I light-heartedly gave a list of names which, for all I knew, I might hear:Hugh MurrayConstantin PetriePeter SmallSignor Beniamino BariThe Honourable Alex O'Brannigan, Bart.Kurt FreundMr John P. de Salis, M.A.Dr Solway GarrBonaparte GosworthLegs O'Hagan

The story of how Dylan Fazel drifted into academic-publishing scams and from there into conference fraud would make for a fascinating interview, if any journalist or documentary film-maker in Minnesota is at a loose end. It is unclear whether the emphasis on biomedical fields in his operation is motivated by a thwarted childhood medic-manqué ambition, or simply that that's where the money is...

I am sorry. I seem to have committed the classic dramaturgical blunder of starting the story at the beginning, rather than in media res as tradition demands. Let me start again.

It only takes a few minutes with the Goofle Sir Chengine to paper the screen with tweets from people wondering how to get off the A. Siozos (M.D.) mailing list, or wondering whether invitations to his prestigious congresses are legit. **** SPOILER ALERT **** no they're not.

That "A. Siozos MD" predatory conference/journal spammer is really persistent.

— Diary of a frustrated academic 💻 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 (@dutchscientist) February 13, 2019

Jus got an email from siozos@m.aoamconferences.com. Predatory or not?

— Laurent Seroude (@seroude) March 7, 2020

This must be one of the most elaborate predatory conference scams. They won't let go!

The emails are signed by A. Siozos, M.D. who (supposedly) is EIC at Archives of Applied Medicine (a predatory journal)

Anybody else with experiences with this scam? pic.twitter.com/dJeIZrNceu

— Maarten van Smeden (@MaartenvSmeden) March 30, 2019

More #predatorypublishing nonsense. Not less than 3 email filters for variations of domain and yet still gets through because they change their domain every day. Why would a legitimate publisher need to do this? A. Siozos MD and P. Jimenez PhD shove off! ⁦@BenMazer⁩ pic.twitter.com/elIeZtMBTs

— Sean R Williamson (@Williamson_SR) March 6, 2019

So you should look at this discussion of parasitical publishers and mockademic scamferences, in which the participants share their experiences with the unrelenting blizzard of spam from Dr Siozos (putative editor of the Archives of Applied Medicine), pimping his "Annual Conference on Genetics 2019" scamference in Vienna and his "2019 Global Conf. on Neuroscience and Neurology"...

NO WAIT, you can't, because ResearchGate zorched 200 contributions after receiving a legal-thuggery nastygram, and saw no benefit to themselves in replying to the bumptious censorious asshat with a richly-deserved invitation to "sniff my taint" [Popehat].

Bruno Chrcanovic added a reply

February 28

RG claimed that "[they] received a Notice of Claimed Defamation from Archives of Applied Medicine, asserting that they have a good faith belief that certain portions of the content constitute defamation to them."

This serves as a reminder that academic social-networking sites like ResearchGate and Academia.com do not exist for your benefit, and any services they provide will evaporate faster than a Trump promise in the event of anything interfering with their monetising of your work.

As of now a replacement discussion thread exists, not yet cancelled by complaints from the botmaster behind the fake 'Siozos' identity that his commercial freedom to defraud people is constrained by attempts to warn them. Not to forget the equally fake identities "P. Jimenez, Ph.D." and "L. Smith M.D.", for the grifter has creativity to burn in the naming of spambots. In that thread we learn (inter alia) that the keynote speakers listed in the brochure had no intention of attending the Annual Genetics Conference and had no idea of the honour bestowed upon them... which is to say, the entire Prospectus was an unabashed fraud.

Two other aspects of that brochure are of interest (for sufficiently broad values of 'interest'). First, the promise of a special issue of AoAM containing the Conference Proceedings.

In fact the AoAM archives are a ghost-town where nothing but tumbleweed has moved since June 2019 and the only sounds are crickets and the mournful howls of far-off coyotes; the journal is moribund, as the aggressiveness of its spamming is not matched in the actual management of a criminal enterprise.

The second aspect was the name 'KEI' as part of the machinery of shearing:

Here 'KEI' is 'Knowledge Enterprises Incorporated': parasitical publisher of 'Medical Research Archives' and 'Internal Medicine Review' and a few others that are frozen in stasis. So it is not entirely by coincidence that KEI and AoAM use the same office forwarding mailbox to drape themselves in the respectability-mantle of a physical address, 340 S Lemon Ave #7750; Walnut CA 91789.

