My mother has had cancer three times now - womb/bowel/lung. My aunt died of cervical cancer - a beautiful soul. My niece's mind and body were badly damaged by the treatment that she received for a brain tumour as a child. She still has tumours growing in her brain and is now approaching forty years old. That they have suppressed treatment no longer shocks me but it does appall me to my core. I feel emotional reading your post knowing how much pain could be taken from people's lives if others were honest and decent. Everything you write is worth reading, however intermittently it appears. Keep going. The world needs people like you.
There are different kinds of hierarchies, not all of which will that insight apply to.
For instance, groups of men left to their own devices self-organize into competence hierarchies, wherein only those who can lead are allowed to lead a group of men. This is obvious anytime you see groups of random men tackle any task from things as simple as moving someone out of their house, to raising a barn for their neighbor.
Only the general-corruption or denigration of raw masculinity's typical influence in society has allowed hierarchies to turn into cesspits where social-climbing is regarded more highly than competence.
Yes, these are what I would call natural hierarchies. The threshold for spinoff that should trigger a mitotic division should be about 150-200 people. Sumpin sumpin Dunbar's number. People like Jacinda Arder (communications major) and Justin Trudeau (drama teacher) have never had real jobs outside of that. They were picked for a reason.
1. how does this mitotic division work in practice? how do we scale to large organizations or to nations (and everything in between)?
2. in practice small orgs (less than 150 people) are organized based on the problematic top down hierarchy structure; it seems that we cannot have a mixed mode
How do we downscale large organizations, like countries? Corporations? Because our anti trust laws have failed absolutely....but I like the idea. Imagine how many different solutions could be developed by small orgs...
I'm not convinced that it's practical or productive to seek answers to questions like that for the purposes of imposing team structures on groups of individuals.
Humans seem to self-organize better than they are organized by design.
this comment rings true to me from personal experience.
I am not a leader. I detest group work and also cannot stand having to tell other people what to do.
but one night I was in a small group stuffed into a Subaru wagon, and we got stuck in the sand by the Missouri River.
everyone was milling around aimlessly trying to figure out how we were going to get out without an expensive tow truck.
I had zero interest in being stuck at the river and began thinking hard about how to get the car free. with sand, the piddly portable jack wasn't going to do anything useful.
leverage occurred to me and I wandered off and found a huge 15-20 foot wooden beam in a driftwood pile.
Under the motivation of wanna-get-the-hell-out-of-here-itis, for possibly the first time in my (at the time) twenty something years, I voluntarily took charge of the situation, to make it end sooner. Told two others to come help me get the beam and had the remaining three gather loose wood to stuff under the wheels once the car was up as well as locate a bigger piece for a fulcrum.
took less than five minutes to pop the thing up out of the muck once we had the beam in place with a few big guys at the end. drove away happily.
I've taken charge of a few emergency family situations since, but that was the first and last time in my almost 5 decades of existence that I've been group leader for people I'm not directly related to.
My competence was apparently adequate for the job, but I did not want to be in charge. I felt that me taking charge was /needed/ because I knew what to do to quickly solve the problem at hand, and the existence of the problem was destroying my own comfort level.
if government worked like that, we'd not be in the mess we are today.
What a great story! Thank you for commenting. <3 Yup! The people who are most capable (us) just want to do their stuff! They don't want to climb the social ladders. How we get around this problem exactly, I don't know. I think there are likely some answers in spontaneous order, decentralization, and complex systems that emerge when old ones are breaking down. It seems that humans are naturally geared to working in small groups. The larger the society, the larger the pool of psychopaths, and the worst ones rise to the top like turds in a toilet bowl. Now we live in a society of not just millions, but billions.
The complete incompetence at the higher levels is pretty obvious. What I wonder is how do those useless/corrupt people get replaced with competent ones.
Also…why is it that the smart ones like you don’t want the position of power? 🤔
God created hierarchies — choirs of angels, animal kingdoms, men. A hierarchy that recognizes Jesus Christ as Lord of heaven and earth would be the opposite of what Monica complains of. Don’t believe me? Read Charles Coulombe’s book Blessed Charles of Austria. Among other things, it’s likely to give you a whole new perspective on the tragedy of WWI.
