(np) medical heresy

[Michael Bailey]

** seems the editors of Wikipedia are excising favorable references to
Orthomolecular Medicine and Homeopathy **
not quite Pynchon but, by the dear sweet holy Jesus and his little
sister Naomi, this is great stuff!

quoted from below:
"Believe it or not, one of Wikipedia's contributors is the CIA, and
they are not just updating their own entries, either.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/16/2007049.htm"


The Hidden Wikipedia:
How to Find Deleted Material about Nutritional Medicine

(OMNS, May 11, 2010) There is nothing quite like a paper trail, and
Wikipedia has one. Consequently, you can read for yourself all the
material that has been added, and then deleted.

For example: Wikipedia's page about Max Gerson, M.D., is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Gerson . The doctor is widely known
for the nutritional cancer therapy that bears his name. Gerson's
principal biographer is his grandson, Howard Straus
http://www.doctoryourself.com/gersonbio.htm . Mr. Straus tells the
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service of some interesting experiences
he has had with Wikipedia bias:

"Some years ago, on seeing that the pages for Dr. Max Gerson and the
Gerson Therapy were only stubs (short place-holders with little
information on them), I took it upon myself to flesh out the pages. I
thought Wikipedia was fairly neutral on balance, so I put in all the
information that I could, and kept it factual with references,
citations, and literature links.

"Within a month, the following had happened:

"The information was labeled as "biased" and "unreliable" because I am
Dr. Gerson's grandson and biographer. There appeared a big red flag at
the top of the article labeling the articles neutrality "dubious." The
photograph I posted was removed. Provable, referenced facts, with
dates and places, all suddenly became "claims," even quotes from no
less than Nobel Laureate Albert Schweitzer, M.D., who famously said:
"I see in Dr. Max Gerson one of the most eminent geniuses in medical
history." Dr. Schweitzer and his wife were patients of Dr. Gerson,
making this a first-hand account from a rather reliable source.

"All my links, references and citations were removed. They were
replaced by links to the American Cancer Society and National Cancer
Institute, which offer only criticism of the Gerson Therapy. Even
quotations from published scientific papers were removed. Attempts to
rectify these actions were immediately overwritten.

"It's easy enough to show the progression of the pages, since
Wikipedia displays former edits on request, dated and documented. One
can verify this by clicking on the "History" tab at the top of the Max
Gerson page, and looking at 2005 and before. My editing is archived at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/69.109.140.164 and
also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Howard_Straus

"A second Wikipedia page, specific to the Gerson Therapy, has been
completely removed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gerson_therapy&redirect=no .
To see something of what happened, you can click the "History" tab
here as well."

The OMNS adds just one other intriguing statement about Dr. Gerson's
work that is probably too "unreliable" to be seen on Wikipedia:

"I know of one patient who turned to Gerson Therapy having been told
she was suffering from terminal cancer and would not survive another
course of chemotherapy. Happily, seven years later, she is alive and
well. So it is vital that, rather than dismissing such experiences, we
should further investigate the beneficial nature of these treatments."
(H.R.H. Charles, Prince of Wales)

Max Gerson is not the only nutritionally-oriented physician whose work
is slanted or censored at Wikipedia. Others include Matthias Rath,
M.D., and Robert F. Cathcart III, M.D.

Matthias Rath, M.D.

Dr. Rath coauthored a number of papers with Linus Pauling. (1-8) They
discussed high-dose vitamin therapy for cardiovascular disease. To see
what is going on at Wikipedia concerning him:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Matthias_Rath

Paul Anthony Taylor, a supporter of Dr. Rath, comments: "Instead of
providing free access to the sum of all human knowledge, as is its
supposed aim, Wikipedia would appear to be just another way of
supporting the scientific, political and social status quo. In a
sense, however, the game is already up for Wikipedia. The official
exams watchdog in the UK, Ofqual, recently stated that schoolchildren
should avoid it as it is not "authoritative or accurate" and in some
cases "may be completely untrue"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/6943325/Schoolchildren-told-to-avoid-Wikipedia.html
Believe it or not, one of Wikipedia's contributors is the CIA, and
they are not just updating their own entries, either.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/16/2007049.htm When it
comes to nutritional therapies, you won't currently find much of it on
Wikipedia."

 Robert F. Cathcart, M.D.

