Corporate media
rubbishing non-corporate medicine
Media Cartel control
[This is mostly a pharma attack on Nutritional Medicine, but any non-pharma medicine is fair game.]
See: Suppress alternatives, Experts Experts warn
[2008] Study Claims Antioxidant Danger—A Repeat of Flawed Conclusions By Alan R. Gaby, MD
[2008 New propaganda book] Medical Propaganda in action
TEN WAYS TO SPOT ANTI-VITAMIN BIASES IN A SCIENTIFIC STUDY by Andrew Saul
[Letter by Clifford Miller Oct 2007] Re: Herb cures that 'do you more harm than good'
Examples
[2009 Jan]
Detox diets to kick-start the New
Year are a 'total waste of money'
say experts
I spent £20,000 trying to beat ME with quack cures. And all I really needed to do was slow down
[2008]
Vitamin supplements may increase risk of death
[Media cancer disinfo Nov 2006] This vile and
cynical exploitation
[Media July 9, 2004]
Cancer expert warns Charles against backing alternative therapies
[Media May, 2003] How too many vitamins
can damage your health
[Media March 2006] Another alt med bashing piece from the psychologists!
"The British media has been enjoying a feeding
frenzy over a report that suggests "minerals and
vitamins can cause cancer and liver damage" (The
Times), that people are "poisoning themselves" (Sunday Times), and that
their health could be "irreversibly damaged" (Daily Telegraph).
The report and the ensuing press
articles come at an ideal time for the pharmaceutical
industry - just when the EU is determining safe levels of
vitamins to be sold over-the-counter to consumers. Safe upper levels
will be incorporated into a directive that will
restrict the sale of vitamins and other nutrients
throughout the EU in two years' time.
The report, from the UK Food
Standards Agency, and the press coverage that followed
will between them probably sound the death knell for the
nutritional industry in Britain and beyond. Success in restricting
vitamin sales in Europe will be followed by a fresh
attempt from the pharmaceutical lobby to reintroduce
tighter controls in the USA."--WDDTY
May 2003