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Article on Lorraine Day at Quackwatch

I hate to say it, but the evaluation is as useless as Day's evidence. It is mainly Barrett's opinions, based on his evaluation of Day's completey inadequate evidence that she has released.

Frankly, Day's theories don't make it past my BS filter. They don't even pass the laugh test. I think her "cure" is one of those statistical anomolies where a few people considered terminal will survive. What I do think is criminal is how her program coaxes people away from treatments that have a long track record of improved odds of survival.

I've said it before in another thread -- logical thinking is the first thing that flies out the window when you're diagnosed with cancer. The first tendancy is to ignore or deny the condition, hoping that it's either a mistake or that maybe it will just go away. When that doesn't work out, and you realize that SOMETHING will have to be done, then you'll go shopping for the least unpleasant and least destructive treatment.

Standard treatments are pretty frightening, and it only makes it worse to have a healthy physician tell you what they think the treatment should be, and then read off a laundry list of the possible complications and side effects of the treatment.

I can understand how somebody like Day can delude herself, but what she promotes is massively irresponsible. Unfortunately, what she has done is not illegal, though it makes me wonder if there is some sort of statute for the infliction of mental cruelty or distress that could be brought against her.

Regards;
Beanbag
 
Lorraine Day is more dangerous than a bus-load of Sylvias.
Surely her advice to shun conventional medicine in favour of her therapy is criminal?
What makes this even worse is that she knows that the only people likely to take her claims seriously are the desperate, terminally ill.
 
Just a spot of arithmetic.

From Quackwatch. "Dr. Day graduated from the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine in 1969...."

What age do you usually graduate as a doctor in America? Can't be less than 23, I'm thinking. That would make her about 58 by now. At least.

So who is that blonde bimbo pictured in the Commentary, and whose picture also appears on the covers of Dr. Day's books and tapes?

Rolfe.
 
Rolfe: she would have a lot of money from a lot of people she scammed to look better than she does. Plus, she has other people she delegates to work for her, so decreases those stress lines around her face. Or something.
 
Well, I admit to having just taken a 60th birthday present to a friend who might, at a pinch, photograph something like that in a very staged studio shot with a bit of tactful airbrushing. But don't you think the ordeal Dr. Day's been through would have left some sort of mark on her? It's all there on the page linked to above....
I became so sick that I was essentially bedridden for six months. As my cancer progressed, I became unable to eat and then unable to take fluids. At one point I was not expected to live through the night. My husband who saw my life rapidly ebbing away as my breathing became more and more labored said to me, "I've got to take you to the emergency room. You're dying." And I knew I was.
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And there's lots more gory detail where that came from, most people would look about 110 after all that. And she's older than I thought. From the same page:
I'll soon be 64 years old....
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and even better, one of the pathology reports gives her date of birth as 4th February 1937. So, she turned 67 last month.

Maybe they're really old studio photos?

Oh, I forgot.
Barleygreen is a green powder made from the dried juice of the young green barley leaf which contains the widest variety of important nutrients in the plant kingdom.... Green barley leaves contain a multitude of enzymes necessary for digestion, more than a dozen vitamins, 17 minerals, 18 amino acids and chlorophyll. Barleygreen is a whole food concentrate. It is as close to its natural state as possible thereby supplying the nutrients in their natural proportions.
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It obviously confers eternal youth as well.

By the way, I don't think Stephen Barret has done all that bad a job of analysing the situation given the limited data Dr. Day has chosen to make available. She fits his category of medical professionals who go woo-woo because of some life-changing trauma they couldn't cope with, when the change of role from being the doctor to being the patient has left them feeling powerless and afraid.

Managing to make millions of dollars out of a nervous breakdown is quite a feat, really.

Rolfe.
 
This woman has been the bane of the HIV/AIDS education community for almost two decades now (she's right up there with Duesberg) - how sad that anyone still affords her even the smallest measure of credibility.
 
And this wonderful citation from one of her book-pushing pags on that site:
Lorraine Day, M.D. reveals the astonishing fact that germs DON'T cause disease even though ALL conventional medicine, with it's massive use of "therapeutic" drugs, is based on the INCORRECT premise that germs do cause disease. If you're going down the WRONG road, all the money, brilliant scientists and hard work will just bring you to the wrong destination faster and more expensively!
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<h1>Grade A Nutbag!</h1>
 
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