Exactly this! --> "The very people who should be safe-guarding the public have sold them out."
"They are taking money from a cabal of insulin profiteers to deliver a biased, thinly disguised sales message at the behest of their pharmaceutical overlords." Dr. Fung, you are a hell of a great writer! This sentence is 🔥🔥.
Great article. I would add that patients have personal experience, how the treatment affects outcome. Stories with multiple logical breakdowns just don’t stick.
My story : All my life I’ve been wondering what made me fat, why siblings and family were lean or only slightly overweight. Why me ? Why do I only gain, never lose ? We all ate the same (in our case, the difference was that I got near constant antibiotics treatments for many years after moving to a damp and dusty new brick house at age 2). I mean, why could hungry cavemen run instead of die. So, i thought of fasting. Why is it so bad, why are we alive today ? What is the effect of creation of supermarkets, and : if fat is stored for when food gets scarce, why am I hungry the day after a feast, etc. We eat ‘natural’. Something in there does not sit right with me but what ? Why does mom still want me to eat when I’m not hungry ? I won’t die between breakfast and noon. Why do I have friends at school who eat during every break, eat double my ration at lunch and they’re lean ? Why, why, why ?
I’ve lost a total of +-185 kg in my life time (64 now). Every time, after 24-30 kg, I would put on +- 17 kg in a matter of weeks, still religiously sticking to low calorie, severe hormonal mess, metabolism plummeted. Organs close to shutting down. 3 times, and doctors knew ! None of that low calorie Ever made any sense to me (grandpa was lean and he had a pan of bacon each morning !) but I still believed doctors and ‘science’ so I went along with it until I decided enough was enough. No longer. If the treatment of sports accidents had the same success rate as that of obesity, there would be general outcry ! I was completely done with weight loss, unless the story changed. It did.
With your ‘Etiology of Obesity’ for the first time I heard a narrative that matches my experience. I’ve lost 89 kg since, with relative ease.
Patients do think. Patients do have experience. Patients do listen to older generations. Mainstream doctors just avoid thinking for themselves. Same thing in many domains. People just do as they’re told.
Thank you dr. Fung. You are not only a great clinician, but your ethics too are top class. Respect.
Note that the only real 'vax issue' is not really about autism, or characters like Mccarthy, or even so-called anti-vaxxers. If you decline an epidural are you now a dangerous science-denying anti-epiduralist? The space is riddled with bad actors, but just think about how insane it is, that that is the level the discourse on this topic is at.
The real issue has to do with informed consent and infringing upon individuals in the name of collectivist ideals. This manipulative and abusive behavior that would never otherwise be tolerated in just about any other context is justified and encouraged from a place of fear and cultish group-think - not anything remotely resembling science or data.
It's completely upside down to gaslight someone who would rather not take a particular medical product/intervention as being anti-anything, as opposed to simply respecting their choice as would be expected anywhere else.
An old mentality: Too many people believing anything/everything the Dr tells them...
Now, people can do some research themselves. And understand that much of a Drs 'new' information is coming from drug reps!!! They understand (or shd) that Drs are on the take!
So that the more common mentality now is not trusting any of them!!!!
Dr Jason, you are spot on. But it is not the individual doctor in front of us that we distrust… it is the standards of care that they are told to use, which are wholly untrustworthy because of the corruption you point out. I know that many family doctors are frustrated as hell that they have to comply with standards of care that they know are sub-optimal at best and dangerously wrong at worst. These doctors do need to rebel against the current appalling system. But it’s pretty hard to do that if your livelihood is at risk. The whole system needs root and branch reform. And the result will be a revolution in the general public’s health. It will also massively reduce Big Pharma’s profits.
I appreciate this for my own health. My cholesterol is borderline high and my (kind, young) doctor has been talking about statins. I actually have felt guilty for saying no, but my mother had a bad reaction to a statin medication and I am wary of it. My doctor is probably not getting money from big Pharma, but has been persuaded by experts she believes in. What a tangled approach to health care!
It’s also amazing how many doctors drink each other’s kool-aid. Rather than admitting to themselves they are venal shills that produce corrupt research, many (most?) choose to believe each other’s propaganda… apparently many of them actually thought (and still think) it was a good idea to take the covid jabs multiple times!!!
Doctors rely on funding from big pharma, often publishing articles that favor these. They may manipulate experiments and hide their interests behind so-called peer reviews. The entire medical system appears suspect of being compromised, collectively pretending to be neutral.
Exactly this! --> "The very people who should be safe-guarding the public have sold them out."
