To Start With…
In 1969, while completeing his active duty as a Staff Sergeant, this author read a confidential "After Action Report" in the Army post library at Ft. Lewis, Washington. In a report regarding a middle of the night combat on a hill top in Viet Nam a discription was made by the officer in charge that as the battle was ending he took a step forward and fell onto his face. He didn't notice both of his legs were missing from the knees down while he had been running around during the fighting. More interesting to the reader of this report was what else was included. Some of his men had bullet holes in one side of their shirt and out of the other side of their shirt without any holes or wounds in their body. There were no redactions in the report nor any obvious editing which would have included mispellings.
How can someone burn their hand on a hot stove top in the morning, and then that evening learn how to walk 40 feet on 1,700 degree burning coals on their bare feet and not receive a single burn?
How can someone have a fatal disease, and have it disappear in a few minutes?
How can someone who undergoes “sham surgery," believing they got the real thing, produce the same results as the real surgery would have?
How can “sham surgery” produce the same results as vertebroplasty (reconstruction of broken vertebrae) surgery?
How are some surgeons finding that many bleeding trauma patients, have better results when left to heal without surgery?
How come almost 3 times more people die as a result of having heart by-bypass surgery than doing nothing?
How come the largest selling chemotherapeutic drug in the world is registered in California under Proposition 65 as a cancer causing chemical?