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'Alternative Medicine' Clinic Attempts To Silence Critics
Asmodae writes "Stanislaw Burzynski runs a clinic specializing in an alternative cancer treatment called 'antineoplaston therapy,' and charges thousands of dollars for the privilege. Unfortunately, there's no scientific support for such treatment, and skeptics all over the web are raising red flags and trying to warn potential patients away. This includes high-school blogger Rhys Morgan, who has received legal threats from Burzynski's clinic for his efforts. Phil Plait summarizes the situation thus: 'In general, it’s a little unusual, to say the least, for a team doing medical research to sue someone for criticizing them. That’s because real science thrives on criticism, since it’s only through critiques that the potential errors of a particular method can be assessed — that’s why research is supposed to be published in peer-reviewed journals as well. Suing is the antithesis of that idea. ... I’ll note that the clinic has threatened to sue multiple people, including Peter Bowditch and Andy Lewis, two other bloggers who have criticized antineoplaston therapy.'"
Maybe we should ask Miss Information about this one.
in its unproven effectiveness. Plus it's a big red pill, red pills always work better than other colors.
Dig them up and ask.
These lying quacks are trying to use the legal system to silence legitimate scientific inquiry into their scam.
Apparently the Scientology PR strategy has been licensed out for use in the medical field!
I was going to reply here and explain to you in a detailed and rational manner why your post was the dumbest thing I've read in weeks. Then I got to the bottom and read your signature and realized you were not the kind of person who would read and understand a rational argument, since as we all know, the free market will just magically solve all problems (except cancer, evidently that gets cured by some combination of stupidity and urine).
So instead, in the spirit of the free market, I've decided to offer my own cancer treatment. It's mostly just ice cream, pencil shavings and cyanide, but I've yet to receive a single complaint from anyone who's taken it, and not one of my patients has died of cancer.
Sounds like the behavior of a genuine medical professional to me! Sign me up!
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We're having Christmas with an old friend of the wife's, who works as a homeopath. I'm not letting her (the homeopath) mix the drinks.
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes" - Winston Churchill
don't themselves go through the pier review process
Agreed. Anyone refusing pier review should have their credibility heavily docked.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that works?
Medicine.
I'm here all week. Tip your veal, etc.
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The FDA and the AMA have ulterior motives
Does the FDA and AMA equivalent in every single country in the world have both the greed-driven screw-the-patient mentality and the political power necessary to oppress legitimate cures? Every single one of them, without exception? If there were a million doctors in the world (and there are a lot more than that), and each was 99.99% likely to cooperate in suppressing the cure for a serious illness, then there would only be a 3e-44 chance of that secret being kept. Your ideas are stupid and I recommend that you keep them hidden before exposing yourself as a greater ignorant.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Nonsense. I can create invisibility potions from simple plants all day long in Skyrim.