Un-bloody-believable medical fraud
There are frauds which cost people their life savings or their marriage or their self respect.
Then there are downright dangerous medical frauds which can not only cost their victims money, but their health.
Here's a prime example of a U.K based lowlife fraudster claiming to be able to "cure" three of main causes of permanent blindness: cataracts, glaucoma and macular degeneration with his hocus pocus "magic drops"
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ethos B website
And here's the fraudster behind it:
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Peter Aldred website
Peter Aldred @ethospete on Twitter making the same dangerous claims
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Again on Twitter, this time as @cataractdrops
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Peter Aldred tries appearing legitimate on his EthosBank page on LinkedIn
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Re: Un-bloody-believable medical fraud
Interesting he didn't lump diabetes in there.
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Wow, they did "successful TV Show trials". Now we can take them "seriously".
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There has been a study that suggests that NAC (in this case, N acetyl carnosine, not n acetyl cysteine) drops improves vision for people with cataracts. Is it a wonder treatment as is claimed? Not bloody likely:
Efficacy of N-acetylcarnosine in the treatment of ... [Drugs R D. 2002] - PubMed - NCBI