Up Close and Personal
A monthly chat with CTM founder, Phillip Day

ECLUB: Been off researching?
PD: Samantha and I went with the in-laws off to Normandy.
ECLUB: What's in Normandy?
PD: Normans, Brian.
ECLUB: There's a sense in which quite a few things are hotting up now, isn't there?
PD: I think everyone agrees the frontal assault against personal freedom of choice in many areas is now underway. Once again, the wretched Edzard Ernst, who touts himself as Britain's only complementary medicine 'professor', perversely continues to warn the world against the harmful effects of complementary medicine. Just recently he's attacked alternative cancer treatment web-sites for being dangerous, irresponsible and guilty of leading people away from the tried and tested chemotherapy and radiation which, he insists, save lives.
ECLUB: Hmmm.
PD: Folks, this is precisely the purpose for which CTM was founded and what we have worked so hard towards all this time. To educate and warn the public about exactly the abuses we are seeing taking place before our very eyes which are hurting people. How many, for instance, have heard me railing on about the dangers of chemotherapy? How many times have we discussed the dangers of mercury in vaccines? Bit by bit, the truth emerges, sadly not fast enough to save many. Certainly expect to see a mighty struggle by the orthodox lot to hang on to their Jaguars and bad-mouth everything they see as a threat to their bottom line. These issues have always been the real Health Wars.
ECLUB: Are most doctors aware of the truth?
PD: Most have a nasty inkling, but it's much easier to pursue the path of least resistance, keep the children in private school, and follow the party line. Those like Ernst, however, know precisely what they are up to, which renders their actions, in my eyes, all the more demonic for their intent.
ECLUB: What can EClub members do that they are not already doing?
PD: Create one huge, all-pervading and relentless stink. And keep doing it. Ladies and Gentlemen, all the research shows significant numbers of the western populations routinely use some form of nutritional alternative to drugs and are getting the benefits. These choices are now to be taken away from them. Also, millions are angered by these phoney scare tactics directed at alternative health treatments routinely emblazoned across their newspapers. How many people have worked out that the media is not your friend! You are faced with a monolithic, industrial complex whose only tactic is to convince the majority that any alternatives to the drug-junk they are offering are dangerous and should be 'regulated' immediately. This is the classic tactic of creating problems and offering only those solutions which result in the protection of profits and, of course, an expansion of socialistic government 'to protect us idiots from ourselves'.
ECLUB: This does not mean, of course, that all alternative remedies are safe…
PD: No it doesn't. Yet how many honestly die every year because of overdoses of alternative remedies? How many compared to the hundreds of thousands who perish every year at the hand of chemical treatments which had been allegedly been put through 'regulation' to render them safe? It is an obscene thing. In my view, drugs are really what the public needs protecting from, as well as from 'experts' like Ernst, together with the blithering dictum that the average citizen is too dumb, thick and stupid to make his own choices in just about anything these days. The few problems with alternatives, such as they are, usually revolve around interactions caused by chemical medications taken simultaneously - drugs which, if the head of genetics at GlaxoSmithKline is to be believed, don't even work for the majority who are given them anyway.
ECLUB: So we should get active, pen those e-mails off…
PD: Only if you're interested in maintaining your freedoms. Many aren't and can't be bothered. These are the ones I do not wish to hear from when finally it dawns that it's all too late. Why weren't we told? Yadda yadda.
ECLUB: What's happening on the touring front?
PD: The second half of the UK/Ireland 'Break Free' Tour commences in Belfast on 30th August and covers a good chunk of Britain as well as Ireland, so have a look at the schedule, get yourself a ticket, come along and get active!
ECLUB: You're off down under soon, aren't you?
PD: Yes, can't wait. Tickets are now available for meetings across Australia and New Zealand and are going fast, so please book now to avoid disappointment. I am particularly pleased with the amazing support CTM has received in Australia and NZ, two of my favourite countries which sadly are both cursed with two of the most militant health systems on the planet.
ECLUB: Worse even than Britain's?
PD: Right up there with Britain's.
ECLUB: Thank you, Phillip.
PD: You're welcome.
ECLUB: By the way, you never said what you were researching over in Normandy.
PD: You're absolutely right, Brian. I didn't.