Health and the Mainstream Media. What does mainstream meida think we need to know about health issues? And what it refuses to investigate and discuss with us?

The mainstream media is not prepared to tell us the whole truth about what is happening within conventional or pharmaceutical medicine. It is too close, too dependent on the funding they receive from drug companies, to do any of the following:

• The inexorable rise of Chronic Disease in recent decades.

• The ineffectiveness and failure of conventional medical treatment to cope with chronic disease.

• The massive increase in pharmaceutical drug prescriptions during the last 70 to 100 years.

• The truth about the real seriousness of the ‘side effects’ of drug and other conventional treatments“.

• The role of pharmaceutical medical treatment in generating the epidemics of chronic disease.

Since writing my ‘Safe Medicine’ articles, first on Blogger, now on Substack, I have focused on these issues. But a few days ago I wondered about what sort of medical information the mainstream media was prepared to share with us. So I went to the BBC’s health news website, and looked at what this was featuring. I discovered that the full enormity of the failure of conventional medical treatment was there for anyone to see. All that was necessary was for someone to site back and identify exactly what was happening. Conventional, drug-based medicine is failure - day by day. Here is a brief outline of the articles.

GP’s told to guarantee same day appointment for urgent cases. This highlighted the inability of the NHS to cope with the huge amount of patient sickness that it now has to cope with routinely.

Streeting (the government’s Health Secretary) says he takes the Leeds maternity care inquiry extremely seriously. This is yet another inquiry into the distressing failings of yet another NHS maternity service in the UK.

First baby born using transplanted womb from dead doner. A good news story, certainly from the parents point of view, indicating that surgery can now do all kinds of brilliant medical treatment - with exception of effective treatment for more common chronic diseases.

GP’s to get £3,000 bonus to maximise weight-loss drug prescriptions. The NHS regularly pays doctors to prescribe pharmaceutical drugs, not least for increasing vaccine take-up. These are often ‘incentives’ for doctors to prescribe drugs that have known serious side effects, like these weight-loss drugs. (I have written about this recently here).

“It was like buying groceries”. Woman calls for tighter weight-loss jabs checks. The woman had bought the drugs on a website, spending £118, which caused serious and distressing side effects. No need for a GP to be incentivised in this case. Yet this was the same drug, with ‘distressing side effects’, which is NHS is going to encourage doctors to prescribe!

Puberty Blockers Trial paused over concerns from medicine’s watchdog. Although these drugs had already been used for young ‘transitioning’ children, this belated trial was supposed to test their safety and efficacy. But they were found to be too harmful even to allow the continuation of the tests!

Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flu’s, researches say. Great news? But this is a typical ‘good news’ health story, greatly favoured by the BBC and the mainstream media generally, and its apparent desire to support the pharmaceutical industry. Yet note, the vaccine has only been tested on mice! And it might be available in 5-10 years time! (Or perhaps might never be heard of again)! But such stories gives hope and belief that conventional medicine is capable of overcoming illness and disease. Such ‘good news’ stories come regularly. The problem is that the actual outcomes rarely (never) corresponds with the much heralded new treatment!

Children injured by NHS can claim damages for lifetime lost earnings, court rules. It’s not just the pharmaceutical drugs are expensive. Increasingly the NHS us having to pay for the ‘side effects’ they caused patients, another ‘secondary cost’ of medical failure that has to be borne by the tax-payer funded NHS.

Woman’s regret over botched Brazilian butt life, and also Stop dithering on Brazilian butt life crackdown, say MPs. We are told, regularly, that surgeons can do such wonderful things that many people are prepared to pay for expensive plastic surgery that (allegedly) makes them look better. Surgeons receive the fee, patients pay the price, and once again, the NHS has to pick up the pieces!

Why are fewer people donating their organs? Perhaps a more pertinent question might be “why are more people requiring organ donation?”, and “why is demand for organs outstripping supply” Organ donation is required for patients who have organs that need replacing. Why do they need replacing? Because the medical system used by the NHS is not capable of supporting/saving the original organs.

There are several more articles on this BBC webpage, but these outline the health news diet that we get from the mainstream media. Each day the articles change (so have a look at the current day’s selection, and see if you can spot the ‘medical failure” that is not mentioned)!

Most people will read these articles and not interpret them as a ‘failure’, especially failure of pharmaceutical drug treatment. Instead they are discounted as isolated errors, unfortunate mistakes, or the result of NHS underfunding.

