Fighting Spurious Complementary & Alternative Medicine (SCAM)

I am a former victim of health fraud, who now is trying to alert people to the tricks, lies and deceptions of the health fraud industry. If I can save just one person from the anguish of learning they have wasted their money on useless treatments, then this effort is worth it.

Friday, October 22, 2010

A bad year for the AVN - A great year for child safety

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Page 3 of the NSW Government Gazette, linked above contains the official announcement that the Australian Vaccination Netowrk has been strip...
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Sunday, December 21, 2008

Sickest in 35 years

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December 16, 2008 Article from: The Australian A SICK girl suffered brain damage after her father refused to take her to hospital because he...
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Saturday, September 27, 2008

The Dummett Hunter

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Australian SCAM practitioner Jeffrey Dummett has been dealt another blow earlier this year with a permanent ban by the New South Wales Offic...
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Critique of Isagenix

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The following article has been submitted by Dr Harriet Hall. A friend inquired about a product, Isagenix (actually a whole family of product...
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Saturday, October 07, 2006

Guilty of peddling fear, hope

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This week, an article in the Lexington Herald-Leader was brought to my attention. The article shows how much of an influence the peddlers of...
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Monday, October 02, 2006

Man dies of Selenium overdose

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I am often told by supporters of natural medicine that "alternative" or "natural" treatments are safe, simply because th...
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Sunday, September 24, 2006

Triathlon (Dummett claim false)

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This weekend was a good one for me. I managed to cut my time for the 10km run down by a fair margin and then continued another 10km at close...
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Saturday, September 16, 2006

Jeffrey Dummett's Questionable Qualifications

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In a comment left about the death of Mr Vecko Kreteski under the care of naturopath Jeffrey Dummett, I was told to get my facts straight. Th...
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006

The truth goes unheard

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My attempt to get a weekly health column in the local newspaper to combat a new herbalist's column has been unsuccessful. The response t...
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Sunday, March 12, 2006

Herbalist Column

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Below is a letter to my local newspaper sent this morning after seeing an interview with their new weekly columnist. I hope they take up the...
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Sunday, November 13, 2005

60 Minutes exposes Australian Health Fraud

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The lack of regulation that allows the Australian Health Fraud Industry to prosper in Australia was the lead story tonight on 60 Minutes. A...
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Sunday, November 06, 2005

Water more deadly than fluoride

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The recent death in the US from a college initiation prank was a tragic waste of a human life. In order to fit in with the group, the 21 yea...
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Sunday, October 09, 2005

Aussies win Nobel Prize for Medicine

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Australia is proud to have been the home of this year’s Nobel Prize winners in the filed of Medicine. This year’s prize went to West Austral...
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Saturday, August 27, 2005

5 y.o. Autistic boy dies during chelation therapy

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News was released overnight confirming that a 5 year old with Autism, has died during chelation therapy in the U.S. Chelation is the removal...
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Sunday, August 21, 2005

Prince Charles Charity Promotes Health Fraud

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Australia's future head of state has just launched a promotion enticing doctors become involved in health fraud. Through his registered ...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Home treatments put children in danger

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Research by the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne has shown that parents had given more than half of their patients, treatments that ar...
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Thursday, July 28, 2005

Echinacea another proven "natural" dud

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For years, the promoters of Echinacea and the majority of the health fraud industry has been peddling the lie that Echinacea is effective in...
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Saturday, June 11, 2005

Death by natural causes

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As someone who has asthma, I know that asthma can kill. As a parent of a child with asthma, I know how important it is to seek urgent medica...
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Monday, June 06, 2005

No insurance for bogus therapies

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Australian health funds have been heavily advertising on television about the range of alternative therapies that they will now provide cove...
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Monday, May 02, 2005

Toxic Fluoride

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Over the last couple of weeks, I have had a debate with an anti-fluoride opponent in the letters to the editor section of my local newspaper...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Another Australian Detox Death

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Australian Naturopath Jeffrey Dummett was "helping" a patient by placing him on a detox diet. The patient stopped his dialysis to ...
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Monday, April 25, 2005

The return of Ephedra

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Ephedra is naturally occuring substance with it's active ingredient being Ephedrine. Ephedrine is a stimulant, with pseudoephedrine bein...
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Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Mercury Rising???

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Those who believe the false claim that the mercury used in dental amalgams causes all manner of illnesses, including autism have long promot...
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Monday, April 04, 2005

Wheatgrass? Why-grass?

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Last week, a couple of fellow workers were discussing wheatgrass juice in the lunch-room. They mentioned that although expensive at $5 for a...
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Sunday, March 20, 2005

The fight continues

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Anyone stumbling across this blog, (I'm enough of a realist to acknowledge the chance of people reading on a regular basis is remote) ma...
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Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Toxic Ginseng

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One of the dangers with "herbal" medicine, is that you never really know what it is that you are getting. This danger was made eve...
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Sunday, November 07, 2004

De-tox in sweat lodge kills 37 y.o.

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A 37 y.o. Melbourne man died and a 30 year old man is still in hospital after spending time in a sweat lodge. This is not the first time tha...
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Thursday, October 28, 2004

Anti - vaccination group promoting children's playgroup.

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This is a letter that I sent to a radio station after they promoted a children's playgroup under the name of an anti-vax group. Dear ...
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