Reged: 02/28/06
Posts: 641
Loc: Sheffield, England
Just on my local radio station. There's a story on the national news today about drug companies 'manufacturing illnesses to fit the medications they have developed'. Local radio just used IBS as an example, and I quote:
"There are many illnesses that simply would not exist if the medications to 'treat' them hadn't been developed"
"IBS is a perfect example - everyone in the medical profession knows it doesn't exist. However, because pharmaceutical companies discover drugs that can help treat the so-called symptoms the message spreads that it is acceptible to be pitied and treated for conditions that otherwise wouldn't be recognised..." -
After questioning from radio reporter "Oh yes, IBS symptoms exist - people get diarrhoea, constipation or tummy ache every now and then - but IBS as an illness simply doesn't. There isn't a single diagnostic test that can diagnose IBS - this is because it is not an illness, but purely a state of mind", and
"Those believing they are suffering from IBS would be best advised to seek psychiatric help, rather than finding false-solace in the mistaken belief that they suffer from an actual illness. Go back 20 years and barely heard about this 'problem' - we only hear about it more now because the drug companies choose for it to be so by publicising their propaganda".
There was more, but I got so mad my ears started ringing and I don't want to falsely quote. I'm so furious right now I can't even comment.
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Grrrr.... "IBS not a real illness" on radio - let him try it for a week!!
