Will reiterate,the problems mentioned here compounded by practicing physicians thinking of them selves as scientists...that fallacy best exemplified by fauci declaring he was science...and had never undergone any scientific training at all.
Need to differentiate between physicians who treat patients and those who go into research. Science is a brutal business. No Guinea pigs ever survive. Think about that the next time you hear patients referred to as such.
At the beginning of Covid, I went to the emergency room for an wound that needed stitches. The "doctor" (I think he was a PA), stated that I'd need a tetanus shot. I declined, saying that 1) I'd already bled pretty profusely and 2) I'd taken a homeopathic remedy for any tetanus concerns. He then, in his most condescending tone, informed me that he was a scientist and homeopathy was not evidence based. I merely smiled in amusement and repeated that I didn't need a TdaP or any other vaccine. On my way home I chided myself for being too nice: I should have asked him what research he'd participated in and what papers he'd written. Darn! Great opportunity missed!
While I respectfully disagree with you on the tetanus booster, I know a dude that actually survived tetanus. Y’all wouldn’t ever want to get that horrible disease! I love your willingness to interrogate any pompous jerk. Hugs to you!!
Yes, “take this pill for your weight”; take this pill for anxiety; take this pill for a skin rash”. Never ending commercials for any problem one may have! No mention of getting sunshine, fresh air, walking, changing a diet!
Today we have enlightened medical authorities that recommended we all inject a toxin called a COVID vaccine twice with a two week separation followed by another two week waiting period. Then you will be legally considered fully vaccinated and allowed to access public venues, travel and keep your job. Unless, of course, the injected toxins kill you.
We're betting most of Dr. Malone's regular readers will believe you. And mourn your loss and the loss of so many others who "followed the science" and paid the ultimate price for doing so.
Hard to "like' a comment such as this. I'm so sorry for your losses. What was done to us was criminal and those who participated in pushing this poison and all the horrible NIH hospital protocols should be charged.
Something I learned from Will Falconer, DVM, recently is that even a rabies or kennel cough shot for your animal does not evidence antibodies for two weeks. So, the vet won't examine your dog or cat without a vaccine and a groomer won't bathe or clip without a vaccine, but if you got it that very day, they still have zero protection. Interesting how that works.
When they try to force you to vax your pet for rabies every year (I have indoor only cats and they try to) ask for a titre test to test for active rabies antibodies. All animal vaxes are on the mRNA platform now.
I did titers on my dog for parvo and distemper (because I was weary of being "reminded" about the vaccines). He was still protected against those diseases TWELVE YEARS after he received the vaccines at the shelter the day I adopted him. He'll be 15 in a couple months, he's about 5 and 1/2 pounds, and his last rabies vax will "expire" in October. I'm not allowing another. I anticipate battles with veterinarians in our future.
This is a wonderful article! What a horrible passing for our First President; what a shame the doctors in that time frame kept taking his blood, thinking in their minds, they were doing the proper procedure.
Even worse would be doctors who KNEW this was wrong and did it anyway because, well, it's what we're told we must do and we'll lose our jobs or licenses if we don't.
Even worse would be doctors and hospital ADMIN who KNEW this was wrong, did it anyway, AND instructed (COERCED, FORCED) their staff, to carry out these ridiculous orders.
I have GREAT empathy for medical staffers of all types, below the doctor and Admin level. We need to create a path for these staffers, to come out from beneath this great burden they are under. It's not until then, will we begin to correct these wrongs - as many of them need to tell their story, expose how the Evil Ones, did this to them.
NOT something we learned in history class…. This “I am the science” Fauci and ‘The Grift of Fear’ teaches us not to trust the science that is the new thing of the day. Let’s all use common sense when considering any new and shiny treatments.
Not much has changed, the doctors are now much more effective at killing and disabling. They are trained to kill and maim. Most will never break the programming. 💵💵💵
We need more Whistleblowers - it's a long chain of events, of coercions, that happened at Hospital Board meetings. It's not yet, all unraveled. How did smart sensitive nurses, and staffers - suddenly, become hypnotized? Hospitals were in a Full-On mode of Propaganda Pushing. MANY, MOST hospitals only saw this as an opportunity to make black their then Red Balance Sheets. I witnessed perfectly sane, savvy, sweet, badass nurses, become so Fearful.... they so suddenly, forgot all they knew. Please, let's encourage them to Tell Their Story - How about they tell it to Jeffrey Tucker!
