The 50 year war on cancer was a joke and still is. There is no way the drug industry is going to come up with a cure and give up their cushy domain of inventing very high priced cancer drugs that promise the world and deliver nothing better than the last drug (except higher profits).
We do not need more drugs for anything. What we really need is intensive study of what causes disease and sickness. What is causing cancer? Diabetes? Heart disease? Modern medicine is one huge failure based on giving more and more drugs to a patient. It seldom considers the causes and that is where we need to focus. Then the drug industry would all but vanish and millions would be saved from being drugged to death...every year!
That is why I am staying away from the medical system as much as possible. Many of real doctors of old were healers, not drug pushers. And that is why the AMA, big pharma and other groups have all but decimated their existence. There are just as many quacks in modern medicine as there ever were in pre-modern medicine.
I'm a mushroom foraging fan: and I love my mushrooms. Some allegedly have all kinds of amazing properties: anti-oxidant, cancer busting, you name it.
But there is a clear problem: most mushroom foragers spend many days a year walking through lovely woods and pastures searching out our favourite delicacies: and who is to say whether it is the mushroom or the walking that prolongs our lives ;-)
Our son passed away almost 7 years ago after a 4 1/4 year battle with ALL Ph+ leukemia. When he relapsed 1 1/2 years after his first bone marrow transplant, the doctors really did not have any more options for him. We had been reading about the CAR T therapy, and Jason was patient number 24 at Sloan Kettering. That worked for awhile, when he relapsed the second time, I had been studying every possible clinical trial and option.
I found the ASH conference and plenary materials to be some of the most current information.
We went to M.D. Anderson after the second relapse for a trial of Inotuzumab and Bosutnib which put him in remission and got him to a second transplant. He relapsed a few months later, and unfortunately developed a GI bleed which could not be stopped.
While I have learned more of the dark side of clinical trials the last 3 years of Covid, we knew that doctors are usually too busy to know of the most current treatments, and that some of the new treatments are very important.
After Jason passed, we worked with Be The Match to set up the Jason Carter clinical Trial and Search and support program, which helps people find needed treatments and have some financial support to get to them. The trials bring hope and sometimes success and another chance at life.
Thanks honestly is appreciated, having spent 6 years in and out of oncology wards it’s difficult to fathom that this has happened.. and is happening still..,difficult to see that these mongrels would do this to precious kids.. my child.. you have no idea the levels of anger this evokes ..
Up front you noted the key to pervasive biomedical racketeering, about which prescribers are so proud. Not the scary old world chemo being prescribed anymore. Lower cost options don’t let the patient feel special or the prescriber to be a financial hero.
The quiet secret is that the MD is committing their trusting patient to the best possible experience of a disease presumed deadly... so what a deal for $10s of $1000’s per month... symptom free progression. Modern tech!... Symptoms are so suppressed the patient doesn’t know how close to death they are.
What BS. It all makes for Dr applause for being accurate in predications. The newer the product patent the narrower the range of uncertainty about timing and quality of the dying process.
I lost my doctor of a partner to a Canadian atypical chemo treatment for an inferred brain tumour secondary to lung cyst. The secret is that the best pathology equipment still can’t tell you if the tumour containing non-human DNA is really just an intracellular microbial infection. With my partner, we used a radical shift in diet to shrink the tumours 80% in two months while the heroic MD set up government funding to pay for the novel chemo that allowed symptom free progression.
Family agreed with the MD who said the tumour shrinkage was just luck so my partner needed the chemo ‘just for a sense of security’. No need to gamble. People with that (inferred) diagnoses were expected to last 18 months. Brilliant doctors got the funding and then hands off as six different specialists tracked his regrow (progress) through 18 months of having his body silently ruined by the drug. Ok few other real cancer symptoms other than feeling weak with less and less energy... for a perfect 18 months and he was gone.
Perfect prediction. The drug is like the money ball,
If high paid MDs and specialists don’t play the money game and take their role as the person who controls suffering through death, they can be replaced. It’s about the money and predictability ‘baby.’
Sounds like that cancer drug trial has turned up another winner... money making drug that is. But heck, it’s no worse than COVID treatments. Standard protocol.early on defied known medical literature and common sense. Tell people they’ll die if they don’t go to the hospital fast. Overwhelm EDs with people distressed by difficulty breathing. So put them on a ventilator and give them one or two palliative drugs to suppress their distress... and breathing. That was the 2920 protocol. All cause mortality drops, COVID takes the count.
Yep- And we still assume doctors are kind and think beyond their mechanical guidelines. Big emerge pay if you take the Faucian bargain:
Cancer? AIDS? HIV? Heart problems? Sane deal: The inexpensive remedies and effective vaccines have been held off the market. So the worried people asume that COVID is deadly to everyone and the emergency declared by Americans (funding viral patents), is true. Declare a pandemic! Scare the public and doctors. It warrants palliative meds as the basis to care... everybody dies eventually. Suppress breathing so there’s no distress.
The sales of breathing suppressants spiked in parallel with hospital admissions and deaths...and the drug sales creeped up with each less lethal variant so people are still lost because they feel they have to go to hospital.
If you haven’t found the COVID paper publishing that data showing death correlated with use of inappropriately deadly drug regimes... please look it up.
Then tell us again how this isn’t quite what you signed up for as a doctor.
I am sad and horrified by it all... and not sure I am patient anymore with medical pros who keep following deadly money grubbing protocols. Thankful for any conscientious doctors’ expression of concerns. Yet... wonder:
What do you and thoughtful MDs do about it? Start using age-old therapies to reverse conditions by supporting health? Nah... we know there’s no money in it. Gun free peace and widespread health just doesn’t keep universities funded or media stars going, nor keep employed the best minds in the most technologically advanced nation in the world. Just ask Bing or ChatGPT. AI garbage-in-garbage out and we know the predictive tech works. Lets automate treatments that fail to lengthen life, and we can be perfect in our predictions. It’s ‘like’ US HSS and Medicate is a military operation.
Thanks for writing about it. Seriously. Sad it’s new to some, yet the same old since the Flexner Report. 110 years back and big money paid for that report to say doctors responsibility was to families of sick people. MDs need to be able to tell them how their loved one died. If it’s a tumour, they died of cancer... meantime someone can claim to try helping the person by prescribing the drug.
When and how do you say NO?
