Another example of claim of a 'cure' - Reverse Therapy and Mickel Therapy

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@Russell Fleming

eta:
The reason I posted this is because it explicitly says on the website

"The long awaited cure."


http://www.mickeltherapy.com/

 

Yeah, there was a documentary a few years ago in which the Mickel therapy featured. Nasim Marie Jafrie was in too (she wasn't supportive of Mickel but was giving general background).

edit - link to MEA page about the documentary with links to it. The documentary itself is in two parts -

https://www.meassociation.org.uk/20...ss-programme-link-to-watch-it-again-facility/

 

I have a friend with CF who spent a fortune last year on Mickel therapy.

She no longer has CF, but remains tired and limited. Sound familiar?

 

I wrote about Mickel therapy back in 2007. It's possible not all the links will work now.

http://liverpool-leftovers.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-to-part-patients-from-their-money.html

 

Skimming through it and it's basically the same content as the NHS-IAPT/FND, mind-body stuff. Which makes sense, when medical authorities make stuff up it's only natural for people whose job also happens to be making stuff up will just use it as is since it's basically accepted as valid clinical evidence.

Seriously check it out, it's roughly the same content as what IAPT teaches about ME. It's basically identical to what Chalder, Sharpe and the rest have been saying, just adapted as a commercial product.

So now alternative medicine simply has to copy-paste from "clinical evidence" and sell their own branded pseudoscience. Is there even a line between alternative medicine and actual medicine anymore? There isn't even a need to modify the content, it's already ready-made for a pseudoscience belief system, it literally was created this way.

Good job, BPS people. Not only are you preparing the ground for the golden age of medical pseudoscience, it will literally use your own stuff in the process! Ain't that great? IAPT is basically a white label commercial pseudoscience factory. Now that is a mindbender.

 

You can read the book for free here


https://intuitivehealth.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Mickel-Book-on-CFS.pdf

 

Skimming a bit and, yeah, it's a bunch of woo. The kind that Sharpe would love, though, pretty big on the mind-body crap. Pretty much the same tripe as every other tripe, though.

 

There is truly a market for desperate people. The claims of recovery can be marketed. It can be a therapy, a device that is sold or rented, it can be a diet, supplements. It could also be a diagnostic test (live blood analysis, anyone? hair testing?). It’s been going on for decades.