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medicalcrap

"Medical Crap," a fitting name. This site is about the abuse of medical science (and its effect up the practice of medicine) by corporations, which we all know have profits as their measure of their performance.

#17. QUACKERY

#45 MALE HORMONES

The first 5 articles form a set, with the 5^th contain a summary of the lessons learnt from the first 4.

MEDICINE IS A LOT WORSE THAN WE BELIEVE. IT IS LIKE GOVERNMENT, NOT HOW MUCH HAS BEEN DONE, BUT HOW MUCH OUGHT TO BE DONE. THE HARM SO MEASURED IS ASTRONOMICAL. BILLIONS ARE SPENT ON NEW DRUG TREATMENTS, MANY OF WHICH ARE NOT BETTER THAN EXISTING DRUG TREATMENTS, OR MERELY MARGINALLY BETTER. SUCH A MARGINAL NEW TREATMENT ARE WORSE BECAUSE THEY ARE OFTEN MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE. AND ALL TOO OFTEN THE NEW TREATMENT HAS MORE SIDE EFFECTS THAN THE EXISTING TREATMENT. THE METHOD OF REVIEW, THE FDA, HAS THROUGHOUT ITS HISTORY BEEN AT ITS HIGHEST POSITION DOMINATED BY THOSE WHO HAVE WORKED AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS FOR DRUG COMPANIES. THEIR PRO BUSINESS BIAS COLORS THEIR ACTIONS. AND SINCE THE PASSAGE OF PRESCRIPTION DRUG USER FEE ACT OF 1992, THE FDA RECEIVES $500,000 FOR EACH DRUG THEY APPROVE. CONGRESS HAS PLACED BUSINESS BEFORE ETHICS. WHAT WE GET IS A REFLECTION OF BOTH THE PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE QUALITY OF CONGRESSIONAL SUPERVISION.

THE QUESTION ARISE AS TO WHY DO DOCTORS PRESCRIBE THESE NEW TREATMENTS? SINCE THEY ARE PREVENTED BY LAW FROM OWNING PHARMACIES, THEY DO NOT PROFIT FROM THEIR PRESCRIPTIONS. THEN WHY? THE ARTICLE BELOW CONTAINS ONE OF THE TWO PRINCIPLE CAUSES. SIMPLY PUT, THE DRUG COMPANIES MANIPULATE THE RESULTS OF THEIR RESEARCH--WHICH THEY OWN--TO CREATE ON PAPER RESULTS THAT SHOW THEIR NEW PRODUCT BETTER THAN THEIR COMPETITIOR'S EXISTING PRODUCT. SINCE THERE IS NO OTHER SOURCE OF EVIDENCE, THE DOCTOR HAS TO RELY UPON THE DRUG MANUFACTURES PUBLISHED RESULTS, THOUGH HE KNOWS THE RESULTS HAVE BEEN EXAGERATED. INDEPTENDENT RESEACH IS RARE AND EXISTS ONLY FOR A FEW OLDER PRODUCTS. HE KNOWS THAT FDA REVIEW IS PREFUNCTORY. MOREOVER, HE KNOWS THAT THE PATIENT EXPECTS THE LATEST DRUGS, AND HIS FAILURE TO DO SO WILL TYPICALLY TARNISH HIS REPUTATION AND POSSIBLE RESULT IN THE PATIENT FINDING ANOTHER PHYSICIAN. THIS IS THE PRINCIPLE REASON PHYSICIANS PRESCRIBE NEW MEDICATIONS. HE KNOWS THAT THE AVERAGE PATIENT IS NOT AWARE OF HOW UNCERTAIN THE NEW HYPED MEDICATIONS ARE. THE PHYSICAN MUST DEAL WITH WHAT IS.

THERE IS MUCH ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT. SINCE PERFORMANCE IS MEASURED BY PROFITS, EXTERNAL SUPERVISION IS NEEDED. THIS COULD COME FROM THE GOVERNMENT OR BETTER YET FROM THE GOVERNEMT EMPOWERING A COMMITTEE OF PEER- SELECTED UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS TO OVERSEE THE PRODUCTION OF INFORMATION.

THE PRESENT FDA SUPERVISION OF THE DRUG COMPANIES--Arianna--IS A MOCKERY.

Google internal search engine ABOVE & BELOW -- please use

MEDICAL LINKS

This site is one of 3 sites maintained by California Skeptics

All with cool art and informative articles 9/9/19

#31 TABLE OF CONTENTS healthfully, over 1,200 pages downloaded per day.

#7 TABLE OF CONTENTS skeptically, over 8,000 pages downloaded per day.

