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"the outrageously expensive procedures he recommends raise all kinds of red flags."Here's Huggins, a guy who tells what he believes is the truth about mercury and gets his license revoked, gets ridiculed by the medical community, and has to find other ways to support himself.
He tries to help the small guy and ends up going in debt and losing his office. He eventually learns (by losing his career altogether) that typical lower and middle class Americans are very slow to accept "new" ideas. They are too influenced by TV?one of the last places you should ever expect to find the truth. It's only the upper class who are more open-minded, mainly because they have been more experienced with the ways of the world.
So he has to make a decision: Do I open a clinic trying to help the lower class who cannot pay their bills and who struggle to accept these "new" ideas because they're too duped by mainstream media, in which case I'll stay broke and ineffective at making any possible difference, or do I work with the more open-minded upper class who pay their bills and are more influencial in society, having a better chance to do what I wanted to do in the first place?help people?
He knows the latter makes more of an impact in this "information war", plus he will be able to pay his bills. He knows that?or rather?has learned it the hard way.
Being humiliated the way he has is not something the typical person is willing to endure. It is common sense evidence that his intentions are noble. Not conclusive evidence, just evidence worth considering.
It wouldn't surprise me if some dentists in California are gauging people. If that's the case, like I said in my previous post, fly out east. My removal was reasonable. I would have paid many times more for it, especially knowing what I know now. Shop around. And about recommending expensive proceedures... Huggins doesn't set the price of the proceedures. He recommends proceedures. If they happen to be expensive, how can we blame him for the free market?
Several years ago, I (and my current business partner) worked together for a political party. At the same time, we produced a radio talk show. Our goals were noble and we worked every free moment we had. We also organized meetings where we exposed government corruption. We compiled endless research, then helped organize the meetings in which this information was offered to the public for free.
The first meeting was very successful in that we had a lot of people and a great speaker. The information and documentation was presented beautifully and made an irrefutable case. We naively believed people would be outraged and want to talk to us about what they could do to help correct the situation. We truly expeced people to have the same reaction we did when we first learned about the corruption.
Instead we found that people kindly thanked us and left the meeting. When we organized the next one, not a single person who attended the first one came. I heard every kind of excuse under the sun. Finally I had a heart-to-heart talk to some of my friends who attended the first one and asked why they really didn't want to come. They said, "honestly, it's too scary. We don't disbelieve these bad things are happening, we would just rather not know about it."
Speachless, my friend and I thought it over carefully. We had worked so hard for the good of the people. We researched and gave up ALL of our fee time for years to try and bring this information to light, just to discover that people didn't want to know. It didn't matter whether it was true or not, it was just too "scary".
Here's what we both learned.
The vast majority of the public does not want the truth if it makes them feel uncomfortable. It doesn't matter how important it is. It doesn't matter how well your research is compiled. It doesn't matter how good your intentions are.
Finally a few years into this we finally realized that what we had been told in the founding documents was true. We didn't want to believe it, but we had no choice. We had to face it. I believe this sums it up nicely:
"Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
"The Declaration of Independence"
One day, we took a hard look at all the work we did and time we spent and realized that people don't want the truth, at least not the vast majority of them and we certainly weren't the kind of people to shove it down their throats. We decided to stop wasting our time trying to help people who didn't want it.
Now that I'm in the natural health field, I find the same is true. So many people come to me for advice. I tell them what's causing their illness or issue. They go away and then come back 1 or two years later with a story about how they've been to this doctor or that and so on... and how the ailment is back again or never really went away. Finally, after experiencing pain (while pain is sufferable) they look for easy solutions or none at all. Then finally, when the pain is not bearable anymore and no one else has answers they like, they come back. I've heard this same story from numerous natural health professionals over and over.
They had the answer all along. They just didn't believe it. Sad, really.
History shows us that truth is not easy and freedom is not free. Most Americans?sadly?have never learned how true this is. They just keep living in this "matrix-like" existence believing the world really is like "ER", "Friends", or "The West Wing".
People are predisposed to kill the messenger, though they will never admit it.
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"...tricks of the trade for con artists, disinformationists, and cults (i.e., scientology) is to give the air of authenticity and objectivity by sprinkling little bits of truth with exaggerations, half-truths, and distortions..."What is Huggins saying that is a half-truth or disinformation? I've never read any research that contradicts what I've heard Huggins say?and I've read a lot of research on this subject. In fact, he's right on target.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't approach all new information with caution. My point is only what I said in my original reponse, "Don't be too quick to judge".
