Of course he does (the Royal Physician), as the health of the monarch-in-waiting is too important to be left in the hands of the alternative medicine practitioners.....but if Charley announced that every time he got ill, it would harm the sales of his own homeopathy treatments (it's a hobby, and a business he owns).
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Of course he does (the Royal Physician), as the health of the monarch-in-waiting is too important to be left in the hands of the alternative medicine practitioners.....but if Charley announced that every time he got ill, it would harm the sales of his own homeopathy treatments (it's a hobby, and a business he owns).
Unfortunately it may just be a matter of time......Tory plans are to privatise the NHS and pursue trade agreements with Trump (which would involve healthcare businesses). Trump's plans and appointments involving healthcare don't bode well for the UK if the Tory plans go ahead.
If that was true in the way you believe, standardised medical treatments would be useless. And yet... they're actually fantastic. Because they work.
Testimonials are not evidence.
People don't die due to conventional chemotherapy; they die due to cancer.
Chemo is just one of many successful cancer treatments offered by medical science.
There are more than 100 different types of cancer. Yes, it's hard to figure out.
Nonsense. There are cheap and readily available cures for lots of things, thanks to medical science. And guess what? They're widely available.
Doctors get cancer too. Doctors' families get cancer too. You are telling me that doctors are knowingly suppressing a cure that they themselves would benefit from. Utter madness.
...where it has a success rate of ~50%.
Oh wow, a mere £5k and a flight to Georgia for a treatment with a success rate of ~50%! That sure as hell sounds viable to me. Why isn't everyone doing this?!
Alternatively... I could just pick up some antibiotics at the local chemist for £6.
surely a lucky person wouldn't have got cancer
I guess his luck has bad latency. Ping is probably >500ms.
In Russia, mixed phage preparations may have a therapeutic efficacy of 50%. This equates to the complete cure of 50 of 100 patients with terminal antibiotic-resistant infection.
Alternatively you could work on the comprehension, I say antibiotic resistant bacteria, the link says 50% success on terminal antibiotic resistant bacteria and you reply with a glib dismissal that you'll go down to the chemist and pick up... some antibiotics...
The 1939 Cancer Act is about direct advertising. It doesn't make cancer cure books illegal:
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£5k and a trip to Georgia is still not a viable solution.
You quote me but don't read me which is awkward, I've been saying I would like it to be available in this country.
The only way you can take a punt on phages right now if is you do have that money to spend. Clearly it's not an option if you don't.
surely a lucky person wouldn't have got cancer
I did think that as I wrote it. However pancreatic has very poor survivability so I stand by it, lucky man.
Pancreatic cancer killed my mother but not before eating all of her other organs first. So I support anything which works and despise people who try to con people with snake oil.
Homeopathy I find despicable and is reckless endangerment and should be outlawed as such.
The other woo woo stuff is out of hand as well and even the UK Government has fallen prey to it. I'm pretty sure there was a thread on here a few years ago about about the bloke who sold dowsing bomb/mine detectors to our military who actually used them!. He was exposed in the US by James Randi so he came over here and ran the same scam.
The other woo woo stuff is out of hand as well and even the UK Government has fallen prey to it. I'm pretty sure there was a thread on here a few years ago about about the bloke who sold dowsing bomb/mine detectors to our military who actually used them!. He was exposed in the US by James Randi so he came over here and ran the same scam.
That was pretty nuts - even early on a simple google search showed fairly definitely he was a charlatan. Yet still many countries bought his stuff.
As it happens the guy I was talking about works with a Russian phage group who have sent him some of the theraputic cocktails. One of the major reasons why Russian-style phage therapy would never fly in the UK is that they have no idea which phages are in the cocktails. It's a soup of things which is pretty crudely purified (still has bacterial DNA in it, and I'd be surprised if it didn't have bacterial cell components too) and contains an unknown number of phage types including phages which probably have no medical relevance. One of the themes of his PhD has been metagenomically sequencing them to find out what is in there because, as I said, the manufacturers have no clue.
It's probably worth pointing out that the source for that 50% claim was published in "Chemistry and Life", which doesn't appear to be a peer reviewed journal.
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I'm not a relevant russian doctor so I couldn't say otherwise. However they seem to be having meaningful results despite or because of their procedures.
Russian crudeness aside phages are already being produced for food treatment by american companies so presumably there is an acceptable way to isolate, cultivate and purify phages for use whether it is the russian way or otherwise.
Russian crudeness aside phages are already being produced for food treatment by american companies so presumably there is an acceptable way to isolate, cultivate and purify phages for use whether it is the russian way or otherwise.
Fake "medicine" is already hugely profitable, so anyone arguing that it works but is suppressed because it can't be used to make a profit is deluded or lying.
If a company did discover an actual cure for all forms of cancer they'd have such a huge halo effect they could sell aspirin for £1 a tablet and people would still buy it.
Not that such a thing exists. Anyone who genuinely wonders why people haven't found a single cure for the hundreds of different forms of cancer when even the same form can act differently in different people and every single form is the patient's own cells obviously knows damn all about cancer. It's really easy to kill cancerous cells. Killing them without killing non-cancerous cells, i.e. killing the patient, that's a different thing entirely.
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You wrote that as though there is only one kind of cancer when there are over 100.
Some cancers have basically been beaten if caught early but there isn't a one pill cure for all cancers that is sitting on a shelf in a lab.
shame, should be.
in fact alternative medicine should be illegal unless proven to work.
Trouble is, that would make the conspiracy theorists position even stronger. (And their position is already quite strong, otherwise this wouldn't be an issue)
Also,
ALL medicine was "Alternative" until it was accepted.
If you had told Hypocratus that Disease (well some anyway) was cause by tiny creatures that could be killed with mould, they would have thrown you in the Adriatic.
More recently, a chap called Dr Semmelveis was kidnapped by his collegues, thrown in a Lunatic asylum and beaten to death for daring to suggest that Drs should wash their hands.
A total ban would have the effect of stifling research. since "Proving that something works" is actually quite surprisingly difficult. (Also a lot of "Alternative medicine" comes down to dietary theories, Where does medicine end and cookery begin|??)
(I refer you to this book https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Ba...F8&qid=1484895626&sr=8-1&keywords=Bad+Science Even "Proper" scientists and researchers can generate ambiguous results that are open to massive abuse)