I thought it might be useful to keep a organised list of articles on the controversial and misleading alternative health magazine, What Doctors Don’t Tell You.
I aim to add new links to this post as they arise.
Last updated 12/12/14
Recent news
On 1st May 2014, Tesco contacted people who had written to them about WDDTY to confirm that they will no longer be stocking it.
However, on 1st October 2014, Lynne McTaggart reported that WDDTY is back in Tesco and is now “banned” by WHSmith.
Waitrose announced on 14th October 2013 that they will no longer be stocking the magazine (see tweets here and here). In November 2013, Sainsbury’s also confirmed (on Twitter) that the November issue would be their last – and even removed copies from shelves following customer complaints. However, it since made a return to the shelves and in some cases, has even been a recommended read.
On 1st November 2013 , a website dedicated to “debunking the fountain of stupid that is WDDTY” was launched, What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You.
The Times published a second article on WDDTY on 2nd November 2013, which included comments from Professor Paul Pharaoh at the University of Cambridge and from Cancer Research UK.
Overview
- Inside Health BBC Radio 4, 02/10/12 (Margaret McCartney’s references are here, the programme transcript is here)
- What a new consumer health magazine doesn’t tell you Dr Margaret McCartney, BMJ, 10/10/12 (free link via Margaret McCartney’s blog)
- OPINION: What Doctors Don’t Tell You – Dangerous Hypocrisy Tom Hayes, Beyond Positive, 30/09/13
- What Charlatans Don’t Tell You about “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” anarchic teapot, Short & Spiky, 02/10/13
- Not the Ducks – A Dissection of Quackery Avicenna, FreethoughtBlogs, 12/10/13
- What Doctors Don’t Tell You The Wandering Teacake, 12/10/13
- What Does What Doctors Don’t Tell You Think It Is? The Wandering Teacake, 12/10/13
- WDDTY: Waging war on “doctor-induced disease” Zeno, Zeno’s blog, 13/10/13
- What ‘What Doctors Don’t Tell You’ really told you Tetenterre, 14/10/13
- Lynne McTaggart deserves an apology – no, really Catmando, Ingenious Pursuits, 18/10/13
- The Agony of False Hope The Wandering Teacake, 30/10/13
- WDDTY: An Apology Guy Chapman, Guy Chapman’s Blahg, 20/10/13
- WDDTY: An Evil Agenda Andy Lewis, The Quackometer, 31/10/13
- Even quacks must have free speech Dr Michael Fitzpatrick, Sp!ked, 19/11/13
- In reply to Michael Fitzpatrick Dr Matthew Lam, Western Sloth, 19/11/13
- Fitzpatrick on WDDTY Andy Lewis, Quackometer, 20/11/13
- What Whole Foods Markets Doesn’t Tell You Jann Bellamy, RDFRS, 18/04/14
- What Doctors Don’t Tell You – A call to action David James, This Week In Pseudosciene, 26/09/14
Media coverage
- WDDTY – a review of the media coverage Dr Matthew Lam, Western Sloth, 01/10/13 (updated 03/10/13)
- Call to ban magazine for scaremongering Tom Whipple, The Times, 01/10/13
- Call for shops to stop selling magazine that gives dangerous health advice News and Comment, Sense about Science, 01/10/13
- Campaigners say that alternative health magazine is carrying dangerous claims Darren Boyle, Press Gazette, 01/10/13 (taken down then amended after What Doctors Don’t Tell You complained it was defamatory)
- What doctors definitely won’t tell you Dean Burnett, Brain Flapping, The Guardian, 02/10/13
- BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast 03/10/13 (skip to 1:44:05)
- WDDTY wars: The Blessed McTaggart Strikes Back anarchic teapot, Short & Spiky, 04/10/13
- What Doctor’s Don’t Tell You – More moaning by Lynne McTaggart! David James, SKEPT!CAL blog, East England Skeptical Society, 04/10/13
- What Doctors Don’t Tell You – the magazine that freedom of speech campaigners want withdrawn from sale Dominic Ponsford, Press Gazette, 10/10/13
- WDDTY: The Top 10 Dirty Tricks Guy Chapman, Guy Chapman’s Blahg, 16/10/13
- Junk Science? Number 62: Skeptic pawns of Big Pharma out to silence WDDTY Guy Chapman, Guy Chapman’s Blahg, 25/10/13
- Magazine attacked by health experts over cancer ‘cure’ claims Tom Whipple, Hannah Devlin, The Times, 02/11/13
- Why The Times repeated the same attack on WDDTY What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 04/11/13
- The WDDTY wars: why they don’t want you to read all about it What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 06/11/13
