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| Disease Mongering; A Nation of Hypochondriacs | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 29 2007, 12:39 PM (445 Views) | |
| Denovissimus | May 29 2007, 12:39 PM Post #1 |
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Incessant disease mongering turns Americans into profit-generating guinea pigs for Big Pharma (opinion) Saturday, May 26, 2007 by: Mike Adams Disease mongering - the practice of pushing disease in order to sell more drugs - has become so routine and so successful in modern medicine that drug companies actually depend on inventing new diseases as a way to ensure future profits. It's not enough to sell drugs to people who are truly sick, you see. Big Pharma cleverly figured out that they could sell even MORE drugs if they simply invented new diseases and convinced people they needed pharmaceuticals to treat those diseases. The FDA, always happy to serve the profit interests of Big Pharma, went right along with the ploy and legalized television and magazine drug ads in 1997. Since then, drug sales have skyrocketed, drug company profits have ballooned, and fictitious disease diagnoses have proliferated at an alarming rate. Diseases such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder are completely fictitious, invented by a panel of psychiatrists with a simple vote. Conditions like "high cholesterol" aren't diseases at all (they're simply descriptions of blood chemistry), and artificially lowering high cholesterol with statin drugs has been scientifically found to offer absolutely no net health benefit whatsoever. Breast cancer is so frequently misdiagnosed that for every one woman helped by cancer screening and treatment, ten are harmed by it (click here for the story), and Restless Legs Syndrome is so routinely marketed and hyped that people who hadn't even heard of the disease two years ago now think they need patented chemicals to treat it. By any honest assessment, pharmaceutical medicine today is all a grand hoax. (Click here to read my article exploring the massive "hoax" of drug advertising.) In a recent CounterThink cartoon, I decided to show what goes on behind the scenes at Disease Mongers, Inc., a firm hired by drug companies to invent, package and market new diseases that can be used to sell more drugs. The fascinating thing is that the cartoon is not a parody. Drug companies actually do hire firms to invent diseases (although they aren't called, "Disease Mongers, Inc."), and people really do sit around dreaming up disease names that they think might be swallowed by the public, the media and the FDA. Inventing new diseases is child's play How easy is it to come up with a fictitious disease or disorder that the public will think is real? It's incredibly easy! I even wrote a web tool that will generate new diseases for you at the click of a button. Simply visit my Disease Mongering Engine and you can get filthy rich inventing your own fictitious diseases starting right now! I'm not the only one who has come up with hilarious ways to make fun of disease mongering by the drug industry. Justine Cooper created an entire website dedicated to a fictitious disease and a fake drug for treating it. The site, www.Havidol.com, claims to be a patient education site for Dysphoric Social Attention Consumption Deficit Anxiety Disorder, or DSCDAD for short. Not surprisingly, the public bought it, and she has been contacted by hundreds of people wanting to know where they can buy the drug to treat their DSCDAD. (Didn't they get the drug name, "Havidol?" As in, "Have it all!") Even some members of the media fell for the hoax, reporting DSCDAD as a real disease requiring treatment with Havidol. In another parody on YouTube, artists created a fake commercial for, "Motivational Deficiency Disorder" (formerly known as just being plain lazy) and recommended drugs for treatment. Click here to see the video yourself. Back in 2005, I even made up my own list of fictitious diseases, including Obsessive Hosiery Dislocation Disorder (i.e. losing your socks in the laundry). Click here to read my full list of fictitious diseases. A nation of hypochondriacs The bottom line in all this? Drug advertising has turned America into a nation of hypochondriacs. By simply inventing some disease name, then getting easy FDA approval for a drug to "treat" it, drug companies can create a billion-dollar market where none existed previously. All they have to do is convince everyone they're sick or diseased, and given the complete lack of medical skepticism among consumers, doctors and regulators these days, that's frighteningly easy. This fraudulent Big Pharma recipe for making money is so effective that the industry is now increasingly focusing on marketing diseases. If a so-called "disease" can be swallowed by the gullible mainstream media, and believed by brainwashed doctors and consumers, then drug sales will automatically follow. Getting people to believe there's something wrong with them, of course, is amazingly easy. Why? Because everybody's life is in turmoil at one time or another. There's not a person alive who doesn't feel pressure, or anxiety, or challenges, or failures sooner or later. Drug companies want you to believe those feelings are diseases when, in reality, they're just part of life. Drug companies essentially want to diseasify every emotion, habit and experience of human living. Falling asleep and waking up -- once regarded as natural human behaviors -- are now pharmacologically regulated with profitable drugs. Pregnancy is now considered a medical condition, and new HPV vaccination efforts go to such extremes that they "preemptively treat" a disease that a young girl might someday possibly get decades later. What's next: Mandatory "treatment" for everyone And until this drug cartel is stopped, the situation will only get worse. Soon, mandatory mental health screening programs will sweep across America, and anyone who displays independent thinking, creative ideas or even the slightest hint of stress might be carted off