The medical profession has a long history of opposing
alternative healing professions. While always claiming public
safety as its reasons for the attacks, the true reasons involve
protecting their monopoly of the health care market.
In the past, medicine has fought battles to limit the
practices of such professionals as homeopaths, naturopaths,
osteopaths, podiatrists, optometrists, dentists, psychologists and
chiropractors. In the case of osteopathy and chiropractic, there
are distinct differences in the approach to healing and health
when compared to medicine. The last thing that organized medicine
wants is for there doctrine of drugs and surgery to be
challenged.
Osteopaths allowed themselves to be absorbed by
medicine--today there is little difference between an M.D. and a
D.O. Chiropractic on the other hand, fought hard--through the
personalities of those like B.J.Palmer to remain a separate and
distinct profession.
Medicines opposition to chiropractic was at its strongest
under the leadership of Morris Fishbein. Fishbein as Secretary of
the American Medical Association from 1924 to 1949, lead a 50 year
anti-chiropractic campaign in both professional publications and
the public media. Fishbein called chiropractors "rabid dogs" and
referred to them as "playful and cute..but killers." He tried to
portray chiropractors as members of an unscientific cult, caring
about noting but taking their patients money.
In 1949 the AMA removed Fishbein but continued its wage an
anti-chiropractic campaign. In 1971, H. Doyle Taylor, the Director
of the AMA Department of Investigation, and Secretary of its
Committee on Quackery (COQ), submitted a memo to the AMA Board of
Trustees stating:
Since the AMA Board of Trustees decision, at its , meeting on
November 2-3, 1963, to establish a Committee on Quackery, your
Committee has considered its prime mission to be, first, the
containment of chiropractic and, ultimately, the elimination of
chiropractic.
The following is an excerpt form the COQ's first annual report
to the Board of the AMA:
...The Involvement (and indoctrination) of the State Medical
Society leadership, in our opinion, is vital to the success of the
chiropractic program...We hope and believe that, with continued
aggressive AMA activity, chiropractic can and will be contained at
the national level and that steps are being taken to stop or
eliminate the licenser of chiropractic at the state level.
In 1967 the COQ released its anti chiropractic campaign
goals:
Basically, the Committee's short-range objectives for
containing the cult of chiropractic and any additional recognition
it might achieve revolves about four points:
1. Doing everything within our power to see that chiropractic
coverage under title 18 of the Medicare Law is not obtained.
2. Doing everything within our power to see that the
recognition or listing by the U.S. Office of Education of a
chiropractic accrediting agency is not achieved.
3. To encourage contained separation of the two national
chiropractic associations.
4. To encourage state medical societies to take the initiative
in their state legislatures in regard to legislation that might
affect the practice of chiropractic.
The AMA through its Committee on Quackery continued its war
against chiropractic through such acts as, distributing propaganda
to the nations teachers and guidance councilors, eliminating the
inclusion of chiropractic from the U.S Department of Labor's,
Health Careers Guidebook, and establishing specific educational
guidelines for medical schools regarding the "hazards to
individuals form the unscientific cult of chiropractic."
The AMA did not stop with these acts of propaganda against the
chiropractic profession. They worked both publicly and politically
to insure that chiropractic failed as a profession. But, even with
all of this negative publicity against the profession,
chiropractic continued to gain acceptance with the general public,
because chiropractic got results.
In 1975 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of Goldfarb
vs. The Virginia State Bar, that learned professions are not
exempt form antitrust suites. In 1982 the Court ruled that the FTC
can enforce antitrust laws against medical societies. These two
suites paved the way in 1976 for five chiropractors to file an
anti-trust suite against the AMA and several other heath care
agencies and societies in Federal District Court (known as the
Wilkes Case).
Similar suites were filed in New York and Pennsylvania in
1979. The pressure of these law suites forced the AMA even before
these suites went to court to propose a modification of their
Medical Code of Ethics which prohibited M.D.s from associating
with chiropractors. But, it was not until 1980 that the Ethics
Code was changed to reflect that each individual doctor may decide
for themselves whether to accept a patient from or refer a patient
to a chiropractor or other limited practitioner.
The law suites caused so much fear in the medical profession
that Mike Wallace (of 60 minutes) was unable to find an M.D. to
take the anti-chiropractic side for a 1979 documentary piece on
chiropractic.
In 1980 the Wilkes suite went to court, were the AMA and other
defendants were found not guilty of all charges. That decision was
overturned and a new trial was ordered by the U.S. Court of
Appeals in February 1983.
Judge Susan Getzendanner found the AMA and others guilty of an
illegal conspiracy against the chiropractic profession in
September of 1987, ordering a permeate injunction against the AMA
and forcing them to print the courts findings in the Journal of
the American Medical Association. Several other of the defendants
settled out of court helping to pay for the chiropractors legal
expenses and donating to a chiropractic non-profit home for
disabled children, Kentuckiana Children's Center.
