Soldato
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Article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38650739
Ridiculous people can promote this crap without consequence until someone dies from it.
What annoys me the most is people seem to think that knowing what food is considered healthy or unhealthy, gives them some sort of insight to medicine.
The guy who wrote the book studied nutrition then fake medicine and now sells his delusions to vulnerable cancer victims calling himself a doctor. If anything, his qualifications discredits his medical knowledge.
On patient request even doctors in this country prescribe alternative medicine because the patient has been fooled by silly books and miracle stories. Normally i would have little sympathy for idiots doing idiotic things and lending themselves to proving Darwin right but the trouble is that alternative medicine often preys on the desperate and vulnerable. With the evolution of social media and the internet it is even easier to come across something that has been written to fool you into believing it works. For thousands of people who have used one form of alt-medicine or another, there may be the odd person who recovered naturally through no help of the medicine but it will end up inspiring many to rely on a medicine that treats nothing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38650739
Ridiculous people can promote this crap without consequence until someone dies from it.
What annoys me the most is people seem to think that knowing what food is considered healthy or unhealthy, gives them some sort of insight to medicine.
The guy who wrote the book studied nutrition then fake medicine and now sells his delusions to vulnerable cancer victims calling himself a doctor. If anything, his qualifications discredits his medical knowledge.
On patient request even doctors in this country prescribe alternative medicine because the patient has been fooled by silly books and miracle stories. Normally i would have little sympathy for idiots doing idiotic things and lending themselves to proving Darwin right but the trouble is that alternative medicine often preys on the desperate and vulnerable. With the evolution of social media and the internet it is even easier to come across something that has been written to fool you into believing it works. For thousands of people who have used one form of alt-medicine or another, there may be the odd person who recovered naturally through no help of the medicine but it will end up inspiring many to rely on a medicine that treats nothing.
