MATRIX DRUG EXPERIMENT ON BRAINS

MARCH 19, 2012. From Nazi war camps to the CIA’s mind-control program—many people are aware that the brain has become a major target of medical madmen.

But not as many people realize that the entire arsenal of psychiatric drugs constitutes an ongoing experiment on the human brain.

And this program is a significant piece of THE MATRIX, because when perception and feeling are altered, when natural neuro-chemicals in the body are scrambled, when the very “disorders” that prompt the drugs are fictions devised by committees, you have a destructive illusion and invasion that changes the world.

Just to take one example, the Columbine school shooting that shocked the nation was perpetrated by two boys who were reported to be on Luvox, an SSRI antidepressant. Even psychiatrists have noted that these drugs can and do cause people to go on rampages.

But as the pharmaceutical connection with Columbine hit the press, it was squelched and sidelined in favor of: “it’s time to to heal.”

For extensive information on these antidepressants and other psy-drugs, go to www.breggin.com and dig into the work of Dr. Peter Breggin, the one man in the world most responsible for exposing the grotesque toxicity of the whole array of brain-changing pharmaceuticals.

Many times since the Columbine massacre, Americans have been bowled over by news of senseless violent murders, and in every case people weigh with the usual array of explanations. No one is satisfied.

However, just try to discover whether the killer was on a psychiatric drug, and if so, what the drug was. It’s almost always a hidden issue, carefully protected.

The effect of these crazed murders on the public is that of a successful psy-op. Confusion, fear, erosion of faith, demoralization, passivity. “Everything’s going to hell. What can anyone do?”

This is called ALTERING PERCEPTION.

And THAT is a major Matrix element: people see reality as something they must passively accept, something that’s beyond their capacity to control or direct.

Now, we have two incidents on which everyone and his brother are speculating. One, the US Army Sgt., Richard Bales, who is accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians, and two, the bizarre actions of Jason Russell, who is currently in lockdown in a San Diego psych ward, after running around naked in the street. Russell directed Kony 2012, the video-gone-viral about a Ugandan warlord.

No one knows what motivated their actions. (In Bales’ case, an Afghan inquiry states at least 20 US soldiers were involved in the killings.) But suppose Bales and Russell were on psychiatric drugs that drove them over a cliff?

Here is some background on just one such drug: Ritalin. You aren’t going to read this material in the mainstream press. Some estimates place young users of the drug as high as 5 million in the US alone.

The conventional wisdom about Ritalin is: it’s safe and effective; it helps curb hyperactivity; if there are side effects, they’re mild.

Really?

In 1986, The International Journal of the Addictions published a most important literature review by Richard Scarnati. It was called “An Outline of Hazardous Side Effects of Ritalin (Methylphenidate)” [v.21(7), pp. 837-841].

Scarnati listed a large number of adverse affects of Ritalin and cited published journal articles which reported each of these symptoms.

For every one of the following (selected and quoted verbatim) Ritalin effects, there is at least one confirming source in the medical literature:

. Paranoid delusions
· Paranoid psychosis
· Hypomanic and manic symptoms, amphetamine-like psychosis
· Activation of psychotic symptoms
· Toxic psychosis
· Visual hallucinations
· Auditory hallucinations
· Can surpass LSD in producing bizarre experiences
· Effects pathological thought processes
· Extreme withdrawal
· Terrified affect
· Started screaming
· Aggressiveness
· Insomnia
· Since Ritalin is considered an amphetamine-type drug, expect amphetamine-like effects
· Psychic dependence
· High-abuse potential DEA Schedule II Drug
· Decreased REM sleep
· When used with antidepressants one may see dangerous reactions including hypertension, seizures and hypothermia
· Convulsions
· Brain damage may be seen with amphetamine abuse.

Many parents around the country have discovered that Ritalin has become a condition for their children continuing in school. There are even reports, by parents, of threats from social agencies: “If you don’t allow us to prescribe Ritalin for your ADD child, we may decide that you are an unfit parent. We may decide to take your child away.”

