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Taking down USA INC could save America from a petro-dollar collapse!

INTERNATIONAL LAW ATTORNEY ALFRED WEBRE EXPLAINS HOW THE US COULD PREVENT ECONOMIC COLLAPSE BY RESTORING THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION!

By AL Whitney © copyround 2015
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Alfred Lambremont Webre, a graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School is a former Fulbright Scholar. He taught at Yale University and the University of Texas, was general Counsel for the NYC EPA, and was an NGO delegate to the United Nations. Webre also served as an International Judge on the Kuala Lampur War Crimes Tribunal, that on May 11, 2012 found George Bush, Richard Cheney et. al. guilty of war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Alfred Webre is also part of a global network of researchers that have been monitoring both the global economy and the growth of human rights violations (atrocities) for many years. He has exposed depleted uranium poisoning, toxic vaccines, chemtrails, electromagentic radiation, and the entire depopulation/transhumanism agenda. He reports his research regularly on his news web site: http://newsinsideout.com/

In a recent interview Webre explained that the perpetrators of these crimes against humanity are using the military industrial complex of the UNITED STATES corporation and their bankster’s control of the world’s reserve currency (the FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE) to wreak havoc across the planet. According to Alfred Webre, if the American people restore the original United States Constitution, our country will be able to dump the private currency we are currently forced to use (the FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE) and replace it with the new gold-backed money system currently being established by the BRICS.  Such a change would free the American people from the parasitic private FEDERAL RESERVE and bring an end to their “slavery by currency“. The entire interview can be accessed here.

Alfred Webre has also drawn attention to a solution to the BRICS/USA INC dilemma in his article about the 2016 presidential election.

NOTE: Attorney Webre has endorsed the AntiCorruptionSociety’s guide LAWFULLY YOURS and instructed all Americans to challenge the unlawful authority of the UNITED STATES corporation whenever possible, which is the sole purpose of the LAWFULLY YOURS People’s Empowerment Guide.

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Our ‘government’ is just another corporation!

by AL Whitney (C) copyright 2013

http://anticorruptionsociety.com

http://anticorruptionsociety.com/is-our-government-just-another-corporation/
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“We’ll know our disinformation campaign is complete, when absolutely everything the American people believe is false”.
Wm Casey, Director of the CIA (1981)

Departments of USA INC – including it’s own logo

While most of us recognize that lobbyists for major corporations seem to control Washington, few people know that Washington, D.C. is a corporation itself. The so-called ‘federal government’ is actually the Mother Corporation of a vast network of state and local governments and governmental ‘agencies’ that is actually a CORPORATE franchise system. [1]

To understand, what our ‘government’ really is, we have to review the history that is not in most history books.  Did you know that the original ‘organic’ Constitution of 1787 was hijacked just after the Civil War? [2]

1871, February 21: Congress Passed an Act to provide a government for the District of Columbia, also known as the Act of 1871.

With no constitutional authority to do so, Congress created a separate form of government for the District of Columbia, a ten mile square parcel of land (see, Acts of the Forty-first Congress,” Section 34, Session III, chapters 61 and 62). [3]

The act — passed when the country was weakened and financially depleted in the aftermath of the Civil War — was a strategic move by foreign interests (international bankers) who were intent upon gaining a stranglehold on the coffers and neck of America.

Congress cut a deal with the international bankers (specifically Rothschilds of London) to incur a DEBT to said bankers. Because the bankers were not about to lend money to a floundering nation without serious stipulations, they devised a way to get their foot in the door of the United States.

The Act of 1871 formed a corporation called THE UNITED STATES. The corporation, OWNED by foreign interests, moved in and shoved the original Constitution into a dustbin. With the Act of 1871, the organic Constitution was defaced — in effect vandalized and sabotaged — when the title was capitalized and the word “for” was changed to “of” in the title.