Men and women are both competent at varying things to varying degrees, with tons of overlap. The parts of men that do not overlap with women in the venn diagram are what is being suppressed in our modern society.
Men tend to value goals and things more, and women tend to value people and relationships more. Both perspectives are necessary for a healthy society. But when society falls to one extreme (valuing people and relationships more than goals and things), you get a society where structures of people allow incompetence and failure to thrive because they value people and relationships more.
In a hospital that only values goals and things, you'll get a system where the best equipment is acquired, the finest medical exam scores are hired, and the most published doctors are promoted. In that same hospital I can guarantee you patients will be neglected, nurses experience will be ignored, and return business will be minimal.
In a hospital that values people and relationships more, you'll get a system where every patient is treated regardless of income, every nurse will be given second chances regardless of failure, and doctors will subordinate their expertise for group opinion. In that same hospital I can guarantee you that patients will die because treatments were botched or ignored in favor of relationships, nurses will stay employed long after they're useful, and everyone will excuse failure.
People are valuable, but so is the bottom line. If you value one over the other, you're guaranteed to lose both.
society is trying to eliminate the venn diagram and collapse to one circle, which is suicidal, the tension that generates and drives life is being extinguished
John Venn was a 19th century white English male polymath... so OBVIOUSLY any diagram based on his work is loaded to the gunwales with stuff that Grievance Studies majors would describe as 'problematic'.
For a start, his lifespan overlapped (lol) that of Robert E Lee - and since Venn never wrote an Op-Ed denouncing the South, the only Woke-conclusion is that he was probably a Confederate sympathiser and a racist.
Venn diagrams have been 'linked to' Winter Vagina, too. The previous sentence is just one irrefutable example of the linkages.
Everyone needs to blackpill first, and chillpill second. This will all be over once the debt-laden-liberal-arts-major 'fact check' industry is disrupted by GPT-3 (or its descendants).
The black pill makes all confusion disappear: the obviousness of the corruption and venality of the political-parasitoid classes becomes stark.
I was truly blackpilled by the mid-90s - across all of the relevant domains.
there has been a long denigration of raw masculinity and similarly of raw femininity (witch hunts is one example), I think the denigration for a long time was against diversity, individuality; I guess hierarchies require conformity and compliance
competence is hard, you need mentorship and a tribe, and everything that leads to competence was also denigrated and dismantled for a long time
I founded a nonprofit with a donation from American Cancer Society, where we had our office, based on a clinical trial eligibility screening system of my design.
At the time pharma was not complying with the heath care modernization act which called for submitting all their trials to clinicaltrials.gov. We used web extraction and had a more complete data set then even clinicaltrials.gov.
We didn’t accept pharma donations. It was a 13 year effort in total. In the end we simply didn’t have the budget to keep up the fight.
Exactly. However, once one can zoom out and view the world of the past 26 months, in the context of the past 110 years, the dots become easier to connect. Actually zooming even further out to 500 years to the Reformation, and then moving through time to 250 years ago and the American Revolution all the pieces fall into place. The battle against tyranny, and more precisely the battle against the elites who want to control those they view as inferior subjects, never ends. The players change, the technology changes, but the endgame never does. It is always about control. It’s about power and money too, but it is the control element that provides the pathway to the power and the money. Yes, We have allowed it to happen. As have generations before us. And there are no excuses really. But once one understands (for example) that, during the Revolution only 20-30% of the inhabitants of the colonies supported breaking away from England. And of the total population of age eligible men, only 2-3% volunteered to fight. Putting that in context, in a simplistic way, it is easy to see why we are where we are. The good news is, that history has shown multiple times, that a dedicated and fearless minority can achieve victory. God willing, and my faith says he is, we will get there again. But it won’t be easy. Or pretty. Buckle up.
another powerful perspective is the personal vs social perspective, you could argue that all the ills we notice in society are the large scale ills that we as individual have
as long as we focus on fixing society and at the same time not paying attention to our own shadows we will keep spinning in circles
The problem is that these "free communities that cherish the Constitution" are dispersed as they exist mostly in cyberspace. The only communities I know of that are physically close are the homeschoolers in any given area, and even these are being challenged by predatory school districts. Preppers may be another group. But such a community would draw the wrath of the larger governing bureaucracies. As has been demonstrated again and again.