This mind-boggling state of affairs is fueled by teachers, principals, and school counselors, none of whom have medical training. Yet even if they did…

The very definition of the “illness” for which Ritalin would be prescribed is in doubt, especially at the highest levels of the medical profession. This doubt, however, has not filtered down to most public schools.

In commenting on Dr. Lawrence Diller’s book, Running on Ritalin: A Physician Reflects on Children, Society, and Performance in a Pill,… Dr. William Carey, Director of Behavioral Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, has written, “Dr. Diller has correctly described… the disturbing trend of blaming children’s social, behavioral, and academic performance problems entirely on an unproven brain deficit…”

On November 16-18, 1998, the National Institute of Mental Health held the prestigious “NIH Consensus Development Conference on Diagnosis and Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder [ADHD].” The conference was explicitly aimed at ending all debate about the diagnoses of ADD, ADHD, and about the prescription of Ritalin. It was hoped that at the highest levels of medical research and bureaucracy, a clear position would be taken: this is what ADHD is, this is where it comes from, and these are the drugs it should be treated with. That didn’t happen, amazingly. Instead, the official panel responsible for drawing conclusions from the conference threw cold water on the whole attempt to reach a comfortable consensus.

Panel member Mark Vonnegut, a Massachusetts pediatrician, said, “The diagnosis [of ADHD] is a mess.”

The panel essentially said it was not sure ADHD was even a “valid” diagnosis. In other words, ADD and ADHD might be nothing more than attempts to categorize certain children’s behaviors – with no organic cause, no clear-cut biological basis, no provable reason for even using the ADD or ADHD labels.

The panel found “no data to indicate that ADHD is due to a brain malfunction [which malfunction had been the whole psychiatric assumption].”

The panel found that Ritalin has not been shown to have long-term benefits. In fact, the panel stated that Ritalin has resulted in “little improvement on academic achievement or social skills.”

Panel chairman, David Kupfer, professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, said, “There is no current validated diagnostic test [for ADHD].”

Yet at every level of public education in America, there remains what can only be called a voracious desire to give children Ritalin (or other similar drugs) for ADD or ADHD.

The 1994 Textbook of Psychiatry, published by the American Psychiatric Press, contains this review (Popper and Steingard): “Stimulants [such as Ritalin] do not produce lasting improvements in aggressivity, conduct disorder, criminality, education achievement, job functioning, marital relationships, or long-term adjustment.”

Parents should also wake up to the fact that, in the aftermath of the Littleton, Colorado, school-shooting tragedy, pundits and doctors began urging much more extensive “mental health” services for children. Whether you have noticed it or not, this no longer means, for the most part, therapy with a caring professional. It means drugs. Drugs like Ritalin.

In December 1996, the US Drug Enforcement Agency held a conference on ADHD and Ritalin. Surprisingly, it issued a sensible statement about drugs being a bad substitute for the presence of caring parents: “[T]he use of stimulants [such as Ritalin] for the short-term improvement of behavior and underachievement may be thwarting efforts to address the children’s real issues, both on an individual and societal level. The lack of long-term positive results with the use of stimulants and the specter of previous and potential stimulant abuse epidemics, give cause to worry about the future. The dramatic increase in the use of methylphenidate [Ritalin] in the 1990s should be viewed as a marker or warning to society about the problems children are having and how we view and address them.”

In his book, Talking Back to Ritalin, Dr. Peter Breggin expands on the drug’s effects: “Stimulants such as Ritalin and amphetamine… have grossly harmful impacts on the brain — reducing overall blood flow, disturbing glucose metabolism, and possibly causing permanent shrinkage or atrophy of the brain.”

In the American press, although many articles have appeared covering “the debate” about Ritalin and ADHD, no newspaper or TV network has taken it upon itself to hammer on all the lies, day after day, month after month. That kind of campaign could turn around the whole nation on this vital subject—but of course, pharmaceutical advertising is a more powerful force.

And one should not forget that Ritalin came out of a Swiss drug giant called Ciba Geigy (now Novartis) fifty years ago. That company once had very close business ties with the infamous Nazi cartel, IG Farben. Farben stood for inhuman experiments on human beings. Read the adverse effects of Ritalin again, and consider that millions of little kids take those pills every day.

JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

Jon is the author of the new collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, and, with Robert Scott Bell, a 10-hour audio seminar, VACCINES: ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

THE VACCINE NATION

by Jon Rappoport

MARCH 10, 2012. Well, it’s actually vaccine world.

Anyway, let’s start here. In my new collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, I print many interviews with a retired propaganda operative, Ellis Medavoy (pseudonym). Ellis is the very best authority I’ve ever found on the subject of media deception and how that game actually works. The nuts and bolts. The cultivating of “reliable sources” who lie to reporters night and day. The spreading of false medical information. The strategies for building a long-term propaganda campaign. The subtle and not-so-subtle methods of hypnotizing the public consciousness. It’s PhD stuff you can’t obtain in a university.

In a conversation about so-called epidemics and pandemics, Ellis handed me this nugget:

“Look, there will be one phony epidemic after another. You already know that. You’ve ferreted out the statistics. On the one hand, these non-epidemics are pumped up and promoted to convince people they must get vaccinated. On another level, the promotion is for the purpose of conditioning people to accept any and all medical advice, to drag them into the system.

“But here’s what you’re missing. People like me know, up front, that these scare-promotions could very well fail. Because the public is, unfortunately, smarter than we often give them credit for. They’ll decide not to get vaccinated. But you see, I don’t care about that. Because it’s all about cost-benefit analysis. Do you see? What does it cost to promote an epidemic that isn’t an epidemic? And what are the LONG-TERM benefits of doing that? How many people who REFUSE THE VACCINE are nevertheless tipped and tilted a little bit toward accepting, in general, the authoritarian medical religion? How many people are, essentially, hypnotized JUST A LITTLE BIT in the direction of surrendering their freedom to medical dictates?

“When I was working full-bore in this area, that’s the way I thought about things, because I knew there would be many, many medical propaganda campaigns over the course of many years. And I also knew that, all in all, they would bear fruit. They would wear people down. And that was my goal. To finally, on that last day, get someone to say, ‘All right, I give up. The authorities must be right.’

“That’s what I worked for. That day. That moment. The payoff. You have to pace yourself for the long haul. You have to accept losses and look to the future. Outfits like the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization are trying to get people to accept their falsehoods right now. That’s their job. That’s all they know. People like me didn’t think in those terms.

“Really, a major part of propaganda should involve changing the RHYTHMS of the mind. You want to establish certain HARMONIES in the mind that add up to acceptance…”

I was struck by Ellis’ words, because I had known a few people who were very intelligent and very skeptical, people who had been diagnosed with one thing or another, who were still healthy, who had refused to take a medical drug that was prescribed for them. I had seen them, over a period of years, slowly gravitate toward the Priest in the White Coat, slowly believe published studies I knew to be false, slowly give in and finally take that drug—and THEN THEY HAD GOTTEN SICK AND DIED.

Ellis and I had a number of conversations about THAT, and he told me it was one reason he finally retired from the game. He has a lot to feel guilty about and he knows it. He doesn’t ask for forgiveness and I don’t offer it. Just the way you wouldn’t offer forgiveness to a president who sent men and women to die in a war that wasn’t necessary.

Okay. With that as background, let’s move ahead.

I’ve written many articles about the so-called outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics of the last 25 years—SARS, bird flu, West Nile, Swine Flu… The stats show these illnesses, at best, were duds. They never spread to a fraction of the extent predicted.

And was there ever prediction! Everybody and his cousin got in on the act. Doctors, public health agencies, political leaders, conspiracy researchers. Frankly, to blow my own horn a little, I was one of the people who put this crap to bed. I raked the fear mongers over the coals and showed, from a number of angles, why the predictions were based on no firm evidence at all.

But the mainstream epidemic mongers did accomplish one goal. They took the opportunity to hammer the global population over the head with the idea that WE ALL MUST GET VACCINATED.

In some countries, alas for them, it didn’t work. People caught on the to the basic scam.

