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text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Pseudosciencenav" title="Template:Pseudosciencenav">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Pseudosciencenav" title="Template talk:Pseudosciencenav">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Pseudosciencenav&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>It is not clear where Wallach gets his data, but it is a lie.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—<a href="/wiki/National_Council_Against_Health_Fraud" title="National Council Against Health Fraud">National Council Against Health Fraud</a><sup id="cite_ref-ncahf_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ncahf-1">[1]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Joel D. Wallach</b> (1940–),<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> also known as the <b>mineral doctor</b>, is an <a href="/wiki/American" class="mw-redirect" title="American">American</a> veterinarian, <a href="/wiki/Naturopath" class="mw-redirect" title="Naturopath">naturopath</a> <a href="/wiki/Quack" class="mw-redirect" title="Quack">quack</a>, colloidal mineral <a href="/wiki/Woo" title="Woo">woo</a> promoter, <a href="/wiki/Cholesterol_denialist" class="mw-redirect" title="Cholesterol denialist">cholesterol denialist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vaccine_denialist" class="mw-redirect" title="Vaccine denialist">vaccine denialist</a> and best known for promoting the false claim that all diseases are caused by mineral deficiencies.<sup id="cite_ref-ncahf_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ncahf-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Skeptic_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Skeptic-3">[3]</a></sup> </p><p>Wallach believes that people can live more than one hundred years if they take colloidal <a href="/wiki/Vitamin_and_mineral_supplements" title="Vitamin and mineral supplements">mineral supplements</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Colloidal_silver" title="Colloidal silver">colloidal silver</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> His ideas have been described by medical experts as false, misleading, and dangerous to the public.<sup id="cite_ref-ncahf_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ncahf-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Skeptic_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Skeptic-3">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Nutra_Smart_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nutra_Smart-5">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Quackwatch_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Quackwatch-6">[6]</a></sup> </p><p>He operates the alternative medicine website <b>Critical Health News</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup> </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Qualifications_and_naturopathic_career"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Qualifications and naturopathic career</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Nobel_Prize_nominee"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Nobel Prize nominee</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Dead_Doctors_Don.27t_Lie"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Dead Doctors Don't Lie</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Cholesterol_denialism"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Cholesterol denialism</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Colloidal_Minerals"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Colloidal Minerals</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Qualifications_and_naturopathic_career">Qualifications and naturopathic career</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joel_D._Wallach&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Qualifications and naturopathic career">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Wallach refers to himself as a physician. However, he is not qualified in this field.<sup id="cite_ref-ncahf_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ncahf-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup> He is a qualified veterinarian, but when it comes to human medicine, he is totally unreliable; he obtained his <a href="/wiki/Alternative_Medicine_Education" title="Alternative Medicine Education">ND</a> from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine.<sup id="cite_ref-Skeptic_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Skeptic-3">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ncahf_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ncahf-1">[1]</a></sup> </p><p>In the early 1980s, Wallach was associated with <a href="/wiki/Cancer_woo" class="mw-redirect" title="Cancer woo">cancer woo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Nutra_Smart_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nutra_Smart-5">[5]</a></sup> He described himself as a "Manner Metabolic Physician" and practiced metabolic therapy, a form of cancer quackery pioneered by Harold W. Manner.<sup id="cite_ref-ncahf_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ncahf-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup> This type of discredited treatment involved the use of <a href="/wiki/Laetrile" title="Laetrile">laetrile</a>, which is clinically ineffective for cancer and potentially toxic.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a></sup> </p><p>He also worked for the "Hospital Santa Monica", an alternative medicine clinic operated by convicted fraud Kurt Donsbach.<sup id="cite_ref-ncahf_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ncahf-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a></sup> </p><p>In 1995, it was reported that Wallach was practicing <a href="/wiki/Chelation_therapy" title="Chelation therapy">chelation therapy</a> for coronary artery disease at a clinic in <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>, <a href="/wiki/California" class="mw-redirect" title="California">California</a>, and that one of his patients had died following his advice to avoid help from a regular physician.<sup id="cite_ref-Nutra_Smart_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nutra_Smart-5">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ncahf_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ncahf-1">[1]</a></sup> Chelation therapy has been utilized by alternative medicine proponents, but is a serious misuse of the treatment.<sup id="cite_ref-Skeptic_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Skeptic-3">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Nutra_Smart_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nutra_Smart-5">[5]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Nobel_Prize_nominee">Nobel Prize nominee</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joel_D._Wallach&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Nobel Prize nominee">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Alternative medicine websites like to claim that Wallach was a <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize" title="Nobel Prize">Nobel Prize</a> nominee. What they do not mention is that he was nominated by the "Association of Eclectic Physicians", a non-scientific naturopathic group founded in 1982.