Editors and contributors
- Weird Delusional Dishonest Tosh Y’know? Part 1 bensagan, benseye, 02/03/13
- WDDTY: The Editorial Panel Josephine Jones, 12/03/13
- WDDTY: Dr Verkerk, Evil Big Pharma, and Supplements jdc, Stuff and Nonsense, 28/03/14
- “Dr” Harald Gaier’s website ruled misleading by ASA Josephine Jones, 11/06/14
Problematic articles
- What doctors don’t tell you TK, Tessera, 27/09/12
- What Doctors Don’t Tell You – the Magazine Jaycueaitch, Letting Off Steam, 30/09/12
- What Doctors Don’t Tell You and the HPV Vaccine jdc, Stuff and Nonsense, 04/10/12
- WDDTY: McTaggart, McCartney and HPV Vaccination jdc, Stuff and Nonsense, 30/10/12
- Three Quack Stories and Santa’s Quantum Sack Andy Lewis, The Quackometer, 26/11/12
- Incurable stupidity and irresponsibility at WDDTY Andy Lewis, The Quackometer, 01/02/13
- ‘What Doctors Don’t Tell You’ cites paper that demonstrates there is no such thing as homeopathy Lee Turnpenny, 21/02/13 (also posted here on SciLogs)
- WDDTY – Mercury Fillings and the Truth Behind the Tooth! Shaun Sellars SKEPT!CAL blog, East England Skeptical Society, 10/03/13
- WDDTY: How To Misunderstand A Paper jdc, Stuff and Nonsense, 25/06/13
- Angelina Jolie and opportunist quacks: a Hall of Shame Josephine Jones, 15/05/13 (updated 27/06/13 to include WDDTY)
- ‘Safe’ WDDTY Magazine Kills Up To 200,000 A Year jdc, Stuff and Nonsense, 09/08/13
- ‘What Doctor’s Don’t Tell You’ don’t tell you – Ask for Evidence Dr Matthew Lam, Western Sloth, 18/09/13
- Asking for the evidence on claims about breast cancer risk Dr Matthew Lam, Sense about Science, 18/09/13
- WDDTY – preparing to breach the Cancer Act? Dr Matthew Lam, Western Sloth, 30/09/13
- Is WDDTY Magazine Anti-Vaccine? jdc, Stuff and Nonsense, 05/10/13
- WDDTY, homeopathy, cancer and vaccines – well it’s an odd way of going about things Jo Brodie, Stuff that occurs to me, 07/10/13
- What Advice You Got? The Wandering Teacake, 12/10/13
- Is WDDTY Magazine Anti-Fluoride? jdc, Stuff and Nonsense, 15/10/13
- Lynne McTaggart and the Vitamin C Soft Shoe Shuffle The Wandering Teacake, 17/10/13
- WDDTY and cancer claims – they are not evidence based Dr Matthew Lam, Western Sloth, 18/10/13
- Big Pharma and the Mafia Guy Chapman, Guy Chapman’s Blahg, 23/10/13
- What Doctors Don’t Tell You about how homeopathy works Guy Chapman, Guy Chapman’s Blahg, 31/10/13
- What Doctors Don’t Tell You – Like Water For Chemo references Catmando, Ingenious Pursuits, 31/10/13
- Electrosmog What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 31/10/13
- November 2013 editorial What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 31/10/13
- How might homeopathy work? What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 01/11/13
- The big C (cover-up, that is); Burzynski’s antineoplastons What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 02/11/13
- WDDTY on vaccines What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 02/11/13
- Edie’s anecdote What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 03/11/13
- WDDTY on Burzynski What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 03/11/13
- WDDTY on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 03/11/13
- WDDTY on glucosamine What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 03/11/13
- WDDTY on Type 2 diabetes – not actually dreadful but could be a bit better Jo Brodie, Stuff that occurs to me, 03/11/13
- WDDTY on homeopathy What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 31/10/13
- Neutral Switzerland is partial to homeopathy What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 03/11/13
- WDDTY call for volunteers to help them sell FUD anarchic teapot, 02/11/13
- The WDDTY Vaccination Handbook What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 04/11/13
- Fancy that! What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 04/11/13
- WDDTY on HIV/AIDS What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 04/11/13
- Trolled by WDDTY?! Dr Matthew Lam, Western Sloth, 04/11/13
- Like water for chemo What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 04/11/13
- Homeopathy and the NHS What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 04/11/13
- The Big Cancer Cover-Up What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 05/11/13
- Hygiene, not vaccine What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 05/11/13
- Scientific fundamentalism What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 05/11/13
- ‘Safe’ HPV vaccine kills up to 1,700 young girls What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 06/11/13
- Oncologist: Lynne McTaggart’s use of chemotherapy figures “quite misleading to patients” Slipp Digby, The Exit Door Leads In…, 06/11/13
- WDDTY – Depression, Drugs and Autism: Blame Mum SouthwarkBelle, 07/11/13
- Just fancy that! Odds ratios and autism What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 08/11/13
- Just fancy that! Author affiliation correction. What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 09/11/13
- Homeopathy is “more than placebo” What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 09/11/13
- Fancy that: the government and cancer charities are EXACTLY THE SAME What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 12/11/13
- Treating ear infections naturally What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 12/11/13
- Wakefield was right, autism is linked to gut problems What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 12/11/13
- MMR doesn’t protect 4 per cent of children What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 13/11/13
- Trust in the treatment What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 13/11/13
- Older but not healthier What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 13/11/13
- Is dairy ‘cancer food’? What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 13/11/13
- When science is a dirty word What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 13/11/13
- In the O-Zone What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 14/11/13
- Can chiropractic treatment help with undescended testicles What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 17/11/13
- Too much copper? What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 17/11/13
- The expert-free therapy What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 18/11/13
- WDDTY’s ‘inconvenient’ editorial guide to recognising quackery Lee Turnpenny, 20/11/13
- Academics paid by drug companies to whip-up media health scares What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 21/11/13
- Corrections and clarifications What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 26/11/13
- Arthritis: it’s not old age, it’s inflammation What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 28/11/13
- Gardasil: Another unforced error What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 28/11/13
- ‘WDDTY’ about foot-in-mouth syndrome Labcoats Unbuttoned, 28/11/13
- WDDTY, Guy Hudson and Electrosmog: Editorial or a misleading advertorial? What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 29/11/13
- HIV and AIDS: A bizarre letter What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 29/11/13
- “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” magazine on UTIs and antibiotics Nurture My Baby, 29/11/13
- Wakefield was right! Or not What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 30/11/13
- WDDTY: Dr Verkerk, Evil Big Pharma, and Supplements jdc, Stuff and Nonsense, 28/03/14
Problematic advertisements
- What Doctors Don’t Tell You – A Complainant’s Guide Sceptical Letter Writer, 01/10/12
- What They Don’t Tell You The Nightingale Collaboration, 04/10/12
- WDDTY #1 – The First of Many The Nightingale Collaboration, 14/11/12
- WDDTY #2 – The Second Wave The Nightingale Collaboration, 12/12/12
- WDDTY #3 – Strike Three The Nightingale Collaboration, 19/12/12
- WDDTY #4 – Feeling the heat? The Nightingale Collaboration, 09/01/13
- WDDTY #5 – A Poisonous Problem? The Nightingale Collaboration, 16/01/13
- WDDTY #6 – The Missing Link? The Nightingale Collaboration, 23/01/13
- WDDTY #7 – Going to Ground? The Nightingale Collaboration, 06/02/13
- WDDTY #8 – Quantum Flapdoodle The Nightingale Collaboration, 13/02/13
- WDDTY #9 – Taking Stock The Nightingale Collaboration, 27/02/13
- Advertisement: Healthy House What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 01/11/13
- Number crunching: Adverts What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 08/11/13
- Sick as a dog – another worthless advert in WDDTY Dr Matthew Lam, Western Sloth, 09/11/13
