What Has Changed in the Medical Field Since Covid?

April 8, 2024 COVID-19 Articles

A brief reflection

 

Hello everyone!

A lot has been happening over the past 4 years since covid first began, but many combined circumstances forced me to take a long hiatus since writing the last issue of my newsletter in 2020, primarily because of the politics of healthcare here in New York State and the nation. I’ve recently gathered some thoughts on this topic and hope that you will find this interesting. Since it is rather lengthy, I’ve divided this newsletter into four sections that will be sent out weekly. If you would rather read the entire piece together, you can find it here.

 

Part I- Medical Education and the Loss of Critical Thinking

Long before the covid pandemic began, with a few exceptions like emergency medicine and trauma surgery, conventional allopathic medicine has been quietly eroding health, while contributing to an environmental[1] and a public health disaster of unprecedented proportions.[2]  The medical-education-industrial complex[3] has worked hard for many years to keep this information out of public view, but the covid pandemic opened several wide cracks in that façade.  To understand more fully, let’s begin with medical education.

Conventional medical education in the US is extremely rigorous.  Our medical students are selected primarily based on their ability to compete and outperform their peers academically in a series of required courses, not on any measure of human compassion, creativity, or intellectual curiosity.  It goes without saying that when the candidate pool favors the “best and the brightest” and the most competitive, graduate physicians tend to demonstrate the same strengths.[4]

The medical curriculum, which demands obedience, docility, and acceptance of the biochemical – pharmaceutical model of medicine, discourages critical independent thinking in favor of rote memorization of (often trivial) facts and formulas.[5]  The biochemical – pharmaceutical model of medicine, which is deeply imbedded in our national psyche,[6] and is reinforced from childhood onward by most forms of public education, news media, entertainment, and public policy, is a deeply held mythic belief that the average person is better off by using chemical pharmaceutical drugs.[7]  Heretofore, this assumption was never rigorously tested, but recent evidence from the human microbiome,[8] environmental ecology, and many years of using complementary, alternative, integrative medicine (CAIM) and homeopathy belie this.

Medical training from premed, medical school, internship, and residency is a quasi-militaristic elitist indoctrination program, punctuated by long work hours coupled with sleep deprivation, and depersonalization,[9] which discourages independent “out of the box” thinking and favors future physicians who accept and reflexively act on, rather than question, standardized protocols that are part of a “one size fits all” approach, known as the “standard of care.”[10]  The medical education process selects students willing to compete against each other, driving them through rigorous training, securing loyalty through punishing work, demanding an oath of allegiance to enter what they are told is an elite and noble profession.[11]

The US medical education process has produced a dwindling[12] army of burnt out,[13] morally compromised,[14] beaten down,[15] but obedient[16] physicians willing to follow orders largely without question,[17] just like psychologically traumatized military recruits.[18]  It is no wonder that most members of this profession, stretched to their limits between endless administrative burdens[19] and increasing demands for patient care,[20],[21] are either unwilling or unable to look beyond the orthodox pharmaceutical dogma, or to question the conventional mainstream narratives that were generated during covid contradicting many of the most basic principles of immunology and infectious disease.[22]

The biochemical – pharmaceutical model emphasizes that only concrete, physically palpable, and chemically detectable findings are “real” or relevant to the practice of medicine. If a symptom or a syndrome can’t be traced back to a concrete physical abnormality, a lab test, or an imaging study, then it is often considered to be a psychiatric issue, or not real.[23]  Likewise, if a medicine contains barely detectable or only trace amounts of substance, as homeopathy does, it is considered inherently “implausible” and therefore impossible by narrow materialistic definition.[24]  This objective physical paradigm certainly explains why conventional physicians routinely dismiss CAIM and homeopathy, but it also suggests a possible reason why the millions of subjectively reported side effects and safety signals submitted to the online vaccine adverse events reporting system (VAERS)[25] during covid were ignored,[26] and why tens of thousands of deaths immediately following covid vaccination continue to be disavowed.[27]

