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Breast Cancer Is a Misdiagnosis by Danny Carroll
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I've had bc and another cancer twice and dealing with quack advice from self centered people is one of the toughest parts- these same people also won't actually support you with things you actually need. The anti semitism on top is just a wild level of fcked up."
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Breast Cancer Is a Misdiagnosis by Danny Carroll
"copy pasting someone else's review because this shit (referring to the book) should be removed.

the review I'm copy pasting says it all:

A little bit of an interesting rabbit hole to go into after reading the author's bio.


He [this author, Danny Carroll] discovered a new body of medical knowledge called Germanic Healing Knowledge, or Germanic New Medicine, developed by a German medical doctor named Ryke Geerd Hamer.


According to Hamer's Wikipedia page, he was a German doctor who had his medical license revoked in 1986 for malpractice and had been imprisoned for medical malpractice and fraud in Germany and France. There's also a decent sized section of his Wikipedia page related to Hamer's anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that modern medicine is supposed to "decimate non-Jews" and how Hamer has repeated claims made by literal Nazi officials.

From Hamer's Wiki page:

"More precisely, Hamer asserted that chemotherapy and morphine are used to "mass murder" Western civilization, while falsely alleging that such treatments are not used in Israel. Hamer promoted the idea that most German oncologists are Jewish and that "no Jew is treated with chemotherapy in Germany." According to him, hypodermic needles are used during chemotherapy to implant "chips" containing "chambers of poison" that can be activated by satellite to specifically kill patients... Hamer also believed that the denial of recognition of his theories and the revocation of his practitioner's licence were due to a Jewish conspiracy."

"In 2008, Hamer presented a document where a supposed rabbi, "Esra" Iwan Götz, confirmed the existence of a conspiracy among Jewish oncologists to use the "torture" of chemotherapy on all non-Jewish patients, while Jewish patients were to receive the "correct" treatment of GNM. Götz, a German holocaust denier active in the German Reich revivalism scene, has been repeatedly convicted by German courts for fraud, defamation, misuse of academic titles (the title "Chief Rabbi" is not legally protected in Germany), and the falsification of documents, among others."

Now, I don't know if ya boi Danny is racist, and I'm not going to say that he's a literal Nazi, since I have no proof of this. But to name drop a quack doctor, who is obviously a huge antisemite, as your starting point for your "dIsCoVeRy" of a "nEw BoDy Of MeDiCaL kNoWlEdGe" focusing on how "chemotherapy is a scam" and "beast cancer is a misdiagnosis", at minimum, should raise eyebrows. We should be asking if Danny is ignorant of this (which would be wild since it only took looking at Wikipedia for a few minutes) or if he's intentionally obfuscating the fact that this junk comes from a person whose "mEdIcAl oPiNiOnS" were motivated by racial hatred.

Putting all of that aside, what is Hamer's super cool method of treating cancer (which seems to be what Danny is espousing since his last book is self-described as "a step-by-step resource guide, including a list of Germanic New Medicine (GNM)/Germanische Heilkunde (GHk) consultants and educational materials")?

According to the Swiss health authorities who looked into this:

"...the Hamer method of «New Medicine» presumes that the cure for cancer depends upon the patients’ resolving their personal conflicts. This could give rise to the erroneous assumption that the disease will progress if they do not make a large enough contribution towards the resolution of their conflicts..."

"At the treatment sessions, it is stated, efforts are made to find the alleged underlying conflict. Depending on the case, this could take anything from ten minutes to several hours. For most patients, the treatment would require only a single session."

It's all about vibes. Cancer is just a manifestation of psychological trauma and all that you need to do to "treat" cancer is to have a nice chat with somebody for 10 minutes or something and you're good. It's no wonder that the Swiss authorities noted that:

"...an investigation by the authorities in Germany, stating that out of 50 cancer
patients who have passed through Hamer's care only seven have survived."

Danny's website, which is linked in his bio, claims an "85% success rate" for curing cancer while the available evidence is that 86% of Hamer's "patients" using his method of "care" died.
I'll conclude with a sentence from the Swiss authorities:

"We believe that the method promoted by Hamer is dangerous, especially as it lulls the patients into a false sense of security so that they are deprived of other effective treatments."

