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Bad Medicine

The days of ‘doctor knows best’ are long gone. Conventional medicine is failing us. Sure, it’s great when it’s great. But too often it lets people down, harms them, wastes money and fails to do more good than harm. Doctors know almost nothing about nutrition – prescribing drugs that mask symptoms and failing to get at the cause.

Below are just a fraction of the disaster stories that should give us all pause for thought.

Then and now — Debate Suppressed in UK Parliament — Thalidomide and Covid Vaccine

September 19, 2023September 19, 2023 by Afifah Hamilton

Read Time: < 1 minAndrew Bridgen MP explains how discussion of the Thalidomide scandal was crushed in the House of Commons during the late 60’s and early 1970’s, despite overwhelming …

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Categories Bad Medicine, Video Tags COVID-19, thalidomide, vaccine damage, video

Jordan Peterson resurfaces after medical hell that nearly killed him

July 1, 2020June 30, 2020 by Afifah Hamilton

Read Time: 3 minThis eye-opening, heart wrenching video of Professor Peterson’s struggle with prescription medicine dependency is a salutary tale of medical incompetence.

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Categories Bad Medicine, Video

Coronavirus hysteria – is the cure worse than the disease?

April 5, 2020April 1, 2020 by Keir Watson

Read Time: 10 minIn the panic around Covid-19 scientific standards have been lost, the economy crashed and untold harm inflicted. Scientists, judges and journalists are starting to speak out.

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Categories Bad Medicine, In the News Tags Bad Science, coronavirus, COVID-19, video

Corruption of medical research in the words of the world’s top journal editors

March 7, 2021January 15, 2020 by Afifah Hamilton

Read Time: 4 minAccording to Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, “Evidence-based medicine is actually so corrupt as to be useless or harmful” — 10 others speak out.

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Categories Bad Medicine, Quotes Tags Bad Science, Douglas Altman, Dr Arnold Relman, Dr Richard Smith, Fiona Godlee, Marcia Angell, peer review, Peter Gøtzsche

Dr Jason Fung on the corruption in medical science

December 15, 2019December 5, 2019 by Afifah Hamilton

Read Time: 2 minIn this brilliant presentation Dr Jason Fung demonstrates the layers of corruption that undermine the medical research, journals, guidelines and doctors.

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Categories Bad Medicine, Video Tags conflict of interest, corruption, Jason Fung, publication bias

The Contagious Diseases Acts 1864 and The History of Spermatorrhoea

April 25, 2021November 10, 2019 by Afifah Hamilton

Read Time: 6 minComments on two lectures: (1) The Contagious Diseases Acts (2) The History of Spermatorrhoea — the little known ‘Male Hysteria’

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Categories Bad Medicine, WSHoMSoc Tags Bad Medicine, Claude Francois Lallemand, sexually transmitted diseases, Spermatorrhoea

Do you still trust your doctor? Read on…

June 5, 2019June 7, 2018 by Afifah Hamilton

Read Time: 7 minPeople assume their physicians keep abreast of the latest research. But how many papers do they read each month? How many journals do they subscribe to? The truth is shocking…

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Categories Bad Medicine, Rants

Curing patients is bad for business – Big Pharma admits

December 10, 2019May 5, 2018 by Afifah Hamilton

Read Time: 3 minGoldman Sachs reveals that curing patients is a bad business model. The appalling depths of profit-driven medicine threaten all of us.

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Categories Bad Medicine Tags Bad Medicine, big Pharma, profit

Is the NHS a zombie no one is brave enough to kill?

May 25, 2019April 8, 2018 by Afifah Hamilton

Read Time: 6 minThe NHS stumbles on – chaotic and on the edge of financial ruin, carnage in its wake… What is this B movie monster we have created?… It’s clearly in need of a silver bullet…

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Categories Bad Medicine, In the News Tags antibiotic resistance, cancer targets, iatrogenic deaths, medical incompetence, NHS, zombies

They want to destroy Tim Noakes – don't let 'em

June 5, 2019March 11, 2018 by Afifah Hamilton

Read Time: 5 minTim Noakes is facing a second professional misconduct hearing for holding the wrong views about diet. Petition plus explanatory post from Dr Malcolm Kendrick.

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Categories Bad Medicine, In the News Tags Dr Malcolm Kendrick, petition, repost, Tim Noakes

NHS Care Report 2015/16 infographic

December 17, 2023February 12, 2018 by Afifah Hamilton

Read Time: < 1 minThis infographic reveals the shocking state of the NHS, including the nearly 2 million patient safety incidents, 5000 cases of severe harm and death – all in just one year.

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Categories Bad Medicine Tags infographic, negligence, NHS, Short

Crippling negligence claims show NHS not 'the envy of the world'

December 17, 2023February 12, 2018 by Afifah Hamilton

Read Time: 7 minWith spiralling negligence costs threatening to bankrupt the NHS, isn’t it time we started challenging the very basis of the NHS? We include a thoughtful essay by blogger Jack Tagholm-Child.

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Categories Bad Medicine, In the News Tags health care, negligence, NHS
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