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From the Radio Free Michigan archives
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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 3 Num. 28
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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SCIENTIFIC RESULTS TAINTED
By Maureen Salaman
(President, National Health Federation, PO Box 688, Monrovia,
California 91016)
[From *The Spotlight* "Health & Fitness Supplement", 12/26/94]
If "He who pays the piper calls the tune" is true, then watch out
when the government is the paymaster and scientists are the
pipers.
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According to a recent survey, scientists believe that government-
sponsored research is often skewed to "meet pre-established
standards." Six of 10 scientists expressed "definite concern over
the way various levels of government use scientific research in
determining public policy," according to a survey sponsored by
the Advancement of Sound Science Coalition of Washington. (See
*The Spotlight*, Oct. 31.)
If the survey results don't worry you, they should, particularly
if you are an advocate of freedom of choice in matters of health.
The government is establishing and implementing policies on
health based on suspect research.
Why do such a thing? To make you and me think that an honest
scientific effort was put forth to uncover hidden answers to
important problems that concern us. Unfortunately, it isn't only
governmental officials and agencies who dictate study results.
This is why we must look through the research results with an X-
ray eye to the agency, foundation or company sponsoring the
research to see how it could benefit from rigged findings.
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Beyond government bureaus, private foundations and companies
which sponsor research are special interest groups which exert
pressure on legislators. These vested interests -- the mammoth
prescription drug cartel, for example -- have much to lose if
unpatentable, low-cost, nutritional supplements slice into the
vast market for pharmaceuticals, as tryptophan did in the market
for tranquilizers.
You know what happened to tryptophan. After three years, the
federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is still "looking into
the matter." The tryptophan that caused deaths and illness was
proved to be from one company source and contaminated. That is an
established fact. Medical doctors can prescribe tryptophan and
it's helpful to patients, rather than harmful, but you can't buy
it in health food stores. Obviously, physicians wave a magic wand
over tryptophan.
Special interest groups not only pressure legislators directly,
they do it indirectly through research-sponsoring government
agencies and private foundations which dispense funding for
research.
Funding is further controlled by committees called "peer review
groups," which supposedly review research proposals objectively
on their merit. "Supposedly" is the right word, because peer
review groups usually make sure research is directed into
familiar and, to them, acceptable channels so that no boat-
rocking discoveries will be made.
Remember that the American Cancer Society (ACS) was founded in
1913 to be dissolved when a cure for cancer was discovered. How
is it that the ACS and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), with
increasing funding, researchers and total personnel each year,
are losing the war against cancer and we are being milked -- or
is it bilked? -- to finance them through taxes and private
donations?
-+- Out Of Step -+-
Why did two Nobel Prize winners -- the late Dr. Linus Pauling and
Dr. Albert Szent Gyorgi -- face turndown after turndown on
research proposal after research proposal, just because they were
probing in areas that didn't meet the approval of peer review
groups?
Then there is the case of Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner, a neurologist
and biochemist at the University of California at San Francisco,
who recently won the prestigious Albert Lasker Medical Research
Award.
How prestigious? Over the past 47 years, 51 scientists who won
this award later won the Nobel Prize for the same work.
This didn't come easily. Dr. Prusiner was humiliated for years
because his findings were not mainstream, not consistent with
current knowledge. Why? First, because he investigated an
unpopular subject: a mysterious disease that killed sheep in
England, and New Guinea natives, cannibals who ate the brains of
their enemies.
Second, his findings were offbeat. The cause of death which he
discovered defied conventional wisdom. It was a protein particle
which he claimed reproduced without genes. This not only shocked
his peers, it lost him a foundation grant.
That's the penalty for scientific heresy -- for daring to
discover something new and having the stainless steel backbone to
announce it. Conventional scientific "wisdom" claimed that this
disease was caused by an unknown virus that took years to
incubate and become a killer.
Prusiner said, "no." Twenty years of painstaking investigation
led him to discover that it was a protein far too small to
contain sufficient DNA to form a gene. As he proved, this protein
could infect animals and human beings, was inheritable and could
reproduce itself.
What started out as research of an obscure disease now may have
some relevancy to killers such as Alzheimers disease, Parkinson's
disease and Lou Gehrig's disease, which he and his associates are
investigating.
John Stuart Mills said: "All new ideas have always come from the
realm of the unorthodox. If all you are going to accept is what
is already proven, then there is no new discovery. To the extent
that a society stifles the unorthodox, that society will atrophy
and die."
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If you are unable to find *The Spotlight* at your local library
or newsstand, you may order it by calling 1-800-522-6292 (In
Maryland call (301) 951-6292.)
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