Pseudoscience kills boy, 11
People have the the right to believe anything they want. But when they use their child to try and prove their beliefs, they become killers.
Cancer treatment battle: boy loses his fight
CANTON — An eleven-year-old Canton boy whose parents fought to treat his leukemia with an unconventional method has died.
After five years of battling the blood cancer, Noah Maxin died Thursday at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland.
In 2002, parents Greg and Theresa Maxin won the right to abandon Noah’s chemotherapy, because they were concerned about the long-term effects.
Stark County child welfare officials had accused the couple of neglect when they gave up the chemo for a doctor specializing in holistic medicine.
But, in a case believed to be the first of its kind in Ohio, a family court judge ruled the Maxins were free to choose their son’s
care.
When the parents took their child off chemo, his odds of survival dropped from 80 percent to 40 percent. Could the child have died if he had continued chemo? Definitely.
But by choosing pseudoscience and mythological cures, his parents made it much more likely that he would die. And he did.
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June 2nd, 2007 at 1:14 pm
I couldn’t disagree more with you about the comment that he was much more likely to die. Only if you are God can you know the answer to that question. I trust the medical establishment much less than alternative medicine. Just because “pseudoscience” and “mythological” cures (as you call them) are not backed by the Powerful, political and All Mighty AMA…does not mean that they do not work. In my opinion, the Medical Doctors and Big Pharma are in bed together and THEIR main concern is the bottom line….the more expensive the drugs and treatment..the bigger their profits…they don’t give a damn about the people or children they pump all their poison into. If the person happens to go into remission, fine..if not..oh well..they made their buck and move on..NEXT!!
June 2nd, 2007 at 11:33 pm
I agree Bill. People selling snake oil bullshit should be shot. I’m no fan of the pharmacy industry or the medical establishment, but to choose con artists and out right liars over medical science and doctors is not rational.