Sure, if you don’t mind. I don’t do Facebook.

See, even if we diasgree us Canadians can be polite and cordial…

@Marc Stephens

No But do you want me to ask them on Facebook what the heck is going on?

Thanks Marg. Nothing you can do to distance heal the website?

@Marc Stephens

They have a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/the21stfloor/info

But when I tried to get to their website through the FB page, it was unknown.

@Narad

The invocation merely indicates that you are completely unable to summon a single thoughtful comment on the subject of law and probably wouldn’t be able to recognize one even if it dropped out of the sky scrawled on a 16-ton weight.

I guess his ‘thoughtful’ comment about the law was reserved for me, and his insightful insistence that all non-native Australians are descended from criminals.

@Narad
Different animal.

HDB,

Did you ever read “The Scientist Speculates”, I. J. Good’s compilation of what he called “partly-baked ideas”?

No, but I shall make a point of seeking out a copy, thanks.

Just an aside, but is anyone having problems accessing The 21st Floor site? It’s been gone for close to a week, at least on my computer.All I get is a message that says “no site configured at this address”.The URL is fine and I get the message no matterhow I try to access.

I’ve become hooked on The 21st Floor along with RI. Keir Liddle does a great job keeping the magnifying glass on Burzynski and his adventures. He also covers a lot of cult-related woo: Steiner, Hubbard, exorcists, messianic doomsday cults, all that stuff.

Narad, Black’s Law Dictionary is impressive because the Gub-ment has gone after SRB numerous times, and if their lawyers knew how to practice law, then SRB wouldn’t be where he is today if they knew how to do legal research, discovery, depositions, and present a compelling case.

No, sorry. The invocation merely indicates that you are completely unable to summon a single thoughtful comment on the subject of law and probably wouldn’t be able to recognize one even if it dropped out of the sky scrawled on a 16-ton weight. (Actually, given that you did it twice in one text-evacuation, “incantation” might be a better choice of words.)

Fritz Albert Popp is finding some support at MIT for his theories on biophotons.

Michael Persinger has moved on from experiments with magenetic-field cerebral stimulation that no-one can replicate, to researching the “hypothesis that photons released from chemical processes within the brain produce biophysical pictures during visual imagery”.
http://5mp.eu/fajlok2/bokkon-brain-imagery/dotta_et_al_2012_www.5mp.eu_.pdf

Last I heard, he had moved on again (non-replication might have been an issue) and was exploring the parallel between nerve axons and lightning strikes.

Burzynski is a fraud,
MarkL left out the word “convicted”.

Hey, Marg, quick, what’s the effective distance scale and flux reported by Mayburov in this conference presentation? Hint: Seriously fails to help Bengston.

Personally I love the SSE, it ranges from fascinating to hilarious to infuriating; I have read almost all the on-line issues of Edge Science, and enjoyed them in the same way I enjoy Medical Hypotheses, or Fortean Times.

Did you ever read “The Scientist Speculates”, I. J. Good’s compilation of what he called “partly-baked ideas”? It was part of my adolescent introduction to the fact that playing with concepts is both legal and fun.

I find it hilarious that the NG ad server is posting all kinds of ads for medical malpractice lawyers on this page! The ad server picks up the context of the discussion and serves up the ads it deems germane to the subject. (Like the MMS banner ads that popped up on the MMS thread, or the alkaline water machine ads I see here all the time.) Except it’s ironic in this case.

I wonder how much Stan pays for malpractice insurance. Oh, right, probably nothing, as he doesn’t treat or see patients based on this TMB ruling.

He will throw his own staff under the bus if push comes to shove, though. They all must carry huge coverage.

I wonder if anyone has ever tried the medical malpractice route with Stan or do his waivers protect him from liability?

Fritz Albert Popp is finding some support at MIT for his theories on biophotons.

Did you read the blog post? it talked about a single set of experiments performed by Sergey Mayburov at the Lebedev Institute of Physics in Moscow and his interpretation of said results. The notion that cells can emit photons is not outrageous – cells produce all kinds of chemical reactions, some of these can emit energy in the form of photons or heat. We certainly know of cells that react to photons and produce an effect (such as tanning, vision, or photosynthesis). I find the notion that photons emitted and received by cells are a form of intercellular communications is speculative at best, but if there’s sufficient evidence then it would be an interesting finding.

