We must recognize and face the onset of a wide range of new childhood epidemics: autism and language delay, asthma and food allergy, diabetes and obesity. Over half of American children now have a chronic health condition: a deterioration in our standard of living that should concern all citizens and especially the healing professions. Sadly, we now live in a brave new world of excessive health intervention, a world that has newly forced vaccination and medication on infants and children while also overdosing Americans of all ages. Not surprisingly, the prevailing response of our leading medical institutions to the new epidemics has been complacency and denial. In extreme cases, these institutions suppress the problem by redefining conditions in order to normalize them, effectively erasing the historical record. To retain our collective memory, the development of solutions to this crisis in human health must start with clear awareness and recognition of the new epidemics, beginning in infancy and extending throughout the lifespan.

Guiding Principles

Awareness

Awareness of the new man-made epidemics is the first requirement for ending them.

Precaution

When complexity clouds our understanding of health crises, our moral imperative is to first do no harm.

Safety

The best measure of a safe environment is the total health and happiness of an individual human being.

Choice

The individual's right to choose or refuse medical interventions affecting them or their children must be defended.

Freedom

Full access to the healing professions and to truthful information is essential to liberty.

Sovereignty

True empowerment requires that the individual is accorded and assumes responsibility for their own health, happiness and nutrition.

Justice

When injuries occur as a consequence of institutional failure, the victims deserve justice.

Integrity

The cause of justice is best served when our governing institutions are free from commercial interests.

Compassion

A compassionate society has a duty to provide injured and otherwise disabled citizens with an opportunity for happiness and to treat them with dignity.