Bad Science 1 - Bad Medicine 0
15th September, 2008
The Guardian has won its legal battle against Matthias Rath - a vitamin-magnate who told desperate South Africans that his pills could cure AIDS, while “so-called anti-retroviral… drugs severely damage all cells in the body - including white blood cells - thereby not improving but rather worsening immune deficiencies and expanding the AIDS epidemic.” Ben Glodacre of Bad Science - who wrote the piece in the Graun that attracted Rath’s unsuccessful lawsuit - is justifiably pleased and proud. Meanwhile Rath is doubtless spitting mad, and hopefully, shortly, bust.
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