Internet
Medicine
Day-in-day-out,
you are bombarded – in your mailbox or WhatsApp – with health advisories by well-intentioned
friends. Many are anxious to share new cures with you. But did they bother to
check out before they hit the forward button? I suspect not many.
A
case in point is a recent “sure can cure cancer” formula I received on WhatsApp.
Apparently, pure potato juice can do the job. Why waste money on all other
forms of treatment!
As
usual, it started with the typical conspiracy theory rhetoric: the pharmaceutical
giants do not want you to know this fact, blah, blah, blah. It went on to quote
the findings of a Japanese-sounding researcher to lend authority to the
formula.
Is
he saying all the oncologists are all frauds?
No
sooner, a response came through: My wife
tried it. It didn’t work!
Out
of curiosity, I surfed the Net to see if there is any truth in the claim.
No
scientific evidence; more of a quackery is what I read.
This
has also just come through:
Oh
Zika (mosquito inflicted disease that is gripping South America today) is
coming our way. We have dengue problem, right? Clove sticking on freshly-cut lemon
halves will make the aedes mosquito go away.
Are
you prepared to count on this advisory totally???
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