This piece does an excellent job of capturing the last century related to cancer and touches on all the problems -- but doesn't quite just come to terms with things. For example, we read:
"There is not necessarily a single nefarious villain to point to here—no rapacious executive or unimaginative board member who intentionally places profits over patients... But structural incentives tend to discourage ambitious efforts aimed at meaningful advances achieved by truly groundbreaking therapeutics."
That tells us that there is a system that places profits over patients. This is just one dark truth among many others that must be confronted.
The second again is the study by professor John Ioannidis. He and others have called out the fallacies in medical research -- largely "funded" by dark truth number 1, a system to maximize incentives. Flawed clinical trails is simply another day in the office, called out by Ioannidis and others.
So, when one understands that financial incentives will not fund true research and when other understands that the research that is out there is flawed, one must come to terms with the dark truth of cancer that we might be looking in the wrong direction and a new perspective is needed.
This is where we enter alternative theories -- theories that build upon the work of Otto Warburg that have been conveniently forgotten since the advent of chemotherapy. Warburg ultimately tells us that cancer has to do with glucose, but we've forgotten that and start looking elsewhere. Elsewhere just happens to be more financially rewarding.
Great piece for anyone looking to learn about the history of cancer and how we're loosing this war, but to truly be innovative and to truly change course, we must change our complete understanding of cancer and begin to explore alternative ideas outside of the mainstream. Two pieces for anyone interested in such a perspective:
Great article. Unfortunately our system isn’t successfully curing most cancers. Getting poison out of our food supply and people taking responsibility for their diet and well being would help greatly. People can be lazy! I do not agree that repurposed drug treatment success is anecdotal. I think the truth of its many success stories are hidden. Also need to stop getting vaccines with poison in them! When dr Makis opens his clinics in Florida with repurposed drug treatments sometimes combined with chemo, I believe many more people will get well. Our healthcare system is run by profit more than good outcomes. There’s too many hands in the money! If we want to make progress in the cancer fight we need new strategies with logic and action! What we have isn’t working well.
The pharmaceutical companies have an incentive to make profits. Effective drugs that don't make profits don't get made.
This is the nasty amoral truth that society should have a remedy for. This is where Government should step in and promote cheap and effective alternatives.
I know a lady who left her job with a Swiss pharma company because they had a cure for cancer but did not release it - or knowledge of it - in order to make increased profits with their more expensive chemical drugs. She could not accept the evil behind it.
"The pharmaceutical companies have an incentive to make profits. Effective drugs that don't make profits don't get made."
What is the problem at the root of this truism? It is that Capitalism and Health Care mix like oil and water. They don't. At least if "health" and "care" mean what they are supposed to mean. For a proof of the accusation, which applies much further afield than BigPharma, see Joel Kovel's The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? The entire 2nd edition is available free here:
Are you joking? Was Kheriaty's sham International Children's Rights Institute "compassionate" when it harassed LGBT youth, leading to documented increases in suicide ideation?
Looks like another great article, Dr. Kheriaty. One suggestion for any future follow-up posts - consider putting the word "war" in quotes since that perspective is problematic; per
Thanks for this comprehensive review Aaron! I’m surprised you didn’t mention the explosion in the last few years of many types of cancer, especially in younger populations not expected to experience such an increase, and the very likely culprit: the MRNA injections.
Thanks, Debbie. I do briefly discuss the Covid shots in the penultimate section, with links to articles on both sides of the debate. I frame it as an problem of information control, which makes it hard to get accurate information or get good studies done:
“The war on cancer intersects with political battles waged for the control of public opinion. This can influence the kinds of hypotheses that can be entertained, and those which the establishment attempts to prohibit. Some scientific questions are hard to ask. For example, the latest neuralgic flashpoint among skeptics of the scientific establishment relates to worries that the novel mRNA COVID shots may be triggering new cancers or causing old cancers to relapse that had long been in remission. Even some insiders are quietly asking this unmentionable question: The director of a leukemia/lymphoma program at a leading cancer hospital reached out to me early in the vaccine rollout expressing precisely this concern, as he was seeing a sudden explosion of new cancers and inexplicable relapses in his patients following the injections. Early published observational studies as well as papers proposing potential mechanisms lend plausibility to this extremely worrisome hypothesis, with other analyses disputing the link.”
Cancer is far too profitable for the pharmaceutical industry to allow any other options. People who had discovered successful ways of dealing with cancer (I have a DVD- "Cancer, the forbidden cures") were lucky if they escaped with their life (Royal Raymond Rife). Often, successful treatments were outlawed (B17, DMSO).
All funding should be cut from cancer research, maybe even from all medical research, as the goal is rarely to make people well, but to make more profits. There are already solutions to most conditions.
If I had cancer I would cut out all sugar, gluten, dairy, take chlorine dioxide solution, DMSO and do high frequency treatment and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Detoxing and a parasite cleanse would be helpful, too. Cancer doesn't have to be a death sentence. The last thing I would do is to entrust myself unto an oncologist....
