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   XPost: sci.chem   
   From: jclarke.usenet@cox.net   
      
   On 4/7/2010 6:08 AM, Tom Emano wrote:   
   > The Medical Industrial Complex is indeed a monster (a very   
   > dangerous and un-natural predator).   
   >   
   > It only makes money if you are sick or afraid of becoming sick   
   > and it is controlled by institutional and individual investors   
   > who care about money above all things.   
   >   
   > It only makes money if the treatment or preventive medicine involves   
   > technology, which includes pharmaceuticals.   
   >   
   > In order to make people afraid of becoming sick it spends enormous   
   > amounts of money on advertising designed to convince them that   
   > several falsehoods are instead facts:   
   >   
   > 1. That the human body is prone to disease.   
   >   
   > If that were the case there wouldn't _be_ a human race. The   
   > human body is obviously inherently healthy.   
   >   
   > 2. That aging automatically brings with it all sorts of diseasee   
   > conditions including the loss of the senses.   
   >   
   > Look around. There are old people all over the place who are   
   > vigorously healthy and have keen senses. Talk to these people   
   > and you will discover that they  avoid the Medical Industrial   
   > Complex like the plague and don't have TVs and thus avoid   
   > their potent propaganda.   
   >   
   > 3. That only technological treatments and preventive medicine are   
   > effective. They even go so far as to claim that depression is   
   > caused only and directly by physical conditions, which is absurd.   
   >   
   > They pretend to ignore the enormous body of evidence that   
   > indicates that a person's state of mind is the most important   
   > factor determining their overall health while making use of   
   > that same knowledge to undermine people's health with the   
   > above propaganda.   
   >   
   > They also undermine people's health by using artificial drugs   
   > rather than natural ones and constantly lobbying to have   
   > all natural remedies and therapies banned.   
   >   
   > Again, look around. Do you see the healthy people that the   
   > MIC wants us to believe that techological medicine has   
   > created? No. You see very unhealthy people who are spending   
   > so much on disease care (to give health care a more accurate   
   > label) that it is threatening our entire economy.   
   >   
   > I remember being a kid in the 1950's. People were a LOT healthier   
   > then. Almost no one had health insurance and they rarely went to   
   > the doctor and rarely took drugs of any kind. The average person   
   > could work hard all day long and enjoy it. Serious illnesses were   
   > so rare that they were newsworthy and became the talk of the   
   > town. Healthy old people died peacefully in their sleep after   
   > playing with their great-grandchildren all day long.   
      
   So what kind of food does the Medical Industrial Complex eat?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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