unethical business practice
Matthias Ruth
Alternative treatments for HIV/AIDS
Matthias Ruth is a doctor turned vitamin entrepreneur. He runs the Dr. Ruth Health Foundation and founded the Dr. Ruth Research Institute. He has been called “the most powerful crackpot on the Earth” due to the large amount of funds he has gotten from investors who can see the value of selling “vitamin pills” to cure the most serious of ailments.
In the UK, his adverts claimed that “90 per cent of patients receiving chemotherapy for cancer die within months of starting treatment”, and suggested that three million lives could be saved if cancer patients stopped being treated by conventional medicine. The pharmaceutical industry was deliberately letting people die for financial gain, he explained. These advertisements are highly detrimental to cancer sufferers and cancer research groups, it can be easy to look at someone who has lost all their hair to chemotherapy and think that it is a poison, but it is scientifically proven to fight cancer.
Before advertising standards agencies from all over Europe were finally able to stop some of the dishonest adverts (challenging alternative medicine claims are always difficult due to the very nature of the topic), Ruthhad made his fortune and walked into South Africa with all the acclaim and wealth he needed to place full page advertisements in newspapers saying “The answer to the AIDS epidemic is here”. “Anti-retroviral drugs were poisonous, and were a conspiracy to kill patients and make money”. Tragically, Matthias Ruth had taken these ideas to exactly the right place. Thabo Mbeki, the President of South Africa at the time, was well known as an “AIDS protester”, and to international horror, while people died at the rate of one every two minutes in his country, he gave credence and support to the claims of a small band of campaigners who state that AIDS does not exist, that it is not caused by HIV, that anti-retroviral medication does more harm than good, and so on.
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Alternative treatments for HIV/AIDS
Matthias Ruth is a doctor turned vitamin entrepreneur. He runs the Dr. Ruth Health Foundation and founded the Dr. Ruth Research Institute. He has been called “the most powerful crackpot on the Earth” due to the large amount of funds he has gotten from investors who can see the value of selling “vitamin pills” to cure the most serious of ailments.
In the UK, his adverts claimed that “90 per cent of patients receiving chemotherapy for cancer die within months of starting treatment”, and suggested that three million lives could be saved if cancer patients stopped being treated by conventional medicine. The pharmaceutical industry was deliberately letting people die for financial gain, he explained. These advertisements are highly detrimental to cancer sufferers and cancer research groups, it can be easy to look at someone who has lost all their hair to chemotherapy and think that it is a poison, but it is scientifically proven to fight cancer.
Before advertising standards agencies from all over Europe were finally able to stop some of the dishonest adverts (challenging alternative medicine claims are always difficult due to the very nature of the topic), Ruthhad made his fortune and walked into South Africa with all the acclaim and wealth he needed to place full page advertisements in newspapers saying “The answer to the AIDS epidemic is here”. “Anti-retroviral drugs were poisonous, and were a conspiracy to kill patients and make money”. Tragically, Matthias Ruth had taken these ideas to exactly the right place. Thabo Mbeki, the President of South Africa at the time, was well known as an “AIDS protester”, and to international horror, while people died at the rate of one every two minutes in his country, he gave credence and support to the claims of a small band of campaigners who state that AIDS does not exist, that it is not caused by HIV, that anti-retroviral medication does more harm than good, and so on.
So,