"Evil is banal." Yes and most of us have not come to terms with that. They don't care about us is right. I think this is why there is so much cognitive dissonance and lame attempts at explaining away what we've been through. (They 'got it wrong' makes us feel better, we prefer to: 'They know what they are doing; they are killing, harming and experimenting on us.' )
Thank you. I look forward forward to future posts.
I suspect that we have to face the horrors, terrors, and abandonments of our childhood to truly accept unpleasant truths in adulthood. And we have to face our own darkness.
Hi Monica. I found your newsletter through Toby Rogers and look forward to your telling. Thank you for your contribution to breaking out of this “care” model. It’s interesting how similarly we have each formulated our different questions. Here’s what I’m looking into:
“Rather, I want to focus on a sort of psychiatric anthropology. How have so many Canadian physicians come to support this conclusion:
This patient is so depressed that the most humane thing we can do is euthanize her.
Read: Otherwise healthy twenty- and thirty- and forty-something Canadians are going to start being euthanized.”
"This patient is so depressed that the most humane thing we can do is euthanize her." I'm not a physician but I've even had dark thoughts like this myself. When we find ourselves saying and thinking things like this, we have to face our own darkness and find a way out of it, because it's very much like the utilitarian and eugenicist mentality of the medical profession in Nazi Germany.
Monica, if you need help, we are here. Be careful the government will take your funds if we donate, or worse. But you have our support. We need a PARALLEL way of doing things. And you are totally right about hierachies. The sociopaths always rise to the top. I beleive God does things for a reason, but this I cannot fathom. Insight welcome.
You are sweet! Don't worry. I am small potatoes. Coley's toxins was a 60s fight. The people lost, and no one even knows what it is anymore. But don't worry, after we win the covid early treatment battle and the folks like McCullough, Malone, Fareed, Tyson, Kory, and so on have won, the "establishment" -- heh -- will have to contend with me afterward once I have "re-educated" StackerLand with my unique style of public service announcements. ;) Haha. Actually? Hopefully by that time, these "institutions" will just be gone. I can dream, anyway.
im no expert in cancer but there are common threads to it, like cancers need for glucose, if one were to go on a restrictive diet with no carbs or sugars (like a meat only diet) i would fully expect a stalling of most types of cancer.
i guarantee pharma would suppress the hell out of an idea like this because it isn't profitable
Yes, there are a number of dietary interventions which I believe can be very helpful. The ketogenic diet is one of them. I produced a lay article on it years ago. Perhaps eventually it will find a place on this newsletter. :) I think diets are only curative in rare and uncommon cases. However, that's true for Coley's toxins as well. It's curative only in a minority of cases from what we can see from the literature. When the cancer is very advanced, no one is eating, so at that point ketosis doesn't help. But there are actually some peer-reviewed papers demonstrating a benefit of fasting at earlier stages. In any case, there's more that can be done to help people than what we are doing. It's an awful lot of lives in raw numbers that could be lengthened or saved, or the quality of which could be improved in the meantime.
I'm sorry for your loss... Researching online after I watched that documentary made me realize that cursory searches were being gamed through search engine optimization and capture of wikipedia. It has gotten a lot worse since, but that business of Francis Collins wanting to separate the medicine from the medicine man was informative. I couldn't understand why at the time, but I guess it's because it allows them (folks within NIH) to be rewarded financially from the patents. I am intrigued by this treatment you are promoting. Is this something popular within the NMD community?
Coley’s is in a bit of a weird no man’s land, because it’s sort of been abandoned by mainstream medicine, and injecting dead bacteria isn’t typically something naturopaths like to do :-)
if it’s a mistletoe lectin which is a molecular mimic of Shiga toxin from E. coli, and has the same effect as getting food poisoning, no problem, because it’s a plant. 😂
Dead hot pink bacteria no. 😂
Quite a bit of an oversimplification there for entertainment sake, but Coley’s has been out of use in the mainstream medical community in the US since the 50s, with a few exceptions.
