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The Medical Profession Was Wrong Then And They Are Wrong Now

I am very skeptical of medical reports. The established medical profession is very often wrong. DEAD WRONG! Sometimes it takes them years to realize they were wrong. And maybe several more years to admit it. Unfortunately, the wrong information they report can be, and has been, dangerous and even deadly.

Let me give you an example. Back in the 1920’s the JAMA (Journal of the AMA) ran ads that showed physicians smoking. The ads touted and even described the health benefits of smoking. Yes, there were many voices outside of the medical profession warning of the dangers of smoking. It took a long, long time for the medical profession to listen.

As recently as the seventies doctors had ashtrays in the waiting rooms and you could smoke in your hospital room. It was not unusual for doctors to smoke in their office while consulting with a patient. I had a baby that was born with a congenital heart defect. She only lived three months. The pediatric heart surgeon that treated her was a chain smoker.

It took the medical profession almost a hundred years to figure out that smoking does indeed cause cancer. I smoked for 50 years and developed cancer in my tonsils. It was not diagnosed until it had spread to the lymph nodes on the right side of my neck. By then a huge mass had developed and I was told I had Stage 4 cancer.

What is the latest area where the medical profession has their head in the sand? This report dated December 6th 2006 is scary.

Summary: “Using cell phones, even over a long period of time, does not appear to raise a person’s risk for cancer”. That report appeared on December 6th, 2006 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

This is from the JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute: Conclusions: “We found no evidence for an association between tumor risk and cellular telephone use among either short-term or long-term users.”

That’s their conclusion. My conclusion is that the medical profession was wrong about smoking being harmless (and even beneficial) in the 1920’s and they are wrong in 2008 about Cellular Telephone Use and Cancer Risks.

Looking back to 1920, it is obvious that the medical profession was wrong about smoking. Their statement was absurd and ridiculous.

At some point in the future, people will look back at the medical profession’s reports that cellular telephone use has no cancer risks. They will see that too as, absurd and ridiculous.