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Hubert Karreman, VMD, FACVBM's avatar

As an independent clinician (veterinary) it's always been a bummer that when I've taken the time to read an abstract and want the rest of the paper that I come up against log in requirements of "name of institution" in order to go any further and then of course the fee for 1 paper (often ~$40).

Front line people shouldn't have to climb ivory tower walls to get their hands on interesting and likely applicable new research.

Thank you for sharing the good news.

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llaw555's avatar

I do recall this. I’m not a “doctor” but when seeking medical information years back , there was a fee to access the virtual library if I wanted to go beyond the abstract. Yep.

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Truth Seeker's avatar

Hubert, who do you think should fund the research? That is a conundrum...

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Hubert Karreman, VMD, FACVBM's avatar

Good question for sure. If it's publicly funded by taxes and spread out among the entire population, then research should benefit the entire population. This was kind of the case back in the 1950s and 60s with public funding of veterinary research on basic health problems that were happening still then, like milk fever and ketosis and other really common problems. That funding dried up. And companies stepped in and started funding things starting in about 1980 and we are where we are now.

The sucky thing that I find is that people have been so entrained to accepting research from large brand names as compared to accepting research from small startup companies. Worse yet, as if a clinician like myself develops a product then professional colleagues look a scan at it as compared to large brand name research products. Even though a product might have been developed right from daily clinical challenges, instead of on the bench top.

A farmer once said to me, what you hind works in the field you can make work in the lab but what works in a lab might not work in the field. True!

But yo answer your question, USDA has good funding for innovative, applied research the most from what I've seen. Not huge multi million dollar grants but good enough to do unbiased clinical research.

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Truth Seeker's avatar

For decades have strongly favored clinical experience over "studies"

For as long pay to play has tainted the peer review process making it very difficult for innovation. Universities attempt to appear objective.

Access and transparency draws us towards better outcomes.

Wish the ABC agencies were the white knight.

Is it even possible to fix these problems from within?

Very doubtful.

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Living Well Locally's avatar

EXCELLENT! The decentralizing and reclaiming of medicine 'for, by, and of the people' requires access to knowledge of natural health. Thank you to HHS, GreenMedInfo, MAHA and all the players in the health freedom movement. Americans now have a better chance of saving ourselves.

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Truth Seeker's avatar

The Flexner Report of 1910 is exactly how Big P and the Medical Cartel attempted to destroy any and all alternative healing modalites, the largest of which is Chiropractic. All competitors were demonized.

State boards to assess competence, but also to hold licensees in a chokehold. Licensure a right of passage but also a veiled assurance of compliance.

With free access to information we approach a vantage point previously unavailable.

Information requires knowledge an often missing component.

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Truth Seeker's avatar

Interesting threshold we meet. Knowledge is either a saleable commodity or it should be free for all. Professionals sell knowledge and services. Content providers ? They sell opinions.

Others sell products that must be distinguished as some clearly are better.

The issue is often economic as if one can afford to contribute one is happy to do so.

Substack AI interface is "happy" to collect your information and auto bill.

"It" does not send a statement, it autobills.

The difference between knowledge and content...

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A Skeptic's avatar

Thanks for your great work Sayer! We've shared the link on our daily report.

A Skeptic Reports - https://askeptic.substack.com/

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Douglas Jack's avatar

RE: Achieving Open Public Transparent Access to real Peer Reviewed Medicine.

CULTIVATING PERSONAL-KNOWLEDGE RELATIONSHIPS in an age of MASS BROADCAST

For those of us in the Natural-Science, Natural Health field, it is up to us to engage with & help construct our intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale 'communities' (Latin 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service'). In both Pharma-captured Mainstream & Natural-science-medicine there is a dearth of Statistical Record Keeping, Epidemiology & Bio-statistics. Individuals out of medical & health interest often go to great length in order to learn healing modalities in various disciplines, but are unaware of the importance of local intimate community in developing person-to-person individualized medical Relationships, being thorough in record-keeping & whole community feedback communication.

'REDUCTIONIST SCIENCE'. Going down the Rabbit Hole into micro-analysis only shows how far these fake 'scientists' only get funded to leave the whole macro-picture behind & focus on the micro. 'Science' (French 'scier' means 'to-cut' or 'saw' as in multiple-strike analysis) refers to the process of interdisciplinary & multiple-scale analysis of the whole as in HOLISTIC-SCIENCE 'Content' with the 'Process' by which it’s produced. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/6-holistic-science UNDOING FALSE-SCIENCE https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/9-undoing-false-science

PROBLEMS OF MASS ADVERTISEMENT, MARKETING, PRESCRIPTION & CENTRALISED INFORMATION SOURCES (How central data is best integrated for meaningful medicine)

Every person is unique for the many 10s of 1000s of medical factors involved in any health balance, illness & injury. No one-size medicine fits all people. Big centralized media enables marketers or practitioners to make great claims & even national or worldwide advertising without the Gold Standard Science which Robert-F Kennedy is carefully & painstakingly implementing. On behalf of all humanity RFKJr is shining Reproduceable Science light on 125 years of colonial system neglect by fake profit patent petro-chemical analogue based Rockefeller reductionist false science financed "Meddlesine" destroyed 1000s of years of tried & tested Medicine.

