As a follow-up to this post — about a group of Australian scientists so dismayed by alternative medicine having crept into the university curriculum that they have formed a pressure group to fight the trend — there’s this heartwarming father-and-son tale.
Dad runs a cult-of-personality clinic (watch the film) which will cure you of incurable cancer if you’ll just listen to the Leader. Sonny’s CEO of a big vitamin concern that uses Dad’s research to back up its product claims. The big vitamin concern dismisses conflict of interest charges with the following argument: “The mere fact of both having the same surname was the ultimate disclosure in itself.” Game, set, and match.
Meanwhile, there’s an ongoing court case in which Australia’s regulatory Therapeutic Goods Administration has ordered the vitamin concern to stop making claims about their stuff’s effectiveness having been “clinically proven,” onaccounta it ain’t – despite Dad’s best efforts – been.