My Malignant Melanoma
Seanty's experiences with Metastatic Malignant Melanoma. Part of www.mymalignantmelanoma.com. Email us direct at help@mymalignantmelanoma.comSunday, 28 February 2010
Lodi et al- would you buy a used car from this man?
My Thomas Lodi post just keeps on generating ill-informed comments from altie morons. The latest tells me to read a couple of airport paperbacks called The China Study and Living Foods for Optimal Health (whose author is pictured) which are supposedly supporting evidence for a statement that Lodi is successfully curing cancer.
Sorry, these publications provide no supporting evidence for anything. They do nor even support their own conclusions.
They are baseless propaganda from vegetarianism/animal rights and naturopathy/macrobiotics activists respectively.
Their authors are simply plugging their self-interested agendas with no regards for the facts of the matter. These are political tracts, not valid sources of unbiased information.
Vegetarianism and macrobiotics (despite their repeated claims to the contrary) are not associated with lower rates of new cancers, neither are they associated with improved survival of cancer. The founder of macrobiotics, and several of his high-profile supporters themselves died of cancer.
Naturopathy is systematised quackery, whose "qualifications" are according to Quackwatch fiddled so that no-one fails. A "doctorate" in "naturopathic medicine" is not therefore even the equivalent of a first-aid certificate, as some people fail their first-aid certificates.
Lodi isn't curing anything other than any problems with his bank balance which might remain after his unsubstantiated past high-spending habits. As far as scientific evidence is concerned, he has published nothing at all of which I am aware.
A combination of mistaking wishful thinking for fact, and a lack of understanding of what constitutes valid evidence is seemingly the reason why so many are so confused. I'm not going to be cooperating with anyone's efforts to spread baseless propaganda for quacks or their fad diets to desperate people. No amount of airport paperbacks stacks up against a single peer-reviewed scientific paper.
Comments claiming miracle cures with no scientific evidence to support them are not going to be published on here. The comment has however persuaded me to revisit these baseless quack diet books for further comment at some point in the future.
Labels: china study, Living foods for optimal health, naturopathy, nonsense, Thomas Lodi, vegetarian
Saturday, 9 January 2010
An Oasis of Healing
And then there's this.
It appears that threatening me has just spread criticism of your boss from my humble site to those with a far higher readership and Google rankings, and made you famous as a person who writes threatening letters to cancer patients for a living. I believe this is known as the Streisand effect.
That's quality marketing, Shayla!
Labels: Shayla McCallum, Thomas Lodi
Friday, 8 January 2010
Threats....
I received the following threat of legal action today:
Hello,
I am contacting you regarding a blog you have posted that contains information about Dr Lodi that has never been verified.
http://www.mymalignantmelanoma.com/2009/05/thomas-lodi.html
We are requesting that you remove this blog immediately because you are slandering his name without any proof of your accusations.
I realize that you have your blog linked to an article posted in the Arizona Republic but if you look further into the charges that were brought against Dr Lodi you will see that they were never substantiated.
Please let me know when this blog has been removed.
If you do not remove the blog we will be forced to take legal action against your association.
Thank you in advance for your corporation in this matter.
Shayla McCallum
Director of Marketing
An Oasis of Healing
www.anoasisofhealing.com
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Direct: 480-834-5426
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I have asked them to confirm which allegation they are objecting to, it is all true to the best of my knowledge
Labels: An Oasis of Healing, Director of Marketing, Shayla McCallum, Thomas Lodi
Thursday, 7 May 2009
Thomas Lodi
Legal threats on behalf of Lodi prevent me from commenting further than to say that Mr Lodi is presumably seeking only to promote the oxidative, chelation, homoeopathic, and other quack therapies he offers at his private clinic by his attacks on proven conventional treatments. His motivation is therefore financial.
His profoundly unhelpful and scientifically unjustified claims that doctors would not themselves have the treatments they give to patients were published in "Get Fresh" magazine.
This publication looks like a harmless health and beauty mag, but seems to actually be a slick propaganda sheet pushing the raw food quack diet, and seemingly all other forms of dietary alternative medicine.
This is not a reliable source of scientific or medical information. I wouldn't even trust its beauty tips.
They have been reported to their local trading standards department and the The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency for what appears to be a clear breach of the Cancer Act, which prohibits anyone from making claims to be able to heal cancer of the sort they do on their website.
"Dr" Lodi is out of reach in the US, but these muppets are in the UK, and bound by our laws.
There is no alternative therapy which can strengthen the immune system. I'm sorry that anyone has been given false hope, or distressed by the false claims of a quack and a worthless magazine, but that's the truth.
Don't believe me? Ask Paul Merton's wife. Oh that's right, you can't, because she tried to beat cancer with the power of nutrition and positive thinking, and is consequently dead.
I think Gary38 is being a little too kind in describing this as "unproven" on the WN site, when "total and complete bollocks" might be more accurate, but sometimes it's hard to know which description is more convincing to the audience.
Labels: Alternative, Cancer, Chelation, Clinical, Diet, evidence, Get Fresh, Homeopathy, immune system, Insulin, Medicine, Oxidative, promotion, psychological, quack, Therapy, Thomas Lodi, Trial
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