2026-05-11
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- Malaria
"Physicians who had never heard of a protozoan parasite or a female Anopheles mosquito could predict with precision where the illness would appear"
"This essay examines the evidentiary foundations of what is now called malaria ... from the pre-parasite era of marsh fever, through the flawed foundational experiments of Laveran and Ross, through a century of toxic treatments marketed as cures ... " - Inflammation
"Inflammation is a normal part of the body’s defense to injury or infection, and ... is beneficial"
"But inflammation is damaging when it occurs in healthy tissues or lasts too long"
Does the body not know what it is doing?
"NSAIDs alone — ibuprofen, naproxen, aspirin, diclofenac, celecoxib — constitute a market valued at over twenty-two billion dollars annually" - Dyslexia
"Ninety-five percent of children labelled dyslexic can be taught to read. This ... is the establishment’s own finding"
"Dyslexia is called a neurobiological condition, yet no diagnostic brain scan exists for it. No blood test. No biomarker" - E-Coli
"The pharmaceutical company that would go on to sell drugs and vaccines for traveller’s diarrhoea helped fund and logistically support the foundational study that established the condition’s cause"
"Merson ... studied 121 physicians at a medical congress in Mexico City, funded “in part by the U.S. Army.” An aetiological agent was identified in 63 per cent of symptomatic participants. In the remaining 37 per cent ... no pathogen was found"
"Fifty years of clinical practice, pharmaceutical development, and travel medicine guidelines rest on these two small studies" - Infant Colic
"Vollmer was a colicky baby herself. ... Her father drove her in the car at night and put her on top of the rocking dryer because nothing else worked"
"Years later ...she put the pieces together: her first vaccinations had damaged her gut and nervous system, and she was given formula instead of breastmilk. Her first experience ... was gut-wrenching pain"
"Her clinical observation, distilled across years of work with hundreds of mothers, identified four causes ... "
