Re: My Manual for the Overlooked Cancer Genius

Golly Gee Dr Wilson KILLED a loving caring volunteering teenager, and
remains on staff, with the blessing of Peter Moran. He did NO wrong, there
were NO cover ups, NO fraud, everything is A OK.



"Peter Moran" <moringa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> An extract ---
>
> A glimpse into the skeptical mind -what you are up against.
>
>
> It is admitted that the skeptic is exquisitely sensitive to, and ever on
> the alert for any weakness in CAM anecdotal material. Is this so odd?
> What claim could be more deserving of the most rigorous standards of
> evidence than that of being able to cure "incurable" cancer, especially
> when that should be so easy to demonstrate with present technology? It is
> not as though these claims are being advanced tentatively, merely as
> hypotheses worthy of further evaluation. Desperately ill people are
> being induced to gamble substantial sums of money on them, and a few their
> very lives.
>
> The skeptic is of course not impressed by the theory that there is a
> conspiracy against alternatives. He/she is often, like myself, in a
> position to KNOW that this is bunkum, from personal involvement in the
> field. The common, quaint rationale of "alternative" lore that goes
> something like: "Golly Gee!, the doctors wouldn't be wanting to suppress
> this cancer cure unless it really worked! " thus does not inspire much
> trust. What a good idea, to portray those whose opinion you wish to
> influence as heartless monsters!
>
> No, there is no conspiracy, but certainly bias. If this and other kinds
> of scurrilous promotional material was not enough to prejudice the skeptic
> against the "alternatives", there is always the extremely unlikely
> provenance and theory behind most of them, the often unethical marketing
> practices, and at best a lackadaisical approach to scientific validation.
>
> The skeptic is biased, too, by a considerable history of like claims.
> Claims to be able to cure cancer are two a penny, and many of the more
> notorious and strongly promoted methods have been already been proved to
> be almost certainly ineffective when put to formal clinical testing, most
> recently shark cartilage [6,7,8,9], the Di Bella method in Italy [10], and
> Hoffer/Pauling's orthomolecular treatment [11].
>
> The skeptic has also observed that popular methods don't even hold sway
> for long within the constant informal testing of cancer treatments that
> goes on within "alternative" circles. Instead of an expected narrowing
> of treatment choices down to a few methods that might work --at all, let
> alone as well as the claims often imply!--- the number of treatments
> being promoted has progressively expanded in the last twenty years or so.
> None are ever completely discarded. Cancer sufferers are now obliged to
> use as many as they can afford with little real guidance as to what to
> choose. It seems that either none of them work well enough in practice to
> outdo even the least likely or more obviously fraudulent ones (so why
> bother?), or the conventions by which "alternative" medicine evaluates
> methods (basically testimonial, rumour and hearsay) are not up to the task
> of detecting useful methods (so why bother?).
>
> Some "alternative" writers have likewise been unable find any intelligible
> pattern of success within the alternative treatment of cancer. They
> conclude that the occasional cancer cures are not attributable to any
> particular methodology. Perhaps the patient's mental state is the most
> important element, or it is the spiritual observances, or some happy
> conjunction of many methods. Failure can conversely simply mean that the
> patient did not try hard enough to apply often dauntingly complex regimes
> or to think the right thoughts. The question for science herein is simply
> whether the number of authentic, confirmable cases of such cure within
> "alternative" medicine exceeds the spontaneous cure rate of cancer.
> There should be a handful of the latter yearly within the USA alone (see
> Part 2 "The Need for Numbers"). But such theories do not concern us
> further here. We know we have a working method, don't we?.
> The problem for the person who thinks they really can cure cancer is how
> to stand out from the crowd of pretenders in such a skeptical environment.
> I am trying to work out how.
>
>
>
> "Peter Moran" <moringa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:...
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>> http://home.gil.com.au/~moringa/cancer/Showing%20it%20works_1.htm
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>> Peter Moran
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