No liability to admit... there’s a good life for players in the iatrogenic extravaganza. Capitalism at its best! Disease driven discovery in American style patent BioWars. MDs are proud proxy marketers.
this is about the best comment i've ever read. really, thank you. it's tragic that your partner didn't continue with what was working. my late father used to tell a story about an old greek doctor he knew when he was a young man. the doctor saw a patient with advanced cancer and told him there was nothing he could do. the man was comfortable with that prognosis and resolved to live the rest of his life as well as he could.
the family was not happy, however and took their dad to another doctor who put the man on all manner of toxic drugs (this was probably in the 40s) and he died miserably.
i've been reading Dr Prasad for a while now and have watched him grow increasingly disappointed with his profession. bad covid policy certainly hastened the process.
i don't always agree with him but i'm grateful for a mainstream voice that is skeptical and critical.
i have no doubt that the trials that led to the terrible covid mRNA vaccines were as corrupt and absurd as the cancer drug studies he describes. at least the government hasn't mandated yet that we all take "preventative" chemo in order to keep our jobs.
If you have the stomach for further truth. My link was for Part 1 of 2 videos. As an example of how deadly protocols are managed by medical pros -- worrisome protocols are made public and then taken down once doctors have them in hand and follow the top-down plan without questions.
FYI Reference 2 looks at evidence surrounding a protocol that was used on us and our loved ones even in North America, perhaps most obviously in NY State and hotspots calling for more ventilators for Covid, early on. Deaths up in correlation with deadly drugs.
One more follow-up, ever sorry for your, friends' and family's losses.
I appreciate you sharing your experience, especially with such clear, detailed articulation. And I sense we are kindred spirits at so many levels.
6 years younger than you, I feel life is just starting again after losing all family and many long-time close friends to the common Allopathic Burden, as if disease is the bottom line in life for people, not just pandemic profiteering.
How do we make health the common denominator in these socio-economic equations? We talk honestly about the fact that times like WWII taught us that even the guards at death camps did not know what was happening under camp doctors' care... until some started to walk away in the dead of night, warn and help others stay alive as best they could.
Perhaps there's a better future from the Covid collapse involving greater health, learning the merits of very basic, long-time 'traditional" habits to protect people from harm. I have picked up more on the delight in living with good non-toxic nutrition (hard to buy in North American foods especially after industry controls have been let go for the sake of low cost-products driving profits from global domination) plus some time-restricted eating and fasting, and for many of us, the reduction in sugars/carbs/bad oils/fructose etc matched with a boost in regular multi-muscle-group exercise, movement and perhaps life-long learning.
Maybe doctors will silently wake up to the huge spike in deaths of healthy vaccinated people because it includes an extraordinarily large number of spiked doctors (in Canada where the counts are made then covered up). It matters when purveyors of deadly protocols suddenly suffer the same inbuilt atrocities promoted by their profession. These are not dumb people! Emotionally they may be avoiding the trauma. Yet, they are alive now after being forced to comply with jab mandates to stay employed... and then learn that they have healthy peers who lost their life in unexplained sudden deaths.
It's painful realizing how Germans seem to have learned from history as they, today, allow for and fund (for research/learning purposes) autopsies of unexplained deaths or situations where families DO want to understand why a healthy kid or adult passed peacefully in their sleep during Covid, and even died after accepting common cancer medications. Then again, the EU allows countries great freedom in making use of the best research they can do. Low dose Homeopathy is allowed not just as some OTC product, but as a therapy practiced by trained doctors. There's different regulations in glyphosate-free Non-GMO food. So people have a chance. And, they have one of the biggest jumps in the world in excess mortality after two years of vaccine programs.
American doctors take the narcissist's defensive stance by pointing at the Germans and saying the excess deaths suggests American doctors are better than their counterparts overseas. And Germans would say, American's can gloat over death counts if they want, but Germans want to understand what is happening in order to save lives, now. Because, surely some N. Americans realize that their fight against a Germany autocrat -- 75 years ago -- does not confer open-ended heroic status on American style business "leaders" today. That is unless we face reality... and start delving into the ways the USA hired into its military research, the smartest German scientists who learned from running controlled euthanasia in the death camps back then.
Eisenhower warned everyone. And the Kennedy family holds out a diverse set of cautionary tales about what is needed to prevent harm. It's all so violent, it's angering and sad. But tell that to the kids next door in VR goggles who are being wired into the delight of believing they are like everyone else, a potential super hero with distinct super powers of their own... dreaming of being invisible after normalizing cartoonlike violence and death.
I wish well-meaning and articulate doctors would take off their mandatory masks, and wear a cape if it helps. But they need to get a real feel and do what is required to STOP the harm when providing care.
After losing my Dad and brother to medications, after saving my first partner from predicted death from pancreatic cancer... I took a year to gain certification in Contemplative End of Life Care, including an extended practicum at a leading local hospital, involving me directly in complex and palliative care.
The "palliative" drugs used during Covid, were generally only used by palliative facilities during the last day of (pre-Covid) life. The facts we N. Americans don't like to hear is that, oncology and other patients with deadly disease and a bad prognosis, USUALLY tend to live longer with better qualities of life, without patented "Life-saving" or cancer-treating drugs. Palliative care that reduces all burdens to support health extends life of a better quality. That is WITHOUT family or doctor focusing on doing what it takes to kill the theoretical disease (embodied by the person). So palliative care (or no disease-focused care) statistically, saves the person who refuses the kill-shot against virus or tumor in the person.
OK, so a few top-level Pharma billionaires and high paid US military/CDC/USAID/NIH officials and their contractors might see a small shrink in their bloated wallet.
But perhaps that are part of humanity who know we are more than disease-defined case files off of which a profit-generating system runs. What if we are complex and adaptive beings with life-long capacities for health (i.e. recovery)?
Either way, can we celebrate you and all those of us who cherish life and resilience, with or without a professional badge to attribute authority?
Well, BECAUSE! We life-loving, healthful people are not really competing with disease-managing pros. Lest we forget, I am no more a disease-ridden case file than my doctor is a vapid pay check. Some of us, even doctors and families know many who want to start conversations as conscious, conscientious beings capable of sharing in the knowing of life and learning with dignity, civility and respect.