I plan on writing about the history and legal issues soon, but suffice it to say that about 60% of US oncologist know about Coley’s, they just don’t think it works and that there’s a logical reason it was abandoned. There wasn’t.
The Midwestern doctor and I have been having a discussion about Coleys toxins, mistletoe, and Cantharidin over on my Coleys toxins post, if you want to go there to see the exchange. I still haven’t responded to his latest comment because I just haven’t had the time and I want to respond more thoughtfully.
Your cancer treatment sounds very compelling. Sadly they don't have the slightest interest in improving the human condition or conducting real science I've heard of so many things that showed promise that were shut down. Even my intended master's thesis on the placebo effect, which I still think should be done and replicated, was shut down due to lack of interest/funding. It's a sad world we live in but perhaps the silver lining is that people are not able to turn a blind eye this time...
well release the fullest details of the treatment and there's at least some chance that it'll start getting made somewhere. don't get too insular - remember we think we're the centre of the world and even think we are the whole world - but actually there's many, many other nations and peoples out there....
My mother has had cancer three times now - womb/bowel/lung. My aunt died of cervical cancer - a beautiful soul. My niece's mind and body were badly damaged by the treatment that she received for a brain tumour as a child. She still has tumours growing in her brain and is now approaching forty years old. That they have suppressed treatment no longer shocks me but it does appall me to my core. I feel emotional reading your post knowing how much pain could be taken from people's lives if others were honest and decent. Everything you write is worth reading, however intermittently it appears. Keep going. The world needs people like you.
There are different kinds of hierarchies, not all of which will that insight apply to.
For instance, groups of men left to their own devices self-organize into competence hierarchies, wherein only those who can lead are allowed to lead a group of men. This is obvious anytime you see groups of random men tackle any task from things as simple as moving someone out of their house, to raising a barn for their neighbor.
Only the general-corruption or denigration of raw masculinity's typical influence in society has allowed hierarchies to turn into cesspits where social-climbing is regarded more highly than competence.
Yes, these are what I would call natural hierarchies. The threshold for spinoff that should trigger a mitotic division should be about 150-200 people. Sumpin sumpin Dunbar's number. People like Jacinda Arder (communications major) and Justin Trudeau (drama teacher) have never had real jobs outside of that. They were picked for a reason.
couple of questions come to mind
1. how does this mitotic division work in practice? how do we scale to large organizations or to nations (and everything in between)?
2. in practice small orgs (less than 150 people) are organized based on the problematic top down hierarchy structure; it seems that we cannot have a mixed mode
How do we downscale large organizations, like countries? Corporations? Because our anti trust laws have failed absolutely....but I like the idea. Imagine how many different solutions could be developed by small orgs...
A++++
yep I like all that. we should be getting busy constructing an alternative... we are getting busy constructing alternative...
I'm not convinced that it's practical or productive to seek answers to questions like that for the purposes of imposing team structures on groups of individuals.
Humans seem to self-organize better than they are organized by design.
obviously humans are not self-organizing that well, beyond a tribe
I am not suggesting enforcing some design, wondering how would this work
The best examples of top-down organization are all failures.
Indeed, the systems and cultures that underly them allowed these charlatans to be picked, not sorted by their competence.
My first substack comment, so be gentle.
this comment rings true to me from personal experience.
I am not a leader. I detest group work and also cannot stand having to tell other people what to do.
but one night I was in a small group stuffed into a Subaru wagon, and we got stuck in the sand by the Missouri River.
everyone was milling around aimlessly trying to figure out how we were going to get out without an expensive tow truck.
I had zero interest in being stuck at the river and began thinking hard about how to get the car free. with sand, the piddly portable jack wasn't going to do anything useful.
leverage occurred to me and I wandered off and found a huge 15-20 foot wooden beam in a driftwood pile.
