Hilary's Desk

Dissolving Illusions.

Hilary Butler - Sunday, July 28, 2013

An Amazon.com company has announced today, the release of a new book called Dissolving Illusions, which reviews social history and it's impact on infectious diseases.

Part One: Words from Memory Lane. Part Two: Who controls the rhetoric? Part Three: The name of the game. Part Four: The get out of jail card. Part Five: Blaming Muggins. And here is where the Ministry of Medical Truth's reformulating the meaning of the world nocebo, is the new scientific paradigm. Their aim is to rescue an industry annually teetering on the edg...

Just Trust Us....

Hilary Butler - Thursday, July 18, 2013

Part One: Words from Memory Lane. Part Two: Who controls the rhetoric? Part Three: The name of the game. Part Four: The get out of jail card. Part Five: Blaming Muggins. Part Six: Reforming Nocebo. The solution for the medical system? It’s pretty simple really. If you aren't allowed to "deceive" people, to research what happens when they are deceived,&nb...

Blaming Muggins

Hilary Butler - Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Part One: Words from Memory Lane. Part Two: Who controls the rhetoric? Part Three: The name of the game. Part Four: The get out of jail card. As I look at young mothers today, I see a generation who, like never before, have been so saturated with medical nocebo in school, .... that fear and stress is often etched on their faces at the mention of the word “doctor”. They h...

The Get-out-of-jail card

Hilary Butler - Sunday, July 14, 2013

Part One: Words from Memory Lane. Part Two: Who controls the rhetoric? Part Three: The name of the game. When it comes to this article "Worried Sick", here’s the amazing thing. “Nocebo” is treated as if it’s some white rabbit, just pulled out of the magician’s hat in the last five years. They say, “We’re in such a primitive state of understanding this phenomenon, particularly...

The name of the game.

Hilary Butler - Sunday, July 14, 2013

Part One: Words from Memory Lane. Part Two: Who controls the rhetoric? The Scientist’s article “Worried Sick” confirms that nocebo and placebo are a primary drivers in medical practice, by their statement: “In places like primary care, people are swimming in placebo and nocebo effects.” Placebo is defined as: “a usually pharmacologically inert preparation prescribed more for ...

Who controls the rhetoric?

Hilary Butler - Thursday, July 11, 2013

Last week, The Scientist came out with an article by Megan Scudellari, called “Worried Sick” with the subtitle, “Expectations can make you ill. Fear can make you fragile. Understanding the nocebo effect may help prevent this painful phenomenon.” This article from the Scientist, will form the basis of a blog series, so before you read further in this blog, please read The Scientist artic...

The high cost of protection

Hilary Butler - Wednesday, July 10, 2013

The Supreme Court in USA, in a case called Mutual Pharmaceutical v. Bartlett, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 12-142. has just ruled that drug companies are now exempt from lawsuits even when the adverse reaction (toxic epidermal necrolysis) was one of several hidden by the drug makers, and later forced to be included on all warning labels. As this blog says, the Supreme Court “cited...

Words from memory lane.

Hilary Butler - Tuesday, July 09, 2013

It's 32 years ago, since I started out researching medical history, obstetrics, drugs, vaccines and pretty much everything pertaining to keeping the family's health intact... in spite of the medical profession. Back in 1984, when I started helping parents, whose children reacted seriously after vaccines, these are the words they said, every time, like a mindless monotone recording...

The Bell tolls but who is listening?

Hilary Butler - Monday, July 01, 2013

The news that CSL refuses to take responsibility for flu vaccines which cause seizures in Saba Button, an Australian child, should toll the bell and wake a few people up.Look at CSL's reasoning: “In a defence filed in court last week, CSL lawyer Belinda Thompson claimed Saba had two other shots, Neisvac and Priorix, on the same day and alleged they may have caused febrile convulsions a...