I get a regular feed from Medscape (a medical news aggregator) that is usually somewhat helpful. In the section "What your patients are reading" they carried a ridiculous encapsulation of the problem with journalistic ignorance and mindless buy-in to the mainstream medical model. Instead of getting the "news" which would inform and support health, they simply parrot the pharmaceutical-sponsored studies that discourage patient empowerment. It wouldn't be so bad if there was a news feed like "Natural Health Coach" to fill out their offerings. Sadly, I think we have a long "row to hoe" before that happens.
The "so-called news" was that patients aren't availing themselves of the flu vaccine as hoped and a public relations effort was underway to insure acceptance. Unforunately for the purveyors of vaccines, the frequent reactions, contaminants and toxins in the shot have been well-discussed on the internet for many years. People are beginnning to question the sensibility of taking agents like this into their systems without a real compelling need. The question becomes even more difficult to answer as the promotional efforts overshadow reasonable scientific inquiry and become the focus of the vaccine effort. The agencies involved in promoting vaccine use are charged with the responsibility to get an increasingly well-informed populace to take an increasingly unpopular treatment. It's hard to tell where the public health officials start and the drug company representatives end.