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is the constitution of the incorporated UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The country was changed, by stealth, from a Constitutional Republic to a corporation. [4]

Now we can better understand why the following occurred:
•    USA INC granted ‘corporations’ the rights of ‘persons’, in a slurry of lawsuits by corporations shortly after the end of the Civil War.
•    USA INC turned control of credit and currency over to the same international bankers by passing the Federal Reserve Act in 1913 [5] and initiated a taxation scheme on the people via the 16th Amendment [6]
•    USA INC turned the US Treasury Department (including all its assets) over to the private Federal Reserve in 1920 (Independent Treasury Act – 1920) [7]

The Bankruptcy of USA INC – 1930′ s
•    USA INC, after being pillaged and bankrupted by the Federal Reserve banking cartel [8], turned over the entire country – including the people – as collateral on its corporate debt in 1933 and bound the individual states to ‘its’ bankruptcy obligations. [9]
•    USA INC gave its CEO (the President) the authority to call a national emergency (a banking ‘holiday’) and establish Executive Branch ‘agencies’ to manage the state of emergency. The “national emergency” has never been removed and is still in effect. [10] Hence we have far reaching unconstitutional  “Executive Orders”.
•    USA INC declared the American people “enemies of the state” to force them to surrender their gold [11] and use Federal Reserve debt ‘notes’ as currency [12]
•    USA INC issued Birth Certificates and Social Security Numbers whereby making the people registered ‘collateral’ for the payment of the debt owed to the same banking cartel
•    USA INC started requiring the American people – as enemies – to get licenses to do business
•    USA INC gradually altered the legal system and implemented corporate commercial Admiralty law (aka statutory law) throughout all of the states, counties and municipalities. [13] Statutes are for THEIR corporations and agencies. They only apply to us if we agree to contract with them. [14]

Then in the 70’s – 80’s USA INC (passing as a legitimate government) removed the gold standard from the dollar, tricked the states into sending their tax revenues to the District of Criminals (‘revenue sharing’) and even authorized the Department of Defense to wage war on the general population [15] – which it is now doing! There is an ongoing electro-magnetic radiation attack, it is a US military operation, and it is being inflicted on us all via the wireless communication and surveillance network. [http://smartmetersmurder.com/]

In 1992 the CEO of USA INC ordered the corporate states, counties and municipalities to sell off their public’s assets. [16]

In 2001 USA INC passed the Patriot Act, which permits unlimited spying on the American population and in 2011 Obama, the CEO of USA INC, signed the National Defense Authorization Act,  permitting the arrest, and indefinite detention of ANYONE on US soil for merely displeasing the office of the President.

– Why aren’t the American people told that they are still classified as “enemies of the state” by the so-called federal government? [17]
– Why haven’t folks heard about the USA INC bankruptcy of ’33 and the severe changes that came thereafter?
– Why aren’t we told our justice system is based on corporate/commercial law and not on justice?

Because all lawyers (including those calling themselves constitutional ‘experts’) have to swear an oath of secrecy and agree to administer the bankruptcy. [18] [19]  And a vast number of our so-called elected representatives are lawyers themselves! Very few lawyers will admit to these facts – that many might not even be aware of!

And here is the ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM:
The American people did not and would not have agreed to any of this. They were kept in the dark and today find themselves unwittingly ‘contracting’ with a completely corrupt corporate franchise system, that doesn’t represent their best interests and that they don’t even know is in place. Therefore, the CIA has achieved their goal:
” . . . everything the American people believe is false.”

So, let’s stop calling these bodies and agencies our government. They are not. They are only posing as government. They do not serve us, but are actually private corporations listed on Dunn and Bradstreet by their all caps corporate names. We owe them no loyalty and it is our duty to expose the fact that they are fraudulently receiving public funds and ‘governmental immunity’ while they are actively profiting from and harming us all . . . even if many of their employees are as much in the dark as the rest of the population.

We simply must understand that as dead legal fictions they can only control us by our ‘consent’, and retired Judge Dale did an excellent job explaining how the ‘system’ really works. A MUST READ: Judge says USA INC is just a corporate franchise network

References and Links

[1] Democratic-Federal Franchise; http://anticorruptionsociety.com/2010/03/26/democratic-federal-franchise/

[2] The Act of 1871: The United States is a corporation http://www.federaljack.com/slavery-by-consent-the-united-states-corporation/

[3] “27 CFR 72.11”  U.S. Inc. defines all crime as commercial as a result of the fall of the republic when the South walked out of congress in 1861 and the de jure congress, unable to raise a quorum, was replaced by Lincoln with the de facto corporate Congress; and the de jure district court of the United States was replaced by the de facto corporate UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT (http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_98/27cfr72_98.html)

