Readers for a long time have known how much I regret the virtual disappearance of real science. Mainstream science is mainly fraud but of course there are pockets of good people, doing good work and getting sensational results.
Just don’t expect to read about it in the press or hear a TV segment that shares these remarkable discoveries. For the longest time now, “science” has been conducted in the media. You have journalists “commenting” on things they don’t even understand but they do know their job: they have been told to trash contrary voices and take down personalities with dissenting views.
This is blared across headlines and the public assumes that there is a science debate going on. NO THERE ISN’T. It’s just character assassination. And there are always creepy individuals to step up to the plate and lie or dissemble. One wonders are they getting paid? Or just vicious nasty human beings who seek the chance to pour evil on good!
Take an article which ran recently in the doctors’ daily blog MedPage Today (Sept 30th): it was a takedown of actress and activist Jenny McCarthy. She’s a shining light in social media with millions of followers and what I consider quite balanced and sensible views.
But she was labelled an “antivaxxer”. That’s always a good start if you want to destroy someone’s credibility. In fact it’s a lie. In her own words she considers herself in favor of “safe vaccination” (well, who isn’t?)
But she dared to get in on the Tylenol (acetaminophen) debate and therefore she must be destroyed.
My readers will probably remember I was there long before the current wave, with reservations about Tylenol and its possible role in autism. Nearly 10 years ago I drew attention to the fact that Cuba had a very high rate of vaccination (over 99%) and yet almost NO autism, coming in at around 0.00168% of the population!1
Surely this is a screaming siren calling attention to the fact that all current theories are probably wrong? Well, this is another “I told ‘em” but now everyone seems onto the story. And good job it is so.
Note: What is highly significant is that, here in the USA doctors routinely advise acetaminophen/paracetamol as a prophylactic for the fever that commonly accompanies vaccination, even up to five days beforehand! In fact some kids get their first autistic symptoms before vaccination!
In Cuba, the drug metamizole is most commonly prescribed for fever and NOT acetaminophen/paracetamol.
“While some of McCarthy’s claims are rooted in truth,” the critical piece said, “An expert told MedPage Today that McCarthy mischaracterized the relationship between acetaminophen and glutathione and manipulated information to fit an agenda.”
Oh, just exactly like normal scientists then! As for “expert”, I would say dimwit. But we’ll come to that in a moment.
Glutathione is, of course, our number #1 detox molecule. Without it, we’d be dead in hours.2
“But what if your body is low in glutathione?” Jenny McCarthy posited. “What if that detox methylation system gets kind of jolted, broken, if you will, lowers so that it cannot detox the adjuvants, the aluminum in the body? Then it winds up floating around the body, attaching to brain, gut — you name it.”
McCarthy recommended not taking Tylenol before or after vaccines and to get glutathione levels checked. Here’s where the blog trotted out a phoney as an “expert”
“I personally have never ordered a glutathione level or checked it in my entire life as a toxicologist,” Lauren Shawn, MD, an emergency medicine physician and medical toxicologist at Phelps Hospital in Sleepy Hollow, New York, told MedPage Today. “Glutathione level itself is not really clinically relevant to me in my practice.”
She’s a toxicologist and glutathione is not relevant to her practice? It’s like saying she’s cardiologist but doesn’t need a stethescope and can’t read an EKG!
As for vaccines, Shawn said that the recommendation to not take acetaminophen or other anti-inflammatories before a shot is to avoid blunting the immune response and has nothing to do with glutathione or fears of toxicity. Lying again: the 99% reason doctors prescribe acetaminophen is to control the fever which almost invariably results from a shot.
And goes on with breathtaking ignorance, to say, “Taking acetaminophen afterwards to manage symptoms is absolutely fine.”
She clearly has not read the latest science that shows acetaminophen to be a very toxic substance which no one should take, ever.
Toxicity from acute or chronic overuse of acetaminophen is an actual concern, and N-acetylcysteine, which helps the body make glutathione, is the antidote. NAC is a precursor of glutathione.3
In an online video, McCarthy shared that she and her son, who has autism, both have naturally low glutathione levels, even though she didn’t take acetaminophen before or after vaccines, and they both get weekly glutathione IV infusions.
The Dimwit Continues
Shawn said glutathione is one of the hot new treatments in alternative medicine, even though evidence doesn’t support the therapy. This is a criminally negative doctor talking. There are TONS of papers on the clinical importance of glutathione in medicine and health.
“Best-case scenario you’re giving yourself expensive urine,” she added. Ah, the old “expensive urine therapy” ploy. Well, statins give you VERY expensive urine, for no real benefit. Same with anti-depressants.
Shawn also said anti-vaxxers like McCarthy and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “use the big medical terms and words, and they sort of touch on things that are kind of correct,” but don’t have the expertise to analyze and understand the data.
So… if someone says something that’s accurate and true, you can discredit them by saying they don’t have the expertise to analyze and understand the data. Well, how expert do you have to be to understand that Tylenol is repeatedly associated (lots of studies!!) with psychological damage and social withdrawal. Loss of positive empathy, they call it… kind of like autism?4
“I just think it’s so dangerous that these celebrities and non-healthcare professionals are saying things as the truth without real evidence or understanding of what they’re saying, and they’re convincing other people to follow their lead,” Shawn said.
She’s lying, of course, because there is lots of evidence for what McCarthy is saying. Yes. She’s not medically trained. But any intelligent person can understand the issues, if you just read the science (which Shawn clearly has not done!)
The article for MedPage Today was written by under-performing journalist Rachael Robertson.
One of the comments below her article was by an RN:
Why do we even have to listen to those WITHOUT ANY MEDICAL BACKGROUND? They have their own agenda and don’t listen to anything they don’t agree with. Seems like anyone who wants some publicity can start spouting their views. Is there any common sense left?
We have this expression in England (from centuries past): The pot calling the kettle black. Get it?
To your good health,
Prof. Keith Scott-Mumby
The Official Alternative Doctor
Main Source:
https://www.medpagetoday.com/popmedicine/cultureclinic/117722
Citations:
- https://alternative-doctor.com/cause-of-add-acetaminophen-during-pregnancy/
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4684116/
- https://www.jci.org/articles/view/110853?utm_source=chatgpt.com
- Front. Psychol., 29 March 2019. Sec. Perception Science, Volume 10 – 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00538
