AMA Bashes Quackpots...
Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
November 8th, 2003
I'm suggesting to you that you spend $12 at the American Medical Association
(AMA) website to read, and download, an OFFICIAL AMA COMMENTARY, and an
absolutely SHOCKING article BASHING the quackbusters. In fact, the word
"bashing" is an UNDERSTATEMENT. The AMA couldn't have made it's OFFICIAL
position on the quackbuster's attack on AltMed any clearer.
The Quackbusters would like to give us the impression that they represent
American mainstream medical thinking, when in fact they do not...
If anyone, in their publications, and commentaries, could claim to represent
that mainstream medical viewpoint in the United States, it would certainly
have to be the American Medical Association (AMA).
It looks to me that the AMA doesn't like the "quackbuster's" tactics one
bit, and has clearly said so in published commentary. You can go read their
five page article (if you pay the $12) titled "Battling Quackery - Attitudes
About Micronutrient Supplementation in American Academic Medicine," printed
in the Archives of Internal Medicine, yourself, first, but here is the
conclusion of their commentary. Words you'll never read on quackwatch.com...
"There are only three important questions when evaluating a treatment. Does
it work? What are the adverse effects? How much does it cost? Ideally, the
treatment or the guild to which the proponents of the treatment belong
should be irrelevant to the fundamental questions of efficacy, toxicity, and
cost."
The article's authors, James Goodwin MD, and Michael Tangum MD, compared the
assault on AltMed to the attack by the Catholic Church against Galileo,
because Galileo had the temerity to take his findings, and his message, to
the masses by writing his work in Italian instead of the Latin. Latin was
the language of the official learned. AltMed, worldwide, has bypassed the
process of arguing merits in the status quo, self-styled "scientific" elite
community, and has taken it's message to the people.
So, if this is the AMA's position on the issue of "AltMed" then where does
that put the "quackbusters," or as I call them, the "quackpots?"
The dictionary defines "crackpot" as "a person who is eccentric,
impractical, unrealistic, or insane..." To me, "quackbusters" fit that
definition when they describe the world's leading-edge health professionals
as "quacks," and leading-edge modalities as "quackery."
And, the AMA agrees...
Stay tuned...
Tim Bolen - Consumer Advocate
This "Millions of Health Freedom Fighters - Newsletter" is about the battle
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with extensive knowledge of the activities of a subversive organization
calling itself the "quackbusters," and that organization's attempts to
suppress, and discredit, any, and all health modalities that compete with
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