However, the PR never stops. In one small example, the governor of Washington state, last year, signed into a law a measure that makes it mandatory for parents (who want to opt out of vaccinating their kids) to first visit a health practitioner, who is now duty bound to provide information about vaccines. This doctor’s appointment has to precede a parent’s decision to claim a religious or philosophical exemption from vaccines for her child.

The medical strategy is to keep up relentless repetition about the need for and value of vaccination—and these fake epidemics provide the opportunity in spades.

The PR campaign also provides citizens, who think they’re quasi-doctors and scientific elitists, with the chance to spout off about vaccination as a duty of every responsible parent. Typical boomer nonsense.

However, it does work, because peer pressure is a strong force—and so parents who are on the outside looking in, and don’t want to vaccinate their kids, are thought of as crazies. Dangerous crazies, who are exposing their own children, and other children in the community, to illness.

Many PR campaigns have this component. They may not succeed in all their goals, but they do define two basic groups—the normals and the nuts.

The normals (android types) look at the nuts and build up resentment toward them. And the nuts feel oppressed.

It’s called a squeeze play.

During the centuries of Roman Church domination, it was called excommunication.

From a purely political angle, it’s quite ingenious, this vaccine promotion…because it pretends that, without all the shots, whole populations will fall under the gun of communicable disease and we will all revert back to darker times.

I’ve spent many hours writing and talking about this false premise—how the decline of infectious disease in the West was the result of non-medical factors: basic sanitation, elimination of overcrowding, the rise of the middle class, and improved nutrition. (See Ivan Illich’s groundbreaking classic, Medical Nemesis.)

The vaccination PR campaign has the objective of making everyone into a Group. One big group. All of humanity. Interdependent. The Global Village. That’s the vector of attack against our freedom to choose, to vaccinate or not:

“No, you can’t do that. You’re part of everyone else, and if you don’t follow our vaccine directives, you’re endangering the collective.”

This is why, for the last 23 years, I’ve been educating people about the fact that medical propaganda and enforcement are the very best method for attaining long-range political control. The propaganda has no apparent partisan slant. It seems to favor no political cause at all. It has a neutral concerned scientific attitude. Along with, of course, the notion that the experts know everything and we, the children, know nothing.

And since we know nothing, we have no right to exercise our freedom to choose. That freedom stops at the door of “science.”

If you believe that one, you’re cooked. They’ve got you.

Look up the road into the future. Use a little common sense and a little imagination, and you’ll be able to see where this is heading. Unless it’s derailed.

I’m betting it’s not a place you want to be.

That’s why freedom matters.

I know, freedom is now a dirty word. Well, that’s the result of a whole other propaganda op.

They’re connected, believe me. The medical cartel and political collectivism. They’re together on an elite chessboard.

Two streams coming together.

Here are the best official statistics I could dig up for the phony epidemics I’ve been talking about. These numbers are global, and cumulative:

SARS: 774 deaths.

WEST NILE: 1,088 deaths

BIRD FLU: 262 deaths

SWINE FLU (H1N1): 25,000 deaths.

Keep in mind that the CDC claims ordinary seasonal flu in the US kills 36,000 people a year, and the World Health Organization states that ordinary seasonal flu kills between 300,000 and 500,000 people a year, globally. NONE of that is called an epidemic.

Quite interesting. Quite instructive. What it tells you is this: the phony epidemics are largely PR and propaganda campaigns. They’re launched and funded and maintained to condition people to Medical Authority. Operant conditioning, mind control, brainwashing.

However, the wild card in all this is the Internet. During the last go-around with Swine Flu, there were enough of us who blew the whistle on the CDC and the World Health Organization to derail the whole operation. Governments and their medical partners were screaming and ranting and lying on every front, and it didn’t work. We exposed their lies, chapter and verse. We demonstrated that the “level-six pandemic” was a fraud.

The non-official media won.

Millions of people started to wake up from their trance.

So now the medical/government honchos don’t know what to do. They want to launch another phony epidemic, and I’m sure they will. But they don’t know how to promote it. They’re gagging on their own lies. They’re searching for newer and better methods of propaganda.

