All this recent exposure of the controversy surrounding the Burzynski Clinic has exposed the Yes to Life charity to scrutiny and, especially, the charity’s funding from benefit concerts. As always, Quackometer has a blog on this: Burzynski Supporting Charity Loses Funding http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2012/01/burzynski-supporting-charity-loses-funding.html Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2012
Need to keep an eye on this, Burzynski is being sued by en elderly patient: Burzynski in Court: Patient treated like a ‘Cash Machine’ http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2012/01/burzynski-in-court-patient-treated-like-a-cash-machine.html Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2012
DC’s Improbable Science has posted a summary of the fiver-year battle against the nonsense that UK universities have taught. It’s encouraging: The demise of quackademia. Progress in the last 5 years leaves Michael Driscoll and Geoffrey Petts isolated. http://www.dcscience.net/?p=4900 Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2012
Further detailed information on the Burzynski Clinic and the treatments that they offer: Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski’s “personalized gene-targeted cancer therapy”: Can he do what he claims for cancer? http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/stanislaw-burzynskis-personalized-gene-targeted-cancer-therapy/ Other previous articles from myself: The Observer, the Burzynski Clinic, and Complicity in Misinformation http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2011/12/04/711.html The Burzynski Clinic Threatens 17 Year Old Blogger http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/2011/11/29/705.html Burzynski Clinic [...]
No one wants to admit that they’re wrong. Pointing them to well researched articles, exposing flaws in their logic and their decisions should make a reasonable person change their mind. But this isn’t the case most of the time. Instead, people believe that they’re under attack and become more firmly entrenched in their positions. I [...]
Just go there and read the tale of Rhys Morgan: The Burzynski Clinic Threatens 17 Year Old Blogger http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2011/11/the-burzynski-clinic-threatens-17-year-old-blogger.html And here is Morgan’s blog: Threats from The Burzynski Clinic http://rhysmorgan.co/2011/11/threats-from-the-burzynski-clinic/ Article by Kulvinder Singh Matharu – 2011
Further to my own article on the threats being issued by the Burzynski Clinic, there is an article from DC’s Improbable Science: The cruelty of the Burzynski Clinic must be stopped. Come on, Marc Stephens, make my day http://www.dcscience.net/?p=4836&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-cruelty-of-the-burzynski-clinic-must-be-stopped-come-on-marc-stephens-make-my-day Update 29 Nov 2011: More related posts: Stanislaw, Streisand and Spartacus http://josephinejones.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/stanislaw-streisand-and-spartacus/ Links to Burzynski Clinic [...]
Oh dear. The Burzynski Clinic is upset. The Burzynski Clinic Threatens My Family http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2011/11/the-burzynski-clinic-threatens-my-family.html For what it’s worth, Quackometer is on the frontline in the fight against quackery. Quackometer has raised justifiable concerns on the Burzynski Clinic and these need to be responded to in an objective manner with evidence to support claims on efficacy, [...]
Quackometer article on chiropractors attacking their own regulator: Chiropractors at War with their Regulator, the GCC http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2010/11/chiropractors-at-war-with-their-regulator-the-gcc.html Chiropractic is based on quackery but I am aware that some are trying to distance themselves from the quackery nonsense and move to a more scientific approach; perhaps in the same way that modern chemistry moved on from [...]
Quackery such as homeopathy need to be treated as such; quackery. Endorsement for quackery from the government, NHS or the meddling Royal family need to be challenged. Additionally, silence or inaction can be interpreted as an endorsement for quackery. It is a hard battle fighting nonsense, but we do need to get away from these [...]