Horrific reading what Washington endured, for what would’ve been best left alone for 8-10 days. Chicken soup, hot tea, and some sunshine would’ve fixed him right up, no doubt.
Real silverware or real silver coins were put into barrels of water for ocean voyages and such— for the purpose of keeping bacteria and algae down.
Imagine if Washington had had some colloidal silver to drink.
I'd like to add my experienced perspective to the theme of this article which I think applies to what we've all been going through of late and to which you have been a great part.
Many years ago, when I first read the circumstances surrounding George Washington's death, that he had had a case of quinsy (severe tonsillitis) +/- a tonsillar abscess with possible airway obstruction, and that he had had about five liters of blood removed, I immediately realized that he had possibly died due to what his physicians had done to him, or least, it had contributed greatly. The lesson to be learned here is that "ideas have consequences". The whole reason why blood-letting was done was because physicians at the time thought that disease was due to having "bad humors" in the body, so the best way to get rid of them was to remove some blood.
It's easy for us to sit here and judge them by using the retro-spectoscope (which is always 20/20) and ask why they did something that we now know was likely counterproductive (except for the different causes of polycythemia). It's important to realize that even though they could see bacteria through the microscope in the late 17th century, it wasn't until the late 19th century (200 years later and 100 years too late for poor GW), that medical science finally figured out "germ theory"--bacteria cause disease and death.
We ourselves should reflect on the fact that we are the midst of a medical transition too. We've seen the pendulum having swung to the extreme of excessive sanitation and multiple vaccinations to it coming back to a common-sense middle-ground position by way of "terrain theory" and "naturally strengthening" (rather than possibly weakening) of our immune systems.
You have been in the vanguard of this transformation not without significant pushback from stakeholders who benefit from these possible errors (still under investigation) and those who have been and continue to be hoodwinked by them.
The point being that medical science, not only research, but especially the practical application of it at the bedside and in the clinic, is not as easy as one thinks, especially now with more and more government regulations, insurance mandates, and malpractice concerns. As a recently retired office, hospital- based and finally, hospice physician who's seen his fair share of brilliant investigations and successfully accomplished complicated treatment plans, along with willful blindness and prideful ignorance regarding patient care, I can say that your readership is benefiting in practical terms from your output while at the same time learning how to, on their own, investigate and discern what to do regarding other medical issues based on your example.
Most hospice physicians have an unusual experience of the transition and extraordinary spiritual experiences to boot! I am glad to see your comments and Dr. Malone thanking you. Hospice care and the training to be a volunteer is where Dannion Brinkley shines! This is an area of care that is too overlooked and missed opportunities to actually see the continuation of the Spirit and the mystical wonders that abound. Thank You Dr. Glicksman.
Thanks. It was a great experience. Actually, for my last ten years I was an independent contractor who concentrated on seeing possibly recoverable patients (non-cancer). It was a lot of fun. Imagine being able to walk in to see patients who've been told that they're terminal with heart failure and tell them (and prove it be doing it) that I can get them better and discharge them (alive) from hospice. I was on a high for ten years.
Germ theory does not explain illness. If it did we'd all get sick every time a new pathogen appeared. Pasteur promoted germ theory, but Béchamp argued that the terrain was everything. When you think about it, Béchamp was right. If the terrain is not compromised, microbes can cause neither disease nor death.
I'm sorry but my experience says otherwise. I think your statement is too strong and doesn't seem to allow for a middle ground of both/and. In medicine we never say "never" and we never say "always". In fact, that was the first thing I noticed that was sounded very wrong about the COVID narrative.
Of course germ theory explains illness, but not necessarily all illness. You've obviously never encountered previously healthy patients who for one reason or another quickly developed gram-negative sepsis. Even with a supposedly prior perfect terrain (after all how can one be sure that one's terrain is not at any given moment becoming compromised) our immune system does have limits and may have difficulty when it encounters some of these really bad bugs, especially if it's been hit by a severe viral infection or has developed some other skin, respiratory, or genitourinary problem.
