That fraud Mercola is at it again

[TZ]

I had an email in my box from a group (that I've now unsubscribed to) where Mercola tries to link cancer to the Polio vaccine! AAAAGH. Becase you know, cancer rates have increased in the last 50 years and medical science should be good enough to know everything about cancer! He also posted a COMPLETELY FRAUDULENT STATEMENT about how a genetic study of mummies proved that they didn't have cancer and its a "unnatural disease" and "not genetic", which, having seen that study is COMPLETELY NOT what was concluded from it! I'm so tired of this guy getting his complete lies and bullshit published on Huffington post like its the truth and and giving this truly slimy unethical shill a free continuing site to sell his products. Honestly, I wish the FDA could shut Huffington Post down for this stuff, because this is everybit as damaging as any of the snake oil merchants they put out of business for false claims.
I don't care how good their "politics" are...HP is now a threat to the public health by allowing this. First amendment rights do not apply to "shouting fire in a crowded theatre" which is pretty much what Mercola, Maher and the other woo-woos that infest HP are doing.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

1. Isn't it sad that Mercola is used here on DU as a legitimate source?

That those posts are allowed to stick around, infesting the board with ignorance and flim-flammery, is ridiculous. It's definitely not harmless.

[LeftishBrit]

2. Yes. And moreover, as I said on Health, his political views on healthcare are vile

'His general views on healthcare:

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=377098398731

Note in particular:

As many of you know, my philosophy of government’s role in health should be extremely limited – I believe in personal responsibilities and the freedom of choice.

Forcing the purchase of insurance on every individual is not something I can agree with, adding more taxes to feed the existing broken health care system will only make the existing problems worse.

...Congress does have the ability to collect taxes under the constitution which is why it was done this way – so it should be called what it is, the Health Care Tax Bill. If they used that name however, they likely would have received more opposition.

While I am in favor of some type of system to address those in our society without health care coverage, to me it is morally reprehensible to extract money from those in the culture that have worked hard to earn it and use it to pay for drugs, which for the most part, in no way shape or form address the cause of the illness, but merely foster a dependency of more of the same..'


In other words, he is, on health issues, A MONSTER OF PURE RIGHT-WING EVIL!!!!

If there are still any doubts after reading this, look at the following:

http://www.aipnews.com/talk/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=19252&posts=1


This is not the only one of his articles that is recorded on the America's Independent Party website. It may be that they are doing so without his approval; nevertheless the message here is hard-right - not to mention plain wrong - in itself.

He has endorsed Ron Paul, and is a member of the hard-right anti-public-healthcare Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.'


Is this the sort of person one should be endorsing at all, never mind at the time of desperate battles to establish a public healthcare system (USA) or save one from the inroads of privatization (UK)?

[TZ]

3. That asshole doesn't want insurance reform

Cheaper drugs would put con artists like him out of business. I'm not sure why people don't see that. Just like regulation of supplements is something he's agaisnt too. Because how could he sell sugar pills and market it as a vitamin or cancer preventor?

[Deep13]

8. Supplements are one step away from being patent medicine.

Also known as snake oil. Regulation would protect makers who actually have some standards, but would drive out the haphazard producers and the ones that claim medical benefits with testing.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

4. Right wing sources are often cited in the Health Forum at DU

While Mercola is especially insidious, there are other extreme right-wing sources cited by some of the nuttier posters that are often left untouched by the moderation crew. Not that I think the mods are purposefully ignoring the problem - they just don't understand how bad some of these sources really are, and they have a huge amount of content to moderate. The health care stuff sometimes gets lost in the shuffle.

[Odin2005]

5. I have noticed that a lot of Fundies are into the "All Natural" thing.

I'm the guy who sorts through all the newly donated books at our thrift store and puts them on the shelves and I could not believe all the "Natural Healing" books we got that are "Christian" themed.

[Warpy]

6. Any fool reading Huff Post for medical advice

richly deserves the shortened lifespan Mercola and other frauds are happy to deliver to him.

I can't believe people are still giving that idiot space and attention anywhere, even on the net.

[Deep13]

7. That's good. The world needs more polio.

:wtf: