> This little write-up is a good eye-opener. Taken from :
>
> http://www.newstarget.com/022389.html
>
> With mandatory vaccines suddenly being forced onto parents by doctors
> and so-called "health authorities" in places like Maryland, New Jersey
> and Texas, you might think that doctors being full of bunk is a new
> phenomenon. But no, it's nothing new. Doctors have been full of bunk
> for more than a hundred years! What follows is a short timeline of the
> nonsense, junk science, negligence and harmful advice peddled by
> medical doctors over the last 150 years or so: (see the end of this
> article for serious follow-up comments describing the intent behind
> this satire piece)
>
> 1850's
> Ignaz Semmelweis, an Austrian-Hungarian obstetrician working in a
> clinic that delivers babies, is labeled "insane" by his fellow doctors
> for having the audacity to suggest that doctors should wash their
> hands between delivering babies. He's fired from his job, ostracized
> by the medical community and later dies in an insane asylum and is
> only vindicated long after his death when it is realized that, indeed,
> infections are spread from one patient to another by physicians who
> are too lazy, stubborn or egoistic to simply wash their hands. (A lack
> of hand washing continues to be the primary reason why MRSA and other
> superbugs are spread in hospitals today...)
>
> 1920's
> Don't breastfeed your babies! Use infant formula instead. It's more
> "high-tech." Cow's milk is obviously healthier for your babies than
> mother's milk, right? That's what the doc says... Result: Tens of
> millions of mothers stopped breastfeeding their babies, resulting in
> widespread nutritional deficiencies that impacted those children for
> life. The pushing of infant formula onto mothers continues today in
> hospitals across the country which are paid by infant formula
> manufacturers to give free samples of infant formula to new mothers,
> hoping they will stop breastfeeding and start buying formula. (Saving
> grace: A few courageous pediatricians now speak out forcefully about
> the importance of breastfeeding...)
>
> 1930's
> Smoking while pregnant? No problem. Doctors recommend Camels more than
> any other cigarette! Result: Massive chemical toxicity of the bodies
> of newborns. Increased cancer risk, reduced brain development and a
> lifetime of immune system disorders. (Cigarette ads routinely appeared
> in the Journal of the American Medical Association for well over a
> decade.)
>
> 1940's
> Need a new pair of shoes for your kid? Go size 'em up with the
> fluoroscope X-ray machine at your local shoe store! Never mind the
> radiation exposure of 20 - 75 rems per minute! See wikipedia article
> here. Result: Massive increase in cancer among parents and children
> who visited the shoe stores. Doctors remained silent on this
> significant health risk for decades while millions were harmed -- even
> after strong evidence pointed to the fact that X-ray radiation caused
> cancer.
>
> 1950's
> Hey pregnant women, take thalidomide for your cancer! Don't worry
> about your unborn children. This chemical is perfectly safe! Result:
> 10,000 children born with physical deformities. Doctors continued to
> use infants and pregnant women in pharmaceutical experiments for the
> next fifty years. See Vaccines and Medical Experiments on Children,
> Minorities, Woman and Inmates (1845 - 2007).
>
> 1960's
> Feed your children processed foods! White bread is good for them,
> don't you know? And monosodium glutamate is perfectly healthy for
> children, which is why food companies add it to baby food! So is
> saccharin, hydrogenated oils and sodium nitrite in processed meat.
> Result: Massive malnutrition, liver damage, and the beginnings of the
> diabetes and obesity epidemics that would sweep the nation over the
> next generation.
>
> 1970's
> Place mercury into the mouths of your little children by having their
> cavities filled with "silver" fillings (made with 40%% mercury, a
> potent neurotoxin). Result: Widespread mercury toxicity in children,
> resulting in a sharp increase in neurological conditions, including
> behavioral disorders, infertility and autism. Ignorant, obstinate
> dentists continue to use mercury fillings today, and the American
> Dental Association remains in full support of this extremely dangerous
> heavy metal that results in the mass poisoning of children.
