Action Web Form: http://tinyurl.com/AmishConscienceBy now you have probably heard about Sarah Hershberger, the 10 year old Amish girl whose parents escaped from the United States to keep Akron Children’s Hospital from administering more than two dozen experimental chemotherapy treatments to her ALTHOUGH SHE IS CANCER FREE according to several medical evaluations outside the US.
Most people are focusing on the injustice of the story, as well they might! But the story goes deeper, much deeper and, as usual, the unique perspective which the Natural Solutions Foundation brings to the issue sheds new, and vitally important light on the story. Foundation Counsel Ralph Fucetola JD has been asked by several Amish groups to protect their access to the traditional and advanced health care that is consistent with their beliefs. So we have inside information and our own perspective.
Here’s what you are not hearing!
Sarah’s parents voluntarily took her to Akron Children’s Hospital for conventional, allopathic treatment of her leukemia in spite of the fact that, as members of an Amish community, that is not the usual way illnesses are handled. They were working with an natural practitioner but apparently became concerned when natural means were not working fast enough.
They were advised that she would need 26 chemotherapy treatments. This in itself makes my ears prick up. Not 25? Not 27? Exactly 26 chemotherpay sessions? Not enough sessions to put cancer in remission? Nor enough chemotherapy to reach the point that Sarah could no longer tolerate it even if the cancer was not in remission?
Mind you, I do not recommend chemotherapy at all, but that is not the point. As a physician, I find it downright weird that the child was slated for such a precise and unyielding protocol. Unless…
Unless the protocol were set not by the needs of the child and her clinical situation, but by another party. Say, a drug company paying for a clinical trial of an experimental drug and/or protocol which required conformity and uniformity for statistical purposes. Unless the Hershberers were not told that their daughter was being enrolled in a drug trial. Unless Akron Children’s Hospital was looking out for their pay check, not their patient.
And, indeed, that is precisely what happened.
Although Mr. and Mrs. Hershberger are, understandably, reluctant to speak to the press, through the good offices of Counsel Ralph, we were able to find out the real story here.
And it is nothing short of despicable.
Akron Children’s hospital apparently stands to lose One Million Dollars because Sarah’s parents allowed her to go through a brief stint of chemotherapy and then decided that Sarah needed natural treatment, not chemotherapy.
They took her out of the treatment and out of the hospital.
The hospital says that the parents do not understand that “without the life-saving chemotherapy” [sic], Sarah will die.
It is hard to know exactly how they can say that, however, since it turns out that the drugs that they appear certain Sarah will die without ARE EXPERIMENTAL AND THEREFORE NO ONE CAN SAY WHAT THEIR EFFECT WILL BE.
You see, the hospital failed to inform Sarah’s parents that, against the law, they had enrolled her in a clinical trial for an experimental drug [wait – this gets a lot worse!] for which they were to be paid One Million Dollars IF THE PATIENT RECEIVED ALL 26 TREATMENTS.
Side note: The Helsinki Declaration is clear on this: “3. The Declaration of Geneva of the WMA binds the physician with the words, “The health of my patient will be my first consideration,” and the International Code of Medical Ethics declares that, “A physician shall act in the patient’s best interest when providing medical care.”” – http://www.wma.net/en/30publications/10policies/b3/
Still worse to come, I am afraid.
This case is precisely reminiscent of the tragedy of Helenor Bye. Read about her and see the exclusive video here, http://drrimatruthreports.com/helenor-bye-murdered-by-the-national-health-service/, in which Helenor, a 12 year old school girl, was misdiagnosed with epilepsy and secretly enrolled in a drug trial for the dangerous drug Epilin. When her parents tried to stop the drug, they were told that the State would remove the child.
Eventually, Helenor was, quite literally, killed and her body mutilated to remove all organs which could have documented that she was killed through the protocols of the secret drug trial.
Sarah’s parents got her out of the hospital and off the chemotherapy. The hospital, which did not disclose that Sarah was now part of an unauthorized experiment, sued the parents to gain medical guardianship of the child. They lost.
They appealed. They lost. Akron Children’s hospital arranged for the case to be moved from one Court District to another where they won their bid for guardianship of Sarah to compel her to keep her date with destiny and receive deadly chemotherapy for a disease which she no longer has.
Here is what the international medical norms of the Helsinki Declaration have to say about the Hospital’s retaliation against the Hershbergers: “26 …The potential subject must be informed of the right to refuse to participate in the study or to withdraw consent to participate at any time without reprisal.”
Wait! There’s more!
Secret experimentation on a child with a potentially deadly drug that she no longer has any reason to take leads to a nurse attorney, Maria Schimer, being appointed legal guardian. The legal guardian continues to seek the family’s whereabouts in order to compel both drugs to be given.
Both? Yes, both. Turns out that Akron Children’s Hospital thought they could double a “good deal” and, again secretly, they enrolled Sarah in a second secret drug trial.
Well, not quite secret.
