file.newsgroup.med.59294 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (David Rind)
Subject: Re: Candida(yeast) Bloom, Fact or Fiction
In article <[email protected]>
[email protected] writes:
>I don't like the term "quack" being applied to a licensed physician David.
>Questionable conduct is more appropriately called unethical(in my opinion).
> 3. Using laetril to treat cancer patients when such treatment has
> been shown to be ineffective and dangerous(cyanide release) by
> the NCI.
Hmm. This is certainly among the things I would refer to as quack
therapy and would tend to refer to any practitioner who prescribed
laetrile (whether licensed or not) as a quack. There are unethical
behaviors (such as ordering unneccessary tests to increase fees)
which I would not lable as quackish, but prescribing known ineffective
therapies seems to me to be one of the hallmarks of a quack.
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David Rind
[email protected]