This week Bryan and I were witness to a miracle, the miracle of our daughter’s own body potentially healing the unhealable – with the help of a miracle in cutting-edge medicine.

Yesterday was my birthday, and amid the celebrations, that special day offered a unique opportunity to reflect on the past year and to set some intentions for the coming year.

Wherever you were in the world before Christmas, you undoubtedly saw the newspaper headlines claiming ‘experts say ‘vitamin pills are a waste of money’.  Although the ordinary media had a field day with this, including the same London Times journalist who’d a field day bashing WDDTY twice last autumn, their reporting, as usual, lacked any sort of critical assessment of who the experts are and why they may be making these claims.

The end of the year is always a time for reflection about the Big Issues, and this year, after watching the bio-pic on a plane back from Malaysia, then reading the biography, my Big Issue reflection was prompted by Steve Jobs. 

I’ve just returned home from Kuala Lumpur, where I was a speaker at the Leadership Energy Summit Asia organized by a Malaysian organization called the ICLIF Leadership and Governance Centre (http://www.iclif.org).

ICLIF was originally set up by Malaysian central bank governor Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz. After the disastrous banking crisis in Malaysia in 1998 (a crisis akin to our Western financial meltdown of 2008), she wanted to ensure that leaders in finance and corporations be more responsible — and essentially more moral.  

For all the many things we have to be thankful for this over this weekend of Thanksgiving, our greatest gift, in my view, is just being alive to witness and participate in this particular slice of history.

During these past tumultuous weeks, where angry messages have been flying back and forth between two very polarized camps about alternative medicine and WDDTY, one contributor wrote that it was like watching two soccer teams whacking the ball back and forth.

One of the most misused terms being hurled at us as a rebuttal to What Doctors Don’t Tell You is the term ‘science’.

We have been accused of being unscientific, of pedaling unproven and harmful alternatives, as opposed to the real thing, true ‘scientific’ medicine.

There are three points to be made here, adding up to one indisputable truth: there is nothing remotely scientific about conventional medicine.

Even journalists go by the old adage, ‘If at first you don’t succeed. . .’ After being fairly universally condemned for the first attack against What Doctors Don’t Tell You on October 1, the Times chose to run essentially the same article again about us last Saturday, November 2 – this time entitled “Magazine attacked by health experts over cancer ‘cure’ claims.” 

You’ve probably seen the latest issue of New Statesman, where Russell Brand took over as guest editor. The theme he chose was 'Revolution of Consciousness', and his high-profile presence has already guaranteed that the issue got noticed and splashed on prime time British TV.

Brand’s argument is that there’s no good reforming what we have or giving the job to the ‘hot, clammy, grasping palms of Cameronn and Osborne’ (the current British prime minister and chancellor of the exchequer, respectively).