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Justin Trottier and Michael Payton: If it talks like a quack ...

Posted: March 19, 2010, 4:30 PM by NP Editor Filed under: Justin Trottier,Michael Payton

 

As two self-professed skeptics, we came to the Total Health show in Toronto this past weekend with the expectation we would encounter some obtuse ideas about medicine and health. And sure enough, we saw plenty of quantum healers, celestial healers, aura photographers, soothsayers, homeopaths, naturopaths, mineropaths, fairy communicators, chiropractors, crystal channellers, hemp farmers and musical miracle composers. No GPs, dentists, optometrists, proctologists, psychiatrists, dermatologists, cardiologists or neurologists. They wouldn’t have been welcomed there. Take Dr. Joel Wallach. He has been performing research on the benefits of consuming colloidal minerals. "I've been doing this for 32 years and none of your damn doctors are interested," he said. He is the author of Dead Doctors Don't Lie, an indictment of the medical establishment. "Dead doctors don't lie. They're dead," he explains. He claims there are 15 million instances of people killed or injured by doctors. Bizarrely, however, he enjoys brandishing the doctor moniker. The former veterinarian turned naturopath claims to have performed 20,000 autopsies, which comes to an autopsy a day for over 54 years. He seems to have a love-hate relationship with medicine, at once condemning the establishment while simultaneously buttressing his claims with evidence garnered from it.

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