<sup id="cite_ref-Nutra_Smart_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nutra_Smart-5">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Quackwatch_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Quackwatch-6">[6]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Quackwatch" title="Quackwatch">Quackwatch</a> have noted that: </p> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> <p>Wallach's supporters frequently describe him as a Nobel Prize nominee. Actually, he was "nominated" in 1991 for his "research" on cystic fibrosis by the Association of Eclectic Physicians, a naturopathic group with no scientific standing. His research findings were invalid, because the people he studied were self-selected, and not <a href="/wiki/Randomized_controlled_trial" title="Randomized controlled trial">randomized</a>; he did not follow an appropriate data-gathering protocol; his diagnoses were made with a questionnaire; and his report made claims about other data that were either unsupported or unreferenced. The Nobel Committee gave no credence to Wallach's "nomination" and, in an unprecedented move, officially denied that he was ever a legitimate nominee.<sup id="cite_ref-Quackwatch_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Quackwatch-6">[6]</a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p>This isn't <a href="/wiki/Nobel_disease" title="Nobel disease">Nobel disease</a>; this is "never even got in the Nobel Institute's doors". </p> <h2><span id="Dead_Doctors_Don't_Lie"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Dead_Doctors_Don.27t_Lie">Dead Doctors Don't Lie</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joel_D._Wallach&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Dead Doctors Don't Lie">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Wallach is known for his controversial audiotape <i>Dead Doctors Don't Lie</i>, 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-Skeptic_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Skeptic-3">[3]</a></sup> In the tape, he made a number of distortions, lies, and pseudoscientific claims.<sup id="cite_ref-Quackwatch_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Quackwatch-6">[6]</a></sup> </p><p>Wallach claimed that he has authored over 70 <a href="/wiki/Peer-reviewed" class="mw-redirect" title="Peer-reviewed">peer-reviewed</a> papers. Upon investigation, the real figure was only a handful.<sup id="cite_ref-Quackwatch_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Quackwatch-6">[6]</a></sup> Wallach said that cystic fibrosis is preventable and totally curable. Scientific evidence says otherwise.<sup id="cite_ref-Skeptic_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Skeptic-3">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup> He proclaimed that physicians have a life expectancy of only 58 years, which is entirely false and has been described by medical experts as an outright lie.<sup id="cite_ref-Quackwatch_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Quackwatch-6">[6]</a></sup> </p><p>Wallach claimed that five cultures in the world had average lifespans of 120-140 years when, in reality, no such cultures have existed.<sup id="cite_ref-Quackwatch_6-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Quackwatch-6">[6]</a></sup> He also made many false medical claims unsupported by clinical evidence, such as all aneurysms being caused by copper deficiency, male-pattern baldness being caused by tin deficiency, and Bell's palsy being caused by calcium deficiency.<sup id="cite_ref-Quackwatch_6-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Quackwatch-6">[6]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Cholesterol_denialism">Cholesterol denialism</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joel_D._Wallach&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Cholesterol denialism">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Wallach is a <a href="/wiki/Cholesterol_denialist" class="mw-redirect" title="Cholesterol denialist">cholesterol denialist</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Nutra_Smart_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nutra_Smart-5">[5]</a></sup> He believes that people should not worry about high blood cholesterol levels as they have no negative health effects. He has ignored the majority of scientific studies that have found that saturated fat intake and high LDL cholesterol levels increase the risk of cardiovascular disease.<sup id="cite_ref-Nutra_Smart_5-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nutra_Smart-5">[5]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Colloidal_Minerals">Colloidal Minerals</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joel_D._Wallach&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Colloidal Minerals">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <table class="letter" cellpadding="8" align="center" style="width:auto; background:#fff8f8; border:2px solid #bb8888; text-align:left; margin: 1em 20px 1em 20px; font-size:95%"> <tbody><tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/File:Duckhead.gif" class="image"><img alt="Duckhead.gif" src="/w/images/thumb/b/b0/Duckhead.gif/100px-Duckhead.gif" decoding="async" width="100" height="107" srcset="/w/images/b/b0/Duckhead.gif 1.5x" data-file-width="121" data-file-height="130" /></a> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Quackwatch" title="Quackwatch">Quackwatch</a> says: </b><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>The most notorious colloidal mineral promoter is Joel D. Wallach, DVM, ND, who says that Americans desperately need his minerals. Wallach has a long history of involvement in dubious healthcare schemes, such as laetrile treatment for cancer, as well as chelation and hydrogen peroxide therapies for coronary artery disease. He has also hosted an AM radio talk show in San Diego titled “Let’s Play Doctor” and briefly plied naturopathy at Kurt Donsbach‘s Hospital Santa Monica. </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Wallach's statements about colloidal minerals are entirely erroneous.