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Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Lubo the Cancer Quack

I'm going to be straight with you. It's almost impossible not to laugh at the details of this story, but let's try to keep in mind that an innocent woman died here. It's still okay to laugh; you should just feel a little bad about it. In Stirling, Western Australia, a fake doctor named Lubo Bitelco killed a pancreatic cancer paitent named Shannon O'Donnell by treating her with "ozone therapy." The procedure had nothing to do with curing cancer, but it had everything to do with blowing ozone gas into O'Donnell's vagina while forcing her to move up and down on a bed saying, "Oh, boy." Bitelco then showed O'Donnell a photo album of his other female patients--all pictured in the nude--while assuring her that she wouldn't be photographed during the treatment. O'Donnell later died from sepsis, though it's unknown whether this was due to the ozone therapy or her cancer. In 2006, six other Australian cancer patients died after receiving ozone therapy. Fake cancer cures are a very real, very sad, and very dangerous problem throughout the world. And while some seem legitimate to the credulous eye, it's probably a safe bet that your doctor's a quake if he blows into your vagina and forces you to simulate an orgasm. More details here.

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