-->| And so the chain of fictitious diseases and dangerous prescription drugs continues.
Only treating symptoms
Even when drugs actually "work" (that is, when they achieve the desired biochemical effect), they are almost always treating the symptoms of disease, not the causes. High cholesterol is a symptom of an underlying health problem (usually dietary, by the way), but cholesterol drugs merely try to block cholesterol production by the liver, thereby "controlling" one measurable number at the expense of all the other harm being caused by the drug. |
| As you are learning throughout this book, the players in this system of medicine engage in unethical, harmful, and often criminal behavior to protect their profit margins and to keep the investors on Wall Street happy, including:
*•* The invention and marketing of fictitious diseases ("disease mongering") in order to convince people they're sick and sell them needless prescription drugs.
«•* The outright censorship of life-saving health information that the public desperately needs to make better health choices and prevent chronic disease. |
 But of course, they're continuing to just invent new fictitious diseases by diagnosing children with so-called mental disorders that have no verifiable scientific basis whatsoever. These diseases are completely fictional (like "social anxiety disorder" and "attention deficit hyperactivity disorder"). The hallucinations, it seems, are in the minds of the psychiatrists, not in the minds of the children. And when it comes to behavioral disorders, if you want to calm down the children and help them pay attention and learn more effectively, you've got to look at nutrition, not drugs. |
 Yet the public, the FDA and the mainstream media are currently exhibiting zero skepticism about these wholly fictitious diseases. Newspapers, magazines and broadcast news programs continue parroting headlines and press release handed to them by the public relations firms bankrolled by Big Pharma. There is no science here; no scrutiny, no genuine journalism and nothing resembling "evidence-based medicine." It's just plain old hucksterism dressed up to look like a mental health discovery.
Got angry? You have a mental disorder. |
 In Washington, money talks, and nobody has more money than the drug companies which have created an entire industry out of ripping off consumers, hyping fictitious diseases, subjugating patient advocacy groups and hijacking modern medical science. Ending the evil of Big Pharma is going to take a lot more than merely electing a bunch of Democrats; it's going to take a revolution in medicine.
What about health care reform?
A democratic Congress, however, could set the stage for serious health care reform following the 2008 Presidential elections. |
 Children today are so often diagnosed with what I call fictitious diseases like Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, ADD and learning disabilities.
Most of the time, these have a nutritional foundation -- or a lack of good nutrition. I know you're not positioning this product as a cure for any kind of a disease like that and that's not what I intend to imply, but isn't it true that good nutrition is crucial for children to build healthy nervous systems, healthy organs and healthy bones?
Burt: You hit the nail on the head. Really, we believe that your food is your medicine. |
 There's only money in promoting drugs, surgical procedures and fictitious diseases.
The medical industry sensationalizes diseases because they're profitable
There's a direct correlation between the marketing and popularity of a so-called disease condition and the size of profits generated by that disease for the pharmaceutical industry and conventional medicine in general. The reason you hear about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) all the time is not because it's a legitimate physiological disorder (it isn't). |
 We are fooling ourselves if we believe we can retire rich by investing in pharmaceutical company stocks, pushing fictitious diseases, enforcing a monopoly drug market and "treating" each other until we're all rich and dead. There is no true wealth without health, and there is no health without prevention -- a concept that remains utterly absent from the philosophy of modern medicine today, including virtually all the non-profit cancer groups and disease organizations.
Live together or die together
We must find a better way to live together, or we will die together. |
 As long as society continues to give psychiatrists carte blanche to invent fictitious diseases, there is no human behavior, emotion or condition that's safe from being labeled a pathology. So-called "adult ADHD screening tests" label a whopping 80 percent of participants with the disease. Behavioral disorders screenings for children demonstrate similar numbers. And the things that can get you labeled as "diseased" are all too mundane: Feeling overwhelmed, feeling distracted by modern life, handling too many projects as once, being afraid of public speaking, feeling shy in social situations... |
| These fictitious diseases are diagnosed through interview questions by a psychiatrist and are based purely on behavior, not pathology. And behavior is a choice, friends, not a disease.
That's a big statement, so take it in slowly: Behavior is a choice, not a disease. I fully realize that believing this requires taking responsibility for your own actions... and that's not something many people really want to do. It's easier to accept a label and blame everything on some fictitious disorder.
