Fake cures for cancer, protection against malaria, cures for hearing loss, papers on diabetes with vague data ... medical quackery takes many forms and in Quackery, The Twenty Million Dollar Duck Tony Robertson trawls the ‘Black Museum' of medical deceit in a mass exposé of the practice.
For anyone contemplating the use of alternative medicine or researching ‘miracle' cures this book is a must read - if a therapy sounds too good to be true most probably it is.
Throughout the 20th century, anti-quackery crusaders investigated, exposed, and attempted to regulate allegedly fraudulent therapeutic approaches to health and healing under the banner of consumer protection and a commitment to medical science. Quack Medicine: A History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth-Century America reveals how efforts to establish an exact border between quackery and legitimate therapeutic practices and medications have largely failed, and details the reasons for this failure.
Digging beneath the surface, the book uncovers the history of allegedly fraudulent therapies including pain medications, obesity and asthma cures, gastrointestinal remedies, virility treatments, and panaceas for diseases such as arthritis, asthma, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS. It shows how efforts to combat alleged medical quackery have been connected to broader debates among medical professionals, scientists, legislators, businesses, and consumers, and it exposes the competing professional, economic, and political priorities that have encouraged the drawing of arbitrary, vaguely defined boundaries between good medicine and "quack medicine."
Cancer Quackery Watch
Donsbach arrested
Daniel Hauser
Homeopathic MD sued
CCRG - William O'Neill
Adam Dreamhealer
Tyrell Dueck tragedy
Sandra Schmirler's tragedy
Parker Jensen
Edward Steward tragedy
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Zoetron smashed
Tijuana stories
Tijuana patients wanted
Beyond Mexico
CWAT BioResonance
Ravi Devgan, M.D.
Wickware's ginseng scams
Luigi DiBella
Prince Charles
Hulda Clark closed
Hanne's story
Naturopaths
Natural remedies
Biopulse scam
MSB-Holistics
Suzanne Somers and mistletoe
Rife machine
Hydrazine dreams
Laetrile
Linda Malone tragedy
Liam's tragedy
Herbal connections
Supreme Greens
Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez
How cancer robs you
Bulletins
USPHS Poster from 1938
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13 Year old Hodgkins Lymphoma patient Daniel Hauser
The desperate plea by the father of the Minnesota teenager who is on the run with his mother to avoid court-ordered cancer chemotherapy treatment has so far gone unanswered. Authorities said today that they are still working to locate Colleen Hauser and her 13-year-old son Daniel, who they believe may be in Mexico -- or trying to get there-- to seek alternative treatments for the teen who is suffering from Hodgkins Lymphoma.
If you or someone you care for
has cancer,
the last thing you need is a scam.
FTC Sweep Stops Peddlers of Bogus Cancer Cures
Public Education Campaign Counsels Consumers,
“Talk to Your Doctor”
The Federal Trade Commission today announced 11 law enforcement actions challenging deceptive advertising of bogus cancer cures. The FTC charged the companies with making unsupported claims that their products cured or treated one or more types of cancer. In each case, the company is charged with violating the FTC Act, which bars deceptive claims. Some complaints allege that the companies also falsely touted clinical or scientific proof for their products.
“There is no credible scientific evidence that any of the products marketed by these companies can prevent, cure, or treat cancer of any kind,” said Lydia Parnes, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection.
Sagee Cancer 9405 scammers
This Chinese scammer was formerly prosecuted successfully in 2005 and 2006 by the U.S. FTC and told to stop advertising their bogus cancer treatments. So, what did they do? They placed ads in Healthy Decision, a Canadian magazine that supports questionable products. Why didn't the owners of this magazine know that the products were questionable and that the company had been prosecuted? Why hasn't Health Canada done anything to stop this company from importing products into our country? Is there no direct communication between the U.S. and Canada? There is supposed to be a vigorous review of this type of product, but it's obviously not working.
Biologie Totale scammers from Europe invade Canada and U.S.
Aribert Decker, an expert on the notorious criminal gang in Europe who flogs cures for many conditions, including cancer and multiple sclerosis, brought us links to a recent program on French CBC network. The English news was very short and gives you a flavour of what theses criminals are up to in Canada. They are also known as the German New Medicine.
Links to Biologie Totale and German New Medicine
TV coverage
Project False Hope
FDA site
- Fake Cancer Cures - Warning Letters have been sent to 23 U.S. companies and two foreign individuals marketing a wide range of products fraudulently claiming to prevent and cure cancer, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today. The FDA also warns North American consumers against using or purchasing the products, which include tablets, teas, tonics, black salves, and creams, and are sold under various names on the Internet.
- Fake Cancer Cures Warning Letters
Competition Bureau Combats Cancer Fraud Through Education and Enforcement
OTTAWA, March 12, 2008
— The Competition Bureau launched today Project False Hope, an education and enforcement initiative aimed at targeting cancer-related health fraud online. Project False Hope has already uncovered dozens of Canadian-operated Web sites offering cancer-related products that raise concerns under the false and misleading provisions of the Competition Act.
Millions of Canadians are turning to the Internet for health-related information. Once online, they will often be exposed to unproven and downright fraudulent cures or treatments for their health problems that can cheat them of time, money, and most importantly, their health.
"Swindling people living with cancer is one of the most despicable forms of fraud," said Andrea Rosen, Acting Deputy Commissioner, Competition Bureau. "Consumers should be skeptical of health-related products or services that look too good to be true, and should always speak to a health care professional before trying any new treatment."
As part of Project False Hope, the Bureau has unveiled two interactive Web tools to educate consumers on how to recognize scams. Anatomy of an Online Health Scam is designed to teach you how to identify some of the tactics often used by scammers selling bogus cancer cures or treatments online. The Health Fraud Awareness Quiz tests your knowledge of scammers' tactics and teaches you how to avoid falling victim.
In addition to providing consumers with more information on how to protect themselves from fraudulent health claims, the Bureau uses a combination of Internet surveillance and adaptive investigative techniques to identify online scams. To date, 92 per cent of the identified sites have complied with the Bureau's demand to modify or remove the claims at issue, but many similar sites are still out there. The Bureau will take additional enforcement actions to obtain compliance from remaining sites as required.
March is Fraud Prevention Month in Canada and around the world. As chair of the Fraud Prevention Forum, the Competition Bureau works with its partners to raise awareness among consumers and businesses about the dangers of fraud, by educating them on how to recognize it, report it and stop it.
The Competition Bureau is an independent law enforcement agency. We contribute to the prosperity of Canadians by protecting and promoting competitive markets and enabling informed consumer choice.
FRAUD: Recognize It. Report It. Stop It.
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Vitamin supplements and cancer
Vitamin Supplements Found Ineffective Against Lung Cancer - Feb. 29, 2008 - MedPage Today
The development of lung cancer appears to overwhelm any putative protective effects of prolonged use of vitamins C, E, and folate supplements. In other words, supplements don't work, and some of them may actually increase the cancer rate!
Homeopathic therapy by MDs
No Way to Treat the Dying
by Jerry Adler - Newsweek - Feb 4, 2008
What price do you put on hope? Is $3,000 a week too much? Said Nedlouf faced that question when his wife, Mary, was diagnosed with an inoperable recurrence of breast cancer in the summer of 2006. It did not at first seem like too much to spend on "bioresonance therapy," "quadrant analysis" and "autosanguis" treatments by Dr. Jarir Nakouzi, a homeopathic physician in Bridgeport, Conn. Now, a year after his wife's death, Nedlouf thinks he made a bad deal.
"He sold us hope that wasn't there," says Nedlouf, who has filed a complaint against the doctor with the Connecticut Department of Public Health.
Dr. Jack Killen, acting deputy director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, says homeopathy "goes beyond current understanding of chemistry and physics." He adds
"There is, to my knowledge, no condition for which homeopathy has been proven to be an effective treatment."
