Covid-19 related treatment and other scams

I've just seen on Facebook that Ashok Gupta (of the 'Gupta Process') has released a 'package' called the 10 day coronovirus challenge. He doesn't claim that his techniques (mediation, NLP, neural retraining etc. I think) can prevent you getting the virus in so many words but I think he very much suggests it. Statements like "Some of the tools in this program have been scientifically shown to reduce the chances of contracting an infection from a virus by over 80%".

I totally get the fact that stress affects the immune system and I'm fully into mindfulness, meditation etc. but I'm just so uncomfortable with the way he is presenting this. He's using exactly the same tactics as he does to try to get people to sign up to his ME recovery programme.

The program he's offering:



More on him:
https://www.meassociation.org.uk/20...me-for-me-cfs-and-fibromyalgia-11-april-2018/

What do you think?

 

I think there are some very questionable claims being made there -

The course (free) will boost your immune system and so reduce your chance of catching the virus.

If you catch the virus, doing the course is likely to reduce covid 19 symptoms.

Then, and most dangerous of all in my eyes, because your symptoms are reduced you will be less likely to infect other people. At a time when we want people to stop taking risks this is highly irresponsible.

 

I'm glad you feel the same.

(At the moment I'm feeling like the whole world is experiencing a lot of what we've been experiencing for a long time and now this seems to include being targeted by people like this!)

I really dislike the way he talks about his techniques as equivalent to hand-washing and 'the thing the media isn't talking about' as though he's got some great secret. I think this is really dangerous.

I wonder if there's anyone we can complain to?

 

Making a complaint to Advertising Standards Authority

https://www.asa.org.uk/make-a-compl...MIj6e8k_Op6AIVCbLtCh2F-QwfEAAYASABEgIDaPD_BwE

No harm if a couple of us made a complaint.

 

As well as the Advertising Standards Authority it might be a good time to try to get an indignant reporter on to this. Anyone know one?

 

2 posts copied from the Coronavirus worldwide spread thread

Phil Parker was in The Sun, offering ways to boost ones immune system. Phew. We're saved.

 

Take a pretend pill....


Panic over, guys.

 

... from a pretend doctor?

 

"A researcher at LM Hospital..."? RUKM

 

Phil the pill.

 

the trouble is the ME communtiy identified it as quackery long ago but people are not going to find that out for themselves until much later.

in light of all the attention Esther Ranzen and her daughter have been getting recently it's a pity that she doesn't mention that her sick daughter was supposedly 'cured' by Phil Parkers expensive 'treatment' and expose him for the charlatan he is.

 

This ex-con has gotten a Cease and Desist order.


https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappen...gelist-jim-bakker-pitches-fake-cure-1.5487125


https://twitter.com/user/status/1227657884395327489

 

Too bad we closed our placebo pharmacy too soon, our unicorn pills would have been a big hit.

 

I imagine that killing a virus is simple, but the tricky bit is to do it without killing its host.

 

The placebo effect in itself is not proven scientifically to show any objective difference.

Apart from that he doesn't even understand the claimed logic of taking a placebo pill.

It's supposed to be blinded you are not supposed to know its the placebo.

 

Just a general acknowledgement there are a lot of treatment scam sites being created daily.

New York Attorney General asks domain registrars to crack down on coronavirus scam sites
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpres...ulations/fighting-coronavirus-scam-sites.html

My evil plan to register "thiscovid19treatmentisprobablynotascam.com" has been foiled.