Posted on 10/29/2015 2:33:02 PM PDT by conservativejoy
Even as Dr. Ben Carson touts his medical expertise as a qualification in his candidacy for President, he is stuck having to explain why he once claimed that his prostate cancer had been cured by a junk science supplement consisting of aloe vera and tree bark. Carson, who has rejected most modern scientific principles during his campaign as he is rejected climate change and other basics, has been caught on video making the claims as part of a pyramid scheme promoting the supplement , even as he denied any connection during the third republican debate.
In what might be the strangest story yet about the seemingly strangest candidate in the 2016 race, YouTube footage has surfaced from 2004 in which Ben Carson tells a group of sales associates for a dietary supplement called Mannatech that after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, he began taking the supplement and 'within about three weeks my symptoms went away.' It must not have worked that well, as Carson later had surgery to remove the cancer.
It should be pointed out that Carson is a retired medical doctor and brain surgeon, and would seemingly be the last Presidential candidate to be willing to participate in such a junk-medicine pyramid scheme. However the video in question plays up his doctor credentials as a way of giving credence to the supplement in question. Watch the video of Ben Carson claiming that tree bark cured his cancer here:
Of course it didn’t work. It’s supposed to be aloe and dog bark.
I could have used that a while back, /S.
Embarrassing, if true.
Is this really a pyramic scheme or a MLM? I’m not familiar with the company. As long as people are getting a product - it isn’t a pyramid.
The videos are irrefutable. He could have at least ended the debate last night with his credibility in tact by acknowledging his endorsement of the product instead of falsely claiming he had no involvement.
Well, the article says this was back in 2004.
I didn’t pick up on the MLM part. What would bother me would be a knowledgeable doctor linking prostate cancer improvement or cure to some snake oil product, regardless of how it was marketed. It seems like an ethical no-no to me.
What a cute kid!
“”Is this really a pyramic scheme or a MLM? I’m not familiar with the company. As long as people are getting a product - it isn’t a pyramid.””
I think we should leave the UNeducated UNeducated...they prefer it their way. MLM’s have long been categorized unfairly as pyramid schemes.
I’m not sure who, but somebodys, somewhere soaked too long in the bath salts.
What does a low bark have to do with anything???
Don’t care how the structure of the company is categorized. The point is Carson made a dubious, false claim about the effectiveness of the product and last night he lied about his involvement with this company.
“”It seems like an ethical no-no to me.””
Alternative methods of treatment are ethical no-no’s?? That would be a surprise to those who believe in them..or are you saying that as a medical doctor, he should know better? I believe they are only human and see alternative treatments as meaningful sometimes even tho’ they would be careful NOT to tell their patients!!
I saw Manny Alvarez, MD and a foreign doctor on FOX discussing why there are so many resistant antibiotics today. THAT was a surprise...what most of us have said and suspected for years. Medical doctors are guilty of OVERTREATMENT/OVERPRESCRIBING them..even when they know they won’t do any good for the ailment.
He’s a storytelling liar, and we do not need him in the run for the nomination.
Climate change is a basic scientific principle apparently. lol
It might have been more honest if Carson had attributed his cancer cure to what actually cured his cancer...the surgery he had. But that wouldn’t have lined his pockets.
Now he compounds the question of his credibility by claiming he had no involvement with the company he did infomercials for. The company is paying millions in damage claims for fraudulently claiming its products.
Prostate cancer is nothing to fool around with. Yes, it starts slow, and may not get virulent, although for some people it does. In those early stages, there’s no harm in trying something which gives some relief of urinary symptoms.
But, an experienced doctor touting an alternate medicine that he doesn’t really believe in is another matter. Did he believe in this particular concoction? We don’t know, but since he had the training and motivation to enable him to understand then current research, I find it hard to believe that he didn’t have some doubts.
What’s wrong with it? Well, if it dissuades people from monitoring their condition on the mistaken assumption that they’ve cured it, I’d say it’s pretty bad. Or, if it’s just a matter of taking an endorsement fee for something that you (he) believes does no harm, while he doubts it does much good, well that’s only a little bad.
Hmmm...what drove Carson to do this? A reputable BRAIN SURGEON should not have any need to try to collect money from an MLM scam, after all, they make some $400k per year - so what gives?
Perhaps Carson’s claim to fame is not quite what the GOPe wants us to believe (at least as long as he’s able to pull Trump down)?
In any case, I’ll stick with the guy that seems to understand that REPOPULATING this country is probably not such a good idea.
He’s a scammer obviously.
“Carson, who has rejected most modern scientific principles during his campaign as he is rejected climate change and other basics, ...”
Who writes like that?
If I am translating this article correctly, it says Dr carson told them his symptoms were gone in a few weeks. That’s not saying he was cured. The symptoms obviously returned, and he proceeded to have surgery. I don’t see what’s wrong with even an M.D. trying an alternative to surgery before facing the knife.
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