Now, you may say, "well their terrain was compromised"--well join the crowd, you can't always have a perfect terrain and that's when the germs take hold and cause debility and even death. Although, in principle, you're right, if our terrain is doing well then a normal immune system can usually fight them off before you go septic, but sometimes, despite supposedly being healthy they can take hold.
BTW, based on what you've said one could argue that if "terrain was everything" then, by definition, there would never be any "new pathogens" because a "pathogen" is simply a microorganism (usually bacterium or virus) that causes disease. So, if you were right that "if the terrain is not compromised, microbes can cause neither disease or death" it would mean that there never could be any pathogens.
Of course, most microorganisms are not pathogenic, case in point, our gut microbiome. So, I see where you're coming from and in principle, I agree but I think you need to pull back a bit from the extremity of your position.
Perhaps trying to express myself in only a few sentences wasn't wise. There are some microbes that help to build the immune system. Measles, mumps, chicken pox, other childhood diseases. Colds, too, help the body grow stronger. Fevers are routinely suppressed, yet they are the body's way of killing off the invaders. I believe the body contains innate wisdom and for the most part, Western medicine ignores it.
So many "modern practices" are finally being exposed for the terrible ideas that they always were but there are still many adherents who simply cannot accept that "new" does NOT always mean "better"!
Obviously, the type of significant bloodletting used on George Washington was a bad practice, but the idea behind it might have had some merit. Many women do not develop high blood pressure until menopause, when they no longer lose blood every month, but they all get slapped on meds rather than being told (as I was) that donating blood a couple of times per year might be beneficial. Maybe it's as simple as recognizing that anything done to excess usually leads to poor outcomes!
In the end, what is needed is the one thing that we never seem to be able to accomplish - honest, unbiased evaluations of both procedures and medications, without regard to profit or ego! Not sure why that is such a hard thing to accomplish but it IS the way forward, IMHO...
At least the doctors of the time were following established protocol - stupid, for sure, but believed. But what of the deluded docs of just five years ago, who killed patients with respirators and withheld medications that have proven effective against COVID - solely for political reasons. Including propagating the lie that Trump said to drink pool cleaner. Doctors who did these things were practicing politics; not medicine. Yet have any of these lurid quacks lost their medical licenses or even been disciplined? Why no they have not. Why? Because the same leftist lunatics who infest and infect the DNC also control the AMA and many of the state licensing boards. All need to be excised from our public life like a malignancy is cut out of healthy tissue.
Bruce, It isn't so simple - beyond all the medical system folks, what about all the employees of the pharma-industrial complex? And the workers who advertise and produce Glyphosate/Roundup?
True but different issues. Big pharma doe some good things but has to be reformed and reined in. Spraying herbicides on consumable plants seems nuts to me. Why that was allowed in the first place needs to be investigated.
What a terrible ending for President Washington! You’re right, things haven’t changed much. Now there are drugs for everything and vaccines too.
My husband and I have agreed to not take any new drugs that have not been thoroughly tested. By tested I mean used by hundreds of thousands of people with few harmful side effects. That leaves out the new junk they are delivering. We are going for natural treatments as much as possible. I have experienced several situations where physicians following the “science” caused harm; deafness in one ear from streptomycin, neuropathy from the Shingrix vaccine, thyroid and parathyroid surgery because of radiation treatments to my ear as a child and meningioma from depo-provera shots. Enough!! I’m done!
Benjamin Rush, the physician who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and an enthusiastic promoter of bleeding and calomel (mercury medicine), is frequently cited for this quote: “Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others. The Constitution of the Republic should make special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedoms.” Historians say that was misattributed to Rush, and might have been derived from an actual lecture he gave when he said “Conferring exclusive privileges upon bodies of physicians, and forbidding men of equal talents and knowledge, under severe penalties from practicing medicine within certain districts of cities and countries. Such institutions, however sanctioned by ancient charters and names, are the Bastilles of our science.”
