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As covered in our 2014 non-fiction book The Orphan Conspiracies, there seems to be more than enough evidence to support the claim that at least some scientific breakthroughs are suppressed. In that book, in a chapter titled Suppressed Science, we cite a January 2014 New York Times article reporting that America’s National Security Agency (NSA) uses secret technology to remotely input and alter data on computers worldwide – even when targeted PC’s or laptops are not connected to the Internet. We point out that this suppressed technology, which uses radio frequencies to spy on computers, only came to the public’s attention due to leaked NSA documents from former agency contractor-turned whistleblower Edward Snowden.
This begs the question: Is it a regular occurrence for governments, intelligence agencies and the military to withhold scientific breakthroughs from the public?
If so, how many other suppressed inventions exist in the world’s ironclad vaults of power?
Replace the word inventions with cures and you will see what we, in our roundabout way, are driving at.
There have been numerous reports of scientific inventions that never saw the light of day even though they were perfected and ready to go on the market.
Rumors of these radical inventions date back to the post-Industrial Revolution period in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, and have persisted right up to and including the present day.
Unfortunately, it appears this also happens within modern medicine where cures for various illnesses mysteriously vanish or are quashed by the medical establishment.
The basic concept or theory we explore in this chapter is that there are already cures for many so-called incurable illnesses. However, they are often unpatentable (aka unprofitable or unmonitizable) and therefore blocked by multinational drug companies.
In other instances, these cures are sometimes not suppressed for financial reasons but rather for intellectual ones: such cures contradict medical academia and these cures, which are often radical and seem non-scientific, “do not compute” with what science says. But a term commonly mentioned by members in our Underground Knowledge Goodreads group seems relevant in this regard: “scientific fact, until next revision”.
Meaning what seems to contradict science today, may make sense tomorrow, for science is perpetually evolving.
This suppression theory supports the assertion that Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness or disease, pharmaceutical companies would lose 100% of their profits on the products they sell for that ailment.
What all this means is because modern medicine is so heavily intertwined with the financial profits culture, it’s a sickness industry more than it is a health industry.
There are numerous examples we could cite to support this. One of the most disturbing examples came to our attention in the form of a CTV News report dated November 29, 2012. Headed ‘Cure for cancer found in Canada – Pharmaceutical companies turn their backs,’ the televised report highlights the successful treatment of rats and mice given human cancers in a Canadian laboratory.
The drug used was DCA – described by the researchers involved as “an unpatentable old drug” used to treat rare inherited diseases. Those same researchers were very excited, and confident, about its potential for curing cancer in humans and were keen to secure the interest of pharmaceutical companies to take the drug to the next step.
DCA’s affordability – described as costing “just pennies a dose” – no doubt accounted for some of the researchers’ enthusiasm. Here, at last, was a potential cancer cure that wouldn’t cost patients the earth.
Now here’s the rub. Because this cheap, unpatentable, old drug “doesn’t fit the business plans” of the pharmaceutical companies, they ain’t interested in progressing it. In other words, Big Pharma can see no profit in developing and marketing a pennies-a-dose drug – even if it has the likely potential of saving many, many lives.
At the time of proofing this book, the CTV report on this disgusting state of affairs is still on YouTube and is well worth viewing.
Of course, there are two sides to every story, and, in the interests of balance, we must relay one YouTube viewer’s comment on this report.
He (name withheld) says: “Even if it was true that Big Pharma doesn’t want a cure for cancer, you don’t need Big Pharma to get a drug out there. There are plenty of non-profit and research institutions that have the money to fund this and have no incentive for a profit. This video is too one-sided to make a judgement…If you dig deeper into this you’ll find that clinical trials into humans were conducted in 2009 and did not yield the same results (as) in rats. The attack on Big Pharma is normally done by people who have no knowledge of the pharma industry and all the costs associated to create one drug”.
Naïve or fair comment? You decide.
Personally, we’d be guided by former pharmacist Denis Toovey’s comment in the foreword to Medical Industrial Complex: “There is no hiding the huge influence drug companies have on the practice of medicine which has stalled finding real cures.” That from a professional who spent 40 years in the pharmaceutical industry.