Physicians are instructed to only trust information that has been approved by their own faculty, by other university-based research sources, or by formally recognized federal and international public health agencies.  Physicians are discouraged from pursuing their own investigations, or relying on their own, their colleagues’, or their patients’ direct experiences or observations.[28]  This might have been reasonable in the past, but the industrial capture of university based medical research has made most of this work unreliable, riddled with inaccuracies, tainted by political and economic conflicts of interest,[29] and the result of unscrupulous behavior.[30]

Physician reliance on inaccurate and untrustworthy medical research has only widened the gap between them and their patients.  The personal side of medicine that once flourished through mutual trust and relationship has been lost, replaced by mutual criticism and distrust.[31]  This began happening once physicians started to abandon private practice,[32] join managed care corporate entities,[33] and rely on third party payers, trading relationships and continuity of care for a business model of medicine that prioritized reimbursement.[34] The sell-out from individual solo medical practices that once dominated the practice landscape, to corporate business owned practices, allowed physicians to increase earnings, but traded income for independence and ongoing relationships with patients, which was once the “crown-jewel” of medicine and the leading source of satisfaction for both patients and physicians.[35]  Widening the gap between physicians and patients also transitioned doctors into “providers”,[36] moved the entire profession a step closer to corporate dominance, and eventual replacement by Artificial Intelligence (AI)[37] driven protocols that threaten to eventually replace autonomous physicians with programmable virtual services.[38],[39]

The shift from private to corporate medicine resulted in the loss of physician autonomy and demanded adherence to the dictates of corporate ethics taking precedent above those of one’s own conscience.[40]  During covid, while more than 40,000 nurses were fired because they refused to allow their employers to dictate their personal healthcare choices through forced vaccination,[41] only a small handful of physicians reached a similar decision, a testament to the level of their indenture to the corporate industrial system.  Long before covid, patients were frequently “fired” from medical practices if they dared to question vaccination policies or suggest alternate regimens based on their own individual sensitivities, medical histories, or concerns. [42]

The role of Industry in medical education[43] has grown steadily over many years, first becoming involved in the field more than a century ago by working to consolidate the medical field and eliminate the eclectic diversity of different schools of treatment, including CAIM and homeopathy. Publicly, the rationale given for this involvement was to eliminate unscientific methodologies, yet the groups that were targeted for elimination were those who refused to subscribe to the biomedical – pharmaceutical – industrial model of health.[44] The Flexner Report of 1910, funded by the American Medical Association (AMA), the Rockefeller, and Carnegie Foundations (misanthropies born from the industrial exploitation of the petroleum and steel industries respectively), marked the beginning of the industrialization process. This campaign eventually closed competing CAIM and homeopathic medical schools, and solidified control of the medical profession under industry and the AMA.[45]  Many alternative schools were forced to close or be absorbed into conventional medical training in watered down versions.[46]  The entire field of medicine was weaned from a person-centered approach and pushed toward an industrial pharmaceutical model[47] that tied medicines to diagnoses, and supported a complex infrastructure ultimately overseen by industry[48],[49] under the guise that this was somehow more scientifically effective.[50]

Conventional medical training, discourages critical and independent thinking, focuses primarily on pharmaceutical and surgical interventions, and rejects the use of alternatives.  It is largely designed to train physicians to prescribe drugs and utilize industrial products that support the medical industrial complex.[51]  Medical training eliminates curiosity[52] and conditions medical professionals into a collective set of standardized behaviors and knee-jerk reactions, not always dedicated to providing the best care for patients, and increasingly orchestrated by industry.[53],[54]

Many US medical regulatory agencies are also controlled by industry. The British Medical Journal (BMJ) reported that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), despite their disclaimer, routinely accepts millions of dollars of non-disclosed “industry gifts” and “funding, both directly and indirectly, raising questions about the science it cites, the clinical guidelines it promotes.”[55] The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) derives 75% of its operating budget from “fees” provided directly by the drug industry.[56] A revolving door of employment reciprocity and influence exists between these regulatory agencies and the industries that they are tasked to regulate.[57]  Pharmaceutical and diagnostic imaging companies are the largest donors to many professional medical organizations including the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)[58] and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG),[59] organizations that make recommendations and set standards for physician practices.  Industry involvement at all levels of training and oversight raises enormous ongoing concerns about the integrity and safety of conventional allopathic medicine.[60]

 

Part II- Medicine and Propaganda

The US healthcare system, beginning with medical education, is largely controlled by industrial interests bent on profit and control. Industry capture dominates most aspects of medical education,[61] health care regulation, research, and delivery in this country and the covid pandemic was a field test of that system on a global level.

