University Teaches That Cancer Is Good And Vaccines Bad

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One of Canada’s most prestigious universities has defended a course that promoted the benefits of cancer and taught students that vaccines are unsafe, because quantum mechanics. The department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto encouraged health science students to believe many things completely contrary to all scientific evidence, and the University has largely endorsed the course.

For the last two years, the university, which prides itself on its medical research, has run a course known as Alternative Health: Practice and Theory. The lecturer was Beth Landau, a homeopath who tells parents not to vaccinate their children.

Much of the course veered wildly away from the scientific mainstream, but it was week 9 that really attracted attention. Titling the week, “Vaccination- The King of Controversy”, Landau set a reading list entirely made up of comprehensively disproven claims about vaccination, including that it causes autism. She has also publicly stated that measles and chicken pox are great for children’s development (presumably not including the ones that die).

Far from “teaching the controversy,” Landau failed to set any reading from pro-vaccine sources. Readings that draw on peer-reviewed research were presented on epigenetics and beneficial bacteria, but were otherwise studiously avoided.

On the other hand, required reading and viewing requirements included material that appalled scientists from every field. As the National Post reports, the course description included the astounding line that quantum physics “offers clear explanations as to why homeopathic remedies with seemingly no chemical trace of the original substance are able to resolve chronic diseases.” The statement was news, to say the least, to the university’s physicists.

There is even a required reading paper titled, “Cancer is not a Disease – It’s a Survival Mechanism,” with no response from oncologists. This claims that cancer keeps people with “underlying sicknesses” alive.

Canadian scientists have been fighting a brutal assault on science from their government over the last nine years, but probably expect their universities to have their backs.

This time, not so much. The university held an inquiry that largely cleared the course, stating that “the instructor’s approach in the class towards the issue of immunization in particular had not been unbalanced.” The report also claimed that no students had complained, which the campus’ student newspaper appears to contradict.

The university appears reluctant to discuss the course, and the chair of the Anthropology Department has denied that the lecture on vaccination occurred this year, but has not commented on the message sent to cancer patients.

Meanwhile, many people are wondering why an institution with 188 years of reputation to lose would allow this to occur within its hallowed walls. When Toronto University scientists discovered insulin and invented the electron microscope, they didn’t do it by waving their hands and referring vaguely to “quantum mechanics” and “energy traces.” Some have drawn conclusions from the fact the Dean of the University’s Scarborough Campus is Landau’s husband, Dr Rick Halpern.

http://www.provost.utoronto.ca/office/Provostial_Statements/July72015.htm

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@deathpoolthet1000: I think you'll find that Quantum Physics also explains why this course was allowed to be "taught" in the first place.

If it's all true, I'm gobsmacked anyone could get away with it. I'm amazed anyone would actually have the stones to say on record that Cancer is actually good for sick people.

Reality is a lot harder for some people to grasp than I previously thought...

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Just to be clear, the University is defending the offering of alternative medicine courses for its fourth year students due to these students having already received proper instruction in conventional medicine and are in a position to determine for themselves what is worthy or not. The university has cancelled the course, Alternative Health: Practice and Theory, that the OP is referring to in the foreseeable future pending a proper committee review in which a new syllabus will be drawn up and potential instructors vetted.

The UTSC Health Studies Program has indicated that the course in question will not be taught in the 2015-16 academic year, or over the summer term.

As Provost of this academic institution, I must at all times respect the diversity of opinions and views of academic colleagues and sessional instructors. However, I do note with respect that the Deans of the University’s Faculty of Medicine and Dalla Lana School of Public Health have released a statement commenting on the education of their students regarding vaccinations. It includes the following:

“As deans of two of the health sciences faculties at the University of Toronto, we teach our students that vaccines are safe, effective and vital to children’s health. Vaccines are one of history’s most important and significant achievements in public health and medicine. The best evidence that science can provide proves that the health benefits of vaccines far outweigh their potential side effects, and we instruct our students accordingly.”

Still, it's embarrassing that an institution as well regarded as UofT had this loon-toon teach anything in the first place. I guess being the wife of one of its campus deans might have something to do with it. Still, very wrong and good on the students and The Canadian Alliance to Support Immunization, (a coalition of doctors and public health experts from across Canada) who called for an investigation.

(edited to add a couple more sources)

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Material aside, I don't understand how UoT let a woman with a degree in dance teach a medical course.

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Some vaccines are bad for u!

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Cancer is a "survival mechanism", try telling that to the people who haven't survived it.

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So their basically saying fuck humanity and don't take a vaccine even if it cures cancer.

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no surprises.....

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@nishi99: is that teacher is some hard core masochist

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I guess one could say you CANTada vaccinate your children. Baaaa dumm tissss.

Okay it's not a good joke

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@batmanx2005: I think the school drinks the same Kool Aid the Unabomber did AKA LSD.

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