Perhaps we can share the heart-felt sense WE ALL relish living, loving and learning experiences to help ourselves and one another.
my distrust of conventional medicine reaches back into early childhood when arguably doctors were way better, less pharma driven, then they are now.
in 1976, my cousin's wife spent a year in a wheelchair with GBS after getting that rushed to market swine flu shot. i fail to see how anyone can miss the metaphor. i've taken my chances with the flu ever since. no amount of data can trump that personal experience.
i only go to integrative, functional, or alternative doctors- people with medical degrees who jumped ship after feeling unfulfilled just pushing drugs, buried under insurance paperwork, and never seeing their patients get better. if i have any bad instincts about a practitioner, i walk. i could never trust a doctor who felt comfortable operating within the corrupt system.
even though i am (forced to be) on medicare, i pay for all my care out of pocket. my medicare is used only for trauma, like when i got hit by a car on february 25, 2020 and that was paid by the driver's insurance.
since i spent the early part of the pandemic in a wheelchair, i hardly noticed that things were shut down. my BF, who had been alternating weeks with me and weeks in NYC working backstage on a Bway show, had stayed down to take care of me and was here when theaters closed. whenever he was in NY, he stayed with my best friend in that apartment she left when she went to die. the last time he saw her was valentine's day and he sent her a friendly card.
after she died, another NY acquaintance called me to commiserate and when she heard the ambient sounds of my neighbors enjoying the evening in their back yard over my speaker phone, she insisted that i report them to the police. that's when i knew that something had really gone off the rails. this woman is jewish and it seems to me that she ought to know a thing or two about neighbors turning in neighbors.
obviously i didn't do it, got off the phone quickly and haven't spoken to her since.
the accident aside, i stay as far away as i can from conventional medicine. i have a little gym on the 3rd fl of my house and i'm up there every morning, lifting weights and taking a spin on a HIIT bike. for christmas, my BF bought us a Bemer which i lay on after the bike.
we have a far infared sauna and a Joovv red light full body panel.
we are lucky to live in an area near really good farms so we get wonderful eggs, meats and vegetables. we compost all our food scraps and keep our raked leaves for carbon. we've just finally redone our backyard and i'll be planting greens and vegetables soon. we have two blueberry bushes and some small citrus trees. my baby lemon tree gave me 24 massive lemons in december. now that the yard is planned out, we'll be planting the trees for real and getting more.
i really believe that you stay in good health by avoiding medicine. you've got to eat really well and move around. no amount of vaccines and medications is going to do it.
as a nation, we pay massive amounts in healthcare (disease management) while any fool can see the population getting sicker, both physically and mentally.
after serving as the costume director for a major arts festival since 1982 (i started with it in 1980 and it was the love of my life, the reason i moved here), i was let go over the vaccine. they were lucky to have me all those years and i guess in the end they didn't deserve me. it's been most disappointing to see the arts volunteer to act as an enforcement arm of bad public health policy.
You have really been through so much, I am sorry to hear of your accident and challenges. Grateful you survived the car accident! You are a beacon of hope. So thank you for describing your experience.
You illustrate how amazingly creative good souls can live with joy and think outside the medicalized system (or should I say need to think and be free to prevent unintended harm).
A lover of live performance (and LIFE), and sad I need to get spiked to travel back to my beloved Broadway or the MOMA and NYC and get home again (I am an American-born Canadian, living in Toronto)... You are saying something evocative here about 'Life is all a stage..."
And it's inspiring that you have seen the light (spectrum of red healing light that is). I could add all sorts of info and lessons I've faced to augment your healing path. But I know that it's not my place to do so here in a comment on a comment etc.
I hope other readers and the dear oncology fellows who must read the original post that brought us together... realize that we provide a very patient testament to the dear doctors' assertion that their peers must do something about their practices.
Because we are mere mortals, yet humans who deserve better than being silenced in our suffering just to put profit from "symptom free" progression in someone else's pocket.
Doctors have to get out of the business of building and reinforcing disease definitions for purposes of performing a partial fix in the guise of a full blown remedy. It's like they have become experts at putting a false face and amazingly normal costume on those suffering or actively trying to be better. No doubt, some work and family life in America is made on the virtues of looks alone, like healthful life is just a costume.
But maybe the current shift to virtual filters and AI deep fakes, along with Covid shutdowns, pandemic profiteering and scientific censorship suggests it's time we value public health authorities and MD pros who walk their talk, knowing we are all human with one precious life that deserves to be valued by those employed to improve the lives of others.
Many thanks to you C. and anyone who can be genuine about the challenges we face, and really care we do right by and for ourselves and one another... before the high priced big wigs are replaced by some bot that does better at regurgitating the fallacies in Biomedical conventions.
my best friend in NYC died on one of those ventilators, 4/1/20. she had very damaged lungs- a fibrotic thing- and had oxygen tanks at home so i believe her odds would have been much better with self care in her own apartment. she really had no chance once they had her. she was probably going to need a lung transplant in 3 years. we argued all the time because i knew her pulmonologist was not helping with steroids, antibiotics and CellCept. why would you put a person with a chronic fibrotic lung condition on a ventilator?
i always advocated for a more primal anti-inflammatory diet or a fasting protocol to reboot the immune system. i was able to get her interested in the work of Walter Longo, frankly because he was a hot italian with full lips. but she always had an excuse for why she couldn't fast.
in the end, she was feeling ok but had a fever and wanted a covid test. her doctor didn't have any and suggested she try a walk in clinic. they didn't have any either. she lived about 2 blocks from Columbia Presbyterian in Washington Heights so she walked there in search of a covid test. they had a ventilator with her name on it. i didn't see her last text until i woke up the next morning. i would have tried with every fiber of my being to talk her into going home, even if she hated me for it.
it was really so silly- in the olden days (2019) if you had sniffles and sneezing, you'd say "i have a cold." and if you had body aches and fever, you'd say "i have the flu."
you never got yourself tested to see what variant of cold or flu you had. if she had had a mild fever but felt otherwise fine in 2019, she would have heated up some chicken soup and stayed home for a few days. because of the covid 24/7 fear push, she felt compelled to find a test which is what killed her.
thank you for the link. i will watch.
ps- her sister and i talked everyday when my friend was in the hospital and frequently after she died. she had the same lung disease but reported feeling better during the pandemic because she and her husband had to let go of their cleaning lady; she was doing the cleaning and the exercise seemed to help her. she did, however, desperately want the vaccine and the city sent a health care worker over to administer the J&J.
within a month, she was in the hospital on a vent for 4 days. when they brought her to, she called me and expressed shock that she now had upper right chamber heart damage. of course, bad lungs eventually lead to heart failure- at least if you follow the conventional road map- but she had no knowledge or symptoms of any heart issues until after the vaccine and called an ambulance to take her to the hospital. well, you can imagine what i'm thinking. she put me on speaker phone and i could hear the doctor urging her to sign a DNR, which she would not do. a few days later she was dead.
her sister, who died without a will, left the family's classic 6 UWS co-op apartment. it remains to this day exactly as it was when she left it on 3/17/20 except for her two cats, which were adopted into new homes.
I am sorry to hear of your experience. We suffer loss or death by giving control over health "care" to MDs who can only uphold generic protocols designed for control, predictability and medicalized expediency. Qualified medical professionals are those people who uphold top-down standards of conventional care. That is disease-management. It's not health, let alone low harm to protect natural immunity and inner resilience.
