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The Assault on Medical Freedom

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If Joe Lisa's book is out of print you can bet that the Pharmaceutical Advertising Council or the AMA bought every last copy of it to take it out of circulation. His previous treatise "The Great Medical Monopoly Wars" is also out of print presumably for the same reasons. Lisa documents the fraud and corruption behind the anti-quackery campaign conducted and financed by the phamaceutical industry to eliminate alternative medicine. Lisa proves that officials in the FDA, IRS, FTC, the United States Post Office and the Better Business Bureau and the Media conspire with PAC and its lackeys to discredit practitioners and treatments that do not use synthetic drugs. He exposes the dirty work of quackbusters Stephen Barrett, John Renner, Williams Jarvis etc., and their corporate backers in detail, and concludes that, although the tactics have changed, this hundred year old witch hunt is not about to end. This book is a rare and bold piece if investigatie journalism that ranks among the best in a series of related works such as Martin Walker's "Dirty Medicine" and Guillaine Lanctot's "Medical Mafia". Lisa is an investigative reporter, private eye, undercover operative and civil right activist, whose previous published work includes scathing reports on government mind-control experiments, illegal biological and chemical experiments on U.S. citizens, and other infringements on the constitutional rights of American citizens.

Whew, I've been studying alternative medicine for close to 25 years and am so encouraged by this expose of the AMA and its arrogant power and corruption as it continues to this day to try to stifle any competition that is NOT for MD's only and their chemical drug dependency. A scholarly work about a demonstrable conspiracy. This book is so fine I'm not surprised that it is out of print. It reminds me of G. Edward Griffins' book "World Without Cancer" which went to about two dozen editions back in the 1970's and you can't find it anywhere today. Too much truth in it. I was lucky to stumble across this one at a Goodwill store.

If you have any doubts about the truth in this book go to the House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform, on the net, and look up March 10, 1999 "EDTA-Chelation: Is the Government doing more harm than good?". Now, obviously not all MD's are bad, but after reading this book, the testimony on the Hill, and checking out www.arcx.com, see if you can really trust your MD again completely.

Somebody please hire me (reasonable) to write a condensed version of this book (wordiness is its only flaw) and let's support freedom of medical choice.

Footnote: The Journal of the American Medical Association admits that prescribed drugs given CORRECTLY are the 4th leading cause of death in this country. Yet the State Medical Board in Maryland ordered my wife's physician to stop ANY alternative medicine for THREE YEARS. Yes, he was chelating, his patients love him, and, you should know, in New Zealand it is ILLEGAL to bypass or do an angioplasty without trying chelation first.

P. Joseph Lisa does a great job explaining why we are being duped by the so-called anti-quackery or anti-health fraud cliques in this country. Write your congressman and mention the RICO laws in this regard. Sign me:

An American Philalethist (Lover of Truth).

is threaten with lawsuits. Sorry Barret, your time is up.

The attack against you seems a little paraniod, BUT, on the other hand, lawsuits of your sort are generally won by making the case too expensive for the 'little guy' to stay in the fight. The AMA has often used its assets to simply outlast it's opponents. I've personal involvement with large corporations stealing -patented- ideas from small companies, only for the "little man's" lawyers to tell them: "You'll be in court for 20 years, spend more than you have, and probably lose." I see a fair similarity in the reports on your organization. I have corresponded with you about a party whom you accused of fraud. While -they- piled on the footnoted references along with elaborate logical arguments to make their case, -your- total argument was essentailly; "Trust me, he's a fraud." Thanks for the lesson in your 'scientific' method, doctor.

The review of this book by Manfred Mueller libels me. Please remove it. He states that the book "exposes the dirty work of quackbusters Stephen Barrett, John Renner, Williams Jarvis etc., and their corporate backers in detail." In fact, the book is a pack of lies. We sued Lisa and the publisher. The settlement agreement states that if the book is republished, about 20 passages may not be reprinted. The rest of the settlement terms are covered by a nondisclosure agreement.