Under the motivation of wanna-get-the-hell-out-of-here-itis, for possibly the first time in my (at the time) twenty something years, I voluntarily took charge of the situation, to make it end sooner. Told two others to come help me get the beam and had the remaining three gather loose wood to stuff under the wheels once the car was up as well as locate a bigger piece for a fulcrum.
took less than five minutes to pop the thing up out of the muck once we had the beam in place with a few big guys at the end. drove away happily.
I've taken charge of a few emergency family situations since, but that was the first and last time in my almost 5 decades of existence that I've been group leader for people I'm not directly related to.
My competence was apparently adequate for the job, but I did not want to be in charge. I felt that me taking charge was /needed/ because I knew what to do to quickly solve the problem at hand, and the existence of the problem was destroying my own comfort level.
if government worked like that, we'd not be in the mess we are today.
What a great story! Thank you for commenting. <3 Yup! The people who are most capable (us) just want to do their stuff! They don't want to climb the social ladders. How we get around this problem exactly, I don't know. I think there are likely some answers in spontaneous order, decentralization, and complex systems that emerge when old ones are breaking down. It seems that humans are naturally geared to working in small groups. The larger the society, the larger the pool of psychopaths, and the worst ones rise to the top like turds in a toilet bowl. Now we live in a society of not just millions, but billions.
The complete incompetence at the higher levels is pretty obvious. What I wonder is how do those useless/corrupt people get replaced with competent ones.
Also…why is it that the smart ones like you don’t want the position of power? 🤔
God created hierarchies — choirs of angels, animal kingdoms, men. A hierarchy that recognizes Jesus Christ as Lord of heaven and earth would be the opposite of what Monica complains of. Don’t believe me? Read Charles Coulombe’s book Blessed Charles of Austria. Among other things, it’s likely to give you a whole new perspective on the tragedy of WWI.
Very well put.
Do you think that is true? Is it our degradation of men? Because men are competent. Real men. And comptence is to be applauded.
Men and women are both competent at varying things to varying degrees, with tons of overlap. The parts of men that do not overlap with women in the venn diagram are what is being suppressed in our modern society.
Men tend to value goals and things more, and women tend to value people and relationships more. Both perspectives are necessary for a healthy society. But when society falls to one extreme (valuing people and relationships more than goals and things), you get a society where structures of people allow incompetence and failure to thrive because they value people and relationships more.
In a hospital that only values goals and things, you'll get a system where the best equipment is acquired, the finest medical exam scores are hired, and the most published doctors are promoted. In that same hospital I can guarantee you patients will be neglected, nurses experience will be ignored, and return business will be minimal.
In a hospital that values people and relationships more, you'll get a system where every patient is treated regardless of income, every nurse will be given second chances regardless of failure, and doctors will subordinate their expertise for group opinion. In that same hospital I can guarantee you that patients will die because treatments were botched or ignored in favor of relationships, nurses will stay employed long after they're useful, and everyone will excuse failure.
People are valuable, but so is the bottom line. If you value one over the other, you're guaranteed to lose both.
society is trying to eliminate the venn diagram and collapse to one circle, which is suicidal, the tension that generates and drives life is being extinguished
John Venn was a 19th century white English male polymath... so OBVIOUSLY any diagram based on his work is loaded to the gunwales with stuff that Grievance Studies majors would describe as 'problematic'.
For a start, his lifespan overlapped (lol) that of Robert E Lee - and since Venn never wrote an Op-Ed denouncing the South, the only Woke-conclusion is that he was probably a Confederate sympathiser and a racist.
Venn diagrams have been 'linked to' Winter Vagina, too. The previous sentence is just one irrefutable example of the linkages.
Everyone needs to blackpill first, and chillpill second. This will all be over once the debt-laden-liberal-arts-major 'fact check' industry is disrupted by GPT-3 (or its descendants).
The black pill makes all confusion disappear: the obviousness of the corruption and venality of the political-parasitoid classes becomes stark.
