Look at the three links and decide for yourselves:
#1) "articles in medical journals are scientifically sound" - Google Search
Dr. Richard Smith, the renowned former editor of the well-established British Medical Journal (BMJ), published an editorial in 1991-1992 that revealed disturbing statistics regarding our researchers/scientists. The link goes to several other medical links which cite his quote in which he revealed only 1% of articles in medical journals are scientifically sound. Smith revealed that "85% of medical treatments have no scientific basis or studies to support them, and that many medical treatments used in England and America have never been scientifically assessed at all, and that only 1% of the articles in medical journals are scientifically sound."
Extracted from elsewhere:
In 1992, the British Medical Journal published an editorial in which it was admitted that 85% of medical treatments have no scientific basis or studies to support them, and that many medical treatments used in England and America have never been scientifically assessed at all, and that only 1% of the articles in medical journals are scientifically sound. In the USA the Congress's Office of Technology Assessment concluded that over 75% of sickness care has never been proven safe or effective in clinical trials. Various studies have shown that 30-50% of surgical operations done in the USA annually are unnecessary. The bulk of laboratory medical tests performed are unneeded diagnostic tests to protect the doctor and hospital from litigations; many diagnostic tests expose the patient to risks, such as from X-rays, mammograms, infections, etc. Each year 1.5 million Americans are hospitalized from harmful reactions to medically prescribed drugs, and about 150,000 of them die annually from this. Medical malpractice is the third leading cause of preventable deaths; medical injuries result in annual costs of over $60 billion. Fewer than one-third of the physicians in the USA cited by medical oversight boards or the federal government for criminal conviction, substandard care, misprescribing drugs, or involved in alcohol or drug self-abuse are given any kind of disciplinary action that stops them even temporarily from further harming their patients. A few more bits of information. In the USA there are annually 61,000 cases of drug-induced Parkinson's Syndrome, 32,000 hip fractures caused by prescription drug-induced falls, 163,000 cases of drug-induced memory loss or impaired thinking, at least 200,000 cases of prescription drugs inducing dizziness or fainting, and the cost of such drugs rose fifteen times as fast as the CPI-U inflation index in 1993, e.g.
#2) Moving beyond journals: the future arrives with a crash
1999 article by Richard Smith. Once again -- the deadly statistics on research.
#3) http://www.vernoncoleman.com/drhazar.htm
Scientists like statistics, but these statistics are not what scientists want to hear. They pertain to major universities and studies across the world, bridging the time gap for hundreds of years. i.e. "Any improvement in life expectancy which has occurred in the last hundred years is not related to developments in the medical profession or to the growth of the international drug industry; but the increase in iatrogenesis [diseases caused by treatment] is related to both these factors." Look at the people's ages carefully at this website.
Few people know of this ongoing trend, but much of our conventional doctors' prescribed treatments (including surgery) are nothing more than unsafe, erroneous and/or unsufficiently tested practices. That falls within the definition of quackery.
Please, stay out of trouble folks. Choose a less dangerous religion than "modern medicine is scientific." It is barely even scientific, as the former chief editor of the BMJ revealed.
It's wonderful we have doctors, but there is a considerable amount of scientific dishonesty out there, even at the elite research levels--so use this knowledge to protect yourself.
#1) "articles in medical journals are scientifically sound" - Google Search
Dr. Richard Smith, the renowned former editor of the well-established British Medical Journal (BMJ), published an editorial in 1991-1992 that revealed disturbing statistics regarding our researchers/scientists. The link goes to several other medical links which cite his quote in which he revealed only 1% of articles in medical journals are scientifically sound. Smith revealed that "85% of medical treatments have no scientific basis or studies to support them, and that many medical treatments used in England and America have never been scientifically assessed at all, and that only 1% of the articles in medical journals are scientifically sound."
Extracted from elsewhere:
In 1992, the British Medical Journal published an editorial in which it was admitted that 85% of medical treatments have no scientific basis or studies to support them, and that many medical treatments used in England and America have never been scientifically assessed at all, and that only 1% of the articles in medical journals are scientifically sound. In the USA the Congress's Office of Technology Assessment concluded that over 75% of sickness care has never been proven safe or effective in clinical trials. Various studies have shown that 30-50% of surgical operations done in the USA annually are unnecessary. The bulk of laboratory medical tests performed are unneeded diagnostic tests to protect the doctor and hospital from litigations; many diagnostic tests expose the patient to risks, such as from X-rays, mammograms, infections, etc. Each year 1.5 million Americans are hospitalized from harmful reactions to medically prescribed drugs, and about 150,000 of them die annually from this. Medical malpractice is the third leading cause of preventable deaths; medical injuries result in annual costs of over $60 billion. Fewer than one-third of the physicians in the USA cited by medical oversight boards or the federal government for criminal conviction, substandard care, misprescribing drugs, or involved in alcohol or drug self-abuse are given any kind of disciplinary action that stops them even temporarily from further harming their patients. A few more bits of information. In the USA there are annually 61,000 cases of drug-induced Parkinson's Syndrome, 32,000 hip fractures caused by prescription drug-induced falls, 163,000 cases of drug-induced memory loss or impaired thinking, at least 200,000 cases of prescription drugs inducing dizziness or fainting, and the cost of such drugs rose fifteen times as fast as the CPI-U inflation index in 1993, e.g.
#2) Moving beyond journals: the future arrives with a crash
1999 article by Richard Smith. Once again -- the deadly statistics on research.
#3) http://www.vernoncoleman.com/drhazar.htm
Scientists like statistics, but these statistics are not what scientists want to hear. They pertain to major universities and studies across the world, bridging the time gap for hundreds of years. i.e. "Any improvement in life expectancy which has occurred in the last hundred years is not related to developments in the medical profession or to the growth of the international drug industry; but the increase in iatrogenesis [diseases caused by treatment] is related to both these factors." Look at the people's ages carefully at this website.
Few people know of this ongoing trend, but much of our conventional doctors' prescribed treatments (including surgery) are nothing more than unsafe, erroneous and/or unsufficiently tested practices. That falls within the definition of quackery.
Please, stay out of trouble folks. Choose a less dangerous religion than "modern medicine is scientific." It is barely even scientific, as the former chief editor of the BMJ revealed.
It's wonderful we have doctors, but there is a considerable amount of scientific dishonesty out there, even at the elite research levels--so use this knowledge to protect yourself.
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