Cancer quackery infests snooker
I don't have a great deal of interest in watching sport, on the whole. The only sport that I would ever willingly watch is snooker. So it is with great dismay that I have discovered that the former world champion, Peter Ebdon, is being sponsored by Gerson Therapy in the world snooker championship that's currently being played in Sheffield.
Gerson Therapy, in case you're not familiar with it, is dangerous quackery, offering fake cures for cancer despite no evidence of any efficacy. Here is what the highly respected cancer charity Cancer Research UK has to say about it.
To advertise this quackery on national TV, even in such a subtle form as merely displaying the name of the treatment on the player's waistcoat, strikes me as highly irresponsible. It may even be illegal under the 1939 Cancer Act, although it's not totally clear to me whether displaying the name of treatment counts as advertising.
I was going to write more about this, but the excellent bloggers Andy Lewis and Josephine Jones have already written more substantial blog posts about this incident, so I think you should just go and read what they have to say instead.
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CANNABIS CURES CANCER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0psJhQHk_GI
Hello Wake Up, and thanks for commenting.
I'm afraid that link you posted is to a YouTube video, which isn't exactly a reliable source. Do you have any evidence from peer reviewed medical journals that cannabis cures cancer? I have to say I'm rather skeptical of that claim.
Hey Adam I know someone who was terminal in 1999 and stopped radiation and chemo and went on to Gerson therapy with laetrile and guess what ? He's here today. I don't consider studies done by cancer charity's or the big pharma both who will lose 100s of billions if a cure was found to be very credible. Just research the Sloan Kettering laetrile cover up. I don't resent you for the crap your talking as you job and salary depend on it. Just like Morris fishbein who never practised a single day of medicine and Stephen Barrett chairman of Quackwatch never passed his final Doctors exams and was even told by a high judge in the USA he was not qualified to call himself a health fraud expert..... Dunno about you but I don't exactly trust these sort of people to tell the truth when so much money is at stake.
Thanks for your comment Ian. Here's an important study which I think will interest you.
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