(NaturalNews) I have come to the conclusion that it is just
too much to ask the corporate media to be honest when reporting about
natural and alternative medicine, because time and again they have proven that
their Big Pharma bottom line is more important than doing what a newspaper is supposed to do, namely to provide readers with the truth.
In a recent story,
USA Today
reported that Americans spend north of $30 billion a year on "at least
one type of complementary health approach, which could include message
therapy, tai chi, chiropractic manipulation, homeopathic treatment,
hypnosis and energy healing therapy."
Using data provided by the
National Center for Health Statistics, the paper noted that while these
costs amount to a paltry 1 percent of annual health care spending – with
most of the other 99 percent going to managing disease rather than
preventing it – the figure is "comparable to expenditures for
conventional physician visits and prescription drug use."
Now, at
this point you might think that the reporter would interview a
professional who sells and/or provides these medical services, like a
homeopathic or naturopathic physician or provider, to discuss
supplements, alternative health and
non-traditional medical treatment.
Offit – paid off by Big Pharma
But no. The reporter instead hits up
one of Big Pharma's biggest cheerleaders
– and a man who certainly has an interest (and a financial one at that)
in ensuring that as many Americans as possible remain addicted to
traditional medicine – the vaccine pimp known as
Paul Offit:
Chief
of infectious disease at Children's Hospital Philadelphia Paul Offit
thinks Americans are willing to spend billions on alternative healthcare
because they see a tremendous value in the industry, which he says is
loosely regulated for safety and efficacy.
"You are putting a lot
of faith in something you shouldn't have much faith in," he said. "They
don't have to test for safety and usefulness as long as they don't make
a serious medical claim."What the paper didn't report was
that Offit, perhaps the most prolific of all shills for vaccines, who
once said that kids could theoretically tolerate "10,000 vaccines at
once," is also a vaccine developer who has profited handsomely from past
vaccine-related patents and deals with major pharmaceuticals, as
unearthed by
by then-CBS Evening News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson.
Also, as noted by
TruthWiki:
Paul
Offit is the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at a children's
hospital in Philadelphia. The CDC recommends Offit's rotavirus vaccine
(for infants); however, auspiciously, Offit is also a founding advisory
board member of the Autism Science Foundation. Autism has been linked to
the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) vaccine by Whistleblower vaccine scientist from the CDC, Dr. William Thompson himself in a stunning confession.
In
2008, the program "Every Child by Two" and Dr. Paul Offit received
hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from Pharmaceutical
companies that manufacture vaccines. They claim this has no influence on
their vaccine "safety" stance, but this has been exposed otherwise by
reliable journalists. There is missing information on just how much
Offit profited from the sale of his invention of a Rotavirus vaccine
(that's never even been proven to work), but estimates are between $30
and $55 million of the 150 million dollar deal that was struck.
Big Pharma's most despicable cheerleader
There's more. Offit's claim that alternative health compounds are not well-regulated is just plain false. The
USA Today
reporter at least talked to someone from the industry who would know –
Daniel Fabricant, executive director and CEO of the National Products
Association, and former director of Dietary Supplement Programs at the
FDA. He told the paper that dietary supplements don't claim to cure or
mitigate diseases, and indeed are regulated just like other drugs.
"People
are fed up with the type of care they get from primary physicians that
is covered by insurance," Fabricant said. "Across the board, people are
looking for ways to stay healthy on their own."
People are also
fed up with Big Pharma-compromised physician-shills who laughably claim
that their backing of vaccines has nothing to do with their
development of vaccines.
Americans will continue to seek truth where they can find it when it comes to alternative
medicine and the dangers of vaccines. Obviously they can't count on it from
USA Today, and they
certainly can't count on it from Big Pharma's biggest cheerleader, Paul Offit. Together, they seem content to
watch people die from traditional medicine, rather than live with alternative treatments.
Sources:TruthWiki.orgUSAToday.comYouTube.com
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