The mainstream conventional medical-education-industrial complex, just like the military-industrial complex, is made up of a consortium of related industries that include pharmaceutical, medical product, insurance, hospital, rehabilitative, diagnostic industries, and educational institutions.  This group has worked collectively and cooperatively behind the scenes for more than a century, not only to erode trust in complementary, alternative, integrative medicine (CAIM) and homeopathy,[62] keeping these alternatives invisible and out of mainstream public awareness, but also constantly steering public opinion, research, and philanthropy toward the conventional allopathic system as the one and only reliable, safe, and effective system for restoring health.

Groups like the American Medical Association (AMA) have continuously worked to eliminate CAIM and homeopathy[63],[64]  claiming that these methodologies are unscientific and that it is unethical to use or associate with them.[65]

Control over health care has been richly rewarding to industry, and the price of US medical care has continued to increase to its current level, which is nearly twice that of any other nation, while health status, equity, and longevity lag far behind.[66] Unchecked greed, avarice, market manipulation, and profiteering drive these costs through the prices of education, pharmaceuticals, diagnostic testing, insurance, hospital fees, and executive salaries.[67]

The combined efforts of the four wealthiest health care interests (pharmaceutical manufacturers, hospitals, insurance, and the American Medical Association (AMA)) together comprise the largest special interest lobbying group in Washington, DC.[68] In 2023, the pharmaceutical, health products, and insurance industries spent more than half a billion dollars just to lobby Congress,[69]  while the entire health care sector simultaneously spent another $30 billion dollars[70] advertising and marketing itself directly to consumers.

The mainstream conventional medical-education-industrial complex has snowballed into a massive behemothic entity, exerting influence across government, health education, entertainment,[71] and practically all levels of society.[72]  In 2022, UnitedHealth Group reported over $20 billion in profit, Cigna $6.7 billion, Elevance Health $6 billion, and CVS Health $4.2 billion.[73]  During the peak covid vaccine year of 2022, Pfizer’s profits exceeded $100 billion, a 23% increase compared with 2021.[74]

The vast majority of hospitals currently operating in the US are corporate: either privately owned nonprofit or for-profit hospitals,[75] and private equity firms have been purchasing physician practices and hospitals at accelerated rates, owning more than 30% of all for-profit hospitals.[76] Most corporate entities aim to generate profit and the healthcare sector is no exception, putting profit above health status,[77] as US life expectancy has declined[78] and chronic illness has increased.[79]

Marketing and lobbying are designed to buttress and protect the public image and prestige of the medical industry, while disguising its true costs and dangers, so that control is preserved.[80]  Preventing legitimate information about CAIM and homeopathy from reaching the public is a secondary, but essential part of this strategy.[81]  Convincing Americans to believe that their medical system is the “best in the world”[82] (when most evidence suggests the opposite[83]) is a remarkable accomplishment that keeps the supply – demand mismatched[84] and the public believing that they suffer from a general deficiency of healthcare,[85] when evidence suggests the opposite:  that they are overdosing from too much of it.[86]

Conventional medicine excels at delivering dangerous, and highly toxic drugs and procedures, usually in untested combinations.[87] Over the years, newer therapies periodically replace older ones, under the guise of “new and improved,” but conventional allopathic treatments offer little benefit beyond rapid symptom relief,[88] and are notorious for temporarily suppressing illness,[89] impairing the immune system,[90] damaging the microbiome,[91] causing dysbiosis,[92] generating chronic inflammation, [93] polluting the environment,[94] preventing natural immunity,[95] and promoting long-term drug dependency.[96] Conventional medications, used as directed, are the 5th leading cause of death in the US,[97] while medical error is the 3rd leading cause.[98]  According to a 2007 issue of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Clinical Evidence, only 11% of conventional medical treatments are supported by reasonable scientific evidence of effectiveness, and another 24% are backed by evidence suggesting that they might be beneficial, but the overwhelming majority (66%) of conventional treatments  are either of “unknown effectiveness…, a trade-off between benefits and harms…, unlikely to be beneficial…, [or] likely to be ineffective or harmful.”[99],[100]  Due to the tireless efforts of marketers, advertisers, and the medical propaganda industry,[101] most Americans still believe that modern allopathic medicine is entirely science-based, safe, and reliable.[102]

