Nevada Lawmaker Says Cancer Is A Fungus, Recommends Simply Washing It Out

[progressoid]

Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore (R) wants to reform the rules of end-of-life medical care so that more cancer patients can simply flush out their disease using baking soda.

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As first reported by Jon Ralston, Fiore told listeners: “If you have cancer, which I believe is a fungus, and we can put a pic line into your body and we’re flushing, let’s say, salt water, sodium cardonate [sic], through that line, and flushing out the fungus… These are some procedures that are not FDA-approved in America that are very inexpensive, cost-effective.” The American Cancer Society warns that while cancer patients whose immune systems are weakened by high doses of chemotherapy can sometimes contract fungal infections, “there is no evidence that antifungal treatment causes the patients’ tumors to shrink.” Cancer Research UK dismisses the claim that sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) can cure cancer as a debunked “persistent cancer myth.”

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Weeks after being removed from her position as Republican Majority Leader over allegations of more than $1 million in tax liens, Fiore made news last Wednesday for her assertion that “young, hot little girls on campus” need to be armed with guns to prevent themselves from being raped, saying that every citizen should “have the right to defend him or herself from sexual assault.”

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Although Fiore’s views on cancer are particularly fringe, the bill she is backing is gaining traction in a number of states. At least five states have now passed similar legislation that allows patients to use drugs not cleared by the FDA, dubbed so-called “right to try” bills. The campaign to pass these bills has been led by the libertarian Goldwater Institute.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/02/24/3626567/nevada-assemblywoman-cancer-fungus/

AAAAARRRRGH!

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. she is crazy

[HERVEPA]

2. Yeh. But crazy is now the new normal.

[Xithras]

3. While she's crazy, I don't really see "right to try" bills as a partisan issue.

Plenty of people on the left support right-to-try legislation. These laws simply say that, if you're diagnosed as having a terminal and untreatable condition, you can legally have access to drugs and treatments that aren't yet approved by the FDA. These can include everything from drugs that are already approved overseas but are pending FDA approval in the U.S., to experimental drug treatments, to foo-foo holistic treatments.

The way I see it, once medical science says that you're time is up, you should be free to put whatever you want into your own body. It's one thing to require safety testing of drugs to ensure that a patients life isn't put at risk, but once the patients life is ALREADY effectively over, I fail to see the harm in letting them pursue something experimental or fringe.

[giftedgirl77]

4. Ahhh, reminds me of the time my aunt said she saw...

My dad's cancer come up her garbage disposal. It was so weird because 2 months later he lost a lung, 6 months after that it spread to his leg. Tried to remove the tumor eventually lost the leg, next thing you know it was in his spine & groin.

He died Sept 2014 after trying all the regular treatments & her woo. Go figure.