" War And Disease. " By Gene Franks

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War and Disease : ***
by Gene Franks

There is no such thing as a germ that would prefer Rock Hudson over Cheryl Tiegs.--Dr. Peter Duesberg.

The establishment is the enemy of the enterprise.--Dr. Irwin Bross, in Scientific Fraud vs. Scientific Truth.


Official medicine, I read recently, now holds that there are more than 20,000 known diseases, each with its own cause. Most of these diseases are viewed as calamities that happen to the body as a result of attack from outside forces. That's why reading medical literature is so much like reading a war novel.

It is easy to see that there is much to gain monetarily from a system that views the body as a castle under siege that must be defended by a host of high-dollar mercenaries. And for the protectors to flourish, there must be a never-ending supply of attackers.

In 1961, more than three decades ago, Dr. Walter Modell of the Columbia University Medical College lamented in an article in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics that there was an over-supply of defenders and an under-supply of attackers. "When will they realize," he asked, "that there are too many drugs? No fewer than 150,000 preparations are now in use. About 15,000 new mixtures and dosages hit the market each year, while about 12,000 die off.... We simply don't have enough diseases to go around. At the moment the most helpful is the new drug to counteract the untoward effects of other new drugs."

Since we know that the pharmaceutical industry has not dwindled into bankruptcy during the decades since Dr. Modell's article, we can assume that some profitable new foes have surfaced to alleviate the shortage that he complained of. In fact, there must be lots of new diseases, since medical authorities keep assuring us that drugs and vaccines are wiping out the old ones at record speed. Where do these diseases come from?

Most of us believe that our millions in taxes and the checks we send to weepy-eyed Jerry Lewises go to fund the efforts of self-sacrificing professionals who work around the clock without so much as a coffee break so Gretchen, the poster girl, can be home with her family by Christmas. In a word, we believe that research is about finding cures for diseases.

It would be nearer the truth, however, to say that research is most often about finding diseases for unsold medical products to cure. Otherwise stated, although we are educated to believe that disease precedes treatment, the truth very often is that treatment precedes disease.

In spite of the widely-promoted notion that AZT, for some time the one and only official "AIDS drug," was hurriedly developed under the Gretchen-saving scenario alluded to, the truth is that AZT's essential ingredient was isolated from herring sperm by cancer researchers in 1961, the year of Dr. Modell's article. The drug was promoted as a cancer treatment during the 1970s, the War on Cancer years, rejected as too toxic for cancer treatment, and assigned to the large pool of " drugs in search of a disease."

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