- And Now A Word From Our Sponsors… The Wandering Teacake, 17/11/13
Libel threats
- Simon Singh threatened with legal action for criticising health magazine Alok Jha, The Guardian, 03/10/12
- Quack rag distributor threatens to sue Singh: relevant links and what you can do Josephine Jones, 04/10/12
- Elephants in the room Lynne McTaggart, 05/10/12
- What Doctors Don’t Tell You: There is something very wrong with our libel laws Simon Singh, The Independent, 11/10/12
- Libel reform and the public interest Lee Turnpenny, 13/10/12 (also posted on SciLogs, here)
- What Doctors Don’t Tell You – the magazine that freedom of speech campaigners want withdrawn from sale Dominic Ponsford, Press Gazette, 10/10/13
- Because Fighty Libel Lawyers Make the Best Scientists The Wandering Teacake, 15/10/13
Retailers
- “What Doctors Don’t tell you” Hayley Stevens, Hayley is a Ghost, 27/10/12
- Should WHSmith Stock WDDTY Magazine? Andy Lewis, The Quackometer, 01/12/12
- What Doctors Don’t Tell You: responses to complaints Josephine Jones, 04/10/12
- Have WHSmith even read my #WDDTY emails? Josephine Jones, 11/10/12
- What Doctors Don’t Tell You David James, SKEPT!CAL blog, East England Skeptical Society, 14/10/12
- University stocking WDDTY apoptoticus, 12/06/13
- Tesco apoptoticus, 12/09/13
- Tesco reply apoptoticus, 14/09/13
- Call to Action: Tesco and WDDTY Andy Lewis, The Quackometer, 20/09/13
- WDDTY – make your voice heard Dr Matthew Lam, Western Sloth, 21/09/13
- WDDTY update – Appaling customer service from Tesco Dr Matthew Lam, Western Sloth, 25/09/13
- What Do Readers Of What Doctors Don’t Tell You Think It Is? The Wandering Teacake, 12/10/13
- My complaint to Tesco’s Facebook page Josephine Jones 14/10/13
- My complaint to Tesco. Richard Black, PonchoDirt, 15/10/13
- Please write in support of What Doctors Don’t Tell You Guy Chapman, Guy Chapman’s Blahg, 15/10/13
- What Tesco Tell You, And Tell You… And Tell You Again The Wandering Teacake, 15/10/13
- Tesco respond Richard Black, PonchoDirt, 16/10/13
- My reply to tesco 17th October am Richard Black, PonchoDirt, 17/10/13
- Tesco 18th October Richard Black, PonchoDirt, 18/10/13
- WDDTY – Tesco choose profit over people Dr Matthew Lam, Western Sloth, 21/10/13
- A reply from Sainsbury’s @vickyyyf, Twitter, 24/10/13
- A reply from Asda Josephine Jones, Twitter, 25/10/13
- Open letter to Tesco concerned reader, What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 01/11/13
- A letter to high street stores that sell “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Nurture My Baby, 08/11/13
- What Doctors Don’t Tell You & Sainsburys Nucella’s Blog, 06/11/13
- Secure your copy of WDDTY What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 10/11/13
- WDDTY and Tesco’s corporate irresponsibility Adam Jacobs, Dianthus Medical, 22/11/13
- What Whole Foods Markets Doesn’t Tell You Jann Bellamy, RDFRS, 18/04/14
- Tesco drops What Doctors Don’t Tell You Josephine Jones, 04/05/14
- “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” survey Laura Thomason, Good Thinking Society, 10/06/14
- The campaign against What Doctors Don’t Tell You Continues Anarchic Teapot, WWDTYDTY, 26/06/14
- Let’s congratulate WHSmith for deciding not to stock “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Laura Thomason, Good Thinking Society, 09/12/14
Contact with WDDTY and their Facebook page
- Lynne McTaggart’s Grown-Up Debate Ron Lewis, Sceptical Letter Writer, 10/10/12
- Response from WDDTY (Weird Delusional Dishonest Tosh Y’know?) bensagan, benseye, 01/03/13
- What What Doctors Don’t Tell You Don’t Tell You Adam Jacobs, Dianthus Medical, 12/04/13
- If only they knew #WDDTY Pedro Stephano, 17/04/13
- WDDTY: The competition results and What ‘What Doctors Don’t Tell You’ Don’t Tell You! David James, SKEPT!CAL blog, East England Skeptical Society, 23/04/13
- My letter to WDDTY Dr Matthew Lam, Western Sloth, 18/09/13
- WDDTY – They say they have a ‘qualified researcher’; but do they really? Dr Matthew Lam, Western Sloth, 09/10/13
- The WDDTY Hole in the Facebook Wall Quiz The Wandering Teacake, 29/10/13
- More Cherry-Picked `Evidence’ majikthyse, 01/11/13
- Silence those who oppose freedom of speech! What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 05/11/13
- WDDTY deleted these rather boring comments Richard Black, PonchoDirt, 09/11/13
