tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post8219392590777893096..comments2024-03-24T08:26:00.732+00:00Comments on photopol: Their job, your lifePólóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08661092894104384856noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-20027185956147503642021-10-05T10:22:35.670+01:002021-10-05T10:22:35.670+01:00Sadly it is not possible to edit comments in Blogg...Sadly it is not possible to edit comments in Blogger once they are published.<br /><br />I have referenced an article in the comments above but the link no longer works and I don't remember the title of the article. So I went to the original site and this is a link to an article along the lines of the one I originally linked to.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.health-science-spirit.com/Healing_the_Body/Are-most-diseases-caused-by-Medical-System.html" rel="nofollow">Link</a><br /><br />The recommendations of the article are:<br /><br />There is a simple low-cost solution for bringing about the healing of our society:<br /><i><br />1. Phase out public assistance for pharmaceutical companies and their research, and require research to show that a drug is safe with long-term use in combination with other common drugs and chemicals and with old or fragile patients, or alternatively that it is superior in the long-term to available natural treatments<br /><br />2. Make it illegal for pharmaceutical companies to fund medical education or provide drug information, marketing or incentives directly to the public or to medical practitioners, or to employ former health officials. Information to medical practitioners should be provided by an independent and impartial body<br /><br />3. Except for unethical conduct according to general society standards, make it illegal for medical associations to restrict the therapies used by their members<br /><br />4. Afford qualified practitioners of natural medicine the same recognition and opportunities as those of drug medicine, including in hospitals, rehabilitation, research and publications, health departments and regulating authorities.</i><br /><br />I can't guarantee the validity of the examples quoted in the article but certainly the recommendations seem sensible to me.Pólóhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08661092894104384856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-15346517499346082222012-11-14T09:38:59.965+00:002012-11-14T09:38:59.965+00:00Starve Big Pharma and help your heart. Check out t...Starve Big Pharma and help your heart. Check out this <a href="http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/healthscience/2012/October/Cholesterol-Myth-What-Really-Causes-Heart-Disease/" rel="nofollow">article</a>.<br />Pólóhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08661092894104384856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-30213549823097393382012-04-18T21:36:50.160+01:002012-04-18T21:36:50.160+01:00I'm a agreat fan of Pat Ingoldsby. He is a san...I'm a agreat fan of Pat Ingoldsby. He is a sane sane man in a mad mad world. He inherits the mantle of Spike Milligan as far as I'm concerned.<br /><br />I particularly liked this poem of his from 1995, which I have just come across: <br /><br /><i>SINGULAR<br /><br />I think that doctors should only ask<br />"And how are we this morning?"<br />when they are addressing the occupants<br />of a double bed.</i><br /><br />Says it all.<br /><br />.Pólóhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08661092894104384856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-25386813755037565082012-01-05T09:00:17.429+00:002012-01-05T09:00:17.429+00:00This article merits a thorough forensic and scient...This <a href="http://www.health-science-spirit.com/medicaldisease.html" rel="nofollow">article</a> merits a thorough forensic and scientific analysis.<br /><br />While it is always difficult to evaluate the claims of writers in the health area, both conventional and natural, I must say a lot of this resonates with me.<br /><br />We, the public, have a tendency to trust the authorities and fear the consequences of not heeding their advice, all the more so in the area of health. However, the recent financial meltdown, and the delusional reaction of the authorities to it, should wake up people's individual critical faculties and provoke a thorough analysis of the system of <a href="http://photopol.blogspot.com/2007/10/upsidedown-world.html" rel="nofollow">incentives</a> which effectively determine how we live or die.<br /><br />The difficulty of carrying out, not to mention evaluating, basic research is enormous. Financial rewards favour the most interventionist and production intensive "remedies". The authorities who should be looking after the long term interests of people in general are more often than not compromised.<br /><br />The lack of basic epidemiological questioning, such as is set out in the <a href="http://www.health-science-spirit.com/medicaldisease.html" rel="nofollow">article</a> referenced at the beginning of this comment, is frightening. <br /><br />I am sceptical of spurious statistical correlations and of premature claims of cause and effect. But a good researcher leaves no avenue unexplored and only makes claims according as firm evidence is accumulated. It is frightening to think that this process is often/usually inhibited from the outset by entrenched interests.<br /><br />This is the globalisation of protectionism, two terms that used to be mutually exclusive, at least in the economics I learned at a younger and more innocent age.<br /><br />Having read the above <a href="http://www.health-science-spirit.com/medicaldisease.html" rel="nofollow">article</a>, and remembering a comment made by my dentist when he removed the last of my rotting teeth, I think he may have saved my life. <br /><br />Read the <a href="http://www.health-science-spirit.com/medicaldisease.html" rel="nofollow">article</a>.Pólóhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08661092894104384856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-29730931784254505792011-10-14T14:08:36.165+01:002011-10-14T14:08:36.165+01:00Don't forget 18 October 2011 is Iatrogenic Ill...Don't forget 18 October 2011 is Iatrogenic Illness Venting Day.<br /><br />Follow it on Twitter at #iivd and keep that stream posted on what and where you are venting.Pólóhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08661092894104384856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-83129060884319940602011-04-13T03:18:13.347+01:002011-04-13T03:18:13.347+01:00Great post, but a nail still needs to be driven ho...Great post, but a nail still needs to be driven home.<br />One of the few countries with really good quality and affordable healthcare is Belorussia. Why?<br />Because, basically it still works as a socialist coutry, meaning business hasn't got a grip on everything like it has, say, in Ireland. The only way to restore decent Public Service is to destroy capitalism. Generally speaking, but especially for a country like Ireland. You can try to put up with the nonsense the bosses and their lackeys the politicians are imposing on the people, or you can organise for a society run by the people, and that works for the people, not on their backs and to the benefit of 10% of fat cats. It all comes down to deciding: what kind of society do we want to live in?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-42523555387694815642010-11-01T10:57:04.774+00:002010-11-01T10:57:04.774+00:00Slim picking left for any vultures, medical or oth...Slim picking left for any vultures, medical or otherwise, from that poor dog's life.Jonathannoreply@blogger.com