You see, they gave the 10 year old patient a paper to sign in her parents’ absence in which SARAH SIGNS HERSELF INTO A SECOND DRUG TRIAL!
Obscene. Insane. Shameless. Bizarre. Unthinkable. Arrogant. Murderous.
Those are some of the words going through my head as I struggle to find the right word to express my horror and outrage that such a thing could happen not in the medical block at Auschwitz, but in the United States.
Another clinical trial, another juicy fee, another secret, another violation.
Did Counsel/Nurse Schimer tell the Hershberger’s about her involvement in the double experiment?
The Helsinki Declaration tells us: “26. each potential subject must be adequately informed of the aims, methods, sources of funding, any possible conflicts of interest, institutional affiliations of the researcher, the anticipated benefits and potential risks of the study and the discomfort it may entail…”
Here’s my problem, though. You see, when you watch the video with her parents, Derek and Joan, about how Helenor Bye lost her life to the greed and heartlessness, to say nothing of murderous disregard of human life and well being 35 years ago in Wales, you think, well, that was a long time ago and things like that cannot happen anymore.
And you realize that Helenor was by no means the only child slaughtered.
Then along comes the Hersberger family and you realize that it IS happening here and to… how many children and adults?
No more.
I would like you to take these actions right now.
First, click on this web form link, http://tinyurl.com/AmishConscience, and easily tell your decision makers that Sarah Hershberger must be the last person in the US experimented upon in secret.
Never again. For any reason.
Second, share the Actionable Information link, http://tinyurl.com/AmishConscience, with anyone you can reach. This touches us all in a life and death manner. We all need to stand with this Amish family if any of our families are to be safe.
Third, send a donation to Sarah’s family to keep the farm going, feed and clothe the other Hershberger family members while their parents and sister are in hiding outside the country that wants to destroy Sarah’s constitutional rights. Here’s the independent funding link: http://www.gofundme.com/sarahs-fund.
Fourth, make another donation, this time to the Natural Solutions Foundation, so that we can continue to bring you up to the minute health Freedom information and create the steps you can take to change public policy and prevent similar atrocities from happening to you and to your loved ones: www.DrRimaTruthReports.com/action/donate.
Fifth, if you are a health care giver, join us in taking the Health Keepers Oath that we will never allow ourselves to be used by public health care institutions to abuse any person to whom we offer health care services: www.HealthKeepersOath.org. Health Keepers must take responsibilty for medical ethics since, clearly, institutions like Akron Hospital refuse to do so.
Please use FB and every other social media you have, plus your own email, to spread this story far and wide.
The secret clinical experiments you thwart could be the one into which you or your child were about to be secretly enrolled.
Yours in heath and freedom,
Dr. Rima

Offit’s latest interview with Medscape’s Eric Topel, MD, makes the answer completely clear. Discussing ‘Do You Believe In Magic.’ Offit’s latest book, which is explicitly anti-supplement, Topel and Offit openly criticize natural remedies with such absurdities as fish oil has since ‘been found to cause cancer’ and that fish oil, vitamins, minerals and other supplements would come with a “black box warning” if they were regulated (as drugs). [1]
Drs. Offit and Topel both conveniently ‘forget’ that natural medicine has been used successfully for hundreds of thousands of years and has benefited millions of users without side effects, worldwide. Equally conveniently, they ‘forget’ that according to the Journal of the American Medical Association and other mainstream journals, properly used pharmaceutical medicines are among the leading cause of death in the US and UK. [2] (Emphasis added)

The American Medical Journal states:
“According to information we have received, a statistical study of hospital deaths in the U.S. conducted at the University of Toronto revealed that pharmaceutical drugs kill more people every year than are killed in traffic accidents.” [3]
Likewise, a study published in 2004 in the British Medical Journal by Munir Pirmohamed, professor of clinical pharmacology and his team, concluded that:
“The burden of ADRs (adverse drug reactions) on the NHS is high, accounting for considerable morbidity, mortality, and extra costs. Although many of the implicated drugs have proved benefit, measures need to be put into place to reduce the burden of ADRs and thereby further improve the benefit:harm ratio of the drugs.” [4]
Nutrients, supplements and herbs, on the other hand, kill virtually no one, year in and year out. [5] But the entire science of clinical nutrition, and biochemistry, its parent science, makes it clear that while drugs may mimic the information and compounds present in nutrients, they do so poorly and toxically at best. Frequently, they act as anti-nutrients, blocking the vital functions of nutrients in the body leading to side effects and toxicities which are often treated not with nutrients, but more drugs, compounding the problem. See Bill Sardi ‘Who’s Hiding the Bodies? Vitamin Makers or Big Pharma’ [6]
The two doctors appear to have ‘forgotten’ that the consistently nutrition-hostile FDA in the US, the TGA in Australia and other similar agencies in other countries DO regulate nutrients and supplements and any suspected toxicity or infringement of regulatory requirements is selectively enforced against nutrients in a way that pharmaceuticals and vaccines never have.
