You have libelled many with your foolish conclusions and remarks.
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Quoted message said:Naturopath convicted (30/8/2003)
From The Millenium Project
http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles/On Friday, August 20, 2003, a jury in the Newcastle Supreme Court
(NSW, Australia) found naturopath Reg Fenn guilty of manslaughter over
the 1999 death of 18-day old Mitchell Little. Mitchell was born on
September 7, 1999. On September 16 he was diagnosed with critical
aortic stenosis - a narrowing of his aorta (the major artery out of
the heart to the rest of the body). We are always being told by the
media about the dire condition of our public hospitals and how long
patients have to wait for treatment, but corrective surgery for
Mitchell was scheduled for the next day in a major Sydney hospital and
ambulance transport was arranged to take the child the 200 kilometres
or so to the waiting surgeons. Doctors know how serious the condition
is, which is why the surgery was immediately arranged. They also know
how successful this particular surgical intervention is, and there was
no reason to suggest that Mitchell would have come out of the
operating theatre with worse prospects for a long life than any other
ten-day-old baby.Mitchell Little did not get that surgery, because a naturopath named
Reginald Fenn told Mitchell's parents that he could cure the child
with a magical Mora "radionic" machine and some drops of jojoba snake
oil. Mitchell died on September 25. To nobody's surprise, the reaction
of the alternative medicine industry was to close ranks and go into
denial mode. Articles have appeared in "natural health" magazines
(some as recent as this year) suggesting that the charges against Fenn
were just part of a witch hunt. I was told that he wasn't really a
naturopath (his business was the "Lake Macquarie Naturopathic Clinic"😉
and that he must have been inexperienced (he has been doing this for
at least 15 years). Another defence was that he is 74 years old. When
the people saying that were asked to comment on the fact that
alternative hero Linus Pauling only started pushing vitamin C at about
that age and that Hulda Clark is that old and is still inventing new
forms of quackery the silence was palpable.The ridiculous machines are still on sale and being recommended by
quackery supporters. Of course, the number of people "killed" by real
doctors was inevitably mentioned (complete with the usual lying,
fabricated or long-discredited statistics) as if mistakes by real
doctors can be used to justify the deliberate actions of people
committing fraud. What was never said is what can never be said - a
person with no medical knowledge used his ignorance and arrogance to
cause a needless death.The facts here are simple. There is no form of "alternative medicine"
that can expand a constricted artery, just as there is no
"alternative" cure for cancer or AIDS or for most of the other
diseases which quacks claim to be able to treat. While ever the
practitioners of alternative medicine refuse to accept that there are
limitations to the usefulness and effectiveness of their potions,
palliatives and placebos, tragedies like the death of Mitchell Little
will continue to happen. They keep using terms like "complementary" to
suggest that they really want to work alongside real doctors, but
whenever a problem with alternative medicine arises solidarity trumps
complementarity. Surely, the alternative medicine industry could not
be such an obvious house of cards that the exposure and elimination of
criminals, charlatans and incompetents would cause it to collapse. Or
could it? That's what the inhabitants seem to think.--
Peter Bowditch
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