Comments on Seeing Past Scientism's Nonsense

I have never given my dogs flea/tick/heartworm because my gut said something wasn't right with this. I don't think I ever had them jabbed with a wombo combo. If I did, it was early on in dog ownership. It was the day the vet wanted to put my now 13-year-old Pyr on prednizone for her horrible itch and crabby science kibble. I ended up allowing, sadly, the one round of prednizone. I went home and did some research. I looked at every ingredient in kibble and researched it. I also knew she couldn't stay on prednizone. I didn't know about homeopathy at that time but managed to get her well on just raw. That was my slow journey to get to Dr. Falconer's fabulous courses. What an eye-opener and my sight has never been clearer. I'm not working to fix my rabies miasm dog. Slowly but surely.

He he, I do what Dr. Will suggested...I fired 3 vets, I have a good Clinique for tests if need be, and smile. What I find amazing is Where is the intelligence that we have lost, from following such science? How dichotomous, don't you find? There is a war on illegal drugs, yet it's the legal ones the pharmacy company sells that will really do you, and your pets in? Keep writing those articles Dr. Will. If your site went down, it's because you dared to tell the truth:) Kudos & hugs from me and my hounds:)

I was absolutely astonished a few months ago when a new customer came into my store (holistic pet retail - emphasis on nutrition). He had been referred by a - gasp! - emergency clinic vet who had diagnosed his 14 year old dog with a metastasized cancer. She told this customer that there were 2 options. 1) chemo (she shook her head "no" while saying it) and 2) come to my store to see if we can at least help some way nutritionally with quality of life (while shaking her head "yes"). Dr. gave them 6-8 months, and right now, we're at month 5, with dog happy and more energetic than ever. Food as medicine...

Hey Dr Falconer,
Quick question for you- I don't vaccinate my dog anymore for anything, but she does go to day care 3-4 days a week where she is around lots of dogs who I assume are getting their vaccinations. I've done titers and my dog is good, but is there a limit to how many times a dog can be exposed to a virus say from a newly vaccinated dog's feces and not get it? Just wondering. I may be over-thinking. My dog's been fine so far and we've had some cases of giardia in the kennel recently.

I was curious about human vaccines and what was being said. This is from 2008 so I'm not sure it they still put the mercury in vaccines. Very interesting. I shall read on.
http://vaccinechoicecanada.com/health-risks/brain-neurological-injuries/the-truth-behind-the-vaccine-cover-up/
Is mercury the issue with vaccinations for dogs/cats?

Thank you for sharing these thoughts. I too have a couple of stories.
I had been searching for a specific breed of dog for quite some time. Contacting a number of breeders etc., well, finally, one breeder told me of a littler that was to be available from another trusted breeder. I called the other breeder (she was the top veterinary for the entire state of (I don't want to bash her). To make a long story short, I only gave my puppy vaccines until she turned one. (I didn't know any better then.) When I met our holistic vet, she turned me on to feeding raw and not vaccinating. To this day, this poor 7 year old dog has issues with ear infections. We have tried (at least) 10 homeopathic remedies, adding supplements to her food, cleaning the ears, etc.. poor girl. There are times when my SO hollers at me that if I don't get it taken care with antibiotics he will take her to the (conventional) vet. I know that if he takes her there they will force vaccinate her, which is the last thing I want for her. I truly believe that the poor girl, having come from a breeder with the job she had, is suffering from severe vaccinosis from her ancestors...
One more story: A couple of years ago our other younger dog was a little listless. She just didn't want to really do anything or eat anything. Our holistic vet was out of town learning continuing education so we couldn't get a hold of her. We ended up taking the dog to an emergency hospital. They took blood, said everything was fine, and she should be back to normal within a few days. About 4 days later she was not doing well at all. My SO took her to the conventional vet and they were going to take x-rays, and happen to ask if she has been vaccinated. SO said no, and all hell broke lose! They took a stool sample and everyone suited up in hazmat suits and started spraying bleach all over and cleaning. The poor girl had parvo. They told us our options were very dim and expensive, including spending the week at the U Vet hospital, a lot of vomit, a lot of diarrhea, etc. She was sent home with a bag full of meds, IV's, supplements etc. It was about 7PM that I finally got a hold of our holistic vet. I told her what they had given her and what was in the "goodie bag" and she told me to get to her office right away for a couple of remedies. I got home around 10PM and started her on the remedies. (This was on a Tuesday) I kept in contact with the holistic vet every day, sometimes going back to her office for a different remedy. On Friday of that week the conventional vet called me to see how the dog was. When I told her she was out in the back yard running around with the other dog all she said was, "What?" I repeated my statement. She said, "Oh. Okay. Glad she's well." THAT'S IT! No, "Wow, what did you do?" No, "Holy shit, that wasn't expected!" NOTHING of the sort. She just hung up! We actually figured out that she got the parvo from a newly vaccinated puppy that had gone duck hunting with us! Hhhmmm.
(Sorry to be so long winded)

