Thursday 31 October 2013

What Doctors Don't Tell You - Like Water For Chemo references

Reference 1:
Frenkel & al, 2010, Cytotoxic effects of ultra-diluted remedies on breast cancer cells, International Journal of Oncology, 36, 395-403 paper here
Commentaries linked below:
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/08/05/md-anderson-enters-the-blogosphere-and-g/
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2010/03/04/a-homeopathic-bit-of-breast-cancer-scien/
http://scepticsbook.com/2010/02/14/a-giant-leap-in-logic-from-a-piece-of-bad-science/
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2010/08/31/when-homeopaths-fight-back/
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/03/23/a-little-quackademic-medicine-in-texas/

Reference 2:
Pathek & al, 2003, Ruta 6 selectively induces cell death in brain cancer cells but proliferation in normal peripheral blood lymphocytes: a novel treatment for human brain cancer, International Journal of Oncology, 23, 975-982 paper here
http://www.badscience.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3729&p=61797&hilit=banerji&sid=05fbf12e30e41dc646f18e8801fe6b57#p61797.
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=99751 (need to scroll down a bit)

Reference 3:
Stein, R, 2008, Kennedy's Cancer Is Highly Lethal, Washington Post, 21 May 2008
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2008-05-21/news/36768215_1_astrocytoma-tumor-temodar
A newspaper report of the cancer that killed Edward Kennedy

Reference 4:
Banerji & al, 2008, Cancer patients treated with the Banerji protocols utilising homeopathic medicine: a best case series program of the National Cancer Insitute USA, Oncology Reports 20, 69-74 paper here

Reference 5:
http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Ruta6/info
Yahoo group on Banerji's "interventions".  Need to join to find out what goodies await.

Reference 6:
www.pbhrfindia.org
The website of the Prasantha Banerji Homeopathic Research Foundation

Reference 7:
Samaddar, A & al, 2013, The potentized homeopathic drug, Lycopodium clavatum (5C and 15C) has anti-cancer effect on hela cells in vitro, Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian Studies 6, 180-7 paper here

Reference 8:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8211925.stm
Page not found.
Searching around did turn up this for the date given in the reference
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8211925.stm
This has the headline "Homeopathy not a cure, says WHO". Perhaps that's why the web address was incorrectly published in WDDTY.

 From what I can tell, there are some serious deficiencies in some of the citations and others are pretty irrelevant.  If WDDTY thinks this is doing better, I think we can assure them that it isn't.

 
 

 
 

   

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