A cure for cancer will never happen unless..

One of the con­se­quences of decades of grow­ing cor­po­ratism — gov­ern­ments in bed with large cor­po­ra­tions — is the unbe­liev­able power of the phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal indus­try. Decide for your­self if the fol­low­ing state­ments are likely true or at least could be true.

1. A cure for can­cer will never hap­pen because treat­ing can­cer is much more prof­itable.
2. If a cure for a major dis­ease is offered then only if it involves big­ger prof­its than treat­ing it — think e.g. AIDS.
3. If we had a healthy diet and active lifestyle we would ruin our  eco­nomic sys­tem — not just the phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal industry.

 

Could it be that our eco­nomic sys­tem is not ade­quate for what most humans want and need? Here is an excel­lent 5 min video about the "Most Aston­ish­ing Health Dis­as­ter of the 20th Century".

If you still have the time (10min) for a more spe­cific exam­ple how you may have been mis­guided by big Pharma and the media watch this inter­view with Ron Rosedale, MD. Dr, Rosedale is a nation­ally known expert in nutri­tional and meta­bolic med­i­cine, speaks about com­mon cho­les­terol "dis­tor­tions", and exposes the decep­tions and mis­con­cep­tions that you have been told about cholesterol’s impact on your health. A friend­lier but I believe also more naïve term to use would be over­sim­pli­fi­ca­tion that favours fear and over-consumption (of sell­ing cho­les­terol low­er­ing drugs in this case).

What is "bad" cho­les­terol exactly?

Here is an excel­lent health blog with details to answer the cho­les­terol ques­tion. Or watch the video below:

How do I know that this is finally the truth? Well, I don't but I tend to believe things that make sense in the world I know.

Also many decep­tions are not very deep and become very obvi­ous ("over­sim­pli­fi­ca­tions") upon dig­ging a lit­tle deeper  — which many peo­ple don't as they trust the (cor­po­rate) media would inform us of such big issues. Judg­ing the strength of the motif is the key if evi­dence is less reli­able or avail­able to reveal reli­able mean­ing­ful information.

Do we need a con­spir­acy of a few peo­ple pulling these things (e.g. "cho­les­terol or HDL is always bad") off? No, we just need the profit motive, cor­po­ratism and the human mind.

High cho­les­terol has been adver­tised in sev­eral coun­tries a deadly com­mon dis­ease — of course not with­out men­tion­ing the name of the pill that you can buy to save your life. High cho­les­terol was not adver­tised as one of many con­di­tions that can lead to heart disease.

Most other con­di­tions require life style changes like exer­cise and health­ier eat­ing habits — for which no pill can be sold. Fear mon­ger­ing and dis­ease mon­ger­ing e.g. the cre­ation of new "dis­eases" like shy­ness or a low sex drive, depres­sion, hair loss.. with the ulti­mate goal to sell a pill is extremely effec­tive in cre­at­ing mil­lions of dol­lars for big Pharma.

I can highly rec­om­mend the best-selling book "Bad Sci­ence" by med­ical doc­tor Ben Goldacre to those inter­ested in decep­tions in par­tic­u­lar in phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal sci­ence.  You may also find his blog very use­ful. He (and I) also highly rec­om­mends "Test­ing Treat­ments" is an excel­lent book on evi­dence based med­i­cine (also expos­ing many com­mon "mis­takes") that is even avail­able — for free and in sev­eral lan­guages — as pdf.

Strange things humans do.