Has Big Pharma Hijacked Evidence Based Medicine?
Cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra (pictured) uncovers data on one of the most widely distributed pharmacological interventions in the history of medicine
In 2015 he helped co-ordinate the Choosing Wisely campaign by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges as lead author in a BMJ paper to highlight the risks of overuse of medical treatments.
In the same year, he became the youngest member to be appointed to the board of trustees of UK health think tank The King’s Fund that advises the government on health policy.
Aseem is a frequent expert commentator in print and broadcast media and he has written scores of articles for a number of publications including the BMJ, British Journal of Sports Medicine, BMJ Open Heart, JAMA Internal Medicine, Prescriber, The Pharmaceutical Journal, European Scientist, The Guardian and Observer, BBC online, Huffington Post, The Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph and the Washington Post.
He is an international guest editor of the journal of evidence-based healthcare. Aseem has appeared in the Health Service Journal’s list of top 50 BME pioneers, and has won a number of awards for his work to raise awareness of diet-related illness both in the UK and internationally.
He is a pioneer of the lifestyle medicine movement in the UK and has had feature articles written about him in the New York Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and Healthcare Leader. In 2018 he was ranked by software company Onalytica as the number 1 doctor in the world influencing obesity thinking.
In 2016 he was named in the Sunday Times Debrett’s list as one of the most influential people in science and medicine in the UK in a list that included Professor Stephen Hawking.
His total Altmetric score (measure of impact and reach) of his medical journal publications since 2013 is over 10,000 making it one of the highest in the World for a clinical doctor during this period. His first book co-authored with Donal O’ Neill, The Pioppi Diet, has become an international bestseller.
Award-winning American Science Journalist Gary Taubes describes Aseem as someone who has “probably done more in the UK to inject sanity into nutrition science and the pharmaceutical industry debate than any human being alive” ~ Sir Richard Thompson, Past President of the Royal College of Physicians and former personal physician to her majesty The Queen said “Dr Aseem Malhotra is changing the face of medicine and his revolutionary book the Pioppi Diet should be read by everyone”.
Malhotra did not stop there. His vested interest in all matters that he believes to undermine the publics’ health has even resulted in him challenging the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence’s recommendations of prescription of statins for people at low risk of heart disease.
This letter was signed by Dr Clare Gerada, past chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, and by Sir Richard Thompson, the president of the Royal College of Physicians. Malhotra has highlighted concerns that medicine and procedures can be over-sold and under-deliver, and also maintains that most of our nutrients can be delivered more efficiently from food than from supplements.
He has been instrumental in bringing the BMJ campaign “Too Much Medicine” to mainstream media. He passionately believes in transparent communication with patients, “shared decision making” and personalised medicine. He was recently lead author on a paper published in the Post Graduate Medical Journal entitled “Right care and high-value cardiology: doctors’ responsibilities to the patient and the population.”
Aseem has also single-handedly recruited celebrity figures such as Steven Gerrard and Jamie Oliver in his plight to improve school food, and can also be credited with helping bring about the new government policy on Automated External Defibrillators.
Aseem Malhotra has become one of the most influential and effective campaigning doctors in the world on issues that affect obesity, heart disease and population health. This is not just a cardiologist. This is a man who wants to change the world one meal at a time by not just rocking the system but by rebuilding it.
“It is health that is the real wealth, and not pieces of gold and silver.” – Gandhi
See more here doctoraseem.com
About the author: Dr Aseem Malhotra is an NHS Trained Consultant Cardiologist, and visiting Professor of Evidence Based Medicine, Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health, Salvador, Brazil. He is a world renowned expert in the prevention, diagnosis and management of heart disease. He is honorary council member to the Metabolic Psychiatry Clinic at Stanford University school of medicine California, and is Cardiology MSc examiner at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He is a founding member of Action on Sugar and was the lead campaigner highlighting the harm caused by excess sugar consumption in the United Kingdom, particularly its role in type 2 diabetes and obesity.
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Tom
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Evidence based medical science is as rare as the dodo bird. It exists only in the minds of big pharma’s drug terrorists.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI Readers,
You need to go to this link (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health-news/british-indian-cardiologist-links-fathers-sudden-death-to-pfizer-vaccination-calls-vaccine-misinformation-the-greatest-miscarriage-of-medical-science/photostory/94503865.cms?picid=94503948) to read “I was one of the first to receive two doses of Pfizer’s messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine and though my individual risk was small due to my optimal metabolic health, “the main reason I took the jab was to prevent transmission of the virus to my vulnerable patients” writes the doctor in his paper.”
“To steer clear of what he considered as anti-vax propaganda at that time, he was asked to appear on Good Morning Britain to convince film director Gurinder Chadha, Order of the British Empire (OBE) to take the shot.”
If you google, you will find other articles about his mistake which, despite his experience and knowledge, likely contributed to his father’s death.
Have a good day, Jerry
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schutzhund
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“… that advises the government on health policy.”
3 year wait for cancer care (and other) in UK
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/11/under_britains_socialized_medicine_a_cancer_diagnosis_meets_a_3year_waitlist.html
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Saeed Qureshi
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This morning, I wrote a blog (https://bioanalyticx.com/for-the-future/) which may be relevant here.
A cardiologist or immunologist (or physician, in general) is considered an expert/specialist on chemicals (medicines, including vaccines) and chemical testing (PCR, Rapid test, sequencing, etc.) without having relevant training and working experience.
