Why should medical researchers spend billions of dollars on research if noone will listen?

Question

Why do people want to believe they can cook up home remedies or cure serious illness with vitamins when there is so much work and research being done to come up with actual concrete answers to medical problems?

Answer 1

Several reasons..
Doctors are expensive..
Some people are hypochondriacs..
Some people are afraid of Doctors..
Some illnesses are not treatable / curable by real medicine so
drowning people will grasp at straws..

Answer 2

Oh, there are plenty of people listening! For example, Bayer’s pain pill Aspirin is now taken by 50 million healthy US citizens under the illusion it will prevent heart attacks. Home remedies have been around for thousands of years. Did you know that In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the United States Pharmacopoeia, the nation's official drug reference book, was filled with herbs, reflecting their widespread use in America. When drug manufacturers realized, around the time of World War II, that patentable synthetic molecules promised much bigger profits, herbal research diminished, and medicinal plants were all but forgotten.

Drugs merely mask symptoms while avoiding the curing or elimination of diseases. This explains why most prescription drugs marketed today have no proven efficacy and merely target symptoms.

Another key strategy to expand pharmaceutical markets is to cause new diseases with drugs. While merely masking symptoms short term, most of the prescription drugs taken by millions of patients today cause a multitude of new diseases as a result of their known long-term side effects. For example, all cholesterol-lowering drugs currently on the market are known to increase the risk of developing cancer – but only after the patient has been taking the drug for several years.

The known deadly side effects of prescription drugs are the fourth leading cause of death in the industrialized world, surpassed only by the number of deaths from heart attacks, cancer and strokes (Journal of the American Medical Association, April 15, 1998). This fact is no surprise either, because drug patents are primarily issued for new synthetic molecules. All synthetic molecules need to be detoxified and eliminated from the body, a system that frequently fails and results in an epidemic of severe and deadly side effects.

Vitamins and other effective natural health therapies that optimize cellular metabolism threaten the pharmaceutical “business with disease” because they target the cellular cause of today’s most common diseases - and these natural substances cannot be patented.

Throughout the more than one hundred year existence of the pharmaceutical industry, vitamins and other essential nutrients, with defined functions as cofactors in cellular metabolism, have been the fiercest competition and the greatest threat to the long-term success of the pharmaceutical investment business.

The pharmaceutical “business with disease” is the largest deception and fraud business in human history. The product “health” promised by drug companies is not delivered to millions of patients. Instead, the “products” most often delivered are the opposite: new diseases and frequently, death.

Due to people eating more processed, contaminated foods, their poor diets, and lack of exercise, they are getting sicker and sicker. If they would only stick to foods that the earth provides, they would be much better off. We believe vitamins, minerals and herbs do our bodies good because we have been using them for years and years and feel great! We have no use for pharmaceuticals, thank you.

Answer 3

From your question I can't tell if you are for or against medical research........