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Bad Science 1 – Bad Medicine 0

Posted by richardelwes on September 15, 2008
Posted in: Bloggery, Crankishness, General Science, Politics.
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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