Comments on: Cancer quackery news: Stanislaw Burzynski threatens one of his own patients over website

By: C W

C W — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:51:00 +0000

Oh, it’s absolutely projection. If they admitted to any wrongdoing they’d simply reply with “but herbs are harmless, so what we’re doing is still net-positive!”

By: Robert Blaskiewicz

Robert Blaskiewicz — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:56:00 +0000

I have frustrating news. Burzynski’s people countered with a media blitz at Joe Mercola’s website, reposting an old story about him as if it were breaking news. They flooded the Burzynski hastag (I’d say by a factor of 20:1) . Please retweet this story, as it is fundamentally unfair that good info can be muted by nonsense.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:08:00 +0000

Anyone can issue anything that they want. That doesn’t mean that it has the force of law. And even the justice system does illegal things rather regularly.

By: smut clyde

smut clyde — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:07:00 +0000

Let me guess all these patients who praise Burzynski for saving their lives are:

Some of them are already dead.

Yes indeed, for some of the sockpuppet websites set up in the names of Burzynski patients to sing his praises and plead for donations to continue treatment, the patient turns out to be already dead.

By: Trololo_lololo

Trololo_lololo — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:25:00 +0000

Cuccoo! Cuccoo! Cuccoo!

Hi Marc… your writing style is easy to recognize.

By: Trololo_lololo

Trololo_lololo — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:21:00 +0000

Wait, is that the same nutcase who threatened a 15 year old kid in the UK for blogging about the Burzinsky fraud?

By: Geek Goddess

Geek Goddess — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:45:00 +0000

“Cease and Desist” orders are issued by judges, not clerks working for doctors

By: smut clyde

smut clyde — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 08:12:00 +0000

Xeni’s original post leaves something to be desired in the way of clarity, giving the impression that these are recent developments, rather than older outrages against decency that are only now coming to light.

One of the outrages is that although Marc Stephens was supposedly only a peripheral member of the Burzynski team at the time of the stalker behaviour for which he was later sacked, he seems to have had complete access to the purportedly confidential medical records of the patients whom he was harassing.

By: Matthew Cline

Matthew Cline — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:12:00 +0000

Oops, nevermind.

By: Wiki-Truths

Wiki-Truths — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:41:00 +0000

How about the kid that invented the test to find Pan Cancer (costs pennies) but will take 10 years to be approved by the FDA?

By: C W

C W — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:15:00 +0000

Ultimately, but any doubts they might have are mitigated by their career being built upon a shameful, loathsome lie.

By: C W

C W — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:11:00 +0000

All quacks are a mix of every single one of those. It works because he says it works and people repeat what he says and if people die, it doesn’t matter because someone says it works because he said it works.

By: C W

C W — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:10:00 +0000

“so Burzynski didn’t *necessarily* ask Marc to do this or approve of it”

Does the word “stooge” mean anything to you? Scientology-like actions are still skeevy.

By: C W

C W — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:09:00 +0000

It would be poetic, but I agree. Even if he makes a living off the extreme suffering of others and actively harms humans daily.

By: C W

C W — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:09:00 +0000

Clearly. This man would melt in a strong enough rain.

By: smut clyde

smut clyde — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:40:00 +0000

He was just giving orders!

By: Robert Blaskiewicz

Robert Blaskiewicz — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:34:00 +0000

He’s treating patients. Go to theotherburzynskipatientgroup.wordpress.com, and you will see that doctors routinely defer to Burzynski. I’d be stunned if his name showed up on his medical decisions, though.

By: blueprairie

blueprairie — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:27:00 +0000

I’ll take completely unethical for $500, Alex.

By: Snig

Snig — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:07:00 +0000

I wonder at the pathology. Does he really think it works, and is just in denial about its efficacy, or is he aware it doesn’t work, and just completely unethical?

By: His Shadow

His Shadow — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:01:00 +0000

The facile answer is that this is what you get when religious conservatives get to call the shots.

The more nuanced answer is that this is what you get when religious conservatives get to call the shots.

By: His Shadow

His Shadow — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:00:00 +0000

It’s all part of a nurturing environment where opinions all have the same weight and conflict sells, so utter and complete batshittery is “the other side of the argument”.

By: Beryl MacLachlan

Beryl MacLachlan — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 13:45:00 +0000

The Texas Medical Board deals with malpractice, not crimes, More to the point, the technicality was that the law is that he could not be disciplined for “treatment” carried out under his direction by staff. Because he personally did not treat patients, the Board couldn’t do anything. This is a very strange hole in the law, and can fairly be described as a technicality. A more detailed explanation of what happened is here:http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/11/26/significance-of-the-tmb-dismissal-case-against-burzynski/

By: smut clyde

smut clyde — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:45:00 +0000

Marc is currently a self-appointed defender of Burzynski

At the time of the events described here, he was a Burzynski-appointed defender of Burzynski.

By: Jonathan Cook

Jonathan Cook — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:36:00 +0000

As noted last time, the “technicality” is that apparently what Burzynski does isn’t actually a crime. Your use of “technicality” in this context does not become you. Burzynski is a grotesque asshat but the answer would appear to be changing Texas law to proscribe it.

By: Matthew Cline

Matthew Cline — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:02:00 +0000

To play devil’s advocate, if the one who sent the threatening letter is Marc Stephens, Marc is currently a self-appointed defender of Burzynski, so Burzynski didn’t *necessarily* ask Marc to do this or approve of it. Of course, if Burzynski merely issues a “he doesn’t speak for me or my clinic” statement without actually condemning the content of Marc’s letter…

By: Matthew Cline

Matthew Cline — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:58:00 +0000

*Is* that Marc Stephens? I mean, the big red arrows are certainly his style.

By: Lawrence McNamara

Lawrence McNamara — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:50:00 +0000

@CW – well, if you read the patient stories on that website – that seems exactly what Dr. B & his monstrous staff are doing. Charging tens of thousands of dollars for “treatments” – and sending them across state lines – making this a Federal situation – and showing ZERO results?

By: C W

C W — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 06:27:00 +0000

“how about he gets diagnosed with HypoBankAccountia”

Being poor is the worst thing these quacks could probably imagine for themselves, I agree. They’d murder their parents for a small amount of money.

By: C W

C W — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 06:26:00 +0000

Along with the Antivax movement, why is Texas such a hive of pseudoscience?

By: C W

C W — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 06:23:00 +0000

SCIENCE JUST WANTS TO PRESCRIBE DRUGS AND NOT CURE ALL CANCER ITZ SO SIMPLE