Is the medical establishment looking out for the best interests of patients?

That is the big question.  Many of us have put our faith in pharmaceutical companies and public health agencies, only to discover too late that our trust was misplaced.  We know that private industries and governments are corruptible, but there is something in us that resists the idea that such corruption can take a strong hold in the medical arena, because when it does, the consequences are so dire.  They are life and death.  And who wants to admit that public health and Pharma put profits and power above the lives of Americans?  It is a miserable prospect to consider, and to accept it leaves us all in the difficult place of not knowing who to trust to help us when we, or our children, are sick.

But until we face that difficult truth corruption has taken hold in the medical establishment, it will remain and grow and we will continue to suffer the adverse outcomes of bad medicine.

The time has come for a change. The mounting crisis in the health of children and other vulnerable groups has not only been ignored by medical authorities, it has been suppressed. As parents, citizens and advocates for the health of future generations, we must rise up to call attention to this crisis and take action to end it. In nominally democratic societies, which sadly are increasingly corrupted by the power of entrenched interests and the economy of influence that surrounds the medical industrial complex, we can most directly effect change by mobilizing for political action in order take action against these corrupt forces. It is time to come together to form The Canary Party.

This position paper addresses three questions surrounding the mission of

The Canary Party

1. What is the problem?

2. What is the solution?

3. What is to be done?

What is the problem?

In 19th century coalmines, canaries were used for the first time to detect the presence of poisonous gas accumulation deep in underground tunnels. Because their metabolisms run faster than humans,