Fish oil is the natural oil found in the tissues of oily cold-water fish such as salmon, mackerel and sardines, fish that we have been encouraged to eat for many years as they are said to boost concentration, brain development and prevent heart disease.
However, when asked by Topel whether or not he would revise his book due to recent studies showing that fish oil didn’t do anything for preventing heart disease, Offit replied:
“Dr. Offit: Absolutely. Harper Collins is the publisher; it is a big publisher. This book was written a year and a half ago, so it takes a while to get those books out. I absolutely would revise it, and there were some recent studies that showed that at least the antioxidant part of omega-3 fatty acids actually could increase your risk for such things as cancer, so I absolutely would revise it. That is the problem with books – they are written at a specific point in time.” (Emphasis added)
If Offit is correct and fish oil can really lead to the risk of cancer, then why do we not see cancer rates spiralling out of control in countries such as Italy and Japan, where these foods have been part of their staple diet for thousands of years?
I am guessing that Dr. Offit is referring to, although it is not specified, the 2012 study by researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre entitled ‘Plasma Phospholipid Fatty Acids and Prostate Cancer Risk in the SELECT Trial’ . In it, Theodore M. Brasky and his team studied whether there was a higher rate of prostrate cancer among men who took fish oil supplements or omega-3 fatty acids, such as those found in fatty fish like sardines and salmon. [7]
The researchers did find a relationship, however, according to Mark Hyman MD who researched this study in depth, their results showed a correlation, not a causation.
Dr. Hyman said:
“This study used what is called a retrospective case controlled cohort design. Simply put, to make their conclusions, researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center used data from a previous study conducted in 2011 called the SELECT (Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial). It’s important to note that the original SELECT study did not have the same objective as this current one. It wasn’t designed to determine whether fish oil led to prostate cancer. The fact that both studies didn’t have the same goal calls into question whether the old data is even relevant to the new study.
What we can be sure of is that association does not prove cause and effect. If this had been an intervention design study, where half the participants got fish oil and half didn’t and they were followed for 20 years to see if they got prostate cancer, then you can say pretty definitively that they are connected. Bottom line, this type of study does not prove cause and effect. If I did a study on sunrise and humans waking up, I would find 100% correlation, but that doesn’t mean that the sun came up because you woke up. Correlation, yes; causation, no.” [8]
We all know that a correlation is not causation and never will be. Closer inspection showed that the Brasky study is methodologically unsound and dismally lacking in factual content. For example the fish that these men consumed may have been contaminated with mercury or toxic waste. It is generally accepted that mercury is a devastating systemic poison: “exposure to high levels can damage your brain, heart, kidneys, lungs, and immune system.” ‘MedicineNet’ [9]
If the fish had of been contaminated, it may have been the contamination exposure that caused these men to develop from prostate cancer rather than the fish oil itself.
According to the ‘Alliance for Natural Health,’ who also reported on the study, assumptions were made that were not accounted for and this may have led to what they call ‘the misleading conclusions.’ [10]
I, too, found the study to be seriously flawed: the researchers had ‘forgotten’ (or worse) to look at crucial variables, such as the subjects’ ages, smoking status, alcohol consumption, environmental exposure to known prostate carcinogens, genetic history and general health.
Do You Believe in Magic? Dr. Offit Does, Saying (sic) “Large Doses Of Vitamins Can Lead To Heart Disease And Death”
Referring to the section of Offit’s book called ‘What’s Really in the Bottle,’ discussing the vitamin industry, Topel asks:
“I didn’t know the background about how unregulated the industry is until I got into your book. I found it fascinating that this cartel of vitamin supplement companies came together in Santa Barbara and put out this big campaign with Mel Gibson [featured in commercials]. That was amazing to me.
Can you comment about the politics and the background that has prevented the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from having their rightful oversight of this humongous area of health and medicine?”
Offit replies:
“People have this sort of false notion that there is big pharma on one side and then on this other side, there are just a group of people who want to make natural products, and that they are being made by elves and old hippies on mountainsides”
Given that the nutrient industry is, in fact, heavily regulated, Dr. Offit reveals in this astonishing statement that he really, does believe in magic – the kind of magic where just by naming something, in this case a supposed ‘lack of regulation for nutrients’, automatically makes it real. I believe that in psychiatry they call this type of magical thinking, psychosis.
What is it called in science? Perhaps ‘self interest’ or ‘conflict of interest’ or even ‘deeply unethical and corrupt distortion’, given the fact that Dr. Offit makes many millions of dollars annually from his support of, participation in, and regulation of, the industry to which the supplement industry is the single largest economic competitor. [11]
In the above-referenced quote, is Dr. Offit saying that the general public are all incredibly stupid and that none of us is sufficiently educated to know that big pharma has their fingers in all sorts of pies, including making money manufacturing and peddling multivitamins which are generally adulterated, GMO derived and nutritionally worthless? [12]
Or is he suggesting that the general public is led by the continuing ‘poison press’ that declaims constantly, using incredibly poor science, against the use of nutrients to replace pharmaceuticals? [13]
Offit continues:
“That is not the way that it works, and not surprisingly, when you have a big industry, which at least up until the early 1970s was unregulated, initially the interest by the FDA was to regulate the megavitamin industry — because they felt that there was no clear evidence that giving vitamins at 150% or more of the recommended daily allowance was of value, and they worried that it would be harmful. At the time, there weren’t data to show that it was harmful. Now there are. Now there are more than 20 studies to show that if you take large quantities of vitamin A or vitamin E or beta-carotene, which is a vitamin A precursor, you actually increase your risk for cancer and increase your risk for heart disease.”
