1997. Officially, this was done as a means of “promoting health awareness
to ensure health and safety.” Unofficially, it was done to sell more drugs.
DTC advertising dictated that all women over 50 should use HRT to remain
healthy. Women scurried to their doctors to ask if “HRT was right for
them.” My suspicion grew into conflict.
The disinformation campaign behind HRT drugs was not an isolated case. I
learned that drug advertising and science are frequently in direct
opposition to each other. For example:
DTC advertising dictates that lowering cholesterol prevents heart disease.
Science proves otherwise.
DTC advertising dictates that an aspirin a day will keep heart attack away.
Science proves otherwise.
DTC advertising dictates that depression is a disease that must be treated
with prescription drugs. Science proves otherwise.
DTC advertising dictates that ADHD is a disease and that our children must
be treated with amphetamines. Science proves otherwise.
DTC advertising dictates that infants must be vaccinated to prevent
childhood illness. Science proves otherwise.
DTC advertising dictates that blood pressure must be controlled via a
lifetime of servitude to prescription drugs. Science proves otherwise.
DTC advertising dictates that chemotherapy is your first line of defense
against deadly cancer. Science proves otherwise.
DTC advertising dictates that Type II diabetes must be treated with daily
insulin use. Science proves otherwise.
By spreading the aforementioned health myths, DTC advertising forges a
belief among the general public which asserts that drugs – not lifestyle
habits and nutrition - confer health and longevity. And although, in
reality, medicine is only necessary for sick people in times of emergency,
DTC advertising has been wildly successful in convincing people that being
healthy requires a lifetime of prescription drug use. While it's true that
the advertising usually mentions the potential side effects of drugs,
doctors tend to discount them. They simply regurgitate the
pharmaceutical-company line that “the benefits of a drug outweigh the
risks.” Don’t believe it.
Western Medicine’s plague of deception is deadlier than any virus, illicit
drugs, and terrorism combined. Well-documented in scientific journals and
reported by media outlets nationwide, FDA approved drugs are killing an
estimated 106,000 people every year.[2] That equates to one individual
dying every five minutes from “approved” drugs - 300 people dying every
day. Which is twice as many deaths in a single year from "approved drugs"
as the total number of U.S. deaths from the Vietnam War.[3] This does not
count death by hospital medical error, which adds 98,000 deaths to the
atrocity.[4] If not killed, an estimated 2 million people are victims of
drug-induced illnesses.[5] These may include drug-induced obesity, cancer,
kidney disease, autism, depression and heart failure.
Hypnotized by DTC advertising, people are oblivious to the ill effects of
prescription drug use. This is evidenced by their willingness to swallow
whatever “the doctor ordered.” They drug their children, hop the borders to
smuggle inexpensive prescription drugs back into the U.S., beg their
congressman for discounts and pay a lifetime of insurance fees in order to
snatch up these silent killers. The avalanche of DTC advertising has
smothered common sense.
For the general public and medical doctors to fully grasp the effect of
Modern Medicine’s Deceit, they have to judge the situation by what a drug
is actually accomplishing, rather than what the drug company ads and
pharmaceutically-compliant politicians insist. The health benefits of
prescription drugs are illusory. Step away from the hypnotic drug ads,
close the ghost-written medical journals, discard research studies
dominated by statistical contortionists and give yourself a
prescription-drug reality check: Very few prescription drugs have any value
outside of emergency medicine and those that do can usually be replaced
with safer and less expensive natural medicine. This was a troublesome
lesson for me, as an aspiring drug chemist, to learn. Unfortunately, it was
not the only one.
Humanitarianism among Big Pharma has been abandoned. The technical skills
of chemists are not being used for humanitarian purposes. They are being
used in a deadly game of profiteering. Those at risk are not the
misinformed, high-paid medical doctors but rather their patients. Becoming
aware of this ripple effect of DTC advertising led to my abandonment of
modern medicine.
I had to face the cold, hard facts: Western Medicine has become a billion
dollar empire not out of keen science, but rather deceit. The end result
has been one nation under drugs. This subjugation has set a standard of
health in America that, by definition, is sick care disguised as health care.
Forward thinking chemists recognize the deadly trend. But few have the
luxury of speaking out or resigning. The majority of chemists in the U.S.
are foreigners. Their career secures them the right to live and work in the
U.S. This demands allegiance to their employer, regardless of the end
result of their labors. Admittedly, that this is an intentional act of Big
Pharma is speculative.
Individuals outside of the drug industry often question my conflict with
Big Pharma. How can a single person denounce a philosophy adhered to by
millions of medical doctors? That is simple: I ignore the majority thinking
that is steeped in disinformation. I stand firm in science. Truth in
science requires only one scientist to verify reproducible results in the
face of pharmaceutical tyranny.
Science proves that habits, not drugs, create and eradicate disease. The
current devastation of prescription drugs is a warning that healthy
lifestyle and nutrition habits must replace blind worship of prescription
drugs in the pursuit of life-extension. As people obtain better health
intelligence and heed this warning, drug use will recede. A new model of
health care based on common sense, not profiteering, will emerge.
About the Author
Shane Ellison is dedicated to stopping prescription drug hype in its
tracks. To this end, he has made it his mission to introduce healthy
lifestyle habits as well as safe and effective nutritional supplements to
the public. With his keen ability to sift through scientific literature and
weed out fact from fiction, Shane has empowered thousands to assert their
health freedom by saying "no" to prescription drugs. Learn more at
www.healthmyths.net
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
[1] Sally, A. et al. Estrogen Plus Progestin and the Incidence of Dementia
and Mild Cognitive Impairment in Postmenopausal Women. Journal of the
American Medical Association. 2003;289:2651-2662.
Chen CL, Weiss NS, Newcomb P, Barlow W, White E. Hormone replacement
therapy in relation to breast cancer. Journal of the American Medical
Association. 2002 Feb 13;287(6):734-41.
Spurgeon, D. Long Term use of HRT Doubles Cancer Risk. British Medical
Journal. 2003 Jul 5;327(7405):9
Yoneva T. Taniguchi K. Tsunenari T. Saito H. Kanbe Y, Morikaw K,
Yamada-Okabe H. Identification of a novel, orally bioavailable estrogen
receptor downregulator. Anticancer Drugs. 2005 Aug;16(7):751-6.
Labrie, F. et al. EM-652 (SCH 57068), a third generation SERM acting as
pure antiestrogen in the mammary gland and endometrium. The Journal of
Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 1999 Apr-Jun;69(1-6):51-84.
[2] Starfield, Barbara. Is US Health Really the Best in the World? Journal
of the American Chemical Society, July 26, 2000-Vol 284, No.4.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7503122/
[3] There were an estimated 58,000 U.S casualties in the Vietnam War
[4] Moride Y, Haramburu F, Requejo AA, Begaud B. Under-reporting of adverse
drug reactions in general practice. British Journal of Clinical
Pharmacology, 1997 43: 177-181.
[5] Tejal K. Gandhi. et al. Adverse Drug Events in Ambulatory Care. The New
England Journal of Medicine. Volume 348:1556-1564. April 17, 2003. Number 16.
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Well Within & Earth Mysteries & Sacred Site Tours (worldwide)
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http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/homeo.htm
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