Dear “Reverend”
PZ Myers,
How fitting that, three
hundred years later, the witch trials continue. If you recall, it was the herbalists
that were burned then as well. Your flock has spoken to me, Reverend Myers, with
the shrieking common to all fundamentalist cults. I believe if you check you
will find that fundamentalism involves a closed mind while doing science requires an open mind. It also involves a thing they call research.
Do you do basic research into
a person’s claims before posting? Did you perhaps go to medline and type
the words “elderberry” and “H1N1”? Did you even bother
to read my original editorial that cites Cochrane database and CDC raw data? If
you had done basic research or contacted me directly you would perhaps not have posted lies in your blog.
You can call me an idiot
and a quack, but when you repeat the "fact" that I am not a doctor and not qualified, that is a written lie or libel. I am a doctor under Maine state law and meet the qualifications of that title.
In terms of poor maligned
elderberry, the medline citation is “The H1N1 inhibition activities of the elderberry flavonoids compare favorably to
the known anti-influenza activities of Oseltamivir (Tamiflu; 0.32 microM) and Amantadine (27 microM). (Phytochemistry. 2009
Jul;70(10):1255-61) While this is a test tube study only, please keep in mind
that we had no vaccine and were at the peak of the pandemic here in Maine. I
never suggested elderberry as a vaccination but as a possible home treatment for sick children.
Michael Hawkins is an
undergraduate at UMA who replied to my editorial. His rambling editorial was
not based on science or research, but his need to publicize himself. After failing
to get an editorial published against God he decided I was, flatteringly, next on the list.
All of the research and medline citations for my editorial are available under swine flu on my website, and were there
for Mr. Hawkins to simply see. But, despite the reality that I practice evidence-based
medicine, neither you nor Mr. Hawkins have ever bothered to read my site.
Mr. Hawkins managed
to get his own website suspended by arguing with his server about what constitutes libel and blames me. I have never directly contacted Wordpress about him and I have never replied to either his hate posts
or his email attacks on me personally. In doing my own research, I found that
another individual is in the process of filing a lawsuit against Mr. Hawkins and requested that the individual write to Mr.
Hawkins directly. It was this other individual in South Carolina, and not me,
that helped Mr. Hawkins get himself kicked off. Since Mr. Hawkins has received
that email today, I believe that your case against me as an enemy of free speech should be re-examined.
In terms of his accusations
against me that you have posted on your blog, I have taken the time to answer them at length and with scientific citations
on my website: www.maloneymedical.com.
I am also in the process of creating a more tolerable Youtube video for your flock.
Thank you, Reverend
Myers, for burning me without trial. It’s nice to know some things never
change.
Christopher Maloney,
N.D.
