Tag: Carissa Gleeson

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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Naturopathy Popular culture Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Carissa Gleason: Embracing real medicine after fake medicine failed her

Carissa Gleeson, before she realized her mistake in trusting Ty Bollinger.

Many are the stories of those who have embraced quackery to treat their cancer. Few are followup stories when such a person realizes she’s made a mistake and returns to conventional therapy. This is one such story, but you’re unlikely ever to see the media outlets that touted Carissa Gleeson’s choice of quackery to treat her cancer run the story of her having changed her mind and saved her life with real medicine.

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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Popular culture Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Another young woman with cancer, lured into quackery by Ty Bollinger

No, lying in an infrared sauna will not "detox" your cancer away.

It sucks to be diagnosed with cancer at any age, but it especially sucks to be young and diagnosed with cancer. The prompt application of science-based cancer treatment is important for anyone with cancer, but it’s especially important for young people with cancer, because they have the most life-years to lose if they dawdle or […]