Many, many thanks to the awesome Jack Scanlan for his work!
The full transcript is featured on the Skeptic Zone website – here’s a teaser from what Novella said, featured on Episode six, which you can download here or get off iTunes!
S: There’s many other kinds of harm, though too, while we’re talking about that. Sometimes there’s direct harm, direct physical harm from the treatment itself, not all of these treatments are safe. You know, chelation therapy has resulted in death, even a young child who was being treated with chelation therapy for autism, which is not an indicated treatment. This is based upon the mercury poisoning notion which is false. There’s other harm, you know, if you inculcate a bizarre or anti-scientific notion of health and disease, there’s lots of downstream harm from that: there’s financial harm, and there’s tremendous psychological harm, and I see that myself. Patients invest a great deal of emotion, and again, hope, into what turns out to be a false hope. It’s like rubbing salt into the wounds, they, often times, have a desperate, even maybe terminal, illness, and then someone comes along, takes a huge chunk of money from them, wastes their time and energy with false hope for a period of time, and then they have that second letdown when it kind of dawns on them that “I’ve been hoodwinked” On top of having a terminal illness, now I’m a victim of fraud. It’s a double-whammy.
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