The vaccine manufacturers are furious. They struck a deal some years ago with governments that would allow them to keep making vaccines at a high rate of profit, sell those vaccines to governments with a no-return policy, and avoid huge lawsuits when people who took the vaccines died…they were riding high. But now?

The governments and their propaganda machines didn’t deliver. They fell down on the job. They lost the information war. To us. And now we’re ready to pounce on the next load of insanity and de-certify it. We know where the lies are. We can expose them.

This is a model to emulate in other venues. Other issues can be dealt with in this way.

When Swine Flu was birthed in La Gloria, Mexico, on a huge commercial pig farm in 2009, it was assumed the whole world would eventually line up and dutifully take a jab of vaccine.

Of course, what happened on that pig farm was simple. There were, to use a mainstream-media phrase, feces lagoons everywhere. Pig feces. In the open air. And workers were getting sick. Sure they were getting sick, because that’s precisely the kind of environment where people DO get sick. It isn’t one germ, it’s the whole setting. Live in tons of rotting waste for a long time and you WILL get sick.

And then outside contractors came in and sprayed all sorts of toxic chemicals on the lagoons—and more people got sick. No big surprise there, either.

And then, guess what? The CDC sent a team of researchers down to La Gloria to find out what was making the workers sick. Are you kidding me? These researchers dutifully took samples and they announced to the world, after a short pause, that they had found a unique virus. Wow. A virus that could kill millions of people around the world.

And the game was afoot. The lie that compounded into more lies.

CLEAN UP THE FECES! That should have been the “expert medical advice.” But of course it wasn’t, because who makes money from shoveling dung?

And then, several months later, the World Health Organization, BASED ON REPORTS OF 20, THAT’S 20 SO-CALLED CASES OF SWINE FLU, DECLARED THE “DISEASE” A LEVEL-SIX PANDEMIC…the highest threat level possible.

And in doing so, as documented by Peter Doshi in the British Medical Journal, the World Health Organization CHANGED ITS DEFINITION OF PANDEMIC SO THAT IT NO LONGER REQUIRED SEVERE WIDESPREAD DEATH.

They changed the definition.

But not the level of warning and concern and propaganda.

There is a lot more to this story, and I’ve written a number of articles about in this blog.

Point is, the official lies were taken apart one by one, and by the end, it was a debacle for the Church of Biological Mysticism. They retreated into the woodwork.

Understanding the nuts and bolts of propaganda and the subtleties, too, helps to take the machine apart and leave it on the ground, inoperative, next to the feces lagoons.

JON RAPPOPORT

Jon is the author of the new collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, and, with Robert Scott Bell, a 10-hour audio seminar, VACCINES: ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

Jon Rappoport has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize early in his career, Jon has published articles on medical fraud, and politics in LA Weekly, CBS Healthwatch, Spin, Stern, and other magazines and newspapers in the US and Europe.

www.nomorefakenews.com

qjrconsulting@gmail.com

ANATOMY OF A CONSPIRACY

MEDICAL MURDER IN THE MATRIX

MEDICALLY CAUSED DEATH IN AMERICA: AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH DR. BARBARA STARFIELD

by Jon Rappoport

March 8, 2012

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I rerun this Dr. Barbara Starfield article — wherein I show you the email interview I did with Dr. Starfield in December 2009 — regarding her paper published in JAMA in July 2000 entitled Is US health really the best in the world?, just to push the wheel another turn.

The Starfield paper can be downloaded freely (as a .pdf) from here (via www.drug-education.info via en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Starfield). The paper is fully cited as Starfield B. Is US health really the best in the world?. JAMA. 2000; 284(4):483-4. Dr. Barbara Starfield’s wiki page is here.

Each time I do this, I try to write a new introduction. Here is one…

The late Dr. Barbara Starfield exposed, in a prestigious mainstream medical journal, the horrific extent of medically caused death in America.

Since the July 26, 2000, publication of her review, “Is US health really the best in the world?”, there has been virtually no mainstream criticism of her findings.

And press coverage has been minimal. Articles did appear in 2000-2001, but then the issue itself vanished. So we have press silence, which is necessary and invaluable in any conspiracy.

