"After quoting Lincoln,
Harkin continued: “Clearly, the time has come to
‘think anew’ and to ‘disenthrall ourselves’ from the dogmas and biases that have made our
current health care system—which is based overwhelmingly on conventional medicine—so
wasteful and dysfunctional.”2 He argued that it was time to end the discrimination against
alternative health care practices; time for America’s health care system to emphasize coordination
and continuity of care, patient-centeredness, and prevention. For Harkin, adopting
an integrative approach meant taking advantage of the very best scientifically based medicines
and therapies, whether conventional or alternative."
Harkin is mad because the folks at NCCAM just don’t understand what being the beneficiary of an earmark is all about.If some helpful Democratic Senator from Iowa gets you and all your pals employed at a nice shiny center to study the impact of moonbeams and warm kum-bahyahs on heart disease, then by God, you’d better find some beneficial effects on . . . heart disease, capiche? Because if you don’t validate your purpose—if you don’t show your loyalty to your patron by validating the money he brought home to you—why, you’re just throwing it all away. 4
Although $2.5 billion had been spent on CAM research at the NIH, no alternative cures had been found.
Bedell, a longtime friend of Harkin and a former member of the House of Representatives,believed that alternative medicine had twice cured him of diseases after mainstream medicine had failed.He claimed colostrum,derived from cow’s milk,had cured his Lyme disease, and 714-X,derived from camphor, had prevented recurrence of prostate cancer after surgery. 15 Wiewel had been a longtime supporter of the controversial alternative treatment for cancer known as immunoaugmentative therapy. After the Food and Drug Administration barred the import of this mixture of blood sera, Wiewel Started up an agency called People Against Cancer, a referral service for alternative cancer treatments that he ran out of his home in Otho,Iowa.
“old boy network of Yale Medical School graduates”
was poised to peddle their pet ideas to the new Office, in order to reap the benefits of research monies and legitimize their alternative approaches through NIH affiliation. 19 The letters were passed on to new OAM Director Joseph Jacobs. He addressed the letter writer’s concern by insisting that the primary mission of the Office was to give fair evaluation of alternative medical practices by supporting research and clinical trials to investigate their effectiveness
Controversial immunoaugmentative cancer therapy, also known as IAT.In 1986, an IAT clinic in the Bahamas had been closed following reports that AIDS and hepatitis viruses had been detected in the serum that Dr. Lawrence Burton had injected into patients. 25
The OTA report began with the admission that an “objective, informed examination of unconventional treatments” was difficult, if not impossible.
Harkin is mad because the folks at NCCAM just don’t understand what being the beneficiary of an earmark is all about.If some helpful Democratic Senator from Iowa gets you and all your pals employed at a nice shiny center to study the impact of moonbeams and warm kum-bahyahs on heart disease, then by God, you’d better find some beneficial effects on . . . heart disease, capiche? Because if you don’t validate your purpose—if you don’t show your loyalty to your patron by validating the money he brought home to you—why, you’re just throwing it all away. 4
Although $2.5 billion had been spent on CAM research at the NIH, no alternative cures had been found.
Bedell, a longtime friend of Harkin and a former member of the House of Representatives,believed that alternative medicine had twice cured him of diseases after mainstream medicine had failed.He claimed colostrum,derived from cow’s milk,had cured his Lyme disease, and 714-X,derived from camphor, had prevented recurrence of prostate cancer after surgery. 15 Wiewel had been a longtime supporter of the controversial alternative treatment for cancer known as immunoaugmentative therapy. After the Food and Drug Administration barred the import of this mixture of blood sera, Wiewel Started up an agency called People Against Cancer, a referral service for alternative cancer treatments that he ran out of his home in Otho,Iowa.
“old boy network of Yale Medical School graduates”
was poised to peddle their pet ideas to the new Office, in order to reap the benefits of research monies and legitimize their alternative approaches through NIH affiliation. 19 The letters were passed on to new OAM Director Joseph Jacobs. He addressed the letter writer’s concern by insisting that the primary mission of the Office was to give fair evaluation of alternative medical practices by supporting research and clinical trials to investigate their effectiveness
Controversial immunoaugmentative cancer therapy, also known as IAT.In 1986, an IAT clinic in the Bahamas had been closed following reports that AIDS and hepatitis viruses had been detected in the serum that Dr. Lawrence Burton had injected into patients. 25
The OTA report began with the admission that an “objective, informed examination of unconventional treatments” was difficult, if not impossible.
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