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Subject:
VA dot guv baloney in the New York Times
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007 11:33:05 PM
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This has to be exposed (below). The VA dot guv was one of the
top domains to research my website, and that would be no
surprise, since Sam Donta managed a Gulf War Illness
treatment study based on the assumption that Lyme,
Gulf War Illness ,and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome were
similar infectious disease entities (We sold Saddam
"fungi," which would be mycoplasmas- stuff they experimented
with on Plum Island, and from where comes OspA).
OspA is from a fungus. It's a mycoplasmal antigen.
In this article below, the VA says people are being overdiagnosed.
There are many factual errors here. In particular, the
availability of valid testing for the markers of pathophysiology
is ZERO for Lyme, Gulf War Illness and Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome (all are immune-suppression related
illnesses which are initiated by the fungal antigens, like
OspA).
http://www.actionlyme.org/BIOMARKERS.htm
So, that statement by the VA was bullshit.
What's really driving "medicine" is the dollar.
In each and every instance of overmedicating (psychotropics)
or underdiagnosing (Lyme), and in every medical decision
including the direction of research by BigPharma, the driver
is always money.
It is quite diabolical for the VA itself not to be taking
care of veterans and allowing the likes of Simon Wessely
in the UK to abuse them, and even worse, that they dare
to publish this newest bullshit. If you notice, as opposed to
my website where I have all these links and scanned in
journal reports, these dot guv whores do not substantiate
any of their claims.
http://www.actionlyme.org/PSYCHIATRIC_BS_UPDATE_13_AUG_06.htm
http://actionlyme.org/BIOWEAPONEERS_CORIXA_YALE_TLRS.htm
The VA says here that people are being overdiagnosed within a
short time of Blumenthal announcing a possible criminal probe
over the diagnostic criteria for Lyme....
The scientifically valid complaint that we have is that Lyme is not
detected early enough, on purpose, allowing people to fall into
greater disability and death. Ie., negligent homicide.
'Which the crooks disclaim:
http://www.actionlyme.org/CHRONOLOGY_RICO.htm
"The American Lyme Disease Foundation, Inc. (ALDF) and its
representatives
disclaim any responsibility (including negligence) from all
consequences
resulting
from any person acting, or refraining from acting, on information
contained in
this site."
"EUCALB and its members disclaim any responsibility (including in
negligence)
for
all consequences of any person acting on, or refraining from acting in
reliance
on,
information contained in this site."
This kind of mentality by the VA is suspicious for two reasons.
One: The obvious one: Lyme was an accidental release from
Plum Island.
Two: Considering that the suit/criminal complaint against Yale
over their valid test for Lyme (which is not in use) is 100% winnable
(we only need one expert- someone from the FDA), this report below
sounds like some kind of counter game plan for when the S hits the fan
and we find out that all the people who claim to be sick, really are,
and
that 1.3 million people become infected with Lyme in the USA, each
year,
all of whom are permanently infected.
[20,000 reported cases per year, only 10-20% of the cases are even
reportable (round to 15%) due to the bogus criteria for a positive
case,
and of the CDC "positive" cases are only 10% reported.]
*** So, what they will say is: "Even if you have illness signs,
positive
pathophysiological data to correlate, and a positive VALID test
(Yale's flagellin method), that doesn't mean you are sick." ***
That's what this new bullshit from the VA is all about.
What makes these idiots think we're not going to immediately
dissect their dislogic and that they can keep getting away with
their nonsense ?
A real scientist does not try to control outcomes. Whatever is, is.
"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should
be." - Albert Einstein
Imagine if Boeing or Lockheed Martin or Brookhaven or
Los Alamos or anywhere there is a particle accelerator,
or even NASA tried to get away with this scientific truthiness.
It's only okay when human flesh is the materiel to be
wasted in incompetent science. Never do they consider
that among the young bodies and minds wasted by these
diseases might be the next Einsteins, or Teslas, or
INTREPIDs, or Ghandi,s or Chomskys, or Curies...
I don't have to repeat it. We have no answer to the
deep NO ENERGY shit we're in and we needed that
miracle 40 years ago.
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The New York Times
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January 2, 2007
Essay
What's Making Us Sick Is an Epidemic of Diagnoses
By H. GILBERT WELCH, LISA SCHWARTZ and STEVEN WOLOSHIN
For most Americans, the biggest health threat is not avian flu, West
Nile or mad
cow disease. It's our health-care system.
You might think this is because doctors make mistakes (we do make
mistakes). But
you can't be a victim of medical error if you are not in the system.
