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PART ONE
THE STANDING ARMIES OF SCIENCE: AMERICA
Part One examines the growth of scientific medicine in America, its early
battles with homoeopathy and the origins of the American Medical Association. It
describes the interaction between government agencies, industry, science and
health, then looks at the roles of three organizations. The American National
Council Against Health Fraud is an extra-governmental agency which works with
industry-connected government agencies like the Food and Drugs Administration.
The American Council on Science and Health is an industry funded organization
which publishes pro-industry reports on health risks. The Committee for
Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), is a pro-industry
group which lobbies for science and campaigns against alternative medicine.
Chapter 1 The American origins of scientific medicine
Chapter 2 The beginning of the health fraud movement
Chapter 3 The American National Council Against Health Fraud
Chapter 4 Selling science and industry in America:
The American Council on Science and Health
Chapter 5 The rational idea in a materialist world:
Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
PART TWO
THE INSURGENTS BEFORE 1989
Part Two looks at the early careers and work of a number of people from
different disciplines involved in health care. They are all involved in
innovative non-orthodox work, which has brought them under severe scrutiny and
critical attack from those with vested interests in science, government or
industry. Dr Jacques Benveniste is a French biologist, whose experiments with
high dilution substances came under critical attack in 1988. Dr William Rea is
an American pioneer in the field of illness created by toxic environments, work
for which he has been frequently attacked. The British practitioners introduced
in this part of the book were all attacked by the Campaign Against Health Fraud
after it was set up in 1989. The detailed stories of these attacks continues in
Part Five of the book.
Chapter 6 Dr Jacques Benveniste:
The case of the missing energy
Chapter 7 Clinical Ecology:
Stratagem for a poisoned world
Chapter 8 Dr William Rea:
Clinical ecologist
Chapter 9 Dr Jean Monro:
Clinical ecologist
Chapter 10 Bristol Cancer Help Centre
Chapter 11 Industrial food and nutritional medicine
Chapter 12 Dr Stephen Davies:
Nutritional doctor
Chapter 13 Patrick Holford:
The Institute for Optimum Nutrition
Chapter 14 Belinda Barnes and Foresight:
Nutrition for two
Chapter 15 Robert Woodward and Rita Greer:
Larkhall
Chapter 16 AIDS: the plague that made millions.
Cass Mann, Stuart Marshall, Positively Healthy, Alan Beck and the Pink Paper
Photographs Dr Jacques Benveniste / Dr Jean Monro Pat Pilkington and Penny Brohn
Dr Stephen Davies / Patrick Holford Belinda Barnes / Robert Woodward and Rita
Greer / Cass Mann.
PART THREE
THE STANDING ARMIES OF SCIENCE: BRITAIN
A campaign in defence of science, similar to that in America, has gone on in
Britain for some time. Organizations with 'special relationship' links, have
exchanged ideas about campaigning with American organizations. The Rationalist
Press Association is one of the oldest English humanist organizations; it is
linked to the American Humanist Association from which CSICOP grew. The British
and Irish Skeptic was a magazine launched by U.K Skeptics, a small pro-science
group set up by the British branch of CSICOP. The last three chapters of this
part look at British science and industry lobby groups, associated with food,
pharmaceuticals and industrial science. Chapter 20 introduces the Wellcome
Foundation and discusses the connection of this transatlantic pharmaceutical
company with the health fraud movement and the British government.
Chapter 17 The Rationalist Press Association
Chapter 18 British and Irish Skeptics
Chapter 19 From the table to the grave:
The British Nutrition Foundation
Chapter 20 Wellcome, Part One:
A powerful concern
Chapter 21 The pollution of science
PART FOUR
THE BRITISH CAMPAIGN AGAINST HEALTH FRAUD
The British Campaign Against Health Fraud (CAHF) was launched early in 1989;
it had links with many of the organizations already described. CAHF was set up
by Caroline Richmond, a medical journalist, and drew together a number of
doctors, practitioners and journalists who had often expressed views sympathetic
to the pharmaceutical industry, the food industry or science. The one 'outsider'
who was to speak in empathy with the Campaign was Duncan Campbell, a left of
centre investigative journalist. Chapter 28 analyses Campbell's changing
perspective, which coincided with the beginning of the Concorde trials for the
Wellcome AIDS drug AZT.
Chapter 22 Wellcome, Part Two:
Developing and marketing AZT
Chapter 23 Wellcome, Part Three:
AZT, the domestic market
Chapter 24 Caroline Richmond, Part One:
The chemical agent
Chapter 25 Caroline Richmond, Part Two:
The Richmond way
Chapter 26 The Campaign Against Health Fraud,
Part One: Background and beginnings
Chapter 27 The Campaign Against Health Fraud,
Part Two: Early targets
Chapter 28 Dr Vincent Marks:
The company director
Chapter 29 Duncan Campbell:
Sewers surveyed
Chapter 30 Professor Michael Baum:
The trials of a cancer doctor
Chapter 31 The Campaign Against Health Fraud, Part Three: The players and the
game 1989 - 1991
PART FIVE
OVER THE TOP: BATTLES AND SKIRMISHES AFTER 1989
The last part of the book picks up the stories of the practitioners whose
early careers and ways of working were examined in Part Two. After the setting
up of the CAHF in 1989, all these people, together with a number of others,
working mainly in the field of immunology, found themselves under constant
attack, in the media and within professional organizations. By the use of a
battery of prosecuting agencies and propaganda techniques a large group of
practitioners and commentators were criminalised. There were substantial
similarities between these attacks and the ones which were being carried out in
America.
Photographs Jabar Sultan/Philip Barker/
Jad Adams/Dr Leslie Davis/Elizabeth
Marsh Yves Delatte/Sandra Goodman/Dr Mumby.
Chapter 32 Wellcome, Part Four:
Colonising the voluntary sector
Chapter 33 Fighting the invisible agenda
" Jad Adams. Brian Deer.
Cass Mann. Positively Healthy
Alan Beck. The Pink Paper
Chapter 34 Trials of strength:
Knocking out the opposition
" Joan Shenton and Meditel
" Dr Sharp, Jabar Sultan, Philip Barker
" Dr Roger Chalmers, Dr Leslie Davis
" Yves Delatte, Sandra Goodman, Monica Bryant
" Elizabeth Marsh
Chapter 35 The assault on the Breakspear Hospital
" Lorraine Hoskin. Dr Monro.
" Lorraine Taylor. Liza Ensen.
" Dr Freed. Dr Mumby
Chapter 36 Mugging the cancer patients
" Bristol Cancer Help Centre
Chapter 37 Attacking healthy nutrition
" Stephen Davies. Patrick Holford. Belinda Barnes. Rita Greer and
Robert Woodward
Chapter 38 Conclusions
Chapter references
Bibliography
List of British and American self-help organizations
Index
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