While billions of dollars are spent annually to lobby and convince both the government and the public that CAIM and homeopathy are dangerous,[103] passing, unproven fads,[104] and that modern allopathic medicine is the gold standard for science and technology that safely improves public health and welfare, a worldwide epidemic of chronic inflammatory illness has quietly spread across every nation employing this system.[105]  This iatrogenic (physician caused) epidemic is responsible for 75% of total health care costs and the majority of deaths in the US,[106] including cardiovascular disease[107] and cancer.[108] Molecular and epidemiological evidence suggests that this epidemic of chronic inflammation is the root of almost every medical condition.[109]

At the same time, there are simultaneous iatrogenic epidemics of antibiotic resistance (from antibiotic overuse and abuse) that kill nearly 5 million people worldwide,[110] and drug overdoses (largely initiated by opioid prescriptions), that kill more than 100,000 Americans every single year.[111] The connection between conventional allopathic drug use and all of these epidemics becomes tragically clear when both the research evidence from the human microbiome,[112] and the direct clinical experience of over two centuries use of homeopathy[113] suggest that at least 50% of antibiotic prescriptions,[114] and a majority of opioid prescriptions[115] were unnecessary in the first place.

The US medical system is heavily influenced by for-profit industries bent on extracting profit, and eliminating competition from CAIM and homeopathy, at the expense of public and environmental health.[116]

 

Part III- Covid-19

When covid hit the west in 2020, nearly every practicing conventional physician was helplessly paralyzed because they reflexively turned to medical authorities to learn what treatment protocols should be used.  Unfortunately, none of these authorities had any useful information, insight, experience, or beneficial suggestions to share, having invested all available resources in the “one basket” of conventional drugs and vaccines, and none into complementary, alternative, integrative medicine (CAIM) or homeopathy.

Even when covid mortality was determined to be directly related to iatrogenic (physician caused) “comorbidities”, [117] microbiome damage,[118], [119] and dysbiosis,[120],[121] this information was ignored, while blame for morbidity and mortality was placed on the SARS-CoV-2 virus along with risky public behavior.  The public was warned that the entire population was at risk, rather than the select groups of elderly, those suffering from chronic comorbidities, and severe dysbiosis.  No one reported on the most troubling aspect of this pandemic: that the conventional allopathic medical system itself, overusing microbiome damaging, and immunosuppressive therapies and vaccines had made segments of the population more vulnerable to a wide range of illnesses[122] including Covid-19.[123]

Even though the US spends more per capita on health care than any other nation,[124] it had one of the highest mortality rates from covid worldwide.[125]  Considering that 60% of adults and 40% of children[126] in the US were already suffering from a chronic medical comorbidity (the highest rate worldwide),[127] and that many conventionally recommended covid drugs and vaccines[128] were known to further suppress the immune system, damage the microbiome,[129],[130],[131] prevent natural immunity, and were strongly associated with a wide range of complications including long covid,[132] heart attacks,[133],[134]  blood clots,[135] and kidney failure,[136] it’s remarkable that conventionally treated cases of covid weren’t even more deadly and injurious.[137]

In contrast, homeopaths began treating cases of covid immediately,[138],[139] sometimes without even knowing the diagnosis, because they already had the tools to do so: homeopathic medicines. Homeopathy is a system of medicine that can be used in almost any condition if the medicines, which must have been previously tested in healthy individuals, are prescribed according to homeopathic principles: by individually matching them to each individual patient’s symptoms. If it seems strange to treat without first knowing the diagnosis, consider that the immune system behaves the same way: it doesn’t need to know the name or diagnosis to develop immunity, it just needs the opportunity to develop inflammation and initiate the immune cascade unimpeded by immunosuppressive drugs.

