Killing Us Softly (30 page)

119
Oprah and “quackadoo”: W. Kosova, “Live Your Best Life Ever!”

119
Somers on reinvigorated sex life: Somers,
Ageless
, 35.

119
Simon Cowell and anti-aging vitamins: A. Jha, “Scientists Buzz Simon Cowell for Promoting Pseudoscience,”
The Guardian
, December 27, 2011.

120
Statement by experts on aging: S. J. Oshansky, L. Hayflick, and B. A. Carnes, “No Truth to the Fountain of Youth,”
Scientific American
, www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=no-truth-to-the-fountain-of-youth&print=true.

120
Somers regarding conspiracy: Somers,
Ageless
, 27.

121
Northrup on pharmaceutical companies: C. Northrup,
Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing
(New York: Bantam Books, 2010), 546–47.

121
Anti-aging industry: S. Jacoby,
Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age
(New York: Pantheon Books, 2011), 91.

122
Experts on aging regarding oxidation: Oshansky, Hayflick, and Carnes, “No Truth to the Fountain of Youth.”

123
Experts on likely effect of antioxidants: Ibid.

123
Experts on harm of anti-aging drugs: Ibid.

124
Somers on
Larry King Live
:
Larry King Live
, October 14, 2006.

125
Somers on Botox: Somers,
Ageless
, 381.

125
Somers and the FaceMaster:
Larry King Live
, October 14, 2006.

125
Somers's stem-cell face-lift: M. Strobel, “Suzanne Somers: A Supermarket Scare,”
Toronto Sun
, February 3, 2011; “Suzanne Somers Plastic Surgery Disaster Shocker,”
National Enquirer
, February 2, 2011, www.nationalenquirer.com/print/33469.

126
Somers's stem-cell breast reconstruction: L. Hamm, “Suzanne Somers Gets Experimental Breast Reconstruction,”
People
, February 4, 2012, www.people.com/people/article/0,,20567432,00.html.

126
Jacoby on aging: Jacoby,
Never Say Die
, xi, 5.

126
Somers in 2041: Somers,
Breakthrough
, 1.

127
Jacoby on gullible public: Jacoby,
Never Say Die
, 90–91.

C
HAPTER 6:
A
UTISM'S
P
IED
P
IPER

129
Oprah praises McCarthy:
The Oprah Winfrey Show
, September 24, 2008.

129
Rimland paper: B. Rimland, “High Dosage Levels of Certain Vitamins in the Treatment of Children with Severe Mental Disorders,” in
Orthomolecular Psychiatry:
Treatment of Schizophrenia
, ed. D. Hawkins and L. Pauling (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1973).

130
Child with autism dies from EDTA: K. Kane, “Death of 5-Year-Old Boy Linked to Controversial Chelation Therapy,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, January 6, 2006.

131
Child with cerebral palsy dies from hyperbaric oxygen therapy: “Child Hurt in Chamber Explosion Dies in Hospital,” CBS News, June 11, 2009.

131
Autism causes and treatments: J. McCarthy and J. Kartzinel,
Healing and Preventing Autism: A Complete Guide
. New York (Plume, 2010); K. Siri and T. Lyons,
Cutting-Edge Therapies for Autism: 2010-2011
(New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2010); B. Jepson,
Changing the Course of Autism: A Scientific Approach for Parents and Physicians
(Boulder, Colo.: Sentient Publishing, 2007).

132
Bleach enemas: Orac, “The Lowest of the Low: Trying to Bleach Autism Away,”
ScienceBlogs
, http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/5/25/selling-bleach-as-a-cure-for-autism.

132
McCarthy blames MMR vaccine: McCarthy and Kartzinel,
Healing
.

132
McCarthy on vaccinating next child: Ibid., 278.

133
Oprah impressed with McCarthy:
The Oprah Winfrey Show
, September 18, 2007.

133
Autism research: Offit,
Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2008).

134
Biomedical treatments don't work: J. H. Elder, M. Shanker, J. Shuster, et al., “The Gluten-Free, Casein-Free Diet in Autism: Results of a Preliminary Double Blind Clinical Trial,”
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
36 (2006): 413–20; B. Jepson, D. Granpeesheh, J. Tarbox, et al. “Controlled Evaluation of the Effects of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy on the Behavior of 16 Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders,”
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
41 (2011): 575–88; S. E. Soden, “24-Hour Provoked Urine Excretion Test for Heavy Metals in Children with Autism and Typically Developing Children: A Pilot Study,”
Clinical Toxicology
45 (2007): 476–81.

