Triamazon Cancer Pill Scam Busted
You know, I do not believe that most of the people that feature on this site are fraudsters. No, the truth is far worse than that – most homeopaths, reiki practitioners and herbalists actually believe what they say and that makes then particularly dangerous. But there are people whose motives are particularly hard to believe are just plain deluded. I fear 2008 is going to feature quite a number of more ‘interesting’ cases.
I have been keeping an eye on Andrew Harris and his site http://www.triamazon.com/ for six months or more. He also uses a site called http://www.thiskillscancer.com/. Apaprently, Triamazon is a,
NATURAL SCIENCE PROVEN SAFE NON-TOXIC product that is effective against many cancers and is also far superior to chemotherapy as it does not harm healthy cells.
Harris sells ‘half a course’ of 100 pills of Triamazon for about £250 a bottle from his home in Altrincham. He says,
Skeptics please see… The official independent “Research White Paper” on the proven effectiveness of selected Acetogenins, by clicking on this link below… http://www.iupac.org/publications/pac/2003/pdf/7502×0259.pdf
Clicking through to this paper reveals information about the synthesis of acetogenins. Nothing about clinical efficacy. The Alliance for Natural Health issued a warning saying that the pill was Graviola (Annona muricata). You can buy Graviola tubs for about £20 or less if you look.
Just about every day I have been getting Google alerts for triamazon as it has been advertised around the web on bulletin boards, chat rooms and in press releases. Typically, such messages say things like:
Andrew Harris an ex-cancer patient exposes the big pharma industry cover-up of a natural cancer killing miracle with astounding incriminating conclusive independent evidence available via a direct link to pubmed archives on his website. Andrew is the founder of www.thiskillscancer.com His strong entrepreneurial background in business, marketing, research and management is combined with his personal experiences in having gone through 14 lots of conventional toxic combination chemotherapy to actually surviving cancer through an alternative natural, non toxic, immune system boosting, cancer killing miracle.
Leaving aside the issue of whether triamazon can do anything for cancer, advertising cancer cures is illegal in the UK under the Cancer Act of 1939. Trading Standards are tasked with upholding this act and have been aware of Triamazon for many months now. Indeed, Andrew Harris has been aware of it too as his web site has, at times, appeared with a disclaimer that his site was intended for doctors only – an attempt to wriggle out of the Cancer Act’s glare. It was not fooling anyone.
Yesterday, at 7.30 am a house in Sale was visited by Trading Standards, the MRHA and the Police and the raid seized ‘quantities of an unregistered drug called Triamazon’ and a 48 year old was arrested. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) have teamed up with police to take part in a number of dawn raids around the country as part of an ‘Internet day of action’.
It has been slow, but it is good to see that existing legislation can deal with some of the worst sorts of quackery out there. Taking money from desperate and scared people in exchange for worthless pills, has to rank amongst some of the lowest scams imaginable.
If you see similar sorts of things on the web, the Consumer Direct site is a pretty good place to start.
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The Mirror Now Cover this too:
Police swoop on cruel internet cancer “cure” pill conmen
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“Andrew Harris an ex-cancer patient exposes the big pharma industry cover-up of a natural cancer killing miracle…”
I’m beginning to wonder, what with all this alleged covering-up and wilful withholding of drug free miracle cures for all manner of ailments, how Big Pharma has managed to develop any new drugs at all!
The MHRA passed SEROXAT AS SAFE, THEN TREVOR MCDONALD ANNOUNCED on news at 10, seroxat is banned, the MHRA also passed VIOX, now thats been banned because it causes heart disease,I SEEN THE LINKS AT TRIAMAZON.COM AND THE GO TO pubmed in the states, the ingredients in triamazon does kill cancer and is non toxic, and who are you to personally watch an individual anyway? what powers have you? what right in law have you to stalk and defame anyone via the internet? isnt this illegal? will mr harris get your IP ADDRESS and sue you for defamation and stalking, are you a government employee? i wonder! read the links on mr harris website http://www.triamazon.com they definately pose serious questions for this corrupt government to answer especially as the cure is sat in the archives at PUBMED just like the triamazon website shows.
