- Posted by Paul Ericson on November 3, 2009
Pasteur
Wins
Pasteur's ideas become the foundation of organized medicine more
because of politics than science. But the main driver was
pharmaceutical economics.
Pasteur was decorated by the Emperor Napoleon early in his career. This blessing from on high secured his position as the preeminent
scientist of his day. Despite having no credentials at all in
medicine or physiology he now had a license to steal so to speak.
Scientists at the time were grappling with mankind's first look at
fundamental questions about the nature of living matter.
- What makes something alive or dead?
- Where does the life force
come from?
- Why do things rot, ferment, or decompose?
- Is there
something in the air, or something inside the organism that has these
effects?
- What effects can man-made chemicals have?
For the first time in history, we were beginning to answer these
questions. Many discoveries were being made about these fundamental
questions, but in fits amnd starts.
It was a great time for an opportunist like Pasteur to take
advantage of the general uncertainty and lack of understanding. He
could claim that he understood all the issues involved, and that he
had thought of the answers first. Pasteur played both sides of an issue he didn't understand, and
then later, he would only quote the parts of his earlier writing that
supported the later finding, always claiming that he had thought of
it first.
The problem was that only scientists understood the complexities
of these emerging ideas. The press, governments and the royal courts
only knew that something important was going on. Though they didn't
know what, they would act as though they did. A huckster like Pasteur
was the perfect frontman for these powerful elites. Power and politics never change. The same process that imprisoned
Galileo for writing that the earth went around the sun, the elite's
eternal attempt to control the minds of the commoners, were the
processes that cast Pasteur, into a position he did not deserve--the
trailblazer in the science of modern biomedicine.
Like so many other things, a discovery doesn't catch on until the
commercial aspects of that discovery have been worked out. Howard
Hencke, in his 1995 book The Germ Theory: A Deliberate Aberration,
notes that it was critical for the new medical industry.
"... to indoctrinate the public in the Western world with the
belief that the salvation from all, especially physical ailments, lay
outside the individual's system and responsibility, because it was
caused by external factors...and that chemical remedies (drugs) will
keep him free from disease, independent of his own vigilant
responsibility."
This is a marketing process.
Hume writes in Pasteur or Bechamp?:
"Had it not been for the mass selling of vaccines, Pasteur's
germ theory of disease would have collapsed into obscurity."
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E. Douglas Hume
17 years before Pasteur, Florence Nightengale, the most famous
nurse in history, said this:
"Diseases are not individuals arranged in classes like cats
and dogs, but conditions growing out of one another. The specific
disease is the grand refuge of the weak, uncultured, unstable minds,
such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific
diseases; there are specific disease conditions."
F.N. 1860
The Doubters
From the beginning, the notoin of piercing the skin with a needle
for any reason was suspect. Even more so was injecting novel proteins and
chemical into what was supposed to be the inviolable environment of
the circulatory system. Injections are a complete violation of
natural laws.
Normally everything is introduced into the bloodstream by going
through the complexity of the digestive system or the mucous
membranes. This is how nature protects the blood from external attack.
There were literally hundreds of researchers opposing inoculation:
"The most serious disorders may be provoked by the injection
of living organisms into the blood...into a medium not intended for
them may provoke redoubtable manifestations of the gravest morbid
phenomena."
- Bechamp
Walter Hadwen, MD, in his book Microbes and War notes that the
Boer war itself killed 86,000 men. With a 100% inoculation rate,
there were an additional 96,000 casualties from disease alone!
Dr. Montais studied 21 cases of tetanus, each had received a
Pasteurian inoculation. His conclusion, which appeared in the 23 Oct
1915 issue of the Lancet, was that in every case, the tetanus had
been caused by the inoculation. Dr. Montais concluded that "Pasteur
had created a new form of disease."
Pasteur began the fashion of studying artificial disease
conditions: "inducing sickness by morbid injections in human and
animal subjects, instead of studying naturally diseased subjects."
Pasteur also began the practise of vivisection and other horrific
animal experiments. In the natural state, animalstypically have different
diseases from humans. But even the animals bodies are different. For example most animals can
produce ascorbic acid, humans cannot. When sick animals can produce up
to 100x more ascorbic acid than normal.This one error has led us down a very costly
and ultimately fruitless path. It seems a folly to hope to cure human
disease by giving animals diseases they would never have gotten in
nature, pretending such diseases are the same ones we get, then
seeing which drugs cover up the animal's symptoms. We incorrectly conclude that those same drugs will have the same
effect in humans. Mistaken as that sounds, it's pretty much how many
prescription drugs have made their way to market since Pasteur's
time.
So with many major researchers eventually coming around to the
above conclusions, how is it that st the start of the 21st century,
organized medicine still acts as though the Germ Theory is carved in
stone and all policy proceeds from this premise? And most people
still believe it? The answer is out there, it's not hidden, but it's also not well
known or much talked about. Fast forward to the 1880s and 1890s. The
Industrial Revolution has created massive wealth, two figures towered
over this era, wielding more power over science, industry, finance,
and politics than possibly anyone else in history: Andrew Carnegie
and J.D. Rockefeller.
The amount of control Carnegie and Rockefeller had over most
aspects of American life is something to marvel at and appreciate,
even to the present day. Much like today, change was occurring faster than the politicians
could control it, and for the first time in our history, control was
firmly in the private sector. Many things changed, but the rise
of organized medicine has had profound effects on how everyone,
doctors and patients, think about disease, treatment and being
healthy itself.
Before 1880, most medicine was a mosaic of folk remedies, herbs,
crude surgery and dentistry, more so than today, there was much
quackery. For centuries leading up to this point, there had not been
much change in the area of medicine. Superstition was as much a part
of medicine as the actual remedies themselves. The use of leeches and
bleeding was still common, the reason being to "let out the bad
blood,'" which was in the same category with getting rid of evil
spirits. Even trepanation, drilling holes in the skull, which had
been around since the time of the Pharaohs, was still being
performed.
In Renaissance Europe, barbers and surgeons actually were the same
people, combining the services of shaving, pulling teeth and
blood-letting. The origin of the red and white striped barber-pole is
well-known: an enterprising barber/surgeon, having just bled a famous
nobleman, proudly displayed a bloody white towel used in the
procedure by wrapping it around a pole outside his establishment. In
the 1700s, King Edward IV of England instituted a corporation of
"barber-chirurgiens"(surgeons) who performed the above
services. This lasted until 1800 when King George II separated
barbers and surgeons into two separate professions.
Among their many enterprises, Carnegie and Rockefeller controlled
the oil and coal industries. By 1900, they began to realize that
these industries were producing mountains of waste every year. What
if these chemical waste materials could somehow be turned to profit?
Medicines, were the answers. But novel medicines never seen before.
Medicines made from chemicals: Pharmaceuticals.