ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE:

 
In the first half of Thursday's show, Dr. Sherri Tenpenny talked about alternative medicine, viruses, and the hazards of vaccines. Regarding the coronavirus MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) which has killed 40 some people, "I think the CDC and the World Health Organization are just absolutely combing the world for their next pandemic. They did the same thing with hyping up the death rates and making us all terrified about SARS, the bird flu, and then the swine flu," she remarked. Their reports, she argued, suffer from sample bias, where only the sickest go the hospital, but millions are infected with the virus but never even get sick enough to go to a doctor. Tenpenny also put little stock in a new study that suggested fish oil supplements may be unhealthy, citing hundreds of previous studies that have reached the opposite conclusion. Further, she believes t hat the pharmaceutical industry helps push anti-supplement studies to the media for more coverage.

The number of mandatory vaccines for children has skyrocketed over the years. As recently as 1985, there were only three required vaccines. "Now, children get multiple doses of 16 different vaccines by the time they start kindergarten," she noted. While the vaccine industry claims their products are safe, effective, and protective, they're actually using an unproven medical hypothesis as a marketing tool," she contended. The vaccines are not doing anything to keep us healthy, but if anything they're lowering our immune systems, and making us more susceptible to illness, she continued. Dr. Tenpenny was critical of mainstream American health care in general-- "it's not health care at all; it's sick care and disease care, using a macro molecule called a drug...symptom free in the presence of a drug is not health."