The comments by some people, some of which are shitty idiots, who have blood on their hands:
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VOS COMMENTAIRES
October 16, 2008
Hello everyone,
I have just spent half an hour reading the comments following this television program that you call "enquete". I liked the little statistical survey and I would like to add some other elements to help other readers to read between the lines.
Kudos to Georges Albert, from Montreal, although I doubt you exist, for copying word for word the comment of Shirley Taillefer, from Senneterre...
I have to answer to Mr. Alain Mercier who says that he "totally loses it when we see that people can become specialists in human psychology, biology, specialists in the human body, etc. in one short week. I am sorry to tell you that Mr. Gravel lied to you. In the intro he was just trying to smear the BTEV by saying that Mr. Gendron had the necessary training to become a therapist. In fact, the basic course (which is only the base) is given in three modules that total 16 days. Moreover, you have to wait six months between each module because what you learn is such that it takes time to integrate it. Then before Dr. Sabbah accepts to certify you, by the BTEV association of Quebec, you will have to take technical workshops, three I believe, where you will go through an intense personal therapy, and at least one other specific training of three days.
So you see how information is manipulated?
Patrick Poissant, Chelsea , Quebec
October 15th, 2008
3rd attempt at a commentary (the other 2 must not have been favorable for the population...)
BT is a clarification of psychosomatics.
The concept is so threatening to doctors that they can't face it. They would have to relearn everything, they have to understand it, it is huge for them.
It will take proof and proof ... patience, we will get there in time.
The public danger, in my opinion, is not to make this concept known to people who suffer and not to give them the therapeutic choice. Accountability is not always easy, we will get there too, patience!
Healing is a processur...
Congratulations to Pierre Légaré who dared to talk about BT on Tout le monde en parle!
Isabel Simard, Quebec
October 14, 2008
What I find really strange is that I can't find the producer of the program "Enquête"...
Who uses the misinformation on total biology, the pill sellers I guess,
because it is true that when we succeed in decoding and curing a disease, the pharmaceutical companies will lose a lot of money, as will the doctors.
Blanche Rose-Manningham, Montreal
October 14, 2008
My opinion on traditional medicine:
Very effective: for accidents, repairs, plastic surgery
Very effective: for the relief of symptoms related to various diseases (prescription of medication)
Very ineffective: healing of disease or behavior
My opinion on total biology:
Exactly the opposite.
So I ask myself, if these 2 approaches complement each other so well, why make them opposites. One will never replace the other. Isn't your goal to help individuals improve their health?
Elaine Beauchemin, Boucherville
October 12th, 2008
I have been a nurse for 5 years and work in a hospital in the Quebec City area. I found myself without words after watching your two programs that talked about total biology. It is unfortunate that people who are struggling with illness would take advantage of them in this way at a vulnerable time. I think that once again, we can see that the population is misinformed and overly informed about the health field.
Véronique Imbeault, Quebec
October 11th, 2008
Hello,
I would have been very curious to see all the conversations that took place and the editing of the entire program (with a hidden camera) ;-)) You know very well how to play with the psychological side of people in the editing process.... the proof: people talked about this program with the same dramatic tone. As for me, I sort out everything I hear and this, for all information or disinformation programs.
Hélène Lachance, Lac-st-jean
October 11th, 2008
Thank you for warning the public that there are charlatans and usupateurs everywhere. Even our journalists can't investigate without disguising themselves. Why not? Everyone has little problems to deal with, big or small. Your journalists could have been honest and consulted for a real pathology or problems, family or others.
It's a pity that he makes lie to make a sensational report. Commissioned by whom? The pharmaceutical laboratories or the college of doctors?
I think it's a shame to talk about something we don't know. In life, plant, animal or other, there is a beginning (birth), there is the life span and the end (death). BT is not an exception to the rule, but it can improve life. Nothing is infallible and you have to work hard at it. Working with BT is not an easy task, but some people do it very well. I consulted myself once, for a fibroid and a week and a half later I was operated. The surgeon came to see me after the operation to tell me that there was no cancer and that anyway, my fibroid was liquefying. It's not me who said it but the surgeon. I don't believe in miracles, but I do believe in inner work.
I hope that your journalists will find the courage to go to the end of what they have started but with honesty this time, they will discover that there is good in everything.
Christine Vallières, Saint-Eustache
October 11th, 2008
To whom it may concern,
I can only find one word to describe your program
and that is desecration, desecration of great works
of research dedicated to the advancement of science and humanity...
Your mind was already made up before starting this investigation since
you have used the means we use to track down individuals
already presumed or recognized guilty.
It is the reasons for this guilty verdict that you should have demonstrated
"and not, above all, to bring up here and there
It is the reasons for this guilty verdict that you should have demonstrated "scientifically" and not, above all, to conjure up here and there and out of context, "more or less small black beasts" as can be found everywhere or to "pin up" tragedies as if they only occurred among the patients of those who practice BT or NMG,
There are many, many factors that can help or hinder recovery.
Who can determine with certainty what is really going on in this area?
Hoping that you will give the opportunity to those who really know these approaches to present them
to the general public (in a harmonious climate) so that more and more people will benefit and realize that some things have
have evolved in the health sector thanks to researchers who have dedicated their lives to it.
Lucette Lavoie, Ottawa
October 10, 2008
I am not a fan of these biased strategies where one disguises oneself and hides to strike at the slightest suspicion with an unfavourable bias already written in the forehead.
It would be more constructive to encourage an honest and open dialogue between the established institutions that are already outdated in assuming their dogmatic baggage in the face of disease and those who dare to look further and grope for alternatives to better health.
Your pseudo-investigation ironically resembles certain gossip magazines and paparazzi harassment... to use people's experiences in the public arrogantly, in order to discredit and sometimes ridicule instead of honestly inform.
Discernment is necessary in all the choices of our life and especially when it concerns our physical or mental health; it is up to us to use it to go towards the resource that suits us, whether it is Total Biology or another approach and to assume our choices.
No medicine can give us any guarantees.
I recognize the importance of traditional medical care and certain medications, but we also see that the pharmaceutical industry is getting rich on our ignorance with side effects that often lead us to the grave sooner. On top of all this, there is an exorbitant bill to maintain an overburdened health care system that every citizen will have to pay, whether they use it or not.
What is the point of all this theatrics... perhaps to fuel the discussion about the power we are willing to acknowledge over our own health.
I take full charge of my life, and I am the final decision maker on any suggestions or interventions regarding my care, life or death with dignity.
It tells me that integrity tastes much better...everywhere in our relationships with others: Whether we are journalists, therapists, researchers or others...
Thank you and good luck to the adventurers of health!
Bertrand Desfossés, Gatineau
October 10th, 2008
Yes, I have been fooled, but that's not the problem.
Several years ago my father remarried at the age of 76. Enquete did an investigation on the Marriage of the elders and the vision of the children. My father Gérard Tremblay was interviewed by Enquete, he said everything the reporter wanted to hear, my father is like that, he can't say no to anyone. And this same reporter did NOT ask the children anything. Probably because it didn't fit into his vision of marriages between elders.
And now he's doing it again with Total Biology.
What about the code of ethics for journalism?
Should journalism of this sort still be allowed?
The purpose of journalism is to inform, not to take sides.
Again, this goes beyond Total Biology, elder marriage, and the like, to journalistic responsibility.
Our RIGHT to be informed.
Let's imagine for a moment that this same journalist takes sides with the Neorhino. What would happen to the coverage of the election campaign, which is already not very funny.
I believe that Radio-Canada should better supervise some of its journalists. Let's not forget that WE are the owners of Radio-Canada and that WE MUST demand what we are entitled to. That is, informative, unbiased journalism.
Regardless of whether or not we agree with the information we receive, if it seems biased or not up to our standards in terms of depth on the subject, we must inform the CBC MANAGEMENT. Again, WHETHER WE AGREE OR NOT with the subject matter.
Professionalism is the answer. If a subject is not covered with professionalism, let's shout it out. We have the right. And even the duty.
How many more stories will this reporter have to cover before he is put under investigation?
Journalists, do your job, we, those who read, watch and listen to you, will do ours, paid you.
Raymond Tremblay, Repentigny
October 10th, 2008
And you still push the nail in with Total Biology?
I hope you keep your programs in archives because one day we will laugh at this completely reactionary program that demonizes new ideas as I thought it was no longer done since the end of the Catholic egemony in Quebec. I suppose that a few decades ago you would have demonized psychoanalysis, acupuncture and homeopathy in the same way. These ideas will soon enter the university through the front door when we are done with the God of reason and the era of the great scientific gurus in white coats. The innovators, the creators, the geniuses, those who have made the world move and evolve, fortunately, have never let themselves be discouraged by the servile and fearful minds clinging to the status quo and ready to all possible delations to preserve the small, lukewarm and morbid comfort of immobility and of the already known with no future.
