The Semmelweis Reflex questions whether medical 'science' is really as 'scientific' as it believes. has been described on this website as follows:
"Ignaz Semmelweis was a Hungarian obstetrician who disproved
the belief that post-operations deaths were caused by ‘poison air’ in a
hospital ward. The work done by Semmelweis all but removed puerperal
fever from the maternity units he worked in. His colleagues and
superiors derided his work while he was alive but antiseptic surgery
drastically reduced post-operation fatalities"
The success of Ignaz Semmelweis, in the 1840's, was rewarded by him being dismissed from his post, and never being able to attain another post within medicine. He died, in obscurity, when he was in his early 40's. The Semmelweis Reflex is succinctly described by 'Science Direct' as follows:
"Semmelweis reflex is a human behavioural tendency to stick to pre-existing beliefs and to reject fresh ideas that contradict them (despite adequate evidence)".
This reflex in conventional medicine was alive before and Semmelweis was alive, and continues to thrive today. Dr John Campbell described the reflex in some detail in this video which is well worth viewing. It introduced me to this man's unfortunate career, and his fate at the hands of the conventional medical establishment in the 19th century.
I then read an article by Roman Bystrianyk on the smallpox vaccine. The myth that smallpox was successfully eradicated by vaccines has persisted within conventional medicine now for over 200 years, and continues. As my previous blog on Smallpox indicated, this is just not true. Bystrianyk quoted Professor Robert A. Gunn, MD, writing in 1891.
"How strange it is that, no matter what the professional or scientific attainments of a man may be, no matter how he may have previously been honoured, nor what positions of preferment and trust he may have occupied, the moment he says a word against vaccination he is denounced as not knowing anything of the subject, and not being an authority in medicine."
As Bystrianyk states in his article, there have always been dissenting voices within conventional medicine, including those who criticized medical treatments like bloodletting, blistering, and the use of toxic substances like mercury and arsenic in medical drugs. Unlike Semmelweis (who was at least recognised posthumously) many of these voices have been, and continue to be, ignored. He points, in particular, to conventional medicine's obsession with vaccination.
"Instead, the proponents of vaccines persisted, driven by medical hubris and profits, enacting laws that curtailed individual freedoms in the process".
The Semmelweis Reflex sums up why conventional medicine has made so little progress in fulfilling its primary objective - to treat sick people, suffering from serious illness and disease, successfully.
Look at national health services, dominated by pharmaceutical medicine, around the world. How are they doing? How successful are they in treating sickness? Why has every chronic disease reached epidemic proportions? Why is illnesses like ADHD, allergies, arthritis, autism, auto-immune diseases, cancer, dementia, diabetes, epilepsy, heart/lung/kidney/liver disease, mental health, et al, all running at unprecedented, epidemic levels. Why are hospitals full to over-flowing? Why are doctors so busy they are often unavailable?
In the Covid-19 fiasco, the official pharmaceutical Narrative was ubiquitous, clear, concise, uncontrovertible - and reinforced by government, by conventional medical authorities, and the mainstream media. No dissenting voice was allowed to challenge the Narrative. The virus was deadly; it would kill millions; no-one was safe; only the new "safe and effective" vaccines were able to save us; we must all take the vaccines, or be forced to do so.
As usual there were dissenting voices but these voices were censored by the conventional medical establishment, proving that the Semmelweis Reflex was alive and well! Two of these 'life-saving' vaccines (the AstraZenica and Johnson and Johnson vaccines) have already been withdrawn, effectively banned because they were neither safe or effective. Yet we are still urged to take Covid-19 vaccines on an annual basis, alongside many, many others.
Conventional medicine regularly states that it is "scientific", evidence based; and it is this 'scientific medicine' that is winning the war against ill-health. There is precious little evidence of this victory. Perhaps it is because their have been too many Ignaz Semmelweis's whose criticisms, and alternative medical practices has been ignored, trashed, and then forgotten.
The medical genius who I discovered when I became ill, over 50 years ago, was Samuel Hahnemann. He developed the medical practice of homeopathy in the 1790's. Alongside many millions of other people around the world, I have used no other medical system since that accidental discovery.
So how has the discovery of Homeopathy fared within national health provision around the world? Apart from a few countries, most prominently India, it has been consistently rejected by the Conventional Medical Establishment. They have said for over 230 years that it is unscientific, it does not, and cannot work, and that it is nothing more than placebo. It has been effectively banned is many countries in the world.
So it would appear that the Semmelweis Reflex is more active and alive now that it was when Semmelweis himself was rejected!
