It did not take long after the death of Beau Biden, son of Vice President Joe Biden, for someone to start making hay out of the tragedy. As the excellent medical blog Respectful Insolence has reported, Mike Adams, one of the true sleazoids of the alternative medicine community, has released a statement claiming that Beau Biden did not, in fact, die of brain cancer, as the doctors who've actually examined him have claimed. Rather, in spite of never having met him, Adams claims to know that Beau Biden really died from chemotherapy:
In other words, after being diagnosed with brain cancer, Beau underwent toxic chemotherapy — a treatment that causes permanent brain damage known as “chemo brain” — while enduring radiation treatment on top of that chemo. Oncologists who prescribe chemotherapy drugs earn massive profits from those drugs, all while failing to disclose their own conflicts of interest to their patients.
Unfortunately, chemotherapy kills far more people than it saves because its primary side effect is recurring cancer. Yes, chemotherapy causes cancer. And the ignorant oncologists who prescribe it actively encourage patients to avoid protecting their healthy cells with nutritional therapies such as medicinal mushrooms, anti-cancer foods and healthy oils such as cod liver oil. In fact, oncology as practiced today is a barbaric medical practice that quite literally kills people by the hundreds of thousands each year.
Apparently, this is a favorite tactic of the self-proclaimed Health Ranger. He has previously chimed in on the deaths of Farrah Fawcett, Patrick Swayze, and Tony Snow. He spreads this garbage via his notoriously unreliable website Natural News, which promotes anti-vaccination myths and claims that psychiatric medications cause school shootings. He'd previously made his living
promoting the Y2K panic.
My Gut Reaction: Here's hoping Joe Biden comes across this BS and publicly rips the "Health Ranger" a new one.
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Mike Adams was apparently not content with exploiting Beau Biden to promote his claims that chemotherapy causes cancer. He also decided to insult the man's father:
We can’t know for sure whether glyphosate gave Beau Biden brain cancer, but we do know for a fact that Joe Biden is another pro-Monsanto sellout of the Democratic party who supports the mass poisoning of America with cancer-causing chemicals as long as people like himself are kept in positions of political power. It’s a harsh statement, yes, but it’s also true: these are the people who enable the corporate poisoners whose toxic chemicals cause widespread cancer, suffering and death. They even sacrifice the safety of their own sons and daughters in exchange for a few million dollars of financial support during their campaigns. They seemingly value nothing other than money and power, and as a result they condemn us all to the mass poisoning of the for-profit cancer industry and the criminally-run corporate agriculture giants.
As disgusting as I consider Monsanto's corporate practices to be, claiming that the Vice President of the United States is deliberately killing people, including his own son, is beyond the pale. Even more disgusting is that fact that his unscientific medical claims are luring people to reject real medicine for pabulum, often at the cost of their lives.