Anyone who’s been
reading my Colloidal Silver Secrets ezine for any length of time, or who’s read
my 547-page book The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual, knows I’m one of the
world’s most ardent advocates for the safe, sane and responsible usage of
colloidal silver.
But I’m also a huge
advocate of truth. I try my hardest to
keep the record straight and give readers the facts about colloidal silver as
best I understand them, based on my 20 years worth of journalistic research
into the topic of making and using colloidal silver.
But because there’s so
much rank sensationalism and misleading nonsense about colloidal silver being
published online these days, sometimes working to keep the record straight is as
frustrating as standing on the shore of the ocean and yelling at the waves to
stop.
And that’s especially true
since the Ebola crisis started and people began touting colloidal silver as a
“proven cure” for Ebola, when in reality it has never been proven to “cure”
Ebola at all.
Now, it appears the
FDA is striding firmly onto the scene, and making legal threats against
companies and individuals who are touting colloidal silver and other natural
health products as “Ebola cures.”
In a previous article,
I warned readers that the medical bureaucrats would step into the fray if people
didn’t quit falsely claiming colloidal silver is the proven “cure” for Ebola. Here’s what’s happening now, and why I fear
for the freedom of the colloidal silver community if these false claims aren’t
stopped soon…
Hi, Steve Barwick here, for The Silver Edge…
As the Washington Post article at this
link points out, the FDA is now getting ready to bring the hammer of Thor
down on companies that make claims like "colloidal silver cures Ebola."
In my previous article
titled “Dr. Rima’s Ebola/Nanosilver Nonsense,” I warned that this would happen. And I implored readers not to fall for all of
the hype about Ebola, and especially not to listen to people claiming colloidal
silver is the “cure” for Ebola, since that’s an outright misrepresentation of
the facts.
In fact, I stated, “When
we start making wild, broad-based claims that simply can’t be substantiated,
it’s going to bring the medical bureaucrats into the fray, whose sole job is to
protect the interests of the medical monopoly.”
And I also stated, “When
we cross the line from stating the facts to claiming cures that have never been
proven for something like Ebola, we invite the medical bureaucrats in. And
that’s when the ‘wrath of Khan’ begins, if you get my meaning.”
Now, precisely as I feared, the medical authorities along
with authorities from the Federal Trade Commission are knocking on Dr. Rima’s
door. In fact, on September 23, 2014
they showed up at the office of one of the trustees of her foundation with a
legal warning in hand, demanding Dr. Rima stop making unsubstantiated claims
that her nanosilver product is a “cure” for Ebola.
Folks, the FDA and the FTC don’t show up at your front door with
a legal notice in hand unless they’re very
pissed off. You see, making the claim
that "colloidal silver cures Ebola" is tantamount to waving a red
flag in front of the FDA and other medical bureaucracies and saying "Come
and get us."
If you had clinical proof of such a claim, then fine, tout
your proof. Scream it from the rooftops.
Heck, I'll help you. I’ll publish
your proof…I’ll give you full credit…and I’ll use every resource at my disposal
to publicize your proof from here to Tanzania and back.
But when the supposed "proof" is based on
half-truths and sensationalistic exaggerations of the available evidence, then there’s
going to be trouble every single time
because the medical bureaucrats are always
on the lookout for reasons to ban safe, natural substances like colloidal
silver that directly compete with Big Pharma’s cornucopia of toxic drugs.
The Bee in the FDA’s
Bonnet
As I mentioned, right now the great big bee in the FDA’s
bonnet is the claim that colloidal silver cures Ebola.
This claim is being spread all over the internet. It’s not just Dr. Rima, at this point. It’s everywhere.
What’s more, people are mindlessly reposting links to the
websites making these claims all over social media sites like Facebook,
Pinterest and others. This can only
serve to even further enrage the medical bureaucrats.
Indeed, I just now read a web page called “Cure for Cancer,
AIDS and Ebola.” Links to this site are
being posted all over the place. So what’s
the problem? Well, the site makes spurious
claims like “Colloidal silver cures Ebola,” and “UCLA studies show colloidal
silver cures every virus known to man.”
Frankly, it's very frustrating to see web pages like this. For example, the erroneous claims that "UCLA studies show colloidal silver kills every virus known to man" is a complete crock. UCLA has not conducted any studies on colloidal silver and “every virus known to man.” Not ever.
Frankly, it's very frustrating to see web pages like this. For example, the erroneous claims that "UCLA studies show colloidal silver kills every virus known to man" is a complete crock. UCLA has not conducted any studies on colloidal silver and “every virus known to man.” Not ever.
Now it’s true that back in the late 1980’s a researcher
named Larry C. Ford used a laboratory at UCLA for a short period of time to do
some private, independent research on a colloidal silver product he was helping
another individual develop.
But he didn’t do this work under the auspices of UCLA. He did it on his own, in private, using a lab
at UCLA. And UCLA later disavowed his
research, because it was conducted in private on behalf of a commercial product
without their knowledge.
If my memory serves me right, at the time Larry C. Ford (now
deceased) claimed that in his private research the colloidal silver brand he was
testing killed somewhere around 105 different pathogens.
But now, the claims about Larry C. Ford’s private research in
a UCLA lab have morphed into the claim that “UCLA has proven colloidal silver
kills every virus known to man.” And many of the liars making this claim are
using it as a means of touting colloidal silver as an “Ebola virus cure.”
Nothing could be further from the truth, of course. Indeed, Larry C. Ford's private research was conducted
chiefly on bacteria, not viruses, and
certainly not "every virus known to man."
Just today (September 27, 2014), I even read one website that
stated with supreme confidence, “UCLA
medical lab researchers found silver to be effective on every virus they tested
it on including Pseudomonas acruginose.”