Kids get away with it all the time. At school, they proclaim, "I'm ADHD! |
 Diseasification - The process of spreading the fictitious diseases through the population. This is how drug companies get rich: by manufacturing disease and convincing people they now suddenly suffer from it. See "Spontaneous Mass Diagnosis," below. Diseasification is greatly aided by drug madvertising (mass propaganda) designed to change the way people think about health and disease. Fear of public speaking used to merely be a fear. Now it's a disease, and there's a drug to treat it. Menopause used to be menopause. Now it's a disease, too. |
 I think it would fabricate fictitious diseases ("disease mongering") and market those to the American public to try to get people to take more drugs that they don't need. In fact, I think it would collude or conspire with federal regulators to make sure there is a drug-friendly environment in this country that discredits alternatives.
You can call it a conspiracy if you want, but I just call it straight old-fashioned corporate greed. It's all about money, and there's a lot of money changing hands in the drug racket now operating in this country. |
 But ADHD and its brethren are fictitious diseases whose diagnoses are completely subjective. This means that families face the danger of forced drugging for any child a school system has initiated the process of targeting. This means there is no abnormality for the drug to rationally, scientifically target. This means there is no science, no scientific rationale. This means the drug is a poison. What's more the leaders of psychiatry, all psychiatric researchers, and all medical scientists everywhere know of the deception and know it is poisoning. |
 Are you a teacher or parent who has witnessed drug company-sponsored "education" events or meetings in a public school, where a drug company representative or psychiatrist engaged in disease mongering and drug promotions by pushing fictitious diseases (ADHD, etc.) and mentioning prescription drugs as a treatment? Tell us what you saw! Click here to contact us or call us at (520) 232-9300.
We're looking for a health insurance professional who can answer some questions such as: Does a child with ADHD qualify as a "preexisting condition" that will raise family health insurance rates? |
 But I'm the ultimate skeptic nevertheless: I question the claims of "miracle" drugs and the exaggerated hyping and marketing of fictitious diseases (and their chemical "cures"). I'm suspicious about FDA decision panels where nearly every voting member is on the payroll of pharmaceutical companies. I have serious questions when I find out that pharmaceutical companies routinely alter scientific data, or hide the results of drug trials they don't like, or bribe doctors to push high-profit drugs onto consumers who largely don't need them. |
| Lawmakers take campaign finance contributions from drug companies and look the other way, and the mainstream media continues publicizing fictitious diseases, lending them false credibility and creating customer demand for dangerous drugs.
Only a handful of doctors, authors, organizations and celebrities dare tell the truth on this issue, and they are singled out for incessant ridicule. Take Tom Cruise, for example. |
 Pretending to diagnose children with fictitious diseases that have absolutely no verifiable pathology or physiological basis.
Old-School Doctors: Old-school MDs pretend to treat patients suffering from chronic disease, but in reality most of these so-called treatments are little more than a chemical hijacking of the patient's body with harmful synthetic chemicals (prescription drugs). The overzealous writing of prescriptions to a never-ending line of symptomatic patients isn't real medicine, it's just old fashioned drug dealing and snake oil salesmanship. |
| The Wall is where medheads and black boxers go to buy dangerous drugs to treat their fictitious diseases because they've been subjected to spontaneous mass diagnosis.
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 And yet, the best solution that the free market can provide is more chemicals, more pills from pharmaceutical companies, and more invention of fictitious diseases such as "social anxiety disorder," a disease for which there is absolutely no consistent definition or measurable physiological marker... a disease that has been entirely invented by an industry that just wants to sell you more drugs. |
 Denied that cigarette makers manipulated the level of nicotine in their products:
Similarly, the drug companies deny that they created fictitious diseases like ADHD and "General Anxiety Disorder" in order to sell mind-altering drugs to people who have absolutely no medically-measurable symptoms of disease whatsoever. The common diagnosis of these diseases has no scientific basis. They were invented and promoted by the psychiatric industry and drug companies in order to financially enrich both. |
 Our children don't need Ritalin, they don't need Prozac, and they don't need to be given labels of fictitious diseases such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or Social Anxiety Disorder. What they need is physical activity -- more recess time, more time under natural sunlight so they can generate their own vitamin D and prevent depression and other mental disorders on their own.
They need better diets, starting with the banning of soft drinks in all public schools and the banning of all advertising and marketing of junk foods and fast foods to children. |
| And that's how we end up with all these pharmaceuticals treating the symptoms of high cholesterol in order to "prevent" this disease and lower the levels of LDL cholesterol in the human patient, without actually addressing the underlying health problems at all.
The symptom is not the disease
By lowering only the cholesterol, the doctor can rest assured that he is, in fact, treating this "disease," since the definition of this "disease" is high cholesterol and nothing else.
But there is a fatal flaw in this approach to disease treatment: The symptom is not the cause of the disease. |
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