It's interesting that he had the foresight to see how his profession would monopolize the healing arts, as has occurred with mainstream medicine ostracizing or persecuting practitioners of alternative medicine, such as homeopathy, chiropractic, herbal medicine, and others. The misattributed quote, however, is especially timely now with the health freedom movement. Perhaps medical freedom should be included in the Constitution, because it directly involves life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, which the Declaration of Independence says we are entitled to. Getting such a constitutional amendment at this point would be quite an uphill ordeal.
Yes, I know all about that. If you want a good history of what preceded that, read Harris Coulter’s Divided Legacy, Volume III: The Conflict Between Homeopathy and the American Medical Association. Ironically, John D. Rockefeller, who hired Flexner (along with Andrew Carnegie), was a fan of homeopathy, but he wanted petroleum- and chemical-based medicine to profit off of.
Yes, I’ve always found it ironic that Rockefeller wanted homeopathy for his family, but allowed his greed to be harnessed to eliminating homeopathy for the rest of us.
The AMA was formed to "stamp out the scourge of homeopathy". Allopathic physicians were losing patients to homeopathy. Interesting side note: we use "allopathic" as a term, yet no one seems to know it was coined by Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy.
"Necessary. Medical skill. Protocols. Best Practices. Standards of Care. Death. No one knows why: just a yielding to the forces of disorder."
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This explains everything that happened before, everything happening now, and -- sadly -- everything likely to happen in the future. Unless we stop "trusting the science and experts" and start trusting repeated and repeatable anecdotes and our own lying eyes.
How many more lives, liberties, and livelihoods must we sacrifice at the altars of experts and science?
We pray that vaccine "science" and hospital "protocols" will soon go the way of blood letting, lobotomies, and the do-do bird.
Thanks for the grim history of medicine reminder that all is not well. If George Washington can be killed on the sacrificial altar of modern medicine then so can any other citizen of the United States. In point of fact, we just witnessed our whole country and then the world citizenry sacrificed for a faulty medical paradigm with modRNA gene therapy vaccines. It’s a dangerous world everywhere. And yet, the confident medical, scientific, government, and intelligence officials who orchestrated the euthanasia are still in positions of authority to do the unthinkable all over again. It’s safe, secure, and efficacious all for our good. Black humor like the black plague is much too real.
I was thinking of the Shamans and other respected healers of alternative approaches. They used various known herbs, roots and other forms of medicinal approaches with consideration of the need for balance of the emotional, mental and spiritual bodies. Seldom was the whole person not taken into consideration. The same is required for today's needs for health in addition to improved methods of simple sanitation and surgery when necessary. Hospitals are some of the most dangerous sources of infection, why have we not figured this out yet and remedied it?
That is something that has long disturbed me. Despite the prevailing idea that hospitals are sterile environments, a scary number of people are exposed to infections in hospitals that they would never have encountered elsewhere. The fact that nothing is done, despite the fact that we have long known how to sterilize things, is intentional carelessness.
Will reiterate,the problems mentioned here compounded by practicing physicians thinking of them selves as scientists...that fallacy best exemplified by fauci declaring he was science...and had never undergone any scientific training at all.
Correct...the fauci fallacy science is so idiotic it is laughable on it's face.
Fauxi was a funny permutation by a buddy of mine btw.
But I thought doctors were scientists?
Need to differentiate between physicians who treat patients and those who go into research. Science is a brutal business. No Guinea pigs ever survive. Think about that the next time you hear patients referred to as such.
Thanks for delineating.
At the beginning of Covid, I went to the emergency room for an wound that needed stitches. The "doctor" (I think he was a PA), stated that I'd need a tetanus shot. I declined, saying that 1) I'd already bled pretty profusely and 2) I'd taken a homeopathic remedy for any tetanus concerns. He then, in his most condescending tone, informed me that he was a scientist and homeopathy was not evidence based. I merely smiled in amusement and repeated that I didn't need a TdaP or any other vaccine. On my way home I chided myself for being too nice: I should have asked him what research he'd participated in and what papers he'd written. Darn! Great opportunity missed!
