The exploitation of cancer patients is wicked. Carrot juice for lunch, then die destitute

Jump to follow-up The time when I lose patience with quacks is when they make unjustified claims about serious diseases. Giving false hope to the desperate (often at a high price) is plain wicked. If the patient stops more effective treatment, it’s homicide. Homeopaths have been jailed for that. Sometimes it’s a result of wishful thinking. Sometimes it’s to make money. The latter is morally more despicable. Both are culpable. One example was the Totnes (aka Narnia) to “offer real alternatives to the conventional approach to cancer health care“. Another case, the Dove Clinic, was investigated in the Sunday Times, by Jon Ungoed-Thomas and Justin Stoneman: Clinics mislead patients over cancer ‘cure‘. There is yet another cancer conference, Back2Health, coming up in April (remember that "integrative", in this context, is a euphemism for quackery). The speakers are listed on the left, as they were when I first noticed the conference in December 2012. On the right are the speakers as of February 2013, Spot the difference 18 December 2012 28 February 2013 Yes, the one respectable oncologist on the programme, Robert Thomas, has withdrawn from the meeting. I came across Robert Thomas because it was pointed out to me that he spoke at a meeting of YesToLife, an organisation that advocates all sorts of treatments that are unsupported by evidence. That seemed like an odd thing for a respectab...
Source: DC's goodscience - Category: Professors and Educators Authors: Tags: Barbara Wren Cancer act Cancer Options Carctol College of Natural Nutrition Karol Sikora Patricia Peat Rosy Daniel University of Buckingham alternative medicine CancerActive College of medicine Source Type: blogs