If you haven’t already read it, go over to Ben Goldacre’s and read of his legal experiences with a vitamin seller who convinced HIV patients to stop taking prescribed drugs and switch to vitamins:
Matthias Rath has pulled out of his gruelling legal case against me and the Guardian. He bought full page adverts denouncing Aids drugs while promoting his vitamin pills in South Africa, a country where hundreds of thousands die every year from Aids under an HIV denialist president and the population is ripe for miracle cures.
Congratulations to Ben and The Guardian, who have a nice Sarah Boseley article about the whole affair with video.
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This is a major coup… thousands of people were dying because of this charlatan..Now can we turn our attention to the good bacteria brigade…I just find their adverts so irritating!
bruce
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