Hijacking the Campaign a story filled
with lies and deceit.
Recently I was telephoned by a New Zealand Herald
Journalist requesting my comments on the release
of the Ministerial Advisory Committee’s
recommendations that the government should be
looking to publicly fund natural therapies and
medicines.
As I explained to the reporter, I had not yet
seen the document therefore I was not in a position
to comment. However, as you will all appreciate
reporters are taught to be persistent and he begun
to highlight a number of points from the newly
released document, probing for a response to a
number of the recommendations made by the Ministerial
Advisory Committee.
My comments on the release of the document by
the Minister of Health Annette King were: “It
is possibly a step in the right direction however,
it remains to be seen whether the Minister will
endorse or implement her committee’s recommendations.
My comments with regard to providing evidence
for the safety, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness
of natural healthcare therapies and medicines
were no different than they have always been,
and to which I have stated on numerous occasions
both publicly and in written communication. “If
it is the current scientific model used to evaluate
pharmaceutical medicines, that they plan to use
to evaluate our therapies and medicines, then
I do have a major concern with regard to that
form of evaluation”.
Natural medicine and therapies are proven every
day in the clinical experience of physicians and
patients. It was proven hundreds of years ago
and will remain proven hundreds of years from
now. Natural medicine is more scientific in the
truest sense than western, so-called scientific
medicine.
Sadly, what we see too often in conventional
(allopathic) medicine is a drug or procedure “proven”
and accepted by authoritative bodies only to be
revoked a few years later when its been proven
to be toxic, malfunctioning, or deadly. In fact
many people are suffering more from the dangerous
side effects of their medications than they were
from the original problem.
The conceit of conventional medicine and its
“science” is that substances and procedures
must pass the double blind study to be proven
effective. But is the double-blind method the
most appropriate way to be scientific about natural
medicine and therapies? It is not. No scientific
study, by itself, is conclusive proof of anything.
The guidelines and boundaries of science must
be revised to encompass the clinical subtlety
and complexity revealed by natural medicine and
therapies.
As a testing method, the double blind study examines
a single substance or procedure in isolated, controlled
conditions and measures results against an inactive
or empty procedure or substance (called a placebo)
to be sure that no subjective factors get in the
way. The approach is based on the assumption that
single factors cause and reverse illness, and
that these can be studied alone, out of context
and in isolation.
The double blind study, although taken without
critical examination to be the gold standard of
modern science, is actually misleading, even useless,
when it is used to study natural medicine and
therapies. We know that no single factor causes
anything nor is there a “magic bullet”
capable of single-handedly reversing conditions.
Multiple factors contribute to the emergence of
an illness and multiple modalities must work together
to produce healing.
We often hear so called medical experts whining
that a substance or method has not been “scientifically”
evaluated in a double blind study and is therefore
not yet “proven” effective. What should
be asked of these experts is how much “scientific”
proof underlies using chemotherapy and radiation
for cancer, or angioplasty for heart disease.
The fact is it’s very little.
These experts should be held accountable to prove
the efficacy of some of their cash cows, such
as chemotherapy and radiation for cancer, angioplasty
and bypass for heart disease, or hysterectomies
for uterine problems. The efficacy hasn’t
been proven because it can’t be proven.
There is no need whatsoever for us as practitioners
and consumers of natural healthcare medicine and
therapies to wait like supplicants with hat in
hand for the scientific “experts”
of conventional medicine to dole out a few condescending
scraps of official approval for our natural healthcare
approaches.
As discerning practitioners and citizens we must
demand of these experts that they prove the science
behind their medicine by demonstrating successful,
non-toxic, and affordable patient outcomes. If
they can’t, these approaches should be rejected
for being unscientific. After all, the proof is
in the cure.
The medical profession worldwide continues its
virtual monopoly of healthcare funded by the chemical
and drug institutions, and endorsed by respective
governments including our own Minister of Health
and her officials who are more concerned with
their political survival than the health and welfare
concerns of New Zealander’s.
There is only one healing force in existence
and that is nature herself, incorporating the
inherent restorative power of the human organism
itself to overcome disease when given the proper
opportunity, not the artificial resources of legally
prescribed pharmaceutical drugs. A revolution
is finally occurring in healthcare, and at the
forefront of this revolution, natural medicine
is in the process of being transformed from fringe
curiosities to centre stage in the treatment of
disease.
This process will succeed regardless of the professional
insecurity, ideological rigidity, name calling,
and turf battles of those who decide that there
should be no other expressions of healing besides
cutting, burning, and drugging their patients
until they are dead or crippled.
Our current disease-orientated health system
has to change, public opinion will win the day,
regardless of the propaganda campaigns originating
from the hollow, hypocritical clamouring of the
so called “quack busters” decrying
that natural medicine and healthcare therapies
are dangerous, unproven, and worthless. These
parasites are self-serving critics who have no
real interest at all in the public’s health
let alone their own.
The heart of darkness in this heartbreaking tale
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Thank you
Patrick Fahy
CEO
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