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-----Original Message----- From: Catherine Creel [mailto:ccr...@maine.rr.com] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 1:44 AM To: cancerc...@yahoogroups.com Subject: CS>online discussion with Barrett on Friday, Jan. 25, at 1 p.m. ET. I thought some of you might be interested in this. Unfortunately, I think questions he doesn't like will never make it to the public---Catherine http://abcnews.go.com/sections/community/DailyNews/Community_Index.html#chat Fighting Medical Fraud For 30 years, Dr. Stephen Barrett has been monitoring alternative therapies, cataloguing what he says are bogus treatments. How can health consumers distinguish fact from fallacy? Join Barrett in a live chat Friday at 1 p.m. ET. Send in a question! Quiz a Quackbuster Dr. Stephen Barrett on Health Fraud Dr. Stephen Barrett More than 1 million Americans are diagnosed with cancer every year and studies suggest that many of them explore alternative therapies. But do the treatments actually work? "I wish the word 'alternative' would go away. It's quack cancer therapy," says consumer advocate Dr. Stephen Barrett, founder of Quackwatch.com, a nonprofit organization designed to protect consumers from health-related scams. "Most people think that quackery is easy to spot," says Barrett. "Often it is not. Its promoters wear the cloak of science. They use scientific terms and quote - or misquote - scientific references." How can health consumers distinguish fact from fallacy? Watch Primetime Thursday, Jan. 24, at 10 p.m. ET and join our online discussion with Barrett on Friday, Jan. 25, at 1 p.m. ET. Barrett, a retired psychiatrist, is vice president of the National Council Against Health Fraud and a scientific adviser to the American Council on Science and Health. In 1984, he received an FDA Commissioner's Special Citation Award for Public Service in fighting nutrition quackery. He has written 49 books on health fraud. -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