I remind you that these brilliant theories in psychosomatics were created by pure doctors of conventional medicine (Hamer, Sabbah). Still in their infancy, they are our future in health. As for the cure rates, I challenge anyone to scientifically prove to us that official medicine is consistently successful in treating cancer.
This subject concerns us all, we'd better get along instead of taking sides.
And I am very proud that Quebec is a land of welcome for all the innovative, avant-garde ideas that make the world move slowly. This is a credit to the province.
Sincerely,
Fleur PhD
Fleur Popova, Montreal
October 10th, 2008
We can confirm it now that the 2 programs have passed: we are entitled to a great campaign of smear against the BT. We can ask ourselves some questions:
Mr. Gravel: Are you proud of your show?
Mr. Gendron: Why did you dress up in France? Do you have an international reputation?
Reporter: Which therapist would you choose if you had "real" breast cancer?
Dr. Perreault: Why are you getting more and more nervous in interviews and why do you say "it has to stop"?
Dr. Lamontage: Why don't you deal with the xxx current complaints from doctors instead of wanting to deal with the 0 complaints from BT?
The reputable oncologist: Why have you never read the work of the ex-oncologist, Dr. Hamer?
Ombudsman: After how many complaints will you demand that the journalist do an "objective" investigative report on BT?
Radio-Canada: Do you think this kind of reporting is good information? Do you really think that people are fooled?
It's so obvious that you don't want people to be more interested in BT that you are no longer credible and the public danger is not to pass on this knowledge to the people who are suffering so that they can take responsibility for their own treatment...
Isabel Simard, Quebec
October 10th, 2008
In any case, these multidisciplinary approaches are the only ones that will allow medicine to get out of the impasse in which it finds itself. An impasse that translates into a huge deficit in the health budget (ironic name). We have no other choice than to finally reunite the human being in a body - heart - mind. Your program will, at best, only delay the process that is underway.
And I can assure you that this process has nothing to do with a sectarian movement.
Jean-Jacques Crèvecoeur, Montreal
October 10th, 2008
I will not join the ranks of those who are shocked by Radio-Canada's treatment of the "Total Biology" subject. I am part of it too and there is no need to add to it.
I am simply amused by reading the comments of people who agree with your program. These people state peremptorily that there can be no link between emotions or stress on the one hand and illness on the other. Some add, to support their statements, that this is a scientifically established fact!
I smile when I read such comments, because it is the characteristic of ignorant people whose culture stops at what the media feeds them: the unique and dominant thought in scientific matters.
For 25 years I have been studying, as a scientist and as an epistemologist of medical practices, the works that promote a global vision of the human being. Notwithstanding what many people say, the scientific work that undoubtedly establishes the links between stress and disease is legion today, and constitutes a discipline that most practicing physicians did not have the opportunity to study during their studies. And they have not bothered to update their knowledge which has become a belief. This discipline is called psycho-neuro-endocrino-immunology. It is not developed by charlatans and isolated researchers, quite the contrary. But it supports in a spectacular way the theories of Dr Hamer (whom I have known personally for 20 years).
If doctors and other people would take the trouble to read the recent publications in psycho-neuro-endocrino-immunology, I think that you would not find anyone to support the nonsense pronounced in your report.
Jean-Jacques Crèvecoeur, Montreal
October 9th, 2008
Total biology has never been able to prove its effectiveness. No cure has ever been attributed to this practice. The various testimonies in favor of BT are at best anecdotal, at worst false.
There is no logical mechanism to link stress or conflict to cancer. This is a fact. The only measurable consequence of total biology is the loss of money for people who are being ripped off.
Adopting total biology as a complement is not "putting all the chances on one's side", but rather risking harming one's recovery by trying to seek out non-existent conflicts, by questioning healthy relationships or by creating harmful anxiety in the patient, because the latter, and/or those around him, are assumed to be guilty of his condition.
On the other hand, total biology shows that scientific culture is not widespread enough in the population and that the old Judeo-Christian background, where illness is seen as a divine punishment that one must accept, is still too present.
Looking at the wave of protests, I feel like I'm reading the devotees of a cult. Perhaps this is what total biology is all about: a belief, a faith that allows us to explain what we are unable to understand. For those who are more capable, total biology remains a charlatanry.
Simon Chamberland, Montreal
October 9th, 2008
Hello,
I watched your program last night which reported on an investigation that one of your journalists did on total biology.
I was extremely disappointed to see that your report only showed one side of the story, the negative side of Bt. and that you did not talk about the people who have benefited immensely from total biology. Those who have been cured of all kinds of diseases, both physical and behavioral.
I am one of them. .... I was cured of an allergy to the sun that no doctor could help me with until now. During the conferences that I attended, never! never! it was question for anyone to stop conventional medicine treatments. On the contrary, it was always suggested to us to consult our doctor before starting a total biology approach in order to know in depth our medical file and to be helped as much as possible by our consultant.
Total Biology is a COMPLEMENT to traditional medicine and not a deadly threat as demonstrated in your report. Of course in every field of society there are profiteers, unscrupulous people who believe they are God the Father ..... even some doctors in traditional medicine are public dangers.
So I think it would be right for you to show the other side of the coin.....the positive side of Total Biology..... To show that there are good advisors who do an excellent job in an honest and respectful way....
I invite you to come and attend the meetings that are held every week at the Château Joliette in Joliette. These are group meetings that are filmed for total transparency.... you can attend without hiding and get all the answers to your questions.... this would be a good way to complete your report and make a logical continuation of your program.
Christine Beaulieu, Lanaudière
October 7th, 2008
Hello,
I have finished making comments, I now read those that were added after mine and I had fun making statistics for my pleasure. Here are the results without scientific pretensions (not my job!)
Quick non-scientific statistics !
% Comments in favor or against Claude Sabbah's Total Biology and Hamer's New Medicine
FOR- -- -Number = 30 = 58,8
AGAINST- Number = 15 = 29.4
NEUTRAL Number = 6 = 11.8
(or Conciliators)
These results are not based on a scientific survey and could vary depending on the judgment of the sorter.
Comments that appear to be neutral also have favorable and unfavorable points, I put them in the neutrals so as not to skew the results to the pros or cons.
Additional comments from the same Blogger Name (removed) Number = 4
Net total (kept) = 51
Sampling: 55 Comments #1 to 55 dated up to October 7, 2008 (Marie Faucher)
It would be interesting to have a larger sample (1000 Comments) to have more precision.
Fun facts:
The cons have mostly written short texts, little information and disrespectful in general
The pros have mostly written long texts, better documented and more respectful
Coincidences ?
Jacques Bédard, Saint-Mathieu-de-Rioux
October 7, 2008
Both bt and GNM are looking for the emotions that caused the disease. The fact that a person says he or she has a disease, like your actor-actress, does not allow him or her to answer the questions of a bt or GNM caregiver. The bt or GNM caregiver is looking for a specific event that has generated a specific emotion (DHS) that is known, because knowing the client's illness one knows what emotion it is. The latter cannot describe experienced emotions. Hence the caregivers were in the left field. Although the actress had the same definition by all the bt caregivers.
I would suggest that you do the same exercise with a real patient accompanied by a camera reporter, and provide us with the results. These could be very different. At least I hope so.
In the meantime, your report as it stands definitely lacks depth and impartiality.
Be careful, it's about emotions, not events.
The same event can be experienced differently by several people
The five laws of airin of cancer.
Ex. My son is killed in an accident.
Loss of my son (breast)
I knew that he would kill himself because of his behavior (not sick).
Anger at the driver.
I don't mind. (not sick)
Etc.
Anger against the driver, I express it, I talk about it, I am listened to = not sick.
As far as an evaluation of the GNM principles by physicians is concerned, such an evaluation would be a professional suicide. So let's not count on it for the next few days.
I would think that it is up to you, Inquiry, to ask for this evaluation for the advancement of medical science.
Raymond Tremblay, Repentigny
October 7, 2008
Mr Gravel.
Your investigation has good sides but also bad sides.
The college of physicians is not pure either and they control everything.
I am against the manipulation of untrained people to heal people but I am also against the boycott of immigrant doctors who are not recognized and who want to pass exams to practice.
We have paid dearly for reasonable accommodation!
We are still paying for the lack of doctors.
I believe that we trivialize what an immigrant doctor could help us.
So as much as doctors are responsible for protecting their cloister, those of alternative medicine are rejected.
Marie Faucher, Montreal
October 7th, 2008
Hello.
I would like to share my personal experience with you. My daughter had a stroke about 2 years ago (she was 7). She spent a week in the hospital for a battery of tests, she saw all the children's specialists (MRI brain, blood, heart, nerves) they even did a spinal tap. They found nothing. I dared to raise a question, without mentioning b.t. once, could it be that she had been under a lot of stress lately that caused this? I was told curtly, "Stress has never caused a stroke ma'am..."
I'm not a doctor or a specialist in anything. But one thing is for sure, after seeing all these beautiful "specialists", I am not reassured!