@fletch. I’ve read the PubMed links on the triamazon website. They are for synthetic studies and structure activity relationships for derivatives of acetogenins as potential anti-cancer therapies in vitro. Harris’ claim that Big Pharma is not interested in these things is simply not true, there is a large amount of research into them, just put acetogenins into pubmed and see. Regarding patent law, it is true that natural products are supposed to be unpatentable but that not really how it works in practive.[1]
Ignoring these flaws in Mr Harris’ arguments what he is doing can still be considered fraudulent. Selling something at an inflated price and claiming that it will cure cancer fall under the acts mentioned by LCN.
Shit, forgot to put in the reference for my previous post.
[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/300/5624/1375
Have we just seen the first cuckoo of spring? 1st of Feb. Must be a record.
received from Mr Harris (I presume)…
Hello Andy Lewis, my name is Andrew Harris, i am the owner of Triamazon.com.
Firstly i have not been busted regardless of what the daily mail states (Law suit for defamation pending) Secondley i have no criminal record whatsoever!
Your defamation regarding my product is without doubt as bad as the daily mirror, pure unfounded allegations, i have not been charged with any offences, the product is being tested by the MRHA and the results will end up with egg on theire faces as i will be suing them also, my medical records are testimony along with people who have purchased triamazon, please do not slander me or my product that the PRESS HAVE DONE, READ THE DAILY MAIL STORY fully and you will see the MHRA claim herbs can not cure cancer, this statement makes a mockery of their facts along with the fact that they openly state, the do not know whats in triamazon!so why the heavy tactics? because i have realy exposed the government for failing in its duties of care by denying the information on a superior cancer killer thats non toxic, the government the mhra get paid handsomely by big pharmaceuticals, i know your intentions are for the good of everyone but you realy have fell short on your factual evidence supplied by a corrupt treasonous labour government controlled press and media propaganda machine. my solicitor has the truth all about the product triamazon, call him Keith Dyson Solicitors tel 0161 832 9933 and ask him, and he will confirm it all, any more slander and i will have a private investigator to locate you via your IP ADDRESS AND tell me who you really are and then we will see how you liked being stalked and defamed, you owe me a huge apology you are damaging my name and a good truthfull business with your slader carry on and we will see what your actions will cause you to lose legally.
Call my website tel number and speak with me, i have nothing to hide or be ashamed off, regards, Andrew Harris For and on behalf of http://www.triamazon.com
“Any more slander and i will have a private investigator to locate you via your IP ADDRESS AND tell me who you really are and then we will see how you liked being stalked and defamed”
That’s rather threatening behaviour IMHO. Which paper has been defaming him? He keeps switching between the Mail and the Mirror. Anyway, if he really wanted help cancer patients and get Triamazon to the masses he wouldn’t charge so much for his untested and unregulated herbs.
I’m a medical student and I received an email from my parents about Graviola as a side-effect free anti-cancer cure that drug companies kept hidden.
I’m appalled by irresponsible “health” information being circulated around the net.
A simple check on pubmed would show you that high amounts of Graviola in your diet kills brain cells – a group of people in the Caribbean who consume this daily have been showing up with Parkinson’s disease and direct links have been established scientifically.
Not only do fake alt medicine pills like this gives false hopes and dupes cancer patients, they have the potential to harm them.
Keep up your good work on cracking down on them!
Mr Harris has now been convicted and sentenced. So I guess that comment where he says he doesn’t have a criminal record will need revising. I would post a link but currently on my phone, reported on BBC News Manchester website though.
Most of you people are idiots. Big pharma and big university researchers are the ones who discovered this and isolated the compounds in these plants-they are the one who did the research to show its anti-cancer activity. He read the papers, marketed it, and now claims that the “natural” therapy world found it. This stuff might work but NOT A SINGLE CLINICAL TRIAL IN VIVO (in vitro has been done) has been looked at. Which means it kills cancer in a dish, but we don’t know if it kills it in the body. Do not let the words “clinical trial” throw you off. These papers he mentions on his website DO NOT MENTION THE WORD triamazon once. They mention the specific compounds isolated from the plant. This guy and most “natural ways” are unproven.
Pharma CAN patent natural compound-Taxol is found in the bark of a tree. THEY PATENT THE PURIFICATION AND ISOLATION METHODS. If these compound work against cancer (the pharma companies are already working to isolate it in large quantities), then there will be a pantent war and one pharma company will get the rights. Now, the difference between pharma and this guy with the http://www.triamazon website is that what pharma sells will be pure compound. Not something this wack makes in his basement. Don’t let these frauds with “natural” in there name fool you. The take the work of good MD’s and pass it off as there own. By the way, type in triamazon in pubmed-not one hit.
listen to “badchemist”, he knows what hes talking about.