While I respectfully disagree with you on the tetanus booster, I know a dude that actually survived tetanus. Y’all wouldn’t ever want to get that horrible disease! I love your willingness to interrogate any pompous jerk. Hugs to you!!
Without a doubt
In the “old days” we had bleeders. Now we have Pill Pushers……
Has anything really changed? Too much of anything isn’t a good thing.
Yes, “take this pill for your weight”; take this pill for anxiety; take this pill for a skin rash”. Never ending commercials for any problem one may have! No mention of getting sunshine, fresh air, walking, changing a diet!
Something not mentioned on those pharma ads is the cost which for some of the most advertised runs into thousands of dollars
Today we have enlightened medical authorities that recommended we all inject a toxin called a COVID vaccine twice with a two week separation followed by another two week waiting period. Then you will be legally considered fully vaccinated and allowed to access public venues, travel and keep your job. Unless, of course, the injected toxins kill you.
I know most won’t believe me… but I lost an aunt AND an uncle to vaccine within two weeks of injection. I believe it is the killer.
We're betting most of Dr. Malone's regular readers will believe you. And mourn your loss and the loss of so many others who "followed the science" and paid the ultimate price for doing so.
I believe you.
I daresay the "vaccines" killed more people than COVID - particularly the ones who just got COVID and didn't have severe underlying illnesses.
Hard to "like' a comment such as this. I'm so sorry for your losses. What was done to us was criminal and those who participated in pushing this poison and all the horrible NIH hospital protocols should be charged.
Something I learned from Will Falconer, DVM, recently is that even a rabies or kennel cough shot for your animal does not evidence antibodies for two weeks. So, the vet won't examine your dog or cat without a vaccine and a groomer won't bathe or clip without a vaccine, but if you got it that very day, they still have zero protection. Interesting how that works.
When they try to force you to vax your pet for rabies every year (I have indoor only cats and they try to) ask for a titre test to test for active rabies antibodies. All animal vaxes are on the mRNA platform now.
I did titers on my dog for parvo and distemper (because I was weary of being "reminded" about the vaccines). He was still protected against those diseases TWELVE YEARS after he received the vaccines at the shelter the day I adopted him. He'll be 15 in a couple months, he's about 5 and 1/2 pounds, and his last rabies vax will "expire" in October. I'm not allowing another. I anticipate battles with veterinarians in our future.
Lack of titres doesn't mean lack of immunity, as titres measure only the antibody level. There's still cellular immunity. Check out vitalanimal.com, and especially https://vitalanimal.com/vaccines-and-holistic-vets/ and https://vitalanimal.com/rabies-short-course/ (free), as well as, on the same site, Rabies: Knowledge is Power.
Or until the boosters come out!!
The old cliche is true. “The more things change, the more they stay the same”.☹️
This is a wonderful article! What a horrible passing for our First President; what a shame the doctors in that time frame kept taking his blood, thinking in their minds, they were doing the proper procedure.
Even worse would be doctors who KNEW this was wrong and did it anyway because, well, it's what we're told we must do and we'll lose our jobs or licenses if we don't.
Even worse would be doctors and hospital ADMIN who KNEW this was wrong, did it anyway, AND instructed (COERCED, FORCED) their staff, to carry out these ridiculous orders.
I have GREAT empathy for medical staffers of all types, below the doctor and Admin level. We need to create a path for these staffers, to come out from beneath this great burden they are under. It's not until then, will we begin to correct these wrongs - as many of them need to tell their story, expose how the Evil Ones, did this to them.
It's odd that they never made the connection to animal slaughter. During that time, many animals were slaughtered by bleeding them out.
Joy, Very good point!
NOT something we learned in history class…. This “I am the science” Fauci and ‘The Grift of Fear’ teaches us not to trust the science that is the new thing of the day. Let’s all use common sense when considering any new and shiny treatments.
Wise words, and I live by it now!!
Not much has changed, the doctors are now much more effective at killing and disabling. They are trained to kill and maim. Most will never break the programming. 💵💵💵
And most won't even know they've been programmed. That's the biggest shame of all.