Finally, we identified a major stress that she had a week before the stroke. She was already healed so it's hard to say for sure if there is a connection, but I see it as a very interesting lead.
PLEASE HAVE AN OPENING.
Bibiane Leclerc, St-Isidore-de-Clifton
October 7th, 2008
Quackery, that's what I think of what I saw in this program. It's time for the authorities to do something. Calling yourself a "Doctor" when you have no knowledge is scary! Bravo for your show.
Georges Albert, Montreal
October 7th, 2008
I wanted to inform you that the psychoanalyst Guy Corneau, in his interview on Radio Canada on November 23, 2007, with Dominique Poirier, mentions that he turned to Total Biology in order to cure himself of his cancer (interview available on the internet: "Guy Corneau, son combat contre le cancer). I think he is doing well and that you could have mentioned this Quebec personality in your report!
Thank you for offering us this forum.
Sincerely,
Fleur Popova, Montreal
October 7th, 2008
Investigation ?? I call it a lynching.
Where does this investigation come from?
Dr. Hamer's discoveries are marvelous, plausible and verifiable, and you didn't dare to go to the end of your investigation, to meet people who have healed themselves by working very hard on their emotions.
Was it the fear of realizing that everything was true, the fear of changing your vision of things, of changing the vision you have of life that prevented you from going to the end of your investigation?
You preferred to stay anchored in your old patterns, it is certain that it is less disturbing, it is less emotional and that way you don't upset traditional medicine and pharmaceutical companies.
I have attended seminars in the past and never once have the speakers denigrated traditional medicine. On the contrary, they said that once the research is done, we can live with it until we find a new way to heal.
I encourage you to continue to do surveys, the idea is not bad, but have the courage to be really neutral by giving the right information.
Christiane Gaudreault Otis, St-Augustin-de-Desmaures
October 7th, 2008
Sir, I am scandalized by the lack of professionalism shown in your program devoted to Total Biology and New Medicine.
To claim that there is no scientific basis in this approach to medicine is simply bad faith and an intention to harm. This intention can be felt even in the way you have treated the images! Not to mention the skillful editing to make all these therapists look like dangerous lunatics.
Sabbah is far from being the best spokesperson for this new approach to medicine. But to ask doctors who have not taken the time to read Dr. Hamer's work to pass judgment on this vision is very dishonest.
Personally, I had the chance to watch the documentary "Seul contre tous" directed by Jean-Jacques Crèvecoeur. An excellent documentary that shows that the scientific evidence exists and has been validated 28 times in Europe. A documentary that you will probably never have the courage to broadcast on your airwaves, I am sure.
One last thing: I thought that a report was supposed to present all the aspects of the same subject. Where are the testimonies of people who have been cured by the new medicine or BT, while they were condemned by the Official Medicine? Very disappointing indeed!
Arthur Scott
Trois-Rivières
Scott Arthur, Trois-Rivières
October 6th, 2008
Finally; the best weapon against this charlatanism is information and logic training.
Anyone who has these tools can see how ridiculous the claims of this and other cults are.
Not all diseases are natural reactionary phenomena controlled by the brain; this is obvious, since they can be observed in vitro, in sets of cells without a brain, since they exist in species without a nervous system, etc.
If some diseases are indeed of psychosomatic origin, it is not the case of a great majority of diseases that are caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi, prions, mutant cell lines...
People suffering from diseases they don't understand well are privileged targets for the merchants of false hope; the best way to fight against them is to give real support and a real understanding of their diseases to those who suffer from them.
Gabriel Hmimina, Paris
October 6th, 2008
Why this war? Isn't the enemy to be defeated the disease by combining all the forces and means available.
Dr. Hammer made the link between the physical body and the mind. What programs us a disease is in fact our feeling. That stab in the chest after a traumatic event? That gagging in the face of certain situations? Our verifiable physical reactions are the proof that our body reacts to our thoughts.
Dr. Sabbat is a passionate person, he shocks people, but in his passion he has never shocked those around him when we fervently defend our certainties. He has always insisted that his therapists be a complement and not a substitute for academic medicine.
The information you have transmitted is blatant sensationalism. This atrophied breast showing: Look what the new medicine has done! In fact, who is guilty of this atrocity? Or the beast to kill?
When humanity will be less greedy, when it will be able to love at last, perhaps finally the efforts of each one will be combined towards what will be able to help the human. The disease and the patient are two things. There is the subject and the object. Conventional medicine is interested in the object, which is the disease itself, and B.T. is interested in the subject, which is the patient. Ideally, both parties should be treated with the same consideration. It is essential to broaden our knowledge in order to evolve.
I have seen cancer patients come back from the brink, allergies healed, arthritis silenced, I am amazed to see the power of the human being if he has the right tools, "all" the right tools useful for his healing. The power of healing belongs to man.
Will you, the media who possess so much visibility, have the wisdom? Will any of you dare to stand up and give people the key to what will allow them to heal themselves? Too bad, this sensationalism may well have made some people even more ill. I cry over human stupidity.
Guylaine Maheu, St-Georges
October 6th, 2008
In the report on total biology you say that there have been dozens of deaths because of this therapy.
In Canada or in the world?
If bt has been around for about 20 years, and people from Australia and the USA want to hear from Dr. Saba, maybe it's not to know how dozens of people managed to die, but rather how thousands of people were cured of the disease.
In my opinion, the medicine that everyone knows has killed many more people in the last 20 years.
My mother died of breast cancer at age 45, sick for over 2 years, I am curious to know, if she had done both at the same time, bt and chemo, would she still be with us today?
I'm sure she would have at least tried if she had been told something other than: you only have 6 months to live.
Question; whose idea was it to do this story?
A journalist, an RC boss, the College of Physicians (no, Mr. Lamontagne didn't know about it), the pharmaceutical companies that risk losing billions of dollars if people heal themselves?
I believe that the earth is round and that the human brain is stronger and more precise than we are led to believe.
Another thing, have you ever been treated by a chiropractor or acupuncture? If so, you have been using quack techniques that have been prosecuted by medical colleges in the past...
Keep up the good honest work, people like to know the real truth and trust journalists.
Christian Fréchette, Longueuil
October 6, 2008
Then a flash.... my father once told me about a period in his life. From the age of 6 to 12, he lived through the 2nd World War in France. The region where he lived (near Chambéry, in the Alps) was a zone occupied by the German troops. My grandfather Marius, then in his forties, worked in a motorcycle and bicycle repair shop requisitioned by the Germans to maintain their own equipment.
His house was located in a neighborhood where the houses were all very close to each other. At night, in his workshop, adjoining the house, Marius received friends of the resistance (clandestine movement that harassed the invader), repaired their weapons and even tested them. It is easy to imagine the risk he took and that he made my grandmother and her son (my father) take. Indeed, the Germans were constantly patrolling and denunciation was not rare. My father, as a child, experienced the terror (in isolation and without any solution) of seeing the soldiers enter their homes and having to raise their arms in the air in front of the enemy rifles.....
My unconscious brain, when I raised my arms in the air at work, would revert to the stress and my father's program.
After realizing this, I let go and told my brain that it was not my story and that I did not want it.
I can work with my arms in the air and I haven't had a migraine in four or five months."
Laperle Fernand, Montreal
October 6th, 2008
On construction sites, I regularly have to work with my arms in the air, while straining.
Once the day was over, on the road, or once I arrived home, a strong migraine would appear and I would have to take Advil, and this once or twice a week.
My B.T.E.V. meeting helped me to make the link between the days when I was forcing my arms in the air and my headaches. She made me understand that these migraines were a phase of repair of a conflict in connection with the movement I was doing. Indeed, once I left the construction site, I could no longer, unconsciously, be subjected to the stress of holding my arms in the air.
It remained to find the reason for the stress
Sitting in front of me, the counselor raised her arms in the air and then asked me what it reminded me of, repeating her question several times in front of my astonishment.
Fernand
Montreal
Laperle Fernand, Montreal
October 6th, 2008
I am not a fan of these biased strategies where one disguises oneself and hides to strike at the slightest suspicion with already an unfavorable prejudice written in the forehead.
It would be more constructive to encourage an honest and open dialogue between established institutions and those who dare to look further and grope for alternatives to better health.
Your pseudo-investigation ironically resembles some gossip magazines and paparazzi harassment... to unknowingly use people's experiences in the public square in an arrogant way, in order to discredit and sometimes ridicule instead of honestly informing.
We know the tricks of the trade: the editing where you magnify out of context everything that is likely to discredit ... and hide any credible part ...
Flaws are everywhere, you don't even need an investigation to find them every day.
Discernment is necessary in all the choices of our life and especially when it concerns our physical or mental health; it is up to us to use it to go towards the resource that suits us, whether it is Total Biology or another approach and to assume our choices. No medicine can give us any guarantees.
What is the point of all this theatrics... perhaps to fuel the discussion about the power we want to recognize over our own health.
