001.at nbcnews.com, Maggie Fox writes in "Crowdfunding Sites Funnel Millions to Bogus Treatments" (2018-10-23):
“generous but gullible people are sending millions of dollars to friends and strangers who are raising money for unproven, and even bogus, medical treatments, researchers said Tuesday. [...] 'more than 1,000 medical crowdfunding campaigns for five treatments that are unsupported by evidence or potentially unsafe raised more than $6.7 million,' they wrote in a letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association [...] they searched for people seeking cash for treatments known to be unproven or scientifically disproven. The searches included: homeopathy or naturopathy for cancer; hyperbaric oxygen therapy for brain injury; stem cell therapy for brain injury and spinal cord injury; and long-term antibiotic therapy for 'chronic Lyme disease.' The Food and Drug Administration has issued public warnings against homeopathy and unproven stem cell therapies [...] 'the most money was raised by the 474 campaigns collecting funds for homeopathic or naturopathic cancer treatments at $3,464,871,' they wrote [...]";
and, of course, homeopathy is essential to naturopathy.
002. the article, "Medical Crowdfunding for Scientifically Unsupported or Potentially Dangerous Treatments" [JAMA. 2018;320(16):1705-1706. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.10264] is at jamanetwork.com
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