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REVIEWS & PLAGUE, PESTILENCE AND THE Hong Kong chicken flu, TB and measles. PURSUIT OF POWER He also slams the government/corporate by Steven Ransom biotech push to grow GE crops in the UK Credence Publications, UK, 2001 for its denial of public concerns over safety. ISBN 0-9535012-8-0 (209pp tpb) It's chilling to know how far governments, Price: A$32.95; A$36.95 to NZ; £15.00; corporations and the media will go to sup- US$22 00: C$37 50 : , — press human and animal rights—as well as Availability: ‘Aust/NZ/UK/USA— the truth—for the sake of power and profit. Credence Publications HEALTH WARS ‘| » by Phillip Day Credence Publications, UK, 2001 ISBN 0-9535012-7-2 (331pp tpb) Price: A$32.95; A$36.95 to NZ; £15.00; US$22.00; C$37.50 Availability: Aust/NZ— Credence Publications Australia, tel (03) 5767 2247, website http://www.credence.com.au; UK—Credence Publications, tel 01622 832386, http://www.credence.org; USA— Credence USA, tel (208) 524 1571, http:/Awww.credence.org/USA round 90-95% of all the diseases and health problems killing people in the industrialised world tend to be metabolic-, toxin- or healthcare-related, says UK-based health researcher/journalist Phillip Day, so solve those problems and you solve most of what could kill us prematurely. The top two killers are cancer and heart disease, while ast issue we ran an extract from Steven the third is the system itself, which is Ransom's book, but it didn't cover his responsible for hundreds of thousands dying key argument: that many outbreaks of every year due to incorrectly prescribed “highly infectious" or "deadly" human and pharmaceuticals or their side-effects, hospi- animal diseases are "politically manufac- tal infections, botched medical procedures, tured" epidemics or "psycho plagues", delib- lack of care and so on. But the system also erately imposed by Big Business and/or Big _ plays a part in today's epidemic of metabolic Government with help from the Big Media. _ and toxic diseases, for it has a vested interest One obvious case is the 2001 foot and in promoting poor dietary choices and deny- mouth disease (FMD) "outbreak" in the ing the problems caused by all-pervasive UK—a disease which affected animals can toxins in the environment and our food. recover from if given enough time. Ransom "The system", as Day defines it, includes points out many of the inconsistencies and vested interests at corporate and government deceptions concerning official diagnosis, level that sanction harmful modes of treat- science, testing, media statements and meth- _ ment and questionable health choices for the ods of dealing with FMD and the farmers— __ sake of profit and power, as well as in the so many that he concludes there were other, media, where editors and publishers regular- more subversive agendas afoot. Such as to ly block publication of life-saving health force Britain to conform to the EU's agricul- _ information if it's perceived to conflict with tural plan by breaking up small-holder live- _ establishment views or advertisers. stock farming. And to swell the coffers of In Health Wars, Day exposes many shock- the pharmaceutical drug companies who are __ ers that our readers would be familiar with, never short of a "disease" requiring a drug or _ including the dangers of vaccines, aspartame a vaccine to treat something that very likely _ products, fluoride, animal antibiotics, genet- has an environmental cause. ic engineering and environmental toxins as Ransom has a small chapter on vaccina- well as pharmaceutical drugs that can cause tion, which is increasingly seen as the pre- the very diseases they are supposed to pre- ferred medical intervention to control these vent. He reminds us that we are part of the supposed "killer" epidemics. He exposes solution to these problems with the choices the flaws in the science and its logic, and we make. Reducing our exposure to toxins, urges us to return to basics and common eating organic foods and applying correct sense. Some of the other "epidemics" and food-combining principles are some of the "antidotes" he covers are swine flu, BSE changes we can make if we want to take (and its link to organophosphate pesticides), _ control of our own health and power. PLAGUE, PESTILENCE AND THE PURSUIT OF POWER by Steven Ransom Credence Publications, UK, 2001 ISBN 0-9535012-8-0 (209pp tpb) Price: A$32.95; A$36.95 to NZ; £15.00; US$22.00; C$37.50 Availability: Aust/NZ/UK/USA— Credence Publications ast issue we ran an extract from Steven Ransom's book, but it didn't cover his key argument: that many outbreaks of "highly infectious" or "deadly" human and animal diseases are "politically manufac- tured" epidemics or "psycho plagues", delib- erately imposed by Big Business and/or Big Government with help from the Big Media. One obvious case is the 2001 foot and mouth disease (FMD) "outbreak" in the UK—a disease which affected animals can recover from if given enough time. Ransom points out many of the inconsistencies and deceptions concerning official diagnosis, science, testing, media statements and meth- ods of dealing with FMD and the farmers— so many that he concludes there were other, more subversive agendas afoot. Such as to force Britain to conform to the EU's agricul- tural plan by breaking up small-holder live- stock farming. And to swell the coffers of the pharmaceutical drug companies who are never short of a "disease" requiring a drug or a vaccine to treat something that very likely has an environmental cause. Ransom has a small chapter on vaccina- tion, which is increasingly seen as the pre- ferred medical intervention to control these supposed "killer" epidemics. He exposes the flaws in the science and its logic, and urges us to return to basics and common sense. Some of the other "epidemics" and "antidotes" he covers are swine flu, BSE (and its link to organophosphate pesticides), JUNE — JULY 2002 NEXUS = 75 www.nexusmagazine.com