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Last Update: Saturday, December 08, 2001 12:57 PM (Eastern Standard Time)

Alternative Medicine & Health Freedom Related Legal Cases

Editorial Comment and Opinion by Carlos F. Negrete

This web site contains several cases that are being litigated in different parts of the country relating to health freedom issues and alternative medicine. Several of the cases reported on this site involve Dr. Hulda Clark and Century Nutrition. However, there are other cases reported that concern lawsuits filed by Dr. Stephen Barrett and other opponents of alternative medicine.

Dr. Clark has taken a leading role in the crusade against those who want to challenge an individual's right to make well-reasoned intelligent choices as to whether he/she elects alternative medicine versus traditional medicine as a therapy for their wellness or ailments. It is our opinion that each individual has the fundamental right to elect the nutrients and therapies that they have determined best meets their own personal research, investigation, beliefs, philosophies, metabolism, religious concerns and well-being.

The cases reported in this web site involve several disputes between advocates of differing viewpoints on the traditions of alternative medicine and health choice. You are invited to review the information and documents contained in this site and make you own determinations and conclusions.

It is the phenomenal growth of alternative therapies that has energized a spirited discussion of the efficacy of alternative medicine. Unfortunately, there are those traditional medicine advocates that believe that they "know better" and would like to block the growing popularity of natural healing methods. They seem to want to ridicule alternative medicine and stop the free flow of information spreading through the internet. These heresyphobics engage in constant tactics to discredit what they do not understand with the same reckless abandonment of a drive-by shooter. One can only speculate as to their true motives and ask: What are they afraid of? Is it that perhaps alternative medicine works and people ARE really being cured?

Quite frankly, if they don't like the natural products that we decide to incorporate in our health regimen, then just leave us alone. They can keep popping Prozac to alleviate their patronizing anguish over us and turn to radiation when their bodies succumb to cancer. Cancers that were caused by the toxins that they deny even exist.

These self-appointed "medical experts" fail to recognize that natural healing, and the methods used by alternative treatment advocates, has a longer and more established history than does mainstream allopathic medicine.

I am reminded of an HMO case that went to trial several years ago. In that case, one of the directors of the HMO testified that he followed the "golden rule" when it came to which treatments the HMO would accept and pay for. When asked what the "golden rule" meant, he testified that "he who owns the gold RULES." Yes, the opponents of alternative medicine are better funded and equipped to challenge the health freedom movement. Fortunately, they may have the bucks, but our numbers are growing. At some point, the big lie will get out and then people will start realizing who is killing whom.

We, on the other hand, are committed to allowing the public to receive all of the information available in order to allow them to decide for themselves what is best for their bodies.

If the battle for health freedom must be fought in a court of law, then so be it. The alternative therapy community is ready to stand by its knowledge and established modalities against narrow-minded medical militants.

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