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The
Alzheimer's
Cover-Up
Tom Warren
I know that most men, including those at ease
with problems of the greatest complexity,
can seldom accept even the simplest and
most obvious truth, if it be such as would
oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions
which they have delighted in explaining to
colleagues, which they have proudly taught
to others, and which they have woven
thread by thread into the fabric of their lives.
Leo Tolstoy
Suppose that you had dedicated your whole life to helping patients
achieve better health. In time you were recognized as an eminent professional
and became a board member of your medical association, one of the
largest and, to the uninformed, most respected conglomerates in the
world. Your associates produce a gross income of $50 million a day.
Collectively, the board is a major economic-political power. If change
were in the air, what would you be willing to do to protect your position
Dominant members of society always resist change. The power structure
looks at identical data disinterested parties see clearly, but filters out
information that challenges its earning power.
A hundred and eighty years ago, when the problems we are talking
about started, medical science was in its infancy. Technology to determine
the efficacy of pharmaceuticals and treatment processes was, by today's
standards, nonexistent.
During the Civil War, surgeons wiped blood off their knives onto their
aprons to get ready for the next operation. Surgeons did not know that