The "crime" of the century
You've heard me raving before about the below-the-belt tactics conventional medicine uses to marginalize lifesaving drug-free alternatives. Why, just 2 weeks ago I told you about the FDA's seizure of a shipment of ordinary herbal teas on the grounds that the tea's sellers were claiming that it was simply good for you (it is, by the way)
Now, I've said before that the ultimate aim of the medical mainstream is to have alternative medicine declared a CRIME. And in yet another step toward that frightening possible eventuality, a Texas man is apparently now being tried in court for the "crime" of embracing complementary medicine therapies instead of the mainstream's drugs and surgery. Bear with me, here, because all I know of this story is from a wide-distribution e-mail I received from the defendant himself. Mr. Marsh's letter begins: "I'm being accused of placing my son in danger by giving him complementary therapies
" From the rest of the brief letter, I was able to infer that this man's son has some form of cancer - and that on December 19th (yep, 3 days from now) the state of Texas plans to try him for criminal negligence or some other, similar charge for his application of non-mainstream treatments for his son's affliction. Remember, I know nothing of this case except what this impassioned note tells me, so I can't make any specific comments about it. But if the one stated fact in this man's letter is true - that he is indeed being charged with a crime for seeking alternatives to risky (and often deadly) mainstream cancer treatments on his son's behalf - then it could be a terrible harbinger of things to come. If the courts are going to intervene in our personal medical decisions, why don't they do so to protect us from conventional treatments? After all, some mainstream cancer therapies (chemotherapy, for one) have such dismal "success" rates and such horrifying side effects that they'd no doubt be considered criminal by the same legal standard this poor Texas man's alternative therapies are being held to - yet you don't see people being tried for using them, do you? Of course not - REAL doctors sanction THOSE treatments. Never mind that conventional MDs are the 3rd leading cause of death in this country (Daily Dose, 3/19)
In the letter, Mr. Marsh implores anyone with an alternative medicine success story involving cancer - or anyone with some expertise in non-mainstream cancer therapies - to appear at the Tarrant County Civil Courts Building in Fort Worth, Texas this coming Friday at 8:30 AM. If you're from those parts, and you want to weigh in (or just want to catch a glimpse of alternative medicine's future if we don't do something about it), drop in. If you can't make it, please go to the forum on my website, www.realhealthnews.com, and share your success stories with him so he may use it in his defense. *********************************************** Fratricide by pesticide I've told them before, but they just won't listen. They're using the WRONG PESTICIDES! And it's killing us. According to recent Reuters article, research reveals that a pesticide called rotenone has been shown to cause cellular trauma that is linked to Parkinson's disease in humans. This finding prompted health officials to test other common pesticides as well, and guess what they found? That poisonous rotenone isn't even the MOST toxic of the pesticides currently in widespread use! Yep, other insect-killers that are even more commonly used than the one initially tested have been shown to result in the exact same types of Parkinson's-linked cellular damage as rotenone - with one variety in particular being significantly more harmful. Why am I harping on this? Well for one thing, I want to raise awareness about a possible cause of Parkinson's disease, and increasingly common affliction here in the U.S. But I also want to use these findings to point out that the SAFEST pesticide the world has ever known isn't linked to Parkinson's disease at all. Or cancer. Or dementia. Or any other serious health problems, for that matter. I'm talking, of course, about DDT, the miraculously side-effect-free lifesaving pesticide that's been banned here in the United States and in many other nations that desperately need it. Why? Because of trumped-up nonsense about thinning the eggshells of Bald Eagles and other birds, allegations which are completely unsupported by any scientific evidence! Meanwhile, we battle West Nile and God knows how many other mosquito-borne viruses with less effective and truly hazardous pesticides like rotenone and its cousins
Thanks a lot, all you green-leaning leftists of the new environmental Marxism! Putting junk science - not real medicine - on trial, William Campbell Douglass II, MD |