Medical Science.

Ask yourself if diet or medications are the key to good health.  Quote: "But adhering to just four simple healthy lifestyle factors can have a strong impact on the prevention of chronic diseases: not smoking, not being obese, getting half an hour of exercise a day, and eating more healthily (defined as consuming more fruits, vegetables and whole grains and less meat).  Those four factors alone were found to account for more than three quarters of your risk of chronic disease.  If you manage to tick off all four, you may be able to wipe out more than 90 per cent of your risk of developing diabetes, more than 80 per cent of your risk of having a heart attack, cut by half your risk of having a stroke, and reduce your overall cancer risk by more than a third."   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3466610/How-live-longer-Based-Nobel-Prize-winning-discovery-ultimate-guide-eat-beat-heart-disease-strokes-cancer-Alzheimer-s.html

This item reinforces the notion that far too often we are misled by "experts" who make mistakes with specific warnings based on incomplete information/analysis/study.  Quote: "As I’ve demonstrated in numerous articles, the purported cause of microcephaly, the Zika virus, is completely discredited. There is no science to back it up. In fact, the findings of Brazilian researchers constitute evidence that Zika has nothing to do with microcephaly.  Now we have this: Jerusalem Post (2/2/16), “All eyes on Haifa after damning study results leaked”:  “…preliminary results of a University of Haifa study indicating that exposure of pregnant women in the Haifa area to pollution from the petrochemical industry [including an ammonia factory] caused their babies to be born with heads 20 to 30 percent smaller than average.”  The five-year study is only a quarter of the way done. The preliminary results were leaked, causing an uproar among residents in the city of Haifa, where cancer rates are five times the national average in some neighborhoods."    https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/03/01/leaked-report-petrochemical-pollution-causes-microcephaly-not-zika/

This is a logical follow-on to the previous item. Quote: "Researchers from the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, and Nordic Cochrane Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark have conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between antidepressant treatment and increases in suicidality and aggression. Their study, published in the British Medical Journal, was based on 64,381 pages of clinical reports reveals new information on harms – pharmaceutical antidepressant treatment actually doubles the risk for suicidality in children and adolescents. "    http://healthimpactnews.com/2016/study-big-pharmas-smoking-gun-antidepressants-proven-to-double-suicidality/

This item (along with a goodly number of others) should cause concerns regarding the viability of psychiatry and the medications they prescribe.  Two quotes:  "USA Today, January 26, 2016: “Primary care doctors should screen all adults for depression, an expert panel recommended Tuesday.”  —Let’s screen everybody to find out if they have mental disorders. Let’s diagnose as many people as possible with mental disorders and give them toxic drugs— Wherever you see organized psychiatry operating, you see it trying to expand its domain and its dominance. The Hippocratic Oath to do no harm? Are you kidding?"  And, "New breakthrough research on the functioning of the brain is paying dividends and holds great promise…” Professional gibberish.  It’s all gibberish, all the way down.  Meanwhile, the business model demands drugs for sale.  So even though the  chemical-imbalance nonsense has been discredited, it will continue on as a dead man walking, a zombie.  Big Pharma isn’t going to back off.  Trillions of dollars are at stake.  And in the wake of Aurora, Colorado, Sandy Hook, the Naval Yard, and other mass shootings, the hype is expanding: “we must have new community mental-health centers all over America.”  More fake diagnosis of mental disorders, more devastating drugs.  You want to fight for a right? Fight for the right to refuse medication. Fight for the right of every parent to refuse medication for his/her child."   https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/02/29/taking-apart-psychiatry-fraud-kings-of-the-mind/

Would you consider this a double standard?  Quote: "According to the FBI, around 15,000 people are murdered in the United States each year. Terrorism incidents like the San Bernardino shootings add another few dozen fatalities, and war operations in the Middle East bring additional casualties into the mix.  Yet the number of Americans killed by FDA-approved pharmaceutical drug overdoses dwarfs all those fatalities combined. According to the CDC, there were 43,982 drug overdose deaths in 2013, and over half of those were caused by FDA approved prescription pharma drugs (opioids)."    http://www.naturalnews.com/053168_drug_overdose_deaths_opioids_Big_Pharma_painkillers.html 

Quote: "Pharmaceutical companies are causing biased information to be given to doctors about the efficacy of drugs, causing an epidemic of misinformed practitioners that is “costing hundreds of thousands of lives” across the world, it has been claimed. Speaking to The Independent, Dr Aseem Malhotra, an NHS cardiologist and a trustee of the King’s Fund health think tank, claims there is: “a systemic lack of transparency in the information being given to doctors to prescribe medication, in terms of the benefits of drugs being grossly exaggerated and their side effects under reported in studies”. Dr Malhotra said the prevalence of pharmaceutical companies, which are “profit making businesses” being able to fund studies and drug trials causes biased information to be recorded and reported on in medical journals. This is in turn “creating an epidemic of misinformed doctors,” he said, stressing that the heart of the issue is “corporate interest trumping patient interest”. It is this lack of transparency that harms patients through the adverse side effects of drugs, Dr Malhotra said, citing an FDA report that found adverse events from prescribed medications caused 123,000 deaths in the USA in 2014 and 800,000 serious patient outcomes, which include hospitalisation or potentially causing disability." http://healthimpactnews.com/2016/pharmaceutical-companies-cause-doctors-to-receive-biased-information-about-drugs-costing-hundreds-of-thousands-of-lives/   

This is a concern when confronted with the requirement to be admitted to a hospital or receive medical treatment.  An example: "The conventional medical system has in many ways created just as many, if not more, problems than it has solved. Drugs are vastly overprescribed and misused, and this is particularly true for antibiotics — more than 80 percent of which are used in agriculture to fatten up livestock. This routine practice has resulted in a manmade scourge of antibiotic-resistant disease, which is already rendering previously treatable infections lethal, and may soon turn even minor surgery into a dangerous proposition.  So what can you do to protect yourself? Regarding antibiotics, avoid using them unless absolutely necessary, and remember they don’t work for viral infections. Also opt for organic grass-fed and grass-finished meats, to avoid antibiotic residues and, more importantly, antibiotic-resistant bacteria that could kill you. This is a serious issue, so if you chose to eat meat, make sure it’s clean."     https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/03/joseph-mercola/medical-cover-ups/

Given this bit of history can we believe the hype generated by the medical establishment and media regarding the so called Zika virous?   I sure don't know.    http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/03/04/in-1993-noam-chomsky-delivered-the-zika-secret/

This is a sign of the times. Coercion should never be even remotely applied in a medical setting.   http://healthimpactnews.com/2016/nursing-student-dismissed-for-refusal-to-lie-about-vaccines-has-case-continue-in-court/

This item provides a number of vaccinations the CDC recommends but downplays/ignores adverse side effects. The effects are summarized here.  Quote: "With all the hullabaloo abounding concerning flus and vaccines, we are constantly bombarded by government agencies steering us toward our nearest injection site. But, the question is: are these vaccines safe?  Recently, a newspaper article ran where the CDC (the Centers For Deceit Control and Procrastination)  advised us as to when and which shots to get. In this article, there was no mention of any adverse side effects, with the assumption being that each shot was safe.  What will be presented herein is the CDC’s advice followed by reality."     http://blogs.naturalnews.com/vaccines-two-sides-every-coin/  

Quote: "The FDA now officially belongs to Big Pharma."   http://healthimpactnews.com/2016/the-fda-now-officially-belongs-to-big-pharma/