I think it's baloney pretty much from near the start.
First, it says 'science isn't really science anymore' right in the second paragraph, with no qualifiers. It doesn't bother to say how double-blind studies aren't science, or anything of the sort. It just makes a blanket, disparaging claim.
Then, there's this outright falsehood:
No pharmaceuticals actually cure or resolve the underlying causes of disease.
Uhm... hello? Antibiotics? Vaccines? Those tend to actually cure and actually resolve underlying causes, like... bacteria.
Then there's this gem:
They use free screenings to scare people into agreeing to unnecessary treatments that only lead to further disease. Mammography is a very good example. Chemotherapy is another.
So mammograms and chemo only lead to further disease? How many people would have died decades earlier if they didn't get mammograms or chemo?
But then I see this gem:
The only healthy, aware, critically thinking individuals are all 100% free of pharmaceuticals and processed foods.
Uh huh. So, I cannot be healthy, aware, or a critical thinker unless I am off any and all medicines and processed foods? Hrm. I think there's some baloney in here.
Point 2 is a whole slew of PRATTs about vaccinations. You know, I've still to see any good explanations of why polio and now rinderpest have gone the way of the dodo because of vaccines, and why the re-emergence of measles and mumps and the like in the USA have come now that there is a lot of anti-vaccination sentiment in the USA.
Point three talks about how all cholesterol is the same, and there's no need to worry about eating low fat/low cholesterol diets, and how the data suggesting correlations between cholesterol and heart disease is fraudulent. How about we have some sources cited? Anyone can make that claim. Furthermore, okay, say cholesterol and heart disease links are fraudulent. How about cholesterol and heart attacks? Or high blood pressure? Or artery clogging due to cholesterol deposits?
It claims myth 4 is that medical screening and treatments prevent death. Really? That's a myth? Again, it cites no sources, just throws claims around willy-nilly. It talks about a lone unnamed study in Sweden to talk about mammograms being useless (when in fact, if 70-80% of mammograms were false positives, that still means 20-30% were cancers caught early), and then citing no studies talks about prostate gland tests being bunk.
But the premise of that myth is that all medical screening and treatment can prevent death. What about things like appendectomies? How many folks have survived a ruptured appendix versus died from it? What about colonoscopies and pap smears? What about alpha-fetalprotein screenings in pregnant women?
Myth 5 is just another whole slew of PRATTs about water fluoridation.
Okay, now, there is a good premise. The USA health system where everyone has to profit off of health is broken. I agree wholeheartedly with that. People need to do more like exercise and diet to take care of themselves instead of going with instant gratification and relying on a quick fix pill. I agree wholeheartedly with that. Everything that follows, however, is a slew of PRATTs, claims without citations, declarations of lying by doctors and scientists without claims, outright falsehoods, and bunk. I rate it as crap.
Metherion