One of my patients recently took her dog to the vet (middle of the night, so couldn't contact me) in an emergency. The vets did many tests and would have started treatment without a result had she not put her foot down. Many diseases were discussed. Finally, it dawned on her she was the cause - she had given her dog a commercial flea preparation (which contain neurotoxins) when her dog was itching badly (turned out from ants, not fleas). When she told the vets, they didn't really want to believe her, but reluctantly did after the dog recovered. They would never have come to that conclusion themselves and the dog would have been given steroids, antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, just as a starter.
They never look for causes...

Will --
We all so appreciate your newsletters and your taking the time to keep us informed and abreast of the latest in alternative methods and especially homeopathy. Your thoughts on veterinary care are enlightening. Thank you, too, for your honesty and sharing of your personal life, and for the wonderful pictures you take on your walks. Please always take time for yourself ... take time to heal and regroup ... we will wait patiently for your return! --Patti

Will, an excellent article. It is a cultural crisis. We need to turn away from our fascination with materialism and reductionism and begin to look directly at what is happening.
Thanks for posting it.
— Richard

Doc, glad to see you back. I loved this article as it reinforces everything I feel is wrong with medicine today. Thank you!
Also, I took Bella to a new vet in Capitan, NM. She was awesome, I was so worried about telling her I only wanted a heart worm test and a general blood test to see how Bella was doing. I told her that I wasn't vaccinating Bella any longer. She knew about the rabies titer testing. She was totally with 'us' and I was so happy to find her!
BTW, Bella's tests were negative for heart worms and great measures on her blood tests. She is healthy and vibrant! She did suggest I give her a probiotic and I told her I was giving her the Transfer Factor. Perfect she said!!
Thanks for your wisdom and knowledge, Dr. Falconer. You are the best!!!

I got both my dogs titer a couple of weeks ago and my vet said they are so very healthy. I am a very proud mother I was telling all my friends about their test result and all about you. All my fur babies are healthy and I haven't done any flea and tick protection on them or heartguard they are all natural. After reading your ebook on Vital Animals don't get heartworms I knew I was on the right track and I have told so many of my co-workers and friends about you and passed out your web address. I truly hope they wake up and take care of their dogs/cats they way mother nature intended them to be taken care of. Thank you Dr. Falconer for sharing all your wonderful knowledge with us so we can take better care of our dogs and cats.

Once again, great article Dr. Falconer. You can't believe how pissed off I get with all this so-called "scientific" BS! I'm tired of it. All I see on TV are ads either for more meds for humans, and God I hate all the commercials for Heart Worm pills, chemical damn flea tick & mosquito meds, all the horrible processed dog & cat foods from the Pet Food Industry. I wish I had the money to do my own ads on TV so I could educate people more about the horrors of ALL dry kibble & most canned foods and definitely of all HW & chemical flea tick & mosquito products. Teach them more on complete raw diet feeding(that has been around for 40+million years for our pets wild ancestors) and 30,000+yrs for domestic dogs & 16,000yrs for domestic cats. I'm just so sick of it and it is actually starting to drive me crazy :)lol but seriously it is driving me crazy. Thanks again for everything you do. Keep up the good work. I will hate the day that you retire and that we don't have you around anymore. Hopefully that won't be for a very long time

