Since spending time looking through responses to various alt. health articles I came to think that perhaps many people out there are pretty ignorant about the topic or else the place is invaded by shills from the pharmaceutical and medical establishment. Actually, I think its almost funny how supposedly educated or otherwise intelligent people can be so trusting and uninformed of the medical reality of the world. They seem to know nothing about the history of the war on alternative medicine and the way new paradigms emerge. They rely on the trusted authorities of conventional wisdom without looking for alternatives.
For a while theres been a certain commentator who I'll simply call Erie (not a real name) thats frequents "lefty" sites and supposedly has a background in science. One of the first comments I saw by them they dismissed that early puberty can be caused by endocrine-disruptors. Then another that dismissed that food has anything to do with health. Then said that organic food is "false claims." Then they accused another commentator of selling a product because they were called "the enemy."
Actually, Erie is a common example of the arrogant, narcissistic, bigoted attitude of the cult of scientism. They always trust the corporate-medical establishment yet accuse alternative medicine of being nothing but "profiteering." Then these same elites wonder why people are turning to the internet for answers to their problems.
But why do individuals like Erie, who are supposedly educated, seem ignorant of the history of suppression and corruption by the establishment? Hey, blaming everything in the world on profiteering is too simplistic after awhile. You could say as some others do that credentials are the mark of the beast and academia the inner circles of hell. Okay, thats only what some say. From what I've heard its a pretty narrow-minded place that doesn't place much value on real truth.
What are some of the examples of issues being politicized and then totally manipulated by the establishment and corporate-dominated establishments alike?
To start: natural medicine, fluoride, tobacco, DDT, plastics, GMOs, science itself, universities, organic food, mercury, illnesses not recognized by conventional med., and etc.
- Individuals who seek out alternative health are not "dupes" or "stupid" they simply are the type who go outside the mainstream. They naturally distrust authorities and never wanted conventional med. to begin with as they tend to distrust doctors. So what? People should have the right to decide their own healthcare.
- The gatekeepers of the drug paradigm claim that alternative med. is simply profiteering yet conventional med. is the biggest profiteer of all. The vast pharmaceutical-medical industry was built on profit and rakes in billions of dollars every year and with a whole army of shills to gatekeep for them on the internet. Enter the dark world of corporate espionage. Do herbalists and naturopaths have lobbyists in Washington? Do the high authorities even do anything except dismiss vitamins, herbs, energy medicine? The drug paradigm has a monopoly over healthcare in US, not alt. health.
- Labeling something as anecdotal, anti-anything, and not standard practice is a way to simply discredit or get rid of it altogether. The wiping someone off the face of credibility has been going on for years. Though it may be standard practice in conventional med. doesn't make it correct or good.
- Do the gatekeepers know anything about the history of the war on alternative medicine? How alternative health practitioners have been persecuted and suppressed simply for healing. Going back to the late 1800s when homeopathic physicians were first persecuted by the new conventional doctor establishment. And why were the homeopathic physicians being persecuted? Because they were highly affective in healing peoples illness and thus competed with the conventional establishment. Then through the last 100 years the truth about vitamins healing ability has been widely ridiculed in mainstream media and by corporate-medical establishment. Today as it becomes mainstream alt. health is losing its original idea as happens all the time when things become mainstream. Its just another form of suppression.
- Do they know that the status quo is followed by government agencies and corporations alike set by those very same establishments? I know I sound like a conspiracy theorist, but just look at the arrogance of establishments as they refuse to look outside the drug paradigm. Anyone who even dares to question the pharma dogma is demonized and run out and even when they do have scientific evidence for alt. therapies they still get dismissed and demonized.
To be continued...