I give no one but myself the right to decide about my body and my health and my life. I take full charge of my life, and I am the final decision maker of any suggestion or intervention regarding my care, my life...or my death...with dignity.
It tells me that integrity tastes much better...everywhere in our relationships with others: Whether one is a journalist, therapist, researcher or whatever...
I believe in open and transparent communication without traps for a possible collaboration through our differences.
Thank you and good luck to the adventurers of health!
Bertrand Desfossés, Gatineau
October 6th, 2008
Quackery, that's what I think of what I saw in this program. It is time for the authorities to do something. Calling yourself a "Doctor" when you have no knowledge is scary! Bravo for your program.
Shirley Taillefer, Senneterre
October 6th, 2008
I am deeply disappointed by your investigation, because you have accustomed us to more rigor.
You blame people because they improvise themselves as therapists and abuse the naivety of the population, yet you do the same thing, after a training, Mr. Gendron is not a specialist. It is an insult to the intelligence of your viewers to present them with such a biased program.
I am very happy that you have denounced the practice of several people, yes a clean up is necessary. Some people project the image that total biology is easy and magical, this is false.
To heal, one must first follow the indications of one's doctor. Then, we must understand how total biology works and get involved in a personal approach to manage our stress. If we accept the help of a therapist, we must choose him or her with discernment.
Yes, sometimes the healing is lightning fast, I have experienced it myself. Often, there is work to be done and other times, it is easier to accept the illness and to be treated only by traditional medicine, because managing stress is not easy.
Total biology is not a belief, it is an evidence. I hope that your program has stimulated specialists to produce scientific research, because it is an ideal and sometimes essential complement to traditional medicine. I am not a specialist, nor a therapist, nor a doctor, I speak from personal experience.
It's scary to know that our attitude towards a situation can influence our state of health. We probably prefer to complain when we are sick. Let me add that the real winners will prefer to take control of their lives. They will do so wisely, no matter how negative an opinion you try to create.
I encourage you to take a sincere step, this time with the right people. Happy trails!
Julie Loranger, Ste-Christine
October 6th, 2008
Hello, my name is Karel Grenier, I am 24 years old, my parents are psychotherapists in Sainte-Marie and practice psycho-kinesiology with the support of Total Biology and it's been 15 years since I've consulted a doctor because I simply don't need one at the moment. The new medicine is not focused on the cure, but rather on the understanding of the disease, which traditional medicine cannot offer. So, not only does it heal, but it moves us forward spiritually and frees us from heavy feelings.
The word "shocked" expresses very poorly the feeling I had while watching your program. If I had been one of those therapists I would have complained in advance. You seem to be gratifying the fact that we filed a complaint as if you wanted to make people believe that the practice of total biology is bad and that they should be afraid of it. After these 45 comments I would hope that you would make a point on the next show, I dare but don't count on it because I don't know what your interests are.
Then, it is obvious that this specialist that you sent to France already had her ideas in mind. In this sense you have chosen extracts, and very few, to support your sterile retoric. It is not even the theory that you are refuting, and anyway you lack the knowledge to do so so you use meandering arguments and peripheral facts that are not at all directly relevant.
What about the thousands of people who have been cured of cancer, multiple sclerosis, diabetes and other incurable diseases? Nothing, it seems, you are only interested in the failures, to pass your indigestible soup. History repeats itself. Homeopathy and acupuncture have been denigrated for more than 20 years and now it will be the new medicine, but fortunately there are many intelligent people who will not have swallowed your bland soup at Enquête last Friday.
Karel Grenier, Montreal
October 6th, 2008
Dear Sir, I'm sorry,
Like all of your viewers, I was entitled to expect a critical look at your program and an in-depth analysis. This was absolutely not the case. I am neither for nor against total biology. What I do know, after having seen your program, is that I am resolutely against such a biased program. I was hoping for a professional work, I only saw a summary and poorly documented execution (I checked, as you were supposed to do: Sabbah left of his own accord the order of doctors, he was not disbarred. It's easy to cross-check such information, isn't it?) Unless, for some reason, you have a real interest in truncating reality, I think that for professionals, you are simply very bad. You are a disgrace to your profession.
Marie Delou, Brussels
October 6th, 2008
"The New Medicine of the 21 st Century" (continued)
Hello,
I listened to the program several times and I found it very interesting but also shocking. Thank you for your report, it promotes the new medicine without wanting to do so and will help people (not credulous) to know its existence. It is obvious that Mrs. Verreault and Mr. Gendron arrived in France with unfavorable prejudices. They obviously did not grasp the essence of these age-old natural laws. We will question them in 20 years ! You speak of theories when it is a question of biological laws verified and recognized as 100% reproducible by a group of doctors and scientists. You can go and see the site of the New Germanic Medicine, under the tab "Verifications" Protocol of the Medical Conference of March 4 and 5, 1989 Munich as well as 6 other verifications. The medical profession, if it is of good faith, will easily find these scientific proofs. This authentic true medicine will take on gigantic proportions within 25 years, fortunately! But I announce to you as a prophet of "misfortune" or "happiness" according to your vision, a difficult turn for the old school and a very painful delivery for those who will fight against this inevitable evolution. For me the real "Public Danger" is the stubbornness of the medical and scientific community that refuses to question itself honestly. Do not make the same mistake with Hamer that the Church and Science made with Galileo in his time! Remember that it is the earth that revolves around the sun... The obscurantism has lasted long enough. Einstein said: "When truth escapes us and knowledge is lacking, then man invents dogmas..." (like metastasis, AIDS, enemy microbes, the immune system, etc...) Who are the real charlatans?
Welcome to the new medicine of the 21st century! Good discoveries.
Jacques Bédard, Saint-Mathieu-de-Rioux
Jacques Bédard, Saint-Mathieu-de-Rioux
October 6th, 2008
"The New Medicine of the 21 st Century
Hello, I saw your report and I suspected that it would be incomplete and biased. It smells like a sham... I am a researcher or rather a truth finder. The scientist in me is tinged with a philosopher and doubled with a skeptic who does not easily buy the ideas of others. I do not believe in the 500 erroneous theories of scientific medicine! We will NEVER see a cancer cell migrate from one tissue to another through the blood or lymph and create metastases...! Another error! not recognized reproducible! Why did no one before Hamer ever think of searching in the "Embryonic Sheets" at mitosis? Modern" Science has remarkable machines, those with which Hamer worked to study, the loquacious cerebral Scanners. Many people do not seem to believe in emotional shocks, in the spirit, in the soul! The "New Doctors" of the 21st century, like Hamer, will be "Accompanists", "Listeners", "Midwives", Psycho-Genealogists and will hardly need any tools except to do mechanics (Fractures, etc.. I have verified these biological laws on my "being" and I have experienced, five times, healings: "Conflicts of separations" (skin), "Conflict of fear in the territory" (bronchial tubes), "Conflict of doing fast, fast" you guess which gland? of the sympathetic system! the gas pedal! yes! the thyroid! It works perfectly as expected! without medication. I choose to be responsible for my health and to be the master of my universe. I have studied this "pseudo science" as you call it for lack of knowledge, and it is the most fantastic thing I have discovered in my whole life, I am 52 years old. I still only see the tip of the iceberg. "In the footsteps of Plato, I am learning to know myself and the laws that govern my biology. I will never back down, not after what I have discovered and experienced!" Jacques Bédard
Jacques Bédard, Saint-Mathieu-de-Rioux
October 5th, 2008
I am extremely disappointed with the way you conducted this investigation, without any objectivity. Your goal seems to be sensationalism. I was expecting to see both sides of the coin, but all I saw was the negative. I know a lot about total biology, I consulted one of the therapists that you presented as being bad and I found him to be excellent, unlike you. I cured myself of several health problems including a serious eating disorder (anorexia) that traditional medicine could not cure. Why do you think doctors are turning to alternative medicine? Perhaps they are tired of getting only temporary results with their way of treating illness. I don't see why we can't reconcile the two. You were right on one point, yes, there are bad therapists in Total Biology as well as in traditional medicine, but you forgot to mention that there are also excellent therapists as well as excellent doctors.
Micheline Lamontagne, Quebec
October 5, 2008
Problems with your program:
You present, of course, only the rare cases of failure and none of the many cases of success; you don't question why the phenomenon is so widespread (if traditional medicine was so effective, do you think we would need Total Biology?); you don't mention the more than obvious reasons for the clandestine nature of these ideas (who do they oppose? who do they bother? what do they bother? ); you omit to mention that Dr. Hamer is first of all a famous oncologist specialized in women's cancer and that it is following his own testicular cancer (and the brutal emotional shock provoked by the accidental death of his son) that he started his deep researches and developed his brilliant theory about the whole human organism and the phenomenon of diseases in general; you omit to say that he has been completely cured for years of his cancer; you omit to mention his brain scans which in 100% of the cases allow him to locate the organ of the body affected by the cancer and the family of psychological problems to which it is attached; you omit to say that this theory does not contradict in any way the ancient Chinese medicine which has crossed the millenniums, besides being a theory founded at the base by pure scientists, doctors graduated from traditional medicine (Hamer, Sabbah. ..) etc. And no, Claude Sabbah has not been disbarred at all and how do you expect David Servan-Schreber to reveal anything about psychosomatic medicine to us, he who has hidden his brain cancer all his life so as not to compromise his profession as a psychiatrist? And so on. Unfortunately, I still don't have enough space for my review. Do you have another place of publication to suggest to me to transmit it completely?
