[Occupymendocino] Shocking Report from Medical Insiders

[Richard Karch]

> More on fraudulent science.  Why should we trust scientists and science?
> In view of the push on this list about how safe GMOs are, the following is
> germane. Read this:
> 
> A shocking admission by the editor of the world’s most respected medical
> journal, The Lancet, has been virtually ignored by the mainstream media.
> Dr. Richard Horton, Editor-in-chief of the Lancet recently published a
> statement declaring that a shocking amount of published research is
> unreliable at best, if not completely false, as in, fraudulent.
> 
> Horton declared, “Much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may
> simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny
> effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest,
> together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious
> importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness.”
> 
> To state the point in other words, Horton states bluntly that major
> pharmaceutical companies falsify or manipulate tests on the health, safety
> and effectiveness of their various drugs by taking samples too small to be
> statistically meaningful or hiring test labs or scientists where the lab or
> scientist has blatant conflicts of interest such as pleasing the drug
> company to get further grants. At least half of all such tests are
> worthless or worse he claims. As the drugs have a major effect on the
> health of millions of consumers, the manipulation amounts to criminal
> dereliction and malfeasance.
> 
> The drug industry-sponsored studies Horton refers to develop commercial
> drugs or vaccines to supposedly help people, used to train medical staff,
> to educate medical students and more.
> 
> Horton wrote his shocking comments after attending a symposium on the
> reproducibility and reliability of biomedical research at the Wellcome
> Trust in London. He noted the confidentiality or “Chatham House” rules
> where attendees are forbidden to name names: “‘A lot of what is published
> is incorrect.’ I’m not allowed to say who made this remark because we were
> asked to observe Chatham House rules. We were also asked not to take
> photographs of slides.”
> 
> Other voices
> 
> Dr. Marcia Angell is a physician and was longtime Editor-in-Chief of the
> New England Medical Journal (NEMJ), considered to be another one of the
> most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals in the world. Angell stated,
> 
> “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research
> that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or
> authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion,
> which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of
> the New England Journal of Medicine.”
> 
> Harvey Marcovitch, who has studied and written about the corruption of
> medical tests and publication in medical journals, writes, “studies showing
> positive outcomes for a drug or device under consideration are more likely
> to be published than ‘negative’ studies; editors are partly to blame for
> this but so are commercial sponsors, whose methodologically well-conducted
> studies with unfavorable results tended not to see the light of day…”
> 
> At the University of British Columbia’s Neural Dynamics Research Group in
> the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Dr Lucija Tomljenovic
> obtained documents that showed that, “vaccine manufacturers, pharmaceutical
> companies, and health authorities have known about multiple dangers
> associated with vaccines but chose to withhold them from the public. This
> is scientific fraud, and their complicity suggests that this practice
> continues to this day.”
> 
> Lancet’s Dr. Horton concludes, “Those who have the power to act seem to
> think somebody else should act first. And every positive action (eg,
> funding well-powered replications) has a counter-argument (science will
> become less creative). The good news is that science is beginning to take
> some of its worst failings very seriously. The bad news is that nobody is
> ready to take the first step to clean up the system.
> 
> Corruption of the medical industry worldwide is a huge issue, perhaps more
> dangerous than the threat of all wars combined. Do we have such hypnosis
> and blind faith in our doctors simply because of their white coats that we
> believe they are infallible? And, in turn, do they have such blind faith in
> the medical journals recommending a given new wonder medicine or vaccine
> that they rush to give the drugs or vaccines without considering these
> deeper issues?
> 
> F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a
> degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author
> on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern
> Outlook”.
> Comment: Finally, finally, we have some deep acknowledgement from
> establishment science of what others in the alternative health field have
> been saying, literally, for decades – and have become vilified for. The
> run-away train that has become modern medicine and science has, and will,
> destroy the life of many millions. Its time that the people of conscience
> in this field take a much stronger stand.
> Source: New Eastern Outlook, 18 June 2015
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