Dr. Nakouzi is a medical doctor who is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, and according to the State's database has not had any history of malpractice. He was a resident in oncology for three years and then spent an additional two years residency in the 1980s studying homeopathy and biologic therapies in an Italian homeopathic hospital. Yes, that's right, an Italian homeopathic hospital.
Connecticut License Number: 039115
Date Issued: 11/16/2000
Date Expires: 05/31/2008
Cancer testimonials
On the nature of "alternative" medicine cancer cure testimonials
Science Based Medicine Blog - David Gorski, MD
No doubt you’ve come across them before, either on the Internet, printed advertisements, or radio and TV ads: Alternative medicine cancer “testimonials.” They are the primary means by which “alternative” therapies for cancer (or just about any other disease) are promoted and the primary “evidence” that is used to “prove” the efficacy of non-evidence-based therapies. There’s no doubt that they sure can sound convincing.
Infused with fervor, the patient now wants to spread the word. Often, the patient is now selling the remedy. Perhaps you’ve seen such testimonials or heard them on the radio and thought: “Gee, this sounds great. I wonder if it works.”
The answer is: Almost certainly not!
Boiled down to the essence, these testimonials usually appear convincing for one of these reasons:
1. The patient never had cancer to begin with. It was either an erroneous diagnosis by a legitimate doctor or a diagnosis based on an unscientific and unvalidated test used by the alt-med practitioner. This is more common than one might think (one example is pancreatic cancer), and I may do a post on this issue in the future.
2. The patient underwent partial conventional therapy before abandoning it for alt-med (for example, an excision but no radiation or chemotherapy, like Suzanne Somers or Lorraine Day).
3. The patient still has cancer but, like Kim Tinkham, has been told by her practitioner that she is “cancer-free.” If the tumor is slow-growing, this may be convincing for many months or even a few years.
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Real Quack Testimonials
Healing Cancer Naturally - Testimonials - This is one of the worst examples of the promotion of quackery that I have ever seen, all in one place.
Cancer Cure Foundation - more bogus claims
Hulda Clark's testimonials - She is one of the most outstanding examples of the worst in cancer quackery. She has no medical qualifications, has a mailorder naturopathic degree, works in Tijuana, Mexico, and her publicist was Tim Bolen. More on Hulda Clark. More on Tim Bolen.
They were charged by the FTC way back in 2003, and yet they are still apparently doing business. One of their defendants was David Amrein, a prominent Scientologist from Switzerland. Dr. Stephen Barrett reports on this decision.
⚠️ Full investigation moved to its own pageA licensed Canadian physician who advertised a banned quack cancer product on his own website, and was sent to jail for three years.
Read the full investigation →
Hulda Clark robs Tijuana woman of chance to survive deadly cancer!
Alternative Cancer Treatment Video from Fox News Morning Show with Mike and Juliet
Click here to watch the video
Is the medical establishment wrong about cancer? M&J took a look at alternative treatments that advocates say may save your life … but critics warn could kill you!
Dr. Stephen Barrett, and others appear in this clip from part of the show. Patricia Chavez (see below) attacks the treatment delivered at Hulda Clark's quack cancer clinic. But, somebody at Fox decided that it would be unwise to mention the name of the clinic, or Hulda Clark.
How Hulda Clark Victimized My Parents
by Patricia Chavez
Posted on Cancer Treatment Watch - August 2007
The daughter of a deceased cancer patient has written a vivid account of her mother's experience with Hulda Clark, the unlicensed naturopath whose book Cure for All Cancers states that all cancers can be cured within 5 days. Shortly after being diagnosed with osteosarcoma (a bone cancer), the mother refused standard treatment and went to Clark's Mexican clinic instead. The article describes how, after more than a month, Clark pronounced that the mother was cured and advised her not to get an MRI because because even though her malignancy had been killed it would take time for the tumor to reduce in size. Several weeks later, an MRI showed that during Clark's treatment, the tumor grew to two-and-a-half times its initial size.
"I strongly believe that if she had not undergone Clark's treatment and had sought treatment from a real doctor from the beginning, she would be probably be alive today. Clark robbed my mother of any real chance of survival. She is absolute and total fraud. She told my mother she was cured? Yes, cured and that her malignancy was gone. Now, my mother is dead.
I find it frightening that despite of all of Hulda Clark's legal troubles, she has been allowed to continue to treat patients for many years. I am absolutely appalled that she has affected so many lives and continues to do so. She preys on people's desperation and fears. Hulda's treatment is cruel and inhumane. Extractions, cavitation scrapings, horrid living conditions in a cheap motel, and the list goes on. Something needs to be done to stop her from doing this to other people."
Dr. Hope exposed on CTV's W-FIVE
The long awaited exposé of Canadian Cancer Research Group, one of Canada's most notorious unregulated cancer clinics has uncovered the undeniable truth. They don't have any cures for cancer, and they haven't done any research. Plus throw in a little side trip to one of California's quack cancer conventions, a peek inside a few dumpy cancer clinics in Tijuana and watch the archived footage of the Mexican Army carting off Hulda Clark a few years ago, and you have the makings of an award winning show. And CTV makes it easy for everyone to watch it around the world.
But most of the show is about Bill O'Neill and the people who have fallen victim to his deception. Mark my word, but this would appear to be a great opportunity for someone to finally be forced into taking action. We can only hope.
- Watch the show if CTV has maintained the links.
- Part 1 - A visit to a California cancer show where you can see chiropractors giving people the "activator" treatment, a traditional Chinese medicine man and all sorts of impossible cures. Then a tour of Tijuana cancer clinics, and finally take a look at Dr. Hulda Clark being removed from her clinic by the Mexican Army. But, that's another story.
- Part 2 - When Frank Bagyan, from Newburgh, Ontario arrived on Bill O'Neill's doorstep he promised that he would get rid of his huge brain tumour. One week before he died O'Neill told Frank that his cancer was melting away.
- Part 3 - Brief profile of the people who own and run the CCRG, and their bogus methods. More victims, including a woman who was an Ontario Provincial Police officer who refused standard therapy for sarcoidosis (this is not cancer). Six months later she died.
- Part 4 - Victims have no recourse - Ask Pat McDougall why he sang a song to Kathleen, his comatose daughter. Why did the government and the medical regulators ignore his pleas for an investigation? And finally, Dr. Hope brings in two ringers who claim that they are still alive, thanks to his treatment. Then Bill sits down in front of the camera, and asks for the "next question". Oh, he does the "all the documents are forgeries" bit of course. And yes there are "legal" and "criminal" proceedings underway. He denies that he ever told people that he hasn't lost a cancer patient, or that he has an 80% success rate for some cancers. Yeah right!!! Hey, here's a good one, he told a patient that it would be more therapeutic to drink cold beer instead of the standard treatment!
- W-FIVE home page
- CTV - FAQs
You can purchase video copies of the entire show and/or transcript from them.
Join the discussion after the show, or leave comments
In case you need reminding about some of Bill O'Neill's activities just check out the following sites.
Phone threats made to Dr. Terry Polevoy
- June 29, 2000 - .mp3 file. Mr. O'Neill wanted to call in his lawyers and the cops to my London office. I am still waiting.
- September 14, 2004 - .mp3 file. When CTV visited his office to do the interview for W-FIVE in 2005, I wonder if he was able to hold his temper. Why would a man referred to as Dr. Hope, who always seems to be in control of his faculties before the cameras become a vile and uncontrolled Mr. Hyde on my answering machine? One wonders if perhaps something was making him a wee bit angry at the time. His many internet disguises, as you will see below, are an outlet for his internet rage. We don't know what triggers these tantrums, but perhaps he had just had his life torn apart by another outraged relative who had just lost their loved one to his nutraceutical web of deception.