>
> Your kid have a cold? It's probably because their tonsils need to be
> removed! Tonsils have no biological function anyway, doctors claimed.
> Result: Over the last several decades, surgeons have removed tens of
> millions of tonsils, maiming children with a medically useless
> procedure that has now been proven virtually worthless. But it sure
> did raise funds to pay for the luxury German sedans driven by those
> surgeons!
>
> 1980's
> Microwave all the food you feed children. It's quick, convenient and
> perfectly healthy! Result: A massive increase in the consumption of
> processed, artificially modified and dead foods. The introduction of
> the microwave correlates nearly perfectly with the explosion of
> obesity and diabetes in western nations. Most doctors still have
> nothing negative to say about the use of the microwave.
>
> Does your child have an ear infection? Hammer them with antibiotics.
> Don't worry about the fact that antibiotics are useless against ear
> infections, or that they wipe out your child's friendly intestinal
> flora and cause nutritional deficiencies. It's doctor-recommended, so
> it must be good, right? Result: Billions of doses of useless
> antibiotics helped breed a new generation of superbug viruses that
> have now escaped the hospitals and are infecting the public at large.
> Antibiotics are useless to stop them, and doctors still have not
> figured out that you can kill superbugs with colloidal silver or
> garlic. (A fact that ancient human civilizations knew thousands of
> years ago...)
>
> 1990's
> Coat your children with sunscreen. The sun is dangerous and has no
> health benefits whatsoever, didn't you know? And besides, all those
> chemicals in sunscreen are perfectly safe. Result: Children are now
> living with severe vitamin D deficiencies (even rickets!) that greatly
> increase rates of breast cancer, prostate cancer, osteoporosis,
> depression, obesity and diabetes. Doctors still don't recognize the
> important role of vitamin D in children's health, and they prescribe
> drugs to treat the symptoms of disease rather than recommending
> vitamin D (which would correct the underlying problems and eliminate
> the need for pharmaceuticals).
>
> Does your baby have a cough? Feed 'em sugared-up, chemically-
> contaminated cough syrup made by pharmaceutical companies. Don't worry
> that it's never been tested on infants or approved by the FDA. It
> works, right? It's doctor-recommended! Result: Over a billion doses of
> useless, "quack" cough medicine swallowed by infants. The cough syrup
> hoax was finally blown wide open in 2007 when a few courageous
> pediatric physicians finally admitted the products have absolutely no
> medicinal effects and might, in fact, be dangerous for infants and
> children. The FDA continues to allow their sale, however, since
> they're still quite profitable to Big Pharma (even though they don't
> work).
>
> Is little Johnny a bit too jazzed up for your comfort level? Don't
> worry, psychiatrists have a solution: Street drugs for children!
> Illegal amphetamines are now legal thanks to the Big Pharma / FDA
> partnership, and your friendly psych doctor is ready to prescribe
> Ritalin and antidepressant drugs to your "hyperactive" kids. Result:
> Widespread school shootings in America. Tens of millions of children
> suffer stunted physical and mental development -- a dangerous side
> effects that doesn't emerge until 2007. Seehttp://www.newstarget.com/021944.html
>
> 2000's
> Too posh to push? Don't worry, your obstetrician will schedule a C-
> section childbirth appointment and deliver the baby on YOUR schedule
> instead of Mother Nature's. It's more convenient for him, too, because
> then he can still make his golf game. Don't worry about the baby:
> There's no benefit to vaginal childbirth anyway, right? What better
> way to welcome your child to the world than with a scalpel! Result:
> Millions of women subject their children to non-natural child birthing
> that results in an increased risk of lung disease afflictions as well
> as psychological birthing trauma lasting a lifetime.
>
> Worried about your child getting an infectious disease? Inject your
> children with multiple vaccines. It will protect them from infectious
> disease and may, in fact, protect them from oral sex! (At least that's
> what Merck claims.) Besides, there's nothing wrong with a little
> mercury, right? Result: Unknown. It's a great medical experiment now
> being conducted on the children of America. It's backed by idiot
> doctors and gun-toting law enforcement personnel who are ready to
> arrest parents who resist the vaccination mandates.