Acute inflammation is modulated by the innate immune system in response to infection or injury, and it is essential in developing broad spectrum protection and long-term adaptive immunity toward specific pathogens.[140]  Immunosuppressive anti-inflammatory medications (NSAIDs) reduce symptoms but interfere with the immune mediated process that generates natural immunity.  These medicines were routinely recommended during the pandemic,[141] which may be one reason why it was so dangerous.[142] Interestingly, just before the 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic the Bayer pharmaceutical company introduced and heavily marketed[143] Aspirin (an NSAID) to treat influenza.  It was recommended in regimens now known to increase mortality through toxic pulmonary edema and immune suppression.[144] Using NSAIDs to treat any viral illnesses, including covid, is inconsistent with efficient and effective immune functioning,[145],[146] yet most mainstream sources continue to routinely recommend these drugs.[147],[148]

Homeopathy is a time-tested, clinically proven system of medicine that bolsters natural immunity[149] and helps the body fight infections[150] without drugs: a contradiction of the mainstream medical narrative, which claims that antibiotics, antivirals, and vaccines are the only way to manage and treat infections; a point that the antibiotic crisis[151] and lack of antiviral drug efficacy[152] strongly refute.

Homeopathy, which uses infrequently administered, individually targeted micro-doses of highly diluted medicines that improve health, poses an existential threat to the pharmaceutical industry, which depends on an ever-expanding flow of mass produced, perpetually administered drugs, marketed to an increasingly unhealthy populace, to ensure profitability.[153] Some opposition to homeopathy may be ideological, but most of it is financial.[154],[155]

Compared to the corporatization, industrialization, and profitability of modern medicine,[156],[157] homeopathy’s most significant failure is its abysmal record of generating profit either for industry[158] or its practitioners.[159] This is because homeopathic medicines are inexpensive, relatively easy to manufacture, but much more complicated and time consuming to prescribe than conventional drugs.  Homeopathic treatment is associated with significant long term health improvement[160] and consistently high patient satisfaction rates,[161] but healthier, happier patients tend to utilize fewer medical services, which is anachronistic to the corporate profit structure of modern medicine, which requires continuous growth and market expansion.[162]

Homeopathy has been used effectively in almost every epidemic of infectious illness since the great cholera outbreak of 1832.[163]  It was used successfully during the influenza epidemic of 1918,[164],[165] and around the world to prevent and treat many other outbreaks of infectious diseases in large and small populations.[166] Studies indicate that homeopathy is useful across a broad range of conditions, and as adjunct therapy in severe sepsis,[167] and non-small cell lung cancer,[168] where it improves both survival and quality of life. Historically, it has proven to be one of the most useful, effective, and safest system of medicine available,[169],[170],[171],[172] but because it appears to contradict several basic material tenets of allopathic medicine it is no longer taught in any conventional US medical school.

Published case reports, physician files, and hospital records attest to the successes of homeopathy, particularly during covid,[173] but when meta-analyses, double-blind placebo-controlled, and comparative efficacy studies are published demonstrating its safety, effectiveness, and superiority,[174] these studies are ignored by all mainstream authorities. Homeopathic treatment of covid met with the same response.[175]  Publicly acknowledging even the least benefit from homeopathy would crack open the hermetically sealed door that has long been held closed. Opening this door might create a “slippery slope” because if even one tenet of homeopathy were to be acknowledged as legitimate, other points might ultimately be raised, and the entire “house of cards” of unsustainable, chronic disease-promoting, and injury prone practices considered to be “standard of care” in western industrial society might come under closer scrutiny.

By increasing natural immunity,[176] strengthening the immune system, and supporting the biodiversity of the human microbiome, homeopathy can help the body resist infection and resolve inflammation.[177] Interestingly, most conventional medical treatments do the opposite: by suppressing the immune system, damaging the microbiome, and temporarily suppressing inflammatory symptoms, they allow disease processes to continue unabated and unchecked, while permitting inflammation to become chronic.[178]  As a result, many conventional treatments make the body more susceptible to infection,[179] chronic inflammation, and autoimmune disease.[180]  All classes of conventional drugs,[181] particularly antibiotics reduce the biodiversity of the microbiome and promote dysbiosis, increasing the likelihood of developing chronic inflammatory illnesses,[182] including heart disease and stroke,[183] cancer,[184] diabetes,[185] obesity,[186] allergy,[187] asthma,[188] and autoimmunity.[189]