⚠️ Full investigation moved to its own pageKurt Donsbach ran unlicensed Tijuana cancer clinics for decades, was convicted of federal tax evasion and smuggling, and was arrested again in 2009 on 11 felony counts — including practicing medicine without a license.
Read the full investigation →
Boca company accused of false advertising
A judge is being asked by prosecutors to halt the sale of products that were
allegedly falsely advertised by a Boca Raton company.
- Search News for cancercure
Prosecutors asked a judge this week to issue an injunction and restraining
order to halt the sale of products that were allegedly falsely advertised
online as federally approved medicines for cancer, migraines and the flu.
Flu Fighter Laboratories Inc. maintains websites -- cancercure.org, migrainecure.org and flufighter.net -- that promote drugs claiming to be FDA-approved cures for the flu, migraines and various kinds of cancer.
The websites identify the FDA as the "Fighting Diseases Association, Inc."
⚠️ Full investigation moved to its own pageHow an early-stage University of Alberta cancer molecule turned into an unregulated online drug-selling cottage industry, including a pest-control company turned DCA distributor.
Read the full investigation →
⚠️ Full investigation moved to its own pageAn unlicensed "biochemist" and a disciplined physician ran a Studio City, California clinic offering alternative cancer therapy to a patient who later died.
Read the full investigation →
Feds investigate anti-cancer paste
Pastor-turned-healer markets flesh-eating remedy
- Search Google News for Dan Raber
- Rabers CancerRx.org web site
ROCHELLE, Georgia (AP) -- Curtis Brown carries business cards with old pictures of his tumors, including an egg-sized growth on his neck. He says they were each shed after the application of a flesh-eating paste containing the medicinal herb bloodroot.
"I cured myself of cancer," the cards read.
Georgia's medical board and the Food and Drug Administration don't share Brown's enthusiasm for the paste. The state board of medicine has accused its maker, Dan Raber, a pastor-turned-healer, of practicing medicine without a license. FDA agents recently raided Raber's business, and a doctor, Lois March, MD could lose her medical license for allegedly knowing Raber was giving people the paste -- not approved for the treatment of cancer -- and not reporting him.
The Adam Factor
Distance healing - The teenager,
the astronaut and the rocker
When a teenage boy named Adam extended his distance healing to Rockabilly star Ronnie Hawkins, who claimed to be dying of pancreatic cancer, the world flocked to his door. Why is his identity a closely guarded secret? Is it because he's just a young high school student from Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada who doesn't want to be swarmed by remote healing groopies? Or is it because his family is sitting on a goldmine. After all it seems that someone has been running the internet show since 2000, and they sit on an empire that includes workshops in exclusive waterfront hotels for $99 a pop, book sales, and get this, they bill your credit card or PayPal roughtly $75 for each and probably every phone contact you make during one of his alleged remote healing sessions. Why he can even do it without the phone, just send him a colour photo and he can use his magical holographic powers to conjure up a cure. I don't think he gives rebates if it doesn't work.
Whatever you feel about this boy's "powers", in my opinion and that of others, he is not what he claims to be at all. These opinions are based on science and common sense, not some supernatural mumbo-jumbo often used by fake faith healers that are too numerous to mention. Adam and his family along with their publicity brigade of true believers in the press represent nothing more than a giant scam with sympathetic news organizations and film producers who are in it for a buck. The bottom line is that faith healers, even if in this particular case is based only on holographic images and quantum physics (something that can't be proved or supported), are some of the worst kind of health fraud artists.
How can Adam prove that he has unique paranormal healing powers?
That's easy. The James Randi Educational Foundation has extended their
One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge to anyone who can demonstrate unusual psychic or healing powers. Will Adam and his family take up the challenge? If not, HealthWatcher has some interesting questions and a few suggestions for the public and the media who seem to be ignoring reality.
ABC's John Quiñones true believer?
Is 'John of God' a Healer or a Charlatan? - Primetime Thursdays - February 10, 2005
For nearly 30 years, millions have visited the tiny village of Abadiania in remote, central Brazil to see a man some call the most powerful spiritual healer since Jesus and others call a charlatan.
"Primetime" followed the journeys of five people who sought out the man known as "João de Deus" — "John of God" — and took a closer look at the amazing claims that surround him.
James Randi's amazing response to the program - His SWIFT newsletter says it all, and includes posts to ABC News and heartfelt comments made by his readers.
I was shocked at the criminal reporting on the show "John of God." Was it just an unpaid ad for the man and his greed? My heart just broke to see those people. What has happened to responsible reporting? I would think a network like ABC would try to protect the public, not harm them. How many people are giving up their chemotherapy or delaying it to go to Brazil first?
Australia's Peter Bowditch's call for action - as always his opinion counts.
My initial impression when I was first approached was that the woman might have had cancer and was falsely attributing a miracle cure to the faith healer when it was really due to conventional treatment or even remission, although the probability of that is remote. I now think that she was simply lying and is part of the promotion for the scam. At least one of the Australians supposedly "healed" by John of God is openly promoting tours to Brazil. These people are just as disgusting as the charlatans who pretend to perform the miracles. They steal money from desperate people and dress it up as religion so that any criticism can be seen to be an attack on faith. The only thing these people have faith in is money.
Internet infidels discussion forum
A girl with breast cancer still has breast cancer, hallelujah! The woman who can't walk still can't walk, hallelujah! The guy with a tumor in his brain still has a tumor in his brain (but it got smaller), hallelujah! The guy that has lou gehrigs still has lou gehrigs, hallelujah! Behold the power of god!!
The Amazing Cures of a Brazilian Miracle Man - Nexus Magazine - February - March 1998
A gifted spirit medium, João de Deus incorporates spirit entities who perform physical surgery and psychic healing through him with miraculous results. Author Robert Pellegrino-Estrich conducts regular tours to Abadiânia, Brazil. For tour details and further information on the House of Dom Inácio, contact the author: Telephone number in Australia is 0411 8111 33 and for Brazil is +55 62 343 1035.
⚠️ Full investigation moved to its own pageAn unlicensed Kitchener-Waterloo clinic and its promoter targeted the family of a three-year-old girl with a terminal brain tumour.
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Are 'Alternatives' Good Medicine?
As Use of Nontraditional Therapies Surges, So Do Worries, Research
American Cancer Society
August 18, 2004
Plug the terms "alternative" and "cancer" into Google and the Internet search engine returns a list of 3.4 million -- yes, million -- sites with information both credible and questionable about nontraditional treatments for cancer. What's a cancer patient to make of such a vast array of options?
Doctors also need to know which therapies are bogus and potentially dangerous -- treatments typically considered "alternative" because patients may use them instead of scientifically studied treatments.
Society for Integrative Oncology, will promote high-level research of CAM and to get reliable information to doctors so they can guide their patients.
U.S. District Judge Issues Permanent Injunction Against Lane Labs-USA, Inc. and Orders Firm to Refund Money to Purchasers of Illegally Marketed Unapproved Drugs
Quack cancer and AIDs drugs banned - FDA - July 13, 2004
The Food and Drug Administration today announced that Judge William G. Bassler of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, has found that three products sold by Lane Labs-USA, Inc. and its president Andrew J. Lane (the defendants) as dietary supplements and a cosmetic - Benefin, MGN-3 and SkinAnswer - are, in fact, unapproved new drugs under federal law because they were being marketed as treatments for cancer, HIV, and skin cancer without FDA approval. In addition, Judge Bassler permanently enjoined the defendants from distributing BeneFin, MGN-3, and SkinAnswer unless the products are first either approved for marketing by FDA or distributed pursuant to an Investigational New Drug (IND) application for purposes of conducting a clinical trial. Judge Bassler also ordered the defendants to pay restitution to all purchasers of BeneFin, MGN-3, and SkinAnswer since September 22, 1999.
