MODERN MEDICINE'S DECEIT & WHY I
ABANDONED IT
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Shane Ellison M. Sc.
August 20, 2005
NewsWithViews.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.
I
n the pharmaceutical industry, making
money supercedes science. Science no longer prevails in medicine. 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
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
Forward thinking chemists recognize the deadly trend. But
few have the luxury of speaking out or resigning. The majority of chemists in
the
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.
Footnotes:
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,
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
© 2005 Shane Ellison - All Rights Reserved
Shane holds a Master’s degree in organic chemistry and has
first-hand industry experience with drug research, design and synthesis. He
understands that Americans want and deserve education
rather than prescriptions. His shocking ebook
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E-Mail: shane@health-fx.net
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.