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It was mercury, in fact, that led to the term "quack." Mercury is called "quicksilver," and those doctors who prescribed it were eventually discovered to be pushing toxic chemicals rather than any real medicine. They were initially called "quicks" and then later "quacks."
The quackery of those doctors prescribing mercury wasn't hard to miss: People taking the mercury would get extremely ill. Their hair would fall out. They would lose their appetite and experience extreme loss of body weight. Many would simply die from the toxicity.
Remarkably, these are the same side effects produced by chemotherapy. And today, chemotherapy doctors describe these side effects in precisely the same terms as the mercury quacks of a century ago, claiming the effects are "part of the healing process" and encouraging patients to find the courage to "just go through with it."
But let's pull our heads out of the muck here and acknowledge the obvious: Poisoning patients -- whether with mercury or chemotherapy -- will never produce healing. And the prescribing of such toxic chemicals to patients is little more than sophisticated quackery, backed by seemingly convincing data (which is actually based on scientific fraud) along with the urgings of cancer doctors who rely on highly manipulative fear tactics to corral patients into treatments that will only harm them.
Frank Delicious wrote:I believe everything I get in forwarded emails.
Especially emails that link to a site that calls Chemotherapy "quackery" and compares it to mercury poisoning
uNicedmeMan wrote:Frank Delicious wrote:I believe everything I get in forwarded emails.
Especially emails that link to a site that calls Chemotherapy "quackery" and compares it to mercury poisoning
I didn't say I believed it, just thought it might be post-worthy to look at the other side. Guess I was wrong.
Frank Delicious wrote:uNicedmeMan wrote:Frank Delicious wrote:I believe everything I get in forwarded emails.
Especially emails that link to a site that calls Chemotherapy "quackery" and compares it to mercury poisoning
I didn't say I believed it, just thought it might be post-worthy to look at the other side. Guess I was wrong.
sorry I came off jerkish, I get angry when I see a website that tells people not to get chemo. Saying things like that could cost someone their life and is dangerous to spread.
keltik wrote:I think ZAM had the right idea.
dgdave wrote:Listen to ZAM.
i post things at facebook.com/PostIDjsun3thousand wrote:zam is already in your pants.
Jesse B 707 wrote:best in the world medical system
SkaBob wrote:Jesse B 707 wrote:best in the world medical system
Actually, I think we're something like 31st in the world. At least, thirty somethingth...I was hearing something about that on NPR today...
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