BBC News: Warning over untested web 'cures'
 

Warning over untested web 'cures'

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Arthritis sufferer Daniella Muallem's experience of using alternative remedies

Leading medical experts are warning patients against using untested remedies advertised on the internet which, they say, sell "false hope".

The group, backed by charity Sense About Science, says vulnerable people are being increasingly exploited by the online promotion of such treatments.

Many untested remedies are expensive and do not work, and are often based on "unreliable" evidence, the experts say.

Creepy figures in the shadows
 

While I'm sure that all the deaths from the tested medicines from the local pharmacy were covered, I think it is more interesting to consider the source Sense About Science. A few seconds with google shows them to be a bunch of right wing loonies led by two former PR flacks backed by big corporate donors to promote GM crops. One from the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/...reducation.uk2

Testing and other questionable methods....
 

I subscribe to the "three flags" method of determining what may be of valu to me and my PD. If one source tells me something works, or would/could benefit me, thenn within a few days a totally unrelated sourcw seems to tell me something that supports the first source, I start to pay attention. If a third source verifies what I'm hearing I have learned to sit up and evaluate it for myself. The use of common sense is sometimes of valu also.

Keep your head down and your chin up....and you'll be fine. :)