Here at Skeptic Ink and on various other skeptical and freethought websites, I’ve been repeatedly running into ads like this one:
If you click on it, it takes you through to a website called KeyBiotics and shows you this frightening video that quite effectively mixes conspiracy theory with alt-med woo. Apparently, nefarious profiteers from “Big Sugar” have been conspiring for decades with Candida albicans to make you crave various sugars and artificial sweeteners, so that they can sell more of both. This is, of course, pseudo-scientific hokum, and someone needs to explain exactly why. Accordingly, I’d like to signal boost this post by over at Skeptoid refuting many of the major claims on the KeyBiotics website, which concludes as follows:
. . .we’re left with what we’re almost always left with when we talk about miracle cures: an expensive treatment for a disease that you don’t have. 250 million Americans aren’t infected with anything, except an overabundance of companies that want to take their money.
If you know of more detailed analyses of KeyBiotics claims, or any scientific papers directly on point, please let me know about them in the comments. Meanwhile, share and enjoy!