This decision was upheld in the U.S. Court of Appeals in 1990
and again by the U.S. Supreme Court that same year.
Even with success of the Wilkes Case and other anti-trust
litigation, the AMA continues to this day to wage a campaign
against chiropractic. Today the attacks take the form of
over-stated concerns for the safety of chiropractic health care.
The truth is that chiropractic has proven it self over the last
100 plus years, to be a safe and effective means of maintaining
health and treating musculo-skeletal injuries.
JAMA Stats
Tell the Tale
(Journal of the American Medical
Association)
Doctors kill more people than guns and traffic accidents: by
Don Harkins
In the last century we chose the wrong fork in the road with
regard to our health care paradigm.
Most people have been conditioned to believe in what is called
the germ theory of disease -- that germs cause disease. The truth
is that germs are everywhere and they are attracted to and
proliferate in diseased tissues.
Bacteria decompose dead matter. That is their job. For
instance, when a tree dies, bacteria come in and eat the tree and
it eventually becomes soil. Bacteria does not eat a live, healthy
tree.
The same thing is true in people -- bacteria are attracted to
dead matter. Therefore, if you have dead matter in your body,
bacteria will get to work decomposing the dead tissue so that it
may eventually become soil. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
In the mid 1800s, western medical science had the choice of
going one of two ways. Antoine Bechamp's theory of disease
maintained that every living thing has arisen from the microzyma
(the fundamental unit of the corporate organism ) and every living
thing is reducible to the microzyma. Bechamp believed that
microzymas secrete fermentative substances that aid in digestion
in a healthy body and evolve into bacteria when they encounter
dead or damaged cells. This theory has been tested and amplified
by a string of scientists since then, including Carl Edward
Rosenow, William F. Koch, Otto Warburg, Gunther Enderlein, Royal
Rife, Alexis Carrel, Rene Dubos and Gaston Naessens.
Louis Pasteur's competing germ theory of disease maintained
that diseases come into our bodies from outside germs, so that we
must fight to kill them.
Bechamp's theory placed all of the responsibility of disease
prevention on the individual and his lifestyle. In a practical
sense, there was no money in that because people would be able to
resist disease simply by taking care of themselves, and would
require no store-bought potions.
Western medical science went with Pasteur's theory because it
opened the door which created the world's medical and
pharmaceutical industries, and because it seemed to support
Darwin's new theory of survival of the fittest. Since the 1850s,
we have been developing new drugs to attack and kill the disease
invaders and the result has been epidemics of sickness and disease
-- and a very rich and powerful pharmaceutical industry.
Last year, the pharmaceutical industry did $182 billion in
drug sales world wide. In contrast to that figure, it cost
approximately $183 billion to treat adverse reactions from all of
those drugs. The following admissions were taken from JAMA
(Journal of the American Medical Association) : The top five
causes of death in the United States, in order, are: 1) Tobacco 2)
Alcohol 3) Medical malpractice 4) Traffic accidents 5)
Firearms
According to JAMA, doctors kill more people than auto
accidents and guns put together. With that in mind, one has to
wonder why gun control is such a hot legislative issue when,
perhaps, we should be more concerned about doctor control.
Statistics show that when allopathic doctors are on strike,
fewer people die from disease.
The number of people that doctors kill per day from allopathic
medical malpractice is roughly equal to the amount of people that
would die if every day, three jumbo jets crashed and killed
everybody on board. Just imagine what headlines would result if a
chiropractor or a naturopath accidentally killed just one
patient?
Another JAMA statistic stated that 20 percent of all people
who see an allopath will suffer an iatrogenic (doctor-induced)
injury.
Again, according to JAMA, 16 percent of all people who die in
the hospital are determined by autopsy to have died of something
other than their admission diagnosis. In other words, the doctor
had no idea what was really wrong with the patient and, therefore,
the patient may have died for want of appropriate care that would
have been subsequent to an accurate diagnosis.
Another trade publication, American Medical News, stated that
28 percent of people admitted to hospitals are there because they
have suffered an adverse reaction to prescribed drugs.
Allopaths are miserably losing the battle against viruses and
bacteria. Antibiotics do not work. We need to take a different
tack because this is obviously not working. Only ozone therapy
offers hope against the increasingly resistant 'germs'.
The British Medical Journal Lancet states that only one
percent of all scientific research papers which explore medicine
are scientifically sound. So, if that is true, then not only are
allopathic doctors incorrect in their understanding of the basic
nature of disease, they are basing their conclusions, and
therefore their diagnosis and treatment of people, on flawed
science. And it is killing us.