Thank you for reading,
Sincerely,
Fleur
Fleur Popova, Montreal
October 5th, 2008
I just watched your program on Total Biology and I am deeply shocked not by what you denounce but by your program itself. How can your program be called "Investigation" when you do absolutely no investigation, when it is a total tear-down (so to speak) of the discipline you claim to present to us, prepared, premeditated and operated with dishonest methods, where we only hear one point of view - that of the denunciation -, where the theory is completely retracted, betrayed, caricatured, truncated, distorted by an insidious audiovisual editing and oriented according to your first objectives heavily displayed by your sensationalist announcements. You do not inform us at all about Dr Hamer's theory nor about those who were inspired by it because you never transmit more than one sentence at a time, taken completely out of its context and followed by comments or images of your own which only support your desire to discredit your object by relying on a popular feeling that is even more ridiculous than the one you are trying to denounce: that of fear concerning everything that could tempt us outside the official versions presented in their time by the companies but which always end up being surpassed, fortunately, in spite of denunciations like yours. I almost thought you were going to mention the devil at one point.
My message is too long, unfortunately, for this internet window...
Thank you.
Fleur
Fleur Popova, Montreal
October 5th, 2008
Psychosomatics and biological decoding are vast fields that are far from being fully explored. And it will take time to get there because few organizations are interested in funding research that will not make money. Total Biology has changed lives for the better and yet nothing about it appears in your survey.
From minor symptoms to more severe diagnoses to a range of psychological and behavioral issues, Total Biology can help people live healthier lives. However, I am disappointed to see that some therapists have a questionable practice as they do in all areas of health care. A competent and professional therapist will require that you have a clear and precise diagnosis from your doctor, a medical follow-up with appropriate treatment until medical tests confirm that the disease is no longer present. If you had looked, you would have found this kind of therapist in Quebec.
Medicine diagnoses and treats the disease. Total Biology determines the causes of the disease and helps you to stop it. It is desirable to combine these two approaches to increase your chances of recovery. I believe that using total biology in our daily lives prepares us to respond better when we are diagnosed with a serious illness. So don't wait until you are vulnerable to make your own assessment of this approach while continuing your usual medical follow-up.
Nathalie St-Georges, Ste-Mélanie
Nathalie St-Georges, Ste-Mélanie
October 5, 2008
Please don't worry, ladies and gentlemen, the new medicine of Hamer and the BT are the medicines of the future and will develop more and more. The current medicine is handicapped, by not taking into account the formidable power of our thoughts. Claude Sabbath may have an impulsive nature, he is not perfect. He is the first one to say to always continue the treatments with conventional medicine. I think that you, Alain Gravel and radio-canada, are the rapacious one in this whole story.
Michel D'amour, Chambly
October 5, 2008
I saw your program. I find that you only looked at one side of the coin...
This first doctor, Dc. Hamer, did you know that he cured himself of a prostate cancer thanks to these methods. A cancer that he got after the death of his son?
About Dr. Hamer, when he was in class, he managed to diagnose more than 200 kinds of cancer in anonymous patients, just by looking at brain scans. He could see the site of the disease in the brain and was able to tell where the cancer had started in the person and what the root conflict was. Of course, these were scans that he didn't know about, brought in by other doctors. Doctors don't want to be taken away from their position, this kind of new medicine is threatening to them. So the trial turned out in their favor. You would have had to be present to understand why, but this being said, on Dr. Hamer's forum there is an up-to-date follow-up of the demonstrations and petitions made so that he regains his freedom. Hundreds of people have been healed. But of course, a program like yours must, I imagine, only present the dangerous side of the story.... it's a shame.
This method has its good points, I admit that many people may consider it a quackery, but basically, if you had looked into the d. hammer instead of that crazy Sabbah, you would have discovered something very interesting and promising for the future!
I really like your show...although in general you are partisan rather than neutral...
Christine Morency
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Christine Morency, Lévis
October 4th, 2008
I am very surprised to see how much people can believe anything.
Bob in Les Boys sums up Total Biology with his famous sentence about the hardness of the mind....
I totally lose interest when I see that people can become specialists in human psychology, in biology, specialists in the human body, etc. in a short week. It's pathetic, but at the same time it's a reflection of society: ready to believe anything and in any field, especially in a vulnerable situation.
In any case, if so many people believe in it, it's their problem, but at $75,000 for a week, I'm ready to retrain...
Long live Total Biology, it is surely this technique that has increased life expectancy! Especially since it didn't even exist 50 years ago! Even medicine has evolved since the world has existed. There has been awareness, experimentation, etc. with the results that we know. A friend of mine had a very rare form of cancer and he was saved by traditional medicine.
Penicillin, chemo, radiotherapy, surgery, etc., to hell with it and long live Total Biology!
I would prescribe psychoanalysis as a treatment to these charlatans!
I am willing to adhere to certain alternative medicine practices but here we are talking about hard medicine that has a 100% chance of killing. The people who practice this business are pathetic or rather profiteers! In any case, they do not want to be caught because they are afraid, that is all!
Keep up your investigations, they are very instructive.
PS for those who are interested, I sell fresh and unpolluted air in cans and this very pure air can cure you of all your diseases because it has medicinal properties! I am sure I will become rich on the back of your health! (joke)
PSS I sell pills that make you lose weight in a few days, 10 pounds in 10 days, guaranteed! (joke)
The list could be long!
Alain Mercier, Laval
October 4th, 2008
A few months ago, I started a book entitled: ''Et si la maladie n'était pas un hasard...'' written by a French neurologist, Dr Pierre-Jean Thomas-Lamotte.
I don't remember if Hamer is mentioned in this book, which is qualified as "fundamental", but listening to your report, I immediately made the link, even if in this book, the term "total biology" is not used.
There are many examples of causes of diseases discovered coming from emotions, or from reversals of situation, from psychic shocks... I must admit that it seems very interesting, especially since the explanations seem plausible and the facts seem to have been experienced by real people...
Of course, they only show one side of the coin, so it is easy for people to be convinced. What is awful is that there are people who risk death by stopping treatment... It's amazing!
Hamer's book was impossible to find on store shelves, I understand why. But I did get my hands on one that is similar. So, other people are picking up on this theory.
What I think is that the people in your story are not using this theory in the right way at all. Like everything, I think you have to take some and leave some. I believe that some conflicts can create stress and damage our health.
What I find amazing is that the people you interviewed seemed VERY helpless when you asked them questions. It's amazing!
In short, what I wonder is if these people have any knowledge, I mean, they are not even able to defend their practice!
Bravo for your report!
Laurie Suzor-Pleau, Breakeyville
October 4th, 2008
Hello,
I must admit that I am very disappointed in your treatment of Total Biology.
Not that I think this approach is the best, nor flawless, but I would have liked to see some real objective journalism. You have only raised the negative points. You even mention that about 10 deaths are attributable to this practice. How many deaths are attributable to traditional medicine? Do doctors manage to save all the patients? Does traditional medicine have the answers to all the questions?
Total Biology offers a method to understand the origin of diseases. Once the conflict has been identified, it is up to the patient to resolve it, and this is not always easy. The inner work required to achieve healing is intense and serious, and it is unfortunate that many people believe that by discovering the conflict they will be healed instantly.
If society were to open up to so-called non-traditional approaches and if medicine were to work closely with alternative medicines, exceptional care would be available. It is not a question of a war between traditional and alternative medicine, how can we reconcile these two parties?
I would have liked to see in your report interviews with people who have been healed by this approach, because there are some. You have tried to destroy this approach by making it simplistic and dangerous, whereas it has helped many people. I have even met a person who was cured of a brain tumor when he was condemned by medicine. What do you say to that? What other scientific evidence do you need? What is more important, to have tons of scientific reports or people who are cured? Take the trouble to ask all the Total Biology therapists for examples of healing and interview these people and then you will have your scientific proof.
Karine Sirois, St-Hyacinthe
October 4th, 2008
Mr. Gravel.
False prophets to heal the misery of people will always exist.
At this Inquiry, these gurus know how to take advantage of this weakness by performing miracles.
This media investigation will be able to stop certain false therapists from continuing their propaganda.
I can imagine the distress of those who, as followers of these practices, must have felt.
Will they believe in this scam?
These fine manipulators know how to brainwash their patients.
I sympathize with them but I wonder about the penalties of these practices.
