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"In these intervening dozen years, as later chapters will document, the drug companies and their advocates marshaled their resources and successfully manipulated the legal system, the media, and health professionals with a barrage of propaganda calculated to dismiss any concerns about antidepressant-induced violence against self and others. Although clinical experience and research about antidepressant-induced madness mounted, so did the pro-drug propaganda campaign, and health professionals grew less aware of the dangers of antidepressants in 2000 than they had been in 1990." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"You go to your vet and you don't hear a whole bunch of political drug-company propaganda about the "unproven" effect of supplements. They just tell you what works. If a dog has a skin rash, for example, and the vet gives it a vitamin supplement and soon the skin rash is gone, the vet will recommend the supplement. Done deal. Glucosamine Chondroitin Sulfate Vets worry less about whether there are seventy-five randomized, controlled, double-blind studies on skin rashes. If the vitamin supplement works—and does no harm—the vets use it." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"It was a cheap propaganda trick. When Fettner interviewed Duesberg, she flattered him in every way, agreed with him again and again, and indicated that she was simply thrilled to be talking to such an important scientist. Duesberg anticipated reading a glowingly favorable account of his ideas. He was to be sadly disillusioned. Out of the long interview she conducted, Fettner quotes only a few sentences of Duesberg's, and these are hopelessly mangled and torn out of context." - John Lauritsen, The AIDS War: propaganda, Profiteering and Genocide from the Medical-Industrial Complex (Get the book.) "Discourse in the official conference consisted largely of stale propaganda and trivialities. Most of the "findings" were not new, or if new, were not true. Outside the official conference, Luc Montagnier, the discoverer of HTV (the so-called "AIDS virus"), admitted that HIV was not sufficient to cause AIDS, and perhaps not even necessary. S-C Lo presented evidence that a mycoplasma he had isolated from AIDS patients was sufficient to cause fatal illness. Peter Duesberg spoke out against the H3V-AIDS hypothesis." - John Lauritsen, The AIDS War: propaganda, Profiteering and Genocide from the Medical-Industrial Complex (Get the book.)

"As we'll see, the pro-drug propaganda campaign continues unabated. CHESTNUT IS DROWNING EVERY TIME I THINK OF JENNIFER HOPE, I grow sad, and this story initially felt too difficult to write. Unlike most of the stories in this book where the drug-induced violence occurs in situations with little or no provocation, Jennie's story is more complicated by her difficult childhood and by her justified anger at the bully in her sights when she pulled the trigger." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "SOCIETY REINFORCES THE SPELLBINDING EFFECT THE SPELLBINDING EFFECT of psychiatric drugs is enhanced by the psy-chopharmaceutical complex—combined powers of drug companies, psychiatry, organized medicine, the FDA, and other federal agencies, all of whom generate an enormous amount of propaganda to convince people to overcome their natural and healthy skepticism about taking psychiatric medications." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Marketing Myths and the Truth About Psychiatric Medication MODERN PEOPLE SWIM IN A SEA of psychopharmacological advertising and promotion amounting to an all-pervasive propaganda campaign designed to shape the way we think about our lives and ourselves. We take for granted pronouncements like, "You have a biochemical imbalance," and "Mental disorders are like diabetes," and can easily feel shocked when someone challenges their factual basis." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Estimates for the size of Heraclius's expeditionary force range from 15,000 to 150,000 or even more; rhe ninth-century Muslim historian al-Baladhuri describes a Greek army of 200,000, all chained together so as to prevent desertion, facing an Arab army of 24,000,' though such numbers are almost certainly more in service of propaganda than accuracy." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Further medical treatments finish off the patient, lending pseudo-empirical support to the propaganda that "AIDS is invariably fatal". In his summary Holub stated: I don't care if PWAs take Chinese herbs, or eat flowers from Madagascar, or walk on hot coals. As long as they stay away from medical doctors, they've got a chance to recover. Peter Duesberg Molecular biologist Peter Duesberg, the foremost critic of the hypothesis that HIV is the cause of "AIDS", gave two presentations to very attentive audiences." - John Lauritsen, The AIDS War: propaganda, Profiteering and Genocide from the Medical-Industrial Complex (Get the book.)