As the healthcare sector is so profitable, why would anyone believe major corruption could not flourish in this industry?
When considering this question, it’s important you have a grasp of the amounts of money involved in healthcare.
Keep in mind total healthcare expenditures across the world in 2013 totaled $4.5 trillion while the global prescription drug market was worth an estimated $550 billion (annually) as long ago as 2006, according to TheMedica.com, the respected global healthcare marketplace site.
An article on TheMedica’s homepage states: “The USA's medical industry comprises of more than 750,000 physicians and 5,200 hospitals. USA witnesses approximately 3.8 million inpatient visits and 20 million outpatients visit on a daily basis. Furthermore, (America) has the largest workforce – i.e. one in every 11 US residents employed in the health care business.”
These estimates are supported by Forbes, which puts America’s NHE (National Healthcare Expenditure) for 2012 at $3 trillion. (Interesting to see a Forbes.com report dated January 19, 2012, quotes one economist as saying, “We don’t have a debt problem in this country – we have a healthcare problem.”).
Given the huge monies up for grabs in the healthcare sector, is it really that difficult to believe corruption flourishes within it?
Also, why are so many so quick to doubt that certain cures, including cancer cures, have been suppressed because of pharmaceutical companies’ desire to continue profiting off the drugs they produce to manage long-term sicknesses?
Anytime so much money is at stake, we cannot underestimate the lengths certain companies and groups will go to in their pursuit of profit.
The alternative health site NaturalSociety.com has an intriguing post about “an ignored method of treating and preventing most diseases – so potent that it threatens the medical establishment’s tyrannical monopoly”.
Called Ozone Therapy, the treatment was, according to the article, practiced in the US from the late 19th Century through the 1940’s.
The article points out that “all bacterial pathogens, viruses, and parasites are anaerobic and thrive in the absence of oxygen. In fact, they are poisoned by oxygen. Even cancer cells perish with abundant oxygen.
The most common and effective therapy for oxygenating is ozone therapy”.
The writer states, “But since the 1940s, the FDA and AMA have come down hard on ozone therapy in the USA…The FDA recently warned against using hyperbaric oxygen therapy”.
The article continues, “Ozone therapy is currently used successfully in Germany, Spain, Russia, the Caribbean, Mexico, Cuba and other nations. The results are astounding, and there are usually no adverse effects. Ozone is normally administered as a liquid by IV or injection and as a gas through a tube placed in the anus.
“Because of potential Herxheimer reactions (‘healing crisis’) that can discourage one from continuing, full percentage dosages are usually not administered until the fourth session. Oxygenation techniques can be used simply to improve health with intense detoxification and blood cleansing.
“Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is often effective by placing the patient in a highly pressurized chamber of pure oxygen. It has been used successfully for autism, AIDS, and Lyme Disease”.
According to Educate-Yourself.org, “There are a number of alternative healing therapies that work so well and cost so little…that Organized Medicine, the Food & Drug Administration, and their overlords in the Pharmaceutical Industry (The Big Three) would rather the public not know about them. The reason is obvious: Alternative, non-toxic therapies represent a potential loss of billions of dollars to allopathic (drug) medicine and drug companies”.
Referring to what he calls “forbidden cures,” the writer states, “At long last, however, the public's consciousness seems to have finally reached a critical mass and is now beginning to seriously question the efficacy and appropriateness of using orthodox therapies and allopathic medicine in general”.
The article continues, “The Big Three have collectively engaged in a medical conspiracy for the better part of 70 years to influence legislative bodies on both the state and federal level to create regulations that promote the use of drug medicine while simultaneously creating restrictive, controlling mechanisms…designed to limit and stifle the availability of non-drug, alternative modalities. The conspiracy to limit and eliminate competition from non-drug therapies began with the Flexner Report of 1910”.
And under the heading ‘Natural Healing,’ the writer says, “The patient's immune system and the immune system alone is responsible for healing and recovery from ill health. The use of drugs and vaccines represents an assault on the immune system.
