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RFK, Jr's book The Real Anthony Fauci spends a couple of pages discussing "germ" theory and how we ended up with a "pill for every ill." He clearly agrees with this author that proper nutrition, sanitation, environmental factors are the key features of public health. He basically says "science" has been focussing on the wrong thing all along. I think more people are beginning to ask the same questions as this article and those posed in Kennedy's book.

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Jul 14, 2022Liked by Dr. Kevin Stillwagon

Thank you for the very insightful article. When Covid first hit I was terrified. My Integrative Medicine doctor told me that I come in contact with hundreds of bacteria and viruses everyday and depending on my body’s resistance any of them could make me sick. So he said turn off the news, go outside get plenty of sunshine, exercise and eat healthy and enjoy life. And if I did get sick to call him we would deal with it then.

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Jul 14, 2022Liked by Dr. Kevin Stillwagon

As a German I strictly object to us causing diseases.

Our politicians - some of them that is - following the US president or whoever has control of his teleprompter into his private war against Russia is bad enough, but that's it.

Otherwise concur to 100%

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I just finished RFK Jr's book and actually wrote a book review, which probably won't be published anywhere since the book itself is considered "toxic" to the authorized narrative. Here are two excerpts that give us some historical context and touch on the "germ" theory debate.

Eisenhower’s (Unheeded) Warning …

Mr. Kennedy’s book provides historical context of various events that produced a “New (scientific) Normal” presided over by Anthony Fauci.

In January1961 - three days before the author’s uncle was sworn in as president - President Dwight Eisenhower gave a famous “Farewell Address” where he warned Americans about the the emergence of a “Military Industrial Complex.”

“But Eisenhower made an equally urgent - although less celebrated - warning against the emergence of a federal (science) bureaucracy that could also pose an equally dire threat to America’s Constitution and values,” writes Kennedy.

President Eisenhower noted that “… In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by or at the direction of the Federal government. Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields …

“… Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded …. (We) must … be alert to the danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.”

Writes Kennedy: “Just as President Eisenhower warned, Dr. Fauci’s Covid-19 response has steadily deconstructed our democracy and elevated the powers of a tyrannical medical technocracy.”

Birth of Big Pharma traced Rockefeller

Kennedy traces seismic changes in public health to the creation in the early 20th Century of the Rockefeller Foundation, created by Standard Oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller. In today’s dollars, Rockefeller’s net worth would be half a trillion dollars. Of significance, “in the early 1900s … scientists discovered pharmaceutical uses for refinery by-products …. John D. saw an opportunity to capitalize on the family’s medical pedigree. (“The oil magnate’s father had been a marauding con artist who supported his family by posing as a doctor and hawking snake oil, opium elixirs, patent medicines and other miracle cures.”)

“… The Rockefeller Foundation’s 1910 Flexner Report recommended centralizing America’s medical schooling, abolishing miasma theory, and reorienting these institutions according to ‘germ theory’ - which held that germs alone caused disease … a pharmaceutical paradigm that emphasized targeting particular germs with specific drugs rather than fortifying the immune system through healthy living, clean water and nutrition.”

The expression “a pill for an ill” ultimately shaped how “”Americans came to view healthcare,” writes Kennedy. The Rockefeller Foundation served as a model for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, argues Kennedy ...

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Really fascinating data dump.

I'm going to shower now after having worked in the sunshine & dirt all morning. (Am covered in a whole new batch of germs looking for a dumpster.)

Will take my vitamins today and encourage my child not to forget to either.

You're quite a marvel sir. ❤ Glad I found your Substack.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

PS: The only medical professionals who've ever helped me, in both Canada and the US, since my early 20's (as well as have helped my child) have been Doctors of Chiropractic. 🇨🇦 🇺🇸

I avoid other doctors, as a rule.

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That Germans sic cause disease is an allopathic and pharmaceutical day dream that turns billion dollar profits from eugenics program into trillions while wiping out millions same time thnx to G8tes

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Thank you for sharing your thoughts! Fabulous article!

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Will it need to take another century for this to be the accepted understanding in medicine?

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Awesome explanation!

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