article by Dieter Luske - useNature - Editor ...
Would anyone call it a "Conspiracy" or is it just plain marketing strategy, that medical research hasn't found a cure for Cancer, Arthritis or any chronic disease yet?
No doubt, medical research has brought us amazing discoveries and advantages. It borders on the Super Natural to see how human lifes can be brought back from the near death or how accident victims recover.
I must express my honest respect for the endless dedication of those people who have brought us all what we have now.
I simply wonder, and question, as any non-scientist or medical person would;
" How come that after such a tremendous progress, diseases seem to be worth?
Chronic conditions - Cancer - Allergy Condition - Auto -immune diseases,
even Infections - are constantly treated and researched,
but for the sufferer on the street, the pain stays the same?
Take Arthritis - seemingly a process well researched - Millions - Billions of Dollars pumped into it... into what? New anti-inflammatory medication?
Treatment still seems to be the same, a wait and treat symptom situation. First painkiller - than anti-inflammatories - than some harder drugs - and finally if there is a possibility, some operations.
But nothing to cure the condition!
Actually, is anything ever cured???
Or is everything just patched up or medicated for the rest of our lives??
What has that to do with conspiracy? .... probably nothing.
I don't really believe in conspiracy, that would be too complicated.
I think it is just a normal progression of a huge Industry with huge power and money, which would find it much to hard to change directions.
Basically, it could be argued, is the money which is flowing into research, going there, because of a genuine interest to find cures, or is it to make more profit, and by doing so, hopefully create both.
You may see on that statement, that I don't really blame the drug companies or anyone else in particular.
I simply wonder how this huge machine can be turned into a different direction, where the fear of not making any money dissolves and the excitement of finding cures increases.
To come back to our over simplified example of Arthritis, instead of finding and financing better anti-inflammatory drugs, which with no doubt create a huge financial return, why not research:
why is the inflammation there in the first place
and why not in everyone?
I know this is a simple minded question, even naive, but it doesn't seem to have been answered yet.
I somehow can't grasp the notion that medical treatment always has to involve drugs which suppress or kill and that, most of the time with side effects which over a long period will make it nessescary to take more drugs.
Sooner or later the bulk of modern research has to involve methods in assisting the body - healing the body - finding cures - strengtheing immune systems,
with other words, supporting health, not fighting against diseaes.
Actually the word "fighting" should dis-appear from the medical - health environment, fighting always leads to destruction, and the "Co-lateral Damage" can't be sustained any longer.
Lets replace the word fighting with supporting.
Peace
article by Dieter Luske - useNature - Editor ...