When the causes of misrepresentation lead to death, there should be penal consequences.
Claire Thibaudeau, Sherbrooke
October 3rd, 2008
I would also say this, when we are in love everything is beautiful, we don't sleep much, we don't eat much, we are in great shape, we are on a cloud, our emotion of love makes us live extraordinary moments, we are happy, we are on fire. Why would it not be so for the disease which is bad news, why would it not act so but negatively. Do you see what total biology could and will do to show that emotions, feelings, our past can affect our body and the way we deal with diseases. Think about it.
Mélodie Gordon
Mélodie Gordon, Ste-Julienne
October 3rd, 2008
Hello,
The person who introduced me to total biology, had warned me that my entourage and outside people could misunderstand biology but seriously I would never have believed that it would be so bad. It's all nonsense, the interviews that were broadcast, the negative idea that the show wanted to give off, I'm stunned. I believe that everyone has the right to their own opinion, whether it is good or bad. I attended several conferences on total biology and several things were said in this hour that disappointed me, the cessation of treatments in other, I remember the testimony of someone who believed in Biology, he wanted to stop all his treatments and the speaker insisted that he continued, he continued and came out today he is happy and healthy. Total Biology does not want to harm conventional medicine in any way, it wants to work in parallel with it. I imagine that in every profession, whether it is a doctor, a dentist, a high school teacher, there will always be people who are more qualified than others. I think you're talking to the wrong people, especially the wrong people.
Melody Gordon
So, I'm really disappointed in your program, I think you didn't do enough research to make such claims, and you only took what you liked and not the truth.
Maybe you are afraid, maybe you are worried, maybe it is not perfect at the moment, but to denigrate the progress as you did, is a total lack of respect for all the people who work hard to help, support, inform the sick people. These same people who are on waiting lists to get a treatment to live. Total Biology is there to help work on the real causes of illness, without stress and without deadlines.
Melodie Gordon #1
Mélodie Gordon, Ste-Julienne
October 3rd, 2008
People who are dealing with cancer are vulnerable. Often, they are ready to try anything to get better, which is quite normal, quite human. This is why we must be constantly vigilant to protect them from the obscurantism and charlatanism that appears as soon as we let our guard down.
I congratulate you on your report. It will undoubtedly contribute to saving lives, or at least to ensuring that patients and their families do not cling to false hopes.
Jacques Mercier, Rouyn-Noranda
October 3rd, 2008
Hello,
I have a friend who had breast cancer and underwent all the medical treatments, including the removal of a breast. They offered her to reconstruct it and she refused; she was revolted to have had to undergo such a treatment. She heard about Hamer and his total biology and was excited about it; I told her it was a good thing she found out later because she might have died. She was a firm believer in his bullshit and was studying to be an osteopath. I warned her about the influence she could have on her sick patients. When I told her that I had stage 4 osteoarthritis in my knee (I will have a second operation in January) she said that my knee was perfect the way it was, that creativity and imagination could fix everything, etc. I was so outraged that I had to go to the doctor and ask her to help me. I was so outraged that I told her to fix her problem with her cancer... but, as we saw yesterday, these people believe that doctors are the ones who cause diseases.
I haven't heard from her since, a year and a half
Chantal Jetté
Chantal Jetté, Montreal
October 3rd, 2008
Hello
I wonder why we don't get sicker than that, given the number of viruses and bacteria that surround us? Do we get sick by chance? Stress at work causes digestive problems and insomnia (it's proven), imagine losing a child in a violent way, or your mother being taken by force because of an unhealthy conjugal duty (in other words "raped") by your father when she was pregnant with you, this would not have any consequences on the baby? How many stories do we carry within us that shape and traumatize us? Not experiencing a strong emotion at the time it occurs is a way for the brain to protect us. Illness occurs later if we have delayed experiencing that emotion.
What I learned from Total Biology is that we must live our emotions, not keep family secrets, cry with our children and parents and, above all, talk about what we are experiencing and what is upsetting us with our loved ones.
People mistakenly believe that they can live their lives carefree and pretend that everything is fine and that if there is a problem, medicine (or total biology or Reiki...) will solve it! What total biology teaches us is that yes, we can be cured (but it is not as magical as it was suggested in your report, it can take years to put the finger on the problem when the disease is well established), but above all, that we must take charge of our health and be responsible for it!
By the way, I am not a therapist and I don't want to become one. I don't trust the health care system as it is because it is too controlled by the pharmaceutical companies.
Lucie Tremblay, Montreal
October 3rd, 2008
Hello,
To all those who believe that because medicine fails to explain cases of miraculous healing means that fraudulent medicines such as total biology have their raison d'être, I reply that the burden of proof does not lie with science. Let the proponents of these charlatanisms prove scientifically with credible research that total biology works and stop citing a few isolated cases.
If you watched the report, you will remember that there is NO scientific research that proves that total bilogy works!
I know that times are not good, but that is no reason to go back 500 years and adopt magical thinking again.
Alexandre Fournier, Gatineau
October 3rd, 2008
First of all, congratulations for your report. I found your report honest and your methods appropriate for the context. If those who criticize you for your lack of objectivity applied a minimal critical sense themselves, the charlatans would quickly lose their followers.
Unfortunately total biology is far from being a unique case... I believe that this shows a major failure of the educational system, to have failed to inculcate a critical intellectual approach, as well as a general scientific culture. There is no such thing as hard medicine or soft medicine... only medicine that is based on evidence (pharmaceutical or not) or ''medicine'' based on gossip, hearsay, rumors or .... charlatans. Keep up the good work, (if you don't have skeptical people) ... otherwise, who would?
Daniel Audet, Sherbrooke
October 3rd, 2008
Mr Gravel.
Personally, I liked this investigation.
Many people in distress are vulnerable.
We must not judge them because if we see hope, we hang on.
I blame the College of Physicians for being suspicious of immigrants with degrees.
In Cuba, doctors are highly regarded and they are not accepted in our country.
It would also be better to learn other medical techniques.
The lack of doctors is due to the bad faith of the College.
I could also talk about a doctor who abused his victims.
He is still practicing: reason: lack of doctors.
In my opinion, the Collège des médecins is also at fault.
Claire Thibaudeau, Sherbrooke
October 3rd, 2008
Dear Enquête team,
You have done an excellent journalistic work which could however be seriously damaging in spite of you.
In order to do a more complete and fair job for the public interest, it would be necessary to do a more complete and objective review of the modern medical industry and satellite medicines, sometimes thousands of years old.
It will also be necessary to question the real impact of medical research subsidized by the private sector and the impact of being listed on the stock exchange when one claims to want to serve health.
In the best of worlds, medicine should open its doors so that all therapists (here and elsewhere) have an equal right to practice thanks to a common and solid basic training, such as a solid knowledge of biology.
If people without a solid knowledge of biology or other guru ego trips talk nonsense about biological decoding, this does not refute the credibility of this orientation. In parallel, imagine the absurdity of concluding that the French language would be worthless because teachers would not know how to write it well.
Medicine would make giant strides if it invested in research on biological decoding. However, it will take honest and courageous people to admit that the closed environment is not rational. If the medical industry really did care for people effectively, how could it make more and more money?
Please dare to think outside the box, away from the opinions of those who have a conflict of interest in these issues.
Thank you!
Annie Boudreault, Montreal
October 3rd, 2008
Hello,
I must say that the subject of yesterday's broadcast was very disturbing. I hope that this "pseudo-medicine" will be eradicated wherever it is.
Cathie Normandin, Boisbriand
October 3rd, 2008
Hello,
Thanks to total biology I was able to understand and heal my many allergies. Between the ages of 9 and 16 I had to go every week to get vaccinated to reduce my allergy symptoms... at 16 I stopped going to the doctor because I was not seeing any improvement. When I understood 10 years later the concept of Total Biology and the invariants related to allergies, I was immediately cured...I can finally hug animals. I also deprogrammed many other things.
Biology is a science that works with lasers. I invite people to do research, there is scientific proof of all this.
Total Biology is not against traditional medicine in any case they mention to stop treatments or to stop consulting.
Annik Lapointe, Mont-Laurier
October 3rd, 2008
Your investigation is well structured and informs the citizens very well on the public danger of these budding charletans. The two European gurus have found a fertile ground in Quebec and we should not be happy about it. They have their followers in Quebec, especially in the Sherbrooke area. Money is the good they want to obtain from people who are often in distress and need compassion, not magic. The Sabbath sect and its muses are very active in Quebec and your investigation has enlightened the public. Follow their activities on the Internet, it is frightening to see how sensible people with diplomas fall under the influence of a few gurus who peddle monumental errors that are dangerous to health.
André Gamache, Quebec
October 3rd, 2008
I listened with great interest to your program...but also with great empathy towards people who want to believe in non-traditional approaches...
Tonight, I am thinking very hard about a woman... very intelligent, educated though, and with a beautiful personality... but caught with cancer (the 3rd)... and who is desperately looking for a way to defeat this evil by trying to "understand" its origins and have power over it. I know she is interested in the approach you presented tonight.