#201 TABLE OF CONTENTS CURRENT NEWS , over 900 pages downloaded per day

#157 Video documentaries lectures YouTube Healthful diet, bad pharma, GMOs etc. with description

#209 THE ARTISTS

# 180 RECOMMENDED WESTERN DIET PANDEMIC, high fructose diet and its conditions—proofs

# 181 RECOMMENDED LOW SUGAR POPULATIONS Biomarkers, books, etc.

#152 RECOMMENDED--CONCISE Bad drugs, good drugs, treatments & supplements,

#196 RECOMMENDED BOOK WESTERN DIET AND SICKNESS /rbook some chapters

#161 RECOMMENDED HEALTHFUL Improving health including diet and nutritional science

#185 RECOMMENDED FRUCTOSE PAMDEMIC BOOK fructose makes us sick book in preparation

BUSINESS PROBLEMS: recommended section since 2010

BAD PHARMA & THEIR TOBACCO SCIENCE

#158 RECOMMENDED GATEWAY PAGE /rg

#152 RECOMMENDED--CONCISE /rc Drugs to avoid and take

#182 RECOMMEND ED MYTH BUSTERS /rmb on LSP and CAWD before book

#159 RECOMMENDED--LONG /rl Topics developed

#160 RECOMMENDED EXPOSING PHARMA /rep Profits before people

#156 RECOMMENDEDS NON-TECHNICAL SUMMATIONS /rns Simple info and advice

#176 RECOMMENDED CANCER, STARVING DIET, MACROPHAGEs /rcdm Cause and starving cancer

#157 RECOMMENDED MORE BAD PHARMA /rmbp More profits before people

#173 RECOMMENDED HEART ISSUES /rhi

#166 RECOMMENDED CRITICS /critics Those who expose bad pharma

DIETARY & DIABETES

#161 RECOMMENDED HEALTHFUL /rh Nutrition in depth, diet myths, plus diets, video links, etc.

#174 RECOMMENDED DIET TESTIMONIALS /rdt

#178 RECOMMENDED DIABETES /rt2d

#179 RECOMMENDED WELLNESS CLASS /rcdm

BOOK MATERIAL: MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION & FRUCTOSE

#181 RECOMMENDED URIC ACID’S ROLE /rpc

#182 RECOMMENDED LOW SUGAR POPULATIONS /rlsp

#185 RECOMMENDED FRUCTOSE PAMDEMIC BOOK /rfpb

#188 RECOMMENDED FATS (LIPIDS) /rfl

#189 RECOMMENDED INSULIN RESISTANCE /rir

#191 RECOMMENDED LONGER ARTICLE /rla

#193 RECOMMENDED MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION /rmtdd

#195 RECOMMENDED RELATED ARTICLESE /rra

OLDER with some newer articles

#17 QUACKERY (at skeptically.org)

#135 NSAIDS

#102 QUACK THEORIES & PRACTICES (at skeptically.org)

#41 MEDICAL CRAP

#130 MEDICAL CRAP MORE,

#132 IMAGINARY CONDITIONS

#134 ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

#136 ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH

#137 DRUG NEWS--DISAPPOINTING

#141 BIG PHARMA AT WORK

#145 MANAGED HEALTH CARE

#146 FDA Exposing the façade of regulation

#147 FOR THE CHILDREN

#162 CORPORATE DRUGS

#150 BLOOD THINNERS AND ACETAMINOPHEN

#152 INDIGESTION DRUGS

#151 FAILED DRUGS

#159 CRITICS

GENERAL INFORMATION:

#31 INDEX

#35 HEALTH

#36 WOMEN'S MEDICAL ISSUES

#45 MALE HORMONE REPLACEMENT

#148 FEMALE HORMONE REPLACEMENT

#171 SEX

#154 FOOD

#50 ASPIRIN THE BEST NSAID

#133 THE HEART

#144 HEART MEDICATIONS & TREATMENTS

#44 ON CANCER

#139 CANCER VARIOUS TISSUES

#155 CANCER TREATMENTS

#165. CONDITIONS & TREATMENTS

#143 OBESITY

#48 DRUGS AND CONDITIONS

#140 HEALTH & BODY

#138 DISEASES

#142 GERIATRIC PROBLEMS

#149 PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS

#163 NATURALISTIC TREATMENTS (positive)

#153 EFFECTIVE DRUGS

MISCELLANEOUS:

#39 RHYMED POEMS ROMANTIC

#40 RHYMED POEMS MELONCHOLY

#42 RHYMED POEMS SOCIAL MESSAGE

#43 RHYMED POEMS SATIRE

#209 THE ARTISTS

#210 SHORT STORY, ETC.

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In 2011 having realized that scientific fraud was the norm for industry funded work and their key opinion leaders (KOLs), I restarted a new grouping of articles. The three key areas of focus are medical myths, the harm down by the Western diet, and what to do about it. All those with a “/r” (for “recommended”) have been posted since 2011.

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VIOXX, the greatest drug disaster of the

last century. 160,000 heart attacks and

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