[4] “28 USC 3002” (definition of the United States as a Federal corporation never taught in civics class; go to paragraph 15) (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/uscode28/usc_sec_28_00003002—-000-.html)

(15) “United States” means-

(A) a Federal corporation;

[5] – “Lewis v. United States 680” (Federal Reserve Bank is privately owned: “…we conclude that the Reserve Banks are not federal instrumentalities for purposes of the FTCA (Federal Tort Claims Act), but are independent, privately owned and locally controlled corporations.” Lewis v United States, 680 F.2d 1239 (9th Cir. 1982). In other words, the Fed enjoys no United States immunity from law suit because it is a Federal institution in name only. (http://nesara.org/court_summaries/lewis_v_united_states.htm and http://www.geocities.com/chrisforliberty/lewis.html)

[6] – “Grace Commission” (Confirmed that virtually ALL taxes actually go to the Federal Reserve Bank to pay interest on the U.S. debt to the banking families that own the International Monetary Fund (IMF): “With two-thirds of everyone’s personal income taxes wasted or not collected, 100 percent of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal debt and by Federal Government contributions to transfer payments. In other words, all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services which taxpayers expect from their Government.” J. Peter Grace, Cover letter, President’s Private Sector Report on Cost Control, January 12, 1984. Peter Grace was considered the Warren Buffet of his time, and the Grace Commission Report received widespread media attention as the gospel of Reagan’s so-called tax system overhaul.) (http://www.freecanadian.net/articles/grace.html or http://www.uhuh.com/taxstuff/gracecom.htm)

[7] Independent Treasury Act, 41 Stat. at L. 631, CHAP. 214 http://www.mindserpent.com/American_History/federal/acts/41_stat_631.html

[8] “Congressman Louis McFadden speech” (indictment of the Secretary of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board of Governor’s for treason by the chairman of the House Banking and Currency committee in 1934. In scathing speeches to Congress, McFadden said: “(The Fed) has impoverished and ruined the people of these United States, has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our Government.” This most knowledgeable man on banking also explained in vivid detail the method for recruiting the Federal Reserve to pay our debts as holder of the gold, and which is at the heart of today’s “tax remedies.”) (http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7006/mcfadden-frb.html or http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/3616/flaherty10.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_T._McFadden)

[9] Who is Running America; http://www.barefootsworld.net/usfraud.html

[10] – “Senate Report 93-549” (The United States has been under dictatorial control since March 9, 1933. Report of the Special Committee on the Termination of the National Emergency, Senate Report 93-549, War and Emergency Powers Acts, November 19, 1973. “Foreward: Since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency…These proclamations give force to 470 provisions of Federal law. These hundreds of statutes delegate to the President extraordinary powers, ordinarily exercised by the Congress, which affect the lives of American citizens in a host of all-encompassing manners. This vast range of powers, taken together, confer enough authority to rule the country without reference to normal Constitutional processes. Under the powers delegated by these statutes, the President may: seize property; organize and control the means of production; seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication; regulate the operation of private enterprise; restrict travel; and, in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens.”) ( http://www.scratchinpost.net/barefootbob/war_ep1.html)

[11] “Executive Order 6102”: Government’s confiscation of your family’s gold and wealth under threat of 10 years in prison for failure to comply. As the Order specifies U.S. “persons” (eg. JOHN SMITH and JANE DOE), law enforcement was duped into enforcing against the general public a command that only applied to Federal employees and members of the armed forces.) (http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14611 or http://www.the-privateer.com/1933-gold-confiscation.html)

[12] “HJR 192” (outlawing of the simple act of “paying with money” as a felony by substituting the lawyer’s parlor trick of “discharging” debts) (http://www.truthsetsusfree.com/HJR192.htm or http://www.nomoredebt.cc/hjr192.html

[13] James Trafficant (D-OH) speech on floor of Congress of March, 1993 exposing the bankruptcy; http://www.afn.org/~govern/bankruptcy.html

[14] “U.S. v. Spelar, 338 U.S. 217 at 222.” (U.S. regulations apply only within the U.S. territories and the District of Columbia. “There is a canon of legislative construction which teaches Congress that, unless a contrary intent appears [legislation] is meant to apply only within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.”)

