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May 1, 2006 -
Ignored
by the world mass-media far more that the worst piece of antitobacco junk
science, last April 25th was Africa Malaria Day. In that
continent, malaria causes at least one million deaths a year.
Serious accusations have been made to the World Bank a few days ago by
numerous researchers and other organizations who care about this epidemic.
It is interesting to see how the World Health Organization, which is
so much part of the fight against malaria, is the main responsible for
the spreading of the disease, as it has done nothing to stop
the ban of DDT, one of the few effective weapons against this disease
- thus
ignoring the real solution to a problem that kills so much because it is
politically convenient to adopt the precautionary principle, which
enables the forward thrust of epidemiological and political trash such as
the tobacco and obesity “epidemics”. Moreover, it is interesting to see
that the WHO, which works hand-in-hand with the WB to impose the antitobacco fraud and politics throughout the world, is conveniently “out
of range” from the WB when real epidemics are involved.
The
World
Bank, always in bed with the World Health Organization when it comes to
antitobacco, is too busy twisting the arm of those countries that resist
the antismoking fraud - and thus the marketing of smoking cessation
products by the
pharmaceutical multinationals that are official partners with the WHO
since long ago for suppressing smoking and grabbing the nicotine market.
In fact, the antitobacco epidemiological fraud enjoys a far higher
priority in the allocation of funds and resources by the WHO than malaria
does. Calling the fight against tobacco a “public
health priority” and putting an indemonstrable and multifactorial
“epidemic” before a demonstrable and monofactorial one shows the criminal
nature of the “health” bureaucrats in Geneva and throughout the world.
They should be jailed; but since nobody seems to be willing to act against
these gangsters and goes out to smoke instead, we may as well do some
dark irony about them.
It seems quite logical to me that five million virtual deaths for
“tobacco-related” diseases are entitled to far more attention and money by
the international health mobsters; after all, tobacco “deaths” are more
numerous than a mere million of malaria-caused real stiffs, which are to
be buried with undertakers and shovels in the old-fashioned way.
There are enormous advantages in virtual epidemics. Here are just a few:
a)
Elasticity/pliability
– A virtual epidemic grows and shrinks in a few milliseconds. It grows
when health authorities are hungry for public money and it shrinks when,
once they got it, they have to show that there have been results. Those
virtual results are then needed to generate further flow of public funds
from political and private meatheads who are in charge of assigning them –
otherwise the virtual epidemic grows again. All it takes is to slightly change the
attribution parameters for the multifactorial disease(s) examined and
press “Enter”, without the potentially crippling headache of having to
demonstrate causality.
Conversely, a physical epidemic has the opposite characteristics: it is
logistically heavy (one million deaths for malaria, at the average of 50
Kg. each, mean 50.000 metric tons of corpses to move and bury each year);
it becomes an environmental hazard and a lung cancer risk in case of
cremation because of all those fine particles in the air and the
greenhouse effect to boot; it is expensive (although made cheaply, coffins
must still be assembled). Worst of all, it is verifiable through a
body count. Furthermore (other serious disadvantage), it is
monofactorial and with known causality, thus epidemiological crooks
cannot make convenient attributions without proof in the way they do with
tobacco – something that is truly unacceptable, today. Finally, a physical
epidemic can clearly demonstrate bureaucratic inefficiency by “public
health” with a real and severe increment of absolute (not relative) risk
of lucrative funds being cut and possible replacement of the personnel in
charge. To add insult to injury, all of the above can happen without
questionnaires and interviews.
b)
Portability
– A virtual epidemic can be carried in a laptop.
c)
Adaptability
– A virtual epidemic can be adapted in less than 5 minutes to any nation,
and virtual mortality and social costs can be calculated by simply
entering the population number. That in turn means that local medical
authorities (mainly oncologists, pneumologists, cardiologists and medical
associations) can sound alarm bells and get instant popularity and grants
just with a few clicks of the mouse and without putting anybody at real
risk – especially themselves. Moreover social hatred, taxation and
supporting discrimination by political idiots and hysterical masses can be
turned on and off with a few pre-approved, preformatted press releases
generated by Word and sent through a cheap Internet connection to the
target areas. Simply unbeatable.
Given the tremendous advantages of virtual epidemics when compared to real
ones, it is therefore useless that small, cranky groups that are
technologically behind - and surpassed even as moral values go - make
noise on issues that, after all, are less interesting than a football
game. Africa is far away and - other than some resources such as oil – is
not interesting at all. The protests of these groups will be heard by no
one that matters – and rightfully so. No one, in fact, can stop
technological and social progress – that’s the way of the smoke-free
future. So, screw malaria and on with antitobacco!
Gian Turci
C.E.O., FORCES International |
FINALLY A REAL EPIDEMIC
