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With fairy tales worse than Brothers Grimm and Stephen King combined, Lynne "anti-aging electrons" McTaggart sells a "magazine" called pamphlet to rip off the unsuspecting. Critics are not welcome.

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Skeptic News: Simon Singh threatened with legal action for criticising health magazine
3 October 2012

From: Guardian

    The science writer and libel reform campaigner Simon Singh has been threatened with legal action after criticising an alternative health magazine on Twitter.

    Earlier this week, Singh took to the social media network to denounce a magazine called What Doctors Don’t Tell You (WDDTY). Described by its editor, Lynne McTaggart, as being aimed at “intelligent women between 35-55″ the magazine claims to provide information about what works and what does not work in both conventional and alternative medicines. Coverlines on the current issue include “sunbathe your diabetes away” and “how I avoided my hysterectomy through diet”.

    Writing on Facebook on Tuesday, McTaggart called on the magazine’s supporters to fight the actions of “bully boys” who wanted to push it off newsagents’ shelves. “Simon Singh, who was leading the charge, was just told by our distributor essentially to shove off and reminded that tweeting untrue statements about us or them is, well, libel,” she wrote.

    Singh confirmed that he had contacted Comag, the distributors of WDDTY, to say that in his opinion the magazine was largely unscientific and was promoting advice that could potentially harm readers.

    “Also, many of the adverts appear to make pseudoscientific and unsubstantiated claims,” he said. “I even offered to meet with Comag and introduce them to medical experts, but they have not accepted this invitation. When I suggested that I would blog about our email exchange, their reaction was to tell me in no uncertain terms: ‘I should inform you that we have sought legal advice in respect of this matter. We would take any attempts to damage our reputation on social media or elsewhere very seriously.’”

    In another email Comag informed Singh of the company’s intent not to discuss the matter further and that it had instructed legal counsel.

    Speaking on BBC Radio 4′s Inside Health programme, McTaggart said the magazine was meant to tackle “a conspiracy of silence” among conventional doctors. “We are going to continue to overburden the NHS with a lot of treatments that are less than good unless we open this debate and we all realise that we have to work together and look at what works,” she said. “We need conventional medicine to open its mind to other potential treatments.”

We wonder if McTaggart is aware of the last time some quacks tried to silence criticism of their “science” using libel? Perhaps she should give the BCA a ring to see how that went?
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SOURCE:
http://www.thetwentyfirstfloor.com/?p=5159

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Lynne McTaggart produced a horrendous pile of shit.

No, that is not an exaggeration. Just take this piece of proof http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27128646/WDDTY%20Oct%202012.pdf , and read carefully.

On page 32 of Lynne McTaggart's deadly brew she states:

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Lynne McTaggart:

"FACT 6:
HPV infection rarely
leads to cervicaI cancer.
Of the 26.2 million people with HPV
infections, the chances of developing any
sort of cancer related to HPV are 0.08 per
cent, and the chances of getting cervical
cancer are 0.04 per cent - in other words,
out of every 10,000 people with HPV,
four will progress to cervical cancer.
To put this in perspective, your
chances of getting cervical cancer due
HPV infection in any given year  are
only eight times greater than, your risk
of being struck and killed by an asteroid
or about the same as being fatally
electrocuted."
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In Germany each year 1700 women die of cervical cancer. According to Lynne McTaggart Germany must be a strange place.




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Even considering that those 1700 dead women were the only ones who got cervical cancer (whis is not the case; they are those who died, the others survived, badly wounded and genitally destroyed by "conization"), we have 1700 dead women. EACH YEAR 1700 DEAD!

According to Lynne McTaggart, these 1700 dead had a risk 8 times as high as being killed by an asteroid. So there are over 200 women in Germany struck to death by an asteroid? Wrong! Lie! Not a single death per year due to asteroids in Germany. Blimey, Lynne McTaggart is a hell of a rotten liar. And that rotten liar threatens Simon Singh.



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If you look for such statements, you won't find some anymore. Lynne McTaggart deletes her posts. 

Would you trust such a person? Would you put your life at risk for the lies of Lynne McTaggart?

