Here Comes The Cultism!!!! (Part II)

"In mid-February, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the Bravewell Collaborative are convening a 'Summit on Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public.' This is a watershed in the evolution of integrative medicine, a holistic approach to health care that uses the best of conventional and alternative therapies such as meditation, yoga, acupuncture and herbal remedies. Many of these therapies are now scientifically documented to be not only medically effective but also cost effective.

President-elect Barack Obama and former Sen. Tom Daschle (the nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services) understand that if we want to make affordable health care available to the 45 million Americans who do not have health insurance, then we need to address the fundamental causes of health and illness, and provide incentives for healthy ways of living rather than reimbursing only drugs and surgery."

-- The Wall Street Journal, with a pseudoscientific group quack column (wow!) written by - drumroll please:

Tupac Okra (Deepak Chopra - and yes, that's a real photo) who doesn't think TMR is aware he was a cult follower of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, or that the Maharishi sold "natural medicines" with lead in them, or that - together - they tried to scam The Journal of American Medicine.

Can anybody say "quack"?

Andrew Weil, who doesn't think TMR is aware he "has advocated the increased use of “uncontrolled clinical observations” (a euphemism for anecdotal evidence) in evaluating non-traditional medical methods," or that he pushes pseudoscientific remedies, and used to believe in the fakery of Uri Geller.

Can anybody say "fruitloop"?

Next up is Rustum Roy - he's a homeopath. TMR will say no more. No, the truth is more like TMR can say no more - without swearing and screaming. Seriously, this clown claims "that for the first time, there have been identified some key elements of water structure that can be tested and are directly related to its effectiveness as having healthful qualities." Got that?

Turn on the tap, people.

And, finally, there's Dean Ornish (and yes, that's a real photo) who thinks TMR doesn't know "Dr. Ornish began as a devotee of an Indian guru, Sri Swami Satchidananda. He became involved with the Swami after dropping out of Rice University in 1972 in a state of suicidal depression."

Nor does he think TMR knows that Dr. Timothy N. Gorski, Associate Editor of the Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine said:

"Ornish's recommendations are not suitable for most people. The few small studies claimed to prove the worth of his work have also been questioned on scientific grounds. Dr. Richard Pasternak, director of preventive cardiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, has said that 'There's virtually no science' in them. Dr. Robert Eckel, Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver and chairman of the nutrition committee of the American Heart Association also expressed serious doubts, as did Dr. Frank Sacks, a nutrition professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Sacks, in trying to replicate Dr. Ornish's results with a grant from the NIH, found that it was difficult to recruit patients and few could stick with the program. Fortunately, Ornish's program has been superseded by more effective forms of managing elevated blood cholesterol and the discovery of other treatable risk factors."

And don't forget there's Obama's U.F.O. guy, Sanjay Gupta, as Surgeon General. He agreed with the child molester, "Rael," below:

But not to worry.

There's absolutely no cult infiltration of the government going on with the election of Barack Obama. It's just a coincidence all these people are, specifically, Indian (where cults and cultism are rampant) or suck up to Indian ideas of health. It's just a coincidence all these people are, somehow, affiliated with wild-eyed cult ideas that go against what we know of reality. It's just a coincidence all of this is exactly the con job TMR has been warning against.

Everyone's assured TMR of that, for months now, so it must be true - it's gotta be. Sure. Let me remind you of two things. First are the words of Michael D. Coleman, Ph. D.:

"In the early 1960's [The Maharishi] claimed we would have enlightenment within 5 years if we simply meditated 20 minutes twice a day and didn't change anything else. Then in the late 60s we needed to do 'rounding', then become teachers of meditation, then become celibate, then follow a special diet, then put special oils on our bodies, take special supplements, get special massages, learn 'siddhis', practice siddhis regularly in groups, pay thousands of dollars for some pundits to perform 'yagyas,' then live in special architecture, then get 40,000 people together doing the siddhis, then pay $1,000,000 to have a 30 day course with Maharishi and get a little personal attention."

All very cost-effective.

Remember: Mr. Coleman ended up no better off for all those years of effort, and you can be sure that - once they really start this nonsense here - you won't be doing it right.

That's how it works.

In regards to all this cult foolishness, you can find TMR's second tip here, and it's probably the best advice you'll get today.

Have a good one.