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An example of the kind of wrong-headed claims that can kill people with #cancer:
(1) You cannot cure cancer with diet. Ever.
(2) Spinning conventional therapy as dangerous or ineffectual is utterly disingenuous, drives patients to charlatans & the misguided.
(1) You cannot cure cancer with diet. Ever.
(2) Spinning conventional therapy as dangerous or ineffectual is utterly disingenuous, drives patients to charlatans & the misguided.
..this kind of stuff is rife on social media, and it kills people. @sky__john has some sobering work on how damaging it can be when patients trust in alternative modalities for cancer, and I've written about it before: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/14/cancer-fake-news-clinics-suppressing-disease-cure
...and look, the chemo claim there is utterly misleading. Cancer isn't one disease; it's a family of over 200, and depending on type and stage, prognosis is very different. This kind of figure is bunk - @gorskon has taken it apart before. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/chemotherapy-doesnt-work-not-so-fast-a-lesson-from-history/
..this account isn't unique; 'gurus' & charlatans hawking snake-oil to sometimes vulnerable families are ubiquitous. Quacksalvers aren't a new thing by any means (as I delve into at length in book) but social media allows fake cancer cures propagate more than ever before
...This person alone has over 63k followers on @Facebook , 18k followers on instagram & 1000s here. Of course, they're also anti-vax, anti-mask, & a 5G conspiracy theorist who posts things like this
Social media sites could stop this if they wanted - they just don't want to.
Social media sites could stop this if they wanted - they just don't want to.