Physical cheques and letters to IMR are for historical reasons (TRADITION) funneled through a different mail-drop at 712 H St NE Washington DC 20002, with a cheque-cashing service conveniently located upstairs.

Alternative salubrious abode

Despite these cut-outs, KEI is a departure from the norm in parasitical publishing, being an entirely US operation with no Hyderabad involvement. In fact the man behind KEI's campaign of global spam harassment documented himself thoroughly in his company ownership, and in Wikipedia revision logs, and in a blog dating back to the founding of Medical Research Archives where he claimed the title of "Interim Editor-in-Chief"; and in the registration of domains; and even by signing spam and correspondence with clients (before discovering the pleasures of spurious personae), as Dylan Fazel of Anoka, Minnesota.

Now pressure-to-publish-exploiting spam has evolved towards ever more aggravating persistence, stalking potential victims and boiling their bunnies, and it is only a matter of time before your mailbox deafens you with Feckle-Freezer-related screaming.

Dylan was a pioneer in this evolution, bombarding his targets with follow-ups and reminders... often skipping the original invitation and moving straight on to the reminders, in the hope of instilling the recipients with a sense of guilt and indebtedness. His special innovation, though, was an "ingratiating back-story" literary genre, in which the pressure to provide him with manuscripts and moneys is buttressed by cc:ing a correspondence among multiple non-existent identities, giving the reader an insider glimpse of an entire slice-of-life virtual world. Examples abound at "Flaky Journals", and at "Flaky Journals" again, and at ScholarlyOA, and even here at Riddled.

For a while these spurious personae used the names of actual Ukrainian translators, Venezuelan anaesthesiologists and Bulgarian casino-management freelancers, who were at least sometimes aware that their names were being made synonymous with 'con-job co-conspirator'. The shift to entirely fabricated identities like 'A Siozos' is new.

Dylan's gateway into the exciting world of virtual publishing (which is hard for one to leave, just as the elephant-poop-sweeper in the joke is loath to quit show-biz) was the Astronomical Review - an academic Salon des Refusés, providing autodidact would-be cosmologists with a convenient outlet for their original and challenging theories about the origin of the universe, without the hassle of cyclostyling those theories onto densely-written A4 pages and sellotaping them to the walls of bus-shelters.

Dylan recruited an Editorial Board of world-renowned luminaries from theoretical and experimental physics for this journal, including Roger Penrose and Jean-Pierre Luminet and Francis Everitt and NASA's Planetary Defense Officer, all content to follow his guidance as E.-in-C... or so he claimed, though one must bear in mind his fabulatory tendencies. This is all moot because in 2014 he sold the journal to Taylor & Francis, leaving him with time to found KEI and program his spam-bots. So now you know the back-story. The moral is that pimping out one's journals with wholly fictitious claims can be profitable.

T&F hiked the Article Publishing Fee from $25/page to a flat charge of $750 / £469 / €625 and imposed some standards on what they would accept. Bereft of submissions from Intergalactic Cracked Pots (and of the prestigious Editorial Board), Astronomical Review closed its doors in 2018 after a less-than-glorious history. Someone with Whackyweedia privileges might want to reverse Dylan's self-promotional vandalism of the Wiki entries for Richard Penrose and Jean-Pierre Luminet, from October 12, 2012.

Anyway, I will give Dylan credit for opportunism timeliness. In light of current events, the latest Siozos spam -- urging me to travel to his next scamference in Athens -- has been updated, and now it highlights the opportunit to present about the effects of travel in spreading COVID-19.

Bonus Riddled. You may also enjoy the Siozos-Jimenez scamference on Pharmacology & Toxicology 2020, supposedly held on 1 February, although the webpage is still accepting registration. A ResearchGate discussion / warning still exists. If the Scientific Program is to be believed (yeah right), keynote presentations begin with "Noncanonical amino acids in a cell free TX-TL system" by Marc Finkler... a title copy-pasted from a 2019 Abstract.

UPDATE: There does exist a Scientific Program for Dylan's June 29 2019 ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON GENETICS, and it is just as half-arsed as one might expect. The original prestigious Featured Presentations have been replaced by nine talks best summed up by the title of the last one, "Biomarkers and metabolic shifts of heat‐stressed lactating dairy cows".