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How the BBC set me up
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For the last seven years, I have been doing what I can to help cancer sufferers. I heard from a naturopath about GS Drops and how they had helped a girl who had been given two weeks to live.

A company in Uruguay supplied me with the drops, and the success of the drops was so profound that I was just waiting for an attack from the MCA. Sure enough, it came - but from the BBC. I had a phone call from a girl whose partner’s cancer had spread despite conventional treatment. She asked if I could cure him; I refused to say and instead explained to her that it was illegal to make such a claim. But I said I could help him and told her about the drops.

I met them both outside a local hotel because they said they would have difficulty in finding my home. Little did I know that they were secretly filming everything. When I met them again a week later at the hotel, a camera crew suddenly appeared from nowhere.

The journalist was very insulting and said I was expl...
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SOURCE:
http://www.wddty.com/how-the-bbc-set-me-up.html


BBC, you are great! THANK YOU!

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We pick this up. Fight the fraudster Lynne McTaggart!

http://majikthyse.wordpress.com/2013/11/01/more-cherry-picked-evidence/

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More Cherry-Picked `Evidence’
Posted on 1 November, 2013 by majikthyse

Some of you will have seen an email that went out the other day to subscribers to the `What Doctors Don’t Tell You’ website. Here it is:

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    Would you like to be featured in a future issue of What Doctors Don’t Tell You (WDDTY) magazine?

    You could be if:

    –You’ve come off worse from an encounter with medicine, or

    –You’re an alternative practitioner with a successful case study you can tell us about.

    In both cases, we will need to include your name and photograph. If you are an alternative practitioner, we will want to interview the patient, and also include his or her name and photograph.

    So what are we looking for?

    You’ve come off worse from an encounter with medicine: This could be your story or a relative’s (and we assume they would be happy to be featured). It could be a wrong diagnosis, a bad reaction to a drug, a surgical procedure that went wrong. . .anything that would qualify as ‘My Medical Horror Story’.

    You’re an alternative practitioner: Here we are looking for success stories, especially of chronic conditions that conventional medicine isn’t reversing. It could also be an insight where you have ‘joined the dots’ and shed new light on a health problem.

    In either case, please send a quick outline of your story to:
    gemma@wddty.co.uk
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This came from Bryan Hubbard, husband of editor Lynne McTaggart. So I sent the following to Gemma:

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    I would love to be featured in WDDTY. Here are my anecdotes.

    About 8 years ago I went to my GP with neck pain. I was referred to the physiotherapy department and was invited to participate in a clinical trial of acupuncture. As a professional in clinical research for some 30+ years, I was horrified at the terrible standards of science and ethics being followed in this trial. I wrote to the chair of the ethics committee that approved the trial, who failed to reply. Does this count as a bad experience with orthodox medicine? Probably not, because my neck problem was resolved by the ordinary physiotherapist, who advised me to throw away my reading glasses and improve my posture at the computer using different contact lenses. The acupuncture had no effect at all. Neither did a previous course of acupuncture from my GP.

    A short while before this episode, I visited a chiropractor because of low back pain. He never warned me about any possible adverse effects, such as vertebral artery dissection. I had three treatments, with no effect at all. A course of physiotherapy (ultrasound and traction) did the trick.

    How about psoriasis? I had this for over 30 years on and off, but it disappeared when I managed to wean myself off steroid creams and most importantly reduce stress. I didn’t take any alternative treatments to achieve that.

    Well I know you are not going to publish this, because you are specifically cherry-picking the evidence that suits what you believe. How many times do you have to be told that anecdotes are not evidence on their own? Yet not only do you cling to them, but you deliberately gerrymander the data by selecting only negative stories about real medicine, and positive ones about evidence-free remedies. That is unethical and potentially dangerous.

