The Baileys: From medical doctors to germ theory denial
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They started as hospital doctors. Now they claim viruses don’t exist, chemotherapy is poison, and childhood cancer stems from parental failure. Sam and Mark Bailey have become evangelists of a strange new health movement aiming to sow distrust in conventional medicine. Charlie Mitchell reports.
The 11-year-old boy is dying. A tumour clings to the stem of his brain.
And so a family friend asks two former medical doctors for advice: “If this was your little fellow, what would you do?”
It’s a tough question. But Sam and Mark Bailey have some thoughts.
Every fortnight, the Baileys post video answers to questions from their many Substack subscribers. The former doctors are not legally allowed to practise medicine; they can, however, give general health advice, a line that proves to be blurry in practice.
“If it was my child,” Sam says about the dying boy, “I wouldn’t go into the hospital system for treatment. I don’t want chemotherapy for my child or any of my family because it’s a poison.”
Mark wonders if the boy’s illness stems not from cancer but from modern life: Medical treatments and vaccines, the toxins of city living. Even the school system, he says, is a kind of poison.
“The only answer here has to be a dramatic change in lifestyle.” That means moving to the countryside, drinking water high in silica, and shedding weight if necessary.
These videos are a window into a subculture defined by scepticism of conventional medicine. The Baileys, a charismatic married couple, have become leading advocates of “terrain theory”, a belief that nearly all illnesses stem from one’s emotional and physical environment rather than germs or genetics.
Their advice appears to follow a similar pattern.
A concerned husband writes to the Baileys about his wife, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder after a psychotic break. She felt better after taking psychiatric medication, but he worries the drugs are harmful and could hinder their desire to have children.
“Our recommendation would be trying to get off all psychiatric medications, because none of them are useful and they will also do damage over time,” Mark tells the man. He advises tapering off slowly, under supervision.
Sam recommends instead the practice of “grounding” — walking barefoot outdoors to absorb the Earth’s natural electrical charge — as a superior alternative. Faith, too, can play a powerful role, she says.
Another subscriber asks if their elderly father should stop taking medicine for an enlarged prostate. Yes. He should drink silica-rich water. A woman with severe arthritis is told her medications are doing more harm than good. A man takes pills for high blood pressure. Should he go off them? You guessed it. Yes.
Underlying their advice is a belief that sickness is neither random nor inevitable. It does not come from a virus, or a genetic defect; it is a type of moral failure, punishment for failing to live in accordance with natural law. Every human is born with the power to spontaneously heal themselves. The choice to wield that power lies within each of us.
This message is meant to be empowering, but it can sound harsh.
A woman hoping for grandchildren wants help for her daughter, who struggles with severe endometriosis and is pursuing IVF. The Baileys question whether endometriosis truly exists, instead linking infertility to lifestyle matters like stress and weight.
Content retrieved from: https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360735211/baileys-and-their-crusade-against-modern-medicine.
