I would like to state categorically that:
Christopher Maloney is a quack.
I would also like to say to WordPress, shame on you. Suspending a blog for calling a fucking moron a fucking moron is ridiculous. Epic fail guys, epic fail.
http://withoutapologyinmaine.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/ftsos-fiasco/
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/02/christopher_maloney_is_a_quack.php
http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/view/letters/7209347.html
So, like, now that I’ve said it, should I be making backups of my posts, getting ready to migrate back to Blogger? Fail.
Dear “Reverend” PZ Meyers,
How fitting that, three hundred years later, the witch trials continue. If you recall, it was the herbalists that were burned then as well. Your flock has spoken to me, Reverend Meyers, with the shrieking common to all fundamentalist cults. I believe if you check you will find that fundamentalism involves a closed mind while doing science requires an open mind. It also involves a thing they call research.
Do you do basic research into a person’s claims before posting? Did you perhaps go to medline and type the words “elderberry” and “H1N1”? Did you even bother to read my original editorial that cites Cochrane database and CDC raw data? If you had done basic research or contacted me directly you would perhaps not have posted lies in your blog.
You can call me an idiot and a quack, but when you repeat the “fact” that I am not a doctor and not qualified, that is a written lie or libel. I am a doctor under Maine state law and meet the qualifications of that title.
In terms of poor maligned elderberry, the medline citation is “The H1N1 inhibition activities of the elderberry flavonoids compare favorably to the known anti-influenza activities of Oseltamivir (Tamiflu; 0.32 microM) and Amantadine (27 microM). (Phytochemistry. 2009 Jul;70(10):1255-61) While this is a test tube study only, please keep in mind that we had no vaccine and were at the peak of the pandemic here in Maine. I never suggested elderberry as a vaccination but as a possible home treatment for sick children.
Michael Hawkins is an undergraduate at UMA who replied to my editorial. His rambling editorial was not based on science or research, but his need to publicize himself. After failing to get an editorial published against God he decided I was, flatteringly, next on the list. All of the research and medline citations for my editorial are available under swine flu on my website, and were there for Mr. Hawkins to simply see. But, despite the reality that I practice evidence-based medicine, neither you nor Mr. Hawkins have ever bothered to read my site.
Mr. Hawkins managed to get his own website suspended by arguing with his server about what constitutes libel and blames me. I have never directly contacted WordPress about him and I have never replied to either his hate posts or his email attacks on me personally. In doing my own research, I found that another individual is in the process of filing a lawsuit against Mr. Hawkins and requested that the individual write to Mr. Hawkins directly. It was this other individual in South Carolina, and not me, that helped Mr. Hawkins get himself kicked off. Since Mr. Hawkins has received that email today, I believe that your case against me as an enemy of free speech should be re-examined.
It terms of his accusations against me that you have posted on your blog, I have taken the time to answer them at length and with scientific citations on my website: http://www.maloneymedical.com. I am also in the process of creating a more tolerable Youtube video for your flock.
Thank you, Reverend Myers, for burning me without trial. It’s nice to know some things never change.
Christopher Maloney, N.D.
This isn’t PZ’s blog, why do you think spamming your dribble here will have an effect @ Pharyngula?
Never mind, forgot you’re an idiot.
Thanks Seamus
It certainly is an idiot.
Chris,
You have no more right to only call yourself “doctor” than a witch doctor does. You are not a physician.
Stop whining and go learn some science. Find out why naturopaths are held in such low esteem by scientists.
I searched for ‘elderberry’ and ‘h1n1′ on MedLine, which returned a single result from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (a part of the NIH). Alas, the NCCAM’s domain is no longer active. I did read this little bit about NCCAM on Wiki, though:
With the OAM’s increasing budget in the 1990s, the Office drew increasing criticism for disdaining the scientific study of alternative approaches in favor of uncritical boosterism. Paul Berg, a Nobel laureate in chemistry, wrote to the Senate that “Quackery will always prey on the gullible and uninformed, but we should not provide it with cover from the N.I.H.” Allen Bromley, then president of the American Physical Society, similarly wrote to Congress that the OAM had “emerged as an undiscriminate advocate of unconventional medicine. It has bestowed the considerable prestige of the NIH on a variety of highly dubious practices, some of which clearly violate basic laws of physics and more clearly resemble witchcraft.” A New York Times editorial described the OAM as “Tom Harkin’s folly”.
You can read all about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCCAM
http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=1618#more-1618
Wow, “it”. I don’t even have a gender. It must be nice to live in “nazi think” where the people you attack don’t even count as human beings.
It’s bad enough that you engage in thoughtless parroting of a false God, but don’t complain when I follow his lies to your minion page.
If you haven’t noticed, you were wrong. But I suppose the truth never mattered to the Nazis either. Heil, furious llama.
Ah Chris, to be fair, I suppose I did start the name calling, though I don’t think ‘Quack’ is on the same level as ‘Nazi’ unless your ‘treatment’ has actually killed somebody. Has it?
Thoughtless? Hm, perhaps to those who are thoughtless, this may indeed seem like parroting. You have to accept through that when you sell snake oil and have a shit fit when somebody criticises you, there are going to be other who also criticise you.
Anything in particular I was wrong about?
“But I suppose the truth never mattered to” religionuts, altmediots and Christopher Maloney. Seems to fit rather well in that context.
Another thing, it’s quite OK for you to post your angry little rants here since I know people like you get taken to pieces on my “god’s” (heh) blog. Feel free to say whatever you like buddy
Just stop lying to yourself and other people. It’s just not right:
Save a sheep, love a llama.
Chris,
Why do you call science a false god? Why do you reject science?
why is it that woomeisters and creationists, in fact most denialists as well, tend to call all those that call them on their bullshit nazis?
Is it simple regression?