Bedell interview shows that the political destruction of responsible medicine will continue. (Berkley Bedell)

Former Iowa Congressman Berkley Bedell, who was primarily responsible for the establishment of the Office of Alternative Medicine at NIH, was interviewed by maverick physician Jonathan Wright[*] in Nutrition & Healing (10/94). Anyone who doesn't realize that rational medicine is under serious political attack in America should read this interview. Bedell describes his beliefs about how a Minnesota farmer cured his Lyme disease by injecting killed Lyme disease germs into a pregnant cow's utter and giving him colostrum from the cow to take orally every 11/2 hours for months afterward. Bedell also describes his experience with the Canadian charlatan Gaston Naessens whose claptrap he …