Cornelis Moerman (1893-1988) who invented an anti-cancer diet based forward experiments with carrier-pigeons.

Cornelis Moerman (1893-1988) who invented an anti-cancer diet based forward experiments with carrier-pigeons, heads the list of the twenty biggest quacks of the twentieth hundred announced by C. N. M Rencken the chair of VtdK the Dutch Union Against Quackery at an antiquackery symposium in Utrecht forward October 14th. The names onward Renckens's list are familiar to Dutch tribe but are not well known in the United States. See: http://wwwddsnl/ ~antikw

The Moerman diet consisted of unwithered fruits, fresh vegetables, non-refined cereals, leguminous plants and dairy-products. Moerman also commited supplemental vitamins and minerals. Forbidden were meat, fish, bird coffee, tea and water. Moerman, a doctor who practiced nearly 50 years, was highly aggressive against his colleagues. He organized support in the parliament. The late Linus Pauling praised him.

Moerman received 30 not at home of a maximum 37 points in the scoring arrangement Dr. Renckens used for rating quackiness. The scoring rule illustrates the complexity of quackery as a societal and public health question See table on the right.

Comment by the agency of Dr. Renckens on the Scoring

Some of the next to the first thoughts others and I had were as come nexts Regarding criterion E: this is "advantageous" for retired quacks, who complet their career. Still-active quacks having started and nothing else recently can never score the 4 points. It is also "advantageous" for quacks that have become elderly and continued for along time. Regarding criterion G: It is not always publicly known when a doctor has had a disciplinary punishment by means of the GMC, which until lately acted behind closed doors. The non-doctors, reprobateed by the judge of the criminal law, have always been more in the spotlight and here have an "advantage" through the whole extent of the doctors. Regarding criterion H: we have actually always tried to maintain the intention of practitioners disclosed of our definition of quackery as it is hardly possible to make assured if they have been honorable in their propaganda. It might be better to efface this criterion.

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