Thars gold in them thar "illnesses"!

In the seventies they played with Swine Flu and Legionnaires disease. In the case of Swine Flue, a nationwide health alert resulted in more illnesses from the treatment than the actual illness, but then that was before they learned how to manipulate the media and cover-up and confuse the cause from the effect. In the case of Legionnaires disease, they simply took one form on pneumonia, gave it a glitzy name with an accompanying media blitz, and an "epidemic" was born.

The successes in creating panic over fairly common illness was recognized by the CDC which depended on those panics to bolster it's yearly budget. But other government organizations also recognize the gold mine of invented or exaggerated illnesses of conditions, especially after the millions made over the past several decades with the AIDS hoax, which is still making money for those pushing the "treatment" which itself is the cause of the symptoms and deaths.

In the early eighties the education establishment discovered the profitability of Dyslexia, and thousands upon thousands of children were deemed "suffering" from it's "effects". Of course the fact that life itself is hard, not to mention any real educations, so it's very easy to convince someone that their difficulty is not something everyone shares, but the result of a "condition" which they will gladly "treat" with money from the government was easy to swallow, but ultimately ruinous for those children, who failed to learn life's most important lesson: Great things come with great difficulty.

By the time people were starting to doubt the veracity of the Dyslexia witch-hunt, the education establishment teamed up with the medical establishment for a new attack. This time they claimed Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder was the cause, and it's "treatment" (always a treatment, never a cure--treatments require continuing "care" while cures are one time, therefore less profitable) was a stimulant previously used to treat depression, chronic fatigue and narcolepsy. That kids with energy need most to learn to harness and control that energy was dismissed. That the great men and women of history were just such people, with high energy, who learned to control and channel that energy was also ignored. America's future was drugged into stupification for higher profits for the education and medical establishments.

By the end of the century serious doubt had emerged regarding ADHD and ritalin use. The scam had almost run its course and a new one was needed.

And so now we hear from Reuters...

All U.S. children should be formally screened for autism twice by the age of 2, the nation's top pediatrician group recommended on Monday.

The new guidelines issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics focus on early intervention, which can improve a child's chances for effective treatment.

Doctors and educrats discovered long ago that "widening" the definition of a recognizable condition allowed them to arbitrarily "diagnose" virtually anybody with that condition, therefore adding them to the growing list of the "suffering" which means more government money, more insurance money, more panic, more media coverage, another lucrative scam perpetrated on the American public. The definition of autism has gone through a tortuous change over the past few years as it was seen as the next great gold mine for mass diagnosis. Once again people are being conned into believing that life's normal difficulties are actually the result of this "condition" which they (the educrats and doctors) will gladly treat for more money. If they get their way and con states into mandatory "screening" based on ludicrous symptomology, it will cause more to suffer, and block the screening desperately needed for real illnesses and conditions.

At the heart of the problem is our willingness to blame some "outside" force for the difficulties we encounter in life. As with any good con, the victim's own vice is used to drive the con to a "successful" conclusion. The real "cure" against these organized scams is to face up to life's difficulties with resolve, hard-work, patience and determination. Recognize that our modern technology can never remove the hurdle to real success. Don't follow Eve in listening to that slithery voice that says, "Hey, y'know, there's an easier way."

Posted by Danny Carlton at October 30, 2007 7:05 AM