    Why do I waste my time telling you all this? I know you won’t take the tiniest bit of notice. But  this is an open letter and will be published somewhere.
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The staff and supporters of WDDTY are clearly in thrall to something much closer to religion than knowledge. Typical of blind belief is a refusal even to acknowledge the existence of facts that are to rational people beyond dispute. But I think this latest initiative is a step further than they have taken before, in that they are consciously excluding evidence that they won’t like, and dredging for useless fairy stories. The readers will lap it up.
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Lynne "anti-aging electrons" McTaggart doesn't have all electrons in the orbit. At least her server lacks some juice. But, in contrast to her, the server is honest.

http://www.wddty.com/

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Server Error in '/' Application.
A transport-level error has occurred when receiving results from the server. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - The specified network name is no longer available.)
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: A transport-level error has occurred when receiving results from the server. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - The specified network name is no longer available.)

Source Error:

The source code that generated this unhandled exception can only be shown when compiled in debug mode. To enable this, please follow one of the below steps, then request the URL:

1. Add a "Debug=true" directive at the top of the file that generated the error. Example:

  <%@ Page Language="C#" Debug="true" %>

or:

2) Add the following section to the configuration file of your application:

<configuration>
   <system.web>
       <compilation debug="true"/>
   </system.web>
</configuration>

Note that this second technique will cause all files within a given application to be compiled in debug mode. The first technique will cause only that particular file to be compiled in debug mode.

Important: Running applications in debug mode does incur a memory/performance overhead. You should make sure that an application has debugging disabled before deploying into production scenario.

Stack Trace:


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   System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParserStateObject.ReadSni(DbAsyncResult asyncResult, TdsParserStateObject stateObj) +313
   System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParserStateObject.ReadNetworkPacket() +147
   System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParserStateObject.ReadBuffer() +50
   System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParserStateObject.ReadByte() +32
   System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj) +187
   System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.ConsumeMetaData() +87
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   System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.FinishExecuteReader(SqlDataReader ds, RunBehavior runBehavior, String resetOptionsString) +2476580
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   System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior, String method) +211
   System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteDbDataReader(CommandBehavior behavior) +19
   System.Data.Common.DbCommand.System.Data.IDbCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior) +19
   System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.FillInternal(DataSet dataset, DataTable[] datatables, Int32 startRecord, Int32 maxRecords, String srcTable, IDbCommand command, CommandBehavior behavior) +221
   System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.Fill(DataTable[] dataTables, Int32 startRecord, Int32 maxRecords, IDbCommand command, CommandBehavior behavior) +579
   System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.Fill(DataTable dataTable) +181
   CT.Data.SimpleSQL.GetRowBasic(SqlCommand cmd) +75
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   System7.ContentStore.DataAccessLayer.DBXmlDocument.Load(XmlDocument xmlDocument) +274
   System7.ContentStore.XmlDocument.Load(Boolean force) +31
   System7.ContentStore.Node.LoadContents() +224
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   System7.ContentStore.ContentTree.GetNode(Int32 nodeId) +54
   System7.Publication.Node.AddAllChildrenOfContentNode(List`1 children, Node node, Boolean foldersOnly) +169
   System7.Publication.Node.GetChildren(Boolean disregardFilter, Boolean order, Boolean foldersOnly) +445
   System7.Publication.Node.GetAssets() +17
   System7.Website.Node.get_Assets() +33
   System7.Website.Node.get_HasImage() +13
   System7.Website.Utility.GetImageThumb(Node node, Int32 width, Int32 height, Boolean exactSize) +37
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   System.Web.UI.Control.OnDataBinding(EventArgs e) +132
   System.Web.UI.Control.DataBind(Boolean raiseOnDataBinding) +170
   System.Web.UI.Control.DataBindChildren() +11040207
   System.Web.UI.Control.DataBind(Boolean raiseOnDataBinding) +182
   System.Web.UI.WebControls.Repeater.CreateControlHierarchy(Boolean useDataSource) +674
   System.Web.UI.WebControls.Repeater.OnDataBinding(EventArgs e) +68
   UtilityCtrls_BigFeaturedArticles.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) +99
   System.Web.Util.CalliHelper.EventArgFunctionCaller(IntPtr fp, Object o, Object t, EventArgs e) +25
   System.Web.Util.CalliEventHandlerDelegateProxy.Callback(Object sender, EventArgs e) +42
   System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +132
   System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +66
   System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +191
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   System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +191
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Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.3643; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.3634
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