Some states conflate collective, 'healthcare' in terms of the (biomedical) systems that supply services, with person-person ability to work for the person's health, first doing no harm. And then providing individualized diagnoses and treatment (care) in the context of the patient's life.
Yet, Doctors don't have that training other than touting the need within EBM to listen to patient preferences. Presumably less-informed people have feelings that matter. What if EBM and medical professors started with the assumption most people have this feeling that should be the common denominator: They don't want their loved ones or them to be harmed and have their life put at risk by the person supplying procedures in the name of health. So too, patients (services buyers) don't generally want to be duped by the person who is an authority over protocols that suppress responsibility by merely suppressing symptoms without preventing, slowing (or often hastening) death.
People might feel they want -- even expect -- honesty from their MD or the specialist called in to make a pronouncement about proper protocol.
The truly horrific thing is that the same set of fallacies occur when we North AMERICANS ponder the idea that proper medicines are only those most recent products under patent that confer health related powers to those "in the know". For example, in the last couple of years, we have all seen injectable immunity based on a doctors' varied symptom categorization of cough, respiratory and flulike symptoms as this suddenly new virus with astonishingly deadly qualities. Immunity IS conferred... to the doctor, hospital, and the suppliers for any liability from harm... before anyone is willing to deliver proof of safety, efficacy or need by the recipient. There is no proof yet. There's authority and plausible deniability in causing deadly outcomes from coerced diagnoses and costly treatment.
MDs didn't even step up to take responsibility for injections in most countries. There was no truly informed or even written consent from product recipients, in many states. Military authorities hand directions down to HHS, and systems in the biomedical economy where qualified (conventional-compliant) doctors are given legal authority, but pass off real responsibility to nurses, technicians and other practitioners MDs manage. In principle, it's the same strategy for plausible deniability by judicial and public authorities in those states that allow Capital Punishment. It's not the Warden who does the lethal injection but his two or three underlings who each play a small (individually-non-lethal) act. It's an organized collective and institutionalized authority without personal responsibility.
There something odd going on with the notion of the doctor-patient partnership at the point both support false ideas that these profitable products need to work for the person, before sale en-masse as the standard of care. There are no questions to ask when the person can be both categorized for treatment and treated categorically by well-paid and assuredly compliant doctors, researchers, and voices "for" public health. The job is really about coordinating industry in the name of health under the top-down authority of the Military Joint Chiefs. Academia is mostly funded from the unaudited military budgets that surpass all other US spending.
Cancer, HIV (never accepted by WHO as THE precursor to AIDS diagnoses up until 2013 when the US government withdrew funding for WHO... and had Bill Gates step in with his foundation)... and now Covid. Fauci and crew gave President Trump the perfect branding for global medicine at that point, to bring Americans together in the next WAR ON... THE INVISIBLE ENEMY. It's an idea that gets big funding. THE WAR ON CANCER. THE WAR ON HIV-AIDS. etc. Protocols really stay afloat just above the water line that might better be described as controlled euthanasia.
Recent references from the UK where one group dared to wonder and reveal what has gone on in the last two years: Palliative Care dressed up as Healthcare:
We can not say for sure that it's controlled forms of theoretically euthanasia behind the medical mask of 'best trained' and 'public health" authority.
My heart goes out to everyone who is different in all regards, even to themselves one moment to the next, who wants to believe that global standards in product performance, and disease-driven discovery is going to promote health, resilience and life.
I dare wish you and the dear author, only the best. Learning may precede meaningful action. Yet, doctors remaining at teaching hospitals have to realize what end is up when it comes to conventions. The up end for patients doesn't correlate with high pay for their doctor.
My own doctor retired early rather than asking people vulnerable to treatments or jabs, to comply with conventions. My own doctor and one other came under board review and endless audits by their "peers" for saving lives from deadly forms and stages of "cancer" by using medications not part of the oncology patent regime.
It's tough in America. Doctors lives and livelihoods are threatened into silent dutiful work for big pay. But maybe now is the time for some to show more courage and fully speak the truth, to begin changing from within, the costly and deadly system driving pain-free profits in the world. Maybe there is room for conventions to embrace life, harm prevention and health promotion for individual women, men, boys and girls... not just the conception at the moment of fertilized egg.
Dare I say, I wish health, happiness, humane and compassionate care, and resources for LIFE to dear readers, writers and medical peers, who are after all humans too.
As the adult son of a surgeon with a 40 year career and counting I'm beginning to think that most drug-based treatments are a scam. I'm not talking about antibiotics and well-worn medications but rather all of these 'innovative" drugs.
I am only involved in medicine as a software engineer and data analyst.
Am I correct that while cancers have decreased slightly since smoking was canceled that despite that small reduction the overall increase in cancer since the late 1700’ has been astronomical? Is it true that the few hunter gatherer tribes left have almost no cancer?
I think we are barking up the wrong tree looking for a pharmacopeia solution. The cure for cancer is staring at us from the pot roast.
Reading that as well...and was going to ask the same!!!! Covid has torn off the blindfold...I feel like I can only trust those who can see the deception.
Great post. When your intellectual prodding evokes retaliatory lashing out, it’s cuz you hit on one of their “tender points”. I’d keep pushing, and harder.
I echo Dr. Schaeffer’s comment (and of course Dr. Mandrola has made this point eloquently on numerous occasions). New drugs (or therapies) need to show benefits in “real” clinical outcomes, and not just in meaningless surrogate endpoints. This is becoming a recurring issue in cardiology as well.
It means even more trials (and therapies) will fail to pass that test. That does have implications for encouraging industry investment. Perhaps the reward (eg. Patent protection) for a truly game changing therapy needs to be more substantial. I don’t know the answer. But the status quo is most troubling.
Ditto for many Cardiology trials. After enduring several head-scratching conclusions and overtly biased and flawed trials, I cancelled my subscription to NEJM. The Boston school masking study was the final straw.
So where do we go now? When will Sensible Medicine begin offering to publishing original, well-done or at least honest trials?
The 50 year war on cancer was a joke and still is. There is no way the drug industry is going to come up with a cure and give up their cushy domain of inventing very high priced cancer drugs that promise the world and deliver nothing better than the last drug (except higher profits).
We do not need more drugs for anything. What we really need is intensive study of what causes disease and sickness. What is causing cancer? Diabetes? Heart disease? Modern medicine is one huge failure based on giving more and more drugs to a patient. It seldom considers the causes and that is where we need to focus. Then the drug industry would all but vanish and millions would be saved from being drugged to death...every year!
That is why I am staying away from the medical system as much as possible. Many of real doctors of old were healers, not drug pushers. And that is why the AMA, big pharma and other groups have all but decimated their existence. There are just as many quacks in modern medicine as there ever were in pre-modern medicine.