After all, if the mainstream media does not question the underlying competence of conventional medical practice why should their readers? But what this means is that the media’s misplaced allegiance to pharmaceutical medicine does patients no favours.

The NHS - the Failure is Medical not Political

But don't take my word for it. And don't accept what the medical establishment, medical science, media and government tell us. Instead we should all observe what is happening around us.

Hospital corridors, storerooms, offices and gyms are being use as ‘extra care’ areas. Patients collapsing, unseen by staff, in hospital corridors, posing a serious risks of falls, infections, etc. All this was reported by the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) on 8th January 2006, and reported in the Guardian, the Independent and several other media outlets.

One year earlier, on 16th January 2025 a similar situation was reported by BBC News, and Sky News, which describes the situation at that time.

          "Patients dying and undiscovered for hours in hospital corridors: demoralised staff are caring for as many as 40 patients in a single corridor, unable to access oxygen, cardiac monitors, suction and other lifesaving equipment. Women are miscarrying while some nurses report being unable to carry out proper CPR”.

Clearly nothing has happened to change this unacceptable situation. Wes Streeting, the health secretary, has pledged to end the practice by 2029 “though NHS staff groups are sceptical he will do so”. Perhaps this cynicism is based more on the experience of staff over the past year rather than any political (or even medical) optimism!

For decades the conventional medical establishment has complained that the problem is underfunding. Yet the annual NHS budget now exceeds £200 billion, with more funding being promised each year. In contrast, just £116 billion is spent annually on Education, £60 billion on Defence, and £34 billion on Transport.

Yet the solution to this is really quite simple.

• To prevent overcrowded hospitals the NHS has to engage a medical system that can receive sick people and with effective treatment get them back home both quickly and well.

• The NHS cannot continue to fund, year in, year out, a medical system that has consistently proven itself to be unable to do this, and has been largely ineffective.

• Moreover, the NHS needs to engage a medical system that does not actually make patients sicker - through drug-based treatments that cause serious adverse reactions.

If we are searching for solutions it is time to recognise that the foundations of the NHS are based on pharmaceutical drugs; and that these drugs are known to make us sicker, not better. (Yes, it is true, it is in the medical literature!)

Observing the NHS

We do not need to be medical scientists, or medical practitioners, to see what is going on. We just need to observe what is happening in a health service in which demand for services regularly outstrips the ability to provide them, where patients are left on trolleys for days. There are many other things we can observe. The massive waiting lists for treatment that the NHS is failing to reduce. The difficulty getting an appointment to see a doctor. And much more. What this tells us is that there are serious medical problems that need to be addressed.

To find the reason for these medical failures we have to look at what we can observe. After 70+ years of NHS treatment (treatment largely based on pharmaceutical drugs) are we getting healthier, or sicker? And again we do not need to listen to competing arguments - we just need to observe and understand what is actually happening on the ground.

Are we more healthy now than in 1948?

We do not have to look far to see that since the inauguration of the NHS in 1948 we have become increasingly sick. We can witness it all around us, in plain sight.

Arthritis. Significantly more people have arthritis now than was the case in 1948. Conventional medicine tries to excuse itself by saying that the population has aged, and has become more obese, and cites many other environmental factors.

However, the fact is that we know that many pharmaceutical drugs have ‘arthritis’ as a “side effect”, and that in the last 70+ years these drugs have been consumed in ever-increasing quantities.

Autism. In 1948 autism was rare, if not non-existent. Conventional medicine tells us that it did, in fact, exist, but it was either ‘misdiagnosed’ or not recognised. Parents in those days must either have been extremely dim; or this is an unacceptable argument that seeks to justify the explosion of Autism, to epidemic levels, that we have witnessed over recent years.

The fact is that many pharmaceutical drugs (and vaccines) are now known to cause autism as a “side effect”, and that in the last 70+ years these drugs/vaccines have been consumed in ever-increasing quantities.

Cancer. The number of people diagnosed with cancer has also risen significantly in the decades since 1948. Conventional medicine tries to explain this away by saying the population has aged (but younger adults, children and even babies are increasingly been diagnosed with cancer); and by pointing out that improved diagnosis and screening techniques (as if people did not know that they had cancer in 1948).

Again, the fact is that many widely consumed pharmaceutical drugs have ‘cancer’ as a known “side effect”), and that the consumption of these drugs have mirrored the increase in cancer during the last 70+ years”.