TO: All
RE: Who IS This…
….character?
“You know, I do not believe that most of the people that feature on this site are fraudsters. No, the truth is far worse than that – most homeopaths, reiki practitioners and herbalists actually believe what they say and that makes then particularly dangerous. But there are people whose motives are particularly hard to believe are just plain deluded. I fear 2008 is going to feature quite a number of more ‘interesting’ cases.
” — The Black Duck
Seriously. Who would believe someone who doesn’t post their REAL name on something as important as this?
There’s the first serious bullet-wound to this cretinous canard.
I’m going to have to bookmark THIS site, just to come over here ’slumming’ and beat the tar and feathers out of em.
For the second round….
….I have to wonder if this character has ever had the experience of gout.
For the ignorant, a severe attack is something that can make you empathize Christ on the Cross; 16-penny nails driven through the foot.
I didn’t believe in homeopathy either, until I was cured of a problem I’d suffered from for years.
And then, 15 years later, one of my Father’s birthday gifts to me came upon me; gout. I tried every home-remedy I could discover. Then I turned to homeopathy. And I found something that cured the acute symptoms.
Several years later, I had another acute attack. I tried what I found worked the first time. Oddly enough…it DIDN’T WORK. So, considering my reference cited 46 homeopathic materia medica for gout, I had to figure out what other symptoms I was experiencing. A day later I noticed I was feeling better in VERY HOT SHOWERS. The indication was ‘chills’. So I cross-referenced ‘gout’ and ‘chills’ and found three homeopathic materia medica that were indicated. I had two of them on hand. I tried one and 15 minutes later the acute symptoms were GONE.
Several months later, I had another acute attack. I tried the latest homeopathic materia medica. It didn’t work. I tried the earlier homeopathic materia medica. It didn’t work either. So I started looking for what other symptoms I was experiencing. This time, I noticed that my tongue looked like it had been painted with white-wash.
I did the cross-referencing and found a third materia medica. One that I did not have on hand, but a local retailer had it in stock. It was procured and taken and 15 minutes later the acute PAIN WAS GONE!
So. If it were the placebo effect, which idiots like to claim about homeopathy, one would think that taking ANYTHING that some fool book said was relief for gout, would have worked. But it didn’t. Therefore, it’s not any BS ‘placebo effect’.
And it’s not just the gout. Damned MD gave me a med for chronic belching. Guess what….
….the med didn’t work. And just to make life ‘interesting’ I developed “central sleep apnea” (CSA). For the ignorant, CSA is when your brain forgets to tell your lungs to BREATH while you’re asleep. You usually wake up gasping for air, like the guy character in He Said/She Said does. JUST LIKE THAT; suddenly sitting straight up taking deep gasping breaths, because you were about to suffocate.
Then again, you might wake up dead. Or, better still, like Ms Shiavo.
Homeopathy had a materia medica to deal with such attacks. It works.
So, again, I have to wonder who is this gutless wonder who won’t reveal his true name here. And what proof does HE/SHE/IT offer that homeopathy DOESN’T WORK? I know for a fact that it works for me. And, it works for my wife and for my mother-in-law.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[Stupidity is being ignorant and proud of it.]
dear mr chronic belcher,
If you look on the front page of my web site, you will find my name. You appear to be quite ignorant and proud of it.
TO: The Black Duck[er]
RE: The Name, Please
“If you look on the front page of my web site, you will find my name. You appear to be quite ignorant and proud of it.” — some kinda canard
I’ve looked at your HOME page. If that’s different from your ‘front’ page, maybe you should provide a URL.
However, allow me to comment that it would be much simpler if you used your REAL name in your posts instead of this childishness.
Don’t you think?
As for being ‘ignorant’. Yeah. I’m ‘ignorant’. Of your name. And you’re not being particularly forthcoming.
In the military we recognize that sort of obfuscation as an indication of something that is rather ‘unsavory’.
Hope that puts thinks into their proper perspective. After all. I’m here hanging my name out for all to see with every comment. On the other hand, we have you….
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.]