FDA warns doctor: Stop touting camera as disease screening tool (Mercola)

[uppityperson]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/ct-met-fda-warns-mercola-20110425,0,7369962.story

(clip) Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent the osteopathic physician a warning letter accusing him of violating federal law by marketing the Med2000 for uses not approved by the federal agency.

The letter is the third since 2005 for Mercola, whose online empire draws traffic that places it in the top 400 websites nationally. He offers thermography through his Natural Health Center in Hoffman Estates.
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Breast thermograms cost around $200, with full-body scans costing about $350. Many insurance providers rarely if ever cover thermography, considering it to be experimental and unproven.

The American Cancer Society states that "no study has ever shown that it is an effective screening tool for finding breast cancer early. It should not be used as a substitute for mammograms."...

[MineralMan]

1. Quack, quack...

Mercola takes another shot. Good.

[hlthe2b]

2. Ariana just "LOVE" this quack...

Among the many sources of BS and propaganda she is pushing on (her once)readers.

[MineralMan]

3. Yup. He's a regular on Huff Poo.

Anti-vaxxer, too. He's an all-arounder.

[HuckleB]

4. Interesting trend at DU.

This OP is getting unrecced down, while the crap OP using Mercola as a source is getting recced up.

YIKES.

[laconicsax]

5. You forget the governing principle of the Health forum.

"The plural of anecdote is data."

[HuckleB]

6. Who needs plural?

Clearly, an anecdote is data, at least according to the latest poster who pushed a supposed question in order to push the usual scam agenda.