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Antivaccine nonsense Cancer Medicine

An antivaxxer interviews a respected oncologist about “turbo cancer”

Dr. Ryan Cole fear mongers about cancer and vaccines. ("Turbo cancer"?)

Once again, Orac is depressed to discover that an oncologist and scientist whom he admired 30 years ago is now giving credence to the antivax myth that COVID-19 vaccines are causing an epidemic of “turbo cancer.”

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

If Rigvir is effective “virotherapy” for cancer, why are quack clinics selling it and quackery promoters like Ty Bollinger promoting it?

Rigvir virotherapy
This is how Rigvir kills cancer cells, according to its proponents. Unfortunately, the evidence to support this model is close to nonexistent in the peer-reviewed biomedical literature. Evidence that it actually works in humans is even more scarce, although the International Virotherapy Center claims it has it. Oddly enough, it hasn't published it and admits its evidence doesn't live up to current expected standards. Yet it sells Rigvir anyway.

Last week, I wrote about Rigvir, a “virotherapy” promoted by the International Virotherapy Center (IVC) in Latvia, which did not like what I had to say. When a representative called me to task for referring to the marketing of Rigvir using patient testimonials as irresponsbile, it prompted me to look at how Ty Bollinger’s The Truth About Cancer series promoted Rigvir through patient testimonials and how the IVC itself uses such testimonials. The word “irresponsible” doesn’t even begin to cover it.

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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.