Whoever the "proponents of the medical only approach" are, I'm not one of them. All I'm asking for is the veracity of empirical evidence. But what you and your paranoid ilk have offered thus far are just anecdotal evidence and unsubstantiated conspiracy theories. Where are the double-blind, controlled experiments? Btw, remind me again the cause of Linus "Vitamin C cancer cure" Pauling's death.
Do you honestly think big pharma is going to fund studies on anything they can't patent
They have a track record of suppressing important data
Many of their products are cheap imitations of what is already provided available from mother nature e.g. synthetic vtamin C, statins vs natural & safer red yeast .
Don't take my word for it, there are many doctors who are questioning how big pharma gets away with ripping off the consumer.
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2011...States-What-Congress-Can-Do-to-Stop-It_01.htm
What makes you think Pauling was wrong about a cancer cure:confused. Go read what some doctors think of Paulings ideas on cancer. I'll paste the article below.
I'm living proof about the quality of "professional" doctors
A cardiologist in Spore told me that I had 80-90% blockage & could only recommend surgery
That was 4 years ago & today I'm still around & upset that I had to pay $$$$ for useless medical advise. My experience is not unique. I know other heart attack survivors, who survive without medications & rely on natural supplements.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/12154.php
Vitamin C, Linus Pauling was right all along. A doctor's opinion
Here is an article written by Dr Hilary Roberts about Linus Pauling and his views on vitamin C. Summary
It is the 10th anniversary of the death of Linus Pauling and his most controversial scientific conjectures about the health benefits of vitamin C are being confirmed. The weight of evidence may yet force the medical establishment to accept his ideas on nutrition and health.
Linus Pauling's claim, that he knew a cure for heart disease, cancer and infections, was greeted with ridicule. His remarkable health claims concerned the substance we know as vitamin C. Now, ten years after his death on 19th August 1994, his revolutionary ideas are finally on the way to vindication. Given his history, it should not surprise us if Pauling was right all along. He was, after all, the leading chemist of the last century and, arguably, the greatest ever American scientist. He remains the only person to have won two unshared Nobel Prizes, the first for Chemistry (1954) and the second for peace (1962). In addition to being one of the greatest scientists ever, he was a renowned humanitarian.
By the time of his death, the medical establishment had branded Pauling a quack, because he advocated the use of high doses of vitamin C to treat many diseases. Irwin Stone first introduced Pauling to vitamin C, and explained that it wasn't really a vitamin at all, but an essential substance we could no longer manufacture in our bodies. Most animals make their own vitamin C, in large amounts. In humans, the gene for this ability has mutated and no longer works properly.
When Pauling looked into Stone's claims, he found that conventional medicine had long ignored evidence from respected physicians and scientists. This research suggested that high doses of vitamin C might be a cure for many illnesses, including cancer and heart disease. However, when he explained these findings in his wonderfully constructed books "Vitamin C and the Common Cold" and "How to Live Longer and Feel Better", the medical profession was incensed, implying that a mere chemist could not possibly understand the intricacies of medical science.
If Pauling was correct, vitamin C could help overcome the major killers in the industrialised world. This sounded so unlikely that a lesser scientist making the claim would probably have been ignored; the medical world had already disregarded similar reports of vitamin C. Linus Pauling had a reputation for being 20 years ahead of other scientists.
He may well have been years ahead in other fields but, in medicine, the insiders considered such a thing to be impossible. Pauling battled with the medical authorities and convinced a lot of the public of the benefits of high dose vitamin C. He took on the medical establishment because the implication for health was enormous: an end to premature death and unnecessary suffering from heart disease, infection and many cancers.