Dementia. The number of dementia diagnoses has also risen significantly since 1948. It was rare in 1948, but is now believed to be affecting over half a million people in the UK (probably an underestimate). Some sources now expect dementia to double every 20 years in future. The excuse of conventional medicine is that the population was smaller in 1948 (not that much smaller); that people did not live as long then (but now younger adults, and even children, are now being diagnosed); and the condition was not properly identified in 1948 (were people really this dim?)

And again, the fact is that many pharmaceutical drugs cause known dementia symptoms, like confusion, memory loss, disorientation, et al, as a “side effect”, And these drugs have been consumed in ever-increasing quantities during the last 70+ years.

I could continue with many more chronic diseases for which the same points can be made, chronic diseases, once rare, now running at epidemic levels. We suffer from more allergy, more diabetes, more heart, lung, kidney, liver, stomach disease, more anxiety and depression - more of every known disease than we did prior to the drug-dominated NHS was inaugurated.

What we can observe will explain what is happening.

This is why the hospitals are full, this why there are so many patients some have to be left in corridors, why doctors appointments are difficult to obtain, why waiting lists are so large. There is no need for complex, technical explanations or excuses.

• The drug-based medical system that has dominated the NHS for 70+ years is not making, and does not make people better; it actually makes them sicker!

• We are all able to observe what has been happening to our health during the pharmaceutical drug-taking bonanza of recent years, and come to our own considered conclusions.

• We do not need to rely on information coming from the NHS, from Patient Support groups, from the mainstream media, or from government.

We are all be able to observe that Pharmaceutical Medicine is not winning its ‘fight’ with disease; and it is not just losing it, it is making it worse.

We should observe that the NHS is not “under-funded”: it is actually close to bankrupting the economy; it does not need more (and more, and more) resources to spend on moe and more vaccines and drugs.

We should observe that medical charities have been arguing, (some for over a century) that “together we are defeating (this or that disease)”. Disease can be seen winning, hands down, in its fight with pharmaceutical medicine.

The mainstream media cannot continue telling us, ad nauseam, about new ‘medical breakthroughs’ that will ‘transform’ the treatment of disease. It has been doing so for decades, without effect or outcome.

In the end it will only be our observations of the real world, and our conclusions about those observations, that will determine the future of our own health, and the failed medical system on which we have depended on, and spent crippling amounts of money and resources on during the last 70+ years.

The Failure of the Covid-19 Strategy, the Vaccines, and a system of medicine. Is it all the benefit of hindsight?

After two years of incessant conventional medical propaganda it is now becoming clear to an ever increasing number of people that public health measures such as face masks, and lockdowns, and the experimental Covid-19 vaccines, have been an abject failure.

The official Covid-19 narrative has been recited, ad nauseam, by government, conventional medical authorities, and the mainstream media throughout the world for over two years. The narrative is simply outlined.

• The Covid-19 virus is deadly.
• Everyone is at risk, no-one is safe.
  
• There is no treatment available.
• Government has a responsibility for our health and will keep us safe.
  
• Only a vaccine will save us, and return life back to normal.
• The new vaccines were amazingly effective; they would quickly contain the pandemic.
• The new vaccines were also entirely safe.
• Everyone should get the vaccine, for their own safety, and until we did we were at risk.
• Everyone should get the vaccine for other people's safety; it was a public duty.
  

For so many people, this narrative, repeated day after day, has been their only source of information about the Covid-19 virus; so whilst many people may now realise they have been duped, the sheer consistency of the propaganda means that no one can be blamed for believing it - apart, that is, from the messengers, governments around the world, conventional medical authorities, and the mainstream media. 

And now that the narrative is breaking down. It is breaking down because what is happening in the real world does not reflect what is happening in the narrative, in medical propaganda. So now, those who are responsible for that narrative are now having to find excuses for providing the general public with misinformation.

The excuses from government, conventional medical authorities, and the mainstream media, have begun. They know they have to justify the messages they have been giving us. And it is already clear that one excuse, "the benefit of hindsight" will be high up on their agenda.

It is probably best for those of us on the winning side, previously thought to be "the misinformed", or "the spreaders of misinformation", not to say "I told you so". But this blog was amongst the first blogs to accurately predict what was going to happen. If we take the first month of the official Covid-19 narrative to be January 2020 (it was actually earlier than this), this is what appeared on this blog.

January 2020.

