MEDICAL MIRACLES ABOUND ON THE INTERNET

In a recent Washington Times commentary, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., blamed major media outlets for not picking up the Vince Foster suicide note forgery story from a press release on the principle of genetic fallacy. According to magazine editor Tyrrell, news editors generally do not pick up stories from sources they don't like. This practice is understandable, in part, because it avoids the appearance of tabloid journalism. Conservatism in these matters preserves reputation by warding off outright hoaxes and frauds. However, as time passes, Mr. Tyrrell's point is well taken. Omission often becomes as inexcusable as erroneous reporting.

Major scientific medical discoveries are also conspicuous by their absence in the United States mass media. Although science has its recognized giants, these authorities are apparently not to be liked when their discoveries threaten vested economic interests.

According to biographer Dr. Robert J. Paradowski, Linus C. Pauling was the first American chemist to master the technology of X-ray diffraction, which he used during the 1920s in his determinations of the structure of the large molecules of life. In 1948, after his work on the structure of antibodies, and while a guest professor at Oxford University, Pauling focused on the coiling of the polypeptide chain in proteins and discovered the alpha helix. In 1949, he became interested in sickle-cell anemia and showed that the abnormal hemoglobin was caused by just a single amino-acid anomaly in one of the polypeptide chains.

With the recognition that deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the genetic molecule, Pauling became interested in its three-dimensional structure. In 1953 he and Robert E. Corey proposed that DNA was made up of three chains, twisted around each other in ropelike strands. Shortly thereafter, Watson and Crick, with benefit of X-ray photographs taken in England proposed the double helix structure, which turned out to be correct. (Photographs denied Pauling because the U. S. State Department had lifted his passport.)

In 1954, Linus Pauling at the age of fifty three was awarded his first Nobel prize for single handily reconstructing the foundation of chemistry. This he had accomplished by introducing concepts borrowed from quantum physics. His great work, The Nature of the Chemical Bond, is a landmark in the history of science.

Pauling was awarded his second Nobel prize in 1963 for his pivotal role in the superpowers signing the nuclear test ban treaty. Pauling had calculated, using the U. S. government's own figures, that radioactive carbon-14 from then scheduled nuclear weapons tests would cause 55,000 children to be born with gross physical and mental defects, result in more than 500,000 miscarriages, stillbirths, and newborn deaths, and cause as much leukemia and bone cancer as that caused by all the fission products from the explosions combined.

These anti-nuclear efforts in the midst of the cold war did not land him in good stead with his government, costing him his U. S. passport and most probably a third Nobel prize for his work on the structure of DNA.

In his nineties, Pauling continued to make important scientific contributions. From 1988 until his death in 1994, Pauling and his young associate the German-born heart specialist Matthias Rath, M.D., performed careful experiments on laboratory animals and post-mortem human aortas. With the brilliant insight of a gifted scientist bolstered by a "unified theory" that is based, in part, on Nobel prize winning discoveries in medicine, i.e., the discovery of the nature of the LDL (bad) cholesterol bond to human blood vessels, Pauling and Rath found what countless other researchers missed; the long sought after cause of occlusive cardiovascular disease. Their insight about this "missing link" has been confirmed during a recent reevaluation of the Framingham Heart Study.

Pauling and Rath armed with the knowledge of what makes human atherosclerotic plaque form were then able to go further. They compiled laboratory evidence that these deposits can be reversed, even in acute cases. When Pauling was asked if these findings really meant heart disease could be reversed he replied:

"I think so. Yes. Now I’ve got to the point where I think we can get almost complete control of cardiovascular disease, heart attacks and strokes by the proper use of [the recommended therapy]. It can prevent cardiovascular disease and even cure it. If you are at risk of heart disease, or if there is a history of heart disease in your family, if your father or other members of the family died of a heart attack or stroke or whatever, or if you have a mild heart attack yourself then you had better be taking [the recommended therapy]."

Having invented a simple cure for the condition based on these laboratory experiments, Pauling and Rath were awarded the first U. S. patent for a technology to reverse heart disease without surgery in 1994. Thanks to the miracle of the internet, gaining access to vast amounts of information about such developments world-wide is not a large problem. The web surfer can find a plethora of valuable material, not only on the Pauling and Rath discoveries, but many other medical miracles.

It is an amazing fact that detailed information about unconventional therapies for treating heart disease, HIV/AIDs, many various forms of cancer including brain cancer, neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, prostatitis, viral infection, fungal infection, bacterial infection, renal/kidney disorders, allergies, and much more -- including the cure for the common cold -- are published around the world and can be found on the internet/world-wide-web. Only one of the many reasons why interest in the internet is exploding.

Most of these therapies are supported by surprisingly strong science, yet they are almost uniformly ignored by modern allopathic medicine and the mass media. Many have significant data showing evidence that the course of major diseases can be reversed. The so-called oxygen or "bio-oxidative" therapies, as one example, have been routinely administered by physicians to millions of people outside the United States. More than 4000 studies have now been published on these therapies, the first medicinal reports dating back to the 1920s by Dr. T. H. Oliver in Britain. Today, some 150 new studies, on average, are published every month about bio-oxidative therapy that, strangely, threatens the license of any U.S. physician, in all but a handful of states, who would seek to practice it.

Inexpensive "miracle" therapies compete for attention with pharmaceuticals products having much stronger business cases. Another common thread is that many of these unsung treatments tend to be "drug free" (i.e. based on substances normally found in food), and most can be self-administered. Is it any wonder that people faced with the exorbitant cost and

questionable effectiveness of orthodox medicine are turning in droves to so-called alternative therapies? Chicago area columnist Jack Mabley in his November 13, 1995 column reported that: "In 1990, Americans made an estimated 425 million visits to providers of unconventional therapy. This number exceeds the number of visits to all U.S. primary-care physicians, 388 million."

While a new treatment for heart disease is news, the cure should be featured on the proverbial cover of Time Magazine. Lives depend on competent, impartial investigation by members of the press who have so far acted irresponsibly. How is that this discovery, made by one of the scientific giants of the 20th century, has been allowed to suffer the same fate as the Foster suicide note forgery? Yes countless scientists missed the importance of the missing link, lipoprotein(a) first discovered in 1962, because medical training and bias made it difficult for respected researchers to report that simple vitamin deficiencies are responsible for arterial lesions. Most have gone on the "oxidized cholesterol" wild goose chase in order to avoid the inevitable conclusion that Pauling and Rath, with no such bias, easily recognized and understood.

According to advertisements in Prevention Magazine, pharmaceutical companies have now invested considerable sums in new drugs to combat "oxidized cholesterol." The goose chase has become institutionalized. Once the importance of collagen deficiency syndrome caused by chronic low levels of vitamin C is recognized, all the seemingly contradictory data falls into place. Thanks to the internet Pauling/Rath unified theory of cardiovascular disease may not languish as it would if this news was left to the mass media.

The reputation of the mass media stands to be tarnished by the internet as long as it relies exclusively on recognized medical and government authority. For far too long these authorities have sanctioned the news that served their vested economic interest, and the media has gone along for the ride. The end result of this dependence on medical authority has meant that a long list of impressive scientific developments have not been reported. Perhaps, with advent of the internet, it will not matter much very much in the end.

Owen Richard Fonorow

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