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'What used to be fraud now camouflages as alternative medicine.' ThoughtLeaders piece by Rappler's Mindanao Bureau coordinator, Herbie Gomez. VoicesFromTheRegions
A former Bombo Radyo reporter from General Santos City may have stumbled into the holy grail of non-traditional media ownership in the Philippines.
That formula enabled him to make his media company non-reliant on third-party advertisements, including those that are political in nature. In this model, the media network serves as a mere sales and marketing arm of his other company, the Brigada Healthline Corporation, which is really the goose that lays the golden eggs.
I have observed that a number of radio stations in Cagayan de Oro these days have been cashing in on the proliferation of what appears to be pseudoscience in the form of paid advertisements or program sponsorships. I suppose the same thing is happening elsewhere. Being a skeptic, I have a problem with salesmen making unfounded scientific claims about what they sell. And the more I have a problem if such claims come from doctors of medicine.
Aside from that, the group claims that each capsule contains natural antibiotic and anti-inflammatory ingredients in addition to vitamins A, B2, B3, C, D, Omega 3, zinc, iron, potassium, calcium, and other minerals. All that in a capsule not bigger than the bone at the tip of my pinky finger. And imagine the assertion that the herbal capsules can actually kill cancer cells, and repair damaged organ tissues. I say, wow! If that is not a scientific claim, I don't know what is.
That group has another product, something for men with erectile dysfunction. It assures that users will rise to the occasion for a period of 24 hours, and they will never tire because the supplement supposedly contains ginseng mixed with other ingredients.
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