wws@ukma.UUCP (Bill Stoll) (08/10/85)
I was gratified and, strangely, somewhat saddened, to note the associated press release (the day after I posted the Holistic explanation of AIDS) substantiating what I had said. The reason for feeling gratified is obvious. The sadness comes with the recurring reminder, we Holistic types keep getting, that the power and money are still going to the people who don't know what is going on. While the practitioners who have understood the solution to most of the medical problems we face today, for at least 10 years, are still being attacked by their colleagues as "quacks and charlatans". Eventually, even the most obtuse "medical experts of the day" understood the Pasteur was right. Even Pasteur, on his deathbed, said: "If I had it to do over, I would have spent more time on individual immunity than on the germ!" The strength of any theory depends on how much of the observed phenomena are explained by that theory. In my >25 years of practicing and teaching medicine I have seen no approach that explains the observed, or gets the results, 1/4th as well as the holistic paradigm. Eventually the truth will out. This theory has been advanced several times this century, by many prominent practitioners of medicine. However, because we still didn't have the technology, or sufficiently advanced knowledge and methods of communicating that knowledge, the approaches tended to die with their practitioners. I HAVE GREAT FAITH THAT, THIS TIME, THE BREAKTHROUGH WILL NOT BE LOST TO HUMANITY AS A WHOLE! AIDS is doing us a favor: It is finally serious enough to get the attention of the majority of the people. You know, an organism is a perfect microcosm of the population of a country: Until anough of the cells of your body shout for attention (a measure of how sick you are), you are not likely to change what you are doing. Until enough of the people in this country (both lay and professional) hurt anough to understand enough we will keep on in the same direction we have been going. Fortunately, the environment, both physical and psychological, is not going to let us get away with the wrong direction much longer. Legionaire's Disease was not a loud enough warning. So, we got Toxic Shock. When that wasn't enough, we got Reye's Syndrome, Kawasaki Syndrome, MacDonald's Hemorrhagic Colitis, Post Polio Syndrome-----AIDS--; we almost have the "new disease of the month". ALL of these disorders are caused by the same basic problem I described in net.med 817: AIDS IS PREVENTABLE. We deserve better than we are presently getting from those we have entrusted with the "disease care system" of this country. It is about time we start looking to the TRUE "health care professionals" presently trying to get the attention of the government and the public. They are the HOLISTIC MEDICAL ASSN. and other Holistic medical practitioners. The longer it takes the more people will suffer and the more it will cost. Those who continue to beat on the doors of the old system for answers deserve what they get. Those who listen to them also deserve what they get. cbosgd!ukma!wws(WALT STOLL)
peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (08/16/85)
> I was gratified and, strangely, somewhat saddened, to note the > associated press release (the day after I posted the Holistic > explanation of AIDS) substantiating what I had said. The reason for How about letting us know what was in the release? > Legionaire's Disease was not a loud enough warning. So, we got Toxic > Shock. When that wasn't enough, we got Reye's Syndrome, Kawasaki > Syndrome, MacDonald's Hemorrhagic Colitis, Post Polio > Syndrome-----AIDS--; we almost have the "new disease of the month". > ALL of these disorders are caused by the same basic problem I > described in net.med 817: AIDS IS PREVENTABLE. What do you mean by this? Most of the diseases here have recognised causes. -- Peter da Silva (the mad Australian werewolf) UUCP: ...!shell!neuro1!{hyd-ptd,baylor,datafac}!peter MCI: PDASILVA; CIS: 70216,1076