Share this with your Big Pharma kooks...

[onager]

From a story today on Yahoo about "5 New Internet Scams."

Number 5 sure sounds familiar...

Cancer Cure Scam

The Scam: As more people turn to the web for medical advice, they're encountering websites that advertise natural products they claim will prevent or cure everything from cancer to diabetes.

Scammers know people are searching for natural remedies online, so they exaggerate the language on their site, and even add a few medical terms to sound legitimate. Oftentimes, they'll claim their supplies are not sold anywhere else, and sell them at a high price.

What? The big-hearted, life-saving champions of natural cures are making a profit? Say it ain't so!

Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a miracle cure for cancer, but these scammers will have you believe there is, and will even discourage you from taking real medicine.

The reality is many of these products are not proven, effective, or safe, and the sites are full of false testimonials.

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/hughes/24616

[TZ]

1. What? Someone on the internet making false claims?

I'm shocked I tell ya! Everything is da twoof! Because I say so!!:banghead:

BTW, there was a nasty flame fest the other day because some idiot in GD read a e-mail scam that was puportedly from Johns Hopkins claiming that Chemotherapy for cancer was not necessary and that people with cancer were doing "fine" without it and that chemo was deadlier than cancer. All you had to do to treat cancer was eat some sugar and raise your blood pH. Aye carumba. And even when MULTIPLE people pointed out that Hopkins themselves were saying it was a scam, this idiot refused to listen. Fortunately they locked the thread. But I think you read that thread. I think sometimes the internet does more harm than good when it comes to cancer. I can't believe the amount of idiocy on thsi board with regard to cancer.

[onager]

2. I did read it.

Very...cough...interesting.

It's just depressing how much idiocy in general I see on DU nowadays. An actual structural engineer once started a thread about the damage to the WTC on 9/11. The VERY FIRST RESPONSE came from a conspiracy wacko, then the rest of them showed up and just piled on the OP. I think I was the only one who defended him, which is REALLY depressing.

[Warpy]

3. Yes, the "chemotherapy KILLS" thread was particularly depressing

I hated finding out that much sheer dumbfuckery wasn't limited to the GOP.

People expect medicine to be magic and when it isn't, they get all bent out of shape and look for magic elsewhere.

I stay out of the conspiracy dungeon because none of those earnestly witless folks will ever read a site that throws cold water on their most dearly held stupidities.

[onager]

4. I'd never seen Argumentum ad Flower Child, though

:rofl:

[salvorhardin]

5. Speaking of the dungeon...

One of them has outed their self as a free energy kook. Says they have a free energy generator but won't tell us how she got it or how it works.

[moggie]

6. Linkie?

I've often seen gullible fools credulously reporting on free energy scams, but I don't recall encountering one who has actually bought such a device.