After listening to his interview with Dr. Topel, Rima E. Laibow MD of Natural Solutions Foundation had this to say:
“What Dr. Offit leaves out (forgets?) is that these studies are invariably conducted with poor quality, substandard, often GMO-derived, poorly available and, in some cases toxic synthetic variants of the nutrients which have already been shown to be toxic. They are often given at the wrong doses and, as in the case of Vitamin E, given as a single molecule (alpha tocopherol) which is known to be toxic unless given as a mixed species (mixed tocopherol) making it very suspicious indeed that the outcome desired was, in fact, a demonstration of toxicity which was achieved by rigging the study.
Further the statement is riddled with inaccuracies. There are, quite literally, thousands of studies showing that nutrient dense diets and supplementation prevent and reverse cancer and heart disease. Offit continues to imply that regulation of nutrients is absent while regulation of drugs is active and this somehow renders drugs safe and nutrients dangerous.
The truth is quite clear: drugs are major killers. Nutrients are not. BUT contaminated, impure, low quality supplements are, as Dr. Offit says, dangerous. So are contaminated, impure, low quality food and ALL pharmaceuticals, including the vaccines that Dr. Offit so loves, as a testament to his commitment to, and belief in, magical. Part of his magic system is apparently the magic of very big numbers: ‘Give me $48 million dollars per year and I will magically believe that your drug or vaccine is good for people!’”
Dr. Offit repeatedly makes his belief in magic clear, by stating just how safe and efficient prescription drugs are in comparison to the massive dangers he says are hidden in the vitamin bottle. Although, as usual, he presents only sweeping generalizations rather than checkable facts (a hallmark of magic as opposed to science), I am guessing that he is referring to the studies he referenced in his June, 2013, article for the New York Times entitled ‘Don’t Take Your Vitamins’ where he says:
“Nutrition experts argue that people need only the recommended daily allowance — the amount of vitamins found in a routine diet. Vitamin manufacturers argue that a regular diet doesn’t contain enough vitamins, and that more is better. Most people assume that, at the very least, excess vitamins can’t do any harm. It turns out, however, that scientists have known for years that large quantities of supplemental vitamins can be quite harmful indeed.
In my experience, nutrition experts definitely do NOT agree that the recommended daily allowance will promote health. Pharmaceutical shills posing as nutrition experts agree on that. Their absurd, anti-scientific position has nothing to do with biochemical individuality, disease prevention or health promotion but does have everything to do with drug sales!”
Offit continues by quoting a 1994 study in ‘The New England Medical Journal’ where 29,000 Finnish men, all smokers, were given one of the following: vitamin E, beta carotene, or a placebo. The study found that those who had taken beta-carotene for five to eight years were more likely to die from lung cancer or heart disease.
However, on reading the study further, I found that the researchers had excluded references to the following information: how long the men had been smoking, how ill they were before the study took place, how many cigarettes they smoked per day and how many other diseases that they may have had before participating in the study. [14]
This study is deeply flawed and has been widely repudiated for its lack of scientific credibility. [15]
According to Offit, the same journal published another paper two years later in which 18,000 people at an increased risk from lung cancer due to their exposure to either asbestos or smoking, received a combination of vitamin A and beta carotene, or a placebo. Offit explains that the investigators stopped the study when they found that the risk of death from lung cancer for those who took the vitamins was 46 percent higher.
In the computer world, the useful concept of Garbage In, Garbage Out is widely known by its abbreviation, ‘GIGO’. The studies used by Dr. Paul Offit to support his position are what I would refer to as ‘GIGO Studies’.
Scientists and the medical profession often use GIGO Studies to demonstrate how dangerous a natural product is. These studies are heavily weighted in favor of those funding the study to give the appearance that a product is safe and effective when in reality it is dangerous.
Eli Lilly, the creator of thimerosal, demonstrated this in the original thimerosal studies in 1930. (Thimerosal is a supposed “preservative” used in vaccines: it is approximately 50% ethyl mercury by weight.) To prove that thimersol was safe to use in vaccinations, Eli Lilly ‘tested’ it on twenty-two terminally ill, meningitis patients. When they all died within weeks of being injected, researchers reported thimerosal as safe since they claimed that the patients had died from meningitis and that they would have died anyway! The FDA accepted this GIGO Study and classified thimerosal as a GRAS or Generally Regarded As Safe substance requiring no further investigation. [16]
How can we trust what we are told when worthless studies like this are regularly taking place and highly enmeshed and financially conflicted ‘experts’ like Paul Offit frequently cite them as evidence for their position?