[15] The United States Congress actually gave ‘approval’ to the Dept of Defense (and their private corporate contractors) to wage biological warfare on all of us!

The Secretary of Defense [may] conduct tests and experiments involving the use of chemical and biological [warfare] agents on civilian populations [within the United States].” -SOURCE- Public Law 95-79, Title VIII, Sec. 808, July 30, 1977, 91 Stat. 334. In U.S. Statutes-at-Large, Vol. 91, page 334, you will find Public Law 95-79. Public Law 97-375, title II, Sec. 203(a)(1), Dec. 21, 1982, 96 Stat. 1882. In U.S. Statutes-at-Large, Vol. 96, page 1882, you will find Public Law 97-375

[16] Executive Order 12803; http://www.waterindustry.org/12803.htm

[17] We are the Enemies of the State; http://anticorruptionsociety.com/2011/02/25/we-are-the-enemies-of-the-state/

[18] Who is Running America; http://www.barefootsworld.net/usfraud.html

[19] The Bankruptcy of America – 1933 by Judge Dale: http://anticorruptionsociety.com/the-bankruptcy-of-america-1933/

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Is our government just another corporation? handout – ready for printing.

Lawfully Yours

October 18, 2014

by AL Whitney © copyround 2014

http://anticorruptionsociety.com/

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Lawfully Yours is a people’s empowerment guide to our corporate-commercial legal system. It contains invaluable information for all Americans.

Since the founding of our country, the ‘elite’ (and their robber baron partners) have fabricated our history, taken control of our economy and altered our form of government and legal system. The whole rather sordid tale is brilliantly exposed in Judge Dale’s The Great American Adventure – Secrets of America.

The Lawfully Yours guide contains material authored by Judge Dale, retired, and strategies compiled by others familiar with the commercial nature of our courts. In it Judge Dale exposes our legal system – that we were never taught about – and reveals ways we can defend ourselves from our current parasitic corporate-government and injustice system. From Judge Dale, retired:

“The Federal and State Governments are not real. They are privately owned corporations [listed on Dun and Bradstreet] called governments . . . and the law is nothing more than their corporate regulations called statutes.”

As Judge Dale exposes, the private BAR attorneys have been indoctrinated into believing that we have a lawful system of justice, which we do not. Their job today is to prevent the American people from understanding our reality and to keep us all locked into the legal system BAR attorneys created and were trained to implement. Our current ‘legal system’ is a fraud and it works to their benefit and to our detriment. This truth was confirmed by Karen Hudes, former World Bank Attorney, during an interview. [World Bank Attorney exposes the bankers and the BAR]  Ms Hudes correctly stated that:

“I don’t want to believe that all of these lawyers and the American Bar Association are pulling a fast one on everybody like this, but I have no choice – that’s the way it is. If that’s the way it is, I’d rather admit that’s the way it is than sit there being a dupe.”

“. . . the ABA [American Bar Association] has lost all total credibility and they should apologize to the American people for what it is they have been doing. And they should disband!”

Both our government and our courts are playing Chess, while telling the people the game is Checkers.  If We the People wish to restore our unalienable birth rights, we need to learn to play Chess. The Lawfully Yours guide is one of many tools that independent researchers have put together to help the American people learn how not to consent to their own fleecing and/or enslavement.

Here is the Table of Contents of this guide:

SECTION 1- Introduction
Supreme Court Decisions that Expose the Scam
Overview
SECTION 2 – The Legal Process, by Judge Dale, retired
THE COURTS
CRIMINAL LAW
CITATIONS
SUMMONS AND LAWSUITS
DIVORCE
FORECLOSURE
SECTION 3 – How to Defeat Admiralty Courts and “The Law of the See”
SECTION 4 – Lawful Strategies
Strategy a – Clarify
Strategy b – Inquire
Strategy c – Give Notice
SECTION 5 – Sample letters, questionnaires and notices
Sample I: Letter of Inquiry
Sample II: Corporate-government employee questionnaire
Sample III: Letter of Debt Validation
Sample IV: Vaccination Notice
Sample V: Employee/student Vaccination Notice
Sample VI: Smart Meter Notice
Sample VII: Pocket Card Notice of Non-consent
Sample VIII: Pocket Card Notice of Non-consent re: Forced Vaccinations or Quarantine
Sample IX: Child Protective Services Notice of Non-consent
References – Endnotes
APPENDIX A – Clearfield Doctrine
APPENDIX B – Bond vs UNITED STATES
APPENDIX C – The Twelve Presumptions of Court

