The undercutting of public health has been going on for decades from within the medical industry itself, (“House Dems seeks to impeach Kennedy for undercutting public health,” The Herald, Dec. 11). Having spent 20 years doing medical research I have found it to be full of poorly designed studies, false conclusions and outright misinformation.
Our current medical research is far from being the so-called gold standard of the world. Those in the medical hierarchy have sounded consistent and clear warnings for decades: Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, stated years ago that it’s no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines (from the CDC, FDA, and WHO).
Dr. Richard Horton, of the Lancet Medical Journal, has noted that half of all medical research is unreliable, if not completely false, that the amount of bad research is alarming, and that data is structured to fit a theory. One out of 3 researchers even admitted they would use deceptive means in their medical research.
Founding Father Dr. Benjamin Rush warned that unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time would come when medicine organizes into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing and that the Constitution of the Republic should make a special privilege for medical freedom.
Ted Neff
Edmonds
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