{"id":2439,"date":"2014-04-19T11:13:05","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T16:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2014-04-19T11:13:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T16:13:05","slug":"the-american-parasite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2014\/04\/19\/the-american-parasite\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Parasite"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here at Skeptic Ink and on various other skeptical and freethought websites, I’ve been repeatedly running into ads like this one:<\/p>\n

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If you click on it, it takes you through to a website called KeyBiotics and shows you this frightening video<\/a> that quite effectively mixes conspiracy theory with alt-med woo. Apparently, nefarious profiteers from “Big Sugar” have been conspiring for decades with Candida albicans <\/i>to make you crave various sugars and artificial sweeteners, so that they can sell more\u00a0of both. This is, of course, pseudo-scientific hokum, and someone needs to explain exactly why. Accordingly, I’d like to signal boost this post<\/a>\u00a0by over at Skeptoid refuting many of the major claims on the KeyBiotics website, which concludes as follows:<\/p>\n

. . .we\u2019re left with what we\u2019re almost always left with when we talk about miracle cures: an expensive treatment for a disease that you don\u2019t have. 250 million Americans aren\u2019t infected with anything, except an overabundance of companies that want to take their money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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