Modern Medicine and Big Pharma. Healthcare Crisis in America

Modern Medicine and Big Pharma. Healthcare Crisis in America

This new year will likely mark another milestone in science and medicine. Again, Americans will spend more money on diagnostic tests, surgeries and other medical procedures, and patients will consume more drugs and receive more treatments than any other time in US history. We will continue to be inundated with television drug advertisements with the…

Faking Medical Reality

Faking Medical Reality

“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of…

Big Pharma and the Rise of Gangster Capitalism

Big Pharma and the Rise of Gangster Capitalism

Thanks to decades of gangster films, we all know how gangster capitalism works: the cost of “protection” goes up whenever the gangster wants to increase revenues, any competition is snuffed out, and “customer demand” is jacked up by any means available– addiction, for example. This perfectly describes the pharmaceutical industry and every other cartel in America. You might have…

China’s Botanical Medicine. The Reality of Natural Medicine. China’s Traditional Herbology

China’s Botanical Medicine. The Reality of Natural Medicine. China’s Traditional Herbology

Modern conventional medicine has increasingly become a culture of scientific and historical denialism. Although portending to be an objective discipline of consistent progress, the medical establishment more often than not denies the insights, discoveries, medical systems and methodologies of the distant past and non-Western cultures. Rather, Western medicine is racing more rapidly towards a retro-future…