In an article titled ‘Who’s Hiding The Dead Bodies? The Vitamin Makers or Big Pharma?’ author Bill Sardi asks why it is that ‘The New York Times’ has seen fit to give Dr Paul Offit unopposed space in their opinion pages when in his opinion Offit cannot even accurately interpret a scientific report? I second Mr. Sardi’s question: Why indeed? [17]
Sardi states that there has not been a single death attributed to vitamin or mineral supplements in the past few years and compares this to the number of patients that have died after being prescribed prescription drugs in hospital. He writes:
“According to authoritative reports, properly–used prescription drugs, administered by nurses in a hospital (not overdosed), kill about 107,000 Americans a year.” [Own emphasis added]
However, despite the mounting and irrefutable evidence that it is not vitamins that are dangerous but prescription drugs, Offit continues to insist that vitamins should be taken off the market and wants the consumer to conclude that vitamins are harmful.
I would counter by suggesting that the consumer asks why it is that approximately 50% of fully approved prescription drugs are quietly pulled from the market within five years of being introduced because of their toxicity and why they were permitted to enter the market in the first place when there are so many safe and effective alternatives to be found among vitamins and minerals!
On 7th October 2013, Jon Rappaport gave two excellent quotes from a study by the ‘Dr. Rath Health Foundation’. Rappaport wrote that he found the link to the study in the middle of an interesting article by Dr. Aleksandra Niedzwiecki entitled ‘Commentary on the Safety of Vitamins’ stating that:
“In 2010, not one single person [in the US] died as a result of taking vitamins (Bronstein, et al, (2011) Clinical Toxical, 49 (10), 910-941).”
Rappaport continued by adding that:
“In 2004, the deaths of 3 people [in the US] were attributed to the intake of vitamins. Of these, 2 persons were said to have died as a result of mega doses of vitamins D and E, and one person as a result of an overdose of iron and fluoride. Data from: ‘Toxic Exposure Surveillance System 2004, Annual Report, Am. Assoc. of Poison Control Centers.”’ [Fluoride is a known toxin, not a nutritional mineral and should NEVER be consumed for any purpose – Dr. Laibow]
Comparing that to the 2.2 million US hospitalized patients who suffer from serious adverse reaction to properly prescribed prescription drugs every year in the US, Rappaport added that the FDA and it’s quack buster allies (would that include Offit?) go after vitamins, demean what they call ‘unproven remedies’ (‘forgetting’ about the widespread use of off-label prescribing by doctors which is so strongly encouraged by the drug companies that make the dangerous prescription drugs), and generally taking every possible opportunity to ‘warn’ people against natural options, which they demean by calling ‘alternatives’ on the basis that they aren’t scientifically supported.
Rappaport states that:
“Meanwhile, the very drugs these mobsters are promoting—and in the case of the FDA, CERTIFYING AS SAFE AND EFFECTIVE—are killing and maiming people at a staggering rate.” [18]
Put like that, it does make Dr Offit’s evidence look rather pathetic, doesn’t it?
Offit Compares Vitamins to the Dangerous Temporarily Banned Drug, Vioxx
Towards the end of the interview in response to a question asked by Dr. Topel, Offit compared the lack of regulation of vitamins to the dangerous and fully regulated drug Vioxx , which was briefly taken off the market after it caused tens of thousands of deaths in 2005 (although it was returned to the market soon after and is now approved for use in children, as well) [19]
“Dr. Topol: But Paul, what I don’t understand is that you have got large randomized
trials published in the highest-impact, most highly regarded journals that take down,
like you said, vitamin E, beta-carotene, and vitamin A for various things — and yet no
information goes to the public. There is no oversight. How is this going to get fixed?”
Dr. Offit replies but stating:
“You know this better than anybody. I mean, when Vioxx (rofecoxib) was eventually clearly shown to increase one’s risk for heart attacks, you knew it. The FDA regulated Vioxx. They put out media releases, and ultimately that product was taken off the market.”
In the five long years that it took the FDA to finally remove this exceptionally dangerous, regulated, fully unrestricted and approved drug from the open market, it had killed at least a massive 60,000 people in the US alone. Merck, the manufacturer, received little more than a slap on wrist with fines amounting to a mere $321 million in exchange for a guilty plea to a misdemeanour. This is despite the fact that Merck had lied all the way to the bank, even hiring ghostwriters to write their research studies for them. [20]
Maybe Dr. Offit is just protecting his financial assets when he fights so hard to protect the pharmaceutical industry. After all, he does have massive conflicts of interest and can therefore hardly be thought of as impartial, now can he?
These are just a few of these conflicts:
1. He is the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), which recently became the first hospital in the world to ban the use of ANY nutrients for its patients!
