What is the Vitamin C conspiracy?

Answer 1

I consider that I have uncovered and provided the definitive proof that the conspiracy theorists were right all along. My many medical friends, unable to get papers published and the dearth of papers in the peer reviewed journals all contributed to the suspicion that since the 1950s an organised suppression of the importance of vitamin C and the prevalence of scurvy in the community were being suppressed. My early work with the anterior segment circumcorneal microvasculature was attacked by the pharmaceutical industry and then my work on Nutritional Preventive CardioRetinometry. My reversals of the atherosclerosis with 'before and after' images promoted by various websites were likewise either attacked by - presumably - pharmaceutical interests strongly here, in the Wikipedia - or ignored by medicine and the cardiologists as if they were not happening. Now I offer the proof that the attacks on me showed that editors were forced to start taking notice. I turned the National Library of Medicine search engine against itself by asking it to count the number of papers published in each year mentioning 'scurvy.' and then again, mentioning Vitamin C Deficiency (in the form as set out below) The answer related only to peer reviewed medical journals. The NLM refuses to accord Index Medicus status to the Journal of the Orthomolecular Medical Association for obvious reasons. The same question without any variation and the corresponding answers were then tabulated for each year from 1958 to 2008. Considering that in my opinion, around 75% of all deaths result in some way from one or more of the fifty to a hundred diseases that can be said to be connected to scurvy, the answer had been derisory (only 18 in 1960; 14 in 1978; 15 in 1985 and 18 again in 1999) The subject of the controversy which now goes from strength to strength was Cardioretinometry and the (for the purist) still hypothesised connection with scurvy and vitamin C deficiency. My database has grown to thousands of retinal images showing reversals of retinal atherosclerosis still continuing to diminish even after 11 years. This means real life extension. I now plan a postgraduate course in Nutritional Preventive CardioRetinometry and - in the meantime - offer the proof of the Great Medical Scurvy Suppression - a conspiracy that is now blowing away the credibility of the editors of all those medical journals who may never be believed or trusted again. Is there a possible alternative explanation other than distortion at the highest level in Medicine? Yes. But it is not one that the physicians will welcome. It is that the Medical Archive has revealed for ever, that as the switch from Scurvy to the preferred term Vitamin C Deficiency took placxe, the graphs crossed over just before 1958 and the term Scurvy at times almost disappears from the Archive. The upper graph almost suggests that Scurvy (as vitamin C deficiency) by these criteria could have been recognised as an 'emerging disease.' I shall provide two superimposed graphs in due course but for the moment suggest that - as an amusing pastime - the reader draws them himself from the figures below. Sydney J. Bush Cosmopolitan University. Faculty of Optometry and CardioRetinometry Papers published in each year in all journals, which mentioned the word 'scurvy.' (Almost everybody dies of it, say - 75%?) NLM Search Key: "2008"[Publication Date] : AND (Scurvy) NLM Search Key: "2008"[Publication Date] : AND (vitamin C Deficiency) Col 1 "Scurvy" 2nd col. "Vitamin C Deficiency" It is more practical to draw the graph in 5 year averages, but the easily compared and (checked figures on 'PubMed') say enough before one reaches 1971 without a graph. 1958 46 30 1959 37 29 1960 18 24 1961 26 27 1962 22 30 1963 33 62 1964 34 88 1965 28 79 1966 24 65 1967 47 33 1968 41 101 1969 47 116 1970 52 117 1971 38 107 1972 34 42 1973 28 101 1974 35 104 1975 44 128 1976 41 103 1977 15 33 1978 14 69 1979 25 91 1980 21 81 1981 23 81 1982 29 22 1983 29 93 1984 21 92 1985 15 75 1986 29 99 1987 26 22 1988 27 81 1989 22 71 1990 25 66 1991 27 64 1992 20 22 1993 27 64 1994 25 74 1995 21 76 1996 31 71 1997 26 26 1998 26 66 1999 18 64 2000 22 57 2001 36 93 2002 42 29 2003 41 114 2004 22 108 2005 36 96 2006 27 92 2007 29 31 2008 27 94