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:
So long as he made a couple of speeches at the company's behest...and was depicted on their website without permission...he had a plausible denial of "association".
However, speaking as an ex-ad guy, once he makes an infomercial and endorses the product, he is inescapably involved in an "association".
Somewhere, there is a contract spelling out the terms of this association.
Oh. So now it’s “involvement”.
I thought it was “associated with”?
What would you call making infomercials, paid speeches and an hour long PBS special for Mannatech?
My husband had prostate cancer in 1993. His was cured by cryosurgery, freezing the cancer cells. I am the one who researched the alternative treatments, so I know a little about prostate cancer and the benign forms of prostate problems as well.
I would call it advertising. Paid advertising.
I’m still wondering where Dr Carson said “Mannatech Magically cured his prostate cancer”? You know. The title of this so-called article.
I haven’t seen where he said it.
In his videos, he said that after three weeks of taking the product, his symptoms disappeared. I have also heard him say, when he finally did mention that he had surgery, that he only had surgery because he feared that other people taking the supplement might not take the product properly.
” There are a number of herbal supplements that reduce swelling and inflammation. Reducing the inflammation and swelling also makes surgery easier and more precise.”
Please advise me of the name of a reputable, board-licensed surgeon who advises patients to take herbs to reduce inflammation before surgery.
I don’t know why you posted your screed to me. I admire and respect Dr. Carson and have done for the past 17 years, since his first autobiography. He is an honored person here in Maryland. I have met him a couple of times and think he is a trustworthy person, and so are his wife, mother and children.
I call a paid endorsement by a well know brain surgeon a relationship, involving him to the point of legal liability. He also credits Mannatech with funding his endowment chair at John’s Hopkins.
I guess you could try to define it in a Clintonesque kind of way. As one Freeper put it, “I did not have supplemental relations with that company, Mannatech Lewinsky.”
“Where did the article say he claimed it was a cancer cure?”
Desperate cancer patients heard it as “cancer cure”. He needed to explicitly state it was NOT a cure in order to be responsible.
Amnesty fanboi Ben says a lot of strange stuff.
GOP: Get over your love of unqualified racial token candidates.
Now, now.....Doc Carson doesn’t soak in bath salts....it’s aloe and tree bark ;-)
“I have also heard him say, when he finally did mention that he had surgery, that he only had surgery because he feared that other people taking the supplement might not take the product properly.”
Sounds like the kind of after-the-fact rationalization/excuse a high school student would make up.
Shooting into the circle is an Alinsky infiltrator's tactic.
I have wondered if due to the claims he made of his prostate cancer disappearing etc. if liability could possibly attach due to his being a medical doctor of some repute. Found out he also made an hour long PBS special for Mannatech and gives them credit for funding his endowment chair at Johns Hopkins.
I appreciate the good information you’ve provided.
I’d say this isn’t helpful, that’s for sure.
Maybe he should’ve just admitted to repping for this company, and gone with whatever claims he made in the vids. That would’ve been honest, if nothing else.
If I remember correctly I agreed with you and so I posted in defense of Dr. Carson. Or, you may have just been last in line......no offense.
And yes I do think he is trustworthy. I don’t think he lied. I think he takes paid advertising in the way I take it. Which is, “I was paid by Mannatech for advertising”. Which to many folks apparently means Dr. Carson lied when he says he was not associated with them.
I’d rather deal with the candidates character and positions now. Carson is not the guy to lead the country and so far no one supporting him has given any substantive reason for why they support him.
Dr carson did not say his prostate cancer “disappeared”.
Why do you, and others, keep posting that falsehood?
‘GOP: Get over your love of unqualified racial token candidates.’
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