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the rates of autism have suddenly exploded without an obvious Maryland, has shown that he was right."' reason. Interestingly, there is no autism in Amish children, who In addition, the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine has just are generally not vaccinated. In addition, vaccinated children published a double-blind, randomised clinical trial showing that have about 150 per cent more neurological disorders such as HIV-positive patients given supplemental nutrients can stop their ADHD and autism compared to unvaccinated children.* decline into AIDS.** This poses a big threat to the Another curious aspect of vaccine safety statistics was medical—pharmaceutical complex and is one more reason not to highlighted by Dr Archie Kalokerinos.* Working in the remote index this journal on Medline. Australian outback with Aboriginal people, he found that every There exists a systemic culture of suppression of dissenting second child died as a result of vaccinations. Because deaths views in science and medicine, and frequently a vicious commonly occurred about three weeks after vaccination, they persecution with "Gestapo-like" methods.“ Recently in the were not recorded as vaccine related; officially, reactions were USA, a mother was even imprisoned and brutalised for illegally limited to occurring only for up to two weeks after vaccination. using natural methods to cure her son of malignant melanoma.* However, Dr Kalokerinos eventually solved the problem by Of course, this assault by the medical—pharmaceutical complex giving babies high doses of vitamin C before vaccinations, and no on natural healing methods is not illegal. On the contrary, ina more vaccination deaths occurred. Also, SIDS incidence capitalist system the industry has a duty to maximise profits by disappeared. Naturally, he encountered eliminating the competition and generating a ridicule and hostility from his medical steady supply of patients with chronic colleagues, and babies are still dying diseases who can be managed indefinitely needlessly. with drugs. The question is: just why do government Bias against Natural Therapies health authorities make and enforce laws on It has become a habit that any successful behalf of drug medicine and against natural natural cancer remedy or treatment is medicine? Theoretically, they should be quickly outlawed by our health authorities. H impartial and ensure the best outcome for Many natural health practitioners have been The very fact of a high the population. I believe the answer can be dragged before the courts and often rate of chronic disease IN | found in some good lateral thinking by the imprisoned, especially in the area of cancer A pharmaceutical industry. By paying for and treatment.” This is especially regrettable our society attests to the influencing much of the medical education,** because there is no evidence that the inability of the medical “8 it automatically produces health officials methods of orthodox cancer therapy are . who are steeped in pharmaceutical in any way successful.* profession to treat thinking. No bribery is needed, but One of the methods increasingly these diseases health officials always know that there successfully. used to denigrate natural therapies is is a well-paid job waiting if and when for the pharmaceutical industry to they want to retire from government finance shoddy research on natural service. remedies and then proclaim the remedies to be ineffective or harmful. This is only partly intended to influence the general public, but mainly to provide the justification for health authorities to outlaw and greatly restrict natural remedies.” Natural Medicine to the Rescue Health authorities so far have ignored the claims and evidence that natural medicine is the superior form of treatment for chronic and medically incurable diseases. The very fact of a Another strategy is not to list high rate of chronic disease in our favourable vitamin studies in the society attests to the inability of the Medline database which is taxpayer-funded and operated by the medical profession to treat these diseases successfully. I have no US National Library of Medicine. It lists all articles published in doubt that natural medicine could eliminate most chronic diseases medical research journals, and even in Time magazine and within a decade, needing only a few per cent of the money that is Reader's Digest, but not the peer-reviewed Journal of spent on conventional medicine. The knowledge is already Orthomolecular Medicine (http://www.orthomed.org/jom/ _ available; no expensive high-tech research is needed that may or jomlist.htm) which specialises in vitamin research. Now the may not give results some time in the future. British Medical Journal has published a letter about Medline There is a simple, low-cost solution for bringing about the bias,” and this has forced Medline to index articles on Medline healing of our society: bias. However, because all these favourable vitamin studies are 1. Phase out public assistance for pharmaceutical companies not indexed by Medline, proponents of drug medicine can claim and their research, and require research to show that a drug is safe that there are no studies which show that vitamins are useful in with long-term use in combination with other common drugs and the treatment of diseases or that they are safe in high doses, and chemicals and with old or fragile patients or, alternatively that it is therefore they seek to restrict them to very low doses. Of course, superior in the long term to available natural treatments. yearly fatalities worldwide due to vitamins are zero; in 2. Make it illegal for pharmaceutical companies to fund comparison, drug fatalities are infinitely higher. medical education or provide drug information, marketing or Thirty years ago, Linus Pauling, PhD, showed that high doses incentives directly to the public or to medical practitioners, or to of vitamin C are beneficial in cancer treatment. This has been employ former health officials. "disproved" by the orthodoxy ever since. But now, a study by Continued on page 77 conventional scientists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, these diseases successfully. 32 = NEXUS Continued on page 77 www.nexusmagazine.com FEBRUARY — MARCH 2008