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"On the one hand, you keep repeating the mantra "follow the money", as if anyone who makes a buck is automatically a knowing participant in some conspiracy to rob people"Nothing could be further from the truth.
Perhaps you missed that I said, "There's certainly nothing wrong with making money, especially while providing a beneficial service."
In fact, in putting the links up here to the books on Amazon, I decided to sign up with their affililate program?just last night. I'm going to recommend these books anyway so should I see if I can make a profit if they sell? Absolutely, and there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, it's the responsible thing to do. Everyone benefits. It would be unethical if I recommended books I didn't believe in just for the purpose of making money... It's this concept I'm referring to while chanting, "Follow the money".
The ADA knows that mercury leaches?even though they lied about it for years?they've finally had to quietly change their position in the face of scientific evidence that's existed all along. And, according to Huggins, they make about $50 million per year in royalties from mercury-based cavitation products.
Listen for yourself:
Huggins Interview Is this true? I'm not sure, but these are strong statements and we should really verify whether they are true or not.
The issue is that the ADA printed in the Journal of the American Dental Association that study after study shows that mercury, once bound with the other materials in an amalgam filling,
DOES NOT LEACH. IF they did in fact print that, and IF they do in fact make money from amalgam manufacturing, then I'll chant, "Follow the money" and the ADA should be prosecuted. If these facts are false, then Huggins should be sued for slander.
All the products I sell or recommend, I believe in. I've had people ask me to distribute products that would have made me a lot of money, but I would not, because I believe they are unethical. Anyone who knows me well knows my integrity, and I'm saying all this to say...
When I said "follow the money":
I'm not talking about the $1 or whatever I'll make (I have no idea because I've never done it before and haven't had time to read the Amazon agreement) when linking to important books on Amazon;
I'm not talking about money Huggins makes promoting expensive services which are forced upon no one;
I'm talking about powerful, well-funded organizations (often funded with American tax dollars, supplemented or lobbied for by pharmaceutical companies) like the NCAHF who systematically spread disinformation which harms (or kills) people for their profit?deceptive money?harmful money. People working to get a paycheck...that's not unethical. I know better than that.
"Deceptive money" forces situations upon us either without our consent, or without disclosure.
I never knew there was a toxic waste in the fillings my Dentist installed in my mouth. It was never disclosed to me, and I've paid a dear price, as have many others, for this criminal negligence. Remember, this is a
known toxin. The ADA (possibly, if the $50M thing is true) and pharmaceutical companies (definitely) profited from my harm. But the pharmaceuticals go way beyond lack of disclosure. They extend to building a disinformation infrastructure.
I'm talking about board members at medical schools being paid $150,000 to $250,000 as an employee to do nothing more than attend all-expense-paid "meetings" in Fiji two or three times a year in exchange for blindly including certain pharmaceuticals in the curriculum without consideration of the "net effect" the drug really provides to the patient. What happened to "Do no harm"? (Nutrition: The Cancer Answer II by Maureen Salamon)
Nutrition: The Cancer Answer II I really recommend that people read "Racketeering In Medicine." This book is not some fluffy idea book. It's packed full of specific examples of documented events, names and places. It's an eye-opener.
Racketeering In Medicine Putting mercury in people's mouths is such a bad idea... such an unbelievably bad idea that, if this was disclosed to me when the Dentist said I needed a filling, I would have made a sane decision. This lack of disclosure takes place 1 million times every 3 days in the U.S. alone. And most of those who start suffering from symptoms of this go on some kind of prescription medication for a long time. Many?possibly most?of the primary diseases in the U.S. today are known to have a relationship to mercury. If you don't know this now, you will eventually. Keep studying. Follow the money.
IF anyone will keep reading, keep studying and has common sense, they will eventually see that this disinformation infrastructure is not new, but very mature and brilliantly conducted. Again, it takes humility to admit that you've been out-smarted. But this same humility, in allowing this admission, opens the door for positive change. It is the first major step toward health and purging the corruption that so ensnares our government and so many major corporations.
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"Anecdotal evidence should certainly not be ignored in assessing the effectiveness of amalgam removal."Bravo! You're absolutely right. That's an example of reputation & testimony at work. Unfortunately, the "organized med" prosecutes doctors getting remarkable results with alternative methods all the time. When alternative methods are used, the pharmaceutical companies don't profit. The concept of anecdotal evidence is damned in the mainstream medical literature. Why? Follow the money.