134
Secretin: A. D. Sandler, K. A. Sutton, J. DeWeese, et al., “Lack of Benefit of a Single Dose of Synthetic Human Secretin in the Treatment of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder,”
New England Journal of Medicine
341 (1999): 1801–1806; F. R. Volkmar, “Lessons from Secretin,”
New England Journal of Medicine
341 (1999): 1842–45; P. Sturmey, “Secretin Is an
Ineffective Treatment for Pervasive Developmental Disabilities: A Review of 15 Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trials,”
Research in Developmental Disabilities
26 (2005): 87–97.

135
Alison Singer: Alison Singer, interviewed by the author, September 26, 2011.

137
American President
quote:
The American President
, directed by Rob Reiner (1995; Beverly Hills, Calif.: Castle Rock Entertainment, 1999).

138
Harm from biomedical treatments for autism: C. Plafki, P. Peters, M. Almeling, et al., “Complications and Side Effects of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy,”
Aviation and Space Environmental Medicine
71 (2000): 119–24; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Deaths Associated with Hypocalcemia from Chelation Therapy—Texas, Pennsylvania, and Oregon, 2003–2005,”
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
55 (2006): 204–207; National Institutes of Health, “Thin Bones Seen in Boys with Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorder,” press release, January 29, 2008, www.nih.gov/news/health/jan2008/nichd-29.htm.

138
Harm caused by vaccine-preventable diseases: P. Offit,
Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All
(New York: Basic Books, 2011).

139
Alternative healers disdain vaccines: L. Downey, P. T. Tyree, C. E. Huebner, et al., “Pediatric Vaccination and Vaccine-Preventable Disease Acquisition: Associations with Care by Complementary and Alternative Medicine Providers,”
Maternal and Child Health Journal
14 (2010): 922–30.

139
Outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases: Offit,
Deadly Choices
.

C
HAPTER 7:
C
HRONIC
L
YME
D
ISEASE

140
Gostin paper: J. D. Kraemer and L. O. Gostin, “Science, Politics, and Values: The Politicization of Professional Practice Guidelines,”
Journal of the American Medical Association
301 (2009): 665–67.

141
Dan Burton: B. Wilson, “The Rise and Fall of Laetrile,” www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/laetrile.html; S. Brownlee, “Swallowing Ephedra,” archive.salon.com/health/feature/2000/06/07/ephedra; E. Walsh, “Burton: A ‘Pit Bull' in the Chair,”
Washington Post
, March 19, 1997; F. Pellegrini, “Fool on the Hill,”
Time.com
, www.time.com/time/daily/special/look/burton.

141
Wakefield and MMR: Offit,
Autism's False Prophets
.

142
U. S. parents scared of MMR: M. J. Smith, S. S. Ellenberg, L. M. Bell, et
al., “Media Coverage of the Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine and Autism Controversy and Its Relationship to MMR Immunization Rates in the United States,”
Pediatrics
121 (2008): e836–e843.

142
Measles outbreaks in 2008: Offit,
Deadly Choices
, xv–xvi.

142
Measles outbreak in Europe: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Measles Outbreaks,” www.cdc.gov/measles/outbreaks.html.

142
Changing the value of
pi
: C. Seife,
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
(New York: The Penguin Group, 2010).

143
Polly Murray and Old Lyme outbreak: P. Weintraub,
Cause Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic
(New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2008), 43–45.

143
Allen Steere and Lyme arthritis: A. C. Steere, S. E. Malawista, D. R. Snydman, et al., “Lyme Arthritis: An Epidemic of Oligoarticular Arthritis in Children and Adults in Three Connecticut Communities,”
Arthritis and Rheumatism
20 (1977): 7–17.

144
Willy Burgdorfer and
Borrelia burgdorferi
: W. Burgdorfer, A. G. Barbour, S. F. Hayes, et al., “Lyme Disease—A Tick-Borne Spirochetosis?”
Science
216 (1982): 1317–19.

144
Lyme disease symptoms and treatment: G. P. Wormser, R. J. Dattwyler, E. D. Shapiro, et al., “The Clinical Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention of Lyme Disease, Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis, and Babesiosis: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America,”
Clinical Infectious Diseases
43 (2006): 1089–1134.

