Thursday, July 28, 2005

The Beck Protocol (Part 3; Ionic/Colloidal Silver)

Part 3 of the Beck Protocol is "Drinking Ionic/Colloidal Silver".

"What the hell is Ionic/Colloidal Silver?" you ask? As best I can tell, it's water with itty bitty bits of silver in it. Of course, the assholes at the usual website for this Beck Protocol shit have a device which you can buy to make your own Ionic/Colloidal Silver. Basically, it's two electrified silver wires stuck into purified water of various temperatures. I think the theory is that then little bits of silver leave the wires and then infuse the water.

They mention that you can help speed up the process by putting salt in the water. But that can make larger particles of silver which they admit can be dangerous.

So, these fuckers are actually admitting that their bullshit can be harmful! Kudos! However.....

The most telling evidence against the Beck Protocol comes from their own site. In the Newsletter section several links are provided to, well, their newsletters. In Newsletter #4, it states:

When six individuals contacted us within a span of six weeks to say a PCR test (polymerase chain reaction) for HIV showed their viral load had gone up—some
considerably, after using The Beck Protocol for four to eight weeks—we knew it was time to take a closer look at the PCR test.

What the fuck?? Blame the test for the failed results of your bullshit Protocol?? That's like sayin' you got an F in English 101 so you blame the grading system!! It fucking makes no god damn sense! They already admit their bullshit can be dangerous! Why not jus' take a step back from that and say it DOESN'T FUCKING WORK!?

These people quote various "cases" where any one of the elements of the Bullshit Protocol appear to have helped people. But, like all other testimonials, these are nothing more than anecdotal evidence. And very poor anecdotal evidence at that.

In Newsletter #6, they report the various test results this Silverized water on water taken from a toilet. (ICK!) In test number three they note that continusouly boiling the toilet water while making the silverized water completely killed all bacteria (They call it a CFU) and prevented the CFU from forming after being stored for 10 months.

Apparently, they think the boiling hot water has nothing to do with the destruction of the CFUs. They credit it all to their collodial silver bullshit.

Look, boiling water for 10 minutes (or so) is the recommended way to sterilize water if you think it's been contaminated. Common sense says that these fucker's results on drinking this possibly harmful silverized water has nothing to do with the actual itty bitty bits of silver in the water.

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