Prince Charles and support of cancer quackery
An open letter to the Prince of Wales: with respect, your highness, you've got it wrong - BMJ - July 10, 2004
Michael Baum, professor emeritus of surgery and visiting professor of medical humanities
University College London
Twenty years ago, on the 150th anniversary of the BMA, you were appointed its president and used your position to admonish my profession for its complacency. You also used this platform to promote "alternative" medicine. Over the past 20 years I have treated thousands of patients with cancer and lost some dear friends and relatives along the way to this dreaded disease. The power of my authority comes with a knowledge built on 40 years of study and 25 years of active involvement in cancer research.
Your power and authority rest on an accident of birth.
Last week I had a sense of déjà vu, when the Observer (27 June) and Daily Express (28 June) newspapers reported you promoting coffee enemas and carrot juice for cancer. I have much time for complementary therapy that offers improvements in quality of life or spiritual solace, providing that it is truly integrated with modern medicine, but I have no time at all for "alternative" therapy that places itself above the laws of evidence and practises in a metaphysical domain that harks back to the dark days of Galen.
Deathbed Conversions by Tom Morris
“Stop dismissing science” - Why scientists are cool
...last year Prince "the defender of faith" Charles called for greater investment in alternative medicine and health practices including homeopathy. The government listened and invested £1.3m of taxpayers money on alternative medicine. What's the point? None that I can see. Universities are now teaching degree courses on some of these junk medicines. By extension, tax subsidises students who take these courses. In many nursing and medicine courses, alternative medicine is now being offered as a module. The British Medical Journal and other academic and practitioners journals are publishing articles on alternative medicine.
Imagine if accountants decided to start offering 'complementary' accounting. Okay, Arthur Anderson offered that one to Enron - bad example. Imagine if there was 'holistic' legal advocacy or 'alternative' plumbing. Why, then, in medicine do so many people fall for it?
Just imagine if that £100m plus that the public spend on non-working medicine went to pay for traditional medicine, plus the £1.3m that the government have just thrown at researchers to look in to these claims on the people who are actually researching real medicine, then I wouldn't be surprised if we could find cures for many of the diseases that afflict thousands of people. I expect that £100m is only the tip of a huge iceberg. All around the world people fall for the nonsense peddled by psychic healers (that's fun another phrase to look up on Google - especially if you include 'stick-on rubber finger', 'chicken liver' and 'fake blood' in your query), reiki, crystal healing, shark cartilage and urine therapy (you may kid, but there are people out there who think that drinking one's own urine can help almost any disease you can think of - from the cancers and AIDS of the world through to snake bites and hangovers - suffice to say, it's ineffective, at best, and has numerous side effects, at worst).
Sure, it's fun to poke at people like....Prince Charles for being pulled in by quacks and con artists. But that's not what worries me. What worries me is the hard-working, ordinary people out there who are being taken for suckers and sometimes being hurt, even killed, in the process.
www.consumedmag.org - May 2004
FTC Obtains Preliminary Injunction Against Marketers of Bogus Cancer-Cure "Supreme Greens"
Supreme Greens - supremely fraudulent
In June 2004, the FTC filed charges against Donald Barrett, DMC, and ITV, along with their business partners, alleging that they deceptively marketed Supreme Greens to consumers through a widely aired infomercial, claiming that the product can cure, treat, or prevent cancer, diabetes, arthritis, and heart disease. Barrett, Direct Marketing Concepts, Inc. (DMC) and ITV Direct, Inc. (ITV), are part of the FTC's case alleging that defendants deceptively marketed their dietary supplement product, Supreme Greens with MSM. A U.S. District Court judge found that the FTC has demonstrated that they likely made numerous false and unsubstantiated claims in an infomercial promoting Supreme Greens and that they likely made unauthorized charges to consumers' credit or debit cards. The preliminary injunction - which prohibits the challenged disease claims and any asset dissipation - will remain in effect pending the outcome of a trial on the FTC's allegations.
Search Google for Supreme Greens
Search Google for Supreme Greens Scam
Search Google News for Supreme Greens
Info-Merlin - North Shore Sunday from January 2004 - Dinah Cardin
He may be a college dropout, but 29-year-old infomercial magnate Donald Barrett of Beverly seems to have the magic touch. Just ask his bank book.
To have a conversation with Donald Barrett as he sits behind his desk, one has to see past a heavy silver award that says "Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."
Many have already heard about the Saugus native's fast fortune. Barrett can make money in his sleep, he laughs, because his face can be seen on a TV infomercial somewhere in this country every half hour, and the call center in Beverly's Cummings Center is open for calls seven days a week, 'round the clock. While the industry averages a 20 to 30 percent closing rate and $60 per sale, ITV Direct more than doubles those numbers.
Doctor who planned 'Cancer Cell Terminator' ordered to quit practice
Bob Jerrolds - fake naturopath treats cancer patients - Chicago Sun-Times - July 6, 2004
A Lockport man who describes himself as a doctor and
advertises on his Web sites that he offers a cure for
cancer and affordable health care for all has been
ordered to stop practicing medicine without a medical
license.
In April, the state Department of Finance and
Professional Regulation wrote to Bob Jerrolds, who
refers to himself as "Dr. Jerrolds," asking him to
prove he shouldn't be disciplined for "holding
yourself out to treat human ailments including cancer,
while not being a licensed physician in the state of
Illinois."
Subsequently, Fernando Grillo, director of the state
agency, issued an order that said, in part:
"It is therefore ordered that Robert Jerrolds immediately cease and desist the practice of medicine which includes, but is not limited to, treating human ailments including cancer in the State of Illinois."
Geronimo Rubio - Tijuana cancer quack busted
The operators of a Tijuana clinic that promotes alternative cures for seriously ill Americans were arrested yesterday at their Bonita offices following an indictment on charges of insurance and tax fraud.
Agents from the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service arrested Dr. Geronimo Rubio, 45, of San Diego, the medical director of Hospital San Martin, a small two-story clinic in Tijuana's residential La Mesa section.
Also arrested were two staffers at Bonita-based American Metabolic Institute, which owns the clinic: Director William Fry, 65, and office manager Debbie LaRue, 48, both of Chula Vista. Fry and Rubio are co-owners of the institute.
Daniel Dzwilewski, special agent in charge of the FBI's local office, said the defendants taken into custody this morning "did the unthinkable."
"They capitalized on people's vulnerabilities in their most desperate hours and gave them false hope," he said. "This is despicable."
- Search Google News for Geronimo Rubio
- San Diego Union Tribune article - By Onell R. Soto and Sandra Dibble
- Borderline Medicine - San Diego Times-Union - more on Williiam Fry and company from an article from February 24, 2002 by Sandra Dibble and Penni Crabtree
One year after a sweeping crackdown on Tijuana's long- controversial alternative cancer clinics, many of them still sell expensive, unproven therapies in defiance of the law.
It was the promise of a breakthrough cancer "vaccine" derived from extracts of animal tissue that persuaded Jim and Rhonda Luciano of Edmunds, Wash., to bring their 6-year-old son, Silas, to the American Metabolic Institute in Tijuana.
Like a virtual Pied Piper, it was the upbeat Web site of another clinic, Hospital Santa Monica, that persuaded Eugenia Serebryakova, a 76-year-old San Diego woman, to seek treatment across the border.
The families of both patients left Tijuana in despair.
Neither Bonita businessman William Fry, the director of the American Metabolic Institute, nor Tijuana physician Geronimo Rubio, its medical director, responded to numerous requests for interviews from the Union-Tribune.
Just weeks into the treatments, the Lucianos said, Rubio presented CAT scans that purportedly showed their child's cancer had disappeared.