I was truly blackpilled by the mid-90s - across all of the relevant domains.
there has been a long denigration of raw masculinity and similarly of raw femininity (witch hunts is one example), I think the denigration for a long time was against diversity, individuality; I guess hierarchies require conformity and compliance
competence is hard, you need mentorship and a tribe, and everything that leads to competence was also denigrated and dismantled for a long time
I founded a nonprofit with a donation from American Cancer Society, where we had our office, based on a clinical trial eligibility screening system of my design.
At the time pharma was not complying with the heath care modernization act which called for submitting all their trials to clinicaltrials.gov. We used web extraction and had a more complete data set then even clinicaltrials.gov.
We didn’t accept pharma donations. It was a 13 year effort in total. In the end we simply didn’t have the budget to keep up the fight.
Thank you. No words. Heartfelt. My god, what have we allowed to be done to ourselves.
Exactly. However, once one can zoom out and view the world of the past 26 months, in the context of the past 110 years, the dots become easier to connect. Actually zooming even further out to 500 years to the Reformation, and then moving through time to 250 years ago and the American Revolution all the pieces fall into place. The battle against tyranny, and more precisely the battle against the elites who want to control those they view as inferior subjects, never ends. The players change, the technology changes, but the endgame never does. It is always about control. It’s about power and money too, but it is the control element that provides the pathway to the power and the money. Yes, We have allowed it to happen. As have generations before us. And there are no excuses really. But once one understands (for example) that, during the Revolution only 20-30% of the inhabitants of the colonies supported breaking away from England. And of the total population of age eligible men, only 2-3% volunteered to fight. Putting that in context, in a simplistic way, it is easy to see why we are where we are. The good news is, that history has shown multiple times, that a dedicated and fearless minority can achieve victory. God willing, and my faith says he is, we will get there again. But it won’t be easy. Or pretty. Buckle up.
the historical perspective is very powerful
another powerful perspective is the personal vs social perspective, you could argue that all the ills we notice in society are the large scale ills that we as individual have
as long as we focus on fixing society and at the same time not paying attention to our own shadows we will keep spinning in circles
I want to move to a small free community that cherises the Constitution...wieth a fearless minority. Can't find one around here.
start one :-)
The problem is that these "free communities that cherish the Constitution" are dispersed as they exist mostly in cyberspace. The only communities I know of that are physically close are the homeschoolers in any given area, and even these are being challenged by predatory school districts. Preppers may be another group. But such a community would draw the wrath of the larger governing bureaucracies. As has been demonstrated again and again.
"Evil is banal." Yes and most of us have not come to terms with that. They don't care about us is right. I think this is why there is so much cognitive dissonance and lame attempts at explaining away what we've been through. (They 'got it wrong' makes us feel better, we prefer to: 'They know what they are doing; they are killing, harming and experimenting on us.' )
Thank you. I look forward forward to future posts.
I suspect that we have to face the horrors, terrors, and abandonments of our childhood to truly accept unpleasant truths in adulthood. And we have to face our own darkness.
Hi Monica. I found your newsletter through Toby Rogers and look forward to your telling. Thank you for your contribution to breaking out of this “care” model. It’s interesting how similarly we have each formulated our different questions. Here’s what I’m looking into:
“Rather, I want to focus on a sort of psychiatric anthropology. How have so many Canadian physicians come to support this conclusion:
This patient is so depressed that the most humane thing we can do is euthanize her.
Read: Otherwise healthy twenty- and thirty- and forty-something Canadians are going to start being euthanized.”
Excited to engage with your work!
"This patient is so depressed that the most humane thing we can do is euthanize her." I'm not a physician but I've even had dark thoughts like this myself. When we find ourselves saying and thinking things like this, we have to face our own darkness and find a way out of it, because it's very much like the utilitarian and eugenicist mentality of the medical profession in Nazi Germany.
I did not expect to read the words Coley's toxins today. This just massively increased my interest in your Substack and in your personal story.
Yay! Thank you for being here. :)
Monica, if you need help, we are here. Be careful the government will take your funds if we donate, or worse. But you have our support. We need a PARALLEL way of doing things. And you are totally right about hierachies. The sociopaths always rise to the top. I beleive God does things for a reason, but this I cannot fathom. Insight welcome.
Take good care of yourself.