If you were expecting a close relationship between the titles of these bizarre presentations and the Abstracts listed in the program, then you are insufficiently acquainted with Dylan Fazel's methods, and his willingness to fill in space with material stolen from published papers.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Jul 9;116(28):14105-14112

Abstract
Preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A) with trophectoderm (TE) biopsy is widely applied in in vitro fertilization (IVF) to identify aneuploid embryos. However, potential safety concerns regarding biopsy and restrictions to only those embryos suitable for biopsy pose limitations. In addition, embryo mosaicism gives rise to false positives and false negatives in PGT-A because the inner cell mass (ICM) cells, which give rise to the fetus, are not tested. Here, we report a critical examination of the efficacy of noninvasive preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (niPGT-A) in the spent culture media of human blastocysts by analyzing the cell-free DNA, which reflects ploidy of both the TE and ICM.

Proc. SPIE 9738, Laser 3D Manufacturing III, 973816 (6 April 2016); doi: 10.1117/12.2209252
Abstract
Digital medical 3D printing technology is a new hi-tech which combines traditional medical and digital design, computer science, bio technology and 3D print technology. At the present time there are four levels application: The printed 3D model is the first and simple application. The surgery makes use of the model to plan the processing before operation. The second is customized operation tools such as implant guide. It helps doctor to operate with special tools rather than the normal medical tools. The third level application of 3D printing in medical area is to print artificial bones or teeth to implant into human body. The big challenge is the fourth level which is to print organs with 3D printing technology.

This is reaching Trumpian levels of pathetic inadequacy.

Alternative title:

Len Posset, Tim Screevy,
the Reverend Phipps,
Peg Leg Loombucket,
Solly Levy, Ginger Epstein,
Able Seaman Truefitt,
Scotch Lil,
Messrs. Cattermole, Mousehabit,
Neapthigh and Trusspot, solicitors
and Commissioners for Oaths,
Father Thunderghast, Yeti Rosencrantz,
Foo Tong Robinson and Uncle Ted Willis an' all --
And Uncle Ted Willis and all.

Now one person almost as annoyingly persistent as Dylan is "Laura P. Betancourt PSa" from the Archives of Psychology, whose effusions clutter up my spam-tray on a regular basis.

One of the people recruited to become an Editor of Archives of Psychology is probably unaware of the honor as he died a year ago.

No, wait: the "archivesofpsychology.org" site is hosted on the same IP as "mraj.org", registered in a familiar name. That is to say, "Laura" is just another scam from Dylan Fazel again. There's a real Laura P. Betancourt in Mexico who may or may not be aware that he has stolen her identity and photograph and is blessing her with a reputation as a spamming fraudster.

If you meet the strawman on the Yellow Brick Road, kill him

Like a candle drawn to a moth, like a dog re-drawn to its vomit (or anyone else's), here at the Riddled Institute of Advanced Studies and Hay-Baler Museum we are drawn to the New Earth University. For instead of launching straight into the Childhood's-End New Paradigm Higher-Consciousness stylings, the web-site home page is an advertisement for a free download of Reverend Jim Humble's guide to cleansing your body and burning away corporeal impurity with the help of industrial bleach. Which is to say, it's a signal that one is dealing with truly high-concept scammers and grifters.

The lists of NEU Faculty and Fellows are no disappointment, every bit the toxic-waste-dump of garbage that I expected. One and all they are triumphant in their personal realms of endeavour, and like Prosperity-Gospel televangelists and e-mail spammers, their altruism inspires them to share the secret of their success [SPOILER ALERT: I am going to speculate that the secret is "Lie non-stop to greed-head eedjits and persuade them to send you their money"].

Both lists are walls of mood-ring-bedizened avatars, giving prominent place to Dr Sir John Walsh of Brannagh (a.k.a. Chief Justice Sir Knobhead of Upperwankington): the Australian fabulist and defrocked barrister, noted for his collections of classic cars and made-up qualifications. There is a kind of Platonic perfection to his preening self-regard. Sadly, his entry omits his full list of fraudulent titles, content with referring readers to their copies of "Who's Who"... I can only suppose that the reference to Debrett's Peerage was omitted by mistake.

"That solicitor should be struck off the Rolls," Keats said.