We also have silence from the thousands of medical personnel who work as doctors, nurses, bureaucrats, teachers in medical schools, researchers and executives in pharmaceutical companies. And no one at the FDA has spoken up.

“Well, this couldn’t be a conspiracy because too many people would have to be in on it.”

This is what we often hear when someone utters the word “conspiracy.” But you see, it happened here. And it happened here because, in part, the silent ones are trained not to question their education and the tons of propaganda issued by their bosses and by the so-called experts.

In other words, they are true believers. They aren’t attending meetings in rooms where they pledge secrecy and collaborate. They go along to get along. They keep their doubts to themselves to protect their jobs. They support the structure. They have faith in the efficacy and safety of modern medicine, because they been told what to think and what sources of evidence to accept.

If you put a black coat on a table and told them to look at it, they would say it was white.

At another level, we have the managers and supervisors and researchers and executives of drug companies. They know, of course, that any indictment of the safety of their drugs would threaten their jobs. They choose to believe their drugs are safe. They choose to believe all is well. They wear blinders. They trust the PR their own companies issue about the wonders of the drugs they sell.

And they are walled off from thinking about the dangers of drugs manufactured by other companies. They don’t look (or care to look) at the big picture.

Teachers in medical schools, which, like major media, are heavily financed by pharma money, ignore negative information about drugs. They pretend it doesn’t really exist. They pretend there are occasional scandals in an otherwise calm sea of progress and research.

At the drug companies, you of course have the outright liars and cheaters. They bury clinical trials of drugs that show the drugs are dangerous. They rationalize their actions in many ways. For example: “Well, you can always put together a study which will show a drug has negative effects. It happens. But if you do another study on the same drug, you could very well get a positive outcome. It’s unpredictable. We’re simply putting our best foot forward. The whole area of testing drugs on humans is fraught with with incontrollable variables…”

You add up all these factors and all these people working at different levels in the medical complex—including the doctors who write the prescriptions, who are trained to believe that any drug certified as safe by the FDA is really safe—and you have a de facto conspiracy.

And as Dr. Starfield pointed out in our interview, lobbyists in Washington and pharma money exert a powerful influence on elected and appointed government officials. Therefore, no Congressional investigations into drug safety and harm. No prosecutions. In fact, drug companies are now required to pay the FDA fees to finance that agency’s work in approving or denying approval to new drugs these companies want to market for public use. In other words, the drug companies are paying clients of the FDA.

That leaves only the question of intent. The intent to do harm.

A little common sense helps here. If I and other reporters can discover the true extent of the devastation caused by pharmaceutical drugs, then certainly highly placed medical bureaucrats and executives of drug companies are aware of the same data.

And among those people, and particularly among those who actually finance and own drug companies, there are individuals who consciously set out to achieve the results that are beyond debate: widespread debilitation, destruction, death. Or, alternatively, are quite willing to stand by and witness genocidal levels of “negligent homicide.”

Why do I say this? Because, to begin with, such people, knowing the overall effects of the drugs, are in a position to stop the carnage. But they don’t.

And then there is the circumstantial evidence of history. At the outbreak of World World 2, the most powerful pharmaceutical-chemical company in the world was IG Farben, the Nazi behemoth that actually put Hitler over the top in Germany and ensured he would be the dictator of the nation.

Farben established the pharmaceutical torture chamber along side the Auschwitz concentration camp, and paid to have prisoners brought to their lab for grotesque “medical experiments” on a regular basis.

Farben was composed of German companies, among which were Bayer, Hoescht, and BASF. At the close of the War, Farben executives were put on trial at Nuremberg. Among them, Fritz ter Meer, a high-ranking scientist-executive in Farben’s ranks.

Convicted of plunder and mass slavery, ter Meer was found guilty and sentenced to a mere seven years in prison. His sentence was commuted after four years. In 1954, he emerged as a member of the managing board of Bayer, which by then was running on high profits.

