The coronavirus pandemic
shows the world a clear example of conflicts and mixups of the two
trades, i.e., the practice of medicine and the science of medicine.
Coronavirus pandemic has resulted in an intense debate about the
legitimacy of the pandemic, the existence and isolation of the virus,
and perhaps more importantly, the development and relevancy of vaccines.
This article provides a critical view highlighting the potential cause
of the debate.
It is argued that the
practice of medicines is mistakenly also considered the science of
medicines. It is further argued that there is no such thing as the
“science of medicines” but a twisted and falsified version of the actual
science – chemistry. Considering the pandemic and related topics as
noted above and applying principles of chemistry, it would immediately
be apparent that pandemic and its associated issues have no logical and
scientific basis.
In some of my earlier
articles, the focus has been on explaining terms commonly used such as
RNA/DNA, PCR, and associated testing, test validation, vaccines in a
simple and non-technical language. Unfortunately, such terminologies are
described in scientific literature and public media as if understanding
these mystical entities requires a high degree of academic
qualification and hands-on experience only available within hospital
environments.
Narratives are presented as
if “experts” deal with very high levels of complex science or
substances. In addition, the main message appears to be that only a tiny
group of people is capable of understanding the concepts and details.
However, facts remain that publicly made claims are chemistry-based but
described withoutacknowledging and explaining it as chemistry or the
actual science.
They are described under many
different confusing names or terminologies. For example: pharmacology,
immunology, microbiology, virology, epidemiology, molecular biology,
gene sequencing and therapy, proteins, enzymes, antibodies,
pharmaceuticals, therapeutics, collectively under the umbrella of
“science of medicines.” However, they all fall under the chemistry
science category representing well-known and well-established chemistry
processes. There is no such thing as a science of medicines, but the
subject (medicine) is a user of the science, mainly chemistry.
The intention here is not to
downplay this noble and respectable profession of medicines. It is to
clarify that the medical profession has diverged from its basis and has
made mistakes after mistakes leading to putting people’s lives in danger
or death. The focus of this article is to explain and differentiate the
practice of medicines from the science of medicines. The two aspects
are very different from each other but are described as the same.
This mixup has caused the
mistakes leading to the disastrous outcome of defining and handling the
COVID pandemic and its treatment with so-called vaccines.
The practice of medicines:
A professional, commonly known
as a doctor or physician, practices the medicines. This person is
trained by studying mostly physiological conditions of humans, including
comparative healthy vs. ill persons. In addition, the physicians are
trained to link abnormal physiological states with medicines to bring
the body to a normal healthy state, if and when the need arises.
The physicians are expected to
memorize three aspects, i.e., physiological conditions, medication
characteristics, and their interactions. The efficiency of their
profession requires and is judged by
accurately and critically
evaluating patients’ physical symptoms and clinical laboratory reports.
They then proceed with diagnosis and treatment, at least with medicine
from the choice of options. At no time is it expected that physicians
would be experimenting in any shape or form with human physiology and/or
the treatment.
The descriptions here are
restricted to non-invasive pharmaceutical interventions but could be
extended to invasive or surgical interventions as well. It is just like
any professional trade, operating and fixing large and complex machinery
such as trains, planes, ships, manufacturing plants, oil rigs, nuclear
reactors, etc. Someone has to know the operation of the machines and if a
malfunction occurs to bring them into the normal operating state as per
operating principles and instructions. A physicians’ job is no
different or should not be considered any different.
A physician is trained to
work with a machine or physiological plant, known as a human being. The
body follows the natural laws of science and mechanics. When it is
referred to as science-based, people often do not realize that it is all
based on the science of chemistry – pure and simple. For example,
starting with food, it’s the input raw material – practically everything
is based on chemicals and chemical reactions. There is a wide variety
of food available for people to consume and enjoy.
Still, all provide few
essential chemical components, e.g., carbohydrate, fat, proteins, and
some micronutrients such as vitamins and minerals along with water and
oxygen. That is all. We all consume food for these components. Body
breakdown these chemicals and then amazingly re-assembled them for
required components to build its structure and provide energy for
maintaining its structure and function, aka health.
What one sees as health and
disease is the normal or not-normal, respectively, operation of the
plant, i.e., the human body. Not-normal means some deviation is
happening in operation. The underlying cause, i.e., science, of this
abnormality is searched and established in the research laboratories,
not in the hospitals or physicians’ offices. A simple example of
abnormal functioning of the body process is observing acid reflexes.
