GRID, Laetrile, "Female Hysteria" and other horrifying myths...nothing's changed.
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This is all stupid medicine like John Oliver “stupid Watergate” description of the Trump/Russia scandal. The medical establishment has long proffered ridiculous claims or assumptions, some of which have persisted for generations.
Of course, those of us who are practicing any form of medicine during the early HIV/AIDS years were horrified by the notion that this syndrome was gay related exclusively. It was stated with absolute certainty, and the vast number of us knew that it was a lie. Oh sure there were some hemophiliacs and heroin attic’s and even some patients who had the disease, but if you were straight you’re going to be OK. It’s like saying only a socialist can get a cold or the flu. But in the face of common sense and so-called anecdotal information, the powers that be insisted for months that there was no indication that the disease could spread to the heterosexual population, As though virus cares what you do in your spare time and with whom. As a practitioner in a very significant urban setting, I wound up losing almost 15% of my practice in a 20 months Due to rampant death. It was horrifying beyond comprehension and the unwillingness of the establishment to own up to the truth was painful to say the least. When when Jack Nicholson lectures Tom Cruise and says “you can’t handle the truth“ it reminded me of my attempts to talk to people and beg them to please be careful. It was like beating your head against the wall and watching the inevitable happen.
And there are also those of us old enough to remember Laetrile as the ultimate cancer fighter. Thousands of people forswore conventional treatment and opted for this fraud which did nothing for their cancer except accelerate it due to lack of legitimate treatment. Now whereas it is true that chemotherapy was much more primitive in those days, there were countless people who had at least a small but reasonable chance of surviving who did not. When we would hear that someone elected Laetrile treatment, we just assumed they were only going to live a short time despite their claims of wonder drug success potential, and made plans to eventually attend their funeral. All kinds of physicians were touting this drug is a wonder cure and giving false hope to afflicted individuals and their families. A tragedy by any measure.
And of course, who could forget the medical establishments attestation that all types of ills in women were due to complications arising from the fact that they had a uterus and female reproductive organs. Hysteria was not simply uncontrolled emotional expression, but every so-called foible under the sun. Even worse, many of the treatments outlined for this so-called condition utilized sexual stimulation machines including all kinds of vibrating devices to relieve the woman of her problem. My aunt owned a suitcase which was sold by a company, I believe it was Niagara, which had six different Electronic items for relief of her “problems”. I found this in a closet after her departure from this mortal coil, along with the literature and the techniques for the relieving of certain moods via massage and vibration to the nether area. Now I personally have nothing against masturbation, (having tried it once or twice), but utilizing it as a panacea for Medical ills does seem to be a bit much. And all this occurred in my lifetime, in the so-called modern world, the scientific age, the times of awareness and enlightenment of purpose and of identity.
Of course there are many more fallacies promulgated by so-called experts and so-called educated folk. I was personally a victim of ridiculously closed-minded medical care and with clear somatic symptoms was referred to a psychiatrist with a diagnosis of factitious disorder, a term which refers to the individual deliberately inducing symptoms in order to appear sick to garner attention. It turned out that I was quite ill with a dyscrasia which had been undiagnosed Until a physician, just an average doc, No one particularly special, not boarded in subspecialty, took a look at me and said I don’t know what’s wrong with you but you’re certainly sick let’s see what we can find out. And find out he did. And cured me within a couple months. I had been sick for nearly 2 years while these double-0 doctors, that is “licensed to kill” Refused to take me seriously. .
I write this tonight because I want to stress that the fact that someone has a degree after his or her name is simply a starting point, that one heeds more Then credentials to achieve competence. The old joke was the answer to the question what do you call the person who graduated last in his or her medical school class? The answer was “doctor“. As a dentist I have seen outrageous forms of treatment promulgated by What could be best described as quick-buck artists who stand on very flimsy or fundamentally non-existent scientific ground and proclaim ridiculous degrees of success. I have also been around long enough to of seen after the fact, just like the Republicans who refuse to name their presidents who are disgraced, these doctors pretend that they never practiced this brand of medicine. Or dentistry. Or podiatry.
Oh well, I guess some of these professionals are people from the heartland, people of the soil, you know, morons. (A tip of the cap to Mel Brooks). Any professional who sells his or her soul To Donald Trump and mitigates the claims of individuals who speak the truth, should lose his or her medical licenses and be tried for murder and mayhem. It is a form of genocide.
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Psychologists were convinced autism in kids was caused by the "frozen mom."
They didn't cuddle their kids enough, so that why kids got autism.
Now?
"Vaccines cause autism!" 
