The Research They Won't Do...
If you want to understand how anti-science the $cience industry really is, take a look at the research that isn’t being done.
This woman describes how the Maryland Health Secretary, Dr. Laura Herrera Scott, has halted an ongoing, privately-funded, inpatient study of a medical ketogenic diet for treating schizophrenia for no clear reason. (transcribed below)
I’m making this video to share with you about a concerning situation that is unfolding in the medical community and to ask for your help. I’m sharing a link in the description below and in a pinned comment to an important petition. I am asking as many of you as possible to please sign.
I have been sharing extensively about my experience using the medical ketogenic diet to treat my schizoaffective disorder. I’ve come to understand firsthand how powerful and effective this can be as a medical intervention for schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
In the United States the Baltimore Sun just released an article detailing how the Maryland Health Secretary, Dr. Laura Herrera Scott, recently halted an ongoing, privately funded, in patient study on the medical ketogenic diet for treating schizophrenia at the Spring Grove Hospital Center.
In March, the center was told to temporarily stop enrolling in patients in studies while it reviewed the center’s research protocol. Following months of tumult at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, the state decided that they would be discontinuing the specialized research unit at Spring Grove Hospital Center.
While the research was halted and reviews were being conducted, the 2 studies that were happening were one study funded by the UMB Foundation examining the benefits schizophrenia patients may experience from following a ketogenic diet. The other was a multi-site study, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, looking at the efficacy of clozapine, an anti-psychotic medication, in reducing violent and aggressive behavior in people with schizophrenia.
The research center’s director, Dr. Deanna Kelly, received a letter last week stating that she could resume enrolling patients in the clozapine study, but NOT the ketogenic study.
After a 16 week review, the Health Department found no ethics issues and confirmed the keto trial decision was not based on human subject concerns. The only reason, and weak reason at that, that I could find… was that the Health Department was moving forward only with federally funded studies at department run institutions. Interesting. I will speculate more on that in a minute.
Now it’s probably worth understanding that between 2017 and 2022, the National Institute of Mental Health funded only one drug trial for schizophrenia. Despite this illness affecting 3.8 million Americans, there is no prioritization of improving the lives of these individuals from a “federal funding” perspective. And so, if we’re only going to allow federally funded studies to occur, it would seem people living with schizophrenia are, for lack of a better word, screwed.
Now I’m moving into my own speculation here, but I’m just going to say that the pharmaceutical companies have very powerful lobbyists and very deep pockets. It seems a little off that when a study is introduced that could seriously impact their financial gain – using diet as a more effective treatment modality than even medications – all of a sudden the rules change about what science can take place. And even more interesting, that conveniently in this case, the study looking at pharmaceuticals was able to continue.
If you are also outraged by this essential censorship of safe and ethical clinical trials that are actually aimed at improving the lives of individuals living with schizophrenia or other chronic mental illness, please, please add your name to the petition started by Dr. Christopher Palmer asking for this decision to be reversed, and for the ketogenic in patient trial to continue…
This landmark trial is the only in-patient trial of ketogenic therapy for serious mental illness in the United States. We’re seeing more and more emerging evidence on this medical intervention coming forth, but halting studies like this is needlessly slowing the process of metabolic psychiatry research and is impeding patients from gaining access to this type of treatment.
Thanks so much for you help in ensuring that we continue to prioritize improving the lives of individuals living with schizophrenia and other chronic mental illnesses through ongoing cutting edge research initiatives.
(You can sign the petition here.)
And then look at the people and institutions who block that research…
Perverse incentives and revolving doors abound.
Turning a Blind Eye to Inconvenient Truth
In a world where data is currency, pay attention to the data that isn’t collected. It’s telling.
For example, in New Jersey, where the Senate and Assembly Health Committee chairs sponsor legislation requiring automatic registration to an online immunization registry database, proposed legislation to establish a children's vaccine adverse event reporting system and to include vaccination information in sudden infant death reports have repeatedly died in committee.
Our legislators want population-wide surveillance on our vaccination statuses… unless something goes wrong. Then they simply don’t want to know.
This isn’t new.
Next, consider the how the FCC opted not to update its 1996 radiofrequency (RF) radiation exposure guidelines and terminated a legal inquiry process of examining scientific evidence of adverse biological effects. While cell towers are erected all around us and smart meters are pushed on every homeowner, the National Toxicology Program of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has announced it will no longer study the effects of radio frequency radiation, despite the evidence from its own prior studies linking RFs to cancer and DNA damage.
Preserving Plausible Deniability
Industries that rely on $cience need to be able to fall back on phrases like “there is no evidence”. There is simply no room for curiosity, since curiosity may lead to the discovery of inconvenient truths that may hamper profits.
Corporations and other organizations that benefit from profitable interventions can’t afford to find evidence that may suggest that their products cause harm. And fail. (These are the same folks who have decided that “vaccine hesitancy” and not vaccine failures is a public health crisis.) They can’t afford to learn that offshore wind may be killing whales or that electric cars may ultimately pose more harm to the environment. They can’t risk confirming that raw milk and exposure to sunshine have health benefits… that exposure to childhood infectious diseases may help prevent cancer… or that a ketogenic diet can heal what their drugs merely (and poorly) suppress.
Instead, funding goes to universities and institutions that will do research that can be used to justify policy and award patents…
And studies are designed to reach desired conclusions (or as close as they can get to them).
In this way, they’re not so much studies as schemes.
$cience has become a tool that is used to manipulate nature. And outcomes.
Public health has become a tool that manipulates our understanding of health to change our behavior and gain our compliance.
Pay close attention to the research that isn’t done and the studies that are dismissed. They may well be the burial grounds for inconvenient truth.
It’s a good time to ask questions and revisit what we want healing to look like.
It’s a good time to try to reclaim our instincts and our connection to nature.
Let’s take back the reins!
The also say, "It's unhealthy to stay on a ketogenic diet" and, "an excess of niacin in the body causes cancer." Somehow I've been on a ketogenic diet for over two years without any issues and I also have been taking 3g of niacin per day for over six months (sure is cheaper than Tru Niagen and I'd argue that it's just as effective).
So blatantly corrupt in the USA where so much is privately funded. The determination to keep people ill is satanic.