You stay away from Ziggy Stardust and Severus Snape, Mike Adams!

[HuckleB]

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2016/01/19/you-stay-away-from-ziggy-stardust-and-severus-snape-mike-adams/

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Not surprisingly, I was very much saddened by David Bowie’s death a little more than a week ago, particularly given how it was such a surprise. No one knew that Bowie had cancer, and I was increasingly in awe at how he had managed to hide his illness for the 18 months since he was first diagnosed. We still don’t know for sure what kind of cancer Bowie died of. Bowie’s friend Ivo van Hove, the director of his musical Lazarus, has been quoted in an interview as saying that Bowie died of liver cancer, but I have been unable to find corroboration of this from other sources elsewhere. (My first guess would have been lung cancer, given Bowie’s longtime smoking habit.) Given that I’ve been in the biz long enough to know that lay people often refer to metastases of cancers from other organs to the liver as “liver cancer,” I wonder if Bowie had a different kind of cancer that had spread to his liver. I have no way of knowing that; so for now it is best to accept that he died of liver cancer. It doesn’t really matter. What does matter is that something’s happened that I hoped wouldn’t.

Regular readers know that I really, really detest Mike Adams, the quack apologist who has built a woo empire around his NaturalNews.com website. One thing that I detest about him in particular is something I first noticed him doing a long time ago. Basically, whenever a celebrity dies of cancer (and sometimes of other things), Adams manages to find a way to paint it as the evil oncology “industry” pushing that evil chemotherapy to kill the celebrity. His most recent target was Beau Biden, whose fatal brain cancer Adams blamed on GMOs (specifically glyphosate pesticides) and whose death Adams blamed on chemotherapy. At other times, he’s pulled variations of the same stunt, in essence spitting on the graves of Tony Snow, Patrick Swayze, Elizabeth Edwards, and Farrah Fawcett.

Every time, Adams’ MO is the same. He claims that it wasn’t the cancer that killed, but rather the chemotherapy, to which he often adds a faux-plaintive, regretful, “If only [insert name of dead celebrity] had used ‘natural treatments’ she would still be alive today.” Whenever he can, Adams likes to find a photo of the celebrity who died taken not long before death, when inevitably that celebrity, ravaged by cancer, appears shockingly emaciated (as Patrick Swayze did) and use for shock value to blame the celebrity’s condition on the chemotherapy, rather than the real cause, the cancer. I suppose that’s one good thing about how David Bowie kept his disease from the prying eyes of the press; there are no such photos of him near the end, as there are for Patrick Swayze and Steve Jobs, where Bowie looks extremely emaciated. True, there are fairly recent photos of Bowie out there. The most recent include photos taken at the opening of Bowie’s play in early December and photos from a photo shoot from an unknown time but presumably within a few weeks of his death. Although in both sets of photos, there were hints that the educated eye can pick up to suggest that Bowie’s health was not very good (one hint: look at his legs, particularly knees and ankles), those signs were relatively subtle and easily missed. Overall Bowie still looked amazingly good for someone with terminal cancer. No wonder Adams chose an old picture of him!

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In any case, this sort of vile gloating from this vulture is one reason why I so despise Mike Adams, and, in light of his ghoulish gloating over one of my all time favorite artists, I have just one thing to say to him:

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What is it with people like Adams? They are trying to convince people to submit to worthless treatments. They have to know that reality after all this time, but they don't stop. It's utterly incredible.

[jeff47]

1. Because they get paid for the worthless treatments.

One doesn't have to work on Wall Street to rank money above people.

[HuckleB]

2. Indeed. -eom-