Like a good authoritarian follower, Ms. Chang backed up her 'threat' with a symbol of the totalitarian state under which she exists - an image of a United States Dept. of Justice wallet (see below), which seems to suggest that she has perhaps internalized the fascistic ideology of the police state that is the US of A.
Many writers have published information on the benefits of a Ketogenic diet, including research conducted by Sott.net that was made freely available to all. Ms. Chang, however, obviously does not subscribe to the idea of the free flow of vitally important information in an age of massive information control and subversion.
Given that Ms. Chang is obviously more interested in personal profit rather than the dissemination of information that could help many people, we will no longer be carrying her articles. In chasing after self-aggrandizement at the expense of helping others, she has clearly aligned herself with the fundamentals of our pathologically narcissistic global society.
Name: Samantha Chang
E-mail: schang@theimproper.com
Hello,
Please stop copyright infringement violations of my Examiner.com ketogenic diet/cancer articles on SOTT.
I see you've removed my byline from all my past articles after my previous complaint (while keeping in the ENTIRE content of my original pieces). This is blatant copyright infringement and unethical theft. You can use the first graph or two, but then please include a link back to my original article, saying "read more here."
http://www.examiner.com/article/ketogenic-diet-aids-weight-loss-alzheimer-s-ms-and-starves-cancer-say-experts
Please remove today's article (Oct. 12):
http://www.sott.net/article/287169-Ketogenic-diet-helps-weight-loss-epilepsy-MS-Alzheimers-and-starves-cancer
I worked hard on writing piece, which used information I compiled from exclusive interviews with scientists and from other sources. How do you sleep at night? If you choose to ignore this, I can promise bad things will happen to you, if they haven't already.
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Name: Samantha Chang
E-mail: schang@theimproper.com
Hi,
Thank you for your reply earlier. Please do the same for these other infringing articles (use the first paragraph and add a link with "read more here").
I think there are others, but these 4 bother me the most b/c they are exclusive interviews I spent a lot of time working on:
http://www.sott.net/article/280733-Ketogenic-diet-beats-chemotherapy-for-almost-all-cancers-says-Dr-Thomas-Seyfried
http://www.sott.net/article/277668-Low-carb-ketogenic-diet-can-combat-cancer-because-cancer-is-a-metabolic-disease
http://www.sott.net/article/280646-Texas-man-battles-deadly-lung-cancer-without-chemo-using-ketogenic-diet
http://www.sott.net/article/280615-Low-carb-ketogenic-diet-can-combat-brain-cancer-says-scientist-Adrienne-Scheck
Please do not copy my articles again in the future. For now, I will refrain from reporting SOTT to Google (which I was in the middle of doing when I received your reply).
Google will completely shut down your site immediately if they find these violations. I know this from past experience.
Thank you,
Samantha Chang, Esq.
Ketogenic/paleo type diets have been tried many times in the past as cancer therapy. This is not new. It is a great theory but has had statistically insignificant success. I have been practicing a paleo diet for the past three years and I believe that it has many medically valuable therapeutic benefits, but the current media "miracle cancer cure" frenzy is not one of them, by a long shot.
I was diagnosed with cancer two years ago. It was a small tumor and was discovered early only because it was bleeding profusely. Others with this type of cancer did not bleed and therefore did not discover their tumors until they became much further advanced than mine and presented other more serious symptoms. I had earlier begun a ketogenic diet plan as a response to another autoimmune problem that was being treated with prednisone (a 2 year regimen that I was one year into when the tumor developed). I have little doubt that the corticosteroid therapy was a big contributing factor in the development of the tumor, not the diet. My father's oncologist had told me back in 1990 that taking steroids in the presence of abnormal cells (of which we all have some) was like putting Miracle Grow on roses.
After the shock of the diagnosis I began researching my problem in earnest. In my quest I came across the work of Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez, one of the most successful integrative oncologists in the US. He has cured (5+ year survival) hundreds of patients, who only had weeks left to live, who came to him after having their immune systems destroyed by chemo and radiation, and being sent home to die by their doctors.
I began to follow some of his nutritional supplement protocols, to boost my immune response before submitting to a resection procedure, or maybe even effecting a cure. Then along came Dr Seyfried's book and the alternative health media circus. Shortly thereafter Dr. Gonzalez wrote an eight part series of articles taking Seyfried's assumptions to task. Those articles are included at the bottom of the linked video interview with him (below). I strongly urge anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer to watch this interview and read Gonzalez's straightforward challenges to Seyfried's conclusions. Then decide how you wish to approach your dis-ease with some sound knowledge of both sides of the "theory". I call Seyfried's findings a "theory" because there is almost no actual significant human clinical success to support it. Seyfried is a PhD researcher who has never treated a patient in his life. As Gonzalez points out, animal model studies and human clinical trials often have little in common in the results.
Here is the link to the Gonzalez interview and articles. [Link] I can only hope that the SOTT editors take the time to consider this information before presenting any more "keto miracle cancer cure" articles. The fact that even the mainstream media is jumping on the bandwagon leads me to suspect that this could be a cruel psyop. Let us not let our enthusiasm and well founded respect for the many health benefits of a high saturated fat/low carbohydrate diet blind us to a media ambush. No doubt big food, big ag and big medicine would love to give the ketogenic diet a black eye. Ballyhooing the failure of a ketogenic cancer cure would offer them up such an opportunity.
Don't ever forget that they did virtually the same type of build up/let down many years ago with Linus Pauling and his vitamin C discoveries. The sabotaged Mayo Clinic vitamin C trials set vitamin C therapies and research back 30 years. The same could be accomplished with the benefits of ketogenic dieting, in the eyes of the public, when well funded keto/cancer trials deliver underwhelming results. I would love to know that ketogenic dieting would cure cancer, but a long history of actual human clinical experience shows that it is effective for only a very few patients.
Please consider what Dr. Gonzalez has to say. In his 25 year practice he has seen a lot of cancer "miracle cures" come and go.