According to the Dr. Rath Foundation (which will offer immense amounts of information about Farben to the serious reader), ter Meer also became one of the architects of the Codex Alimentarius, that powerful organization dedicated to destroying the nutritional-supplement industry and the widespread benefits it provides.

I suggest several books: The Devil’s Chemists (Josiah E Du Bois); The Crime and Punishment of IG Farben (Joseph Borkin); Thy Will Be Done (Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett).

The last book is an immense exploration of Nelson Rockefeller’s quest to obtain and exploit natural resources in the South American Amazon region. This multi-faceted campaign, which involved a large missionary organization and several governments, resulted in the genocide of indigenous peoples.

Rockefeller-family interests of course include oil, pharmaceuticals, and the entire direction and paradigm of modern medical practice. The family’s Standard Oil company was a major partner with Farben for years.

Circumstantial evidence? Yes. But a great deal of future investigation is suggested here.

And now, reprinted, my interview with Dr. Barbara Starfield.

MEDICALLY CAUSED DEATH IN AMERICA

An Exclusive Interview With Dr. Barbara Starfield

by Jon Rappoport

The American health system, like clockwork, causes a mind-boggling number of deaths every year.

The figures have been known for a decade. The story was covered briefly when a landmark study surfaced, and then it sank like a stone.

The truth was inconvenient for many interests. That has not changed.

On July 26, 2000, the US medical community received a titanic shock to the system, when one of its most respected public-health experts, Dr. Barbara Starfield, revealed her findings on health care in America. Starfield was, and still is, associated with the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. [Note: This interview was conducted in 2009. Dr. Starfield died in June, 2011.]

The Starfield study, “Is US health really the best in the world?”, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, came to the following conclusions:

Every year in the US there are:

12,000 deaths from unnecessary surgeries;

7,000 deaths from medication errors in hospitals;

20,000 deaths from other errors in hospitals;

80,000 deaths from infections acquired in hospitals;

106,000 deaths from FDA-approved correctly prescribed medicines.

The total of medically-caused deaths in the US every year is 225,000.

This makes the medical system the third leading cause of death in the US, behind heart disease and cancer.

The Starfield study is the most disturbing revelation about modern health care in America ever published. The credentials of its author and the journal in which it appeared are, within the highest medical circles, impeccable.

On the heels of Starfield’s astonishing findings, media reporting was perfunctory, and it soon dwindled. No major newspaper or television network mounted an ongoing “Medicalgate” investigation. Neither the US Department of Justice nor federal health agencies undertook prolonged remedial action.

All in all, those parties who could have taken effective steps to correct this situation preferred to ignore it.

I interviewed Dr. Starfield by email (December 6-7, 2009). This is an edited version of the interview.

Q: In the medical research community, have your medically-caused mortality statistics been debated, or have these figures been accepted, albeit with some degree of shame?

A: The findings have been accepted by those who study them. There has been only one detractor, a former medical school dean, who has received a lot of attention for claiming that the US health system is the best there is and we need more of it. He has a vested interest in medical schools and teaching hospitals (they are his constituency).

Q: Have health agencies of the federal government consulted with you on ways to mitigate the effects of the US medical system?

A: NO.

Q: Are you aware of any systematic efforts, since your 2000 JAMA study was published, to remedy the main categories of medically caused deaths in the US?

A: No systematic efforts; however, there have been a lot of studies. Most of them indicate higher rates [of death] than I calculated.

Q: Can you offer an opinion about how the FDA can be so mortally wrong about so many drugs?

A: Yes, it cannot divest itself from vested interests. [There is] a large literature about this, mostly unrecognized by the people because the industry-supported media give it no attention.

Q: Did your 2000 JAMA study sail through peer review, or was there some opposition to publishing it?

A: It was rejected by the first journal that I sent it to, on the grounds that ‘it would not be interesting to readers’!

Q: Would it be correct to say that, when your JAMA study was published in 2000, it caused a momentary stir and was thereafter ignored by the medical community and by pharmaceutical companies?

A: Are you sure it was a momentary stir? I still get at least one email a day asking for a reprint—ten years later! The problem is that its message is obscured by those that do not want any change in the US health care system.