The Lucianos said they spent $90,000 and three months at the clinic, but Silas' condition continued to deteriorate. They took Silas to a traditional Tijuana hospital for an additional set of tests. Doctors there confirmed the boy's body was riddled with cancer.
The Lucianos confronted Rubio with the hospital tests. They said he assured them their son was fine and promised a new, stronger course of experimental treatments.
"If someone said, 'If you jump up and down in manure, it will help your son,' we'd have jumped up and down in manure," Jim Luciano said. "Mentally, all you want someone to say is, 'We can do it; there is no problem.' And that's what Rubio always said."
Two days later, on Feb. 14, 2001, Silas died at the clinic.
Five months later, the American Metabolic Institute was closed for offering illegal alternative therapies, including its animal-tissue- derived "vaccines," Mexican authorities said. The clinic defied the order, moving patients to a Tijuana hotel, and regulators shut it down again.
Eventually, American Metabolic was allowed to reopen on the condition that it provide only conventional medical services. But last month, the Union-Tribune interviewed a handful of Americans at the clinic who said they were being treated with tissue vaccines, enemas containing shark cartilage and other alternative treatments.
- Geronimo Rubio's quack clinic promoted for years by Toronto based Consumer Health Organization. It's the same group that also arranged for Hulda Clark to come up here this year, but she never made it across the border. Hmm....... I wonder why.
Washington Post web site: Are they just shills for cancer quacks?
Quack Cancer Cures
A short article appeared on March 16, 2004 on page HE03 of the Washington Post. It was then placed on WP's web site. The author, Matt McMillen had no idea that his article would be used by cancer quacks to promote their scams.
If you reload the article above several times you will notice that the three small advertisements at the bottom of the page change. When I first looked at the article on March 25, 2004, three of the ads were for cancer quacks. I filed a complaint with the Washington Post about this.
The three links that were the most disturbing to me:
McMillen's article was a review of the large study done by Andrew Vickers' article in the American Cancer Society Journal CA called Quack Cancer Cures.
MSB-Holistics presentation at the University of Waterloo
Buffalo, NY and Ft. Erie, Ontario QXCI and MLM offshore banking promoters known as the MSB-Holistics spoke at the University of Waterloo's Conrad Grebel College on March 20, 2004. Why didn't they bring their device with them for a demonstration?
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PATIENTS WHO HAVE BEEN
TREATED FOR CANCER
BY NATUROPATHS IN CANADA
Cancer patients who have a fear of standard medical treatment for their condition, or who have failed therapy with radiation, or chemotherapy may seek alternative care. That is their right to do so. However, there is a very strong caveat that you need to pay attention to.
Most Canadian Provinces, and most U.S. States have absolutely no regulation over naturopathic practitioners. Even when there are laws or regulations in place, most of these clinics are unsupervised. If these were medical clinics that operated this way, they would either lose their funding, or be out of business in a hurry. Naturopathic clinics for the most part use bogus screening tests, dubious "natural medical" devices, unproved laboratory tests, and non-standard treatments for serious conditions, like cancer.
The main problem is not whether people are just wasting their money on alleged preventative health care, the "natural way", the crux of the matter is that patients are regularly lured into these clinics to pursue aggressive, non-therapeutic, possibly toxic interventions that are not regulated under any laws. They are taking their lives into their hands, and may have no protection under the law.
To trust any naturopathic regulatory college in Canada to review web sites for health claims, or to inspect their members' clinics is a serious mistake. Regulators have proved time and time again that they are basically either not interested in doing their job, or are damn incompetent. Laws are meant to protect the public from maltreatment, or abuse, and unless a naturopath kills or molests someone their practices are basically ignored. In those Provinces where naturopathic "associations", not "colleges", are at the top of the heap, there is no protection for the public.
In an attempt to pursue this serious breech of trust, HealthWatcher.net has a pet project and we would like you to help. Following the resources below, if any of you have had cancer, and have been treated by Canadian based naturopaths (or even people who claim to be naturopaths).
Please send us your confidential stories.
More about Naturopathy on Healthwatcher.net
We are interested in the following procedures, or treatments. If your naturopath, or even a medical doctor uses these methods within a naturopathic clinic, let us know.
Questionable therapies and treatments
- EDT or EDS - (Vegatest, Interro, B.E.S.T. type of electrodermal screening)
- CRT - Thermography for breast cancer
- Saliva testing for hormones
- Hair analysis
- Iridology
- Applied kinesiolgy
- Cell Specific Cancer Therapy (CSCT)
- Syncrometer - Zapper (Hulda Clark inventions)
- Insulin Potentiation Therapy - IPT
- Chelation therapy
- Mercury amalgam removal
- Whole Body Hyperthermia
- Colon irrigation
- Essiac
- Mistletoe - Iscador
- Laetrile - Amygdalin - Vitamin B-17
- Hydrazine sulphate
- 714-X
- Metabolic therapy
- Blood type diet
- Coral Calcium
- Ginseng
- Immunocal
Canadian naturopathic resources
- Canadian Naturopathic Association list of Provinces and status of naturopaths. Some of these links will provide you with a list of names and phone numbers of these practitioners.
- Alberta - NOT REGULATED. We are particularly interested in those clinics in the Calgary area where there may be medical doctors, and dentists who share facilities. Naturopaths are NOT recognized under Provincial legislation, and therefore you really need to know that their screening tests, laboratory procedures, and treatment methods may not be officially approved or in fact safe for use in Canada. In our search we were advised by one of them how we could obtain Laetrile from Mexico, via the U.S. I guess they wanted to insure that there were no ties between their clinic and this ill-advised adventure.
- British Columbia - REGULATED . We would like to hear from people who have attended clinics operated by members of the Board of the CNPBC, and those in Kelowna and Vancouver area. Also, we'd like to hear from anyone who has ever complained to the College of Naturopathic Physicians in British Columbia.
- Manitoba - REGULATED
- New Brunswick - NOT REGULATED
- Newfoundland and Labrador - NOT REGULATED
- Nova Scotia - NOT REGULATED
- Ontario - not regulated under present RHPA. They have their own Bloodless Practitioners Act - Naturopathy. The legislation that enables naturopaths to claim official status, outside of the regulated health professions come from the early part of the 20th Century. Many of those who officially call themselves naturopathic doctors in Ontario have demonstrated a lack of concern about how they practice. They use bogus methods of diagnosis, treat patients with unproved invasive techniques, and make false claims for their treatments. What is particularly bad in Ontario is that there are a significant number of fake naturopaths who have set up shop around the Province. Some of them go by the name "natural medicine doctor", or even use the designation ND. These people are not only quacks, they are probably criminals, too.
- Prince Edward Island - NOT REGULATED
- Quebec - NOT REGULATED - This Province has a real problem. In fact it is so bad that it spills over to Ontario, where renegade naturopaths enter the Province and treat cancer patients. They have NO right to do that.
- Saskatchewan - Regulated
⚠️ Full investigation moved to its own pageA B.C. company charged cancer patients $15,000 up front for a bogus electromagnetic device — and no one went to jail for the roughly 850 victims.
Read the full investigation →
Laetrile - Amygdalin links to Canadian Clinic
Links from their site are very interesting indeed. After searching a few of them, I couldn't help but notice that at least one of them, a clinic in Canada, was involved in helping people obtain Amygdalin, also known as Laetrile. They told me that all I had to do is contact a private mailbox in San Ysidro, California.
Medicine Alternativa
416 West San Ysidro Blvd. Suite L-PMB
San Ysidro, California.
92173-2443
1-888-281-6663
I could safely place my order through www.cytopharma.com. which of course was in Mexico. I noticed something very strange about the mailbox number. It's the site where dozens of Tijuana based companaies had their U.S. maildrops. It was quite a collection. Just put the address above in a Google Search and see what you come up with. I came up with 198 hits.