2. He is a consultant to Merck the manufacturer of Rotateq®, a vaccine for rotavirus, for which he is a patent holder and which he developed with Merck.
Despite that (or because of it?) he voted for Rotateq®’s approval as a member of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), voting himself vast profits as a consequence. The fact that Rotateq® is well known to be an especially dangerous vaccine, associated with increased incidence of meningitis, life-threatening bowel problems and serious pneumonia was, apparently, not a reason for him to vote against the approval of his own vaccine. Nor was the serious conflict of interest enough for him to excuse himself from the panel. Making this into ethical behaviour is, I would say, a good example of very magical thinking, wouldn’t you?
3. He is the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) where, presumably, he recommends the use of vaccines and, apparently, moves against the use of nutrients, a magical disregard of both biochemistry and physiology.
CHOP has become the first hospital in the world to forbid the use of nutrients to its patients indicating that they, too, have been infected with Dr. Offit’s particular brand of magic belief: drugs are safe, nutrients are not, drugs are necessary for life, nutrients are not.
4. He sits on the advisory boards of Every Child By Two and PKIDS, the Immunization Action Coalition. His vaccine interests are supported handsomely by his membership on these boards, of course. [21] [22] [23]
Dr. Offit manages to promulgate his views and promote his products at every turn. After all, healthy people do not buy drugs and healthy immune systems do not succumb to infectious and other diseases. Is it any wonder he slams natural remedies in favour of vaccines and prescription drugs? It is surely the height of magical thinking to believe that personal power and gain do not perpetuate themselves and that the actions of a vaccine patent-holding, true believer would not be tainted against those things that make his drug of choice unnecessary.
Offit also believes in the magic of incantation: say something and it becomes real, right in front of our eyes. He often repeats claim that vaccines are safe, so safe in fact that a baby could accept 10,000 vaccines without ill effect. This of course is the purest waving of wands (well, syringes, in this case) and mumbo jumbo. [24]
The numbers do not lie: more vaccines = more diseases of childhood and the whole life-span (shortened though it may be). More nutrients = fewer diseases of childhood and a lengthened life span. [25]
However, financially rewarded ‘experts’ lie when they have no moral compass and a huge conflict of interest and this I believe, describes the magical Dr. Offit perfectly.
It is a well-documented fact that Offit condemns vitamins and natural remedies at every opportunity, despite the reality of huge numbers of adverse events and deaths from prescription drugs which so far outweigh the deaths caused by vitamins in such a way that no statistically meaningful comparison is possible. (Any number divided by zero is, after all, a meaningless number.)
Not only is Offit heavily tied into the pharmaceutical industry and therefore has massive conflicts of interest, the studies that he uses to back up his claims are so deeply flawed that they cannot be used as reliable evidence (‘GIGO Studies’).
Incantations in magic frequently rhyme. Here is a little voodoo spell to weave around yourself the next time you might be tempted to pay serious attention to the nonsense and pseudoscience of Dr. Paul Offit and his enchanted buddies:
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia1. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/811569
2. www.second-opinions.co.uk/deathbymedicine.pdf
3. http://www.cancure.org/medical_errors.htm
4. http://www.bmj.com/content/329/7456/15#aff-1
5. http://www.doctoryourself.com/vitsafety.html
6. http://knowledgeofhealth.com/whos-hiding-dead-bodies-vitamin-makers-or-big-pharma/
7. http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/07/09/jnci.djt174.abstract?sid=d0dbb355-235e-4c61-abdc-e9bf2fe09de7
8. http://drhyman.com/blog/2013/07/26/can-fish-oil-cause-prostate-cancer/
9. http://www.medicinenet.com/mercury_poisoning/article.htm
10. http://www.anh-usa.org/flawed-study-fish-oil-cancer/
11. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-500690_162-4296175.html
12. http://naturalsociety.com/why-many-vitamin-studies-are-absolutely-worthless/
13. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2232022/Fish-oil-pills-Youre-wasting-money-says-nutrition-expert.html
14. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/dont-take-your-vitamins.html?_r=0
15. http://www.healthy.net/scr/article.aspx?Id=545
16. http://generationmercury.org/pages/background/mercury_story.html
17. http://knowledgeofhealth.com/whos-hiding-dead-bodies-vitamin-makers-or-big-pharma/
18. http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2013/10/07/shock-comparing-deaths-from-medical-drugs-vitamins-and-all-us-wars/
19. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/fda-panel-says-vioxx-can-go-back-to-market
20. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/05/14/mercks-adhd-drugs-unsafe.aspx
21. http://www.greatergoodmovie.org/news-views/do-you-believe-in-magic-no-but-we-believe-in-facts/
22. http://newswithviews.com/Tenpenny/sherri19.htm
23. http://www.anh-usa.org/chop-policy-forbidding-nutritional-supplements/
24. http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/05/paul-offits-10000-vaccines-and-the-milgram-experiment.html
25. http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Food_variety_and_a_healthy_diet
http://tinyurl.com/PushBackHereGovernments are ALWAYS spying on us. EVERY email and EVERY phone call is logged and recorded. The US has built vast new data centers and they literally log everything. They know where you are, what you are saying and what you are writing ALL the time.
