Nevada Republican says cancer is a fungus

[Youssuf Ramadan]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/nevada-republican-says-cancer-is-a-fungus-you-can-flush-out-with-salt-water/

Nevada Republican says cancer is a fungus you can flush out with salt water


Nevada state Assemblywoman Michele Fiore (R) plans to introduce a bill she said would provide more options for cancer patients â€" but actually relies on what medical experts call a myth, Think Progress reported.
“If you have cancer, which I believe is a fungus, and we can put a pic line into your body and we’re flushing with, say, salt water, sodium cardonate through that line and flushing out the fungus,” Fiore said on her radio show over the weekend. “These are some procedures that are not FDA-approved in America that are very inexpensive, cost-effective.”
As Ralston Reports noted, Fiore likely meant to say “sodium bicarbonate,” commonly known as baking soda.
According to the American Cancer Society, (ACS) the argument that sodium bicarbonate can be used to flush cancer out of the body stems from “unsubstantiated treatments” by an Italian doctor, Tullio Simoncini. Simoncini’s license to practice medicine was revoked in 2003. Three years later, he was convicted of wrongful death and swindling.
“No peer-reviewed articles in medical journals were found to support the theory that cancer is caused by a fungus infection or a yeast infection. Available peer-reviewed medical journals do not support claims that sodium bicarbonate works as a cancer treatment in humans,” the ACS states on its website. “Scientists require certain kinds of evidence to support claims that a kind of germ causes a certain disease. The first requirement is that the germ should be present in all cases of the disease. Simoncini claims that all tumors contain fungi. But these fungi have not been found in tumors when biopsies are examined by methods capable of revealing fungi in infected tissue.”
Fiore said she is still “waiting for the language to come back” on the measure, which she calls the “terminally-ill bill.” She described it as a response to seeing Nevadans leave the U.S. for what she called “alternative treatments” after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
“This isn’t the death doctor bill,” she said, adding, “Nevada â€" it’s the capital of entertainment. Why not make it the medical capital of the world, too?”
The assemblywoman, who accused federal officials last year of “coming up” with the grazing fees that spurred their dispute with rancher Cliven Bundy, introduced another bill last week that would allow licensed gun owners to carry firearms on college campuses within the state, saying it would prevent “young, hot little girls on campus” from sexual assaults.

Well...... there ya go.  Words fail me.... 

[Munch]

Oh no this is great. This here is like a permanent stamp of authenticity, to show just why if it ever comes into context why republicans can't be trusted, pull this little piece of information out each time.

[Youssuf Ramadan]

Suffice it to say, this festering ass-nugget has the backing of card-carrying cracknut and purveyor of reptilian shape-shifter theory, David Icke himself.

[Atheon]

If it was possible to cure cancer with salt water and baking soda, wouldn't it be a routine and widely used treatment?? Wouldn't this discovery be headline news??

Republicans... not exactly known for their brain-thinkin' skills...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

“If you have cancer, which I believe is a fungus,...

Beliefs that kill.

[Green Bottle]

What a Moron, sounds like he might have FUNGUS on the brain......

[stromboli]

I live in a state next to Nevada. I don't go there. Now you see why.

[Mermaid]

Well, why didn't I think of that!? It's so simple! Stupid scientists and their decades of cancer research. You'd think one of them would realize, wouldn't you!?

[stromboli]

So apparently in order to get elected these days you have to be a semi-literate nutbag full of conspiracy theories. Way to go America.

[Mermaid]

And aside from all that, I am happy that I now know how to cure a fungal infection, too. It all seems so clear to me now.

[Mermaid]

My SIL was diagnosed with breast cancer about 8 years ago. She had some initial treatments, but they made her sick. She went into deep denial, and did some reading online about things like baking soda and cottage cheese and stuff that was supposed to cure cancer. That's how she dealt with her diagnosis.

She has been gone a little over a year now. I can't say that I find people who spread this sort of illiterate garbage to be responsible for her death and for the deaths of people like her for otherwise curable diseases (like Steve Jobs), but I can't say I don't find them partially responsible either. Everyone has to take their own responsibility at some point, but when such a huge amount of misinformation is perpetuated on social media and the rest of the internet, people do tend to get on the bandwagon.

[trdsf]

Let me guess: her party caucus put her on the state house's science and technology committee?

(back from a quick googling).  Even worse.  She's on the Health and Human Services. and Education committees.

That's it, irony is now officially dead.

[Mermaid]

Let me guess: her party caucus put her on the state house's science and technology committee?

(back from a quick googling).  Even worse.  She's on the Health and Human Services. and Education committees.

That's it, irony is now officially dead.

I cannot un-know this.

Fuck me.

[the_antithesis]

Hopefully soon former Nevada state Assemblywoman.

[stromboli]

Hopefully soon former Nevada state Assemblywoman.

Lol, don't hold your breath. Any state that thinks Cliven Bundy is a hero has got some serious issues that go deep, deep down.