145
Lyme bacteria cause other diseases: P. G. Auwaerter, J. S. Bakken, R. J. Dattwyler, et al., “Antiscience and Ethical Concerns Associated with Advocacy of Lyme Disease,”
Lancet Infectious Diseases
11 (2011): 713–19.

146
Chronic Lyme symptoms: C. Bean and L. Fein,
Beating Lyme: Understanding and Treating This Complex and Often Misdiagnosed Disease
(New York: AMACOM, 2008)
,
263–66.

146
Director's quote regarding
Under Our Skin
:
Under Our Skin,
Discussion Guide, Open Eye Productions, 2008.

147
Under Our Skin
: Ibid.

147
Alternative medicine treatments for Chronic Lyme disease: Bean,
Beating Lyme
;
S. Buhner,
Healing Lyme: Natural Healing and Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis and Its Coinfections
(Silver City, N.M.: Raven Press, 2005); N. McFadzean,
The Lyme Diet: Nutritional Strategies for Healing Lyme Disease
(San Diego: Legacy Line
Publishing, 2010); G. Piazza and L. Piazza,
Recipes for Repair: A Lyme Disease Cookbook
(Sunapee, N.H.: Peconic Publishing, 2010); B. Rosner,
Lyme Disease and Rife Machines
(South Lake Tahoe, Calif.: BioMed Publishing Group, 2005); B. Rosner,
The Top 10 Lyme Disease Treatments: Defeat Lyme Disease with the Best of Conventional and Alternative Medicine
(South Lake Tahoe, Calif.: BioMed Publishing Group, 2007); K. Singleton,
The Lyme Disease Solution
(Charleston, S.C.: BookSurge Publishing, 2008); W. Storl,
Healing Lyme Disease Naturally: History, Analysis, and Treatments
(Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books, 2010); C. Strasheim,
Insights into Lyme Disease Treatment: 13 Lyme Literate Health Care Practitioners Share Their Healing Strategies
(South Lake Tahoe, Calif.: BioMed Publishing Group, 2009).

148
Wolf Storl and teasel: Storl,
Healing Lyme
.

149
Rife machine for Chronic Lyme: Rosner,
Top 10 Lyme Treatments
.

149
Rife machine testimonials: Rosner,
Lyme Disease and Rife Machines
: 165–85.

150
Killing Lyme bacteria: G. P. Wormser, R. J. Dattwyler, E. D. Shapiro, et al., “The Clinical Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention of Lyme Disease, Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis, and Babesiosis: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America,”
Clinical Infectious Diseases
43 (2006): 1089–1134; Auwaerter, Bakken, Dattwyler, et al., “Antiscience and Ethical Concerns.”

150
Chronic symptoms in Americans: Auwaerter, Bakken, Dattwyler, et al., “Antiscience and Ethical Concerns.”

151
Lyme Literate doctors ignore treatable disorders: M. C. Reid, R. T. Schoen, J. Evans, et al., “The Consequences of Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment of Lyme Disease: An Observational Study,”
Annals of Internal Medicine
128 (1998): 354–62.

151
Evidence against the existence of Chronic Lyme disease: J. Radolf, “Posttreatment Chronic Lyme Disease—What It Is Not,”
Journal of Infectious Diseases
192 (2005): 948–49; G. P. Wormser, R. J. Dattwyler, E. D. Shapiro, et al., “The Clinical Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention of Lyme Disease, Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis, and Babesiosis: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America,”
Clinical Infectious Diseases
43 (2006): 1089–1134; P. Auwaerter, “Point: Antibiotic Therapy Is Not the Answer for Patients with Persisting Symptoms Attributable to Lyme Disease,”
Clinical Infectious Diseases
45 (2007): 143–48; H. M. Feder, B. J. B. Johnson, S. O'Connell, et al., “A Critical Appraisal of ‘Chronic Lyme Disease,'”
New England Journal of Medicine
357 (2007): 1422–30; A. Marques, “Chronic Lyme
Disease: A Review,”
Infectious Disease Clinics of North America
22 (2008): 341–60; Auwaerter, Bakken, Dattwyler, et al., “Antiscience and Ethical Concerns.”

151
New England Journal of Medicine
paper: H. M. Feder, B. J. B. Johnson, S. O'Connell, et al., “A Critical Appraisal of ‘Chronic Lyme Disease,'”
New England Journal of Medicine
357 (2007): 1422–30.