If you put the address into a Yahoo map search.. Just zoom out and you can see how close Mexico is from their location. It looks to be about 4 kms. north of the border.
It's the same mailbox store used by the Biopulse scammers that we covered here.
San Ysidro is right across the border from Mexico where their associates were conveniently located, out of harms way from the FDA. So, they told me to give them a buzz and have it shipped to Florida. I could then have it reshipped to me up here in Canada if I was smart enough to avoid Customs inspection. The clinic in Canada failed to mention the fact that Amydalin, or in this case Amigdalina B-17 (AKA Laetrile) was still an illegal drug in the U.S.
In February 2004, Jack Edwin Slingluff, D.O., of Canton, Ohio, was charged with introducing an unapproved new drug into interstate commerce. The one-count criminal information states that he "caused thirty (30) vials of the unapproved new drug Amigdalina B-17 (AKA Laetrile) to be shipped from West Palm Beach, Florida, to Salem, Ohio; in violation of Title 21, Sections 331(d), 355(a) and 333(a)(1), United States Code."
Quackwatch review of Laetrile
NCI review of Laetrile
Harvard Medical School report
Laetrile and bitter almond have been associated with serious toxicity and are considered to be unsafe because of their potential to cause cyanide poisoning. Symptoms of cyanide poisoning in people who used laetrile have included headache, dilated pupils, seizures, muscle spasms, difficulty breathing, metabolic abnormalities, shock, coma and death.
Tyrell Dueck - 13 year old who was lured to Tijuana by Canadian politicians and cancer quacks was given i.v. laetrile shortly before he died a horrible death. See the full investigation above.
Online Laetrile Vendor Ordered to Shut Down
More Laetrile vendors, including a Suffern, NY medical doctor named Michael Schacter who is promoted by the Cancer Control Society. You can even buy a collection of videos from their 31st Annual Convention held in 2003 where some of the world's leading authorities are featured. Excuse me, but I don't personally think that they are authorities. Some of them are certified quacks.
Extendlife.com - quack Tijuana clinic with California address
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Sylvia Millecam tragedy
Netherlands to crack down on complementary medicine
British Medical Journal (BMJ 2004;328:485 28 February, 2004)
Tony Sheldon
The Netherlands is considering tougher laws on practitioners of complementary medicine after government health inspectors who were investigating the death from breast cancer in 2001 of the actress and comedienne Sylvia Millecam severely criticised her treatment.
The investigators found that alternative practitioners contradicted the diagnosis of breast cancer made by her doctors and offered her instead the prospect of a cure with "unfounded methods of treatment."
The report concluded that "various individual carers" had "offered such irresponsible care" that disciplinary action or criminal proceedings are likely. Their role prevented a cure or an extension of Ms Millecam's life, and she died from untreated breast cancer.
Ms Millecam was treated by 28 different practitioners and institutions. Though mainstream care was available she exclusively chose alternative treatments.
She was referred to a surgeon, but instead she chose a doctor who practised alternative electro-acupuncture. She was assured that nothing was the matter.
The inspectorate now wants the law changed to ensure greater supervision of alternative practitioners and that all such practitioners have to be registered. It also wants it made illegal for anyone other than a trained doctor to be allowed to make a medical diagnosis.
Parker Jensen case
The story about Parker Jensen, A 12-year-old boy whose parents had been under a court order to allow chemotherapy for cancer, made headlines for months. Their father, Daren Jensen, a Pocatello, Idaho chiropractor didn't want his son Parker to have chemotherapy for Ewings sarcoma, a bone cancer. He and his family fled the State.
If untreated, Ewing's sarcoma could spread through the blood to the lungs, bone marrow, kidneys and heart, resulting in an extremely painful death with patients gasping for their final breaths, experts said.
The courts finally, after four months of legal wrangling left Utah exactly where it started: with a Sandy boy diagnosed with cancer and his parents resistant to doctor-recommended chemotherapy.
After all of the court hearings, political rallies and news conferences, the medical-neglect case ended behind closed doors when 3rd District Juvenile Court Judge Robert Yeates accepted the state's motion to dismiss.
BULLETIN - FEBRUARY 27, 2004
The Utah House has passed a bill that redefines abuse and neglect in the child-protection laws.
"This bill changes the presumption that parents are guilty," said the sponsor, Rep. Wayne Harper, R-West Jordan. "It changes the presumption back to parents being innocent until proven guilty, and it changes back that families are OK."
Opponents say it jeopardizes children's safety and could unravel the state's settlement of a lawsuit by child-protection groups that has left Utah's child-welfare system under the oversight of the federal court. The measure has been called the Parker Jensen bill and was one of a number introduced in reaction to the state's now-abandoned effort to get chemotherapy for 12-year-old Parker Jensen over his parents' opposition. The boy was diagnosed with cancer.
Opponents say the bill was enacted in haste, and some suggested it be sent to an interim committee for longer study.
Cancer Scam Bulletins
Alternative cancer treatment shortens lives
This study examines the association between alternative medicines (AM) and cancer survival. The use of AM seems to predict a shorter survival from cancer.
⚠️ Full Investigation
Tyrell Dueck's Tragedy
In 1999, 13-year-old Saskatchewan boy Tyrell Dueck was diagnosed with osteosarcoma. His family, backed by fundamentalist religious supporters and sympathetic politicians, fought a public court battle to refuse chemotherapy and amputation in favour of a Tijuana clinic offering laetrile, vitamins, and shark cartilage. Tyrell died on June 30, 1999. The Tijuana clinic's own doctor later admitted amputation should have happened months earlier.
This full investigation includes the court battle, the funeral coverage, letters of protest to Canada's Justice Minister, and the politicians and promoters who championed the family's cause.
Read the full investigation →
Cancer Cure Research Group
We dedicate this site to those who have been defrauded by cancer quacks everywhere. If you stumbled across our version of CCRG, then you've come to the right place. We don't have the world's largest database of cancer information, but we do have just about the best collection of cancer misinformation, cancer quacks and criminals that prey on innocent patients and their families.
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Mexican Cancer clinic patients
Anyone who has received treatment at any Tijuana or Baja California cancer clinic or hospital in the last 6 months and would like to talk about it, please let me know. Author interested in alternative medicine would like to interview you about your experience.
Please contact:
Tijuana Quacks
FTC busts David L Walker and CWAT BioResonance device
Original charges - March 2002 - .pdf file
The FTC alleges David L. Walker is using an Internet site to market products he claims cure cancer, including his "CWAT -Treatment: BioResonance Therapy and Molecular Enhancer." The site claims his treatments, for which he charges between $2,400 and $5,200, make surgery, chemotherapy, and other conventional cancer treatments
unnecessary. The FTC alleges the claims are unsubstantiated and a declaration from a distinguished oncologist suggests the therapies are potentially harmful to cancer patients. The agency has asked the court to bar the unsubstantiated claims permanently, and order consumer redress
Bogus Cancer Cure Guru Settles FTC Charges - Final decision summary - October 28, 2002
David L. Walker, from the State of Washington, who marketed bogus cancer cures claiming they made other conventional cancer treatments unnecessary has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that his claims were unsubstantiated. The settlement permanently bars the defendant from making unsubstantiated claims about the health benefits and efficacy of health-related products and services. The FTC filed this case in conjunction with the Office of the Attorney General of Washington and with its invaluable assistance. The Attorney General's Office obtained a judgment in its companion case barring the unsubstantiated claims in Washington state and requiring the defendant to pay $229,000 in consumer restitution.
San Diego's Union Tribune attacks cancer quacks
PrimeTime exposes Tijuana Quacks
These gutless crooks take in millions terminal cancer patients. Some of their treatments could be deadly. All are useless. This show features Dr. Steven A. Rosenberg of the NIH, and Stephen Barrett of Quackwatch.