So using the social media means that you are using the computer and using the computer means that you are located and logged. It has little to do with Facebook or Twitter or whichever crony corporation is “cooperating” with the snoops. Being spied upon is a reality of using a computer on the Internet.
If you are an activist, I do not see how you can have it both ways: there is no way to use the computer, publish pieces, do radio shows over the phone or over the computer and be anonymous.
Haven’t we wanted the government to pay attention to what we have to say? What better than having the spooks write reports on what we have to say and pass them up the chain of command?
In fact, there is even no such thing as using the phone and being aonymous any longer. Our 4th Amendment Privacy Rights seem to have disintegrated: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…“
I do not like it one bit more than any of you do, but if you are online and on the phone, you are marked.
So the question each of us has to decide for ourselves is whether it is worth while being squelched and silenced by our not unreasonable fear of the globalists and their minions or whether we wish to “Speak Truth to Power” to make change and bring rights to wrongs that we find intolerable.
That is my choice and, so far, that has been the choice of the Health and Food Freedom movement.
I do not see how, given the reality of the information patterns of the world in which we live, we can make change without using the social media. I know, from powerful examples such as our efforts in 2009 to stop the Swine Flu Vax, and our efforts this year to stop UPOV ’91 in Chile, that Social Media PUSH BACK works!
See: http://drrimatruthreports.com/aboutus/accomplishments/
Government intrusion is part of the world in which we live.
People are seeking ways to post online anonymously. It’s not easy to do so and your views are devalued if you won’t stand behind them in your own name, as an independent individual.
But what is the difference between anonymous posting and posting with another name? Your friends and neighbors may not recognize the other name as you but you can be assured that NSA and the UK, EU, Chinese (whatever) equivalent certainly will!
So speak out for Health and Food Freedom! If you don’t, who will?
Let the government know that you want your freedom respected!

Did the CIMSS Satellite Blog, http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/14140, from the prestigious University of Wisconson tamper with its data?

Watch this animation and note the odd “jump” as the Typhoon, which dumped 33 inches of rain in just a few hours, passes the stricken nuclear plants.
If so, the only reason I can think of would have been to soften the blow dealt to Fukushima by a little animation slight of hand. TEPCO admits it released “rain water” from the storage tanks on the site. What it doesn’t say is that those tanks hold radioactive water.
I find it curious that reports of the devastation caused by the Typhoon at Fukushima are bland, brief, balsamic and banal.
Details are in short supply.
Is that because TEPCO and the Japanese government have not changed their deceptive tricks, storm or no storm?
IC SAFER, the International Commission to Study and Finalize Environmental Remediation, is essential precisely because no one is answering these, or worse by far, any of the other questions about what can really be done to safeguard the world from nuclear devastation starting with Fukushima and, worse yet, no one is doing it.
We, the Natural Solutions Foundation, Ambassador Murata and Professor Chris Busby, are doing something about it.
We are seeking significant funding to discover and develop the new technologies that are needed now to solve the crisis. But first we need your assistance to secure the smaller funding needed to hire staff, do preliminary studies, etc., to implement IC SAFER and make the planet safer for you and your children.
Click here, http://drrimatruthreports.com/action/donate/, to make the world SAFER. I want to personally thank our supporter C.A.M. from Pennsylvania for her $250 donation. Every bit helps!
Here is our original call for the establishment of IC SAFER:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/fixing-fukushima-with-natural-solutions-lets-go/
And here is my initial report on the dangers of Fukushima weather:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/general-bert-warning-fukushima-weather/
Yours in health and freedom,
Gen. Bert
PS – Here are two news stories that amplify my concerns:
“TEPCO, which has been struggling to deal with a series of leaks at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, said workers at the plant were “on vigil” and accumulated rainwater had been released from storage tanks.”
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/16/world/asia/japan-typhoon-deaths/
33 Inches of Rain from Typhoon Wipha; New Storm Brewing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/10/16/japans-shocking-deadly-deluge-from-typhoon-wipha-33-inches-of-rain-in-24-hours/

“AFP: Powerful Typhoon Wipha heads for Fukushima, TEPCO bracing for ‘inflows of water’ — Experts: Huge flood potential for area around plant — Forecast to grow and strengthen, up to 40-foot waves off Japan coast”*
Please note: Preliminary analysis indicates that weather information based on satellite feeds of Typhoon Wipha have been altered or modified to eliminate storm information at Fukushima. More on this here: http://drrimatruthreports.com/general-bert-analysis-hiding-fukushima-risks-in-plain-sight/

Memorandum from General Stubblebine
My career as a strategic analyst and my education as an engineer makes it clear that the facts are irrefutable and must be dealt with now or we die. All of us.
Those are strong words.