MEANINGFUL HUMAN MEDICAL RELATIONSHIPS

Dr Rosalie Bertell, PhD Biostatistics & Epidemiology, as part of establishing British Columbia (1982) & Quebec's (2014) Province wide hearings & ultimate Moratoriums on Uranium-exploration, mining & refining, provided weeks of Epidemiology orientation to those of us organizers involved across BC. Rosalie decried the lack of intimate familiar assessment of illnesses & injuries under present doctor, clinic, hospital, gov't department, university & research-centre statistical gathering. Dr Bertell described how only the family & other longitudinally exposed friends, family intimates could provide proper assessment in collaboration with centralized data-keepers.

INSTITUTIONALIZED MEDICINE: A typical problem with institutional residential & medical practice is SHIFT-WORK scheduling whereby a residential housing unit involves 5 shift staff + 3 specialists intervening/day. For Old-Folks, Handicapped, Injury-recovery residences & Hospitals for example, there are 2922 Changes of the guard per unit of ~6 to 12 people with next to no engagement for the positive attributes of each resident & client in a collaborative thus valorizing manner. Healing is most often facilitated by such positive attribution in relationship.

BOTTOM-UP PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN LOCAL MEDICAL SPECIALISTS, COMMUNITY & WORLD.

web-based Community-Economy Cataloguing, Mapping, Accounting & Communication (modules) software called DO-WE-KNOW-WHO-WE-ARE-? which can be used by anyone in the Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Apartment, Townhouse & Village) where 70% of people live. This 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') bottom-up empowerment is suppressed & forgotten by most colonized people. Imagine billions of people with these tools celebrating their own capacities & being able to stimulate local circular economy, autonomy & sovereignty, mostly in the cities but as well in rural settings. This 4 module software assembly must be very well integrated & malleable, so folks can adapt to local circumstances. If you know software programmers, assemblers or others who could collaborate on these fundamental economic processes, we'd love to meet.

BROADER WHOLE SOCIETY CONVERSATION & ACTION WE DESIRE must include local re-empowerment of all people from the Bottom-up. We aren't going to re-empower people through Oligarchy's fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') now amnesic institutions.

'INDIGENOUS' (Latin 'self-generating') 'COMMUNITY' (L. 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service') WEB-Software Tools FOR DISTRIBUTED, DECENTRALIZED IMPLEMENTATION by everyone at home or work on our own terms & ways of being. All humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' ancestors kept personal power, knowledge specialists & treatment local through the ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village) Intimate, intergenerational, Female-male, Interdisciplinary, Critical-mass, Economies-of-Scale collaboration.

HOW MOSTLY SO-CALLED 'POOR' NEIGHBOURHOODS ACHIEVE BETTER CULTURAL MEDICINE

70% of people today live within Multihome-Dwelling-Complexes (eg. Apartment, Townhouse & Village-clusters) averaging 32 dwelling-units = ~100 people. 20% of Multihome-dwellers are extended-families living intentionally in proximity for social & economic collaboration, contributing 2 trillion $/year of the most individually appropriate goods, services, sharing & caring/year across Turtle-Island / North-America. Multihomes should be the 1st Line of nutritional, preventative & restorative Medical intervention by specialists, already amongst us treating people proactively & positively in harmony with nature. Yes local specialists akin to First Aid Attendants can work with specialists at other levels, but extreme specialists should not work without local intimate specialists.

How did that medical intervention work-out in real-time? Often when people are sick, injured or die from a medical intervention (Iatrogenesis), they become silent to the practitioner who often has an overloaded schedule, self-medication or such as commodification-of-nature elsewhere to overcome emotional disconnection from patients & clients, one does not live amongst.

Here's an indigenous model of software to regenerate community care & health https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing

DO-WE-KNOW-WHO-WE-ARE-? Web-based Community Economy software. Http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/9-do-we-know-who-we-are

A) Web CATALOGUE intake form for individual & business: talents, goods, services, resources & dreams. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/7-membership

B) MAP local proximal collaborative relations for complementary economic concertation. Baseline mapping of 105 Mohawk, Wendat & Algonquian Placenames in the Tiohtiake (greater Montreal archipelago) region. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/5-tiohtiake-mohawk-placenames

C) ACCOUNT for collective contributions, buying, selling & co-investment. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy

D) COMMUNICATE such as formally through COUNCIL PROCESS for creating understanding, Constructive Agreements, Contract delineation & for Conflict Resolution. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues

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Kelli's avatar

wooooo hoooooo

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Carol David's avatar

Finally a good start to end the confrontations between pharmaceutical medicine and Natural Medicine. They need to cooperate instead of denigrate one another. This is a good beginning. I wish it would start with the medical schools to start teaching natural medicine as well as allopathic

Pand the importance of finding the root causes of symptoms and good nutrition.

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Esther Cook's avatar

Of COURSE publishers are seeking new funding mechanisms. They HAVE to. Publishing is not free. The costs have to be paid, and there must be a reasonable profit.

This is not so hard, though. If taxes paid for it, then the grant has to include funding for publication.

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Brian James's avatar

JUN 23, 2025 Public Reports Widespread mRNA Disease, Mass Injury and Death in New X Polls  

81% say they or a loved one suffered serious injury, disability, or death from mRNA shots — 79% believe the shots responsible for over 1 million deaths. 

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/x-users-report-widespread-mrna-carnage?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web 

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