Why medically caused deaths continue to be ignored
By Jon Rappoport
More than any other reporter, I have continued to champion
and spread the word about Dr. Barbara Starfield's revelation: The US
medical system kills 106,000 people a year with its medicines.
Extrapolate that number for a decade: more than MILLION DEATHS.
I have reported, many times, on Starfield's review, "Is US
Health Really the Best in the World," published in the Journal of the
American Medical Association on July 26, 2000. I interviewed her in
2009, when she told me that her death numbers (106,000 per year) were
conservative, and that the federal government was doing NOTHING
comprehensive to fix the ongoing disaster. Imagine that, coming from a
doctor who was a revered public health expert at the Johns Hopkins
School of Public Health.
Since I've written more articles about Dr. Starfield's
revelations than any reporter around, I also know the reaction of the
mainstream press over the years: SILENCE. And more silence. And more.
So this time, I thought I'd explain the main reasons for the silence.
On one obvious level, it stems from the fact that the
pharmaceutical industry buys enormous amounts of ads on and around news
media. Do not bite the hand that feeds you.
And of course, blaming the medical system for a million
deaths per decade...well, if you're the New York Times and you're making
this into a take-no-prisoners ongoing building story, you're going to
incur considerable heat. Blowtorch heat.
Then there is this: nowhere in the medical literature is
there any evidence, based on published studies of drugs, that these
substances do such catastrophic damage. In fact, the studies and reports
of clinical drug trials are largely glowing. Only one conclusion can be
reached: the medical literature is rife with fraud from top to bottom.
This fact would immediately throw the reputations of the most
prestigious medical journals in the world into garbage landfills.
Indeed, we have, on the record, an editor of one of these
publications broadly confessing to a mind-boggling reality: Dr. Marcia
Angell, editor of The New England Journal of Medicine for 20 years, has
written:
"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 Medicine."
(NY Review of Books, January 15, 2009, "Drug Companies & Doctors: A
Story of Corruption")
Next: if the press dug deep into the guts of the Starfield
story, the FDA, which must approve all medical drugs before they are
released for public use, would go down with a blinding crash. No one
would be able to defend the Agency. Its profound criminal alliance with
Pharma would come full force to the surface.
Multiple medical schools would come under the gun for their
relationships with Pharma, and their basic practice of teaching
monopolistic drug medicine and not nutritional medicine. These schools
pretend "the evidence of safety and efficacy" for drugs is wide-ranging
and invariably clear. Therefore, they, the schools, are abetting what
amounts to a capital crime.
And what of the basic Hippocratic oath to "first do no harm"?
Where is that vaunted pledge that tries to establish the practice of
medicine as supremely ethical?
As you can see, a whole long line of dominos would fall, if
the Starfield story were pursued, by the mainstream, with time, energy,
money, and passion for the truth. (Starfield is not the only citation on
medically caused deaths. I have documented others in the past.)
Finally, we arrive at a psychological and even philosophical
reason for press silence on this ongoing holocaust: for millions of
people, the institution of medicine is a foundational pillar of Reality
in the world. Attachment to it is, in a way, mythological. Loyalty to
the medical system runs the gamut from hope for raw physical survival to
spiritual sustenance. Creating doubt, widespread doubt, about such a
powerful building block of Existence---that would be tinkering with the
very structure of things, "meddling with the primal forces of nature."
But here, on these pages, I'll meddle with anything I want
to. If you can't handle that, so be it. If I want to make a true fact
into a sledgehammer and use it over and over, I will. And on this issue
of medical caused deaths, I'd be crazy not to.
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