to a mental institution where they will be forced to undergo brain chemistry "rebalancing" at the whim of a psychiatrist who earns a commission on every pill he forces you to swallow. Sound far-fetched? Don't jump to innocent conclusions. You probably have no idea how far Big Pharma will go to turn human beings into customers. Drugging the entire nation with patented chemicals is only part of the goal. The real goal is to drug everyone with multiple drugs that don't treat or cure anything, but only "manage" symptoms while keeping people alive long enough to keep them paying. Remember The Matrix? Today, the United States is inching ever closer to a Medical Matrix, where consumers are enslaved in a system of chemical control in order to turn a human being into profit machine. If you think there's anything resembling "health" or "care" in our modern health care system, you're dangerously underinformed. The system is an out-of-control profit-accumulating machine that, right now, harms far more people than it helps. It has become a corporate empire where profits, not patients, come first. And drug companies now exercise astonishing degrees of control over the FDA, the USDA, the DEA, medical schools, doctors, media outlets and non-profit groups. The way out How do we end this medical madness? First, we've all got to come to our senses and stop believing every mood, habit or challenge in our lives is caused by some mysterious disorder. People need to start taking responsibility for their own behavior and stop blaming fictitious diseases (or bad genes) when things don't work out the way they want. Secondly, we've got to end the ridiculous practice of direct-to-consumer drug advertising. There is absolutely no justifiable reason why prescription drugs should be marketed directly to patients on television. It is only allowed because it is profitable, not because it serves any scientifically justifiable function in society. And third, it's time to conduct a serious investigation into the crimes against America that have been committed by top FDA officials. These bureaucrats have deliberately neglected their responsibility to the American people and have, instead, sought to protect and expand drug company profits, no matter who gets harmed or killed in the process. FDA officials have attacked natural health remedies, outlawed perfectly safe herbs and supplements, and have in fact conspired with drug companies to bury evidence demonstrating the dangers of their FDA-approved pharmaceuticals (among other crimes). It's time we cleaned house at the FDA and prosecuted the criminals currently in charge there. We need a Nuremberg trial for the FDA where the crimes against humanity that have been committed by the agency are made public and accounted for. If we don't put an end to this absurd disease mongering epidemic that is sweeping the world, it won't be long until we wake up and find ourselves chemical slaves of an all-powerful drug cartel that runs government, medicine, media and education. The time to stop drug companies is NOW, before they gain an even tighter grip over the laws, regulations and information outlets that dominate society today. If we end this medical madness now, and outlaw drug advertising while prosecuting the criminals responsible for overmedicating America, we may have a chance at a better future with drastically reduced health care costs. It's going to take courage, honesty and ethics to get this done, but the alternative is to lose our nation to a dark future of medical tyranny, bankruptcy and despair. Conventional medicine, as practiced today, has truly become the No. 1 obstacle to the health of the American people. Get medicine out of the way, and we would all be healthier, happier and better off. ### About the author: Mike Adams is a natural health researcher and author with a passion for sharing empowering information to help improve personal and planetary health He is a prolific writer and has published thousands of articles, interviews, reports and consumer guides, impacting the lives of millions of readers around the world who are experiencing phenomenal health benefits from reading his articles. Adams is an independent journalist with strong ethics who does not get paid to write articles about any product or company. In 2007, Adams launched EcoLEDs, a maker of super bright LED light bulbs that are 1000% more energy efficient than incandescent lights. He's also a veteran of the software technology industry, having founded a personalized mass email software product used to deliver email newsletters to subscribers. Adams is currently the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a 501©3 non-profit, and practices nature photography, Capoeira, Pilates and organic gardening |
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| Denovissimus | May 29 2007, 12:41 PM Post #2 |
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Interesting editoral piece and also very true! Here's the link to the original site if anyone wants to check out the links mentioned in the article. http://www.newstarget.com/021870.html |
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| Julesy | May 29 2007, 01:43 PM Post #3 |
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how sad and I believe it. i wanna check out this movie by Michael Moore about drug companies and healthcare. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386032/ its called SICKO |
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| Denovissimus | May 29 2007, 01:53 PM Post #4 |
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Oh yes definately! |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | May 29 2007, 04:50 PM Post #5 |