Two stories.
#1 -- Summit was diagnosed with osteosarcoma June 1/11. Despite homecooking and raw feeding him for the previous 9 years, I wasn't as knowledgeable about alternative treatments as I am now. By pursuing conventional medicine I opted for amputation June 13/11. I lost him Sept 16/11 -- to a bacterial infection caused by -- CHEMO. His sacrifice led me straight to the natural path.
#2 -- As I was sharing a Facebook feed about supporting the body with nutrition rather than lining up for measles vaccines, a young gal (she might be 19 at this point) I'd coached stepped into the debate telling me that surely because I was vaccinated for measles, I should know how important it was.... blah blah blah. I cut her off at the knees: "Not only was I not vaccinated, but neither were any of my childhood friends or relatives. We all had the measles and lived to tell about it. I don't ever recall in 12 years of schooling, ever hearing of someone dying of measles." No comment in return.
And a bonus story: My friend knows I have not vaccinated my dogs in 5 years. There are rabid raccoon scares in the news. "Are you going to get them vaccinated?" he asked. I replied saying if the antibodies from the shots they were given before they came to me aren't good enough, another shot for good measure isn't going to help. They either have antibodies or they don't -- and so far we know the Rabies Challenge Fund is up to 8 or 9 years of documentation stating antibodies are still present. One dog took down a skunk last fall. I disposed of it without a word. The first reaction of authorities would have been to quarantine -- the second would be to vaccinate. Rabid or not -- who knows? The dog is fine.
Sadly, the more this information is forced upon those growing into the system (and apparently even those that have lived in it for decades), the less critical thinking is involved. Yes -- common sense is becoming an increasingly rare commodity.

Wait a second... The concept that ONLY double-blind studies work according to "science" is not acceptable. Double-blind is great. Let's not dismiss it (unless it is done in-house or by labs that are paid off...
You can get a ton of valid information through other modalities. Hey... Have there ever been studies about the efficacy of parachutes? Why does our government permit their use when jumping out of planes? I think common sense and a history that something is effective is very important. Parachutes DO in fact work despite the absence of double-blind research. Hmmmm

My dogs are free of vaccines, tick/flea/heartworm treatments and eat raw. I was a skeptic in the beginning but it's amazing what research and education do. I took the Dogs Naturally course and I am so happy I did.
People are so quick to go along with Dr. Whitecoats without questioning or doing research just like I used be like. After the itching of one dog and the great loss of weight of another dog, I had to do something on my own as I was getting no support from my vet other than more Prednisone and keep my other dog on enzymes and wouldn't redo a blood test.
Thank goodness for the good vets such as Dr. Falconer who make such common sense and freely share it. It makes me so confident in knowing my decisions are right. My dogs have never been healthier.
As for vaccinations in humans. I find it funny. People get the flu shot and then get the flu. Authorities say, oops, they can't catch all strains so keep working on more vaccines to catch more strains.
My sister refused to be flu vaccinated when she worked as an accountant in an old age home. All seniors had been vaccinated. Management would not let her work unless she got the flu vaccine so she didn't work until this outbreak went its course. It makes no sense as Dr. W. says.
They'll never keep up with mother nature. Mother nature outlive us.
I constantly direct people to websites such as Dr. Falconer's. Thank you, thank you.

My worst problem is finding an holistic vet. There aren't enough of you!

I ran into my old vet, Dr. WhiteCoat, on Sunday at the town transfer station.. He asked me how my dog was doing, because he's seen us walking around town, and I told him great, never better. I wanted so badly to tell him what I did to solve my dog's issues, what him and his staff could not figure out, but I bit my tongue. In my last few appointments with his clinic (he just opened up another clinic in the neighboring town), his staff made me feel irresponsible and that I was being a bad dog parent by choosing to stop vaccinating my dog, not give pesticide Flea/Tick and Heartworm preventatives and feed a raw diet.. I am so glad I got out of there. I walked in there recently to get my dog's medical records and you are immediately bombarded with advertisements for HW preventatives, Frontline and Advantix, a TV playing the HW life cycle, bags of prescription diets.. And the vets there can be quite mean in their comments if you don't blindly follow everything they say. Ugh..

You have zeroed in on the heart of the problem with conventional health care, both human and animal. "Scientism" (or it could be called the "science shield") has enabled the powers-that-be to get away with murder. It has so brainwashed everyone, we don't even trust our own intuition anymore.
When I mentioned to family members that I was taking a pet health course that includes homeopathics, I was immediately challenged with "there's no scientific proof it works" as well as follow-up emails from google searches debunking homeopathy. One family member was trained as a registered dietician over 35 years ago and will not even visit the possibility that alternative nutritional practices might have some validity unless it's written up in a scientific journal.
I agree with you, Dr. Falconer, that we have to be willing to take a stand for what we believe in, for the sake of our health and that of our pets. Even if it means we face opposition or even ridicule.
Thank you for doing what you do to spread the word!