During covid, thousands of cases of homeopathic treatment were entered and collated in both national and international databases.[190]  This treatment, like that of many other conditions using homeopathy, was safe and effective[191] with an extremely low incidence of side effects, adverse events, or deaths.[192] Even when conventional physicians were struggling to find any valuable treatment to benefit covid patients, the successful experience of treating thousands of cases worldwide, while supporting natural immunity[193] and using far less dangerous or costly medicines, was unwelcome news that was treated as “misinformation.”[194],[195]

Attempts to dialogue with medical authorities or publish articles on homeopathy in medical journals, mainstream media outlets, or even on social media sites are continually thwarted,[196] largely using the oft repeated claim that “there is no science” or that the science is “inconclusive.”[197]  These arguments often cite implausibility as grounds for dismissing homeopathy.[198] The premise that homeopathy “cannot work and that positive evidence reflects publication bias or design flaws until proved otherwise”[199] is in itself an unscientific position and evidence of prejudicial bias.[200]

It is true that the mechanism of action of how homeopathy works is unknown, but throughout history most medical interventions (including many that are still in use today) were used without knowing a mechanism of action.[201],[202]  Whatever its mechanism is, homeopathy appears to work, not by chemical pharmacology, but by triggering the innate processes of homeostasis[203] and adaption,[204] which helps the body self-regulate, restore equilibrium, and return to health.  Homeopathy appears to augment the immune mediated inflammatory response, which speeds tissue repair and helps the body fight infection[205] and repair injury.[206]  Unlike conventional medicine, homeopathy supports the diversity of the human microbiome, which is associated with faster resolution of acute inflammation, lower incidence of infectious illness, and reduced risk of developing chronic illness and cancer.[207]

 

Part IV- Conclusion: No Science

While medical professionals are strongly discouraged from thinking or practicing outside-the-box of “standard of care,” or treating their patients as unique individuals, the public is frequently blamed for their own ill health by regulatory agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) whose website lists the causes of the rapidly exploding epidemic of chronic inflammatory illness as bad choices and risky behaviors, including poor diet, tobacco, alcohol, and lack of physical activity,[208] while providing no reference to the ecological devastation of the microbiome, which is the final common pathway by which chronic inflammation develops.[209]  The NCCDPHP conveniently chooses to only list behavioral habits, while entirely ignoring the contributions to microbiome dysbiosis made by conventional pharmaceuticals.[210],[211],[212]  This omission suggests that either the leading health authority in the US is simply unaware of cutting edge microbiome science, or it is just more convenient to blame the patients who are the victims of disease and ignore the massive role played by the pharmaceutical drugs that cause the damage.  This is just one example of how one arm of the medical-education-industrial complex protects the other,[213],[214]  but it also demonstrates how this pernicious patriarchy[215] works to maintain control over the public by obscuring the truth, limiting access to relevant information, and instilling fear and blame.

During the covid pandemic the obfuscation of accurate information, a tool that had previously been directed against the complementary, alternative, integrative medicine (CAIM) and homeopathy community, was expanded to cover anyone who publicly questioned the mainstream narrative, conventional drugs, or vaccines. Those who pushed back were censored and accused of spreading misinformation.  These individuals suffered from personal, familial, professional, and social ostracism.  This was most visibly demonstrated in the personage of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,[216] who was publicly vilified, censored, and de-platformed[217] even though none of the evidence he presented, or the statements and accusations that he made were ever proven to be false, incorrect, or slanderous.[218]  He was accused of blasphemy and repeatedly denied a public platform to represent or defend himself, simply because he opposed the biases and inaccuracies promulgated by the medical-education-industrial complex.

During the covid pandemic, “science” was absurdly and repeatedly mischaracterized as a closed book, a settled process, and the physical embodiment and exclusive domain of one single man who was (supposedly) beyond reproach. Some states passed legislation to punish physicians if they expressed what was considered “misinformation,”[219] while others like the New York Department of Health (NYDOH)[220]  used the Office of Professional Medical Conduct (OPMC) to discipline physicians and revoke their medical licenses.[221]

But perhaps covid was never about actual science; the agenda may have been about controlling public opinion, coercing and frightening both physicians and the public to follow and trust an industry-driven agenda blindly and willingly.