Follow the money. Always follow the money!
I'm a mushroom foraging fan: and I love my mushrooms. Some allegedly have all kinds of amazing properties: anti-oxidant, cancer busting, you name it.
But there is a clear problem: most mushroom foragers spend many days a year walking through lovely woods and pastures searching out our favourite delicacies: and who is to say whether it is the mushroom or the walking that prolongs our lives ;-)
Thank you for speaking up
Dr. Prasad, why would vaccine trials be any different? all medicine is corrupted by money
Our son passed away almost 7 years ago after a 4 1/4 year battle with ALL Ph+ leukemia. When he relapsed 1 1/2 years after his first bone marrow transplant, the doctors really did not have any more options for him. We had been reading about the CAR T therapy, and Jason was patient number 24 at Sloan Kettering. That worked for awhile, when he relapsed the second time, I had been studying every possible clinical trial and option.
I found the ASH conference and plenary materials to be some of the most current information.
We went to M.D. Anderson after the second relapse for a trial of Inotuzumab and Bosutnib which put him in remission and got him to a second transplant. He relapsed a few months later, and unfortunately developed a GI bleed which could not be stopped.
While I have learned more of the dark side of clinical trials the last 3 years of Covid, we knew that doctors are usually too busy to know of the most current treatments, and that some of the new treatments are very important.
After Jason passed, we worked with Be The Match to set up the Jason Carter clinical Trial and Search and support program, which helps people find needed treatments and have some financial support to get to them. The trials bring hope and sometimes success and another chance at life.
My 5 1/2 year old step child died of leukemia back in early 1985. It seems like after 35 years, not much has changed. And that is very sad.
Thanks honestly is appreciated, having spent 6 years in and out of oncology wards it’s difficult to fathom that this has happened.. and is happening still..,difficult to see that these mongrels would do this to precious kids.. my child.. you have no idea the levels of anger this evokes ..
Up front you noted the key to pervasive biomedical racketeering, about which prescribers are so proud. Not the scary old world chemo being prescribed anymore. Lower cost options don’t let the patient feel special or the prescriber to be a financial hero.
The quiet secret is that the MD is committing their trusting patient to the best possible experience of a disease presumed deadly... so what a deal for $10s of $1000’s per month... symptom free progression. Modern tech!... Symptoms are so suppressed the patient doesn’t know how close to death they are.
What BS. It all makes for Dr applause for being accurate in predications. The newer the product patent the narrower the range of uncertainty about timing and quality of the dying process.
I lost my doctor of a partner to a Canadian atypical chemo treatment for an inferred brain tumour secondary to lung cyst. The secret is that the best pathology equipment still can’t tell you if the tumour containing non-human DNA is really just an intracellular microbial infection. With my partner, we used a radical shift in diet to shrink the tumours 80% in two months while the heroic MD set up government funding to pay for the novel chemo that allowed symptom free progression.
Family agreed with the MD who said the tumour shrinkage was just luck so my partner needed the chemo ‘just for a sense of security’. No need to gamble. People with that (inferred) diagnoses were expected to last 18 months. Brilliant doctors got the funding and then hands off as six different specialists tracked his regrow (progress) through 18 months of having his body silently ruined by the drug. Ok few other real cancer symptoms other than feeling weak with less and less energy... for a perfect 18 months and he was gone.
Perfect prediction. The drug is like the money ball,
If high paid MDs and specialists don’t play the money game and take their role as the person who controls suffering through death, they can be replaced. It’s about the money and predictability ‘baby.’
Sounds like that cancer drug trial has turned up another winner... money making drug that is. But heck, it’s no worse than COVID treatments. Standard protocol.early on defied known medical literature and common sense. Tell people they’ll die if they don’t go to the hospital fast. Overwhelm EDs with people distressed by difficulty breathing. So put them on a ventilator and give them one or two palliative drugs to suppress their distress... and breathing. That was the 2920 protocol. All cause mortality drops, COVID takes the count.
Yep- And we still assume doctors are kind and think beyond their mechanical guidelines. Big emerge pay if you take the Faucian bargain:
Cancer? AIDS? HIV? Heart problems? Sane deal: The inexpensive remedies and effective vaccines have been held off the market. So the worried people asume that COVID is deadly to everyone and the emergency declared by Americans (funding viral patents), is true. Declare a pandemic! Scare the public and doctors. It warrants palliative meds as the basis to care... everybody dies eventually. Suppress breathing so there’s no distress.
The sales of breathing suppressants spiked in parallel with hospital admissions and deaths...and the drug sales creeped up with each less lethal variant so people are still lost because they feel they have to go to hospital.
If you haven’t found the COVID paper publishing that data showing death correlated with use of inappropriately deadly drug regimes... please look it up.
Then tell us again how this isn’t quite what you signed up for as a doctor.
I am sad and horrified by it all... and not sure I am patient anymore with medical pros who keep following deadly money grubbing protocols. Thankful for any conscientious doctors’ expression of concerns. Yet... wonder:
What do you and thoughtful MDs do about it? Start using age-old therapies to reverse conditions by supporting health? Nah... we know there’s no money in it. Gun free peace and widespread health just doesn’t keep universities funded or media stars going, nor keep employed the best minds in the most technologically advanced nation in the world. Just ask Bing or ChatGPT. AI garbage-in-garbage out and we know the predictive tech works. Lets automate treatments that fail to lengthen life, and we can be perfect in our predictions. It’s ‘like’ US HSS and Medicate is a military operation.
Thanks for writing about it. Seriously. Sad it’s new to some, yet the same old since the Flexner Report. 110 years back and big money paid for that report to say doctors responsibility was to families of sick people. MDs need to be able to tell them how their loved one died. If it’s a tumour, they died of cancer... meantime someone can claim to try helping the person by prescribing the drug.
When and how do you say NO?
No liability to admit... there’s a good life for players in the iatrogenic extravaganza. Capitalism at its best! Disease driven discovery in American style patent BioWars. MDs are proud proxy marketers.
Go Dog Go.
(And still, thank you for your writing).
this is about the best comment i've ever read. really, thank you. it's tragic that your partner didn't continue with what was working. my late father used to tell a story about an old greek doctor he knew when he was a young man. the doctor saw a patient with advanced cancer and told him there was nothing he could do. the man was comfortable with that prognosis and resolved to live the rest of his life as well as he could.
the family was not happy, however and took their dad to another doctor who put the man on all manner of toxic drugs (this was probably in the 40s) and he died miserably.
i've been reading Dr Prasad for a while now and have watched him grow increasingly disappointed with his profession. bad covid policy certainly hastened the process.
i don't always agree with him but i'm grateful for a mainstream voice that is skeptical and critical.
i have no doubt that the trials that led to the terrible covid mRNA vaccines were as corrupt and absurd as the cancer drug studies he describes. at least the government hasn't mandated yet that we all take "preventative" chemo in order to keep our jobs.