Still doesn’t mean that there’s evidence that someone can control their emissions of photons, direct them to an individual, and use them to communicate with that individual’s cells in order to heal. But if you’ve got evidence, it’s something to consider.

MarkL:

Chris merely requested that you fulfill the basic minimum requirement for arguing in support of the brave maverick – that you provide real evidence to support your argument.

Is he still going on about me? I haven’t noticed because part of ignoring the troll is to just scroll past his screeds.

I can just assume he has not posted the one Burzynski paper that shows clinical trial results that are as good as a conventional cancer treatment like Gleevec, with direct quotes clearly explaining the results. The latter being proof he actually read the paper he is citing.

This kind of listing is an example of what’s on that CanCure website. There are dozens of listings under “Directory of Clinics”.

This ND (NOT a doctor) offers a Costco approach to cancer, and it’s not even the prime focus of his clinic!

It’s also nice to know he believes in the scientology sauna crap for detoxification. That’s what the reference to Hubbard is at the end. I wouldn’t be surprised if this crackpot is a scientologist himself. A lot of chiropractors, alternative healers and dentists are drawn to the cult and are in fact targeted.

The First Resort in Green Valley, AZ is run by Bryan McConnell, ND. It is mostly a general practice, but he does treat cancer using a variety of approaches. He uses IV vit C, IPT, diet, exercise, colon hydrotherapy, detox, cleansing, chelation, EDTA, trained in Gerson and other diet programs, juicing, classical homeopathy, darkfield microscope, hoxsey, essiac, bio-oxidative therapies, constitutional hydrotherapy, hydrazine sulfate, Poly MVA for cancer cytotoxic action, DMSO, and dry sauna similar to Hubbard protocol. Call 877- 399-9212 or 520 399-9212. http://www.thefirstresortaz.com/

Speaking as a conference organizer, getting continuing education credits for RNs involves paying a whacking big fee to the accreditation agency and making sure that all your paperwork is submitted on time. Our last attempt was awarded 6.25 RN credits. And EMT, Social Worker, CHES and LPC/LCPC’s as well, for the same workshops.

I taught one of them and it was most definitely not rocket science.

MD credits are more expensive and a little more complicated, but not much.

Fritz Albert Popp is finding some support at MIT for his theories on biophotons.

Heh. Marg, the “MIT Technology Review” in its current form is not exactly a house organ of MIT.

Oh what do you know! I am currently being moderated for a non-ultralong post ( no links, no verboten language) about the so-called promise of curcumin, anti-cancer mushrooms and red fruits for arthritis. At any rate, I’ve been hearing and reading about these for a LONG time and so far, no real results. I guess that this being discussed in a post about Dr B is apropo.

I’m trying to find the schedule and list of speakers from that alternative Mexican cancer clinic seminar. If I remember, it was a multi-day event and CE credits for nurses increased the more days one attended. I remember at the time several of the health professionals here posted to express their outrage that this event was being legitimized with CE credits.

I believe it was run by these charlatans:

http://www.cancure.org/links.htm

By the way, if Orac is ever stuck for inspiration for subject matter, the “links” here could provide fodder for several posts, especially the Supplements, Herbs and Immune Support category which lists tools to combat EMF, a special coffee blend endorsed by Gerson to squirt up you-know-where, and a psychologist who uses her Siamese cat to help cancer patients.

Although Burzynski isn’t part of this merry little gang, one day when he’s banished from the US he might have to set up next to Hulda Clark’s and the Gersons’ little shops of horrors in Tijuana.

This Cancure site was one of the first I discovered when I fell into the world of quack-watching, and it’s still one of the worst examples of scumbaggery. You can spend a couple of hours there getting more and more angry and frustrated. It’s like a general clearing house, or portal, into dozens of useless, dangerous, expensive “treatments” being sold to desperate and unwitting people.

Oh, and fun referring to the scientists in What the Bleep. You might want to ask them what they think of the movie.

Indeed, this attempt at coattail-riding screamed out not bothering to think about how to handle the petard.

And then of course there’s my buddy Sheldrake:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-rupert-sheldrake/why-bad-science-is-like-bad-religion_b_2200597.html?utm_hp_ref=religion

Fritz Albert Popp is finding some support at MIT for his theories on biophotons.

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/427982/biophoton-communication-can-cells-talk-using-light/?ref=rss

@Gingerbaker – I’d love to believe that’s true.