Who Are The Quacks?

We’ve all heard the word “Quack” before. It refers to a person falsely claiming to have curative powers; a fraud pretending to have medical skill.  In a broader sense, a charlatan or a person who masquerades as having competence, qualifications, or expertise he or she does not possess. As a chiropractor, I have heard (or seen in print) this word used many times in the direction of my profession by medical doctors, pharmaceutical reps, nurses, and other health care professionals only to be repeated through the misguided public. 

One only needs to take a gander at Stephen Barrett’s website Quackwatch (Don’t stay long. You may strain your diaphragm laughing) to understand how fear of the unknown driven through a God complex can replace an understanding of basic science, subjective validation, and Natural Law. Barret and his followers refuse to acknowledge, for example, that acupuncture has sustained a culture for 1,000s of years before the introduction of pharmaceuticals. The medical community points at those who refuse their medicine, their surgeries, their germ theory, and their dogma.

Dr. Royal Lee, founder of Standard Process Whole Food Supplements, was a pioneer in the field of nutrition. In the late 1950s Dr. Lee found himself under attack for exposing the dangers of consuming lifeless, nutritionally barren, processed, sugar laden food. In the aftermath of court battles with the FDA, a gag order was placed on him. He was prohibited from speaking publicly or writing on health, medicine, or nutrition.  His library of life long research was ordered destroyed! This, all the while Camel cigarettes and Coca-Cola were being promoted as a digestive aid. Quack.

Allopathic medicine refuses to acknowledge that chiropractic is scientific even though their AMA Encyclopedia defines the very foundation of chiropractic: “The nervous system is the body’s information-gathering, storage, and control system. The overall function of the nervous system is to gather information about the external environment and the body’s internal state, to analyze this information, and to initiate appropriate responses.” In other words, without a properly functioning nervous system, we have dysfunction in the body. Quack, quack.

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Lest we not forget that the very group we have put in charge of our health care is the leading cause of death in the country. According to the research by Dr. Gary Null, published in the article, Death by Medicine. Over 780,000 people die each year due to medical negligence. Quack, quack, quack.

You want to talk about quacks? Let’s start with DES, Delcon Shield, silicone breast implants, Thalidomide, Fen-Phen, Vioxx, Accutane, Flomax, Depakote, smallpox vaccination program in the Philippines in 1917 creating the worst epidemic the island had ever seen resulting in over 60,000 deaths, Avandia, Humira, Swine Flu Vaccine, Chantix, Paxil, Prozac, Effexor, Zoloft, Lexapro, Yasmin, Reglan, GranuFlo, Abilify, transvaginal mesh, Gardasil, NuvaRing, Fosomax, Crestor, Baycol, Bextra, Mirena IUD, Adderall, and treating viral infections with antibiotics. I hear lots of quacking going on.

  

The lesson learned here is to be careful when you point a finger at someone. You have three pointing back at yourself.