>
> Need some food for your baby? Buy Similac (or any other baby formula
> powder). It's made with 42.6%% corn syrup solids and 10.1%% sugar,
> making it over 50%% refined sugars! Marketed with a cuddly teddy bear
> on the front label and sporting the claim, "Balanced nutrition for
> older babies," Similac and other infant formula products are little
> more than sugar water for babies. Doctors and pediatricians remain
> silent. There is no outcry. No national scandal. No action by the FDA
> to protect babies. Some doctors even recommend this stuff! (And stupid
> parents keep buying it!)
>
> 2007
> A survey of 1,600 practicing physicians published in the Annals of
> Internal Medicine reveals that reveals that nearly half of all doctors
> failed to report an incompetent colleague who posed a risk to the
> health or safety of a patient. The same survey also revealed that a
> majority of doctors would send their patients to get expensive imaging
> work done at an imaging facility in which they held a financial
> interest, but only 24 percent of doctors said they would reveal that
> conflict of interest to patients.
>
> Result: Yet more incompetent, dishonest doctors continue to scam
> customers and harm patients. The scourge of modern medicine continues
> as corrupt, ignorant and downright incompetent doctors continue to
> harm millions of expectant mothers, infants, babies and children with
> their deadly Big Pharma chemicals and disastrous health advice. The
> reputation of doctors plummets in the minds of the American public,
> and most patients now turn to the Internet to find answers that their
> doctors either don't know or refuse to tell them. The mass exodus of
> patients away from conventional medicine is now well underway...
>
> Why doctors are still idiots
> When it comes to medical idiocy, these examples are just the tip of
> the iceberg. The same hopelessly outdated medical system that has
> given us cigarette-promoting doctors, breastfeeding-censoring doctors
> and superbug-breeding doctors is now claiming your children need yet
> more chemicals in their bodies in the form of vaccinations!
>
> And, by the way, these doctors are the only people in the world who
> are right. They'll tell you so themselves! They are the sole source of
> all knowledge on anything related to health and medicine, and they've
> now garnered enough political power that they've managed to
> criminalize parents who disagree with their medical dogma.
>
> You know what the difference is between God and doctors?
>
> God doesn't think he's a doctor.
>
> These days, instead of doctors simply being full of nonsense, they are
> suddenly a very real danger to your personal freedom. Before, they
> were just peddling health nonsense. Now they hold the keys to your
> freedom and the custody of your children. Refuse to go along with new
> mandatory vaccination programs in New Jersey, for example, and you can
> be arrested, imprisoned, charged with a crime and have your children
> kidnapped by Child Protective Services. How dare you disagree with the
> High Priests of medical dogma!
>
> Personally, I don't necessarily mind doctors being full of crap. It's
> amusing to watch, and hilarious to document. But I do mind doctors
> being full of crap while invoking law enforcement authorities to pull
> out a Glock, slap a 10-round magazine in the grip, point the barrel to
> the head of a mother of three children and demand, "Take OUR medicine,
> or you'll be arrested." Which is, of course, essentially what's
> happening in New Jersey and Maryland right now. It's called Gunpoint
> Medicine, and if you don't believe me, move to New Jersey, and refuse
> to have your children vaccinated. It won't be long before armed men
> show up at your front door with Child Protective Services standing
> behind them, ready to grab your kid, toss him into an unmarked van,
> and have you arrested for "resisting vaccination." This is not
> fiction. I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried. It takes truly evil
> people to dream up this kind of medical terrorism -- the very people
> who work for Big Pharma and the FDA.
>
> Or maybe I'm wrong about all this. Maybe doctors and health
> authorities have been full of crap for a hundred years, and now all of
> a sudden in 2007, they're instantly right! Maybe they've been visited
> by supernatural, omniscient beings who gave them perfect knowledge
> (along with a new Merck vaccine) and all they're doing is running
> around the country saving little children's lives for the good of
> humanity.