"Not only do the boards of Memorial Sloan Kettering have direct ties to the Rockefellers; they are also closely linked with defense industries, the CIA, and chemical and drug firms. It is no accident that they serve on the board of an institution whose recommendations on cancer treatment mean literally billions in profits to those who are in the right position to take advantage of them. And you thought this was a charitable organization! The fact is the Memorial Sloan Kettering and the American Cancer Society are the principal organizational functionaries, with the American Medical Association, of the Rockefeller Medical Monopoly. In 1944, the American Society for the Control of Cancer changed its name to American Cancer Society; it was then placed in the hands of two of the most notorious patent medicine hucksters in the United States, Albert Lasker and Elmer Bobst."
"Your Life Is Their Toy: Merchants of Medicine" by Dr. Emanuel Josephson. 1941. Banned book which criticized America's medical system. Free download at my favorite resource. I found a site that wants almost $3,000 for the book.
'This book is a doctor's critique of medical monopolies and cartels that control every aspect of American health care. First published in 1941 and updated in the 1950's, Dr. Josephson shows that many problems with modern medicine data to the early 20th century, when "Foundations", "Associations", and "Credentialing" bodies began to act as medical authorities, and interfere in every aspect of doctor-patient relations. The Dr. attacks the A.M.A., medical schools "credentialization", hospital associations, the pharmaceutical industry, the F.D.A., and insurance companies as cartels that presume advance the cause of health care, while treating doctors and nurses as serfs.'
2. Destruction of alternatives outside the system to protect money, power and control.
3. Assassinate physicians or destroy their careers, to protect money, power, and control.
4. Infiltrate our “health” agencies, again money….
Now we need to fund independent, free of pHARMa, studies. We can start with the concepts of Paul Marik, MD who read every cancer study, ever and start down the path of real gold standard science.
Great article! I’d love to read your thoughts on transforming health care — all of it — from a for-profit business to a non-profit or not-for-profit enterprise. What do you think?
This piece does an excellent job of capturing the last century related to cancer and touches on all the problems -- but doesn't quite just come to terms with things. For example, we read:
"There is not necessarily a single nefarious villain to point to here—no rapacious executive or unimaginative board member who intentionally places profits over patients... But structural incentives tend to discourage ambitious efforts aimed at meaningful advances achieved by truly groundbreaking therapeutics."
That tells us that there is a system that places profits over patients. This is just one dark truth among many others that must be confronted.
The second again is the study by professor John Ioannidis. He and others have called out the fallacies in medical research -- largely "funded" by dark truth number 1, a system to maximize incentives. Flawed clinical trails is simply another day in the office, called out by Ioannidis and others.
So, when one understands that financial incentives will not fund true research and when other understands that the research that is out there is flawed, one must come to terms with the dark truth of cancer that we might be looking in the wrong direction and a new perspective is needed.
This is where we enter alternative theories -- theories that build upon the work of Otto Warburg that have been conveniently forgotten since the advent of chemotherapy. Warburg ultimately tells us that cancer has to do with glucose, but we've forgotten that and start looking elsewhere. Elsewhere just happens to be more financially rewarding.
Great piece for anyone looking to learn about the history of cancer and how we're loosing this war, but to truly be innovative and to truly change course, we must change our complete understanding of cancer and begin to explore alternative ideas outside of the mainstream. Two pieces for anyone interested in such a perspective:
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/4-ways-to-save-healthcare-and-how
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/cancer-your-bodys-desperate-attempt
Thanks for the detailed piece and the invitation to look deeper.
Great article. Unfortunately our system isn’t successfully curing most cancers. Getting poison out of our food supply and people taking responsibility for their diet and well being would help greatly. People can be lazy! I do not agree that repurposed drug treatment success is anecdotal. I think the truth of its many success stories are hidden. Also need to stop getting vaccines with poison in them! When dr Makis opens his clinics in Florida with repurposed drug treatments sometimes combined with chemo, I believe many more people will get well. Our healthcare system is run by profit more than good outcomes. There’s too many hands in the money! If we want to make progress in the cancer fight we need new strategies with logic and action! What we have isn’t working well.
The pharmaceutical companies have an incentive to make profits. Effective drugs that don't make profits don't get made.
This is the nasty amoral truth that society should have a remedy for. This is where Government should step in and promote cheap and effective alternatives.
I know a lady who left her job with a Swiss pharma company because they had a cure for cancer but did not release it - or knowledge of it - in order to make increased profits with their more expensive chemical drugs. She could not accept the evil behind it.
"The pharmaceutical companies have an incentive to make profits. Effective drugs that don't make profits don't get made."
What is the problem at the root of this truism? It is that Capitalism and Health Care mix like oil and water. They don't. At least if "health" and "care" mean what they are supposed to mean. For a proof of the accusation, which applies much further afield than BigPharma, see Joel Kovel's The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? The entire 2nd edition is available free here:
https://www.greanvillepost.com/special/KovelEnemyofNature(2007).pdf
Wow! The idea of SIH rather than NIH makes great sense.
Good coverage of a complex and important topic. Boils down to genetics is a hard nut to crack.