The larger threat posed by American medicine is
that more and more of us are being drawn into the system not because of
an
epidemic of disease, but because of an epidemic of diagnoses.
Americans live longer than ever, yet more of us are told we are sick.
How can this be? One reason is that we devote more resources to medical
care
than any other country. Some of this investment is productive, curing
disease
and alleviating suffering. But it also leads to more diagnoses, a trend
that has
become an epidemic.
This epidemic is a threat to your health. It has two distinct sources.
One is
the medicalization of everyday life. Most of us experience physical or
emotional
sensations we don't like, and in the past, this was considered a part
of life.
Increasingly, however, such sensations are considered symptoms of
disease.
Everyday experiences like insomnia, sadness, twitchy legs and impaired
sex drive
now become diagnoses: sleep disorder, depression, restless leg syndrome
and sexual dysfunction.
Perhaps most worrisome is the medicalization of childhood. If children
cough
after exercising, they have asthma; if they have trouble reading, they
are
dyslexic; if they are unhappy, they are depressed; and if they
alternate between
unhappiness and liveliness, they have bipolar disorder. While these
diagnoses
may benefit the few with severe symptoms, one has to wonder about the
effect on
the many whose symptoms are mild, intermittent or transient.
The other source is the drive to find disease early. While diagnoses
used to be
reserved for serious illness, we now diagnose illness in people who
have no
symptoms at all, those with so-called predisease or those "at
risk."
Two developments accelerate this process. First, advanced technology
allows
doctors to look really hard for things to be wrong. We can detect trace
molecules in the blood. We can direct fiber-optic devices into every
orifice.
And CT scans, ultrasounds, M.R.I. and PET scans let doctors define
subtle
structural defects deep inside the body. These technologies make it
possible to give a diagnosis to
just about everybody: arthritis in people without joint pain, stomach
damage in
people without heartburn and prostate cancer in over a million people
who, but
for testing, would have lived as long without being a cancer patient.
Second, the rules are changing. Expert panels constantly expand what
constitutes
disease: thresholds for diagnosing diabetes, hypertension, osteoporosis
and
obesity have all fallen in the last few years. The criterion for normal
cholesterol has dropped multiple times. With these changes, disease can
now be
diagnosed in more than half the population.
Most of us assume that all this additional diagnosis can only be
beneficial. And
some of it is. But at the extreme, the logic of early detection is
absurd. If
more than half of us are sick, what does it mean to be normal? Many
more of us
harbor "pre-disease" than will ever get disease, and all of us are
"at risk."
The medicalization of everyday life is no less problematic. Exactly
what are we doing to our children when 40 percent of
summer campers are on one or more chronic prescription medications?
No one should take the process of making people into patients lightly.
There are
real drawbacks. Simply labeling people as diseased can make them feel
anxious
and vulnerable - a particular concern in children.
But the real problem with the epidemic of diagnoses is that it leads to
an
epidemic of treatments. Not all treatments have important benefits, but
almost
all can have harms. Sometimes the harms are known, but often the harms
of new
therapies take years to emerge - after many have been exposed. For
the severely
ill, these harms generally pale relative to the potential benefits. But
for
those experiencing mild symptoms, the harms become much more relevant.
And for
the many labeled as having predisease or as being "at risk" but
destined to
remain healthy, treatment can only cause harm.
The epidemic of diagnoses has many causes. More diagnoses mean more
money for drug manufacturers, hospitals, physicians and disease
advocacy groups.
Researchers, and even the disease-based organization of the National
Institutes
of Health, secure their stature (and financing) by promoting the
detection of
"their" disease. Medico-legal concerns also drive the epidemic.
While failing to
make a diagnosis can result in lawsuits, there are no corresponding
penalties
for overdiagnosis. Thus, the path of least resistance for clinicians is
to
diagnose liberally - even when we wonder if doing so really helps our
patients.
As more of us are being told we are sick, fewer of us are being told we
are
well. People need to think hard about the benefits and risks of
increased
diagnosis: the fundamental question they face is whether or not to
become a
patient. And doctors need to remember the value of reassuring people
that they
are not sick. Perhaps someone should start monitoring a new health
metric: the
proportion of the population not requiring medical care. And the
National
Institutes of Health could propose a new goal for medical researchers:
reduce the need for
medical services, not increase it.
Dr. Welch is the author of "Should I Be Tested for Cancer? Maybe Not
and Here's
Why" (University of California Press). Dr. Schwartz and Dr. Woloshin
are senior
research associates at the VA Outcomes Group in White River Junction,
Vt.
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