A couple of more thoughts on why this is important. 1/https://twitter.com/gorskon/status/1068536459416588288 …
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@CTVNews, the clinic is portrayed as offering something "not available" in the patient's home country. The Monterrey clinic was portrayed as offering a "ground-breaking experimental treatment." 8/Show this thread -
German alternative clinics are often similarly portrayed because they offer a mix of unproven conventional therapies plus alternative medicine. Such descriptions are deceptive. 9/
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In reality, what these clinics are doing is highly unethical. They are either charging huge sums of money for unproven therapy or, sometimes, charging patients huge sums of money to be on dubious clinical trials of unproven therapy. 10/
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So, listen up, reporters and editors: Whenever you do a story about a patient seeking unconventional or alternative cancer treatment at one of these clinics, it is your DUTY to name the clinic and the doctors. Anything less is just advertising for quacks. 11/11
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I should clarify. I meant advertising for cancer quackery, not necessarily any individual quack, given that the quack isn't named. 11a/11
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On it boss.
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I'd be willing to bet good money it's Infusio, but I'll have to watch her videos after class.
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