But when someone is told by the experts that they have less than 3 years to live... isn't it a survival reflex to explore all sorts of solutions?
Everyone is aware that our stresses, our blockages and our anxieties have a very important impact on our health... Can these cause cancer? That may be a bit strong... but I think it is possible... I am sure that a personal growth process could contribute "in part" to a part of the healing... it depends, of course, if the cancer is caught in its early stages or not. Stop treatment, no! But exploring non-traditional avenues or doing therapy with a professional is certainly an interesting avenue, in my opinion, if combined with traditional science.
It's easy to say "I would never believe in these absurd approaches" when you are perfectly healthy. It must be quite different when you feel powerless in front of the disease...
On the other hand, I am revolted by the schools that claim to train "therapists" in a few hours... This is another important debate! An abominable fraud!
Emotional problems, the source of many ills, cannot be solved simply by identifying them. At this level, this is what scandalizes me the most in your show tonight. In short, nothing is simple when it comes to life, death and hope!
Thank you. It was a very interesting evening.
Michèle Langlois, Sherbrooke
October 3rd, 2008
Several of your correspondents suggest an open-mindedness towards new methods, and to study these new approaches before condemning them. They are absolutely right. Some of the most far-fetched ideas at the outset have proven to be excellent... However, they must be subjected to a verification and validation process called the experimental method. However, to oppose the use of this method to verify one's hypotheses is quackery and magical thinking, even fraud. We think that echinacea prevents the appearance of colds? let's experiment! People think that garlic has therapeutic properties? Let's experiment? People think that fenshui leads to happiness? Let's experiment! Do you believe that acupuncture cures this or that disease? Let's experiment! Medicine is accomplishing wonders and its progress - which cannot be denied - is based on the experimental method developed by a man named Claude Bernard around 1865!
Pierre DuBois, Laval
October 3rd, 2008
I have the distinct impression that the College of Physicians is behind this report. I am not a fan of total biology and it is deplorable for those who die but, how many die in hospitals per year? Just one point: Eat fresh fruits and vegetables from Quebec and if possible organic, as little red meat as possible and prioritize: chicken, fish, etc... This is the way for us not to have to resort to all the mentries on both sides and to be healthy!
Yves Filiatrault, Ste-Véronique
October 3rd, 2008
I think that in this whole story, the most amazing thing is to see that there are people (you only have to read the comments) who believe in it like crazy... By daring to use words like "biology" we are trying to camouflage, with terms recognized by the scientific society (the real one, not that of these charlatans), the reality of this method.
If some people can take comfort in the fact that they feel they are fighting the disease, good for them. But they should not be lured into believing that they will be cured.
I am amazed to see that even today, some people are still fooled by this kind of simplistic manipulation. That is the problem. I can understand that sick people try by all means to get cured (inaction being the worst thing) but I find this practice unhealthy because it is based on the abuse of people.
I can't believe that people tried to block your story before it was even released. That says a lot...
Denis Roy, Quebec
October 3rd, 2008
I notice the large number of comments accusing your team. Has the "anti-cancer" cancer spread to this extent in Quebec society? It is sad to see that false gurus abound in these uncertain times.
Robert Dufresne, Baie-Comeau
October 3rd, 2008
Mr. Gravel,
First of all, it is certain that the report made with the help of two of your colleagues on "total biology" makes one think about the consequences of such summary practices. Of course, this is not the case for all alternative medicines, but it is certain that in the case you have mentioned, there is a breach of trust on the part of those who practice this approach.
However, I think it is a pity that the report does not try to understand why this phenomenon is growing, especially in Quebec. I cannot give an absolute answer, but it is possible to put forward a hypothesis: the religious factor.
It is certain that the religious factor (Judeo-Christian) is still very present in Quebec society, whatever some elites may say. As studies in sociology tend to show, it generally takes a minimum of three generations (over 70 years) for a socio-cultural change to take root.
As we know, the religious factor, one of the foundations of which is the "miracle", is still very present in the Francophone culture of Canada, even more so than in France, where the Church was ousted earlier, nearly a century ago. This could explain, at least in part, the craze for "total biology".
As for the primary basis of the approach, it is certain that all is not so clear-cut. The fact remains that the "psychosomatic" factor may have an impact. In this regard, some further study is needed, which could be done through collaboration between traditional medicine and modern psychology.
I'm not saying that we should accept "total biology" out of hand, but that it would be good to do more research, such as a psychological portrait of former and current oncology patients... to see if there is a correlation.
Jules-Hubert Beaulieu, Verdun
October 3rd, 2008
Hello,
Beyond the intention of the journalists-investigators, this is an interesting report. On the one hand, because of the fascinating subject of psychosomatics which was not invented by total biology, by the way. Hippocrates spoke about it, then Georg Groddeck, Hans Selye, Henri Laborit who were not charlatans. But we have to admit that medicine has never tried to integrate it in its practice (we treat the symptoms, not the causes). It is also interesting to observe to what extent medicine has struggled to integrate alternative practices (and here I am thinking of the battles waged by the College of Physicians against chiropractic, acupuncture, and midwife-assisted childbirth) until they were finally accepted and supervised. But in order to be recognized, total biology must now bring its clinical results out of the closet to take this step. In the same way, total biology practitioners must be cautious about the possibility for the patient to follow other treatments, this choice is theirs. On the other hand, the reporters for this story seemed to give a lot of weight to the College of Physicians. However, in my opinion, journalist Paul Arcand's documentary on pharmaceutical companies suggests that the public must also be very vigilant with regard to conventional medicine. Your bias was a bit obvious.
I look forward to hearing from you,
Yves Richer
Yves Richer, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
October 3rd, 2008
I am glad that you succeeded in exposing a few charlatans, but why go to the barricades when there are a few deaths in alternative medicine while in our hospitals people are dying by the thousands from nocosomal diseases?
Our traditional medicine is completely based on a falsehood; it treats the symptoms instead of the disease. And what it calls disease is an attempt by the body to try to correct an imbalance.
Until the philosophy of this medicine is to work in collaboration with our own healing powers and immune system, it is partly wrong.
Go take a look at this side, you will surely discover some interesting stories!
Cassandre Savoie, Chambly
October 3rd, 2008
I was disappointed to see that your report throws the baby out with the bath water. Dr. Hammer's theories are disturbing but they offer a different vision of the disease. They also bring powerful new healing possibilities that the pharmaceutical industry cannot sell us. I personally believe that these theories deserve to be explored further. The way they are being applied by some individuals is distracting the viewer from the fundamental questions that this new science brings. I invite the leaders of the professional associations consulted in the report to seriously inform themselves on the subject before judging. One day someone dared to say that the earth was round...
Marc Sylvain, St-Isidore-de-Clifton
October 3rd, 2008
I am deeply disappointed to find in this report, the techniques of garbage radio and gossip newspapers and especially the adherence to the dictatorship of a single thought in medicine.
Indeed, I consider the hidden camera techniques, the quotes without their context and the generalizations based on particular practices, as a blatant lack of respect towards people who want to do an honest and professional work outside the beaten track, those of alternative medicine. For me, this is a biased and dishonest presentation of this new discipline and those who try to apply it. Obviously, we find ourselves on the fringe of the official medical scientific current: outside the Church/College of Physicians there is no salvation/treatment. The Vatican of the 16th century burned the first modern scientists. Today, those who deviate from the beaten path are ridiculed in the media.
In this report, I would have expected a more balanced vision with positive testimonies well documented in the media such as those of Guy Corneault and Laura Fabian among others; this next to the negative ones which are the only ones to appear. On the other hand, I would feel dishonest to judge medicine only on the basis of questionable practices that are commonplace. To say, like this doctor in the report, that Total Biology is a nuisance to be eliminated is an affront to the intelligence of those who, like me, have used it effectively to heal themselves: thanks to Total Biology, I got rid of the gout I had been suffering from for 30 years.
In short, I have been involved in Total Biology for 10 years: courses, books and therapists, and I only recognized in this report a caricature for the benefit of the circulation of copies or the ratings, and not balanced and professional information on Total Biology as I would have been entitled to expect from Radio-Canada and the newspaper Le Soleil.
Fernand Poulin
Quebec
Fernand Poulin, Quebec
October 3rd, 2008
Worrying to see how people let themselves be fooled by pseudo-therapists who have absolutely no scientific proof of the effectiveness of this total biology, and also worrying to see that, despite your report, people continue to support them.
Sébastien McNeil, Maniwaki
October 2nd, 2008
Hello,
There was at least one premise missing from your "report": if people are turning to alternative medicine today, it is, among other things, because of the many abuses of the medical system and the prevailing omerta. Let's think about medical errors, the pharmaceutical industry and the powertrip of some doctors.
