How the press creates medical fantasies for the gullible
by Jon Rappoport
January 31, 2018
While avoiding deep scandals that would crack the pillars of modern medicine, the press uses a tactic to paint a glowing picture of medical research. These fantasies have one element in common:
The use of “could be,” “may be,” “possible,” and other bloviations to suggest breakthroughs are right around the corner.
This is not “new research is confirmed.” This is vague suggestion on the level of stock market predictions and long-term weather forecasts.
Let me show you.
I’m looking at medicalnewstoday.com, for January 31st. Here are headlines:
BLOCKING VITAMIN B-2 MAY STOP CANCER.
E-CIGARETTES MAY CAUSE CANCER AND HEART DISEASE.
BODY CLOCK DISRUPTIONS MAY BE AN EARLY SIGN OF ALZHEIMER’S.
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS: ‘GUARDIAN MOLECULE’ MAY LEAD TO NEW TREATMENT.
THIS PEPTIDE MAY EXPLAIN FEMALE SEXUAL BEHAVIOR.
AEROBIC EXERCISE MAY BE KEY FOR ALZHEIMER’S PREVENTION.
That’s just one day of headlines on one medical site. The use of MAY is everywhere. “This may be the case—or not.” Maybe yes, maybe no.
Why not run these headlines instead?
THIS PEPTIDE MAY NOT EXPLAIN FEMALE SEXUAL BEHAVIOR.
‘GUARDIAN MOLECULE’ MAY NOT LEAD TO NEW TREATMENT.
Over the years, I’ve read thousands of medical articles, and most of the MAYBES disappear down the memory hole with no further comment. They’re just pap. Here today, gone tomorrow.
Besides serving the function of filling up space, the articles are public relations propaganda, designed to convince readers that “the cutting edge” of research is very fertile territory, and new advances are always “on the way.”
This press gibberish is little more than, say, producing new reasons to believe people who are holding Iraqi Dinars are on the verge of becoming millionaires.
Nevertheless, large numbers of people are encouraged by these MAYBE medical stories. They want to have faith. They don’t want interruptions to their trance-state. They would say, “If a dozen ‘maybe’ stories are published, at least a few of them will pan out, and that’s a good thing.”
If you have a lot of time on your hands, copy the headlines above and track what happens over the next few years. See if any of the “possible breakthroughs” actually turns into a useful medical treatment.
Better yet, perhaps, track the thousands of articles touting new discoveries in genetic research. Keep an eagle eye out for ONE form of gene therapy that cures ANY disease across the board. I’m not talking about a claim that a single patient has experienced a remission. I mean a therapy that cures a given disease for every diagnosed patient. After all, that’s the heraldic promise.
Good hunting.
Meanwhile, maybe there is a MAYBE.
And DEFINITELY there is propaganda-riddled medical news.
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The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.
Then there is the fact that they have been causing and reversing many cancers in lab animals for years…but will point out that animal studies do not correlate to humans.
Okay so why were they being done again?
So that you can study one tiny mechanism in a reductionist fashion that will prove to be yet another highly profitable blind alley?
Since science, especially biological sciences have prostituted themselves out to industry, i have no respect whatsoever for them…in fact one of the reasons i left the sciences.
Every year worldwide several trillions of dollars are spent on medical research. Any positive results are close to non-existing. Still people keep believing that the cure for a disease is just around the corner.
Imagine that those trillions of dollars would be spent to create better living circumstances in the first, the second and the third world. Then a lot of diseases would simply disappear.
Correct.
That’s what I used to tell my mother when the TV news would get to their ‘medical’ segment. I’d turn off the TV and tell her that we’re not going to listen to any of that crap. All of the news is propaganda, but the medical segments are the worst, everything is ‘may’, ‘might’, ‘maybe’ and it’s all fluff.
And you forgot the “is believed to” do whatever. But if a “doctor” mentions colloidal silver, which DOES fight and win over viruses and bacteria, they will have their license taken away.
Good article, Jon.
In a round about way, you are spot on. Here’s another perspective, a paragraph from my next but yet tie released article “Prophesy, prediction and consensus view – preconditioning for spirited souls?” on https://ozziethinker.wordpress.com
“The real scandal, therefore, is found in the wide reliance on best-of-breeds “obtuse reasoning”. By example, Imagine you see before you a picture of some sort of idyllic scene beneath an airy bright blue sky. Location is unimportant. Out of view by several kilometres and completely omitted from the picture is a topology that would be described very differently. This “slant” image per my example comprises of several giant industrial chimney stacks that continuously and voluminously belch hideous gaseous plumes into the heavens. The effect promotes the unruly build-up of a flailing, filthy black smog whose pungent foulness seems to permanently stain the clouds. All this is out-of-view on our imaginary canvass, but, given a wider picture, conspiracies might focus on the negative in isolation “for impact”. The political arena (which absolutely underscores the establishment heart) champions identical rose tinted duplicity as there are no or next to no dissenting voices prepared to vocalise beyond standardised obtuse reasoning mandates (i.e. such as choosing to ignore industrial waste, in my example) and that is where the major issue lies for governments (and those that call governments to account) of the world in general. ”
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I figured out this scam in the 70’s – in my early teens. WTF is with the rest of the humanoids?
I think the moron class should watch more TV, take more pharmadope and step up the cull as fast as possible – they are unreachable and Jon write to us something we don’t know already. It is time to let go of the masochists. Just learn to let go – then write about that revelation. I’d love to read that.
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Google: “doctors third leading cause of death” – this is no fantasy, but does show why the medical industry has to rely on fantasies in order to survive.
That is reality , third leading cause of death alright , they have a drug for EVERYTHING , never talk about side effects only benefits , sure , I swear we are living in the dark ages of medicine , we really are .
I love your articles and share and speak of them all that I can. The other words I would be concerned about are “recommended, ask your doctor about this, and ‘robust'”. If you hear “robust” referring to a study, run, dont walk the opposite direction.
And if they really did come up with any cures for anything, you can be sure that the pharmaceutical industry would spike it, promptamundo, and ensure the cures never saw the light of day.
Sadly there is no money in cures , only in symptom management , that’s where the money is , pathetic system