There has been an alarming string of deaths in the past couple weeks involving practitioners of [del]quackery[/del] holistic alternative medicine in Florida and Georgia.
The latest is the reported murder of Teresa Sievers, whose death has garnered network news attention because she was quite, uh, holistic-looking. Earlier an antivax doc and practitioner of, shall we say, nontraditional autism therapies (Jeffrey Bradstreet) was found dead in a river of a gunshot wound, and chiropractor Bruce Hedendahl (nutrition Expert, host of the radio show Alternatives to Medicine and a certified instructor for the International Craniopathic Society) was discovered dead in his car, which is suspicious because he was described as being a “pillar of health” and people like that just don’t die suddenly, you know.
Thankfully, somecourageous news outlets (unlike the dumbstream news media) have connected the dots, linking these deaths to “run-ins” between deceased practitioners and the feds (the chiro’s major “run-in” seems to have been a slight tiff with the I.R.S. over an unpaid $742,000 tax bill).
Could the enemies of cheap, safe, holistic care have pissed off the corporate health Mafia?
I don’t know how many of these types of doctors there are (How do you even define this group precisely enough to examine the statistics?) but I’m guessing that 3 deaths is statistically plausible or at worst a statistical fluke. Although I suppose there could be some crazy person who’s decided to go after “alternative” practitioners.
The supposed “run-ins with the feds” is of course a red herring.
Altie docs being murdered by the Establishment to shut them up (and their records/devices mysteriously stolen) is a recurring theme in the world of woo - no matter how obviously these folks died of natural causes, alties just know they were silenced by Pharma goons (for instance, noted quackery purveyors Max Gerson and Royal Rife).
I’m not sure what to make of this violent death of a cancer researcher. On the face of it, the man had impressive mainstream academic credentials, but his work was in the area of radio frequency waves targeting tumor cells, not drugs, so you could theorize that a Pharma hit man got him. :dubious::eek::smack:
Dunno… Using radio waves against tumors could take the form of targeting tumors with precisely focused microwaves in order to “cook” them, and that doesn’t sound particularly “wooish” to me. Reminds me of the ultrasound lithotripter used (rather successfully) to treat kidney stones, which is as “mainstream” as can be…
I would imagine that microwave burning of tumors could potentially become another weapon in the standard arsenal used against cancer. This particular cancer researcher doesn’t sound too “alternative” to me.
I like the quote from Dr. Sievers’ best friend and colleague: “She had nothing more to offer than love.” I guess actual medical treatment wasn’t something she offered.
So a bunch of quacks wind up dead? I was amused by the “nutrition expert” chiroquack mentioned. You should be aware that chiropractic "doctors’ have nothing like a medical education. this guy wasn’t a nutritionist, nor an expert in anything.
Right, but if you believe in homicidal pharmaceutical companies, then you might believe that they’d off this guy because his method doesn’t use drugs. Of course then you’d have to explain why they don’t kill doctors who use radiation or surgery.
The part where my ears pricked up was when you said one “doc” was in trouble with the IRS and then ended up with a serious case of sudden-onset deadness. The IRS starting to use Mafia debt collection tactics should scare a lot more than just the quacks.
I was nowhere near any of them lately, and I can prove that.
These truly are tragic deaths, but if someone has to die, I’d pick an alt medicine woo practitioner over a mainstream volunteer doc or RN doing healthcare for the homeless work.