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Download the Lawfully Yours guide (Fourth Edition) here (pdf)

Download the Word doc templates here

Download the 4 x 6 pocket card notices here

Spiral bound copies of the Lawfully Yours guide are available here

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This info is free, just as Judge Dale’s info was free. There are those that generate income from other solutions or non-solutions that will likely oppose this guide. Unfortunately too many people have been programmed to think that if something is free it has no value. Isn’t that sad?

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Re-framing the Vaccine Debate

By AL Whitney © copyround 2015

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One thing is true for sure, what the vaccine aware movement has been doing up to now has not solved the problem. We did not successfully nullify the herd immunity myth or discredit the CDC; we did not stop the move to eliminate all vaccine exemptions; and we were unable to prevent folks from  being coerced into accepting vaccines to keep their jobs.

The drug industry, their partners in so-called government and the media currently control the debate regarding vaccine efficacy and safety. This is why the vaccine zealot (bullshitter*) Paul Offit is always invited to be the pro-vaccine spokesman and restrict the vaccine debate. So far, those who know that vaccines are neither safe NOR effective have been unwilling and/or unable to re-frame this debate – with some admirable exceptions. This stalemate has been ongoing for decades. In fact according to reports coming in, physicians are now being threatened with the loss of the licenses if they speak against vaccines. The intention is to remove knowledgeable physicians from the debate completely.

This has happened before. Dentists who exposed the truth regarding mercury (amalgam) fillings were harassed if they mentioned the word “mercury” in public. Scientists who tried to expose water fluoridation (like Dr. Yiamouyiannis) were fired and defamed. And research funding is unavailable to scientists who wish to study and report on the toxicity of Roundup. The fact is that the entire chemical industry has enjoyed nearly a century of unimpeded malignant growth. Both physicians and dentists are taught very little toxicology in school, by design. The reason goes all the way back to Rockefeller’s establishment of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). None of the so-called government agencies protect the public from the chemical/pharmaceutical industries. They were never meant to. They were established to give both the petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries cover and plausible deniability. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZcUd3V8L30

We all have an inalienable right – and obligation – to refuse to be poisoned. The vaccination debate is not about religion, as attorney Alan Phillips falsely touts. Keeping the debate about religious conviction (or choice) sets up a battle between parents who unwittingly permit their children to be poisoned and those that are smart enough to say no. The battle really is about our ability to refuse to be injected with toxic substances. Unless we find the courage to re-frame the debate exposing the truth, we will lose and will all be facing lives of poor health and premature death. (See Dr Andrew Moulden’s Vaccine Injuries presentation)

Sorry to be so blunt, but no one can afford to remain naive. Veteran medical researcher and journalist Jon Rappoport explains what the vaccine aware community needs to do to try to stave off what is growing into a medical tyranny (recently exposed by Dr Tenpenny on InfoWars) that will affect us all.
10 min audio clip from Rappoport interview on Red Ice Radio on Feb 18, 2015

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Harvard Scientists Warn about Epidemic of Side Effects Due to Corruption

nsnbc international
February 10, 2014

A recent study about institutional corruption of pharmaceuticals and the myth of safe and effective drugs, warns that over the past 35 years, patients have suffered from a largely hidden epidemic of side effects from drugs that usually have few, offsetting benefits.

The study, published in the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics,* conducted by Light, Lexchin and Darrow, warns that the pharmaceutical industry has corrupted the practice of medicine through its influence over what drugs are developed, how they are tested, and how medical knowledge is created.

The researchers warn that since 1906, commercial influence has compromised Congressional legislation to protect the public from unsafe drugs, adding that the authorization of user fees in 1992 has turned drug companies into the FDA’s prime clients, deepening the regulatory and cultural capture of the agency.