The cause of acid reflux is
usually incomplete or inefficient digestion of food, which results in
jumping of stomach content towards the mouth. The burning sensation
often results from the caustic effect of the highly acidic content from
the stomach. This burning sensation could be reduced or end by consuming
an antidote such as milk, which provides buffering capacity by lowering
the stomach acidity temporarily. Then body-process would take over the
deviation and correct it.
This example is not to
provide medical insight or advice but a simple analogy to describe what
our elders used to do and told us to do. They used to call it something
of meaning “sour heart” and suggested the remedy described here.
The principles of chemical
science describe this process as acid reflux. It is not critical what
you name the physiological deviation, the body is behaving normally, and
some intervention would help smooth sailing through the unpleasant
feeling or experience. Eventually, the body’s natural processes will
take over, and the body function returns to its normal state. In modern
times, physicians would diagnose the same thing. Still, instead of
suggesting milk, they may suggest Tums tablets, which are calcium-based
acidity reducers just like calcium in milk would.
It is a simple example of a
diagnosis but describes the fundamental principle of diagnosis and
treatment or art or practice of medicine. It is always possible that the
body gets attacked by foreign or sometimes even endogenous microbes,
such as bacteria, and gets overwhelmed and may require external help to
get rid of the toxin. In those cases, the body would need or benefit
from external intervention. A good example of such is infections and
their treatments with antibiotics. This will fall under the domain of
the practice of medicine, diagnosis/treatment pair.
The most important thing to
note here is that the treatment must be temporary and for the shortest
possible duration. Most, if not all, such external treatments usually
have unnatural ingredients
commonly referred to as
medicines or pharmaceuticals. These are primarily chemical compounds
(simple or complex) that are not part of the body’s essential
ingredients’ needs and requirements. It is like the breakdown of any
machinery with a temporary fix. A car might require tapping the cooling
pipe leak or broken exhaust pipe. However, they would require fixing or
replacement as per original specifications for its proper operation.
In its physical operation,
the body functions as a pre-programmed self-growing and maintainable
machine. As noted above, for all practical purposes body require the
above-mentioned essential
nutrients for its survival and function by performing exhaustive list chemical processes or reactions.
Science of medicines:
Considering the nature of the
essential ingredients critically, their breakdowns and transferring
into body skeleton and muscular structure and its maintenance and
functioning, it should be evident that the human body is a marvelous
chemical machine or plant. Therefore, if one likes to establish the
body’s normal or healthy state, it must be monitored with its chemical
balances. A battery of clinical tests serves this purpose – monitoring
the body operating status.
Most, if not all, these
tests, commonly known as clinical tests, are straightforward and
standard chemical tests. These clinical tests form the basis of a
healthy body’s outcome and reflect the baseline values. Consider a urine
test result, as an example, showing the presence of urea, among other
components. Where did this urea come from? The body never consumes urea
in its diet of required essential ingredients. It came, as waste, from
chemical processes/reactions in the body for its function and
maintenance.
It is a straightforward
example, showing that hundreds, if not thousands, of chemical reactions
occur in the body. A disease state often reflects some deviation in the
chemical-based outcome, increase or decrease such as blood cholesterol
or sugar levels or physical characteristics such as body temperature and
blood pressure.The monitoring of chemical processes/reactions of
healthy and sick people, followed by developing an appropriate
intervention by adjusting essential ingredients supply or other
chemical-based components, is called the science of medicines. This
science activity is not conducted in hospital environments by
medical-related subjects, but by definition, in laboratories with solid
expertise in chemistry-based science.
However, in general, modern
medical experts consider this part of the practice of medicines. In
doing so, they make colossal mistakes in inventing and classifying
diseases and their treatments by doing chemistry or science work without
having the necessary underlying training and experience. Practically
every aspect of disease invention and classification of the past at
least five to six decades of “scientific” progress is arguably
completely bogus, and now led to a disastrous episode of the current
coronavirus pandemic.
Coronavirus pandemic:
This mistaken aspect of the
science of medicine may very well be explained by describing the current
coronavirus pandemic. Consider how the coronavirus illness or pandemic
got started – simply by initiating a rumor. Someone in the field of
medicines, in this case, virology, either created or believed in the
rumor, i.e., a new disease has developed. It will spread, potentially
killing millions of people. As virologists started the rumor, hence the
new disease has to be because of a virus.