You are sweet! Don't worry. I am small potatoes. Coley's toxins was a 60s fight. The people lost, and no one even knows what it is anymore. But don't worry, after we win the covid early treatment battle and the folks like McCullough, Malone, Fareed, Tyson, Kory, and so on have won, the "establishment" -- heh -- will have to contend with me afterward once I have "re-educated" StackerLand with my unique style of public service announcements. ;) Haha. Actually? Hopefully by that time, these "institutions" will just be gone. I can dream, anyway.
PS and keep in touch.
im no expert in cancer but there are common threads to it, like cancers need for glucose, if one were to go on a restrictive diet with no carbs or sugars (like a meat only diet) i would fully expect a stalling of most types of cancer.
i guarantee pharma would suppress the hell out of an idea like this because it isn't profitable
Yes, there are a number of dietary interventions which I believe can be very helpful. The ketogenic diet is one of them. I produced a lay article on it years ago. Perhaps eventually it will find a place on this newsletter. :) I think diets are only curative in rare and uncommon cases. However, that's true for Coley's toxins as well. It's curative only in a minority of cases from what we can see from the literature. When the cancer is very advanced, no one is eating, so at that point ketosis doesn't help. But there are actually some peer-reviewed papers demonstrating a benefit of fasting at earlier stages. In any case, there's more that can be done to help people than what we are doing. It's an awful lot of lives in raw numbers that could be lengthened or saved, or the quality of which could be improved in the meantime.
Thank you Monica. We've known that they didn't care about us, we just didn't want to believe it.
That's right. <3
Hell yes!! I stand with you!
Monica, sounds like you may be on a fruitful track. Good luck.
Hi Monica—I am a retired pathologist. I have lost count of the number of people I have sent your Coleys Toxins article.
Can you please tell me how to get in direct contact with you? My email is jfisher0118@gmail.com
It’s important
Thank you
Jeff Fisher, MD
Interesting... Any thoughts on S.R. Burzynski's cancer treatments?
Yes. I think they work also, but less well. When my husband had GBM we went go Burzynski. He could not offer antineoplastons at that time.
I'm sorry for your loss... Researching online after I watched that documentary made me realize that cursory searches were being gamed through search engine optimization and capture of wikipedia. It has gotten a lot worse since, but that business of Francis Collins wanting to separate the medicine from the medicine man was informative. I couldn't understand why at the time, but I guess it's because it allows them (folks within NIH) to be rewarded financially from the patents. I am intrigued by this treatment you are promoting. Is this something popular within the NMD community?
What is NMD?
naturopathic doctors
Coley’s is in a bit of a weird no man’s land, because it’s sort of been abandoned by mainstream medicine, and injecting dead bacteria isn’t typically something naturopaths like to do :-)
if it’s a mistletoe lectin which is a molecular mimic of Shiga toxin from E. coli, and has the same effect as getting food poisoning, no problem, because it’s a plant. 😂
Dead hot pink bacteria no. 😂
Quite a bit of an oversimplification there for entertainment sake, but Coley’s has been out of use in the mainstream medical community in the US since the 50s, with a few exceptions.
I plan on writing about the history and legal issues soon, but suffice it to say that about 60% of US oncologist know about Coley’s, they just don’t think it works and that there’s a logical reason it was abandoned. There wasn’t.
The Midwestern doctor and I have been having a discussion about Coleys toxins, mistletoe, and Cantharidin over on my Coleys toxins post, if you want to go there to see the exchange. I still haven’t responded to his latest comment because I just haven’t had the time and I want to respond more thoughtfully.
Your cancer treatment sounds very compelling. Sadly they don't have the slightest interest in improving the human condition or conducting real science I've heard of so many things that showed promise that were shut down. Even my intended master's thesis on the placebo effect, which I still think should be done and replicated, was shut down due to lack of interest/funding. It's a sad world we live in but perhaps the silver lining is that people are not able to turn a blind eye this time...
well release the fullest details of the treatment and there's at least some chance that it'll start getting made somewhere. don't get too insular - remember we think we're the centre of the world and even think we are the whole world - but actually there's many, many other nations and peoples out there....