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FINALLY!!! More people than just Kevin Trudeu are calling out the pharm companies and the FDA! Everyone needs to read this article! It is so true! I dont take a single medication, I dont even take aspirin anymore for headaches. I take nothing over the counter. And I have never felt better in my life! Other made up diseases are acid reflux disease and irritable bowel syndrome. Both are symptoms of consuming too many toxins in our foods. This article fails to mention that the food industry is also tied in with the big pharm and the FDA to make us sick so we develop these "diseases" so that they all profit from it. acid reflux is gone simply by taking digestive enzymes and raw apple cider vingear. Irritable bowel syndrome is gone once you have cleaned out your colon and take probiotics and digestive enzymes. I had a client who had irritable bowel syndrome and I tried to convince her to do a colon cleanse and take probiotics but she wouldnt believe me. I am glad that I am not at my job anymore cause that means I am no longer tied to and make some of my income off of keeping people on prescribed medication. It is a conflict of interest that had really been bothering me the last year or so that I worked there. I hate pharm companies. They came to my agency all the time pushing their drugs. They would buy us lunch and give us all kinds of gifts. It made me want to hurl. I would try to avoid going to the drug lunches but usually my boss made me go to them. |
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| Julesy | May 29 2007, 04:53 PM Post #6 |
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my sis had to have her gall bladder taken out for acid reflux.its so frequent now, this surgery due to all the people who have it. she changed the way she ate now. but its still crazy how rampant it is. |
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| Denovissimus | May 29 2007, 04:56 PM Post #7 |
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They removed her gall bladder! Organ thievary!
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| Julesy | May 29 2007, 04:57 PM Post #8 |
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si. they did. i bet they sold it on the black market! |
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| Denovissimus | May 29 2007, 04:58 PM Post #9 |
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Either for frankenstein science or for someone to eat with a glass of Chianti! |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | May 29 2007, 04:59 PM Post #10 |
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omg she had her gallbladder removed for acid reflux? If she had taken digestive enzymes for 2 months and a spoonful of raw apple cider vinegar 2 times a day for a couple of weeks she would have been all good! |
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| Julesy | May 29 2007, 05:00 PM Post #11 |
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if you dont need certainbody parts, why do people still have them? like tonsils,gall bladders,wisdom teeth,appendix? yeah, i posted about her surgery a few months back. she takes probiotics now, too late though! |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | May 29 2007, 05:03 PM Post #12 |
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well yeah you really dont need those things but why remove them unless you absoluetely have to? Like in the case of your appendix bursting. If it bursts they have to remove it or it will kill you. |
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| Julesy | May 29 2007, 05:05 PM Post #13 |
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i just wonder why we have them to begin with. I know we must have needed them at one time, but just weird they are still there if they are basically useless |
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| Denovissimus | May 29 2007, 05:07 PM Post #14 |
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All parts of the body have a purpose or the Lord would not have designed and placed them there! |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | May 29 2007, 05:10 PM Post #15 |
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yes I think back when we were more primitive those things had more of a purpose, we just have not evolved enough since then to have gotten rid of them at this point |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | May 29 2007, 05:16 PM Post #16 |
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I just read the summary of that michael moore movie. Definately gonna see it. It scares me cause I am without health insurance now.If i get an esthetics job in a doctor office I will get health insurance but if I work in a spa I wont. I rarely go to the doctor and most ailments I would try to heal naturally first but if an accident happens and I need to go to the hospital, I am screwed. |
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| Dwight | May 30 2007, 09:58 AM Post #17 |
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Yeah, some of the organs now was more of use back in our early ancestor days. It like the tail bone that we still have which i think the name alone hints at what it was a left over from
;) IF you choose to believe we are descendant from monkeys which you know, I really do believe cause how else do you explain those men that come with hairy backs and arms and look like they need a weed eater to tame that fuzz down!! Oh yeah, did you all hear about the guy that brought into the US a drug resistant strand of TB now? Apparently he got around, in Atlanta, GA to Paris then some foreign country and back to Canada then drove into the US. They now have him in a high quarantine room where anyone who has to enter the room has to basically wear a biohazard type suit. Everyone who flew on those flights with him are being called in. He's bio-weapon! |
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| Denovissimus | May 30 2007, 12:53 PM Post #18 |
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I heard that Dwight. The fool knew he was a risk to others, and still chose to be selfish and fly to Europe to get married. |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | May 30 2007, 01:47 PM Post #19 |
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yeah I heard about the TB guy, crazy! |
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