Beautifully written!! Thanks so much for your ongoing, thoughtful, and compassionate approach to health.
Are you joking? Was Kheriaty's sham International Children's Rights Institute "compassionate" when it harassed LGBT youth, leading to documented increases in suicide ideation?
Looks like another great article, Dr. Kheriaty. One suggestion for any future follow-up posts - consider putting the word "war" in quotes since that perspective is problematic; per
https://sm.stanford.edu/archive/stanmed/2007summer/metaphor.html
A very long read, but important….if you know someone who has or has had cancer…and who hasn’t?
Thanks for this comprehensive review Aaron! I’m surprised you didn’t mention the explosion in the last few years of many types of cancer, especially in younger populations not expected to experience such an increase, and the very likely culprit: the MRNA injections.
Thanks, Debbie. I do briefly discuss the Covid shots in the penultimate section, with links to articles on both sides of the debate. I frame it as an problem of information control, which makes it hard to get accurate information or get good studies done:
“The war on cancer intersects with political battles waged for the control of public opinion. This can influence the kinds of hypotheses that can be entertained, and those which the establishment attempts to prohibit. Some scientific questions are hard to ask. For example, the latest neuralgic flashpoint among skeptics of the scientific establishment relates to worries that the novel mRNA COVID shots may be triggering new cancers or causing old cancers to relapse that had long been in remission. Even some insiders are quietly asking this unmentionable question: The director of a leukemia/lymphoma program at a leading cancer hospital reached out to me early in the vaccine rollout expressing precisely this concern, as he was seeing a sudden explosion of new cancers and inexplicable relapses in his patients following the injections. Early published observational studies as well as papers proposing potential mechanisms lend plausibility to this extremely worrisome hypothesis, with other analyses disputing the link.”
Thanks Aaron — sorry I was skimming too much by the end…
Cancer is far too profitable for the pharmaceutical industry to allow any other options. People who had discovered successful ways of dealing with cancer (I have a DVD- "Cancer, the forbidden cures") were lucky if they escaped with their life (Royal Raymond Rife). Often, successful treatments were outlawed (B17, DMSO).
All funding should be cut from cancer research, maybe even from all medical research, as the goal is rarely to make people well, but to make more profits. There are already solutions to most conditions.
If I had cancer I would cut out all sugar, gluten, dairy, take chlorine dioxide solution, DMSO and do high frequency treatment and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Detoxing and a parasite cleanse would be helpful, too. Cancer doesn't have to be a death sentence. The last thing I would do is to entrust myself unto an oncologist....
The war on cancer is just another war. Wars aren't meant to be won, they're waged to make money.
Answer: Rockefeller and other money men have blocked the cure for cancer. Why? You know why: money for endless treatments.
"The Profits of Cancer." a chapter in Eustace Mullins' book, "Murder by Injection."
Free download: https://www.heritage-history.com/index.php?c=read&author=mullins&book=injection&story=cancer
"Not only do the boards of Memorial Sloan Kettering have direct ties to the Rockefellers; they are also closely linked with defense industries, the CIA, and chemical and drug firms. It is no accident that they serve on the board of an institution whose recommendations on cancer treatment mean literally billions in profits to those who are in the right position to take advantage of them. And you thought this was a charitable organization! The fact is the Memorial Sloan Kettering and the American Cancer Society are the principal organizational functionaries, with the American Medical Association, of the Rockefeller Medical Monopoly. In 1944, the American Society for the Control of Cancer changed its name to American Cancer Society; it was then placed in the hands of two of the most notorious patent medicine hucksters in the United States, Albert Lasker and Elmer Bobst."
"Your Life Is Their Toy: Merchants of Medicine" by Dr. Emanuel Josephson. 1941. Banned book which criticized America's medical system. Free download at my favorite resource. I found a site that wants almost $3,000 for the book.
https://heritage-history.com/index.php?c=read&author=josephson&book=toy&story=_front
'This book is a doctor's critique of medical monopolies and cartels that control every aspect of American health care. First published in 1941 and updated in the 1950's, Dr. Josephson shows that many problems with modern medicine data to the early 20th century, when "Foundations", "Associations", and "Credentialing" bodies began to act as medical authorities, and interfere in every aspect of doctor-patient relations. The Dr. attacks the A.M.A., medical schools "credentialization", hospital associations, the pharmaceutical industry, the F.D.A., and insurance companies as cartels that presume advance the cause of health care, while treating doctors and nurses as serfs.'
Very simple explanation:
1. Money, power and control.
2. Destruction of alternatives outside the system to protect money, power and control.
3. Assassinate physicians or destroy their careers, to protect money, power, and control.
4. Infiltrate our “health” agencies, again money….
Now we need to fund independent, free of pHARMa, studies. We can start with the concepts of Paul Marik, MD who read every cancer study, ever and start down the path of real gold standard science.
Great article! I’d love to read your thoughts on transforming health care — all of it — from a for-profit business to a non-profit or not-for-profit enterprise. What do you think?
Paul Marik and the MMS story are relevant here. Simple as.