Canadian politician says his cancer disappeared with naturopathic help
An elected member of Provincal Parliament in Ontario says that he wants greater acceptance of alternative medicine to treat cancer. The Ottawa Citizen reporter again supports quackery and fraud on the internet by writing this article. I don't understand how the editor of the paper continues to support such quackery, and victimization of Ontario patients.
How the hell does Mr. Patten know that he is free of cancer after only one year of treatment? This is aburd. What if Mr. Patten's chances of survival were DECREASED by his use of useless, and potentially harmful natural methods? The author of the article didn't even take the time to interview an oncologist on the subject. Instead he chooses to speak with Linda Rapson who practices holistic medicine and teaches acupuncture.
The reporter's assertion that the Ontario government passed legislation that legalized alternative medicine in Ontario is absurd. Quacks of all stripes have basically been left alone by the CPSO (College of Physisians and Surgeons of Ontario), for years. Major quack cancer clinics are still thriving in Ontario, untouched by the regulators. All it takes is a phone call, and instead of wasting your money going to Tijuana, you can be treated right here in this Province by licensed medical doctors.
Mr. Richard Patten must realize that his support of naturopathy and internet quackery will takes its toll on others. I wonder if he might take a little responsiblity on his own shoulders, because the Ottawa Citizen doesn't give a damn about medical facts.
Here's a short quote from the article on Patten:
Apart from his chemotherapy, Mr. Patten visited naturopaths in Montreal
and Ottawa. He began drinking different teas using a variety of herbs, started
taking vitamins, took up meditation and even had a session in a native sweat
lodge -- all considered alternative or complementary treatments.
He received his information from the Internet, from books and from friends,
but none from his own doctors. The costs reached up to $800 a week.
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Cancer 'cure' ended in death
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Edward Steward came a long way to find a cure.
Cancer was eating away at Steward last summer when he arrived from New Orleans and made his way to an isolated country house above the Columbia River. He hoped to save his life
with a "magic" concoction its promoters say was born of science and Native American legend.
Suzanne Somers - does she or doesn't she?
When Larry King interviewed Suzanne Somers about her "cancer" she dropped a bombshell:
She leaves these unanswered questions:
- Did Somers really have her breast cancer treated with radiation therapy?
- Did Somers really go to a plastic surgeon for liposuction to improve her skin condition after the lumpectomy?
- Did her doctor tell her that her original mammogram missed a 2.5 cm. tumor and that his $500,000 ultrasound machine failed to detect?
- Why did she refuse chemotherapy?
- Why would she need to have a mammogram every 3 months? Wouldn't the increase in radiation from the mammogram actually increase the risk of another tumor? Remember, she said that the standard mammogram missed a tumor the size of a ping-pong ball.
- Why did she consult Burton Goldberg from Alternative Medicine Magazine? I he a doctor?
- Did she go to Mexico to consult with any cancer clinics down there?
- Who convinced her that a cure is 97% possible if she used a quack treatment based on homeopathic injections invented by a 19th Century cult leader?
- Somers' cancer treatment worries some experts - CNN.COM - March 30, 2001
When actress Suzanne Somers revealed
Wednesday that she's using a homeopathic drug to treat her breast cancer, she
acknowledged that it may not be for everyone. But some breast cancer experts worry that other cancer patients will follow her
example in cases where it might not be appropriate. Somers' doctors would not discuss her particular case.
Homeopathy - now you see it ---- now you don't
Hulda Clark's "Cure For All Cancers" -
....Except Hanne's
My friend, a young woman of 42 years, was diagnosed with severe breast cancer. She got a full mastectomy and was treated with
chemo and radiation.
She contacted an alternative practitioner, who besides magnetic treatments also deals with the Hulda Regehr Clark protocols.
These protocols are based on the idea that all cancers are caused by a single internal parasite - the human fluke.
Clark claims that all cancers and many other diseases are caused by "parasites, toxins, and pollutants" and can be cured by
killing the parasites and ridding the body of environmental chemicals. Her book, The Cure for All Cancers, states:
"All cancers are alike. They are all caused by a parasite. A single parasite! It is the human intestinal fluke. And if you
kill this parasite, the cancer stops immediately. The tissue becomes normal again. In order to get cancer, you must have this
parasite ...."
My friend started to follow the prescriptions of practitioner Henrik Dalsmund, Denmark, for cleanses and zapping in order to
rid herself of the flukes.
The practitioner told her, that her beloved pets maybe were the cause of her cancer by infecting her with the parasite! He
urged her to get the animals (5 dogs, 4 cats and birds) out of the house. She managed to place all the animals with others,
except 2 dogs, which were also treated with the zapper! I must tell that she was single, and her pets were her whole life and
heart. She had a limited circle of friends, whom all have dogs, cats and other animals. She therefore could not visit them,
nor ask them to visit her, because she was afraid of being re-infected! Even her mother, who took care of her, could not
bring her dogs, they had to be placed with others too. She and her mother ended up sitting very much alone - and THAT I find
to be really cruel! Taking away a terminal person's last joy of life, and placing a false hope for full recovery.
The practitioner claimed at her first visit that he could cure her cancer for sure! She paid him at least $800 for capsules,
tinctures, zappers and the full Monty. She followed the protocol by the letter, ate organic food, and changed her soap and
hygiene articles to organic products.
After she had finished the chemo and radiation treatments, she started to work again, but shortly (* year) after she was
diagnosed with a recurrence of the cancer, which had now spread to her lungs and liver, in spite of what Hulda Clark claims!!
She was now only offered palliative and prolonging care (chemo therapy), as recidivistic breast cancers are considered
non-treatable and incurable.
She again turned to the HC-practitioner, who once again claimed he could cure her, and he would now use a real strong cure!
(She received chemo at the same time.)
We talked a lot with her about the HC-concept. I was very critical. She said that HC was her only hope - and did I want to
cut her off from that? NO, but I certainly didn't like seeing her being exploited and maybe hurting herself by consuming all
those herbs and capsules, of which some are known to be poisonous. They sure made her vomit a lot, and spoiled her appetite!
And thereby stole the good which proper nutrition could have given her.
No matter what, she continued on the HC-protocol all by the letter - she hadn't read the book though, she didn't have the
energy to do so. She blindly trusted the HC-practitioner, and as "HC is a doctor and has written several books, she must be
sincere!"
She also continued to visit the HC-practitioner, and when she told him that she had refused the last chemo-treatment the
hospital could offer her - just about a week before she passed away - he answered: "I am glad about that, it gives us a
chance to fill in"
One Friday she was taken to the hospital suffering from severe lack of oxygen due to the cancer having spread to the lung
tissue. Tuesday I visited her, and watched her zapping, both her and the dogs, and she swallowed a bunch of capsules.
She had an appointment with the HC-practitioner a few days later - she didn't make it.
Hanne died Monday night.
God bless her soul.
Pia Johansen
Friend
E-mail Pia: pj@papillon.dk
It Ain't Over 'til the Fluke Lady Sings - Hulda's clinic shut down
- Hulda Clark's clinic raided by Baja California authorities
THE TIME HAS COME THE WALRUS SAID TO TALK OF MANY THINGS, OF FLUKES, AND ZAPS AND CEILING WAX AND GREEN WALNUT HUSKS AND CABBAGE LEAVES.
BUT IT'S OH SO NICE TO VIEW THE SCENE NEAR SAN YSIDRO BORDER CROSSING, WHEN TIM AND HULDA AWAIT THEIR FATE AS WE GET READY FOR A SOMBRERO TOSSING.