We need more Whistleblowers - it's a long chain of events, of coercions, that happened at Hospital Board meetings. It's not yet, all unraveled. How did smart sensitive nurses, and staffers - suddenly, become hypnotized? Hospitals were in a Full-On mode of Propaganda Pushing. MANY, MOST hospitals only saw this as an opportunity to make black their then Red Balance Sheets. I witnessed perfectly sane, savvy, sweet, badass nurses, become so Fearful.... they so suddenly, forgot all they knew. Please, let's encourage them to Tell Their Story - How about they tell it to Jeffrey Tucker!
Mass hysteria and I think that was put forth by the same Dr. Malone. I believe it.
Horrific reading what Washington endured, for what would’ve been best left alone for 8-10 days. Chicken soup, hot tea, and some sunshine would’ve fixed him right up, no doubt.
Real silverware or real silver coins were put into barrels of water for ocean voyages and such— for the purpose of keeping bacteria and algae down.
Imagine if Washington had had some colloidal silver to drink.
Dear Dr. Malone
I'd like to add my experienced perspective to the theme of this article which I think applies to what we've all been going through of late and to which you have been a great part.
Many years ago, when I first read the circumstances surrounding George Washington's death, that he had had a case of quinsy (severe tonsillitis) +/- a tonsillar abscess with possible airway obstruction, and that he had had about five liters of blood removed, I immediately realized that he had possibly died due to what his physicians had done to him, or least, it had contributed greatly. The lesson to be learned here is that "ideas have consequences". The whole reason why blood-letting was done was because physicians at the time thought that disease was due to having "bad humors" in the body, so the best way to get rid of them was to remove some blood.
It's easy for us to sit here and judge them by using the retro-spectoscope (which is always 20/20) and ask why they did something that we now know was likely counterproductive (except for the different causes of polycythemia). It's important to realize that even though they could see bacteria through the microscope in the late 17th century, it wasn't until the late 19th century (200 years later and 100 years too late for poor GW), that medical science finally figured out "germ theory"--bacteria cause disease and death.
We ourselves should reflect on the fact that we are the midst of a medical transition too. We've seen the pendulum having swung to the extreme of excessive sanitation and multiple vaccinations to it coming back to a common-sense middle-ground position by way of "terrain theory" and "naturally strengthening" (rather than possibly weakening) of our immune systems.
You have been in the vanguard of this transformation not without significant pushback from stakeholders who benefit from these possible errors (still under investigation) and those who have been and continue to be hoodwinked by them.
The point being that medical science, not only research, but especially the practical application of it at the bedside and in the clinic, is not as easy as one thinks, especially now with more and more government regulations, insurance mandates, and malpractice concerns. As a recently retired office, hospital- based and finally, hospice physician who's seen his fair share of brilliant investigations and successfully accomplished complicated treatment plans, along with willful blindness and prideful ignorance regarding patient care, I can say that your readership is benefiting in practical terms from your output while at the same time learning how to, on their own, investigate and discern what to do regarding other medical issues based on your example.
Thanks
Thank you for your kind words
Most hospice physicians have an unusual experience of the transition and extraordinary spiritual experiences to boot! I am glad to see your comments and Dr. Malone thanking you. Hospice care and the training to be a volunteer is where Dannion Brinkley shines! This is an area of care that is too overlooked and missed opportunities to actually see the continuation of the Spirit and the mystical wonders that abound. Thank You Dr. Glicksman.
Thanks. It was a great experience. Actually, for my last ten years I was an independent contractor who concentrated on seeing possibly recoverable patients (non-cancer). It was a lot of fun. Imagine being able to walk in to see patients who've been told that they're terminal with heart failure and tell them (and prove it be doing it) that I can get them better and discharge them (alive) from hospice. I was on a high for ten years.
I know it's late, but for me your response requires deeper investigation. I would be on a high the rest of my life. This is the Power of The Divine.
Germ theory does not explain illness. If it did we'd all get sick every time a new pathogen appeared. Pasteur promoted germ theory, but Béchamp argued that the terrain was everything. When you think about it, Béchamp was right. If the terrain is not compromised, microbes can cause neither disease nor death.
Joy
I'm sorry but my experience says otherwise. I think your statement is too strong and doesn't seem to allow for a middle ground of both/and. In medicine we never say "never" and we never say "always". In fact, that was the first thing I noticed that was sounded very wrong about the COVID narrative.
