What is the number one killer in the United States? Medical treatment. Western medicine has cures for surprisingly few diseases and actually causes illness with its "drugs for every disease" approach. Infectious diseases are making a comeback due to the overuse of antibiotics and our war on... read more
Thugs, Drugs and the War on Bugs, How the Natural Healthcare Revolution Will Lead Us Past Greed, Ego, and Scary Germs, by Dr. Brad Case is a scathing expose on America’s “Sick Care” industry. This 528-page well-referenced tome covers: medicine’s ongoing war against chiropractors and other... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”Albert Einstein
“Strive to preserve your health, and in this you will the better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians.”Leonardo Da Vinci
“He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.”Benjamin Franklin
“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”William Osler, M.D.
“If all the medicine in the world were thrown into the sea, it would be bad for the fish and good for humanity.”Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D.
“Disease is born of us and in us.”Antoine Bechamp
“Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.”Dr. Albert Schweitzer
“The microbe is nothing; the terrain is everything.”Louis Pasteur
“When once an error is accepted by a profession corporately and endowed by Government, to uproot it becomes a Herculean task.”Walter Hadwen, M.D.
“The only wholly safe vaccine is a vaccine that is never used.”Dr. James Shannon, National Institutes of Health
Foreword: Skating to Where the Puck is Going to Be
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: The Anatomy of the Medical Mafia
Chapter 1 Genesis of the Medical Monopoly
A Brief History of Medicine
The Condensed Version
The Slightly Longer Version
Dogma & the Religion of Medicine
Chapter 2 The American Medical Association’s War on the Competition
Let’s Play “Who Are the Cultists?”
Healthcare: The “Alternative” to Symptom Suppression & Disease Management
Homeopathy
War on the Homeopaths
Osteopathy
Naturopathy
Chiropractic
How Chiropractic Took on the AMA and Won
AMA Ethics
Manufacturing the Evidence
Sore Throat Speaks
The Wilk Trial
Chapter 3 The Drugging & Brainwashing of America
Injecting Fear
Stretching the Market
Creating Diagnoses
“Me Too” Drugs
Other Games They Play
The Brainwashing of America
The High Cost of Drugs
Chapter 4 Big Pharma & the FDA, An Unhealthy Alliance
The New Inquisition
Follow the Money
So What Do We Do?
Chapter 5 Bad Medicine
Properly Prescribed Medicine
Hospital Induced Infections
Medical Negligence/Malpractice
Hospital Caused Deaths
Outpatient Medications
Total Iatrogenic Deaths
Medication Errors
Surgical Errors
Unnecessary Surgery
Unnecessary Radiation
Burying the Evidence
Part II: Germs & Worms: Paranoia May Destroy Ya
Chapter 6 A New Germ Theory
The Germ Theory
A Revelation in Fermentation
Pleomorphism: The Other Germ Theory
Pleomorphism Returns
Pleomorphism III: The Theory That Wouldn’t Die
Pleomorphism IV: The Final Chapter
Chapter 7 Antibiotics & the Yeast Connection
Superbugs
Sinuses, Sore Throats & Bronchitis
Ear Infections
Antibiotics in Dentistry
Global Issues
What to Do For a Cold or Flu
How Antibiotics Should Be Used (If You Really, Really Must)
Candida and the Yeast Infection Connection
Testing for Candida
How to Get Rid of Candida
What to Do After Taking Antibiotics
Chapter 8 Parasites—Look Who Came To Dinner
Muscle Testing and Electrodermal Testing
Chapter 9 Vaccines: Are They Safe? Do They Work?
Vaccines: A Primer
Smallpox
Polio
The Toxin Theory of Polio
The Polio Vaccine
Safety of the Vaccine
Was AIDS Caused by the Polio Vaccine?
Did the Polio Vaccine Really Wipe Out Polio?
Some Final Thoughts on the Polio Vaccine
Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus (DPT)
Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR)
Hemophilus Influenza Type B Meningitis (Hib)
Chickenpox
Rotavirus
Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) “Prevnar”
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B
Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) “Gardasil”
Stop the Bus; I Want to Get Off
Chapter 10 Autism: How Incompetence, Greed & the Fear of Germs Led to the Biggest Healthcare Cover-Up in History
Mercury as a Cause of Autism
Re-assembling the Smoking Gun
The Amish: Our Top Secret Control Group
MMR as a Cause of Autism
The Politics of Vaccines
Chapter 11 Vaccine Schmaccine! How Not to Vaccinate Your Kids
If You Do Decide to Vaccinate, Here Are Some Tips
What to Do If Your Child Is Injured By a Vaccine
Treating Autism
Chapter 12 AIDS: Should You Be Worried?
The Germ Hunters
Koch’s Postulates
Robert Gallo & the Magic Virus Theory
AIDS Is Not an Infectious Disease
Homosexual AIDS
AIDS in IV Drug Users
Hemophiliac AIDS
Non-Risk Group AIDS
AIDS by Prescription
HIV Jails?
Jailed For Spreading HIV
Inaccuracy of the AIDS Test
AIDS in the Third World
What to Do:
If You Have AIDS or Belong To One of the Aforementioned Risk Groups
If You’re HIV-Positive
Chapter 13 Freedom from Fear: Bird Flu, the Boogie Man & Beyond
Bird Flu
Follow the Money
Preparedness or Paranoia?
From Animal Farm to 1984
Seasonal Flu
The Flu Shot
The Solution
The 20 Steps to Perfect Health™ Checklist
Chapter 14 Viruses: Message in a Bottle, Or Attack of the Living Dead?
Epilogue
Appendix A: How Big Business Took Over Medicine
Appendix B: A Comparison of Medical & Chiropractic Education
About The Author
Notes
Index
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