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The fake medicine they wanted to promote in Alicante
The Official College of Physicians manages to cancel an event in the city
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Andreas Ludwig Kalcker. In video, the explanation of the supposed functioning of the medicine. Mindalia Television
Manrique C. Sánchez
Alicante 3 JUL 2018 - 09:33 CEST
The pressure exerted by the Official College of Physicians of Alicante (COMA) has managed to stop the act that had convened for this Friday in a hotel in the city the German researcher Andreas Ludwig Kalcker to promote a false medicine that attributes curative properties against all kinds of diseases, according to sources of the college.
The product is called MMS (acronym for Miracle Mineral Solution) and, as admitted on its website this guru of alternative therapies, "is nothing other than chlorine dioxide, one of the most used disinfectants for more than 100 years in human history without creating resistance. He maintains, however, that this substance has allowed "the recovery of more than 235 children with autism.
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The doctors from Alicante warned of the danger of ingesting this substance and Kalcker's own postulates in the middle of this month. The professional association issued a statement where its president, María Isabel Moya, denounced that MMS "is nothing more than industrial bleach diluted to 28% and mixed with citric acid. It is, he said, a substance prohibited in Spain for human consumption and its supposed healing power is nothing more than a "fraudulent message.
This message is accompanied by a devastating criticism of conventional medicine and the pharmaceutical industry that Kalcker (graduate in Economics and doctor in Biophysics in Alternative Health, according to his own curriculum) does not hide on his website. "Chlorine dioxide is not miraculous, it is simply a wonderful chemistry bringing oxygen to the system. If you don't know more, it's because the industry's interest is focused on making money by making symptomatic products that sell for life rather than curative products that give less money," he writes.
For the past two weeks, COMA has maintained an intense campaign to try to boycott the event that has finally borne fruit. He denounced it before the Ministry of Health of Valencia and even went to court, although its owner denied the prohibition of the act in a preventive way so as not to violate the right to freedom of expression of the speaker.
It has finally been the hotel itself, located on the beach of San Juan, which has canceled the act. "We are prudent to share this information. At the end of the day Andreas Kalcker, in desperation, could do it clandestinely," tweet this Thursday the professional college, while thanking the City of Alicante and the Ministry of Health for supporting his initiative and asked to follow "watchful eye" before the "hoaxes" medical.
The COMA insists that the MMS is not authorized by the Spanish Medicines Agency to be marketed as such, although it is presented "endowed with therapeutic and preventive properties of diseases of all kinds: infectious, tumor, degenerative. Its sale is only legal for industrial use.
Not in vain, its consumption can produce "adverse effects" such as abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, poisoning or kidney failure, lists the school, which feels the obligation to "alert the population to the talk to be held this Friday by a pseudoscientist. "In the last two weeks we have undertaken a courageous campaign in social networks by which we have been applauded and helped by the entire national scientific community and with which we have earned respect for not being afraid to denounce these abuses against public health," adds the medical college.
The Kalcker has been persecuted for a long time by controversy. He was already arrested by the Guardia Civil in October 2012 together with a Dutch couple for a supposed crime against public health, while he was giving another of his talks in Ibiza to promote and sell the MMS. In January of the same year, another medical school, the one in Barcelona (COMB), asked for the prohibition of the congress in which he was going to participate together with other lecturers under the title A world without cancer. What your doctor is not telling you.
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