What can Anton Chekhov tell us about the placebo effect? Chekhov is best known as a great writer of short stories. But he was also a doctor and wrote many tales of medicine and doctors in everyday life. But recently, again,…
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The Burzynski Millions
by Andy Lewis • • 41 Comments
Dr Stanislaw R. Burzynski presents himself as a lone maverick doctor, struggling against the vested interests and great wealth of the medical profession. He claims to have found a safe and effective form of cancer treatment that can save children…
Burzynski Supporting Charity Loses Funding
by Andy Lewis • • 13 Comments
Discussing the problems posed by unconventional clinics, such as the Burzynski Clinic in Texas, has been a frustrating business. Leaving aside the direct threats from the clinic, it appears that such ventures attract followers with a religious zeal about what…
Burzynski in Court: Patient treated like a ‘Cash Machine’
by Andy Lewis • • 14 Comments
Dr Stanislaw Burzynski has some problems. His forthcoming hearing with the Texas Medical Board has been widely publicised. It would now appear that he has more immediate concerns. According to the Courthouse News Service, an elderly cancer patient is suing Burzynski for allegedly ”bilking…
Dr Hilary Jones Promotes Questionable Burzynski Clinic on TV
by Andy Lewis • • 29 Comments
There is a stark and inexplicable difference in how the mainstream media and bloggers have been covering the Texas based cancer clinic of Dr Stanislaw Burzynski. There has been an explosion of blog posts since the clinic starting threatening bloggers…
The Observer Responds – Complicity in Misinformation
by Andy Lewis • • 43 Comments
This morning, the Observer has responded to the large amount concern raised by its coverage of the Burzynski Clinic two weeks ago. The Observer told the story of how Peter Kay and other celebrities were raising huge sums of money…
Burzynski Clinic Issues a Statement
by Andy Lewis • • 27 Comments
What to make of the press release issued by the Burzynski Clinic? Well, the good news is that Marc Stephens, the PR man who threatened my family, has had his ‘professional relationship’ severed. In this statement, we find out that…
The Burzynski Clinic Threatens 17 Year Old Blogger
by Andy Lewis • • 22 Comments
I have been hinting that Burzynski has been threatening other prominent UK bloggers. Well, that blogger has now gone public. Rhys Morgan Rhys Morgan is a 17 year old schoolboy from Wales. He has a keen interest in quack remedies,…
The Burzynski Clinic Threatens My Family.
by Andy Lewis • • 174 Comments
Tonight, the entertainer Peter Kay will be performing the first of two special sell-out gigs in Blackpool to raise funds for a very poorly four-year old girl with brain cancer. The story of how this fundraising event came about was…
The False Hope of the Burzynski Clinic
by Andy Lewis • • 156 Comments
Yesterday’s Observer contained a full page, heart breaking story of a 4-year old girl, Billie Bainbridge, who has a inoperable and rare form of brain cancer, Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma. The only option for this aggressive cancer on the NHS…
