LymeScience

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"[The Burzynski clinic that sold the non-approved brain tumor treatment] provided almost no support in managing [the 8-year-old girl's] care. My mother and I spent nights transcribing hour-long voicemails from her doctors because no one else would."

Yale student Mateo Ramírez-Valentini writes about families who travel for experimental treatments. He focuses on how some of these treatments are scams or over-hyped. An Argentinean family raised $350k after being enticed by notorious American cancer quack Stanislaw Burzynski.

Quebec radio's Dérives reported on 6 people who took their own lives after going down the rabbit hole of "chronic Lyme disease", a health scam that became a destructive cult. Alexandre Lapointe Joanne Lévesque Stéphanie Lavoie Catherine Mathieu Annie Roussy Amélie Champagne