It was a pure and simple
baseless rumor because no evidence of the virus’s existence or its link
to the disease was available or provided. The disease was classified as
SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome). In addition, it was promoted
that it is a contagious disease and spreading very fast. The immediate
protection suggested was locking everyone within their homes as if there
was a flock of birds flying that would poke people outside their homes.
It was declared that the poking occurs on the mouth and nose
(respiratory), so they must be covered as well.
Further, it was advised that
people should not come near one another (remain at least 6 feet apart)
to avoid transferring the poked material. Countries-wide emergencies
were declared to enforce these mandates. A test was developed to monitor
the virus. Perhaps the absurdity of the whole situation is that no one
isolated and identified the virus (the poked-material), but a test was
developed to measure the unknown virus. Only physicians or virologists
can pull such a trick.
In reality, developing tests
fall under analytical chemistry science; however, the job was never
assigned to it but kept within the medicine area. If chemistry
scientists and laboratories had assigned the task of isolating the virus
and developing its test, the pandemic would never have existed from day
one. Scientifically, it is impossible to develop and validate a test
without having the reference material in hand – isolated virus, i.e.,
no virus specimen, no valid test, no pandemic. Therefore, the
declarationof the virus and its disease certainly reflect ignorance
about the science of medicines.
The point being this modern-day disease
identification process and linking it to its cause is certainly not
scientific. It is no different than disease identification practices of
medieval times, i.e., not logical or scientific, except modern “healers”
and “scientists” are presented in air-tight costumes surrounded by
expensive instruments. No outsider’s opinion is considered or sought,
such as chemistry-based science, because it is assumed that no one else
would know or be considered capable of understanding the medicines.
Everything remains within peers, i.e.,
authenticated by the same small group of people or experts with limited
knowledge or experience of the chemistry aspect of disease
manifestation. It is believed that the current pandemic is causing
deaths because of respiratory infection presumably caused by the virus.
The logic would dictate that one should treat the visible or measurable
illness – the infection. However, the public has been forced to accept
protection from the invisible, non-isolated, and non-measurable virus,
not the infection – pure and simple black magic approach.
Interestingly, no existing pharmaceutical or even viral treatment was considered or allowed but often
prohibited. A brand new treatment/vaccine was sought, which had to be developed. In the meantime,
patients must have to wait or may even die until a new treatment is developed— complete defiance of
logic and lack of care of patients’ health and prevention of potential deaths.
Claims of “scientific” authenticity of developing and approving a treatment are often based on clinical
(human) trials. A “clinical
trial” is promoted as the primary tool for such purposes. It is used
primarily to convince the public and regulatory authorities that science
is being followed in developing medicines.
Vaccine product development is described here to explain how even clinical trials do not follow logical
reasoning and fundamental scientific principles and requirements.
Clinical trials a non-scientific exercise:
In general, a clinical trial may be described as a comparative
evaluation of an entity against a blank or control (commonly known as
placebo) for addressing an issue at hand, which falls under the category
of the science of testing. A clinical trial is called clinical because
instead of testing (trials) in animals or non-animal laboratory-based,
they are conducted employing human subjects. The subjects (humans) are
divided into two groups, one for the treatment and the other without, to
see if the treatment provided the expected outcome without producing
unacceptable adverse effects.
To understand the principle of clinical trials, one can do a simple
clinical trial at home. For example, a study (“clinical trial”) can
easily be conducted at home to observe weight gain with fat and sugar
consumption. To conduct such a clinical trial, one would need some
healthy volunteers, a supply of fat (e.g., ice cream) and sugar (e.g.,
chocolate topping), and a weighing scale to monitor the weight. All one
has to do is divide the volunteers into two groups and feed one of the
groups a bowl of chocolate-loaded ice cream daily for a month and the
other without. Monitor the weights at a predetermined schedule and
establish the weight differences. Voila, one has done a clinical trial.
Similarly, if one likes to develop a vaccine for treating COVID, one
needs to get the COVID patient volunteers to show that treatment works.
However, the problem is that there are no COVID patients available. How
should it be that there are no COVID patients available while countries
are in the grip of the COVID pandemic?
The second option would then be to create patients by inoculating
with the virus to develop COVID. But the problem is that there is no
virus available to inoculate to create COVID illness. Again, how is it
that the virus is spreading, but the virus sample is not available?
