The Bizarre Claims of Stephen Barrett, M.D.

== The Bizarre Claims of Stephen Barrett, M.D. ==

Barrett calls "absurd" Hulda Clark's claims relating cancers to
parasites:

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/clark.html

To justify his opinion about Clark, Barrett makes a fallacious
argument, ad verecundiam:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_authority

In fact, parasites (the vectors for Lyme disease) are related to
cancers by The National Library of Medicine article "Lyme borreliosis
and multiple sclerosis are associated with primary effusion
lymphoma" (Batinac T, Petranovic D, Zamolo G, Petranovic D, Ruzic A.,
Med Hypotheses. 2007;69(1):117-9. PMID: 17197115, PubMed.gov):

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17197115&ordinalpos=3&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

Therefore, by Barrett's own reasoning:

Stephen Barrett, M.D. is a "quack";
Stephen Barrett's claims are "absurd" and "bizarre"; and
"the medical establishment and . . . professional pathologists are
guilty of a gigantic and cruel fraud on the public."

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