Re: [Marxism] Abolish the Fucking Hospitals: The leading cause of death and injury in the United States

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Pat Costello wrote:

Other articles in the series promoted chiropractic and homeopathy,claimed that 
effective nutritional methods for treating AIDS were being suppressed, claimed 
that chelation therapy was safe and effective for treating heart disease, and 
endorsed several treatments for cancer that the American Cancer Society 
recommends against. His Web site contains a huge amount of misinformation and 
bad advice.Questionable OfferingsOver the years, Null has marketed a variety of 
supplement products. In the mid-1980s, his catalog included: Guard-Ion (an 
antioxidant formula claimed to help protect athletes from free radicals the 
body can't control), Gary Null's AM-PM Vitamin-Mineral Formula (a 
"revolutionary breakthrough in vitamin preparation" that provides the nutrients 
needed at the best times for the body's anabolic and catabolic activities), 
Candida Complex (to bolster the body's defenses against yeast infection), 
Endurance Factor (containing "all the nutrients and enzymes that have made Bee 
Pollen famous"), Energy Plus (a royal jelly tablet), Rebalancer (a "cleansing 
formulation" for adults exposed to air pollutants, pesticides, or 
preservatives, or who have "internal metabolic imbalances"), CoEnzyme Q10 ("may 
reverse deficiencies and improve organ function, especially in the heart), 
Sport DMG (an N,N Dimethylglycine product to "improve cardiovascular function 
and to enhance thebody's natural immune response system), and Gary Null's 
Immune Nutrients ("to nourish and stimulate immune function, not merely at a 
marginal level of preventing disease and degeneration, but a positive level of 
striving for wellness and excellence, for optimal health").
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The problem I have with all these supposed anti-quackery spoofs is they paint 
with too broad a brush and just reflect the popular culture's sub-conscious and 
uncritical acceptance of mainstream medicine. 

Take Chiropractic, for instance. Hardly unscientific. Insurance pays for it 
these days.  But if you talk to a typical orthopedist he will say its quackery. 
Like he doesn't have a reason to say that based more on turf wars than science? 
I've gotten more positive results from a combination of chiro and massage than 
any number of painkillers prescribed by MD's. Because the former treats the 
symptom and not the cause. The cause being, more often than not, chronically 
tight muscles and-or joint subluxation.  Musculoskeletal pain can be relieved 
much more effectively by so called alternative approaches. But medical doctors 
like to prescribe painkillers until the knife is needed. Can you say unecessary 
expenditures? Can you say the surgeon's laughing all the way to the bank?

Likewise with nutritional advocacy as well as the use of supplements. Hardly 
quackery. But the pharma lobby has got the legislative branch sewed up. Isn't 
there some sort of institutional big money lobby at work here beyond the realm 
of science?

Meanwhile there's this huge fucking elephant in the room called DOCTORS KILL 
THEIR PATIENTS which no one wants to touch with a ten foot pole. 

What the fuck is wrong with you people? Seriously?

I don't give a rat's ass about Null and his anti-aids whacko bullshit. Why 
don't you address the study itself?

Like you said, you know nothing about the other authors. Well why the fuck not? 
Maybe because they're MD's and not easy targets?

And what about the JAMA report? 

Any fucking comments?

Greg








And the blanket dismissal of supplements is also highly suspect. Why don't 
these quackometers look at the pharma industry? Could we have a little more 
critical thinking? 

Why haven't marxists published something similar to Ivan Illich and his work on 
iatrogenesis and medical nemesis? 
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