Re: The Bizarre Claims of Stephen Barrett, M.D.

Alan_K_FL@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
== 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."

Barrett site says:

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Clark claims that all cancers and many other diseases are caused by "parasites, toxins, and pollutants" and can be cured by killing the parasites and ridding the body of environmental chemicals. In a videotaped presentation, she said that all diseases are caused by a combination of a parasite and a pollutant [4]. Her book The Cure for All Cancers states:

All cancers are alike. They are all caused by a parasite. A single parasite! It is the human intestinal fluke. And if you kill this parasite, the cancer stops immediately. The tissue becomes normal again. In order to get cancer, you must have this parasite. . . .

This parasite typically lives in the intestine where it might do little harm, causing only colitis, Crohn's disease or irritable bowel syndrome, or perhaps nothing at all. But if it invades a different organ, like the uterus, kidneys or liver, it does a great deal of harm. If it establishes itself in the liver, it causes cancer! It only establishes itself in the liver of some people. These people have propyl alcohol in their body. All cancer patients (100%) have both propyl alcohol and the intestinal fluke in their livers. The solvent propyl alcohol is responsible for letting the fluke establish itself in the liver. In order to get cancer, you must have both the parasite and propyl alcohol in your body [5:1-2].

<end quote>

Sorry, saying that one or few types of cancers is caused by other organisms neither shows Barrett to be a quack nor exonerates Clark, IMHO.

Jeff
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