The Coronavirus Panic. Just how dangerous is this new virus? The worldwide coronavirus panic is in full swing! I predicted in month one that the virus would not prove to be as serious as was being suggested. I said that homeopaths were already treating the virus, and working on identifying the remedies that were the most effective to patients who contracted the virus.

February 2020.

The Coronavirus Panic. What every sensible and informed person should be doing. In this blog I predicted that conventional medicine would be unable to prevent people contracting the virus, unable to treat it effectively, and that large numbers of people would die without treatment. Again, I outlined how homeopathy was working to protect people with simple remedies, but that conventional medicine would not offer their patients this treatment.

Conventional medicine is in a gigantic panic. So is enough being done to contain it? When it has nothing to offer, but refuses to embrace homeopathy? In this blog I highlighted how homeopathy had been used successfully in past epidemics, and what it was doing in the current epidemic. Yet conventional medicine was (and still is) allowing people to suffer and die with the virus, even when it admitted during this first year it had no effective treatment to offer.

Health Freedom and Patient Choice. This blog was my first response to increasing calls for mandatory drugging - this long before the Covid-19 vaccines had been developed, leave alone had a track record of any description.

March 2020

Does the Conventional Medical Establishment prefer patients to die rather than offer them Natural Medical Treatment? By the pandemic's third month the number of people dying of, or with the Covid-19 virus was increasing rapidly, and I asked why conventional medicine was not using every possible way of preventing this. The exaggeration of the seriousness of the virus was already plain - anyone who died within 28 days of testing positive - for whatever reason - was a Covid-19 death. 

We are just beginning to find out the extent of this deception. GB News recently confirmed figures, based on a Freedom of Information request from UK Office of National Statistics (17 January 2022). Only 9,400 people died OF the virus in 2020, and only 5,746 in first 9 months of 2021. The 150,000 figure of Covid-19 deaths includes those who died WITH the virus, but not OF the virus. This was a gross exaggeration of seriousness of pandemic, designed to create fear in the population.

April 2020

Covid-19. The important questions that are not being asked.  Even by month 4 this blog was asking pertinent questions about the so-called pandemic, including what (to me) is the key question - why was conventional medicine, which still had nothing to offer, was not taking the opportunity to emphasise the importance of natural immunity, and what people could do to support and strengthen their immune systems. 

In addition, I asked why the virus was mostly affecting 'developed' nations, that is, nations with well-funded pharmaceutical medical systems in operation. And it was also one of the first blog to question why 'lockdown' was considered to be a sensible policy.

Covid-19. Does Natural Medicine have an alternative? This was the first time I emphasised the importance of our natural immunity, and natural medicine. I stated, nearly two years ago, that if this was done it would prevent the unnecessary damage being caused by social distancing, and lockdown policies both to the economy, to social life, and the emotional damage it was doing to people lives.

And so the blog has continued for the next two years. My opposition to both the public health measures, and the experimental vaccines, used by conventional medicine in response to the Covid-19 pandemic were not made 'in hindsight'. They arose from an understanding of the ongoing failure of conventional medicine - which I then applied to what I could see happening 'on the ground" as a result of the Covid-19 panic. The pandemic was clearly no more than the repetition of so many previous examples of conventional medicine incompetence.

I had written my E-Book, "The Failure of Conventional Medicine" on the basis of the previous history of this medical system, notably its consistent and ongoing failure to treat illness and disease successfully. 

Over the weekend I took time to re-read this book (written originally in 2007). It provides a history of the past failures of conventional medicine, alongside a detailed explanation of why this drug-based system of medicine would continue to fail. What I realised was that it could equally be used as a predictor of future failure. It is a far better explanation for what is happening to our health, and why levels of public sickness has been increasing rapidly, year by year, especially during the last 70-100 years, than any explanation coming from the conventional medical establishment!

So for anyone who is as horrified abour what has happened over the last two years should perhaps take some time to read "The Failure of Conventional Medicine". It will explain much about what has happened during the last two years - even though it was first written 15 years ago. Writing the E-Book has cost me much time, and a little money - but it is entirely free for anyone to read. It was written to inform, to enlighten, to educate, not to produce profit. 

For anyone with an open enquiring mind, reading the book can alter your view about health, it can explain why conventional medicine is now dominated by the drug industry, and the consequences to our health of that domination. For anyone who wishes to escape the clutches of pharmaceutical medicine this can be the first step to a more healthy life.