Comments on: Loretta Marron, Health Hero, On Australia’s A Current Affair

By: Sean the Blogonaut

Sean the Blogonaut — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:26:15 +0000

That was an entertaining snippet from the gossip mongers at ACA. Good on Loretta.

By: Lillian Bronson

Lillian Bronson — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:22:23 +0000

What a hero Loretta is. As a breast cancer patient myself I am in awe of her courage to go undercover – we need more people like her. I was pleased that the story seems to have been responsible for the quack being shut down. Current Affair shows are widely watched and have a lot of grunt if they choose to use it. Well done Chris Allen the reporter and Loretta. The Skeptics rule!
Lillian

By: Skepacabra

Skepacabra — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:07:56 +0000

I wish we had more reporters like this in the U.S.

By: podblack

podblack — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:16:21 +0000

Oh, Thor’Ungal – indeed that is true: http://www.quackwatch.org/

Lisadom! Hi! I transcribed the ENTIRETY of Jenny McCarthy’s first book and I’ve had to put off finishing the second for at least a month…because I was writing out the entire damned book with every point I found of complete and utter garbage about autism. If you’d like the first transcript, let me know. It may, however, be worse than drinking the sodding magic water… :/

By: lisadom

lisadom — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:50:26 +0000

I am afraid to press play (just got child to sleep and no headphones) but thankyou for sharing this.
Not sure my big sister watches A Current Acrap as she calls it, but she had breast cancer 2 1/2 years ago and well, you know.

We have a lot of this crap in autism world. it is not the parents I blame as they really do seem to believe it. But there is fundamentally someone making money out of this shite everytime.

Gotta go and drink some magic water now and go to sleep.

By: Thor'Ungal

Thor'Ungal — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:33:09 +0000

“traditional” evidence…wow. Do you think I could get magical charms approved or does it have to at least pretend to have a causal link. Oooh will they appove holy water? With nothing more than a tap, a preist and a marketing campain we could make millions.