Part of the regulatory and cultural capture of the FDA has enabled the industry to successfully demand shorter average review times. Less time to thoroughly review the evidence, warn the researchers, has led to increased hospitalization and death.

The researchers warn that meeting the needs of the drug companies has taken priority over meeting the needs of the patients, adding that unless this corruption of regulatory intent is reversed, the situation will continue to deteriorate.

Light, Lexchin and Darrow offer practical suggestions, including; separating the funding of clinical trials from their conduct, analysis, and publication; independent FDA leadership; full public funding for all FDA activities; measures to discourage research and development on drugs with few if any clinical benefits; and the creation of a National Drug Safety Board.

* “Institutional Corruption of Pharmaceuticals and the Myth of Safe and Effective Drugs” Donald W. Light, Joel Lexchin, and Jonathan Darrow. Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics – Fall 2013

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Why is mainstream media targeting vaccine-aware parents?

Originally posted on Parents Against Mandatory Vaccines:

THE MEDIA IS NOW ENGAGED IN A WITCH HUNT!

By AL Whitney © copyround 2015
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Recently the mainstream media began reporting a measles outbreak that supposedly started in California. Following this outbreak, stories about mandating vaccines have been released like the plague. Parents who do not vaccinate their children are now being targeted in what appears to be a witch hunt. On Jan 28, 2015, Alex Berezow, a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors, even wrote; “Parents who do not vaccinate their children should go to jail.”

Why is this happening?

A growing number of men and women in America have recognized that our country has become a corporatocracy. That is, big corporations (be they military or medical) have the power to insure policies are put in place that benefit them economically –…

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Lies, Damned Lies and Medical Science

MUCH OF WHAT MEDICAL RESEARCHERS CONCLUDE IN THEIR STUDIES IS MISLEADING, EXAGGERATED OR FLAT-OUT WRONG!

David Freedman, The Atlantic.com
10-4-10

So why are doctors—to a striking extent—still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice? Dr. John Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their bad science.

Excerpts:

Indeed, given the breadth of the potential problems raised at the meeting, can any medical-research studies be trusted?

That question has been central to Ioannidis’s career. He’s what’s known as a meta-researcher, and he’s become one of the world’s foremost experts on the credibility of medical research. He and his team have shown, again and again, and in many different ways, that much of what biomedical researchers conclude in published studies—conclusions that doctors keep in mind when they prescribe antibiotics or blood-pressure medication, or when they advise us to consume more fiber or less meat, or when they recommend surgery for heart disease or back pain—is misleading, exaggerated, and often flat-out wrong. He charges that as much as 90 percent of the published medical information that doctors rely on is flawed. His work has been widely accepted by the medical community; it has been published in the field’s top journals, where it is heavily cited; and he is a big draw at conferences. Given this exposure, and the fact that his work broadly targets everyone else’s work in medicine, as well as everything that physicians do and all the health advice we get, Ioannidis may be one of the most influential scientists alive. Yet for all his influence, he worries that the field of medical research is so pervasively flawed, and so riddled with conflicts of interest, that it might be chronically resistant to change—or even to publicly admitting that there’s a problem.

“I assumed that everything we physicians did was basically right, but now I was going to help verify it,” he says. “All we’d have to do was systematically review the evidence, trust what it told us, and then everything would be perfect.”

It didn’t turn out that way. In poring over medical journals, he was struck by how many findings of all types were refuted by later findings. Of course, medical-science “never minds” are hardly secret. And they sometimes make headlines, as when in recent years large studies or growing consensuses of researchers concluded that mammograms, colonoscopies, and PSA tests are far less useful cancer-detection tools than we had been told; or when widely prescribed antidepressants such as Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil were revealed to be no more effective than a placebo for most cases of depression; or when we learned that staying out of the sun entirely can actually increase cancer risks; or when we were told that the advice to drink lots of water during intense exercise was potentially fatal; or when, last April, we were informed that taking fish oil, exercising, and doing puzzles doesn’t really help fend off Alzheimer’s disease, as long claimed. Peer-reviewed studies have come to opposite conclusions on whether using cell phones can cause brain cancer, whether sleeping more than eight hours a night is healthful or dangerous, whether taking aspirin every day is more likely to save your life or cut it short, and whether routine angioplasty works better than pills to unclog heart arteries.

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