Carolyn: Happy President's Day.
If you have the stomach for further truth. My link was for Part 1 of 2 videos. As an example of how deadly protocols are managed by medical pros -- worrisome protocols are made public and then taken down once doctors have them in hand and follow the top-down plan without questions.
FYI Reference 2 looks at evidence surrounding a protocol that was used on us and our loved ones even in North America, perhaps most obviously in NY State and hotspots calling for more ventilators for Covid, early on. Deaths up in correlation with deadly drugs.
https://youtu.be/GEwktv-AGEw
Stay safe. Well, take care.
ah, thank you. i love Dr. Campbell and watch many of his videos. when you order all that Midazolam, you gotta use it
Oh dear, Carolyn.
One more follow-up, ever sorry for your, friends' and family's losses.
I appreciate you sharing your experience, especially with such clear, detailed articulation. And I sense we are kindred spirits at so many levels.
6 years younger than you, I feel life is just starting again after losing all family and many long-time close friends to the common Allopathic Burden, as if disease is the bottom line in life for people, not just pandemic profiteering.
How do we make health the common denominator in these socio-economic equations? We talk honestly about the fact that times like WWII taught us that even the guards at death camps did not know what was happening under camp doctors' care... until some started to walk away in the dead of night, warn and help others stay alive as best they could.
Perhaps there's a better future from the Covid collapse involving greater health, learning the merits of very basic, long-time 'traditional" habits to protect people from harm. I have picked up more on the delight in living with good non-toxic nutrition (hard to buy in North American foods especially after industry controls have been let go for the sake of low cost-products driving profits from global domination) plus some time-restricted eating and fasting, and for many of us, the reduction in sugars/carbs/bad oils/fructose etc matched with a boost in regular multi-muscle-group exercise, movement and perhaps life-long learning.
Maybe doctors will silently wake up to the huge spike in deaths of healthy vaccinated people because it includes an extraordinarily large number of spiked doctors (in Canada where the counts are made then covered up). It matters when purveyors of deadly protocols suddenly suffer the same inbuilt atrocities promoted by their profession. These are not dumb people! Emotionally they may be avoiding the trauma. Yet, they are alive now after being forced to comply with jab mandates to stay employed... and then learn that they have healthy peers who lost their life in unexplained sudden deaths.
It's painful realizing how Germans seem to have learned from history as they, today, allow for and fund (for research/learning purposes) autopsies of unexplained deaths or situations where families DO want to understand why a healthy kid or adult passed peacefully in their sleep during Covid, and even died after accepting common cancer medications. Then again, the EU allows countries great freedom in making use of the best research they can do. Low dose Homeopathy is allowed not just as some OTC product, but as a therapy practiced by trained doctors. There's different regulations in glyphosate-free Non-GMO food. So people have a chance. And, they have one of the biggest jumps in the world in excess mortality after two years of vaccine programs.
American doctors take the narcissist's defensive stance by pointing at the Germans and saying the excess deaths suggests American doctors are better than their counterparts overseas. And Germans would say, American's can gloat over death counts if they want, but Germans want to understand what is happening in order to save lives, now. Because, surely some N. Americans realize that their fight against a Germany autocrat -- 75 years ago -- does not confer open-ended heroic status on American style business "leaders" today. That is unless we face reality... and start delving into the ways the USA hired into its military research, the smartest German scientists who learned from running controlled euthanasia in the death camps back then.
Eisenhower warned everyone. And the Kennedy family holds out a diverse set of cautionary tales about what is needed to prevent harm. It's all so violent, it's angering and sad. But tell that to the kids next door in VR goggles who are being wired into the delight of believing they are like everyone else, a potential super hero with distinct super powers of their own... dreaming of being invisible after normalizing cartoonlike violence and death.
I wish well-meaning and articulate doctors would take off their mandatory masks, and wear a cape if it helps. But they need to get a real feel and do what is required to STOP the harm when providing care.
After losing my Dad and brother to medications, after saving my first partner from predicted death from pancreatic cancer... I took a year to gain certification in Contemplative End of Life Care, including an extended practicum at a leading local hospital, involving me directly in complex and palliative care.
The "palliative" drugs used during Covid, were generally only used by palliative facilities during the last day of (pre-Covid) life. The facts we N. Americans don't like to hear is that, oncology and other patients with deadly disease and a bad prognosis, USUALLY tend to live longer with better qualities of life, without patented "Life-saving" or cancer-treating drugs. Palliative care that reduces all burdens to support health extends life of a better quality. That is WITHOUT family or doctor focusing on doing what it takes to kill the theoretical disease (embodied by the person). So palliative care (or no disease-focused care) statistically, saves the person who refuses the kill-shot against virus or tumor in the person.
OK, so a few top-level Pharma billionaires and high paid US military/CDC/USAID/NIH officials and their contractors might see a small shrink in their bloated wallet.
But perhaps that are part of humanity who know we are more than disease-defined case files off of which a profit-generating system runs. What if we are complex and adaptive beings with life-long capacities for health (i.e. recovery)?
Either way, can we celebrate you and all those of us who cherish life and resilience, with or without a professional badge to attribute authority?
Well, BECAUSE! We life-loving, healthful people are not really competing with disease-managing pros. Lest we forget, I am no more a disease-ridden case file than my doctor is a vapid pay check. Some of us, even doctors and families know many who want to start conversations as conscious, conscientious beings capable of sharing in the knowing of life and learning with dignity, civility and respect.
Perhaps we can share the heart-felt sense WE ALL relish living, loving and learning experiences to help ourselves and one another.
my distrust of conventional medicine reaches back into early childhood when arguably doctors were way better, less pharma driven, then they are now.
in 1976, my cousin's wife spent a year in a wheelchair with GBS after getting that rushed to market swine flu shot. i fail to see how anyone can miss the metaphor. i've taken my chances with the flu ever since. no amount of data can trump that personal experience.
i only go to integrative, functional, or alternative doctors- people with medical degrees who jumped ship after feeling unfulfilled just pushing drugs, buried under insurance paperwork, and never seeing their patients get better. if i have any bad instincts about a practitioner, i walk. i could never trust a doctor who felt comfortable operating within the corrupt system.
even though i am (forced to be) on medicare, i pay for all my care out of pocket. my medicare is used only for trauma, like when i got hit by a car on february 25, 2020 and that was paid by the driver's insurance.