To conclude, this whole thing is total trash and is at best toilet paper. Don't buy this "book" and don't attempt this shitty "method" of care cooked up by a quack doctor who echoed literal Nazi talking points."
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Breast Cancer Is a Misdiagnosis by Danny Carroll
"The claims made in this book are dangerous for several critical reasons:

*Rejection of Proven Medical Treatments: Conventional medical treatments for breast cancer, such as surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormone therapy, and targeted therapy, are evidence-based and have undergone rigorous scientific testing and clinical trials. They have significantly improved survival rates and quality of life for countless breast cancer patients. Suggesting these are obsolete or unnecessary can lead individuals to forgo life-saving treatments.

*Lack of Scientific Evidence: German New Medicine, also known as Germanic Healing Knowledge, is widely regarded as a PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC theory by the mainstream medical and scientific communities. Its claims are not supported by peer-reviewed scientific research or clinical trials, and many of its core tenets contradict established biological and medical understanding of cancer.

*Fatal Delay in Treatment: Believing that cancer is merely a "survival program" or a "misdiagnosis" and rejecting conventional treatment can lead to critical delays in receiving adequate care. Breast cancer, if left untreated or inadequately treated, can progress, metastasize (spread to other parts of the body), and become much more difficult, if not impossible, to cure.

*Misinformation and False Hope: Promoting unproven theories as alternatives to established medical science can spread dangerous misinformation and give false hope to vulnerable individuals facing a life-threatening diagnosis. This can lead to emotional distress, financial exploitation, and ultimately, tragic outcomes.

*Ethical Concerns: Advising individuals to disregard a medical diagnosis and conventional treatment based on unproven theories raises grave ethical concerns, especially when the consequences can be fatal.

For those unaware of what pseudoscientific theory means: it is a set of beliefs, practices, or statements that claim to be scientific and factual but lack the rigorous empirical support, testability, and adherence to the scientific method that characterize genuine science. The prefix "pseudo" means "false" or "fake," so it literally means "false science." Here are some key characteristics that often distinguish pseudoscientific theories from legitimate scientific ones:

*A truly scientific theory must be able to be proven wrong through observation or experimentation. Pseudoscientific claims are often vague, unfalsifiable, or protected by ad hoc explanations (excuses made up after the fact to explain away contradictory evidence). If no evidence could ever disprove a claim, it's not scientific.

*Reliance on Anecdotes and Testimonials: Instead of controlled studies, pseudoscientific theories heavily rely on personal stories, individual experiences, and testimonials as "proof." While these can be compelling, they are not reliable evidence because they lack control groups, blinding, and other measures to rule out bias and other factors.

*Absence of Peer Review and Openness to Criticism: Scientific findings are subjected to rigorous peer review by other experts in the field before publication. Pseudoscientific theories often bypass this process, are published in non-scientific outlets, and are resistant to critical evaluation or replication by independent researchers.

*Lack of Progress and Self-Correction: 카지노싸이트 is constantly evolving and self-correcting as new evidence emerges. Pseudoscientific theories tend to be stagnant, holding onto their core beliefs even when confronted with contradictory evidence. They rarely show genuine intellectual ferment or develop new insights.

*Vague, Exaggerated, or Untestable Claims: Pseudoscientific theories often make grandiose claims that are either too imprecise to be tested or are so extraordinary that they would require equally remarkable evidence, which is never provided.

*Conspiratorial Thinking: Proponents of pseudoscientific theories often claim that mainstream science, "Big Pharma," or other "establishments" are suppressing their discoveries due to financial motives or a desire to maintain the status quo. This helps to explain away the lack of acceptance from the scientific community.

*Lack of Mechanistic Explanations: While science seeks to understand how things work through detailed mechanisms, pseudoscientific theories often lack plausible explanations for their claimed effects.

*Selectivity in Evidence (Confirmation Bias): Pseudoscientists tend to focus only on evidence that supports their beliefs and ignore or dismiss any evidence that contradicts them.

Do not consider this book credible."
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