Alzheimer’s Disease Reversed For the First Time

[Fred Friendlier]

14. The Crackpot Diet

Seriously, depending on which lunatic you trust, these simple steps will reverse Alzheimer's, cure cancer, prevent autism, keep your immune system so healthy that you can safely skip your immunizations, and bring your dog back from the dead. I would be more annoyed at these purveyors of false hope to the desperately ill, except that we are never going to be rid of the cranks and quacks:

”Socialism,” George Orwell famously wrote in The Road to Wigan Pier (1936), draws towards it ”with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist and feminist in England.” His tirade against such “cranks” is memorably extended in other passages of the book to include “vegetarians with wilting beards,” the “outer-suburban creeping Jesus” eager to begin his yoga exercises, and ”that dreary tribe of high-minded women and sandal-wearers and bearded fruit-juice drinkers who come flocking towards the smell of ‘progress’ like bluebottles to a dead cat.”