"EDUCATION OR propaganda? Nonetheless, the drug companies claim that their ads provide an important educational service. As explained by Alan Holmer, president of PhRMA, in a recent issue of JAMA, direct-to-consumer advertising "is an excellent way to meet the growing demand for medical information, empowering consumers by educating them about health conditions and possible treatments." Studies show, however, that drug ads usually stay away from the facts that count." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Finally, if you're a vegan (or even a vegetarian), don't buy the vegan propaganda that you get all the B12 you need from plant food. You don't. The only really good form is found in animal products, so take a supplement. stomach acid, autoimmune disease, and enzyme disruption—it's perfectly possible to eat adequate amounts of B12 from foods like mollusks (clams, oysters, etc.), liver, beef, fish, and eggs but still develop a deficiency. The real indicator of whether or not B12 supplementation is necessary in the elderly is the symptoms that exist." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"These ends are served by corresponding varieties of means: First, the technologies that use and transform matter, the technologies of production; second, the technologies that generate the power to operate matter-transforming technologies, energy-generating technologies; and third, the technologies that whet people's appetites, create artificial demand, and shift patterns of consumption, the technologies of propaganda, PR, and advertising." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Within the ama an anti-natural-healing arts, pro-medical arts propaganda committee was formed. Its function was to distribute literature against the professions of practitioners that were not approved ama members, for example, chiropractors. In 1972, the ama formed the Professional Standard Review Organization to ensure that doctors would use the accepted modes of drug therapy. This committee has the right to enter any medical office and revoke the doctor's license if ama protocols are not being followed. This has been done many times in the U.S." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"General propaganda for one or another of the local solutions, therefore, is superfluous—or much rather, a menace. The way to become human is to learn to recognize the lineaments of God in all of the wonderful modulations of the face of man. With this we come to the final hint of what the specific orientation of the modern hero-task must be, and discover the real cause for the disintegration of all of our inherited religious formulae. The center of gravity, that is to say, of the realm of mystery and danger has definitely shifted." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.) "For they have become associated with the causes of the factions, as instruments of propaganda and self-congratulation. (Even Buddhism has lately suffered this degradation, in reaction to the lessons of the West.) The universal triumph of the secular state has thrown all religious organizations into such a definitely secondary, and finally ineffectual, position that religious pantomime is hardly more today than a sanctimonious exercise for Sunday morning, whereas business ethics and patriotism stand for the remainder of the week." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"In the process, they have transformed medical science into what some doctors now call propaganda. For Americans, this means that their doctors are prescribing drugs on the basis of studies that may be dangerously wrong. We desperately need more scientists who are working for the public's interest rather than for that of the pharmaceutical companies. The National Institutes of Health, which distribute billions of dollars in grants each year, could help increase the number of independent researchers by prohibiting any scientist who wins a government contract from also accepting industry money." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"But studies about the effects of electroconvulsive therapy directly contradict the propaganda, put forth by the manufacturers of electroconvulsive therapy devices in the United States?Somatics, Mecta, Elcot and MedCraft—upon whom physicians and the public rely for information, much as the public relies upon pharmaceutical companies for information on drugs. The hundreds of thousands of people a year getting shock therapy generate $3 billion dollars to the psychiatric industry and the hospitals." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Frankly, it is not an honest appraisal of the science and it relegates the scientific issues to the bottom of the barrel in favour of winning a propaganda war." The doctor, who was fiercely attacked by health officials for voicing his doubts three years ago, said in an exclusive interview that he felt driven to break his silence because of the accumulating evidence. His remarks will infuriate the Government and sharpen the dilemma of parents over whether to have children innoculated with MMR." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Americas Europe Near/Middle Asia and Sub-Saharan Worldwide East Pacific Africa I Overweight Obese Figure 8: Overweight and obesity among school-age children (5-17 years) worldwide (Source: Diabetes Atlas, second edition, International Obesity Task Force, 2003) Our children are fed daily propaganda to eat foods that are causing them harm. A Kaiser Family Foundation study analyzed more than 8,000 advertisements using detailed data about the viewing habits of children in three age groups." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "It is time we stop listening to the economic propaganda of the Culture of Death: It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that all foods can fit into a healthful eating style. ADA POSITION STATEMENT All foods and beverages can fit into a healthy diet. NATIONAL SOFT DRINK ASSOCIATION Policies that declare foods "good" or "bad" are counterproductive." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"However, when you look beyond the propaganda, the facts about soy paint a very different picture. In spite of soy's impressive nutritional content, soy products are biologically useless to the body, for reasons explained below. Today, soy is contained in thousands of different food products, which has led to a massive escalation of disease in both developed and underdeveloped countries." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"For the past month or so the media have been disseminating hostile propaganda, with the message that we will all die, that we must die. These death threats do not issue from the usual bigots. . . . We are being cursed in the name of science, and the imprecations directed against us have the imprimatur of the Public Health Service (PHS). The prognosis of doom is emanating from that peculiar form of medical survey research known as "epidemiology." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"I became a raw food eater, all of a sudden I began to paint instead vibrantly alive pictures with lush abundance of healthy shapes and brilliantly beautiful colors" (Blatant Raw Foodist propaganda! p. 75). Valya Boutenko was in third grade and unable to concentrate on reading for longer than fifteen minutes at a time when her parents made her switch to a raw diet. Once her body became fully nourished with live food, she could read five hours at a time. "The biggest change I noticed from going on raw food is that I gained much mental clarity." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"The AMA's antipathy toward HMOs not only prevented many doctors from joining them but also seeped outward to patients, who believed the AMA's propaganda portraying HMOs as badly run and interested only in denying patients care to save money. By 1970, there were only thirty-three HMOs in the entire country, serving a scant three million people. A little more than a decade later, with stagflation in full bloom and employers clamoring for relief from mounting health care costs, private insurers felt emboldened to exert some measure of control over physicians and hospitals." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Not always are the noblest methods used, and in fact there exists a whole arsenal of methods called "black propaganda," a subdivision of PR if you will. But also in business and big business the art of lying, deception and manipulating is known. We know about Bernie Cornfield, one of the mega-stars of public relations. He was the founder of IOS (Investors Overseas Services) who cheated a multitude of people with PR technology. Three hundred thousand IOS-customers lost about one billion Euros in the end. How did he do it? With PR!" - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "Author and nutritionist Mike Adams talks about "brainwashing" and the propaganda of the pharmaceutical industry when it comes to aspirin. But he is not the only voice. Reuters (Health) warned: "Stomach ulcers can arise from long-term use of aspirin."303 Mike Adams puts it clearer, "Popping 14 or more aspirin tablets a week results in an 86% increase in the risk of contracting pancreatic cancer." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"His paper was published at a time of widespread public concern with the effects of communist propaganda, alarm at the apparently successful brainwashing techniques 157 of Chinese communists, and continuing puzzlement over the ability of the Nazis in Germany to obtain an obedient response when ordering mass exterminations of Jews and other "undesirables." Asch's findings were widely cited in the media as providing a scientific basis for claims that people do not have fully independent judgment." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Simple. propaganda! "The Bush team needs to be forcefully demanding that Saudi Arabia and other key Arab allies use their news media, government, and religious systems to denounce and delegitimize the despicable murder of Muslims by Muslims in Iraq."4 That ought to do it. What is wrong with the Bush team? Why didn't they think of that? "Forcefully demand" that the Arab states do more propaganda. Yes, problem solved. By the way, your authors have no position on foreign policy. We only notice that the people who do have them are idiots. Still we are not going to criticize Friedman." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.)

"False front-groups are a piece of technology of the black propaganda know-how. We will talk more about that later. Do we know what is really on the hidden agenda of the pharmaceutical drug cartel? It is interesting to note, at this point, that the concerns of drugging children and the side effects created by the drugs have been brought up by the Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee and the Pediatric Subcommittee of the Anti-infective Drugs Advisory Committee. At a meeting in February 2004, they discussed the "..." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Although most medical doctors do acknowledge that science has revealed much about how the body works, the medical mentality at its very worst overrides the Law of Order with propaganda to program the people into thinking that the presence of disease in the body is oftentimes a "mystery," with no known causes and no known cures, or that disease is an "enemy at war with the body," a war that can only be won by following the dictates of the medical doctor." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

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