An open letter to the Prince of Wales: with respect, your highness, you've got it wrong

The colossal arrogance of Michael Baum's message to Prince Charles
that he shouldn't speak up about alternative health methods--unfortunately
all too characteristic of the medical profession--is one of the main
reasons people are turning to alternative techniques in such record
numbers, aside from the fact that they work.

As one who has cured himself of cancer using holistic methods,
without going to a doctor, I know whereof I speak. Conventional medicine
has nothing to offer for cancer except surgery, radiation, and
chemotherapy--otherwise known as slash, burn, and poison--and more and
more people are catching on that the mutilation, burning, and toxic
chemicals are completely unnecessary.

Modern medicine, in thrall to the pharmaceutical industry, fails
utterly to understand that cancer itself arises from toxicity and that a
cure depends on righting the body's internal energy balance. Gerson's diet
works well, and so do many other techniques. The fact that large numbers
of people are trying them and succeeding is a reproach to medicine's many
failures. The holistic way typically offers superior results with fewer or
no side effects and much lower cost--not to mention that patients aren't
sent through an assembly line and get a practitioner who actually has the
time to listen and respond.

Competing interests:
None declared