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This is where homeopathy stops being a laughing matter - the death of Penelope Dingle [View all]
This has been going around on the /r/skeptic subreddit on Reddit.com for the past couple of days.
TL/DR: Placebos do not work on cancer. A homeopath told this poor woman that she could do a better job than the oncologists at treating her cancer by giving her homeopathic remedies and olive-oil enemas.
The results of this treatment were horrific. This poor woman suffered tremendously in ways that could have been prevented, or at least mitigated if she stuck with the advice of real doctors and disregarded this quack's advice to ditch the chemo.
http://www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2011/s3260776.htm
March 27 2004
Dear Francine
This is a letter about accountability and responsibility. Things that are missing altogether in your attitude towards to me. The tone of your card makes this quite clear. You make no reference to the matter that you are accountable as a professional for the fact that your treatment protocol failed after you told me you could cure me.
I am sincerely disappointed that three quarters of your card is spent justifying why I have heard nothing from you. And I am astounded that you think I may be interested in hearing that you were upset with me. I quote: “It was really upsetting to me to hear you have been upset with me as much as you are, because…”
What happened during the 7 months you treated me for cancer is very serious.
Dear Francine
This is a letter about accountability and responsibility. Things that are missing altogether in your attitude towards to me. The tone of your card makes this quite clear. You make no reference to the matter that you are accountable as a professional for the fact that your treatment protocol failed after you told me you could cure me.
I am sincerely disappointed that three quarters of your card is spent justifying why I have heard nothing from you. And I am astounded that you think I may be interested in hearing that you were upset with me. I quote: “It was really upsetting to me to hear you have been upset with me as much as you are, because…”
What happened during the 7 months you treated me for cancer is very serious.
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