Here are the stark facts:
1. Fukushima Daiichi was built to fail. The Japanese Diet (Parliament) found conclusively that Fukushima’s failure was a combination of horrifyingly bad design and repeated, interlocking human error. But the sea wall was lower than the average tsunami wave, the back up generators were placed at sea level, the spent fuel pools were highly vulnerable to all kinds of disasters at 100 feet off the ground, the site is located over a massive aquifer and on and on and on.
2. Fukushima’s operator/owner, TEPCO, is incompetent and corrupt to the core, lying about the accident (if it was really an accident) from the first moments of the disaster, lying about the amount of radiation leaking, lying about the China Syndrome reality, hiring a decontamination company whose CEO ordered the dosimeter of workers to be covered with lead sheet to lower their readings, treating the workers with disregard and disdain, not housing or feeding them decently, insuring or providing them with proper preventive or after-exposure care.
3. The government of Japan has been in colossal collusion with TEPCO and the nuclear mafia, pressing forward to reopen nuclear plants after the shutdown caused by the Fukushima event, refusing to relocate people in Fukushima Prefecture whose lives were discarded by that act, lying to the citizens of Japan as if all were well when they were buying contaminated beef cheaply and feeding it to children all over Japan in their school lunches, trucking tsunami debri all over Japan and burning it in the open air, spreading the contamination as widely as possible, telling the Japanese people that if they smiled, radiation would not harm them, and allowing cataclysmic dumping of highly radioactive water into the largest body of water in the world, the Pacific, while denying the impact. At the same time, they have been insisting that Japan could handle the problem on its own and refusing to heed the pleas of Ambassador Murata as he begged for an international response.
4. The International community, including the United States and every other nuclear power, has turned its head away, refusing to either come forward to solve the problem, which requires a massive Anti-Manhattan Project to find the new technologies and develop the old ones which can solve the problem since there are no currently used technologies which can control, or remediate Fukushima.
So, unless we take Choice #1, allow things to go on as they are going now, until we are all damaged and dying thanks to the uncontrolled nuclear reactors at Fukushima (and how much longer before there are other uncontrolled reactors elsewhere, like the decades-long leaking Handord plant?).

There is only one option: we have to solve the problem.
If ever the Mission of the Natural Solutions Foundation, to discover, document, develop and disseminate natural solutions to the problems that beset us all were true, it is true for Fukushima.
And that is why I directed the Foundation Board of Trustees to create, in conjunction with, Ambassador Murata and Professor Chris Busby, IC SAFER, the International Commission to Study And Finalize Environmental Remediation.
My research shows clearly that there are currently unexploited mainstream technologies which have the potential of controlling and remediating Fukushima – forever. They can be applied to every other nuclear situation, including Chernobyl, whose sarcophagus is now breaking down.
I warned, a few weeks ago in our eBlast, about an “Extinction Level Event” from Fukushima. At that moment I was concerned about the dangerous radioactive ground water leakage; today I am concerned about the approaching Typhoon. Serious earthquakes continue to rattle the ruined structures. Destruction can come to Fukushima at any time, in many different ways. When? No one knows…
But we need to act now. Massive funding is necessary for the speedy and profound research needed to develop and generate safe, large scale applications of these technologies.
And smaller funding is, quite frankly, necessary right now to give us the preliminary staffing and resources necessary to save our lives, yours, mine, the planet’s.
By the way, there is no one else on the planet of whom I am aware thinking this way. And it is, to my mind, the only way to think.
I want you to click here, www.DrRimaTruthReports.com/donate, right now and give generously to create the resources, quickly, to allow us to carry out this special project.
How much should you give? You should give what you think saving your life and the life of people like you with families like yours would be worth.
You should make a tax deductible donation based on what that is worth. And you should make it a recurring donation so that we can move forward in setting up IC SAFER as an independent, international body that can bring old, new and leading edge technology to bear at Fukushima to do what every expert currently says is impossible: control and remediate Fukushima.
Here’s is that link again, www.DrRimaTruthReports.com/donate. Send this letter to your friends, colleagues, relatives and neighbors. They are as threatened by the massive radiation about to be made much worse by the “Typhoon of the Century” heading for Fukushima now as much as you are – a great, great deal.
So join me in being the solution we all need, instead of the victims of Fukushima, we all are currently. Action Item: http://tinyurl.com/FukushimaHope
Yours in health and freedom,
Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III
UPDATE: Typhoon Slams Japan: Causes More Radioactive Water Release at Fukushima
“TEPCO, which has been struggling to deal with a series of leaks at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, said workers at the plant were “on vigil” and accumulated rainwater had been released from storage tanks.”
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/16/world/asia/japan-typhoon-deaths/
Further Update: 33 Inches of Rain from Typhoon Wipha; New Storm Brewing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/10/16/japans-shocking-deadly-deluge-from-typhoon-wipha-33-inches-of-rain-in-24-hours/

* http://enenews.com/afp-powerful-typhoon-heads-for-fukushima-huge-flood-potential-for-area-around-plant-forecasted-to-grow-and-strengthen-photo