elton fan

Has anyone in this group found any success following the ideas of Dr.
Larry Clapp?

http://www.prostate90.com

ed friedman

Elton,

I'm afraid that you'll be hard pressed to find anyone, including Dr.
Clapp, who has become free of prostate cancer by using his methods. The
problem is that it is impossible to prove a negative. I.e., a biopsy
can show the presence of prostate cancer cells, but there is no test
that defintively proves the absence of any prostate cancer cells. Also,
the ideas behind his methods are devoid of scientific merit. E.g., even
if you believe that changing one's hormonal balance can eliminate
prostate cancer, it is impossible to do so safely without using drugs in
conjunction with hormones. His "drug free" treatments for prostate
cancer are just plain bogus.

Ed Friedman

george conklin

What I find interesting about your post is that you find it impossible to
test his theory, no matter what. The only real tes would mean time of
survival following a standardized diagnosis, which is just what the whole
oncology field is lacking---and I'm afraid it is on purpose.

steve jordan

What I find interesting about George's message is that he evidently has
no idea at all of the nature of this Clapp fellow's business and
background.

I have not studied it in depth, having little time for foolishness, but
I have learned this much in about ten minutes:

1. Clapp promotes medical nostrums. He is not a medical doctor. He is a
lawyer (kyrie eleison!). He holds a PhD, for whatever it's worth, from
an outfit called Galien University Tutorial College (mail-order degrees,
anyone?). It was formerly known as Galien College of Natural Healing. It
was based upon his "years of research" into what he's selling.

I'll bet that I can buy a PhD just as good as his within 24 hours -- if
someone else would pay the fee. George?

2. He is covered on the Quackwatch website:
http://www.quackwatch.org/00AboutQuackwatch/altseek.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/t15m

3. It does not appear that Clapp offers much of anything that other
medical scammers don't.
Mostly eye of newt and toe of frog, I think.

Since George claims to believe that there is a purposeful lack of
standardized diagnoses (whose purpose, why, what diagnoses?), if I
interpret his turgid language correctly, perhaps he will undertake to
correct this omission. Standing by.....

Regards,

Steve J

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not
sure about the universe."
-- Albert Einstein

george conklin

Ok, so he is a quack. But that is not what I was addressing. Even
so-called 'certified' procedures remain poorly evaluated. The money is in
the treatment, NOT the result.

docsafari

Thank God for Quackwatch. Clapp is not just a quack, he is a crook.
(One of very many I am afraid.) Too many people fall for his kind of
line and end up dead (and their families impoverished.) . Granted, so
do people who take standard medical treatments, but the track record
for the latter is a tad better than for that of Clapp and his ilk.
(And there are scientific studies in reputable journals to support
this.) Cancer is deadly and hard to cure even in the best of
scenarios. As long as that remains true, there will be room for the
****roaches to crawl out of the woodwork and spread their false
promises.

I have even learned to be leery of approaches that are far less crooked
than Clapp's, such as well-meaning nutritional approaches which in the
end (and not counting the extremes of a really lousy diet) may make
only a tiny difference in the face of cancer ...

docsafari

Thank God for Quackwatch. Clapp is not just a quack, he is a crook.
(One of very many I am afraid.) Too many people fall for his kind of
line and end up dead (and their families impoverished.) . Granted, so
do people who take standard medical treatments, but the track record
for the latter is a tad better than for that of Clapp and his ilk.
(And there are scientific studies in reputable journals to support
this.) Cancer is deadly and hard to cure even in the best of
scenarios. As long as that remains true, there will be room for the
****roaches to crawl out of the woodwork and spread their false
promises.

I have even learned to be leery of approaches that are far less crooked
than Clapp's, such as well-meaning nutritional approaches which in the
end (and not counting the extremes of a really lousy diet) may make
only a tiny difference in the face of cancer ...

george conklin

Ok, so he is a quack.

elton fan

Thanks Ed and to the others for the advice. I thought his self-cure
claim appeared bogus. I like the idea of using phytotherapy to improve
one's health; however, there are too many quacks trying to profit off
of the hopes of people using claims for which there is no scientific
support.

elton fan

LOL! I knew he was not a medical doctor, but I did not know his "PhD"
came from such an unknown institution. I could not even find a
web-site for this "school" anywhere. It's probably nothing more than a
vegetable garden in someone's backyard and the degree is not even worth
the paper it is printed on.