Prins Charles quacklover.

maart 10, 2009 door 12 reacties

We hebben er weer eentje. Een kwaklover. En niet de minste. Prince Charles of Wales is van het ontgiften. Met een tinctuurtje.
Een paar druppeljes paardenbloem en artisjokken-extract per dag en de troonpretendent hoopt langer te leven dan de Queen Mother. Kan ie na de opvolging ook ook nog een paar jaartjes op de troon zitten.

Edzard Ernst, ‘first professor of complementary medicine’, verklaart:

Prince Charles and his advisers seem to deliberately ignore science and prefer to rely on ‘make believe’ and superstition

Update: onderzoek ASA-

Prince Charles contributes to the ill health of the nation by pretending we can all overindulge, then take his tincture and be fine again. Under the banner of holistic and integrative health care he thus promotes a ‘quick fix’ and outright quackery.

Er is namelijk geen enkel bewijs voor te vinden dat ontgiften, en zeker door middeltjes als deze, nodig is om beter te functioneren.
Ons lichaam kan dat, op enkele uitzonderingen na, heel goed zelf.

Die uitzonderingen moeten gewoon naar de dokter.

Ernst bekritiseerde Charles al eerder in zijn boek ‘Trick or Treatment’.

Meer hierrr, hierrr en hierrrr.

Update:

Prince Charles’ Duchy Herbals brand is being investigated by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over claims made about its Detox Tincture product.

Hierrr

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12 Responses to Prins Charles quacklover.

  1. Da silva says:
    maart 10, 2009 om 10:45 pm

    Het is toch echt serieus te hopen dat hij de troon niet haalt,laat die “old bag” nog maar een tijdje zitten….
    Iemand die zegt”ik wil je tampon zijn” spoort in mijn ogen niet,
    God bless the queen!

  2. Da silva says:
    maart 11, 2009 om 11:37 am

    http://noorderlicht.vpro.nl/noorderlog/bericht/18318845/

    Vorige maand nog ontstond er een klein relletje omdat prins Charles weer eens openlijk zijn enthousiasme had beleden voor merkwaardige geneeswijzen. De Gersontherapie bijvoorbeeld, waarbij kankerpatiënten aanbevolen wordt dagelijks wortelsap te drinken, en een klisma te nemen. Met koffie.

  3. Da silva says:
    maart 11, 2009 om 11:37 am

    http://www.nieuwsblad.be/Article/Detail.aspx?articleID=g115hn8v

    Prins Charles lacht wellicht in zijn vuistje nu blijkt dat de organische voedingsproducten Duchy Originals, die hij 14 jaar geleden onder amper gesmoord gegrinnik van waarnemers op de markt bracht, vorig jaar anderhalf miljoen euro winst geboekt heeft.

  4. cryptocheilus says:
    maart 11, 2009 om 12:02 pm

    Ik krijg een foutmelding op die website.

    Misschien wel omdat ze daar een paar komma’s verkeerd hadden staan.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/4570778/Prince-Charles-is-victim-of-downturn-as-profits-fall-at-Duchy-Originals.html

  6. marer says:
    maart 31, 2009 om 6:41 pm

    Het wordt nog indrukwekkender als de planten terug blijken te praten!

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  8. jennyj0 says:
    november 1, 2009 om 10:50 pm

    Ja, die Charles, eet elke dag zijn bijdehandjes (helemaal organisch), vandaar dat hij altijd van die slimme dingen roept.
    😆
    Trouwens, hij is de laatste tijd weer lekker bezig:
    Prince Charles Mounts Bank: And dishes out free samples of his quackery to Health Secretary http://bit.ly/4ojsL4

  9. wilmamazone says:
    november 24, 2011 om 12:56 pm

    http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/the-prince-of-cam/

    The Prince of CAM

    Prince Charles is a big supporter of “natural” medicine, which in practice means unscientific and ineffective medicine. He has no particular expertise in this area, and there is absolutely no legitimate reason why he should have any influence over the practice of medicine in the UK. But he is the Prince of Wales, and he has chosen to use that celebrity to promote CAM.

    Prince Charles has also recently been………..

    eindquote:
    (..) Regarding the NCCAM he complained:

    One of the purposes of this center was to investigate and validate alternative approaches. Quite frankly, I must say publicly that it has fallen short. It think quite frankly that in this center and in the office previously before it, most of its focus has been on disproving things rather than seeking out and approving.

    We see here the exact same mentality as the Prince – the purpose of spending billions of dollars of tax payers money is not to find out if highly implausible methods work, but to demonstrate that they do work. Harkin does not seem to know how science works, and gives no evidence of caring. We find out which treatments work by designing studies capable of showing that they do not work. Only when a treatment passes through several well-designed studies do we begin to accept them as evidence-based. Harkin apparently wants his pet, the NCCAM, to spend our money to prove his highly dubious and unscientific ideology to be correct.

    There is a lesson here in the appropriate relationship between politics and science, and the harm that results when that relationship is abused.

  10. wilmamazone says:
    mei 18, 2012 om 6:16 am

    http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/prince-charles-alternative-medicine-charity-closes/

    Prince Charles Alternative Medicine Charity Closes

    The Princes Foundation for Integrated Health closed shop in 2010. Now the company that ran the foundation has officially closed. The foundation was a vanity project by Prince Charles, who had a soft spot for so-called alternative medicine and natural therapies. The foundation was established in 1993 and in the last 19 years has misinformed the public about CAM therapies, promoted nonsense like homeopathy, and has been an official royal seal of approval on the anti-science in medicine movement in the UK.

    In short the foundation was an excellent example of why political ideology should not interfere with the normal process of science. The website for the charity no longer exists, but this is what it said about it’s mission:………

  11. wilmamazone says:
    januari 24, 2013 om 10:59 pm

    Prins Charles kan zijn kwek weerus niet houden over kwak en Edzard Ernst is daar niet over te spreken. Met Prins Quack wordt het enkele reis terug naar de Middeleeuwen. Uiteraard zegt Ernst dat een heel stuk netter/sofisticated zeg maar:

    I don’t think anyone doubts that medicine needs improving. However, I do doubt that Charles’ vision of a “post-modern medicine” is the way to achieve improvement – in fact, I fear that is would lead us straight back to the dark ages.

  12. wilmamazone says:
    juni 6, 2015 om 6:58 pm

    Het blijft ‘lachen’ met Charles:
    http://edzardernst.com/2015/06/prince-charles-and-the-basic-laws-of-stupidity/

    Prince Charles and the basic laws of stupidity
    Published Saturday 06 June 2015

    Here are Cipolla’s 5 basic laws of stupidity:

    1. Always and inevitably each of us underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
    2. The probability that a given person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic possessed by that person.
    3. A person is stupid if they cause damage to another person or group of people without experiencing personal gain, or even worse causing damage to themselves in the process.
    4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the harmful potential of stupid people; they constantly forget that at any time anywhere, and in any circumstance, dealing with or associating themselves with stupid individuals invariably constitutes a costly error.
    5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person there is.

    How does Charles measure up against these criteria, I ask myself? Let’s go through the 5 ‘laws’ one by one.

    eindquote:

    CONCLUSION: FROM THIS BRIEF ANALYSIS, IT SEEMS AS THOUGH THE ‘FIVE BASIC LAWS OF STUPIDITY’ ARE CONFIRMED BY THE ACTIONS OF PRINCE CHARLES

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