Physicians have been trained and indoctrinated to stay “on the tracks” and to refrain from questioning authority.  Patients have been conditioned to believe that the conventional system of medicine is state-of-the-art wonderful and almost entirely benevolent. They have been told that most illness is their own fault, particularly if they strayed into CAIM,[222] or were noncompliant with their medication regimens.[223]  The capture of both these groups during covid meant that they remained ignorant of safe and effective CAIM and homeopathic alternatives, forced to accept conventional care, denied health freedom and fully informed consent.

Using the same machinery that had been used for over a century to steer public opinion and to keep interest away from CAIM and homeopathy, the medical-education-industrial complex worked invisibly behind the scenes during covid to manipulate public opinion using the ethical appeal of achieving the “greater good,” while quietly censoring discussion and obscuring the true risks and harms of conventional hospitalization, mechanical ventilation,[224] antiviral treatment,[225] and vaccination,[226] to support huge corporate industrial profits.[227]

Not much happened in the field of medicine since covid except for the global expansion and coordination of a propaganda generating machine that had previously been reserved for use against CAIM and homeopathy.  The medical-education-industrial complex, which spends billions of dollars annually and earns trillions in return,[228] was able to continue to exclude competition and silence dissent, tightening its noose of control to make this consortium one of the single most destructive forces in healthcare today,[229] driven by the pursuit of profit over people and the environment.

In some respects, the medical-education-industrial complex has accomplished an industrial coup d’état, which is precisely what outgoing president Dwight David Eisenhower warned against in his farewell address to the nation in 1961. At that time, Eisenhower was aware of the growing threat posed by the military-industrial complex, which currently consumes less than 4% of the US gross domestic product (GDP), but he was probably unaware of the threat posed by the medical-education-industrial complex, which now consumes more than 17% of the US GDP.  In 1961 Eisenhower warned that:

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.

In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”[230]

Eisenhower’s prescient caution may have worked to keep the military-industrial complex at bay, but not the medical-education-industrial complex, which has proven to be much more powerful, insidious, and perhaps even more destructive overall.  The conventional allopathic medical-education-industrial complex has systematically worked to erode health, personal liberty, and democratic processes, both by eliminating and disempowering competition and opposition, and by mandating harmful health treatments without full disclosure of risks. The current system allows unlimited industrial liberty, largely free from liability,[231] litigation, or outside control, to be imposed on a public citizenry that has no alternative but to accept (and pay for) mandates that they have no informed choice in.[232]

Eisenhower suggested that “Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of” the industrial machinery to achieve “peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”  At first glance, it might appear that peaceful methods have been used, but liberties have diminished, and health promotion has failed.  On close examination, the public has been “gaslighted”, to believe in and trust the medical system, which has used a variation of the Helsinki Syndrome, to seemingly provide beneficial protection, while exploiting a captive populace for its own benefits.

If conventional allopathic medicine really was in alignment with health promotion, it would improve environmental, population, and individual health, over time.  But all indices suggest that the opposite is true: environmental, societal, and personal health are all worsening, and mankind stands at the precipice of unprecedented ill-health and environmental catastrophe.

The meshing between industry and government, just like that between church and state, is inappropriate and illegal.[233] Censorship of private citizens exercising their freedom of speech, while raising legitimate concerns is evidence that corruption has reached the highest levels of government.  To restore personal, societal, and environmental health, citizens must wake up, be alert, take responsibility, and claim knowledge. Allowing a patriarchal system to control access to information and silence dissent is evidence that democracy has been corrupted.

Science is based on objective, and critical study freely discussed in a transparent forum, striving to reach consensus without single party dominance or prejudice.  Repression and suppression of information in a society, or in healthcare, is unhealthy and unsustainable.  An “alert and knowledgeable citizenry” must demand full disclosure of information necessary to claim the ethical right to make fully informed health care decisions for themselves and their families, and to be free from the shackles of industrial political control and profiteering.  A democratic society requires these basic rights; otherwise, it is a corporatocracy.

 

 

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