Controversy arose over the trip, because McQueen sought treatment from William Donald Kelley, who was promoting a variation of the Gerson therapy that used coffee enemas, frequent washing with shampoos, daily injections of fluid containing live cells from cattle and sheep, massage, and laetrile; an anticancer drug available in Mexico, but described as canonical quackery by mainstream scientists.
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"There is a big difference between therapies that have some kind of scientific base and those that don't work at all, like coffee enemas and ozone therapy, whatever that is, " said Dr . Joseph J . Fins, a medical ethicist at the New York Weill Cornell Center of New York-Presbyterian Hospital and one of the authors of the letter.
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He hates " The Simpsons ", BBC Radio 1, menstruation, tilting trains, Mensa, and that his IQ is 139 . Alan at one point tries to follow Joanna's practice of taking a coffee enema for relaxation, but neglects to let the coffee cool down first, causing him agonising pain, instead of the desired relaxing effect & mdash; in spite of which he perseveres with the treatment.
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They've spent $ 374, 000 of taxpayer money to find out that inhaling lemon and lavender scents doesn't promote wound healing; $ 390, 000 to find out that ancient Indian remedies don't control Type 2 diabetes; $ 446, 000 to find that magnetic mattresses don't treat arthritis; $ 283, 000 to discover that magnets don't treat migraine headaches; $ 406, 000 to determine that coffee enemas don't cure pancreatic cancer; and $ 1.8 million to find out that prayer doesn't cure AIDS or brain tumors or improve healing after breast reconstruction surgery.