So, a normal and standard clinical trial could not be done and has never been done. Does it not show that there is no pandemic?
Therefore, made-up “clinical trials” were conducted using healthy
human volunteers, half inoculated with vaccines and the other half
without vaccines
Volunteers in both groups were monitored with the PCR test to observe
COVID in volunteers. It is important to note that this PCR test has
never been validated to test the presence or absence of the COVID virus.
However, a positive test is considered to show the presence of the
virus. It is still to date a mystery as to how results from testing
using a non-validated one become scientific and acceptable?
In Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine development, some 162 volunteers tested
positive for placebo while only eight with the vaccine, out of about
twenty thousand volunteers in each group. Therefore, it was considered
that the efficacy of the vaccine is 95%.
The basis of this interpretation is as follows: If there had not been
given the treatment, both (treated and placebo) groups would have an
equal number of positive tests. However, as the treated group showed
only eight positives, the vaccination protected the remaining from the
virus. Make sure it should be understood that the test does not test the
virus at all. However, claims are being made about the protection from
the virus. How could such an interpretation be considered something
other than false and fraudulent?
On the other hand, unfortunately, the public generally assumes, which
would be a scientifically correct interpretation as well, that out of
twenty thousand plus volunteers in the treatment group, 95% (19, 900)
must have been cured, which is not correct. It is a sad and disturbing
story of false science and begs for answers, clarification, and audit of
“science of medicines.”
The development of vaccines provides the latest and extreme example
of the non-scientific practice of the science of medicine. However, if
critically evaluated, most clinical trials would fail the fundamental
principle and requirement of science.
The vaccine’s clinical trial example provides clear evidence that the
medical profession cannot conduct a proper and valid scientific study.
It should be expected because the profession has never been taught or
trained to conduct scientific and experimental studies. The current
practices of the science of medicines are seriously threatening the
patients’ well-being and safety and require urgent attention and audit.
Conclusions:
The practice of medicines and the science of medicines are separate
subjects. The practice of medicine is a professional trade that
physicians are trained for and to practice. On the other hand, the
science of medicines is a laboratory-based experimental science that is
supposed to be conducted in research laboratories at a distance from
hospitals and medical facilities. Identification and classification of
diseases and corresponding treatments should be considered part of
testing or analytical science mostly based on chemical science
(chemistry) principles.
The coronavirus pandemic provides a clear example of confusion and
mixup of the two trades, i.e., the practice of medicines and the science
of medicines. The tragic experience of the pandemic offers an
opportunity as well in separating the two professional trades to avoid
creating future non-existing illnesses/pandemics and their treatments
and to prevent future catastrophic human sufferings and economic losses.
Suggested further readings:
- (Video) Virus, COVID, pandemic, vaccine, and testing: fiction, not reality or science! (http://www.drug-dissolution-testing.com/?p=3650)
- COVID-19: The virus does not exist – it is confirmed! (http://www.drug-dissolution-testing.com/?p=3613)
- The FDA Committee’s Review of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine: Unscientific, False and Deceitful (http://www.drug-dissolution-testing.com/?p=3591)
- CDC virus testing and isolation claims for SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: Non-scientific and pure illusion! (http://www.drug-dissolution-testing.com/?p=3548)
- Understanding clinical trials and their outcomes – fake science at its best! (http://www.drug-dissolution-testing.com/?p=3471)
- Will therapeutics/vaccines be developed for COVID-19? Of course – but only fake ones! (http://www.drug-dissolution-testing.com/?p=3425)
About the author: Saeed A Qureshi PhD gained
extensive (30+ year) experience in conducting hands-on and
multi-disciplinary laboratory research in pharmaceutical areas for
regulatory assessment purposes while working with Health Canada.
He is an internationally recognised expert in the areas of
pharmacokinetics, biopharmaceutics, drug dissolution testing, analytical
chemistry as related to characterization of pharmaceuticals, in
particular, based on in vitro (dissolution) and
bioavailability/bioequivalence (humans and animals) assessments.
At present, Dr. Qureshi provides teaching, training and
consulting services, in the area of his expertise as noted above, for
improved pharmaceutical products development and assessments. Dr.
Qureshi can be reached by email (principal@pharmacomechanics.com) or Tel (+1 613 797 9815)
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