Harriet Hall on 22 Jan 2013 at 4:28 pm

@Conspicuous Carl,
“ought to be explained”

It is explained here http://thehoustoncancerquack.com/
Dr. Gorski posted that link in his article.

That’s good, but it isn’t in the auction listing and not all ebay users searching for trees or blankets have read Gorski’s blog.

It is explained here http://thehoustoncancerquack.com/
Dr. Gorski posted that link in his article.

Click here to bid.

Hmmm… I can’t help but wonder if someone will see that auction listing and get the idea that Burzynski actually is some honored cancer researcher. “Oh look, a bunch of science advocates are having this doctor match their donations.”

It mentions the high “cost of entering one of his clinical trials”, but people might not understand exactly how messed up that is. It could at least say something like “the approximate initial price he charges people to be test subjects in his trials of an unproven drug”. Also helpful would be a link to some page which explains exactly what is going on. Raising money on someone’s birthday and asking them to donate is an unusual way of trying to prove some point, so it really ought to be explained.

No, wish I’d thought of that!
It is, however, effective for preventing hypothermia.

Is the afghan doped with antineoplastons? If so I think we can bump the price up to a few thousand dolllars!

The page for the auction has as of 1:14 pm, PST, has had 4 bids with a top bid of $155 and has had 196 page views. Can we whip up a bidding war?

http://lizditz.typepad.com/i_speak_of_dreams/2013/01/bid-on-this-beautiful-afghan-and-raise-money-for-real-cancer-research.html and broadcast via Twitter and Facebook.

I also suggested a link to the auction to BoingBoing, a site that has covered Burzynski’s antics regularly, as in http://boingboing.net/2012/11/11/on-stanislaw-burzynski-anti.html.