In Austria, even some of the most blatant quackery continues to be supported by the country’s medical association. This has been notorious for a very long time, and many rational doctors have opposed this nonsense. Now my friends and colleagues have courageously sent an open letter to the President of the Austrian Medical Association. In order to support their efforts, I have taken the liberty of translating it:
Dr. Johannes Steinhart
President of the Austrian Medical Association
Weihburggasse 10-12
1010 Vienna
Dear President Steinhart,
In 2014 we founded the “Initiative for Scientific Medicine” with the aim of counteracting the support of pseudo-medicine by medical associations and the Ministry of Health.
We (www.initiative-wissenschaftliche-medizin.at) have been demanding for years that the Austrian Medical Association distance itself from irrational, predominantly esoteric pseudo-medicine and refrain from awarding diplomas in them. We also made these demands on behalf of the supporters of the initiative (currently 1142 supporters, of which 495 are female doctors and 230 natural scientists) during a discussion with the former president Wechselberger in 2015 (unfortunately unsuccessful at the time).
We would like to draw your attention to a resolution of the German Medical Congress 2022 on homeopathy and a court ruling in the first instance in Germany on the subject of bioresonance, which show that our neighbours have obviously begun to treat pseudomedicine for what it is, namely sham medicine.
The 126th German Medical Congress 2022 in Bremen has, among other things, passed a long overdue resolution. The additional title “homeopathy” was deleted from the (model) further training regulations. Prior to this decision, 12 of 17 state medical associations had already taken this decision themselves.
In May 2022 in Reutlingen, two managing directors of a company producing and selling bioresonance devices were sentenced to 2 and 3 years in prison and a fine of 2.5 million euros, and the former sales director to 90 days’ imprisonment for commercial fraud and violation of the Therapeutic Products Advertising Act. The verdict is not yet legally binding. Unfortunately, many Austrian doctors also practice this pseudo-medicine method.
The fact that many colleagues offer esoteric, pseudo-medical “therapies” without proven benefits to their patients and can refer to diplomas and accredited further training courses of the Medical Association/Academy of Physicians is difficult for us to understand, especially in view of the fact that the majority of the accredited further training courses are of high scientific quality. A medical association that argues that such pseudo-medical practices “should better remain in the hands of doctors (as “healers”)” contradicts the principles of evidence-based medicine to which the medical association always refers. The corona pandemic has shown us all the damage potential of science denial.
We believe that the time has also come for the Austrian Medical Association to come clean. We call on the Austrian Medical Association to unreservedly declare its support for scientific medicine, to clearly distance itself from pseudo-medicine, to suspend the awarding of diplomas in pseudo-medicine methods that are far removed from science, and to end the accreditation of pseudo-medicine training courses by the Medical Academy.
We are publishing this open letter on our website and will also publish your reply if you so wish.
With collegial greetings
Dr. Theodor Much, Specialist in Dermatology and Venereology, Baden near Vienna
DDr. Viktor Weisshäupl, retired specialist in anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine, Vienna
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Anything to distract from the “safe and effective(™)” excess deaths from unknown causes.
Bravo, OB: anything to demonstrate your limited capacity for understanding anything related to medicine!
@Old Bob
“Safe and effective deaths”? What on earth have you been taking?
nonsense, as usual
I wonder, does the UK’s GMC have to recognise primary medical qualifications awarded and regulated by Austrian authorities?
If so, if these are the standards acceptable in Austria, should the GMC rethink its position?
before Brexit, this was the case; now I am not sure.
i’ve proven over 66 years of my and my animals lives (we all outlive and out-sport all our counterparts) that anything with drugs, chems and the like destroy our bodies. The homeo sapiens (lit trans WISE MAN) is only interested in destroying everything NATURE has created to suit his every whim.
possibly this is whom the jab was aimed at???
all my dis-ease has been related to white sugar (fed to me by an sweet addicted mother), plus of course those formidable suppressed childhood emotions, and those toxic white aluminium ‘ceramic’ fillings which i’ve had to have out and lose my teeth in the process. my father died independently (cared for himself) at 93 years old with a mouth full of amalgams. nothing wrong with his mental state (eg amalgams contain mercury but they don’t seep, like the ‘ceramics’, into one’s meridian points under each tooth to flow down the 2 mile long dentinal tubules only to poison one’s body). this can all be confirmed by HTMA (hair tissue mineral analysis) – the most successful method of determining one’s health eg removing toxic metals and balancing one’s minerals with bio-organic whole foods. the best and ONLY WAY to stay healthy until you cark it. i’m fed up of people making excuses for sickness eg it’s old age. do you know some hunzas live up to 180. in many highland countries in the world like georgia, the mountains in turkey, canada and south america there are groups of people all living well over 100 years. the difference: no western medicine, no pollution, spring water and whole foods with a bit of hard work thrown in.
Bravo meremortal55. You have managed to pack a whole bunch of nonsense into a couple of paragraphs. Have you thought of applying for a job at Free Speech Systems, an Alex Jones company? Alex Jones of InfoWars fame. I think you have the potential to be his writer. You can make a lot of money. Think about it!