Q: Since the FDA approves every medical drug given to the American people, and certifies it as safe and effective, how can that agency remain calm about the fact that these medicines are causing 106,000 deaths per year?

A: Even though there will always be adverse events that cannot be anticipated, the fact is that more and more unsafe drugs are being approved for use. Many people attribute that to the fact that the pharmaceutical industry is (for the past ten years or so) required to pay the FDA for [product] reviews—which puts the FDA into an untenable position of working for the industry it is regulating. There is a large literature on this.

Q: Aren’t your 2000 findings a severe indictment of the FDA and its standard practices?

A: They are an indictment of the US health care industry: insurance companies, specialty and disease-oriented medical academia, the pharmaceutical and device manufacturing industries, all of which contribute heavily to re-election campaigns of members of Congress. The problem is that we do not have a government that is free of influence of vested interests. Alas, [it] is a general problem of our society—which clearly unbalances democracy.

Q: What was your personal reaction when you reached the conclusion that the US medical system was the third leading cause of death in the US?

A: I had previously done studies on international comparisons and knew that there were serious deficits in the US health care system, most notably in lack of universal coverage and a very poor primary care infrastructure. So I wasn’t surprised.

Q: Do the 106,000 deaths from medical drugs only involve drugs prescribed to patients in hospitals, or does this statistic also cover people prescribed drugs who are not in-patients in hospitals?

A: I tried to include everything in my estimates. Since the commentary was written, many more dangerous drugs have been added to the marketplace.

INTERVIEWER COMMENTS:

This interview with Dr. Starfield reveals that, even when an author has unassailable credentials within the medical-research establishment, the findings can result in no changes made to the system.

Yes, many persons and organizations within the medical system contribute to the annual death totals of patients, and media silence and public ignorance are certainly major factors, but the FDA is the assigned gatekeeper, when it comes to the safety of medical drugs. The buck stops there. If those drugs the FDA is certifying as safe are killing, like clockwork, 106,000 people a year, the Agency must be held accountable. The American people must understand that.

As for the other 119,000 people killed every year as a result of hospital treatment, this horror has to be laid at the doors of those institutions. Further, to the degree that hospitals are regulated and financed by state and federal governments, the relevant health agencies assume culpability.

It is astounding, as well, that the US Department of Justice has failed to weigh in on Starfield’s findings. If 225,000 medically caused deaths per year is not a crime by the Dept. of Justice’s standards, then what is?

To my knowledge, not one person in America has been fired from a job or even censured as result of these medically caused deaths.

The pharmaceutical giants stand back and carve up the populace into “promising markets.” They seek new disease labels and new profits from more and more toxic drugs. They do whatever they can—legally or illegally—to influence doctors in their prescribing habits. Some drug studies which cast new medicines in a negative light are buried. FDA panels are filled with doctors who have drug-company ties. Legislators are incessantly lobbied and supported with pharma campaign monies.

Nutrition, the cornerstone of good health, is ignored or devalued by most physicians. The FDA continues to attack nutritional supplements, even though the overall safety record of these nutrients is excellent, whereas, once again, the medical drugs the FDA certifies as safe are killing 106,000 Americans per year.

If you would care to add up the figures: FDA certified drugs are killing A MILLION people per decade.

No prosecutions? No federal remedy? No mainstream coverage of the biggest ongoing scandal in the nation?

Physicians are trained to pay exclusive homage to peer-reviewed published drug studies. These doctors unfailingly ignore the fact that, if medical drugs are killing a million Americans per decade, the studies on which those drugs are based must be fraudulent. In other words, the whole literature is suspect, unreliable, impenetrable, criminal.

© 2012 Jon Rappoport – All Rights Reserved

Jon is the author of the new collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, and, with Robert Scott Bell, a 10-hour audio seminar, VACCINES: ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

Jon Rappoport has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize early in his career, Jon has published articles on medical fraud, and politics in LA Weekly, CBS Healthwatch, Spin, Stern, and other magazines and newspapers in the US and Europe.

He is the is author of several books, including The Secret Behind Secret Societies and The Magic Agent (a novel).

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