How Bogus Scientific Studies Are Created
As mentioned in my “Introduction to Alternative Cancer Treatments” article, over a period of 42 years, the tobacco industry spent over $220 million funding over 1,500 scientific studies, yet not a single one of these studies could find a relationship between tobacco and lung cancer, heart disease, etc. As I mentioned in that article, a group of high school students with a phone book could prove a relationship between tobacco and lung cancer. My point to mentioning this fact was that scientists are more than willing to accept money to do bogus scientific studies.
In fact you can almost always predict what conclusions a “scientific” study will come to by knowing just one key fact: “who funded the study.” The person who funded the study will always get the conclusion they want. People who loosely call themselves “scientists” will always make sure of that.
The pharmaceutical industry, with their total control over the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), etc. have also funded many, many millions of dollars of bogus scientific studies. In fact, their budget is in the billions of dollars every year!! Couple this with their control of the media and you have the situation we are in today.
It is the Prime Directive of medical research to do two things:
First, make it appear there is “scientific evidence” for orthodox cancer treatments, orthodox heart disease prevention treatments, etc., and
Second, make it appear there is “no scientific evidence” for alternative cancer treatments, alternative heart disease prevention treatments, and so on.
But how can a scientist not find value in a nutrient that treats cancer or heart disease when the truth of the matter is that this substance does have value? That is what this web page is about.
This web page will summarize a number of different tactics and tricks that scientists can use to insure that their masters who fund their studies get exactly what they want.
Tactics, Tricks and Fraud in Scientific Studies
Using Synthetic Versions of a Nutrient In the Study
In many studies of nutrients, especially vitamins, synthetic versions of the nutrient were used in the study. Synthetic versions of a vitamin do not have nearly the effect on a disease as a quality-processed natural version of the same nutrient. For example:
A new landmark study suggests that pregnant women should ask their physicians for a prenatal supplement that contains natural vitamin E for optimal health insurance. According to this new research, the human placenta can deliver natural vitamin E to the fetus in much greater concentration (3.5 to one) than the synthetic supplement.
Natural and synthetic vitamin E are not the same. Previous research has shown natural vitamin E is better retained and more biologically active than synthetic. To identify the kind of vitamin E in a supplement, it is necessary to read the ingredients listed on the label. Natural vitamin E begins with “d,” as in “d-alpha-tocopherol.” The synthetic version begins with “dl.
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The Dosage is Too Low
When the news media blasts to the world that a particular vitamin or other nutrient “does not work” at preventing or treating a disease, they may mention the dosage of the product used by the orthodox scientist, but they won’t mention the real world dosage used by alternative medicine practitioners. Frequently, the orthodox “study” only used a small fraction of the dosage generally used by alternative medicine.
Isolating a Natural Substance That Works in Synergy With Other Nutrients
Scientists like to study one nutrient at a time, ignoring that in raw, whole foods, this nutrient may be the best nutrient in isolation, but in fact this nutrient only works in combination with several other key nutrients in the raw, whole food. For example, orthodox scientists may study Vitamin A, by itself, instead of the effect of fresh, properly prepared carrot juice. By isolating one substance, they can then generalize that they have proven that the entire natural food has no effect on prevention or treatment.
Isolating and Studying the Wrong Nutrient
There are many thousands of phytonutrients in plants. No one has a clue how many of them there are. Most of them have not been identified or isolated. Few of them have ever been tested for treating cancer. With glyconutrients, the situation may even be worse. Glyconutrients may some day be found to be more effective at curing cancer than phytonutrients.
When massive evidence suggests that carrot juice is one of the best treatments for cancer, scientists quickly try to guess what it is about carrots that kills cancer cells so well.
It might be beta carotene, it might be alpha carotene. No one knows for sure. It might be a combination of 20 different things, only 4 of which have been isolated and identified as of this date.
Nevertheless, such a possibility will