QUOTE Burusho people, Longevity myth, Wikipedia
A widely repeated claim of remarkable longevity of the Hunza people has been refuted as a longevity myth, citing a life expectancy of 53 years for men and 52 for women, although with a high standard deviation. There is no evidence that Hunza life expectancy is significantly above the average of poor, isolated regions of Pakistan. Claims of health and long life were almost always based solely on the statements by the local mir (king). An author who had significant and sustained contact with Burusho people, John Clark, reported that they were overall unhealthy.
Clark and Lorimer reported frequent violence and starvation in Hunza.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burusho_people#Longevity_myth
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Please remember: if you make a claim in a comment, support it with evidence.
What a shame Sandra isn’t here any more. meremortal55 is a fellow loon, but a loon with opinions diametrically opposed to those of Sandra. And equally as wrong.
if you’ve ever bothered to research exensively on the hunza peoples you would have read
The Wheel of Health by Dr Guy Wrench (Royal College of Surgeons London) circa 1930s who followed up a visit by one of his superiors decades prior (also from the Royal College of Surgeons London). this visit confirmed that men, already centenarians were still going strong (playing volleyball and fathering children at the time of Wrench’s visit). these humble hunza were not only the healthiest and long-lived people on the planet but they were the happiest. instead of walking around with blinkers on give Nature a chance. you’ll then learn nothing is more powerful whether it’s related to health or climate! to me it’s common sense (not much of that around here by the sounds of you folk!) that gives me my answers and experiences. one doesn’t need rocket science to see that the medical and hospital systems are failing in more ways than one and the ‘humble’ GP seems to be killing more people than helping – just check out the number of deaths and injured after this jab affair. it’s shocking. and if you researched more you’ll find the same with the smallpox vaccine eg there were 1 or 2 people per hundred who died before the vaccination came along then it turned to 30-40% dying of smallpox (Health Wars by Phillip Day). like my friend say ‘don’t waste time on those that are on the dark side. they are there for a reason!’.
@ meremortal55
You didn’t bother to read the Wikipedia article from which I quoted, did you. Now tell us, what is [14] in the first paragraph:
QUOTE Burusho people, Longevity myth, Wikipedia
A widely repeated claim of remarkable longevity of the Hunza people[14] has been refuted as a longevity myth, citing a life expectancy of 53 years for men and 52 for women, although with a high standard deviation.[15]. There is no evidence that Hunza life expectancy is significantly above the average of poor, isolated regions of Pakistan. Claims of health and long life were almost always based solely on the statements by the local mir (king). An author who had significant and sustained contact with Burusho people, John Clark, reported that they were overall unhealthy.[16]
Clark and Lorimer reported frequent violence and starvation in Hunza.[17]
References
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14. Wrench, Dr Guy T (1938). The Wheel of Health: A Study of the Hunza People and the Keys to Health. 2009 reprint. Review Press. ISBN 978-0-9802976-6-9. Retrieved 12 August 2010.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burusho_people#Longevity_myth
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Pete Attkins on Wednesday 24 August 2022 at 09:53 pointed out…
…that the Hunza is a bad example (nutritionally).
A better example might be from Weston A. Price’s book: Nutrition and Physical Degeneration where he argues from-historic-and-world-wide evidence that:
“IF PRIMITIVE races have been more efficient than modernized groups in the matter of preventing degenerative processes, physical, mental and moral, it is only because they have been more efficient in complying with Nature’s laws.”
E.g:
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“A mother asked my assistance in planning the nutritional program for her boy. She reported that he was five years of age and that he had been in bed in hospitals with rheumatic fever, arthritis and an acute heart involvement most of the time for the past two and a half years. She had been told that her boy would not recover, so severe were the complications. As is so generally the case with rheumatic fever and endocarditis, this boy was suffering from severe tooth decay. In this connection the American Heart Association has reported that 75 per cent of heart involvements begin before ten years of age. My studies have shown that in about 95 per cent of these cases there is active tooth decay.
The important change that I made in this boy’s dietary program was the removal of the white flour products and in their stead the use of freshly cracked or ground wheat and oats used with whole milk to which was added a small amount of specially high vitamin butter produced by cows pasturing on green wheat. Small doses of a high-vitamin, natural cod liver oil were also added. At this time the boy was so badly crippled with arthritis, in his swollen knees, wrists, and rigid spine, that he was bedfast and cried by the hour. With the improvement in his nutrition which was the only change made in his care, his acute pain rapidly subsided, his appetite greatly improved, he slept soundly and gained rapidly in weight. In the first view, to the left, in Fig. 94, the boy is shown sitting on the edge of the bed at the end of the first month on this program. His joints were still badly swollen and his spine so rigid that he could not rotate his head farther than shown in the picture. In the center view he is shown about six months later, and in the third view, one year later. This occurred six years ago. As I write this a letter has been received from the boy’s mother. She reports that he is taller and heavier than the average, has a good appetite and sleeps well.”
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Modern man does not give a hoot for “nature’s laws” e.g. the second law of thermodynamics in that we can sustain world-population without fossil fuels.
Weston Price?
Oh please, OB. Is that the best you can do?