An alternative healer and resident of Rosh Ha'Ain saved hundreds of cancer and Alzheimer's patients and sold them fake medicines for 180 NIS per bottle. A resident of Sharon bought "medicine" for NIS 50
25.5.2004
By: Walla system! and the response of the editor of the science site
Blessed drops. It has buyers. The detainees claim that they learned the recipe on the Internet.
The police arrested two suspects yesterday on suspicion of selling tap water mixed with salt as a food supplement for terminally ill cancer patients. The two suspects, the owner of the company, a resident of Rosh Ha-Ein, and Naturofat, a resident of Nes Ziona, sold hundreds of bottles under the brand name "Mi Haim" at a price of 180 shekels, when their real value does not exceed three shekels.
The alternative healer and resident of Rosh Ha-Ein took advantage of the need of the terminally ill to cling to the spark of hope. "The suspects arrested in the investigation took advantage of the condition and innocence of the patients. They attributed every product they sold to a different disease," said Corporal Moshe Fledinger, the investigative officer of the Central Fraud Unit.
It was reported on the IDF airwaves that during the investigation, which lasts for several months, it turned out that the resident of Sharon who had cancer invested NIS 50 in bottles, which were of no use to her. The bottles were given names such as "Mi Moriah", "Mi Haim", "Mi Berashit" and the like. Even a doctor from one of the hospitals in the center of the country fell victim to a scam and provided bottles of the "miracle drug" to his terminally ill patients for months. Among his patients were children with cancer, who did not live long.
The suspects claimed in their defense that all the "knowledge" they had gained to produce the medicinal bottles was obtained from studies published on the Internet, and that the bottles were manufactured by a food additive manufacturing plant located near Beit Shemesh, at a cost of three shekels per bottle.
Reader Yuval Kafir reminds us that many homeopathic medicines are "produced" by diluting a drop of a substance (plant, mineral, whatever, related to the disease the medicine is supposed to cure) in water, in a ratio of 1 to 100 or 1 to 1000 - and diluting The result again and again and again in the same ratio. In the final "medicine", the proportion of the original substance is sometimes 1 to 10 to the power of 20 - much less than one drop per bottle.
In other words, many homeopathic remedies are pure water.
Will the police start arresting homeopaths now? For some reason I doubt it.
"However, I think that the community of homeopaths should warmly embrace the two healers from the first sight, and award them the title of "honorary homeopath" for their original initiative." An infidel writer.
The editor of the site comments: First of all, thanks to Yuval for his letter, it also reflects my opinion. The site of knowledge has fought perhaps since the day of its establishment, in 1997, these superstitions and their consequences on our lives. It seems to me that they would have translated into Hebrew the same book from the 18th century that exposes charlatans, and which Carl Sagan quoted in his book "Haunted World". Does it seem to me, as several people wrote in different responses to previous articles on the subject, that the government prefers ignorant people?
Neither in the Dovrat report nor anywhere else did I find a recommendation for increasing rational thinking.
Just a few weeks ago we were talking about the divorce of leaders in the Prime Minister's Office and the IDF and the baboons that the heads of state and the economy are flocking to, and here is an example of how the fish stinks. If senior officials are allowed to flirt with mystics (see "A Country Haunted by Demons Part I and Part II), why is this not allowed for cancer patients who have not received a rational education?"
They knew mysticism and its dangers