- From the department of determinedly not getting the point What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 09/11/13
- Secure your copy of WDDTY What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 10/11/13
- It seems the magazine ‘What Doctors Don’t Tell You’ doesn’t like me Jo Brodie, Stuff that occurs to me, 01/07/14
- WDDTY goes “the full Errol” Guy Chapaman’s blahg, 02/07/14
- Meet the people who would dictate your health care Anarchic Teapot, What “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” Don’t Tell You, 02/07/14
- U.K. woo-woo mag slams skeptics causing them trouble. Hilarity ensues. Sharon Hill, Doubtful News, 02/07/14
Ridicule
- What Doctors Don’t Tell You – A Publishing Sensation Andy Lewis, The Quackometer, 04/10/12
- What Doctors Won’t Tell You (Because We’re Making It All Up) “Lynne McTaggart”, The Daily Quack, 13/11/12
- Elephants In The Room “Lynne McTaggart”, The Daily Quack, 16/11/12
- Lying is a Feminist Issue “Lynne McTaggart”, The Daily Quack, 20/12/12
- Quantum Flapdoodle, or Keep the Red Flags Flying bensagan, benseye, 27/02/13
- WDDTY: The competition results and What ‘What Doctors Don’t Tell You’ Don’t Tell You! David James, SKEPT!CAL blog, East England Skeptical Society, 23/04/12
- What doctors definitely won’t tell you Dean Burnett, Brain Flapping, The Guardian, 02/10/13
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Cheers for that!
PS: The Lynne Noble links are bust
I’ve checked her blog and those posts seem to have gone. I’ll try to find out what’s happened.
Thanks for letting me know.
It seems Lynne took the posts down but I don’t know the reason for this. I’ve deleted them from my list.
I get so angry about WDDTY and its quacks. Sometimes I’m near tears with their wickedness.
I am in treatment for a tumour in UK via the NHS. So far the conventional procedures have been good, prompt, logical & well explained. They look very promising. I believe/hope it will be OK. Surgeons are supplemented by very caring Macmillan specialist nurse-advisors, the process could not be bettered.
I feel confident that my outcome will be the best possible and I cannot express what I would like to to do to these horrible, selve-serving, money-grubbing filth! I believe they prey on people at the time of their greatest need, with little to offer beyond what real medicine can do while making money from distress.
How dare they impute such bad motives on the fully-trained, experienced practitioners of real medicine. Yes, lots of the our understanding of the practice of medicine has to be continuously tested & challenged. But it must be done with properly supervised science such as double-blind tests (a discipline that no homeopath would dare risking). We may find that what parts of we’ve believed can be improved but that’s science. It mustn’t lead to the throwing out of the baby with the bathwater.
A plague on WDDTY
Nonsense Tim B lots of Good science proves homeopathy and much alternative medicine works as well or often Better than drugs with much less damaaging risk. Do some research before jumping to your bigoted and uninformed views.
This is exactly the sort of hurtful, harmful and misinformed attitude that worries me, and which is typical of supporters of What Doctors Don’t Tell You.
It may not be what homeopaths tell you, but the fact is that no good science proves homeopathy works, at least not any better than placebo. The overwhelming majority of “alternative” medicines are either unproven or disproven.
You are telling a cancer patient that quackery works better than drugs and more safely. You are doing this in an aggressive and condescending manner. I suggest you take a deep breath and think about what you’re doing.
chris d said
For instance?
You couldn’t have made @Tim B’s point better. “self serving money grabbing filth” indeed. Are you a homeopath by any chance.
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…but what do you do when conventional treatments, well meaning but utterly devastating, still don’t work & you are watching a loved one die in front of you – the intentions of the doctors are good, but they simply can’t help at all in many cases, look at the death rates of cancer.
What do we do as a society, give up & stop searching & investigating?
I will not give up on my wife’s cancer just because the powers that be have.