After my removal, I received DMPS three times in a clinic in St. Petersburg, Florida. This clinic was also participating in a cancer study hosted by the University of Texas at Austin involving I.V. Aloe Vera. They were having tremendous results. I sat in the room several times for hours and spoke with many who were part of the study. I heard their stories and the new hope they had found because their conditions were improving for the first tiem despite being "sent home to die" by their doctors.
A few months later, the FDA raided the clinic, held the employees at gun point and took ALL records relating to the study?including files, computer equipment, and Aloe Vera?and left, never to be heard from again. No warning, no accusations, no convictions, just a simple robbery with an interesting jewel. Why do you think this information (and Aloe Vera) is so "dangerous". Follow the money.
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"Another question I have is that some people spend thousands of dollars on expensive dental procedures and protocols and experience absolutely no improvement whatsoever. How do we account for these cases, if mercury poisoning is indeed the cause?"If the answer was simple, I'd just post it here. Unfortunately, it's not.
There are many reasons people may not recover and the best answer I can give you (and it is a really good answer) is to get the book "Amalgam Illness: Diagnosis and Treatment" and read it for yourself. It's not simple and demands careful consideration. In this book, Dr. Cutler does an excellent job of explaining all aspects of detox, including what to do if you don't experience improvements.
Amalgam Illness: Diagnosis and Treatment There are far too many people who run out and get their amalgams removed without a plan and without understanding the importance of following through with a carefully designed detox plan. Mercury toxicity is very serious and dangerous and should be studied before approaching. People who don't have time to study it for themselves should hire someone they believe is qualified to guide them.
On a final note...
My Father died March 27th, 2002. He had a tumor at the base of his tailbone. I tried to convince him to work on his cancer using alternative medicine. He told me that he was "afraid not to do what the doctors told him to do".
Well, the doctors told him to take Fluorouracil which is known to damage the liver. Guess what. He died of liver failure. The tumor remained nearly unchanged.
Sandy, a friend of mine in Tacoma, Washington, died of cancer several years ago. She wanted to try alternative methods of treatment but her family "emotionally pressured" (as she put it) her into "doing whatever the Doctor said". They were afraid to try anything else. After all, the doctor is licensed. She grew 19 new finger-like cancer growths on the inside of her radiation-burned chest cavity just after radiation treatment which was recommended by her doctor. She died shortly after.
My father watched a video showing a doctor and a Chinese herbalist working on cancer patients. The Chinese herbalist had far better results than the Doctor did. In fact, the doctor's patient died, the herbalist's patient fully recovered. I read him information about the advantages of herbal medicine on cancer. I showed him videos about the same. (Contrary to mainstream media, there is NO shortage of this information available. You just don't see it in the mainstream.)
The Federal Reserve Bank published an internal brochure entitled "Keeping Our Money Healthy" which eventually made it's way to the public. I heard a medical journalist read from it. It said that the policy of the "fed" is to continue to promote the public consumption of "slow poisons like sugar, caffiene, and fluoridated water" in order to be sure that the public will "expire before they retire".
A friend of mine was raided by the ATF last year. A couple of the ATF agents brought their children to pick out what they wanted from my friend's personal property. One child wanted 2 wave runners my friend just purchased, which obviously had nothing to do with the subject of the raid. The brand new wave runners were confiscated and sold to the child's father at a "private" ATF auction weeks later. No trial. No conviction. Just a robbery with interesting jewels.
I just had a discussion the other day with my employee about how people make decisions. She was working with her church who gave away newspapers at traffic lights for free. She saw an interesting pattern. If the first person at the light took a free paper, every other person at the light would also take one. If the first person didn't, none of the others would. In this case, the drivers would just keep their windows up and some looked annoyed. The church members would have to wait for the next red light and try again, always hoping the first person at this light would be receptive.
I told my father that people are like those penguins you see in the Disney movies that mate with their partners and then commit a most noble and utterly dramatic suicide by running over a cliff onto the rocks far below. They just follow each other, like sheep to the slaughter.
In the case of humans, licenses are the bridles that keep them quiet and orderly as they march off to their deaths, believing they're doing the right thing, or too afraid to try to escape. Disinformation is the beautiful, pearly gate, complete with the smell of sweet corn that lures them to the barn.
By the way, America eventually learned that the whole Disney-penguin story was just a lie. The director chased the penguins off the cliff for dramatic effect. It made a better, more compelling "documentary" film. The truth was secondary. Follow the money.