That particular quote made me laugh out loud. First of all, it’s not Pseudomonas “acruginose.” It’s
Pseudomonas aeruginosa.” And more
importantly, that’s a bacterium, not
a virus. Anyone who doesn’t know the
difference between a bacteria and a virus should not be writing health
articles.
It's these kinds of wild, sensationalistic and completely uneducated
claims that cause the FDA to go ballistic and start threatening colloidal
silver vendors.
And unfortunately, phony claims like this put everybody in the colloidal silver
community under the microscope of the medical bureaucrats, which is why we all ought to be outraged about
them.
Colloidal Silver Does Kill Viruses
Yes, it’s true that colloidal silver has been demonstrated
in test tube clinical studies to kill quite a wide variety of viruses, or at
least to stop them from replicating (see the clinical studies discussed on the Colloidal
Silver Kills Viruses website, at this link).
And yes, there are reams of anecdotal evidence
from people all over the world attesting to the fact that colloidal silver has
helped heal a number of different types of viral infections.
But colloidal silver certainly has not been proven to kill "every
virus known to man." Otherwise,
there'd be no AIDS patients, no Ebola victims, no Hepatitis C sufferers, no
herpes virus sufferers, etc.
Viral diseases would have already been completely eradicated
if colloidal silver was actually proven to kill “every virus known to man.” After all, colloidal silver is available in
every well-stocked health food store in America, and it has been for decades. It’s not like anyone in this country is
physically stopping others from using it.
Indeed, if colloidal silver had actually been clinically
proven to “kill every virus known to man,” it would be the world’s most popular
nutritional supplement. But the claim is
completely false, not to mention ludicrous at face value.
No Ebola Cure
As Mike Adams pointed out in his great article
titled, “FDA Threatens Three Companies with Criminal Charges for Making Ebola Treatment
Claims”:
"Here at Natural
News, I've consistently repeated that NOTHING has yet been proven to treat,
prevent or cure Ebola. Thus, all medicines -- natural, conventional or
otherwise -- are 'experimental and unproven' by definition."
Now, that's the flat-out truth of the matter. And I applaud Mike for telling it like it is.
Now, that's the flat-out truth of the matter. And I applaud Mike for telling it like it is.
The FDA’s so-called “Ebola drugs” are experimental and
unproven. And so are any natural
substances said to have antiviral qualities, including colloidal silver. They’re all
“experimental and unproven” in regards to Ebola, because to date not a single
human being has been clinically “cured” of Ebola through the use of any of them.
So to say something like "colloidal silver kills every
virus known to man" and “colloidal silver cures Ebola virus,” is so
egregiously false, it simply invites
the medical bureaucrats to step in and start cracking heads, euphemistically
speaking, of course.
Agent Provacateurs?
Sometimes I get the feeling that some of the people making
these demonstrably false claims online are, in reality, agent provacateurs whose job it is to give the medical bureaucrats precisely
the ammunition they need to bring the hammer down hard on the entire colloidal
silver community.
I urge readers to shun websites that are causing this kind of trouble and bringing this kind of unneeded scrutiny upon the colloidal silver community. Don’t re-post the links to their articles or web pages. Don’t spread their lies. Don’t play right into the hands of the medical bureaucrats.
I urge readers to shun websites that are causing this kind of trouble and bringing this kind of unneeded scrutiny upon the colloidal silver community. Don’t re-post the links to their articles or web pages. Don’t spread their lies. Don’t play right into the hands of the medical bureaucrats.
Let this sensationalistic nonsense die on the vine before
the FDA decides to start using these false claims as a reason to have colloidal
silver banned from sale as a nutritional supplement, just like the health
authorities in Europe did only a few short years ago.
It’s hard enough combating the lies being told about
colloidal silver by its detractors. But
when the lies come from people claiming to be colloidal silver advocates, then we’ve got real problems
because it always gets the medical authorities involved.
Let’s keep the colloidal silver community free of unnecessary
scrutiny by the medical bureaucrats. Let’s
stick with the science. And if you want
to conjecture about whether or not colloidal silver might be effective for this
disease or that – including Ebola -- then dang it, be honest and label it “conjecture”
or “opinion.” But don’t state it as fact, if there’s no solid proof to back
it up.
The truth is, colloidal silver is an absolutely amazing,
broad-spectrum natural antimicrobial substance.
That’s been proven over and over again clinically, as well as by the personal
experiences of tens of thousands of individuals worldwide.
But as I’ve repeatedly stated over the past 20 years, colloidal
silver is not “God.” It can’t kill every
pathogen known to man. It’s never been
proven to “kill every virus known to man.”
And anyone who says it has is a liar, or is empty-headedly repeating
someone else’s lie.
Learn More…
If you’d like to read more of my articles on the proven
benefits of colloidal silver, just go to the Colloidal Silver Update page
on TheSilverEdge.com website.
And if you’re interested in learning how to make your own
high-quality micro-particle colloidal
silver -- quickly and easily, in the comfort and privacy of
your own home, and for less than 36 cents per quart -- just
click the link in this sentence.
If the FDA ever does step in and attempt to ban colloidal
silver, the only way you’ll ever have access to it again is to learn how to make
your own. So it’s quite important to
learn how while the information and simple tools are still available.
In light of what’s happening, I urge you to visit the link
in the above paragraph. Or click here
to discover how truly simple it is to make your own high-quality colloidal silver
right on your kitchen countertop.
Meanwhile, I’ll be back next week with another great article on
colloidal silver….
Yours for the safe, sane and responsible
use of colloidal silver,
Steve Barwick, author
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
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