SO IF YOU MUST PICK UP A FLASK OF TJ'S FINEST WATER, IT WON'T BE MIXED WITH PARASITES, CAUSE HULDA MAY BECOME A PERMANENT MEXICAN
HAVE NO FEAR, THE POSSE'S STILL HERE DONNING OUR FINEST JEANS, BUT LET'S NOT FORGET IT AIN'T OVER TILL THE FLUKE LADY SINGS.
This time it was Tim Bolen and Hulda Clark who had some "splainin to do" to the militia. I wonder if they tried their zapper. And how come they couldn't "syncronize" their syncrometer. How come their network of super sleuths were unable to place a mole in the offices of jefe of Baja California health department?
Hulda Clark's legacy - Canada's gift or curse?
⚠️ Full investigation moved to its own pageA publicly traded company that put cancer patients into medically induced insulin comas at a Tijuana clinic, shut down twice by Mexican health officials.
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BioPulse and Burton Goldberg sued by chiropractor
By Penni Crabtree -
San Diego Union Tribune
May 16, 2001
A former BioPulse International client has filed a lawsuit alleging that the company induced him to
pay for "worthless" medical care by making false claims about the success of its alternative cancer
therapies.
The client, Santa Barbara chiropractor Paul Burns, alleges that San Ysidro-based BioPulse
fraudulently persuaded him to pay the company $27,500 to provide an unproven insulin coma
therapy to his terminally ill mother.
Rife machine horror story down under
- Sydney Morning Herald - Ben Hills - December 30, 2000Cancer sufferers have died after putting their faith in a device with electrical parts worth just $15. A Herald investigation has uncovered a cottage industry in Australia promoting these devices for treating the most lethalillnesses, including cancer, leukaemia and AIDS. Two companies are manufacturing and selling them, and at least a dozenclinics, some operated by qualified doctors, offer Rife therapy at up to $80 an hour to desperately ill patients. There are about60 Internet sites devoted to the devices and innumerable books and magazine articles.
A poor Australian family borrowed money against their invalid pensions and sent $1,425 to a company called Electromed (Australia)Pty Ltd, which sent them a small black box decorated with flashing lights, some wiring, two nylon pads and a copy of a book, The Cancer Cure that Worked - Fifty Years of Suppression, by an American "investigative journalist", Barry Lynes.
Four people, including a child of five, who have died in Australia and NewZealand after giving up conventional therapy for treatment with Rife machines.
Hydrazine sulphate from internet kills Hawaii man with cancer
- Hydrazine, Cancer, the Internet, Isoniazid, and the Liver - Ann Intern Med. 2000;133:911-913. - Martin Black, MD; and Hamid Hussain, MD
The ready availability of medical information on the Internet, the burgeoning role of complementary and alternative therapies in present-day health care, and the failure of government to regulate such therapies combine to make the report by Hainer and coworkers in this issue a timely warning. The authors describe a 55-year-old man with squamous-cell carcinoma of the maxillary sinus who accessed an Internet Web site that proclaimed benefits from hydrazine sulfate for people with cancer. He purchased the chemical from a source identified by the Web site and, forsaking medical supervision, took it for 4 months before presenting with evidence of combined renal and liver toxicity. The patient ultimately died of these complications.
- In plain English with explanation - Hydrazine sulfate may be associated with liver and kidney failure that can lead to death. Patients should use caution in self-treating themselves with nonprescription products purchased on the Internet.
Laetrile - Vitamin B-17 scams
- FDA shuts down fraudulent marketing of Laetrile
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Friday it forced a company selling laetrile online to stop peddling the compound as a cancer ``cure.''
- Christian Brothers admits they lied
Christian Brothers Contracting Corporation has agreed to stop manufacturing and selling laetrile, a product that has been touted as a cancer cure despite there being no scientific evidence for such a claim.
The problem is there are hundreds of other potential companies out there and millions of suckers willing to pay any price to get this stuff, anywhere they can. Some may die because of it.
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Texas woman put faith in naturopathic quack
Patients says faith was misplaced Linda Malone, of Fort Worth, Texas, had a cancerous tumor removed from her breast in September 1997, and, fearing chemotherapy as a follow-up treatment, turned to the Internet.
During the three years she took hydrazine under the care of a local naturopath, the cancer returned to her breast and spread to her liver.
They "made it sound like it was a miracle cure for cancer," Malone, 58, said. "It was supposed to kill any cancerous tumors that might try to appear."
During the three years she took the chemical under the care of a local naturopath, the cancer returned to her breast and spread.
New Zealand boy dies at quack Tijuana clinic
From The New Zealand Herald 28/10/2000Follow the story as it unfolded from the New Zealand Herald's archives.Little Liam's battle ends
By MARTIN JOHNSTON and FRANCESCA MOLD
October 28, 2000
Brendan Holloway read stories to his dying son and put the other children to bed. Then he and Trena Williams sat with little Liam Williams-Holloway in a clinic in Tijuana, Mexico as he closed his eyesand never woke up.
The blond, blue-eyed boy from Hawea Flat in Central Otago brought anation together in sadness that some one so young should be dying, butdivided it over his medical treatment.
He died early on Wednesday morning after battling cancer for a thirdof his short life. He was five-and-a-half years old.
Free Speech Threatened by CCRG
Threats against this webmaster, and other web sites around the world by the CCRG to stop the publication or news about their involvement in counseling cancer patients will not stop.
We were informed by fax and by e-mail on March 10, 2000 that we were being charged with libel by William O'Neill, the head of the Canadian Cancer Research Group. He also stated in an e-mail that he was reporting our web site to Division #3 of the Kitchener-Waterloo police department. We wish him well in his efforts to educate the public from the largest cancer treatment database in the world that he owns. If he has an 80%+ cure for certain cancers, why hasn't he won the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
⚠️ Full investigation moved to its own pageCoffee enemas, a discredited 1920s diagnostic device, and a $1.4 million federal grant — despite a $4.8 million malpractice judgment against him.
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Quacks on Trial - U.S.
Fake healers - Rife - radionics and more
- Australia - New Zealand alternative medicine is booming
Sydney Morning Herald - BEN HILLS investigatesAlternative medicine is a $1 billion-a-year industry. Yet most of the products on sale at your local health food store have never been scientifically tested, and some "cures" can kill you. This is one of the best pieces we have ever seen on the issues of cancer quackery.
HIS doctor was afraid only drastic chemotherapy could save the little boy's life. His parents were convinced the deadly cancer of the jaw could be cured by a gadget that delivers a minute electric current. Last January, four-year-old Liam Williams-Holloway was taken away from the hospital at Dunedin, on New Zealand's South Island, where he was being treated, and placed under the care of Gerard and Dawn Uys, alternative health practitioners with no medical qualifications, who use a homemade device they call a Quantum Booster which they claim "boosts the immune system" and "kills the bacteria that cause cancer".
Seller Of Bogus Cancer Cures Fined Wisconsin Court Orders Minnesota Woman To Pay $50K Fine, Refunds To Customers MADISON, Wis. Posted 1:01 p.m. February 16, 1999 -- A Minnesota woman accused of selling phony cancer cures must pay a $50,000 fine and provide refunds to her Wisconsin customers, a judge has ordered.
Pierce County Circuit Judge Robert Wing on Monday also barred Shelvie Rettmann of Prior Lake, Minn., from providing health-care services or products to Wisconsin residents and ordered her to give her customers refunds.
Wisconsin Attorney General James Doyle's office sued Rettmann in December 1997 for breaking Wisconsin consumer-fraud laws.
"This is a case of health quackery at its worst," Doyle said in a written statement. "Rettmann preyed on desperate and vulnerable terminally ill consumers ... and profited from selling them false hope."
Rettmann told customers she could cure cancer with a machine called a "Rife generator," "foot zoning" treatments, a "radionics" machine and various dietary supplements, Doyle said. One cancer patient died after buying about $1,700 worth of bogus treatment from Rettmann rather than getting chemotherapy, Doyle said.
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