Of course germ theory explains illness, but not necessarily all illness. You've obviously never encountered previously healthy patients who for one reason or another quickly developed gram-negative sepsis. Even with a supposedly prior perfect terrain (after all how can one be sure that one's terrain is not at any given moment becoming compromised) our immune system does have limits and may have difficulty when it encounters some of these really bad bugs, especially if it's been hit by a severe viral infection or has developed some other skin, respiratory, or genitourinary problem.
Now, you may say, "well their terrain was compromised"--well join the crowd, you can't always have a perfect terrain and that's when the germs take hold and cause debility and even death. Although, in principle, you're right, if our terrain is doing well then a normal immune system can usually fight them off before you go septic, but sometimes, despite supposedly being healthy they can take hold.
BTW, based on what you've said one could argue that if "terrain was everything" then, by definition, there would never be any "new pathogens" because a "pathogen" is simply a microorganism (usually bacterium or virus) that causes disease. So, if you were right that "if the terrain is not compromised, microbes can cause neither disease or death" it would mean that there never could be any pathogens.
Of course, most microorganisms are not pathogenic, case in point, our gut microbiome. So, I see where you're coming from and in principle, I agree but I think you need to pull back a bit from the extremity of your position.
Dr. G.
Perhaps trying to express myself in only a few sentences wasn't wise. There are some microbes that help to build the immune system. Measles, mumps, chicken pox, other childhood diseases. Colds, too, help the body grow stronger. Fevers are routinely suppressed, yet they are the body's way of killing off the invaders. I believe the body contains innate wisdom and for the most part, Western medicine ignores it.
Agreed!!
Howard, Thank you for calling out the popular use of absolutes in statements of subjective belief.
So many "modern practices" are finally being exposed for the terrible ideas that they always were but there are still many adherents who simply cannot accept that "new" does NOT always mean "better"!
Obviously, the type of significant bloodletting used on George Washington was a bad practice, but the idea behind it might have had some merit. Many women do not develop high blood pressure until menopause, when they no longer lose blood every month, but they all get slapped on meds rather than being told (as I was) that donating blood a couple of times per year might be beneficial. Maybe it's as simple as recognizing that anything done to excess usually leads to poor outcomes!
In the end, what is needed is the one thing that we never seem to be able to accomplish - honest, unbiased evaluations of both procedures and medications, without regard to profit or ego! Not sure why that is such a hard thing to accomplish but it IS the way forward, IMHO...
At least the doctors of the time were following established protocol - stupid, for sure, but believed. But what of the deluded docs of just five years ago, who killed patients with respirators and withheld medications that have proven effective against COVID - solely for political reasons. Including propagating the lie that Trump said to drink pool cleaner. Doctors who did these things were practicing politics; not medicine. Yet have any of these lurid quacks lost their medical licenses or even been disciplined? Why no they have not. Why? Because the same leftist lunatics who infest and infect the DNC also control the AMA and many of the state licensing boards. All need to be excised from our public life like a malignancy is cut out of healthy tissue.
yep purely for political reasons! fauci should be in prison!
Bruce, It isn't so simple - beyond all the medical system folks, what about all the employees of the pharma-industrial complex? And the workers who advertise and produce Glyphosate/Roundup?
True but different issues. Big pharma doe some good things but has to be reformed and reined in. Spraying herbicides on consumable plants seems nuts to me. Why that was allowed in the first place needs to be investigated.
What a terrible ending for President Washington! You’re right, things haven’t changed much. Now there are drugs for everything and vaccines too.
My husband and I have agreed to not take any new drugs that have not been thoroughly tested. By tested I mean used by hundreds of thousands of people with few harmful side effects. That leaves out the new junk they are delivering. We are going for natural treatments as much as possible. I have experienced several situations where physicians following the “science” caused harm; deafness in one ear from streptomycin, neuropathy from the Shingrix vaccine, thyroid and parathyroid surgery because of radiation treatments to my ear as a child and meningioma from depo-provera shots. Enough!! I’m done!
