I was at our local chain bookstore tonight, picking up some
Solzhenitsyn, when I found myself wandering through the Humor...uh,
"alternative Health"...aisle. Whose name did I see on the binding of
a book? Your favorite nutjob and mine, Hulda Clark: The Cure for All
Diseases.
As I had a little time to kill, I decided to sit in one of the comfy
overstuffed chairs supplied for casual browsers.
This book is a "laff-riot", "I howled until I thought I was going to
pee my pants!", "Move over, Carrot Top, there's a new funny (wo)man on
the circuit!" -- should have read the blurbs on the back cover.
Just a few of the gems I found by randomly flipping through the first
150 pages or so:
1) Benzene causes AIDS. (p36)
2) Male pattern baldness is caused by an allergic reaction to nickel
in scalp sweat. (p126)
3) You CAN'T get the HIV virus unless you already have F. buskii.
(p150)
4) In a chapter on pain, she has this to say about chest pain: Chest
pain is caused by
a) an allergic reaction
b) esophageal spasms from trapped gallstones
c) AIDS
d) benzene
e) radon...
....not a single word about cardiac origins of chest pain, and she even
describes the above as being causes of chest pain that feels like
pressure and radiates up into the neck. Her recommended "treatment"
is to drink Epsom salts or take Valerian. (pp149-150)
Particularly regarding #4, is there anyone here who wouldn't describe
it as the MALpractice of medicine if someone (without a medical
license, but who calls herself "Dr. Clark"😉 told a chest pain sufferer
that all they had was a trapped gallstone and all they need do is
drink some Epsom salts?
Can there be any question that this is a dangerous, deluded woman? No
WONDER she's even been kicked out of Tijuana.
Mark, MD