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America's foremost drug experts," wrote in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics: When will they realise that there are too many drugs? No fewer than 150,000 preparations are now in use. About 15,000 new mixtures and dosages hit the market each year, while about 12,000 die off ... We simply don't have enough diseases to go around. At the moment the most helpful contribution is the new drug to counteract the untoward effects of other new drugs. mary school next; through higher education, and the media afterwards. “Everything that is obtained with animals is perfectly conclusive for man. Experiments made on animals with noxious substances or in detrimental conditions are perfectly conclusive for the toxicology and hygiene of man. The research on medical or toxic substances is also entirely applicable to man from the therapeutic point of view." It was Claude Bernard, the apostle of today's veterinary-based med- CAN YOU TELL ical research, who made these and similarly silly statements in his most famous work, Introduction to Experimental Medicine, which in 1865 laid the groundstone for today's medical researchers - al] the growing, grievous proof of its erroneousness notwithstanding. In fact, there is no such thing today as "Science" in medicine - if we give to the word its original meaning of "Knowledge", instead of (Time, May 26, 1961) Since 1961, the total number of medical preparations marketed world-wide has risen to some 205,000 and the new maladies have increased in the same proportion. According to the Food and Drug Administration, 1.5 million "Research", which is the meaning it [ Americans had to be hospi- has acquired in the United + RODENTS (MICE/RATS) talised in 1978 as a consequence today. Current Medical Science is (the most commonly used laboratory animals) of taking drugs (which were i imposed supposed to “cure” them of — way. a oe 1. Plaque (fatty deposits) are deposited in the liver citings or other). And some iat toons Tal idimate or nuk det 2. 3-year life span requires massive doses for drug/product testing - more than 30% of all hospitalised people thly on aa ed coterie th rf emeous will exe use get further damaged by the ther- ll dedi’ totafiend Sains Rel = 3. Imuran (Immunosuppressive) causes birth defects in mice apy that is imposed on them. Medical Power, in close alliance bp peernpehd a The number of people killed in ith the Chemical Syndi Thei 5. Lysodren (cancer chemotherapy), does not cause kidney damage in rodents the USA by the intake of drugs eT ld, © Comins! peeguancy eallbeer ioc ibaeaes has been estimated at some Purpose is not the people's health, | 7. Hypersensitive to chlorine in minute doses | 140,000 cach year which is just being used as a pretext 8. Manufacture Vitamin B in the appendix - : -_— - ied for extorting large sums of money, 9, Myambutol (TTB antibiotic) causes birth defects in mice faith = so but the aggrandisement of their own | 10, ftiminate drugs from the body in 3 hours (faster elimination reduces drug | OUSIEY 1S the secont! biggest wealth and might. danger) business in North America, True science presupposes free 11. Thymidine shrinks tumors in mice exceeded only by food produc- information and exchange of differ- | 12, Catapress (anti-hypertensive) causes retinal degeneration in rats tion and distribution. ent point of views. In the medical 13. Can't tolerate more than 15 minutes of direct sunlight _ The situation is very similar field, this does not exist today. The 14. Chloroform toxic to mice in minute doses in all industrialised countries many honest and courageous doc- 15. Obtain Vitamin D by licking their own fur whose citizens are amply "pro- tors who have tried to voice opin- 16, Moban (tranquilizer) causes breast tumors in mice tected" by a Health Insurance ions in contract with the “accepted” 17. Specially bred for laboratory studies. Live in a controlled, sterile system that encourages the use doctrines imparted by the Faculties environment. Majority of diseses induced through genetic breeding (tumors of drugs and expensive thera- - for instance, by warning people of and genetic defects), or from parasitic infections. pies, and extracts, from the the cancer racket or the effects of 18, Rats have no gall bladder - Digest fats differently gullible lower citizens, billions certain mass vaccinations imposed 19, Require 3.5 times more protcin than humans in tax money that flow directly from above in the interest of the 20. Thalidomide (tranquilizer) does not cause birth defects in rats into the coffers of the Chemo- lucrative, job-providing industries - 21. Mectazine (for travel sickness) causes birth defects in rats Medical Syndicate. have all been quickly discouraged 22. Coumarin (blood thinner) causes liver damage in rodents LET THE DOCTORS from continuing or silenced, have STRIKE been regularly excluded from the - news-making medical conventions So it is hardly a coincidence that (that's why all candidates must submit months beforehand the texts of during a 29-day physicians’ strike in Israel in 1973, the national death- the lectures they intend to deliver), and have been relegated to the bot- rate was the lowest ever. According to statistics released by the tom rung of the professional ladder, from where they can't express suc- Jerusalem Burial Society, the number of funerals dropped by nearly cessfully any opinion-making view; or they have been expelled out- 50% on that occasion. right from the medical community. We shall examine other forms of The same thing happened in 1976 in Columbia, when November censorship later. marked the end of a 52 day strike by doctors in Bogota, the nation’s And it is because of such systematic censorship, running parallel capital. The National Catholic Reporter pointed out that during those with a constant flow of bombastic medical propaganda, that occasional cight weeks the death rate in Bogota went down 35%. The National outbursts of candour, like the preceding statement by Dr. Gallagher, Morticians Association of Columbia confirmed the fact. and the following one by Dr. Modell, have quickly fallen into the The identical phenomenon came to pass a few years ago in trough of oblivion, never again to be resurrected by their chastened — California, and 1978 in Great Britain. authors. MAN AND ANIMALS (Time, May 26, 1961) Since 1961, the total number of medical preparations marketed world-wide has risen to some 205,000 and the new maladies have increased in the same proportion. Acecardina ta the Rand and Dema RODENTS (MICE/RATS) (the most commonly used laboratory animals) So it is hardly a coincidence that during a 29-day physicians’ strike in Israel in 1973, the national death- rate was the lowest ever. According to statistics released by the Jerusalem Burial Society, the number of funerals dropped by nearly 50% on that occasion. The same thing happened in 1976 in Columbia, when November marked the end of a 52 day strike by doctors in Bogota, the nation’s capital. The National Catholic Reporter pointed out that during those eight weeks the death rate in Bogota went down 35%. The National Morticians Association of Columbia confirmed the fact. The identical phenomenon came to pass a few years ago in Califomia, and 1978 in Great Britain. 205,000 PREPARATIONS Already over 20 years ago, Dr. Walter Modell of Cornell University's Medical College, whom Time had described as “one of Two grams of scopolamine kill a human being, but dogs and cats can stand hundred times higher dosages. A single Amanita phalloides mushroom can wipe out a whole human family, but is health food for 22¢NEXUS MAN AND ANIMALS AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1992