“In some cases, the use of a particular drug might be a wise choice to speed healing and recovery for the patient, but the use of natural, orthomolecular therapies and substances (substances normally found in Nature) that can more effectively address the cause of the disease should be considered first because natural substances work in harmony with Nature. They aid and stimulate the body to truly cure itself, without the terrible millstone of drug side-effects”.
The article concludes with an overview of some alternative therapies that by all accounts have demonstrated themselves to be effective and readily obtainable. They include oxidative therapies, blood-electrification and nutritional therapies – most if not all of which are opposed by mainstream medical authorities.
The Northstar Report at nstarzone.com, which makes the claim that “Modern medicine has been made into a god by a population of people who look to the doctors and pharmaceutical companies to save them,” lists natural cures it claims the medical establishment doesn’t want you to know about.
These natural “cures” include: Vitamin B-17, or laetrile, which reportedly has had “amazing results” with cancer patients; ginger, which is supposedly “highly effective in preventing and curing” heart disease, cancer, arthritis, and a variety of other illnesses; and garlic, which is claimed to be “good for virtually any disease or infection”.
And last, but not least, The Northstar Report recommends prayer, claiming “The most important aspect of healing is faith healing”.
Given the state of healthcare worldwide and the dubious conduct of various sectors of the Medical Industrial Complex, prayer may be our best bet at the end of the day.
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There are various forms of suppression, some of which are merely economic. Thus if a company finds something, and it does not think it is worth pursuing it right then, it has no incentive to publish, so it goes into a drawer. Remember, to bring a new drug to market takes an extremely large amount of money, the regulations that lead to this have probably been put in place by Big Pharma as much to protect their privileged position by making it impossible for smaller players.However, there is another problem with cancers. Some just go away by themselves, as the body learns to deal with them. This leads to a number of "cures" being announced, wherein the actual agent does not really work. Another problem is that there is no such thing as cancer - there are an enormous number of different sorts, and one sort may give a positive result to some treatment, but not others. For example, breast cancer exists as several forms, and one sort is treatable with oestrogen inhibitors. But for others, those inhibitors are useless. We just don't know enough. Natural treatments can work. The ancient Romans had a paste made of broccoli, as I recall, and that actually does give hope for a certain sort of breast cancer if the tumour is caught early. But I don't believe any treatment has much hope of the tumour has metastasised.
Ian wrote: "There are various forms of suppression, some of which are merely economic. Thus if a company finds something, and it does not think it is worth pursuing it right then, it has no incentive to publis..."Hi Ian - Don't be too trusting of Big Pharma. There's no getting around that "Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper" and "Patients, not healthy people, are their customers."
As we state, if everybody was cured of a particular illness or disease, pharmaceutical companies would lose 100% of their profits on the products they sell for that ailment...
Hence our insistence that modern medicine is a sickness industry more than it is a health industry... and it does seem very likely that cures for various illnesses are quashed.
Hi Lance, Actually, I am more suspicious of middle Pharma - e.g. that wretched Shekel (or however his name is pronounced). But you are right - Big Pharma is are interested in profits than health. The best example is the problem of new antibiotics. Right now, the antibiotic thought to be of last resort, vancomycin, is starting to find resistant strains of superbugs. So Big Pharma is looking for new ones? Well, not with any particular effort. If they are doing anything, it is more for publicity than looking for cures. The reason? If they find a really good one, it won't sell much. Rather, it will be held in reserve, for those cases that otherwise can't be cured, as they have learned that you have to minimise use to prevent bugs from getting resistance. So, with no huge fortunes, they are not interested.Also, they keep saying the prices are due to research costs, but marketing costs are hugely larger, thanks to the free holidays for doctors in the hope they will prescribe their version, etc etc. It's corrupt.
Excerpt from MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: The $ickness Industry, Big Pharma and Suppressed Cures:
This suppression theory supports the assertion that Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness or disease, pharmaceutical companies would lose 100% of their profits on the products they sell for that ailment.
What all this means is because modern medicine is so heavily intertwined with the financial profits culture, it’s a sickness industry more than it is a health industry.