Covid-19 related treatment and other scams

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Tia

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I've just seen on Facebook that Ashok Gupta (of the 'Gupta Process') has released a 'package' called the 10 day coronovirus challenge. He doesn't claim that his techniques (mediation, NLP, neural retraining etc. I think) can prevent you getting the virus in so many words but I think he very much suggests it. Statements like "Some of the tools in this program have been scientifically shown to reduce the chances of contracting an infection from a virus by over 80%".

I totally get the fact that stress affects the immune system and I'm fully into mindfulness, meditation etc. but I'm just so uncomfortable with the way he is presenting this. He's using exactly the same tactics as he does to try to get people to sign up to his ME recovery programme.

The program he's offering:



More on him:
https://www.meassociation.org.uk/20...me-for-me-cfs-and-fibromyalgia-11-april-2018/

What do you think?
 
Tia said:
What do you think?
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I think there are some very questionable claims being made there -

The course (free) will boost your immune system and so reduce your chance of catching the virus.

If you catch the virus, doing the course is likely to reduce covid 19 symptoms.

Then, and most dangerous of all in my eyes, because your symptoms are reduced you will be less likely to infect other people. At a time when we want people to stop taking risks this is highly irresponsible.
 
I'm glad you feel the same.

(At the moment I'm feeling like the whole world is experiencing a lot of what we've been experiencing for a long time and now this seems to include being targeted by people like this!)

I really dislike the way he talks about his techniques as equivalent to hand-washing and 'the thing the media isn't talking about' as though he's got some great secret. I think this is really dangerous.

I wonder if there's anyone we can complain to?
 
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Phil Parker was in The Sun, offering ways to boost ones immune system. Phew. We're saved.

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Tia said:
At the moment I'm feeling like the whole world is experiencing a lot of what we've been experiencing for a long time and now this seems to include being targeted by people like this!
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the trouble is the ME communtiy identified it as quackery long ago but people are not going to find that out for themselves until much later.
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Phil Parker was in The Sun
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in light of all the attention Esther Ranzen and her daughter have been getting recently it's a pity that she doesn't mention that her sick daughter was supposedly 'cured' by Phil Parkers expensive 'treatment' and expose him for the charlatan he is.
 
Just a general acknowledgement there are a lot of treatment scam sites being created daily.

New York Attorney General asks domain registrars to crack down on coronavirus scam sites
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpres...ulations/fighting-coronavirus-scam-sites.html
Security Affairs said:
Coronavirus-themed attacks continue to increase, experts warn of thousands of COVID-19 scam and malware sites are being created every day.
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My evil plan to register "thiscovid19treatmentisprobablynotascam.com" has been foiled.
 
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A member who wishes to remain anonymous made a complaint to the advertising standards agency (ASA) about the Gupta 10 day Corona virus challenge.

The ASA have responded to say that there is a previous ruling against the owner or originator of the video and the video seems to fall within the scope of that ruling the case has been passed to the Compliance Team.

The Compliance Team don't report back or update the original complainant but will take appropriate action.

We assume this is because this will be considered part of the original complaint or ruling against Gupta and may be seen as a matter of enforcing the previous ruling rather than needing to open a whole new case.
 
As coronavirus spreads around the world, so too do the quack cures

Politicians, faith leaders and other authority figures have been touting dubious remedies

In India, politicians from the ruling Hindu nationalist BJP party have been touting cow urine as a cure for Covid-19. In Tanzania the president has promised that taking communion in church would “burn” the virus away. In Brazil a congressman claimed a day of fasting would halt its spread.

And the leader of the most powerful country in the world, Donald Trump, has been touting as a miracle cure an unproven anti-malarial drug that has contributed to at least one death.

There have also been dubious claims about technology. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards announced it had invented a device that can detect coronavirus at a distance of 100 metres, using a magnetic field and “bipolar virus”.

And in the UK, Eamonn Holmes, the presenter of ITV’s This Morning, said “many people are rightly concerned”, about conspiracy theories linking the roll-out of 5G mobile phone networks to coronavirus, while insisting he did not believe in the hoaxes himself.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...too-do-the-quack-cures?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
 
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