The “Iron Rule of Cancer”: The dangerous cancer quackery that is the “New German Medicine”
Published by David Gorski under Cancer, Health Fraud, Science and Medicine
Given that I trained as a cancer surgeon, do laboratory and translational cancer research, and spend my clinical time taking care of breast cancer patients, not surprisingly one topic that gets me the most irritated and provokes a lot of my verbiage for SBM is cancer quackery. Perusing my list of posts the other day, it occurred to me that there’s one huge topic that in the more than a year and a half I’ve been blogging for SBM I’ve never covered. It’s a particularly pernicious and dangerous quackery. Indeed, it’s a quackery I mentioned during part of my talk at the Science-Based Medicine Conference that Steve and several SBM bloggers put on the day before TAM7 started.
Published by David Gorski under Cancer, Health Fraud, Science and Medicine
Given that I trained as a cancer surgeon, do laboratory and translational cancer research, and spend my clinical time taking care of breast cancer patients, not surprisingly one topic that gets me the most irritated and provokes a lot of my verbiage for SBM is cancer quackery. Perusing my list of posts the other day, it occurred to me that there’s one huge topic that in the more than a year and a half I’ve been blogging for SBM I’ve never covered. It’s a particularly pernicious and dangerous quackery. Indeed, it’s a quackery I mentioned during part of my talk at the Science-Based Medicine Conference that Steve and several SBM bloggers put on the day before TAM7 started.
I’m referring to the dangerous and vile quackery known as the German New Medicine (Die Germanische Neue Medizin). Pioneered by Ryke Geerd Hamer, it is a quackery that claims lives….
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=1993
Es geht um Hamer, seine irre Lehre und die Opfer.
Quacksalberei an Krebskranken ist eine der verabscheuungswürdigsten Spielarten der sogenannten Alternativmedizin. Bei Krebs auf die Spontanheilung zu warten und wissenschaftliche Medizin abzulehnen, endet meist qualvoll und tödlich.