Make no mistake about it, those who have demonized modern medical practices, including vaccinations and women’s health care—pejoratively referred to as “abortion” by its opponents—have no place in the public commons as they issue forth snake oil treatments and, like Dr. Mehmet Oz, suggest that an abortion is between a woman, her doctor, and her local politicians.
The lunatic pro-Trump wing of the incoming Republican congressional class have promised endless hearings and investigations of public health officials should they take control of one or both houses of Congress. Their chief target is America’s long-serving epidemiologist, Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health. For these modern Luddites, the medical advances of inoculations and immunizations against dangerous and lethal diseases should be tossed out of the window, along with vaccination requirements for public school students and member of the military.
A clear pattern emerged in the mid-term election and an earlier referendum in Kansas. Voters in Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, Vermont, and California rejected the religious nonsense spewed forth by the right-wing majority on the U.S. Supreme Court that attempted to insert the government into the health care decisions of women, including when and how to end a pregnancy.
Modern medicine cannot exist in the same space as pseudo-scientists, quacksalvers, naturopaths, snake oil salesmen, fakirs, breatharians, swamis, and witch doctors, particularly when such fraudsters are in positions to set government policy on issues of public health, medical research, and related issues. The vast intellectual wasteland of the television airwaves and cable channels has, in part, led to the dilemma of quack doctors like Mehmet Oz, Joseph Ladapo, and Stella Emmanuel; fake psychologists like Dr. Phil; and “woo” prophets like Marianne Williamson having as much legitimacy in the public’s view as the Mayo Clinic, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, Weill-Cornell Medicine, Baylor Medical Center, and Johns Hopkins Medicine.
The Republicans and their anti-science acolytes may set the medical practice back to the 17th century if they get their way. This is not hyperbole. In his draft opinion that was leaked to the public prior to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, Justice Samuel Alito cited the writings of Sir Matthew Hale, a 17th century English jurist who served as Lord Chief Justice of England. In his treatise, titled “The History of the Pleas of the Crown,” Hale viewed the abortion of a “quick” child as a “great crime” and “great misprision.” Alito agreed with that position. Hale also promoted the concept of lawful marital rape, writing, “The husband cannot be guilty of a rape committed by himself upon his lawful wife.” Hale believed that witches were real and he ordered the hanging of three women accused of the practice, a precedent that was used as a model for the witchcraft trials in Salem, Massachusetts.
If those who deride modern medicine mimic Alito and set back the calendar to 17th century medical practices, we will see a return to some of the causes of death in 1665 in London. The statistics that year were published weekly in a public record. The data was gathered by London parish clerks.
How will modern medicine opponents like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Kyrie Irving, Aaron Rodgers, Sarah Palin, Kanye West (who undoubtedly believes that vaccinations and Covid-19 are part of some “Jewish doctors’ plot”), Rob Schneider, and their fellow travelers deal with the return of such causes of death as Abortive—death of mothers caused by abortions, which Judge Hale had already ruled as illegal—Griping in the Guts, Impostume, Jaundies, Gowt, Dropsie, Flux, Scowring, Rickets, Shingles, Convulsions, Scurvy, Tissick, and Rising of the Lights? Will they be okay with fatalities from “Winde?” After all, these so-called experts want to make the 17th century a thing again, so why not see a return to back alley abortions and patients farting themselves to death?
Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist, author and nationally-distributed columnist. A member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the National Press Club. He is the editor and publisher of the Wayne Madsen Report (subscription required).
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The demonization of modern medicine and where it could lead
Posted on November 15, 2022 by Wayne Madsen
Make no mistake about it, those who have demonized modern medical practices, including vaccinations and women’s health care—pejoratively referred to as “abortion” by its opponents—have no place in the public commons as they issue forth snake oil treatments and, like Dr. Mehmet Oz, suggest that an abortion is between a woman, her doctor, and her local politicians.
The lunatic pro-Trump wing of the incoming Republican congressional class have promised endless hearings and investigations of public health officials should they take control of one or both houses of Congress. Their chief target is America’s long-serving epidemiologist, Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health. For these modern Luddites, the medical advances of inoculations and immunizations against dangerous and lethal diseases should be tossed out of the window, along with vaccination requirements for public school students and member of the military.
A clear pattern emerged in the mid-term election and an earlier referendum in Kansas. Voters in Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, Vermont, and California rejected the religious nonsense spewed forth by the right-wing majority on the U.S. Supreme Court that attempted to insert the government into the health care decisions of women, including when and how to end a pregnancy.
Modern medicine cannot exist in the same space as pseudo-scientists, quacksalvers, naturopaths, snake oil salesmen, fakirs, breatharians, swamis, and witch doctors, particularly when such fraudsters are in positions to set government policy on issues of public health, medical research, and related issues. The vast intellectual wasteland of the television airwaves and cable channels has, in part, led to the dilemma of quack doctors like Mehmet Oz, Joseph Ladapo, and Stella Emmanuel; fake psychologists like Dr. Phil; and “woo” prophets like Marianne Williamson having as much legitimacy in the public’s view as the Mayo Clinic, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, Weill-Cornell Medicine, Baylor Medical Center, and Johns Hopkins Medicine.
The Republicans and their anti-science acolytes may set the medical practice back to the 17th century if they get their way. This is not hyperbole. In his draft opinion that was leaked to the public prior to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, Justice Samuel Alito cited the writings of Sir Matthew Hale, a 17th century English jurist who served as Lord Chief Justice of England. In his treatise, titled “The History of the Pleas of the Crown,” Hale viewed the abortion of a “quick” child as a “great crime” and “great misprision.” Alito agreed with that position. Hale also promoted the concept of lawful marital rape, writing, “The husband cannot be guilty of a rape committed by himself upon his lawful wife.” Hale believed that witches were real and he ordered the hanging of three women accused of the practice, a precedent that was used as a model for the witchcraft trials in Salem, Massachusetts.
If those who deride modern medicine mimic Alito and set back the calendar to 17th century medical practices, we will see a return to some of the causes of death in 1665 in London. The statistics that year were published weekly in a public record. The data was gathered by London parish clerks.
How will modern medicine opponents like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Kyrie Irving, Aaron Rodgers, Sarah Palin, Kanye West (who undoubtedly believes that vaccinations and Covid-19 are part of some “Jewish doctors’ plot”), Rob Schneider, and their fellow travelers deal with the return of such causes of death as Abortive—death of mothers caused by abortions, which Judge Hale had already ruled as illegal—Griping in the Guts, Impostume, Jaundies, Gowt, Dropsie, Flux, Scowring, Rickets, Shingles, Convulsions, Scurvy, Tissick, and Rising of the Lights? Will they be okay with fatalities from “Winde?” After all, these so-called experts want to make the 17th century a thing again, so why not see a return to back alley abortions and patients farting themselves to death?
Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.
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Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist, author and nationally-distributed columnist. A member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the National Press Club. He is the editor and publisher of the Wayne Madsen Report (subscription required).