since i spent the early part of the pandemic in a wheelchair, i hardly noticed that things were shut down. my BF, who had been alternating weeks with me and weeks in NYC working backstage on a Bway show, had stayed down to take care of me and was here when theaters closed. whenever he was in NY, he stayed with my best friend in that apartment she left when she went to die. the last time he saw her was valentine's day and he sent her a friendly card.
after she died, another NY acquaintance called me to commiserate and when she heard the ambient sounds of my neighbors enjoying the evening in their back yard over my speaker phone, she insisted that i report them to the police. that's when i knew that something had really gone off the rails. this woman is jewish and it seems to me that she ought to know a thing or two about neighbors turning in neighbors.
obviously i didn't do it, got off the phone quickly and haven't spoken to her since.
the accident aside, i stay as far away as i can from conventional medicine. i have a little gym on the 3rd fl of my house and i'm up there every morning, lifting weights and taking a spin on a HIIT bike. for christmas, my BF bought us a Bemer which i lay on after the bike.
we have a far infared sauna and a Joovv red light full body panel.
we are lucky to live in an area near really good farms so we get wonderful eggs, meats and vegetables. we compost all our food scraps and keep our raked leaves for carbon. we've just finally redone our backyard and i'll be planting greens and vegetables soon. we have two blueberry bushes and some small citrus trees. my baby lemon tree gave me 24 massive lemons in december. now that the yard is planned out, we'll be planting the trees for real and getting more.
i really believe that you stay in good health by avoiding medicine. you've got to eat really well and move around. no amount of vaccines and medications is going to do it.
as a nation, we pay massive amounts in healthcare (disease management) while any fool can see the population getting sicker, both physically and mentally.
after serving as the costume director for a major arts festival since 1982 (i started with it in 1980 and it was the love of my life, the reason i moved here), i was let go over the vaccine. they were lucky to have me all those years and i guess in the end they didn't deserve me. it's been most disappointing to see the arts volunteer to act as an enforcement arm of bad public health policy.
You have really been through so much, I am sorry to hear of your accident and challenges. Grateful you survived the car accident! You are a beacon of hope. So thank you for describing your experience.
You illustrate how amazingly creative good souls can live with joy and think outside the medicalized system (or should I say need to think and be free to prevent unintended harm).
A lover of live performance (and LIFE), and sad I need to get spiked to travel back to my beloved Broadway or the MOMA and NYC and get home again (I am an American-born Canadian, living in Toronto)... You are saying something evocative here about 'Life is all a stage..."
And it's inspiring that you have seen the light (spectrum of red healing light that is). I could add all sorts of info and lessons I've faced to augment your healing path. But I know that it's not my place to do so here in a comment on a comment etc.
I hope other readers and the dear oncology fellows who must read the original post that brought us together... realize that we provide a very patient testament to the dear doctors' assertion that their peers must do something about their practices.
Because we are mere mortals, yet humans who deserve better than being silenced in our suffering just to put profit from "symptom free" progression in someone else's pocket.
Doctors have to get out of the business of building and reinforcing disease definitions for purposes of performing a partial fix in the guise of a full blown remedy. It's like they have become experts at putting a false face and amazingly normal costume on those suffering or actively trying to be better. No doubt, some work and family life in America is made on the virtues of looks alone, like healthful life is just a costume.
But maybe the current shift to virtual filters and AI deep fakes, along with Covid shutdowns, pandemic profiteering and scientific censorship suggests it's time we value public health authorities and MD pros who walk their talk, knowing we are all human with one precious life that deserves to be valued by those employed to improve the lives of others.
Many thanks to you C. and anyone who can be genuine about the challenges we face, and really care we do right by and for ourselves and one another... before the high priced big wigs are replaced by some bot that does better at regurgitating the fallacies in Biomedical conventions.
More and more might see the light.
Amen
my best friend in NYC died on one of those ventilators, 4/1/20. she had very damaged lungs- a fibrotic thing- and had oxygen tanks at home so i believe her odds would have been much better with self care in her own apartment. she really had no chance once they had her. she was probably going to need a lung transplant in 3 years. we argued all the time because i knew her pulmonologist was not helping with steroids, antibiotics and CellCept. why would you put a person with a chronic fibrotic lung condition on a ventilator?
i always advocated for a more primal anti-inflammatory diet or a fasting protocol to reboot the immune system. i was able to get her interested in the work of Walter Longo, frankly because he was a hot italian with full lips. but she always had an excuse for why she couldn't fast.
in the end, she was feeling ok but had a fever and wanted a covid test. her doctor didn't have any and suggested she try a walk in clinic. they didn't have any either. she lived about 2 blocks from Columbia Presbyterian in Washington Heights so she walked there in search of a covid test. they had a ventilator with her name on it. i didn't see her last text until i woke up the next morning. i would have tried with every fiber of my being to talk her into going home, even if she hated me for it.
it was really so silly- in the olden days (2019) if you had sniffles and sneezing, you'd say "i have a cold." and if you had body aches and fever, you'd say "i have the flu."
you never got yourself tested to see what variant of cold or flu you had. if she had had a mild fever but felt otherwise fine in 2019, she would have heated up some chicken soup and stayed home for a few days. because of the covid 24/7 fear push, she felt compelled to find a test which is what killed her.
thank you for the link. i will watch.
ps- her sister and i talked everyday when my friend was in the hospital and frequently after she died. she had the same lung disease but reported feeling better during the pandemic because she and her husband had to let go of their cleaning lady; she was doing the cleaning and the exercise seemed to help her. she did, however, desperately want the vaccine and the city sent a health care worker over to administer the J&J.
within a month, she was in the hospital on a vent for 4 days. when they brought her to, she called me and expressed shock that she now had upper right chamber heart damage. of course, bad lungs eventually lead to heart failure- at least if you follow the conventional road map- but she had no knowledge or symptoms of any heart issues until after the vaccine and called an ambulance to take her to the hospital. well, you can imagine what i'm thinking. she put me on speaker phone and i could hear the doctor urging her to sign a DNR, which she would not do. a few days later she was dead.
her sister, who died without a will, left the family's classic 6 UWS co-op apartment. it remains to this day exactly as it was when she left it on 3/17/20 except for her two cats, which were adopted into new homes.
Thank you Carolyn:
I am sorry to hear of your experience. We suffer loss or death by giving control over health "care" to MDs who can only uphold generic protocols designed for control, predictability and medicalized expediency. Qualified medical professionals are those people who uphold top-down standards of conventional care. That is disease-management. It's not health, let alone low harm to protect natural immunity and inner resilience.
Some states conflate collective, 'healthcare' in terms of the (biomedical) systems that supply services, with person-person ability to work for the person's health, first doing no harm. And then providing individualized diagnoses and treatment (care) in the context of the patient's life.
