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Noel Edmonds cures cancer!

Azrael 5 said:
Yes it's the Daily Mail but Noel Edmonds is claiming his invention(a mat) can cure cancer and has indeed cured him of it. Been much uproar on Twitter.:)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...sagree-heated-Morning-interview.html#comments
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Here I am an atheist, and news like this makes me want to believe in a Hell for people who promote false cancer cures. I simply cannot imagine the depravity of those individuals who would seek to scam money from frightened, desperately ill people.
 
Giordano said:
Here I am an atheist, and news like this makes me want to believe in a Hell for people who promote false cancer cures. I simply cannot imagine the depravity of those individuals who would seek to scam money from frightened, desperately ill people.
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amen. Failing a trip to Hell, I would be more than happy to dole out a sample here on Earth for them.
 
Giordano said:
Here I am an atheist, and news like this makes me want to believe in a Hell for people who promote false cancer cures. I simply cannot imagine the depravity of those individuals who would seek to scam money from frightened, desperately ill people.
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This.

As someone currently battling cancer, **** this guy and everyone like him.
 
I have been cured of cancer (well, I am in remission). All it took was six weeks of chemo, several operations, and on-going daily medication.

I feel fine.

Norm
 
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For those who don't know him, Noel Edmonds was a UK TV presenter in a light entertainment role in the 70s to 90s. He went out of popularity, kind of, and his show stopped. While unemployed (apart from occasional work) between 1999 and 2004, he wished he had a job, and was subsequently chosen to host inexplicably popular show Deal or No Deal in 2005, where seal-impersonating morons who don't know how to calculate E(x) open boxes.

This led him to believe in something called 'cosmic ordering', by which I understand if you wish hard enough for something, you get it. Similar to the secret, or positive thinking, or prayer.

By his own reasoning, then, you shouldn't even need a mat.

Not only therefore is he an idiot for believing in nonsense, he's a **** trying to exploit others' misery, fear and anguish.
 
Another claim that some quack device treats everything from stress to cancer. My wife is dying of cervical cancer, and so many of these morons tell us eat this or try this holistic remedy and everything will magically be okay. I just don't want to hear this crap anymore. People like this are a disease. I want to kick him in the nuts and tell him to just use his mat to fix it.
 
simonxlong said:
My wife is dying of cervical cancer, and so many of these morons tell us eat this or try this holistic remedy and everything will magically be okay. I just don't want to hear this crap anymore. People like this are a disease. I want to kick him in the nuts and tell him to just use his mat to fix it.
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If you ever get the chance, I'll gladly hold him down for you.

That's the sick part about scum like Edmonds - they never even consider how it impacts on people like you & your wife.
 
To be fair, he never claimed the gizmo cured cancer. The veracity of the claim he did make is somewhat questionable having said that.
 
bluesjnr said:
To be fair, he never claimed the gizmo cured cancer. The veracity of the claim he did make is somewhat questionable having said that.
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He was on the radio yesterday lunchtime.
It was very annoying, but I persisted.

It's not his device, but one he used with his cancer. He does seem to be promoting it, which had me a little suspicious.

Apparently illness (and that includes cancer) is all down to negative energy, or some such nonsense. And this electro-magnetic doo-hickey will help you stay positive and so illness free.

It is, of course, all bollocks...and I could almost feel the scientisty doctor type they had on to counter the claims trying to hold himself back from saying just that.
 
Of course they are.
They would be in deep doo doo if they looked like they might agree with him in anyway as the regulatory lot would come down on them like a ton of bricks.

As it is, they can continue to spout vague nonsense about the device helping cells in some mysterious and magical way...at 2-3K a pop.
 
simonxlong said:
Another claim that some quack device treats everything from stress to cancer. My wife is dying of cervical cancer, and so many of these morons tell us eat this or try this holistic remedy and everything will magically be okay. I just don't want to hear this crap anymore. People like this are a disease. I want to kick him in the nuts and tell him to just use his mat to fix it.
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Exactly.

bluesjnr said:
To be fair, he never claimed the gizmo cured cancer. The veracity of the claim he did make is somewhat questionable having said that.
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He said it "tackles cancer". :rolleyes:

Captain_Swoop said:
He tweeted about it's cancer curing abilities, the manufacturers of the device have distanced themselves from his claims

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36470979
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Ah, the Cancer Act 1939. A wonderful piece of legislation.
 
Tolls said:
He was on the radio yesterday lunchtime.
It was very annoying, but I persisted.

It's not his device, but one he used with his cancer. He does seem to be promoting it, which had me a little suspicious.

Apparently illness (and that includes cancer) is all down to negative energy, or some such nonsense. And this electro-magnetic doo-hickey will help you stay positive and so illness free.

It is, of course, all bollocks...and I could almost feel the scientisty doctor type they had on to counter the claims trying to hold himself back from saying just that.
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Yup, I listen to it too. Like all woo meisters, Mr Edmonds littered his rubbish with little nuggets of truth, such as:- not eating junk food, living healthy lifestyle, not smoking / drinking too much etc. I can see how some desperate, vulnerable people can get sucked in the mire of snake oil cures.
 
Does the "magic curing floor mat" vibrate at low frequency?

It says "produces low intensity and frequency pulsed electromagnetic fields" ... because low and medium frequency vibrations are proven to help heal bones and muscle injuries (some people say that's one reason cats purr) ...

... I use it as an excuse to moan and groan constantly everytime I get busted up falling off my long board! :)

But seriously ... that would not help cancer .. and $4000?? I'm sure the members here could come up with a vibrating door mat for a bit less cost
 
Yeggster said:
Does the "magic curing floor mat" vibrate at low frequency?

It says "produces low intensity and frequency pulsed electromagnetic fields" ... because low and medium frequency vibrations are proven to help heal bones and muscle injuries (some people say that's one reason cats purr) ...

... I use it as an excuse to moan and groan constantly everytime I get busted up falling off my long board! :)

But seriously ... that would not help cancer .. and $4000?? I'm sure the members here could come up with a vibrating door mat for a bit less cost
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VIbrating mats on Amazon are well under $100. But of course they won't cure your cancer. But then again, neither will the $4000 mats either.
 
Stuart said:
Yup, I listen to it too. Like all woo meisters, Mr Edmonds littered his rubbish with little nuggets of truth, such as:- not eating junk food, living healthy lifestyle, not smoking / drinking too much etc. I can see how some desperate, vulnerable people can get sucked in the mire of snake oil cures.
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That's what makes these people a plague. They cloak their lies in fancy rhetoric and half truths, which makes their woo bs sound more believable. While in this case a vibrating mat as a cancer cure is pretty fantastic, many holistic "remedies" seem plausible at first, especially when presented correctly by hucksters who seem to know what they are talking about. When you are in pain or dying, you want to believe that something, anything, will help. Take that desperation and mix it with a well put together pitch, and it is really easy to see why so many people fall for these false "cures".

Another thing I have noticed is that a lot of these "remedies" are actually things that are basically good for you in a healthy living sense, such as good nutrition and exercise programs. The con men take advantage by packaging this stuff in special programs and charging five or ten times its actually worth, while touting its abilities to help cure cancer or other diseases like arthritis.

It's bad enough that my wife's oncologist warned us about con men like this and actually provides literature on how to spot them. One of the biggest indicators is almost all the pitches don't outright claim to be a "treatment" for cancer but instead imply that it might be. It's just like in this case, where Noel Edmonds seems to be trying to dance around outright saying the device cures cancer, while essentially giving that exact impression.
 
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