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The Faux Faith of Modern Science

written by

Ben Simmons

posted on

August 26, 2018

Upcoming events:
August 6th I will speak to the Petal Rotary Club
August 20th a documentary film crew will be at our farm
August 21st I will testify before the MS Senate AG Committee in Jackson.

The Faux Faith of Modern Science is the title of an Opinion piece recently published in Acres U.S.A. magazine. The article was written by Maryam Henein, an investigative journalist and cofounder and editor-in-chief of HoneyColony (honeycolony.com). She is a functional medicine coach, best known for directing the award-winning documentary film Vanishing of the Bees. The following are excerpts from her article:

1) Think very carefully the next time your physician prescribes you a pill. Corporate influence, conflicts of interest, ego and greed have corrupted the science of science if you will. The results are misinformation and studies designed to produce favorable results - and not for the health of the individual.

2) "It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgement of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines," states Dr. Marcia Angell, the former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine. "I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor," she wrote in a 2009 piece titled "Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption."

3) Clinical Trials: in 2014, 4.3 billion prescriptions were filled by Americans at a cost of $374 billion. Research by Johns Hopkins found that "the drug and device industry now funds six times more clinical trials than the federal government." What this means is that drug manufactures and private investors are funding more clinical trials that they have a personal stake in," "This bias has led to trial data being skewed, test being ill-performed, or key findings being left out of reports" states Caitlin Hoff, Health & Safety Investigator for ConsumerSafety.org

4) Marketing Medicine: Pharmaceutical companies put more money into marketing than research and development. Example: Pfizer reported $67 billion in revenue in 2011, spent $9 billion on research and development, and spent $19 billion on marketing. According to IMS Health, drugmakers spent $4.3 billion to reach consumers and $6.6 billion on promotions. Impact - prescription drug spending in the United States increased from $40 billion in 1990 to $234 billion in 2008.

To read the full-length version of this Opinion piece or to learn more, with links to source materials, visit www.ecofarmingdaily.com/category/opinion

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