I find Dr Stanislaw Burzynski morally reprehensible. I think this because his treatment is sold for extortionate amounts of money to vulnerable, dying cancer patients in their last months – sometimes bringing them thousands of miles away from the majority of their family – so they can be injected with a drug that’s been in …
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Threats from The Burzynski Clinic
You probably haven’t heard of a man named Stanislaw Burzynski. He offers a treatment called antineoplaston therapy, which he claims can treat cancer, in a centre called the Burzynski Clinic in Houston, Texas. That’s quite a claim, but the Nobel Prize Committee does not need to convene quite yet, because this treatment has been in …
The Burzynski Clinic
The Burzynski Clinic is a clinic dedicated to treating cancer patients. It is based in Houston, Texas. It pioneers a treatment called antineoplaston therapy. Except, this treatment isn’t pioneering. It isn’t effective. It does not work. And yet, the Burzynski Clinic continue to profit off it. I am sickened and appalled that cancer patients are …
Ambiguity over alternative medicine funding in Wales
On the 1st of December 2010, I sent Freedom of Information Act requests to all seven of the Local Health Boards in Wales; Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Cwm Taf Local Health Board Aneurin Bevan Local Health Board Hywel Dda Local Health Board Powys Teaching Local Health Board Betsi Cadwaladr Local Health Board Abertawe …
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Consumers in Cardiff stage homeopathic ‘overdose’
Consumer rights activists across Cardiff have today announced their intention to take a mass homeopathic ‘overdose’ next month, as part of a major global protest against the alternative remedies. Protesters in Cardiff will swallow entire bottles of homeopathic pills on February 5th 2011, in a bid to raise public awareness of the fact that homeopathic …
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Small update on Bleachgate
Hello all! As I mentioned in an earlier blogpost, Councillor Woodman promised to write a letter to the Chief Medical Officer for Wales, Dr Tony Jewell. Today I received a copy of the reply. First – the FSA have concluded that MMS is injurious to health and deemed it unsafe under Article 14 of Regulation …
News from Trading Standards on Bleachgate…
Hello all, At home today, because I’m feeling sick and have a sore throat. However, I have received a letter from Cardiff Trading Standards today about Miracle Mineral Solution. This, I guess, is the response to my council meeting public question where I asked to know what they were doing about it! First off, it …
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Bleachgate: More on MMS in the UK
Hello again all! Well, I’ve been rather busy over the past week. A lot has happened since I last blogged. Last Thursday, I went and listened to the response to my public question to Cardiff Council about Trading Standards and MMS. Thank you to @JohnLDixon for all the help with doing this. The response was …
More Bleachgate!
Hello everyone! So, since the last post on Bleachgate, a number of exciting developments have happened… Firstly, I’ve been invited to speak at a couple of conferences. More on this closer to the time… I’m also going to be on a radio program, Pythagoras’ Trousers, soon. You can get this in podcast format here. Also, …
Bleachgate: The Response
Wow. What just happened? I think Bleachgate went viral. So far, I have received loads of messages of support from folks including Ben Goldacre (@BenGoldacre), Simon Singh (@SLSingh), Tom Chivers (@TomChivers) and John Dixon (@JohnLDixon). I’ve done interviews for The Pod Delusion and Skeptics Guide to the Universe, and a video production company in Yorkshire …