"They are taking money from a cabal of insulin profiteers to deliver a biased, thinly disguised sales message at the behest of their pharmaceutical overlords." Dr. Fung, you are a hell of a great writer! This sentence is 🔥🔥.
Thanks, Amy!
Great article. I would add that patients have personal experience, how the treatment affects outcome. Stories with multiple logical breakdowns just don’t stick.
My story : All my life I’ve been wondering what made me fat, why siblings and family were lean or only slightly overweight. Why me ? Why do I only gain, never lose ? We all ate the same (in our case, the difference was that I got near constant antibiotics treatments for many years after moving to a damp and dusty new brick house at age 2). I mean, why could hungry cavemen run instead of die. So, i thought of fasting. Why is it so bad, why are we alive today ? What is the effect of creation of supermarkets, and : if fat is stored for when food gets scarce, why am I hungry the day after a feast, etc. We eat ‘natural’. Something in there does not sit right with me but what ? Why does mom still want me to eat when I’m not hungry ? I won’t die between breakfast and noon. Why do I have friends at school who eat during every break, eat double my ration at lunch and they’re lean ? Why, why, why ?
I’ve lost a total of +-185 kg in my life time (64 now). Every time, after 24-30 kg, I would put on +- 17 kg in a matter of weeks, still religiously sticking to low calorie, severe hormonal mess, metabolism plummeted. Organs close to shutting down. 3 times, and doctors knew ! None of that low calorie Ever made any sense to me (grandpa was lean and he had a pan of bacon each morning !) but I still believed doctors and ‘science’ so I went along with it until I decided enough was enough. No longer. If the treatment of sports accidents had the same success rate as that of obesity, there would be general outcry ! I was completely done with weight loss, unless the story changed. It did.
With your ‘Etiology of Obesity’ for the first time I heard a narrative that matches my experience. I’ve lost 89 kg since, with relative ease.
Patients do think. Patients do have experience. Patients do listen to older generations. Mainstream doctors just avoid thinking for themselves. Same thing in many domains. People just do as they’re told.
Thank you dr. Fung. You are not only a great clinician, but your ethics too are top class. Respect.
Appreciate your content on many counts.
Note that the only real 'vax issue' is not really about autism, or characters like Mccarthy, or even so-called anti-vaxxers. If you decline an epidural are you now a dangerous science-denying anti-epiduralist? The space is riddled with bad actors, but just think about how insane it is, that that is the level the discourse on this topic is at.
The real issue has to do with informed consent and infringing upon individuals in the name of collectivist ideals. This manipulative and abusive behavior that would never otherwise be tolerated in just about any other context is justified and encouraged from a place of fear and cultish group-think - not anything remotely resembling science or data.
It's completely upside down to gaslight someone who would rather not take a particular medical product/intervention as being anti-anything, as opposed to simply respecting their choice as would be expected anywhere else.
He's absolutely on point!!
An old mentality: Too many people believing anything/everything the Dr tells them...
Now, people can do some research themselves. And understand that much of a Drs 'new' information is coming from drug reps!!! They understand (or shd) that Drs are on the take!
So that the more common mentality now is not trusting any of them!!!!
Dr Jason, you are spot on. But it is not the individual doctor in front of us that we distrust… it is the standards of care that they are told to use, which are wholly untrustworthy because of the corruption you point out. I know that many family doctors are frustrated as hell that they have to comply with standards of care that they know are sub-optimal at best and dangerously wrong at worst. These doctors do need to rebel against the current appalling system. But it’s pretty hard to do that if your livelihood is at risk. The whole system needs root and branch reform. And the result will be a revolution in the general public’s health. It will also massively reduce Big Pharma’s profits.
I appreciate this for my own health. My cholesterol is borderline high and my (kind, young) doctor has been talking about statins. I actually have felt guilty for saying no, but my mother had a bad reaction to a statin medication and I am wary of it. My doctor is probably not getting money from big Pharma, but has been persuaded by experts she believes in. What a tangled approach to health care!
It’s also amazing how many doctors drink each other’s kool-aid. Rather than admitting to themselves they are venal shills that produce corrupt research, many (most?) choose to believe each other’s propaganda… apparently many of them actually thought (and still think) it was a good idea to take the covid jabs multiple times!!!
Thank you Jason
Doctors rely on funding from big pharma, often publishing articles that favor these. They may manipulate experiments and hide their interests behind so-called peer reviews. The entire medical system appears suspect of being compromised, collectively pretending to be neutral.
Great article, but “FEWER deaths”, not “LESS deaths”. Also the link to the cholesterol hypothesis appears to be dead. I was keen to see that
Say if no doctors were on the take for administering vaccines, we should be all good with the vaccines?