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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday May 27 2018, @02:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the bye-bye-license dept.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/doctor-slammed-by-med-board-for-selling-5-homeopathic-sound-waves-for-ebola/

The California medical board is threatening to revoke the license of Dr. William Edwin Gray III for selling homeopathic sound files over the Internet that he claims—without evidence or reason—can cure a variety of ailments, including life-threatening infections such as Ebola, SARS, swine flu, malaria, typhoid, and cholera.

If that can cure me of my old age too, I'm all game! Which button must I press?


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Monday May 28 2018, @01:34PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday May 28 2018, @01:34PM (#685120)

    Must be fast service to save cholera victims...

    Which brings up the next point that for most of the listed diseases all you can do to treat them is make the victim and especially the victim's family feel better and in that sense its no ripoff at all.

    Most of the slapdown is essentially bill cramming as a semi-fraud. Say you're terminally ill and just chillin or in chemo or something, and the doc offers you a religious phamplet or some pr0n or whatever and says hope you feel better. Thats OK. Next level is saying this Jesus tract or pr0n mag isn't going to buy itself and if you want to toss a fiver in the collection basket on the way out I'm not gonna stop you. Next level up which is getting massive negative coverage, is a line item on the insurance bill or CC charge for Jesus phamphlet or pr0n mag.

    This is also perilously close to entertainment piped into MRI machines. All you need is a doc suggesting that maybe Bach is more relaxing for cancer patients whereas Beethoven is more relaxing for stoke patients and by the way if you didn't bring your own phone you can rent music for $5 and oh shit its on "doctor prescribes classical music to cure cancer board recommends burning at stake and cancelling license" When the real problem is blurring the lines of "this is a formal medical procedure" with "this might make you feel better about the whole dying thing" and BTW here is a $5 insurance charge for it.

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