Benjamin Rush, the physician who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and an enthusiastic promoter of bleeding and calomel (mercury medicine), is frequently cited for this quote: “Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others. The Constitution of the Republic should make special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedoms.” Historians say that was misattributed to Rush, and might have been derived from an actual lecture he gave when he said “Conferring exclusive privileges upon bodies of physicians, and forbidding men of equal talents and knowledge, under severe penalties from practicing medicine within certain districts of cities and countries. Such institutions, however sanctioned by ancient charters and names, are the Bastilles of our science.”
It's interesting that he had the foresight to see how his profession would monopolize the healing arts, as has occurred with mainstream medicine ostracizing or persecuting practitioners of alternative medicine, such as homeopathy, chiropractic, herbal medicine, and others. The misattributed quote, however, is especially timely now with the health freedom movement. Perhaps medical freedom should be included in the Constitution, because it directly involves life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, which the Declaration of Independence says we are entitled to. Getting such a constitutional amendment at this point would be quite an uphill ordeal.
The Saturday Night Live skit about medieval doctors also echoes how modern medicine is practiced. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edIi6hYpUoQ
Our unalienable right to life guaranteed us in the Declaration of Independence. What is needed is a protection of that promise
Look up the 1910 Flexner Report if you've never heard of it. Pure regulatory capture at the behest of the AMA.
Yes, I know all about that. If you want a good history of what preceded that, read Harris Coulter’s Divided Legacy, Volume III: The Conflict Between Homeopathy and the American Medical Association. Ironically, John D. Rockefeller, who hired Flexner (along with Andrew Carnegie), was a fan of homeopathy, but he wanted petroleum- and chemical-based medicine to profit off of.
Yes, I’ve always found it ironic that Rockefeller wanted homeopathy for his family, but allowed his greed to be harnessed to eliminating homeopathy for the rest of us.
The AMA was formed to "stamp out the scourge of homeopathy". Allopathic physicians were losing patients to homeopathy. Interesting side note: we use "allopathic" as a term, yet no one seems to know it was coined by Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy.
VERY fitting SNL skit!
Classic skit from the classic days of SNL. Simply wow.
For a scary look at old time medicine, catch the movie “The Madness of King George.”
"Necessary. Medical skill. Protocols. Best Practices. Standards of Care. Death. No one knows why: just a yielding to the forces of disorder."
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This explains everything that happened before, everything happening now, and -- sadly -- everything likely to happen in the future. Unless we stop "trusting the science and experts" and start trusting repeated and repeatable anecdotes and our own lying eyes.
How many more lives, liberties, and livelihoods must we sacrifice at the altars of experts and science?
We pray that vaccine "science" and hospital "protocols" will soon go the way of blood letting, lobotomies, and the do-do bird.
Thanks for the grim history of medicine reminder that all is not well. If George Washington can be killed on the sacrificial altar of modern medicine then so can any other citizen of the United States. In point of fact, we just witnessed our whole country and then the world citizenry sacrificed for a faulty medical paradigm with modRNA gene therapy vaccines. It’s a dangerous world everywhere. And yet, the confident medical, scientific, government, and intelligence officials who orchestrated the euthanasia are still in positions of authority to do the unthinkable all over again. It’s safe, secure, and efficacious all for our good. Black humor like the black plague is much too real.
I was thinking of the Shamans and other respected healers of alternative approaches. They used various known herbs, roots and other forms of medicinal approaches with consideration of the need for balance of the emotional, mental and spiritual bodies. Seldom was the whole person not taken into consideration. The same is required for today's needs for health in addition to improved methods of simple sanitation and surgery when necessary. Hospitals are some of the most dangerous sources of infection, why have we not figured this out yet and remedied it?
That is something that has long disturbed me. Despite the prevailing idea that hospitals are sterile environments, a scary number of people are exposed to infections in hospitals that they would never have encountered elsewhere. The fact that nothing is done, despite the fact that we have long known how to sterilize things, is intentional carelessness.
well the democrats and pelosi imprisoned that peaceful shaman from j6 who was helping police! DELIBERATE! EVIL!
But I'm talking about traditional Shamans, not that guy...