CHAPTER 14: SCIENCE PERVERTED
artificial (prescription) medicines, truth means that if you do the same thing, you get the same results – repeatability. Gold Standard testing (random, double blind, placebo controlled) is a good way to determine repeatability. It has been developed to control testing for artificial molecules since they can be patented and billions of dollars of profits provide huge incentives for cheating. The same logic applied to natural medicines would call for very little testing, since the lure of profits encouraging cheating are vastly less. This is the definition existing of the FTC Act’s prohibition against “falsity”. It should be remembered that the best and most rigorous Gold Standard scientific tests often suffer from a lack of repeatability. There are many reasons, poor study design, poor execution, honest mistakes, self delusion and cheating to make money. Ihave read that one third of all Gold Standard studies reported in major medical journals are not repeatable. The Act uses this one word “false”. The statute contemplates proofs can be of any kind. Until recently true things could not be false. Now FTC has found a way to amend that definition to say in the case of natural medicines, truth no longer matters. No matter one million alcoholics are all cured by one man, or many, following the same system. It cannot be sold to the public until they surrender all their legal rights to the miracle and show everyone else how to do it. Even then, it cannot be sold unless they mostly agree. What drivel. The courts never held thus, but FTC does its best to confuse them. The truth is FTC established this principle by winning cases where there was no evidence defendant had done any good whatsoever. No evidence at all for their claims. In one case, the defending natural medicine manufacturer’s defense was their claims were so absurd, no reasonable person could have been so gullible as to believe them, so even though false, they were not punishable against the law. At the time of trial they had sold what appears to be about $50 million of the bracelets to improve health by blocking Q-Rays (add color).
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