However, having many years of training and working experience with chemicals, chemists/scientists are considered to have irrelevant expertise and opinions on the subjects. Why is it so?
Next time you are asked to follow the science (or advice), ensure the expert or specialist has some documented relevant working experience.
For further details, please follow the links below.
1. Science is missing – simple and clear! (link)
2. An M.D. degree is not a science degree! (link)
3. Science at the authorities – deceptive and fraudulent! (link)
4. Nowhere to be found! (link)
5. What is medicine? (link)
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Saeed and PSI Readers,
Saeed and I had begun a private discussion about this covid thing. From my point of view, it started to go downhill when he dismissed the words—diagnosis and symptoms—and their definitions: Diagnosis: “the identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of the symptoms”Symptom: “a physical or mental feature which is regarded as indicating a condition of disease, particularly such a feature that is apparent to the patient” as not being relevant to the discussion.
Saeed regularly states there is no evidence of a virus except I have to accept there is a disease which has flu like symptoms. Which I consider is evidence there could be a virus. Saeed referred to the phrase “follow the science” to which I replied that one must “follow the evidence” until there is more evidence that the disease is not a flu.
Arthur Conan Doyle wrote popular mystery stories with the fictional character Sherlock Holmes and thereby founded forensic science as Holmes sought and discovered minute evidences which he followed to catch the felon.
Here is a short, but true, mystery story. One of the earliest covid occurrences involved a cruise ship on which there was a couple from nearby Portland OR or a ‘suburb’. The man tested negative for this disease so he was allowed to leave the ship. However, the tests of his wife, without any flu symptoms or any other disease symptoms, kept returning positive. And, as I remember, she was not permitted to leave the ship for more than a month.
Of course, most know there is a controversial conspiracy about this covid thing. The obvious evidence for such a conspiracy is that a test for it existed at the beginning of the pandemic. Wonder what Sherlock would conclude about this evidence?
And Saeed, if this disease isn’t caused by a virus, what is it caused by? That discovery would prove that it isn’t caused by a virus. But just claiming it hasn’t been seen doesn’t prove anything except that it hasn’t been seen (detected).
Have a good day, Jerry
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Saeed Qureshi
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Jerry:
There are multiple questions/observations in your post. However, I do not think it concerns science or about the pandemic. They are more philosophical, and such discussion would not benefit anyone here.
Your main point is that virus exists but has not been detected, so you imagine things at this stage, which is fine—you have the right and option to do so.
Concerning why people are sick then. I am not sure if people are sick (or were sick). Your view is that symptoms indicate people are sick, which is fine. They are mostly flu-like symptoms, which in the past were considered uneventful, and the body is supposed to take care of itself with regular wear and tear.
Saying it could be because of a virus is a view without basis.
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Jay
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Spot on! No physical evidence but someone says it still exists is certainly not science its baffle gab…
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Doug Harrison
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Jerry. It is not an axiom of science that something which may be thought to be a fact is a fact. If it was you would be right but you aint or otherwise science would be bogged down trying to disprove every cockamamie idea that rogues can dream up.
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Saeed Qureshi
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Thanks, Doug Harrison:
That is very well stated. I agree.
Regards
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Doug and Saeed,
Doug wrote: “Jerry. It is not an axiom of science that something which may be thought to be a fact is a fact.”
On the contrary, what Doug wrote is an axiom of science. Another axion of science is that something which has been “observed” to occur over and over is a fact which scientists generally term a “scientific law”.
Newton, a scientist, wrote: “Gravitation towards the sun is made up out of the gravitations towards the several particles of which the body of the sun is composed; and in receding from the sun decreases accurately in the duplicate proportion of the distances as far as the orb of Saturn, as evidently appears from the quiescence of the aphelions of the planets; nay, and even ti the remotest aphelions of the comets, if those aphelions are also quiescent. But hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause of these properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. … And to us it is enough that gravity does really exist, and act according to the LAWS which we have explained, and abundantly serves to account for all the motions of the celestial bodies, and of our seas.” (The Principia, as translated by Andrew Motte, 1848)
Have a good day, Jerry
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Saeed Qureshi
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Jerry:
You are confusing saying/lying with “observing.”
Unfortunately, nothing has been observed. Just claims (saying/lying) have been made.
So, nothing is there to go after.
Best
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Robert Beatty
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Hi Jerry,
Isaac Newton is a great scientific gent of his era, who took the observations of the late Johasses Kepler to develop Newton’s universal law of gravitation. This included the universal constant G which now appears to be variable rather than constant. My paper on this subject was recently accepted into the PSI Publication section.
See https://principia-scientific.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Beatty-Newton-PSI-paper.pdf
A greater understanding of more recently available data helps develop an improved view of the complicated world we live in.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Robert,
“Isaac Newton is a great scientific gent of his era, who took the observations of the late Johasses Kepler to develop Newton’s universal law of gravitation.”
How is it that you are not aware of the unquestionable historical facts that Johanas Kepler, a mathematician, mathematically analyzed the astronomical measurements of Tycho Brahe, an astronomer?
Have a good day, Jerry
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Herb Rose
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Hi Robert,
The sole purpose of G was to provide a source for the force (mass) of gravity when Kepler’s law; vd^2= C shows the force is from energy, which was unknown at the time. This is why the masses calculated for the planets are ridiculous and why they don’t use the formula for determining the mass of asteroids being orbited by other asteroids.
Herb
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