Yet, Doctors don't have that training other than touting the need within EBM to listen to patient preferences. Presumably less-informed people have feelings that matter. What if EBM and medical professors started with the assumption most people have this feeling that should be the common denominator: They don't want their loved ones or them to be harmed and have their life put at risk by the person supplying procedures in the name of health. So too, patients (services buyers) don't generally want to be duped by the person who is an authority over protocols that suppress responsibility by merely suppressing symptoms without preventing, slowing (or often hastening) death.
People might feel they want -- even expect -- honesty from their MD or the specialist called in to make a pronouncement about proper protocol.
The truly horrific thing is that the same set of fallacies occur when we North AMERICANS ponder the idea that proper medicines are only those most recent products under patent that confer health related powers to those "in the know". For example, in the last couple of years, we have all seen injectable immunity based on a doctors' varied symptom categorization of cough, respiratory and flulike symptoms as this suddenly new virus with astonishingly deadly qualities. Immunity IS conferred... to the doctor, hospital, and the suppliers for any liability from harm... before anyone is willing to deliver proof of safety, efficacy or need by the recipient. There is no proof yet. There's authority and plausible deniability in causing deadly outcomes from coerced diagnoses and costly treatment.
MDs didn't even step up to take responsibility for injections in most countries. There was no truly informed or even written consent from product recipients, in many states. Military authorities hand directions down to HHS, and systems in the biomedical economy where qualified (conventional-compliant) doctors are given legal authority, but pass off real responsibility to nurses, technicians and other practitioners MDs manage. In principle, it's the same strategy for plausible deniability by judicial and public authorities in those states that allow Capital Punishment. It's not the Warden who does the lethal injection but his two or three underlings who each play a small (individually-non-lethal) act. It's an organized collective and institutionalized authority without personal responsibility.
There something odd going on with the notion of the doctor-patient partnership at the point both support false ideas that these profitable products need to work for the person, before sale en-masse as the standard of care. There are no questions to ask when the person can be both categorized for treatment and treated categorically by well-paid and assuredly compliant doctors, researchers, and voices "for" public health. The job is really about coordinating industry in the name of health under the top-down authority of the Military Joint Chiefs. Academia is mostly funded from the unaudited military budgets that surpass all other US spending.
Cancer, HIV (never accepted by WHO as THE precursor to AIDS diagnoses up until 2013 when the US government withdrew funding for WHO... and had Bill Gates step in with his foundation)... and now Covid. Fauci and crew gave President Trump the perfect branding for global medicine at that point, to bring Americans together in the next WAR ON... THE INVISIBLE ENEMY. It's an idea that gets big funding. THE WAR ON CANCER. THE WAR ON HIV-AIDS. etc. Protocols really stay afloat just above the water line that might better be described as controlled euthanasia.
Recent references from the UK where one group dared to wonder and reveal what has gone on in the last two years: Palliative Care dressed up as Healthcare:
FYI: https://youtu.be/3BqbVo2sQi0
We can not say for sure that it's controlled forms of theoretically euthanasia behind the medical mask of 'best trained' and 'public health" authority.
My heart goes out to everyone who is different in all regards, even to themselves one moment to the next, who wants to believe that global standards in product performance, and disease-driven discovery is going to promote health, resilience and life.
I dare wish you and the dear author, only the best. Learning may precede meaningful action. Yet, doctors remaining at teaching hospitals have to realize what end is up when it comes to conventions. The up end for patients doesn't correlate with high pay for their doctor.
My own doctor retired early rather than asking people vulnerable to treatments or jabs, to comply with conventions. My own doctor and one other came under board review and endless audits by their "peers" for saving lives from deadly forms and stages of "cancer" by using medications not part of the oncology patent regime.
It's tough in America. Doctors lives and livelihoods are threatened into silent dutiful work for big pay. But maybe now is the time for some to show more courage and fully speak the truth, to begin changing from within, the costly and deadly system driving pain-free profits in the world. Maybe there is room for conventions to embrace life, harm prevention and health promotion for individual women, men, boys and girls... not just the conception at the moment of fertilized egg.
Dare I say, I wish health, happiness, humane and compassionate care, and resources for LIFE to dear readers, writers and medical peers, who are after all humans too.
You are the courageous MDs we need more of. Lead on...with conviction in the fact that you are supported and loved!!
As the adult son of a surgeon with a 40 year career and counting I'm beginning to think that most drug-based treatments are a scam. I'm not talking about antibiotics and well-worn medications but rather all of these 'innovative" drugs.
I am only involved in medicine as a software engineer and data analyst.
Am I correct that while cancers have decreased slightly since smoking was canceled that despite that small reduction the overall increase in cancer since the late 1700’ has been astronomical? Is it true that the few hunter gatherer tribes left have almost no cancer?
I think we are barking up the wrong tree looking for a pharmacopeia solution. The cure for cancer is staring at us from the pot roast.
And what of Jim Tippens cancer protocol therapy that is based on Fenbendazole treatment with various supplements?
Is anyone aware of this? Is it valid information?
Has anyone seen the new Substack entitled "Fenbendazole Can Cure Cancer" with all it's documentated case studies of cancer cures?
Is there any validity to the claims made on this Substack?
Apparently the similar anti-parasitic Ivermectin also has the capacity to cure cancer. Does anyone know anything about this?
Reading that as well...and was going to ask the same!!!! Covid has torn off the blindfold...I feel like I can only trust those who can see the deception.
Great post. When your intellectual prodding evokes retaliatory lashing out, it’s cuz you hit on one of their “tender points”. I’d keep pushing, and harder.
I echo Dr. Schaeffer’s comment (and of course Dr. Mandrola has made this point eloquently on numerous occasions). New drugs (or therapies) need to show benefits in “real” clinical outcomes, and not just in meaningless surrogate endpoints. This is becoming a recurring issue in cardiology as well.
It means even more trials (and therapies) will fail to pass that test. That does have implications for encouraging industry investment. Perhaps the reward (eg. Patent protection) for a truly game changing therapy needs to be more substantial. I don’t know the answer. But the status quo is most troubling.
Ditto for many Cardiology trials. After enduring several head-scratching conclusions and overtly biased and flawed trials, I cancelled my subscription to NEJM. The Boston school masking study was the final straw.
So where do we go now? When will Sensible Medicine begin offering to publishing original, well-done or at least honest trials?
Thank you. Please stick to this thinking.
There are many of us out here who are with you and when doctors finally see it they cannot un-see it. God bless you and sorry for your losses.
And you don’t see the similar problems and manipulations in the “official” ivermectin trials?
i've seen several friends with really bad covid turn around over night using the horse paste version