Jonathan Wright MD Accuses AMA of Scientific Fraud

In June 2009, the AMA (American Medical Association) announced a new bio-identical hormone policy which states: “There is no credible evidence that bio-identical hormones are safer than traditional estrogen and progesterone products (Premarin and Provera)”.

This AMA Bio-Identical Hormone Policy Statement is Blatantly False

Jonathon Wright’s September 2009 Newsletter accuses the AMA of scientific fraud, claiming that this AMA policy statement is blatantly false. To back up his claim, Dr. Wright cites a comprehensive review article by Kent Holtorf MD in the January 2009 issue of Postgraduate Medicine, a respected peer-reviewed medical journal.

Bioidentical Hormones are Safer and More Efficacious then Synthetic Counterparts

Dr. Holtorf’s article cites 196 research studies comparing bio-identical hormones to synthetic patented hormones (like Provera).  Dr Holtorf’s article concludes ,”Bio-identical Hormones are associated with lower risk, and are more efficacious than synthetic counterparts.  Until evidence is found to the contrary, bio-identical hormones remain the preferred method of HRT.” 

AMA Has A Long History of Corruption by Corporate Interests

How is it possible for the AMA to adopt wrong policy, and in fact, commit scientific fraud? Simple, both the AMA and the Endocrine Society serve the large corporations that control medicine. The AMA is a mouthpiece for the pharmaceutical industry.  Rather than serve the American Public or their doctor membership, the AMA serves its corporate masters.  This is the way it is, and always has been.

Trust the AMA and Have Another Cigarette

You may not remember the old days when the AMA served the cigarette industry by running cigarette ads in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).  It is all documented in this article  by Martha N. Gardner, PhD and Allan M. Brandt, PhD published in the 2006 American Journal of Public Health.

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by Jeffrey Dach MD

Catherine Responds

I reckon this little excerpt from the ‘Law of Hippocrates‘ just about sums ‘em up:

“Medicine is of all the arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present far behind all the other arts. Their mistake appears to me to arise principally from this, that in the cities there is no punishment connected with the practice of medicine (and with it alone) except disgrace, and that does not hurt those who are familiar with it. Such persons are the figures which are introduced in tragedies, for as they have the shape, and dress, and personal appearance of an actor, but are not actors, so also physicians are many in title but very few in reality.”