Who is Todd Bollinger? A freaking CPA and bodybuilder. Oh, and a "best-selling author".
Ty Bollinger is a happily married husband and father, a CPA, health freedom advocate, cancer researcher, former competitive bodybuilder, talk radio host, and best-selling author.
Based on my viewing of episode 1 of his docu-series, I am convinced that Bollinger does have the cancer research skills one might develop in CPA training, a happy marriage, and from bodybuilding—perhaps supplemented by a “University of Google” degree like the one
Jenny McCarthy told Oprah she has. The description of Bollinger continues:
After losing several family members to cancer (including his mother and father), Ty refused to accept the notion that chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery were the most effective treatments available for cancer patients. He began a quest to learn all he possibly could about alternative cancer treatments and the medical industry. What he uncovered was shocking.
A quest begun with a refusal to accept standard treatments as the best available looks like a quest to support a predetermined conclusion, not a quest to search for the truth based on an open-minded, unbiased analysis of the evidence.
Referring to a treatment as “alternative” does not make it a
viable alternative. John E. Dodes and Marvin Schissel put it
this way: “Erythromycin is an alternative to penicillin, but a pogo stick is not an alternative to an automobile.”
I watched the 68-minute Episode 1 and noted numerous false and misleading assertions from the 25 featured doctors, scientists, and survivors. Most of the people interviewed for the 11 episodes of the docu-series appeared in Episode 1.
The first episode includes unfair criticisms of modern medicine, medical education, and the pharmaceutical industry; promotion of homeopathy; misinformation about the nature and causes of cancer; misinformation about cancer morbidity and mortality trends; and the misleading health freedom argument. Do I really need to watch more of these episodes?
The people Bollinger interviewed are not the world’s leading doctors, but infamous characters whose non-science-based views are notorious. I was only too familiar with many of the names:
Matthias Rath,
Mike “Health Ranger” Adams,
Joseph Mercola,
Jonathan Wright,
Rashid Buttar,
Russell Blaylock,
Stanislaw Burzynski, and
Tullio Simoncini. I will restrain myself and simply say these individuals are not reliable sources of health information. Others I was not familiar with, but they included “cancer conquerors” (patients with testimonials), journalists, chiropractors, naturopaths, integrative medicine practitioners, and operators of cancer clinics in Tijuana. He couldn’t have picked a more biased sample.
He didn’t interview people like Siddhartha Mukherjee (the author of The Emperor of All Maladies), oncologists, or cancer researchers.
Source: ScienceBasedMedicine.org - “The Truth About Cancer” Series Is Untruthful About Cancer
I think it is wrong of you to prey on people in a cancer forum with this bogus anti-medicine quackery. Shame on you for going after vulnerable people. Really, you should put this garbage in the
not here. Even if you are gullible, naive or foolish enough to believe in this woo, trying to persuade people to forego their doctor's advice is just wrong.
