History is written by the victors. So, I have set upon the task of recording the *true* history of
the natural healing movement. 🙂 Truth is often stranger than fiction, and so it goes with the tale
of woe called Medical Scientism.
The end of the Age of Heroic Medicine (1780 - 1850) overlaps with the beginning of the Age of
Quackery, otherwise known as the Popular Health Movement (1830 - 1870).
The Age of Heroic Medicine was about physicians aggressively treating disease with bloodletting
(venesection), intestinal purging (calomel), vomiting (tartar emetic), profuse sweating
(diaphoretics), and with blistering. And, while science geeks would have you believe that Heroic
Medicine ended a long time ago, those in the know claim that the Age of Heroic Medicine continues
today with chemotherapy and radiation therapy. 🙂
The Popular Health Movement, on the other hand, is usually dismissed in conventional medical
histories as the high-tide of quackery and medical cultism. Why? Because medical licensing laws were
repealed in most of the states by the 1840's. With physicians it has always been about concerns over
competition, and never about concerns over your health. Hey, they got to feed their kiddies don't
they? Ha, ... Hah, Ha!
During the Popular Health Movement we see people, including some physicians, advocating prevention
and healthy lifestyles. They had many ideas about good nutrition, clean water and air, exercise,
sunshine and herbs. They advocated healthy eating long before the science of nutrition even existed.
And, they advocated healthy lifestyles long before any modern health journals even existed to look
at the effect lifestyles had on health. While they may not have helped their patients, they
certainly did no harm. Physicians, on the hand, were killing people like George Washington with
their Heroic medicine. Yet, this natural healing is what Medical Scientism today calls Quackery!!!
But of course, when a physician offers the same preventive health services, the doctor is considered
progressive; in print while their colleagues chuckle privately about wasting the time of patients.
And, thanks to people like me the Popular Health Movement did not really end long ago, either. The
struggle for good health still continues.
Today, the science of nutrition still ain't much of a science by any standard. It is more a matter
of political correctness than anything else. Take for instance the topic of: To take, or not to take
a multivitamin pill. The conclusion advocated is more a matter of politics than anything else since
both sides are looking at and are arguing from the same science/data. And, the facts are that the
help offered by nutrition science today ain't much better or worst than what was advocated during
the Popular Health Movement. Furthermore, anybody who actually bothers to track the latest published
research soon sees that it will be eons before medical scientism accomplishes anything of real
value. But, be sure that the science geeks will make you pay through the nose for their incompetent
[censored] and verbally abuse anybody who dares question the [censored] that they publish as science.
When science geeks talk about science, I always hear a loud sucking noise as Medical Scientism
drains the lifeblood out of its modern victims. I am of course referring to fact that big money buys
the 'sizzle' being sold by medical scientism, today.
Science sells the Sizzle:
(1)If a person is smart enough to select the right physician , and
(2)if he has enough money, and
(3)if the high-priestess of high-technology doesn't botch the lab results, and
(4) if your physician makes the correct diagnosis the first time around (rather than screwing
around for a couple of years), and
(5) if your physician catches your disease early enough, and
(6)if your stay in the health care system doesn't kill you first (like with adverse drug reactions,
medical errors, and/or catching pneumonia from the gross neglect of the hospital staff);
Then you *might* be indeed be *lucky* enough to survive for another five years. Ha, ... Hah, Ha!
Boy, if that is not 'sizzle' what is? Yes, with medical scientism even the concept of a cure is pure
'sizzle.' Ha, ... Hah, Ha!
While Quackery sells the Steak:
(7)Seems to me, that if you are smart enough to select the right physician, you are smart enough to
select the right healer.
(8)Seems to me, that if you have time enough to make the money required to pay for medical
scientism you have enough time to spend working on your lifestyle.
(9)Seems to me, that if you are smart enough to select the right physician you are indeed smart
enough to figure out what healthy lifestyles you should be following or what forms of
alternative medicine works with your particular health conditions..
(10)Finally, it seems to me that building up health reduces the likelihood of you getting sick in
the first place.
And, when you do get sick:
(11)Seems to me, that building up health, builds the bodily reserves required to survive the
chemotherapy and radiation therapy offered by medical scientism.
(12)Seems to me, that building up health, builds up the immune system that is required to finished
the job started by the chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
In conclusion, medical scientism sells the 'sizzle' of the quick fix. While, natural health sells
the 'steak' of real health; obtainable only from the long term solutions offered by healthy
lifestyles.
--
John Gohde, Achieving good Nutrition is an Art, NOT a Science!
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