Bloody hell. After more than 40 years, cancer quack Stanislaw Burzynski is still grifting, and the press is still credulously lapping it up.https://www.panews.com/2021/01/09/community-rallying-to-help-nederland-teenager-battling-brain-tumor/ …
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Replying to @gorskon
Burszinski is no dummy, though. Everyone that he treats gets some form of standard therapy as well. And everyone gets some low to moderate dose of a targeted therapy: Tarceva, Sutent, etc. This makes sure that some people get a little better, just enough to advertise his RX.
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Yes. I've only been writing about how Burzynski co-opted the concept of targeted therapy to justify combining his quackery (antineoplastons) with a kitchen sink cocktail of expensive targeted drugs (sold by a pharmacy he owned) for over a decade now.https://skepticalinquirer.org/2014/03/stanislaw-burzynski-four-decades-of-an-unproven-cancer-cure/ …
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For example, Burzynski tried to sell himself as being a guru of "targeted" cancer therapy in a propaganda movie made by Eric Merola.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/stanislaw-burzynskis-personalized-gene-targeted-cancer-therapy/ …
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He's even cleverer than you know, too. He started portraying his "antineoplastons" as an orphan cancer drug, because some of the compounds in his concoction are metabolic products of phenylbutyrate.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/stanislaw-burzynski-antineoplastons-and-the-orphan-drug-sodium-phenyl-butyrate/ …
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Replying to @gorskon @davideyoungmd
Yes, I was all over Stanislaw Burzynski, his quackery, and his grifting years and years ago. He mastered the dark art of using bogus "clinical trials" to keep selling his quackery without evidence to desperate parents of children with DIPG and other brain cancers.
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What's frustrating is that he's still going. His clinic almost—almost—shut down around seven years ago when the @US_FDA put a temporary clinical hold on him after a 6-year-old died of hypernatremia. Yet the FDA failed to shut Burzynski down.
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