Ecg And Eeg—Machines Can Lie
One of the instruments most frequently used to monitor heart activity is the Electrocardiogram or
ECG/EKG. Repeatedly conducted tests have shown that at least 20 percent of diagnoses made by
ECG/EKG experts were false. In addition, 20 percent of all ECG/EKG readings turned out to be different
when the same person was tested a second time. When ECG/EKG measurements were taken on people
who had suffered a heart attack, the machine detected an abnormal heart function in only one-quarter of
the patients, no sign of a heart attack in the second quarter, and indecisive results in the remaining half. A
sudden “abnormal” curve in the ECG/EKG reading, caused by a jet flying over the hospital, can put a
person into the group of those “at risk” for suffering a possible heart attack.
One 1992 report published in the New England Journal of Medicine proved that ECG/EKG’s could not
be trusted. When these tests were performed on a group of perfectly healthy people, over 50 percent of
them showed an extremely abnormal heart condition. In other words, if a healthy child or adult goes
through a highly recommended health check-up and is diagnosed by an ECG/EKG expert as having an
abnormally behaving heart that requires urgent treatment, the chance that this diagnosis is a false-positive
is an astounding fifty/fifty. To avoid being treated unnecessarily with potentially harmful drugs, it is
necessary that additional methods of diagnosis be employed to verify the correctness of the ECG/EKG
readings. Having a second or third ECG/EKG reading at another hospital is also highly recommended,
just to be on the safe side.
The Electroencephalogram (EEG), which is used to measure brain activity and detect brain tumors and
epilepsy, often gives highly unreliable diagnostic results, too. Twenty percent of people who suffer from
epileptic seizures produce normal readings. What is even worse, 15-20 percent of healthy people produce
an abnormal EEG. To show how unreliable the EEG machine can be, when it was once connected to the
head of a doll, it showed that the doll was alive. In order to avoid costly and potentially risky treatment
programs, one should not rely solely on the diagnosis produced by the EEG.
X-Rays—Handle With Care!
One of the riskiest of all diagnostic tools is the x-ray machine. Most people who visit a doctor will
experience at least one exposure to these high-frequency waves of ionizing radiation (x-rays). These are
the facts that have been discovered so far about the adverse effects of x-rays:
- If children are exposed to x-rays while in the mother’s womb (in utero), their risk of all cancers
increases by 40 percent, of tumors of the nervous system by 50 percent, and of leukemias by 70
percent. - Today there are thousands of people with damaged thyroid glands, many of them with cancer, who
were radiated with x-rays on the head, neck, shoulder, or upper chest 20-30 years ago. - Ten x-ray shots at the dentist are sufficient to produce cancer of the thyroid.
- Multiple x-rays have been linked with multiple myeloma—a form of bone marrow cancer.
- Scientists have told the American Congress that X-radiation of the lower abdominal region puts a
person at risk for developing genetic damage that can be passed on to the next generation. They also
linked the “typical diseases of aging” such as diabetes, high blood pressure, coronary heart disease,
strokes and cataracts with previous exposure to x-rays. - It is estimated that at least 4,000 Americans die each year from x-ray related illnesses.