<sup id="cite_ref-ncahf_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ncahf-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Quackwatch_6-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Quackwatch-6">[6]</a></sup> According to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Skeptic%27s_Dictionary" title="The Skeptic's Dictionary">The Skeptic's Dictionary</a></i>: </p> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> <p>Wallach claims that minerals in foods and most supplements are "metallic" and not as effective as "plant-based" colloidal minerals, which is nonsense because colloidal minerals are also "metallic," i.e., contain trace amounts of <a href="/wiki/Aluminum" title="Aluminum">aluminum</a> and <a href="/wiki/Heavy_metal" title="Heavy metal">heavy metals</a>. Being that colloidal has more to do with the origin, size, and structure of the mineral particles that with their effectiveness. Being metallic is irrelevant. Wallach claims that metallic minerals (i.e., regular vitamins and minerals) are only 8-12% absorbable while colloidal minerals are 98% absorbable. No data support this claim; Wallach seems to have made it up.<sup id="cite_ref-Skeptic_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Skeptic-3">[3]</a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joel_D._Wallach&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li>He was featured on <a href="/wiki/Coast_to_Coast_AM" title="Coast to Coast AM">Coast to Coast AM</a>.</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joel_D._Wallach&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nutra-smart.net/al.htm">A critical look at Youngevity & Dr Joel Wallach</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Joel_D._Wallach&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; font-size:80%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-ncahf-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-ncahf_1-0">1.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-ncahf_1-1">1.1</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-ncahf_1-2">1.2</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-ncahf_1-3">1.3</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-ncahf_1-4">1.4</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-ncahf_1-5">1.5</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-ncahf_1-6">1.6</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-ncahf_1-7">1.7</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-ncahf_1-8">1.8</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://quackwatch.org/ncahf/3-4-2/">NCAHF News, March/April 1996</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://thewallachfiles.com/about-dr-wallach/">https://thewallachfiles.com/about-dr-wallach/</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Skeptic-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Skeptic_3-0">3.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Skeptic_3-1">3.1</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Skeptic_3-2">3.2</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Skeptic_3-3">3.3</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Skeptic_3-4">3.4</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Skeptic_3-5">3.5</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Skeptic_3-6">3.6</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://skepdic.com/wallach.html">Joel D. Wallach, the "mineral doctor"</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180315085841/https://youngofficial.com/seven-benefits-of-colloidal-silver/">Seven Benefits of Colloidal Silver</a> Youngevity (archived from March 15, 2018).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Nutra_Smart-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Nutra_Smart_5-0">5.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Nutra_Smart_5-1">5.1</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Nutra_Smart_5-2">5.2</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Nutra_Smart_5-3">5.3</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Nutra_Smart_5-4">5.4</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Nutra_Smart_5-5">5.5</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Nutra_Smart_5-6">5.6</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nutra-smart.net/al.htm">Youngevity Australia, Colloidal Minerals & Dr Joel Wallach</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Quackwatch-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Quackwatch_6-0">6.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Quackwatch_6-1">6.1</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Quackwatch_6-2">6.2</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Quackwatch_6-3">6.3</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Quackwatch_6-4">6.4</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Quackwatch_6-5">6.5</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Quackwatch_6-6">6.6</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Quackwatch_6-7">6.7</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-Quackwatch_6-8">6.8</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/DSH/colloidalminerals.html">Colloidal Mineral Supplements: Unnecessary and Potentially Hazardous</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://criticalhealthnews.com/">Critical Health News</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-8">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.healthwatcher.net/Quackerywatch/Colonics/index.html">Colloidal Minerals Miracle or Menace</a> "Wallach is a total and utter quack. He is an ND, and a veterinarian. He is not licensed to perform human medical autopsies, as he claims."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-9">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/manner.html">Manner Metabolic Therapy</a> "No scientific study has ever shown that "metabolic therapy" or any of its components is effective against cancer or any other serious disease."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-10">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Nightingale SL. (1984). "Laetrile: the regulatory challenge of an unproven remedy". Public Health Reports. 99 (4): 333–8.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-11">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Milazzo S, Horneber M (April 2015). "Laetrile treatment for cancer". The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (4): CD005476.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-12">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">For information on Donsbach check out <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.casewatch.net/crim/donsbach/declaration.shtml">Kurt Donsbach Convicted Again</a>, or <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/donsbach.html">The Shady Activities of Kurt Donsbach</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-13">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/cystic-fibrosis/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20353706">Cystic fibrosis</a> "There is no cure for cystic fibrosis, but treatment can ease symptoms and reduce complications."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-14">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">James Pontolillo, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://quackwatch.org/related/DSH/colloidalminerals/">Colloidal Minerals: Unnecessary and Potentially Hazardous</a>. 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