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To me, the level of bias and misinformation in this article is far worse than the magazine it purports to criticise. What nobody here seems to apprehend is that there is not a level playing field for natural and alternative medicine. Substantive randomised clinical trials cost millions of pounds to undertake, and as natural products cannot be patented such an undertaking cannot be contemplated, as there is simply no-way to recoup the massive investment needed.
I became a convert to natural medicine for one reason, and one reason alone – because it works – profoundly, remarkably, and completely.
With every health condition I’ve experienced, I have indulged my doctor and his prescription remedies with little or no effect. On every occasion, I’ve gone on to research and identify a natural remedy that has completely cured and reversed my condition, while modern medicine has entirely failed me.
Let me give you just one quick example of what I mean. Science has yet to conclude a substantive study which proves outright the benefits of the Echinacea herb. Yet after suffering severe bronchitis every year for 10 years I stepped out on a limb and gave it a try. As a result, I’ve completely eliminated bronchitis for the last 9 years running. No more Christmas’s ruined by the misery of painful coughing and wheezing due to a terrible infection. Result – one very happy camper!
If you want to wait until the benefits of Echinacea have been completely substantiated, go right ahead. For me, I prefer to make my own mind-up and live healthily and happily now, thank you very much. I’ve now cured and reversed every condition from IBS to heart disease. I literally owe my life to natural medicine – and have often been led toward the cure by articles such as those you are so ready to criticise and condemn. Call me crazy – but I believe articles like these are doing more good for the health and wellbeing of our nation than the entire medical establishment combined (who admittedly do much good). And I will continue to invest my money and my faith in natural remedies – because they work – full stop. A fact which is a far cry from the barrage of synthetic chemicals produced by corrupt drug companies which are deliberately designed to do nothing more than mask and ameliorate the symptoms of disease. If you care for your health and that of your loved ones, I sincerely hope you leave your bias under you seat long enough to discover this happy truth for yourself.
And the good news is that as high quality natural supplements pose no risk to your health, you can experiment and try them out for size until you find one that gives you the results you’re looking for. Unfortunately the same cannot be said of pharmaceutical drugs. Death due to adverse drug effects is now estimated to be the fourth leading cause of death in the world.
Unfortunately, due to the dynamics of modern medicine, natural medicine will be forced to remain the poor brother to the pharmaceutical industry – and those of us who have experienced the life-changing benefits of natural medicine will have to continue to rely on tradition and small scale studies to uncover the truths of nature’s miraculous remedies.
Max Stirling said:
Please feel free to point out any errors in the article, along with your reasoning and evidence for your position.
I entirely agree: so-called natural and alternative ‘medicines’ get a very easy ride. For example, hundreds of homeopathic products are registered or authorised by the medicines’ regulator without having to provide one jot of evidence they are in the slightest bit effective for anything. I hope you’ll agree with me that this double standard is intolerable and demand a level playing field?
Well, no, it appears they don’t. Even the Homeopathy Research Institute seems to think they can do a trial of homeopathy for IBS for a mere £5,000: IBS trial fundraising appeal update. Anyway, there are many ways of raising the necessary funding for trials if the will to do them was actually there: Paying the price of homeopathic research
On the contrary. Indeed, Boiron have a market capitalisation value of just under 1 billion Euros. Just think what their turnover could be if they actually had good evidence for the products they make?
Then you spoil your argument (such as it was) with your own personal anecdote…
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I have never found an over the counter solution to my hyperhidrosis problem. I will not inject myself or have any other surgery to fix this or lasers or whatever else they come up with. I have been taking SAGE tablets and have never been so happy. This is a natural solution to my problem. I encourage everyone to seek alternatives if needed. Do your research.
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Saw WDDTY in Tesco, Hampton, Peterborough last weekend. Hid them.
Did you notice which issue it was?
It was the most recent one, they hadn’t had any since May. It was also put in with the science magazines so it was nestling alongside New Scientist, Scientific American, etc.
The irony….I’m surprised the newsstand didn’t catch fire.
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If Pharmaceuical companies could not patent their drugs and make vast profits from doing so, would they still produce them and make them available to patients – I think not. And equally would you lot be so anxious to promote Big Pharma? How many of the WDDTY critics have links, apparent or hidden to big Pharma?
This whole argument is about money and power and has nothing to do with promoting peoples’ health and well being. Do not think that the majority of the public are so stupid they don’t get that.
Lisa said:
How many do you think and why?
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