Steve Jobs was likely a victim of homeopathy, expert tells Australian conference
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/steve_jobs_was_likely_victim_conference_UsflbUtE2MZpFr9py0rJXP#ixzz1ggVZEewU
My first thought was this is odd since the full details of Jobs alternative medical treatment haven't been disclosed.
It has been reported that Jobs delayed possible life saving surgery for nine months to pursue alternative treatments and there has been much discussion whether the delay would have made any difference in outcome. Some reports say his cancer, a neuroendocrine tumor, that affects the cells that make hormones like insulin. was found very early due to an unrelated CAT scan and would have been curable if he didn't wait to operate. Other reports say that cancer already has spread. Jobs didn't want to be "opened up". Jobs spent $100,000 to have his DNA sequenced to seek specific treatments that might have been genetically beneficial for his type of pancreatic cancer and subsequent liver metastases. Jobs had access to the best alternative medical advice. It is also has been discussed whether his celebrity status got him an early liver transplant bypassing normal wait times. It would be highly unlikely that Jobs solely, if actually, used homeopathy and if so, from a classical homeopath.
No other mainstream, alternative, complementary source specifically implicated homeopathy with Jobs' death.
Andrew Weil doesn't mention homeopathy http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/27/opinion/weil-steve-jobs/index.html
David Gorski, surgical oncologist, researched Jobs' treatment doesn't mention homeopathy and he checked through the post-death release of Jobs' biography. Jobs had a famous personal biographer, Walter Isaacson, follow him to ensure his life story was properly and honestly told.
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/one-more-thing/
No mention of homeopathy by Walter Isaacson on a 60 Minutes TV interview recently http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7385688n
Another, no mention of homeopathy http://gawker.com/5851835/steve-jobs-regretted-wasting-time-on-alternative-medicine
Scientific American, no mention of homeopathy http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=alternative-medicine-extend-abbreviate-steve-jobs-life
NY Times, again no mention of homeopathy http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/health/hindsight-is-kind-to-steve-jobss-decision-to-delay-surgery.html?_r=1
Again, no mention of homeopathy but other treatments Jobs used. http://www.ajc.com/opinion/smart-people-dumb-choices-1249315.html
Instead, according to Isaacson, Jobs opted for a combination of diet, spiritualists and macrobiotics — "roots and vegetables" — and waited nine months to begin treatment in earnest. By then, Isaacson said, the cancer had spread from Jobs' pancreas to the surrounding tissue. Jobs explained, "I didn't want my body to be opened. ... I didn't want to be violated in that way." Isaacson concludes with the question: "How could such a smart man do such a stupid thing?"
Not familiar with Edzard Ernst, my Googling shows he founded the Complementary Medicine Dep't of at University of Exeter England and after being accused of breaching a confidence by negatively commenting on a British CAM report before it was officially released, commissioned by Prince Charles, was then found innocent, he feels he was treated as persona non grata, funding for his dep't ceased and he took early retirement in 2011. The Lancet editor wrote,
"Professor Ernst seems to have broken every professional code of scientific behaviour by disclosing correspondence referring to a document that is in the process of being reviewed and revised prior to publication. This breach of confidence is to be deplored."
Ernst wrote "Should We Maintain an Open Mind about Homeopathy?" highly critical of it.
Is it possible Edzard Ernst has a vendetta against homeopathy?
Jobs is considered a god-like visionary figure behind Apple and having homeopathy associated with his death, if not actualy true, should not be allowed to go unchallenged.
The sound bite-like publicity alone is damaging to homeopathy as the public reads these headlines propagated through many news services.
Even if this were true, one would have to look at who gave him homeopathic remedies, what their background is, whether professionally trained/certified, lay or claiming to be a homeopath or using homeopathy as part of other alternative treatments.
Susan
Steve Jobs was likely a victim of homeopathy, expert tells Australian conference
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/steve_jobs_was_likely_victim_conference_UsflbUtE2MZpFr9py0rJXP#ixzz1ggVZEewU
My first thought was this is odd since the full details of Jobs alternative medical treatment haven't been disclosed.
It has been reported that Jobs delayed possible life saving surgery for nine months to pursue alternative treatments and there has been much discussion whether the delay would have made any difference in outcome. Some reports say his cancer, a neuroendocrine tumor, that affects the cells that make hormones like insulin. was found very early due to an unrelated CAT scan and would have been curable if he didn't wait to operate. Other reports say that cancer already has spread. Jobs didn't want to be "opened up". Jobs spent $100,000 to have his DNA sequenced to seek specific treatments that might have been genetically beneficial for his type of pancreatic cancer and subsequent liver metastases. Jobs had access to the best alternative medical advice. It is also has been discussed whether his celebrity status got him an early liver transplant bypassing normal wait times. It would be highly unlikely that Jobs solely, if actually, used homeopathy and if so, from a classical homeopath.
No other mainstream, alternative, complementary source specifically implicated homeopathy with Jobs' death.
Andrew Weil doesn't mention homeopathy http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/27/opinion/weil-steve-jobs/index.html
David Gorski, surgical oncologist, researched Jobs' treatment doesn't mention homeopathy and he checked through the post-death release of Jobs' biography. Jobs had a famous personal biographer, Walter Isaacson, follow him to ensure his life story was properly and honestly told.
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/one-more-thing/
No mention of homeopathy by Walter Isaacson on a 60 Minutes TV interview recently http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7385688n
Another, no mention of homeopathy http://gawker.com/5851835/steve-jobs-regretted-wasting-time-on-alternative-medicine
Scientific American, no mention of homeopathy http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=alternative-medicine-extend-abbreviate-steve-jobs-life
NY Times, again no mention of homeopathy http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/health/hindsight-is-kind-to-steve-jobss-decision-to-delay-surgery.html?_r=1
Again, no mention of homeopathy but other treatments Jobs used. http://www.ajc.com/opinion/smart-people-dumb-choices-1249315.html
Instead, according to Isaacson, Jobs opted for a combination of diet, spiritualists and macrobiotics — "roots and vegetables" — and waited nine months to begin treatment in earnest. By then, Isaacson said, the cancer had spread from Jobs' pancreas to the surrounding tissue. Jobs explained, "I didn't want my body to be opened. ... I didn't want to be violated in that way." Isaacson concludes with the question: "How could such a smart man do such a stupid thing?"
Not familiar with Edzard Ernst, my Googling shows he founded the Complementary Medicine Dep't of at University of Exeter England and after being accused of breaching a confidence by negatively commenting on a British CAM report before it was officially released, commissioned by Prince Charles, was then found innocent, he feels he was treated as persona non grata, funding for his dep't ceased and he took early retirement in 2011. The Lancet editor wrote,
"Professor Ernst seems to have broken every professional code of scientific behaviour by disclosing correspondence referring to a document that is in the process of being reviewed and revised prior to publication. This breach of confidence is to be deplored."
Ernst wrote "Should We Maintain an Open Mind about Homeopathy?" highly critical of it.
Is it possible Edzard Ernst has a vendetta against homeopathy?
Jobs is considered a god-like visionary figure behind Apple and having homeopathy associated with his death, if not actualy true, should not be allowed to go unchallenged.
The sound bite-like publicity alone is damaging to homeopathy as the public reads these headlines propagated through many news services.
Even if this were true, one would have to look at who gave him homeopathic remedies, what their background is, whether professionally trained/certified, lay or claiming to be a homeopath or using homeopathy as part of other alternative treatments.
Susan
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