>
> Perhaps 2007 is the new Golden Age of children's health, to be
> initiated with a mass injection of kiddies with a dozen new toxic
> mercury injections to "protect" these kids from things that will
> probably never happen to them. Maybe now, in 2007, organized medicine
> has reversed all its years of bullsnot and finally found the light!
> And that light, we're told, comes in the form of a pill... or a
> vaccine... or chemotherapy... or whatever they tell you to take next.
>
> Yes, indeed! We've been saved by Big Pharma and a brigade of doctors!
> Hail the FDA! Praise the pharmaceutical giants! Give thanks for
> mandatory injections! Listen to the doctors and we'll all be saved!
>
> Quick Note: This satire piece does not mean to imply that ALL doctors
> are complete idiots when it comes to health. There are exceptions.
> Many of the outstanding people I know in natural health started as
> conventional medical doctors (M.D.s). The difference between complete
> idiot doctors and intelligent doctors is that idiots are not willing
> to abandon their existing dogmatic beliefs when faced with new,
> contradictory evidence. Intelligent people, on the other hand, adapt
> and evolve their ideas when faced with new information or evidence.
>
> Conventional medicine, for the most part, does not want to learn
> anything new that might challenge its existing status quo dominance
> over the lives of parents and children. "Innovation is the enemy of
> the status quo," and genuine health enhancement (and disease
> prevention) is the enemy of the entrenched medical industrial complex.
> Most doctors are complete idiots because they follow a dogmatic,
> religious-like belief in blatantly outdated junk medical science, even
> when real world observations and evidence demands the embracing of
> ideas that overthrow previously protected beliefs and career egos.
>
> Until doctors can abandon their egos and admit they don't know
> everything, they will continue to be full of crap.
>
> The purpose behind this satire piece is not to engage in silly name-
> calling exercises, but rather to play an important role in social
> commentary on the huge failures of modern medicine today. Satire and
> humor have important functions in any free society: They reveal what's
> wrong in a hilarious light, simultaneously entertaining us while
> encouraging us to challenge our own ideas and, perhaps, come up with
> new, better solutions for future generations. Political cartoons,
> stand-up comedians and satire pieces like this one all play a role in
> getting people to think more carefully about the issues at hand.
>
> Consider this: If modern medicine really worked well, and if doctors
> were creating wonderful solutions that kept people healthy, then we
> wouldn't have much of anything to make fun of! The fact that silly
> humor and examples of idiotic behavior are so easy to find in
> conventional medicine today is indicative of the failure of medicine
> to be effective. Satire "attack" humor carries a sub-text message that
> says, "We can do better." We don't have to suffer under an idiotic
> system of medicine. We can create a better future based on genuine
> health freedom, the promotion of disease prevention programs, and the
> embracing of plant-based medicines that are safe, affordable and
> highly effective.
>
> Until we get there, poking fun at the hilarious (but sometimes quite
> harmful and disastrous) failures of conventional medicine is an
> important way to keep reminding us all how crazy we are to follow this
> entrenched system of failed medicine. After all, if conventional
> medicine really worked well, wouldn't we all be healthy by now?
>
> Finally, I must add that there is idiocy and humor in every industry.
> Even natural health has its own idiots, too. Every industry has some
> area that can be improved, and there are always idiots working
> alongside geniuses and compassionate leaders, no matter where you look
> (except, perhaps, in politics, where it seems to be almost entirely
> idiots...). It just seems that conventional medicine has more than its
> fair share of short-sighted individuals (which I am equating with the
> term "idiots"). It's not just the doctors, of course, but the doctors
> have played a significant role in promoting the dogmatic beliefs that
> have helped deliver this disastrous failure of a health care system
> that we all suffer under in America today. Cuba actually has better
> health care results than America, and that country has virtually none
> of the technology, pharmaceuticals and insurance programs that we
> have.
>
> That says a lot right there. To some, it's downright hilarious.
> Personally, I can't help but laugh at the whole system of western
> medicine. And I plan to keep making fun of it for as long as it
> continues to produce more health care follies.