The Wikipedia page for this physician has been deleted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Robert_Cathcart
Why? Because Dr. Cathcart "does not meet notability criteria per
WP:BIO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BIO " and "a quick
google search shows up no reliable hits for this subject."

Indeed? It appears that someone was not looking. Orthopedic surgeon
Robert F. Cathcart III is the inventor of the Cathcart Elliptical
Orthocentric Endoprosthesis, a replacement hip-ball joint still in
widespread use today after 37 years. http://www.orthomed.com/pros.pdf
Some physicians report it to be superior to other similar devices.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2661497 That alone qualifies him as
notable, and invalidates the deletion of his page at Wikipedia. In
addition, Linus Pauling personally singled out Dr. Cathcart for
recognition for his nutritional knowledge as early as 1978. (9)

Possibly, just possibly, the real reason Dr. Cathcart is deleted from
Wikipedia has much more to do with his outspoken advocacy of very high
doses of vitamin C to treat viral illnesses.
http://www.doctoryourself.com/cathcart_thirdface.html and either
http://www.doctoryourself.com/titration.html or
http://www.orthomed.com/titrate.htm

Here is all the deleted material on Dr. Cathcart:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Robert_Cathcart&action=history

Take a look and decide for yourself.

For More Information:

Max Gerson, M.D.
Complete bibliography of Dr. Gerson's publications:
http://www.doctoryourself.com/bib_gerson.html
Extensive list of papers about the Gerson Therapy:
http://www.doctoryourself.com/bib_gerson_therapy.html

For free access to a documentary on the Gerson Therapy:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7357629140536485998
A review of this film, from J Orthomolecular Med, 2006:
http://www.doctoryourself.com/gersonmovie.html

 Additional Reading:
http://www.doctoryourself.com/gersontherapy.html
http://www.doctoryourself.com/charlotte.html

Matthias Rath, M.D.
Papers coauthored with Linus Pauling:

1. Rath M, Pauling L. Immunological evidence for the accumulation of
lipoprotein(a) in the atherosclerotic lesion of the hypoascorbemic
guinea pig. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1990 Dec;87(23):9388-90. PMID:
2147514

2. Rath M, Pauling L. Hypothesis: lipoprotein(a) is a surrogate for
ascorbate. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1990 Aug;87(16):6204-7. Erratum
in: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1991 Dec 5;88(24):11588. PMID: 2143582

3. Rath M, Pauling L. Solution To the Puzzle of Human Cardiovascular
Disease: Its Primary Cause Is Ascorbate Deficiency Leading to the
Deposition of Lipoprotein(a) and Fibrinogen/Fibrin in the Vascular
Wall. J Orthomolecular Med, Vol 6, 3&4th Quarters, 1991, p 125.

4. Pauling L, Rath M. An Orthomolecular Theory of Human Health and
Disease. J Orthomolecular Med, Vol 6, 3&4th Quarters, 1991, p 135.

5. Rath M, Pauling L. Apoprotein(a) Is An Adhesive Protein. J
Orthomolecular Med, Vol 6, 3&4th Quarters, 1991, p 139.

6. Rath M, Pauling L. Case Report: Lysine/Ascorbate Related
Amelioration of Angina Pectoris. J Orthomolecular Med, Vol 6, 3&4th
Quarters, 1991, p 144.

7. Rath M, Pauling L. A Unified theory of Human Cardiovascular Disease
Leading the Way To the Abolition of This Diseases As A Cause for Human
Mortality. J Orthomolecular Med, Vol 7, First Quarter 1992, p 5.

8. Rath M, Pauling L. Plamin-induced Proteolysis and the Role of
Apoprotein(a), Lysine and Synthetic Lysine Analogs. J Orthomolecular
Med, Vol 7, First Quarter 1992, p 17.

Dr. Rath's Assessment of Wikipedia:
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/wiki_rath/how_the_facts_arent_welcome_on_wikipedia.html

Robert F. Cathcart, M.D.
Reference 9. Pauling L. Robert Fulton Cathcart, III, M.D., an
orthomolecular physician. The Linus Pauling Institute of Science and
Medicine Newsletter, 1(4):1-3 Fall 1978. Free download of article:
http://www.orthomed.com/PDF/pauling.pdf

Short biography of Dr. Cathcart:
http://orthomolecular.org/hof/2008/cathcart.html His extensive website
on vitamin C therapeutics: http://www.orthomed.com/ Bibliography of
his publications with links to full-text articles:
http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_cathcart.html

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