MycoRant

Wanna’ read something silly? How about the guy who considers all cancers to be caused by fungi? Dr. Simoncini (he’s Romulan, er…I mean “Roman”), wrote the book on it. You won’t find any legitimate medical web sites touching it. Plenty of alternative medicine folks seem to be enthralled with the idea.

If you snoop around Simoncini’s site and a few others you’ll even find some links to “research.” Some of the links actually do lead to research—which is quite surprising. What’s not surprising is that none of the research supports the notion that cancer is a fungus.

I hope you never have to make the choice between slugging down doses of bicarbonate (which probably doesn’t hurt) and more traditional treatment options. Me? I’d look into the CyberKnife.

Don’t get me wrong—I have an open mind. I’ll even grant that weird ideas can turn out to have merit. Some theories just don’t pass the reasonableness test though. Know what I mean? Think I’m wrong on this? Let me know.

Tags: cancer, weird science