I am fortunate to have a good family doctor and a wonderful pediatrician. He has a soft spot for new practices, so he can go from traditional prescriptions to grandmotherly advice to homeopathy and common sense. In fact, he trusts me and assumes that I have good judgment. He involves me in my health, which is really too rare in traditional medicine, which surely explains in part his failure and the overload of the system. The example and success of midwives is quite eloquent in this regard.
I would like to say in closing what thousands of viewers probably thought while watching the program: where are the examples of healing, because there are some. And they are disturbing and medicine does not explain them and does not even try to do so. Of course, there are many abuses in these practices, too many people who improvise themselves as therapists. These are dismissed by the majority but naive people will continue to consult them and pay them handsomely, but it is the same for professional golf doctors or those who travel around the world every two years.
If ENQUÊTE continues in this vein, you will lose me as a listener, I will flush you out like the other programs of the genre on TVA or TQS. That would be very regrettable.
Thank you.
Denis Clément, St-Camille
October 2nd, 2008
Hello,
I just wanted to thank you for having made a report discriminating the practice that is total biology. I believe that this type of "alternative medicine" is a real problem, especially when it contradicts traditional medicine as was the case in your report.
The horrors we heard show us how dangerous it is to consult a therapist with an unregulated title, such as a naturopath, psychotherapist, etc. Certainly not all of them will systematically cause harm, but when we see the basis of these theories and have some knowledge of science, what is said in these minimalist trainings is misleading and fraudulent.
I would like to draw attention to the fact that some alternative medicine therapists have already practiced in the health field (doctor, chiro, nurse). I find it strange that health professionals are so interested in alternative medicine, not as a complement to traditional medicine but as a replacement. Especially knowing that these so-called medicines have no scientific basis or clinical studies proving their effectiveness or their harmlessness. I hope that they will be struck off their order (especially the one that invoices the consultations to the Régie...)
The day when a study will show that repeating a prayer to Claude Sabbah 15 times a day, morning and night, can cure cancer, I might believe it. Until then, I prefer to trust trust trustworthy professionals, with, of course, these disadvantages, but also a realistic expectation of results.
Nicolas Vigneault, Mascouche
October 2nd, 2008
I deplore the fact that your show does not even try to have a minimum of objectivity. the demonization is obvious since you go on hidden camera, armed with false diseases and false identities. you do not even try to see if there are people who have had positive results? You tell us about Lara Fabian who said she was helped by BT and you don't even try to look further. However, if this therapy is spreading, it is perhaps because it has results. Some practices took years or even centuries to come out of the woodwork (meditation, acupuncture...) and now people are starting to recognize their virtues. Before burning these wizards at the stake, why not try, as a society, to see if there is any truth in it? In spite of medical research and the millions it requires, cancer is progressing. Maybe other views could help, right?
Thanks to your film, I think that these therapists will have a fierce life lesson, it could even make them sick...
Valérie Pouyanne, Montreal
October 2nd, 2008
Mr. Gravel,
Thank you for this shocking report!
For 2 reasons:
1. Total Biology (TB) needs to be better known. Based on the principle "Speak well of it, speak ill of it, but speak out", this report accomplishes the mission of making it even more known. BT is so powerful and revolutionary in curing diseases, even those said to be incurable by conventional medicine, that it is only a matter of time before it becomes widespread and used.
BT is spreading at a great speed, you say? You should also know that there is a list of more than 220 books on the subject on the website of a Montreal bookstore. Would all these people have been wrong? It would be doubtful to deduce that there is no positive in the BT. Unless you don't want to see it...
2. Your team did show several anomalies in some of the advisors. This report will surely allow the consulting community to review its practices. Sometimes, there is nothing like a good kick in the butt to question oneself, roll up one's sleeves and become even better.
I deplore, on the other hand, the "We throw the baby out with the bathwater" and "We only show one side of the coin" approaches practiced by your journalists. It tickles the dishonesty a bit. There was no mention that the laws used by the BT have been verified by universities and committees of doctors. Also, they did not look hard to find and get people to testify that they have cured diseases by using BT. Or rather, perhaps they have found some and have chosen not to show them to us...
By showing us the deaths due to BT and applying the reasoning of the report, I can only conclude that conventional medicine is also fatal and a public danger. Conventional medicine practiced in the U.S. (the same scientific medicine as ours), was identified as the 3rd leading cause of death in 2000 (Journal of the American Medical Association. 2000:284:483-485).
François Picard, Laval
October 2, 2008
your report has no independent analysis. From the outset, you bring to witness a member of the college of physicians who, out of loyalty to his members, will defend traditional medicine and will only rarely admit alternative medicine interventions. They refute all the benefits of the magnetism of Nikken products but they proceed by magnetic resonance to detect the disease... I have attended more than 4 conferences of Dr. Sabbagh here in Montreal and he never discouraged medical treatments, on the contrary he strongly advised to continue the current treatments. I have never heard him repeat the methods supposedly advocated by the German doctor (stopping treatment, etc...) You speak of deaths, have you investigated further how Dr. Sabbagh's recommendations were followed.
Speaking of deaths, why don't you investigate the 100,000 annual deaths in North America attributable to the use of legally prescribed drugs, that would make a good report...
I respect traditional medicine but it does not have the answer to everything... far from it... why not try other avenues, the effects of metal
did Freud confirm all his theories with scientific evidence...
we could have expected you to check the other side of the coin: to follow someone that Dr Sabbagh would have treated and cured and to investigate the veracity of his case ... but no you preferred to highlight the devious cases, I don't know the people questioned, they never intervened in the conferences I attended ... read Jacques Martel Dictionaries of the discomforts and diseases, Lise Bourbeau ... Johann Warren Retrouver ses ailes and you will see that there is a well-felt logic ... I was curious to see what you had to say on the subject, I only saw journalism of crushed dogs, with the fears of doctors
Ferdinand Roy, Montreal
October 2nd, 2008
I wonder, when I look at the way the filming on total biology was done (i.e. no impartiality) who commissioned it...I wonder even more, why we don't have the right to objectivity and open-mindedness in 2008. I'm not saying I agree 100% with the total bio viewpoint, but I do think that you wanted to decide in advance what the viewers would think. Why do we really only have one side of the story at the end of the day? As long as I'm concerned, there are charlatans everywhere; in alternative medicine, and in the "pharmaceutical" one, which is also paid for...
Martine Laliberté, Sainte-Adèle
October 2nd, 2008
Hello, at the beginning of the show I was shocked by the report on biology.you succeeded in finding the worst therapists.this report is a very bad interpretation.biology is an extraordinary tool you just have to know how to use it.medicine has its good and its worst doctors just like biology has its good and its not so good.I believe that you should deepen your investigation on the good sides because also medicine has a lot of faults.
Nathalie Audet, Laurentians
October 2nd, 2008
Hello,
I have been fighting lymph node cancer for two years in my early twenties... I will not go through four steps to express the disgust and contempt for human dignity that I feel when I watch your documentary on total biology.
First, medicine is an inexact science, just like any other human construct. This implies that it is often wrong, even though it tries to find the right treatments with the sole purpose of saving lives. The scientific method may not be perfect, but it is proven. From what I see in the report, total biology is only at the embryonic stage of chimera.
Then, I had to undergo excruciating treatments to get well and the difficulty of the test made me doubt the relevance of undertaking the treatments. I hesitated for all sorts of reasons... One of them was the fact that several nurses tried to convince me that my cancer was caused by a psychological disorder and even went so far as to say that I should abandon my chemotherapy treatments... Since I was extremely vulnerable, I thought about it. I realize now how dangerous this advice was. I almost gave up everything because this "advice" made me doubt my personal capacity to get through it and also made me doubt the capacity of traditional medicine to help me heal.
In conclusion, I would just like to say that I believe it is criminal to try to convince emotionally and physically vulnerable people to abandon traditional treatments in favor of total psychological healing. I believe that psychological healing is certainly a necessary complement to a total cure for cancer, but I am truly convinced that such an aggressive disease requires an equally aggressive treatment.
Genevieve Lafond, Montreal
October 2nd, 2008
Hello everyone, how can you judge the total biology in one week and in addition to give only the negative facts of the bio you make of the negative sensasionalism. You should ask for a meeting with claude sabbah. In medicine as in biology there are good ones and rotten ones, you have found the right therapist for your show. all of them have misinterpreted biology (except claude sabbah and olivier comoy) because one thing is on one of the primordial rules of the total biology is not to stop its medical treatments.salut eric
Eric Beaulieu, Laurentians
October 2nd, 2008
Hello,
Thank you for reporting on this "medicine" that is gaining more and more followers in Quebec. The phenomenon is frightening because more and more people are distancing themselves from the medical system to treat themselves with alternatives. What is most dangerous is that fewer and fewer people are being vaccinated and the diseases that our vaccines protect us from (because vaccination does not necessarily eliminate the disease from our environment! I fear serious epidemics if this trend continues.
Your report is a step in the right direction.
Thank you!
Alexandre Fournier, Gatineau
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