The presence of Walsh is our reminder that NEU! is yet another branch within the organisational structure of grift set up by "Sacha" Stone -- failed rock musician and broad-spectrum conman with a diversified scampire of webshops. We met it previously in the context of Sacha's "2019 New Earth Festival" / "World Health Sovereignty Summit" (a kind of Fyre Festival for trustafarian Truthers who enjoy being lectured about Fraudster Freedom by a clown-car cavalcade of mountebanks).

Like the Faculty, the Fellows are what Orac would call a "target-rich environment". But the Charlatan Charivari must remain an exercise for the reader*, for right now I turn my indistractible laser-like focus upon 'Bibi' Bacchus, from the Faculty of Bullshit Spigotry Natural Law (hence the purple mood-ring adorning her image). An accomplished real-estate pimp in Florida, her specialty is Sovereign Law (a topic she researched while serving an eight-year sentence for a felony which goes unspecified but was no doubt a total frame-up).

In this 40-min. debut-filmed interview (2018) with NewEarth founder Sacha Stone, Bibi Bacchus gives you an introductory explanation of the basics of UCC and “how to kill and then own YOUR strawman.”

Strawman? WTF?
"It is a new school of psychotherapy," Another Kiwi vouchsafed. "The route to personal development is to accept the various aspects and personifications of your unconscious self -- the Strawman, the Tin-man, the Little Dog, the Cowardly Lion -- and integrate them into a three-dimensional, individuated personality."

"Not quite," I declaimed in full Explaining Voice, leaning forward with elbows on the bar so I could steeple my fingers in a gesture of introspective thought. "The Strawman is one of the multiple aspects of Self-dom which populate the Sovereign-Citizen legal belief-system. Just as Dynastic Egyptians had multiple souls -- the Ba and Ka and Akh and Shadow and Name -- which go separate ways with different roles after corporeal death." I tried to ignore the bar-top puddle of cold spillage in which one elbow had landed.

So it is a tenet of Natural Law that to prevail in court appearances and rid oneself of pesky tax and debt obligations, one must separate these aspects, while attaching those obligations firmly to the most dispensable one, the legal-fiction not-me.

And for full effect (according to the farthest reaches of evolving SovCit theology), the invocations of voluntary jurisprudence and incantations for dispelling Statute Law must be couched in Quantum Syntax. That is, sentences should be enlivened by Erratic Capitalisation and colons as a punctuational index of which self is indicated.** Here's a sample. Isn't it glorious? I like to think that when reading these statements out loud in courtrooms, you utter Khoisan click consonants to indicate each colon, hyphen and square bracket, in the manner of Victor Borges' Phonetic Punctuation.



Leonardo Edwards evidently sells a book on the secrets of Quantum Syntax [Judges hate it!] as a Get-out-of-Jail-Free card to wannabee scammers. This has aroused animus from other SovCit conmen who reckon that they are the only scammers with the right to defraud wannabee scammers by selling them :Miller's book, and they would like to believe in courts so they could take Mr Edwards to one.

Previously, Leonardo was just another bleach peddler, a disciple of Archbishop Humble with a poison-pimp webstore peddling organic industrial sodium chlorite at hugely-marked-up prices. Then in February 2016, Southampton health authorities decided that an infant with life-endangering diarrhea could not safely be left in the charge of parents who treat all illness with bleach enemas, and took the infant in question into care. Leonardo's response was to fight that decision in court and prove his fitness for custody NO WAIT he and his wife scarpered to Portugal on the next plane. Since then they operate a GoFundMe grift to hire custody lawyers maintain their life-style, and the son is more rewarding to Leonardo on the far side of the Bay of Biscay than he ever would be in person.

As a gesture of honesty he shut down the "Leonardo's Healing Space" webshop, then opened two new versions elsewhere. But his heart is not really in the MMS industry, and the Bleach-Enema Sacrament no longer dominates his Faceborg timeline... I can only suppose that the Victims-of-Baby-Snatching grift and the SovCit scam are more lucrative. One would have thought that the best advertisement for a book about winning courtroom battles with Colons and Capitals would be to go back home and win back custody, but that's just me.

As for Another Kiwi's Oz-themed school of psychotherapy, I understand that he has franchised it under the slogan "Pay attention to the Man behind the Curtain!"

[Must credit comments at Hoaxtead Research for inspiration]

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OUTTAKES:

[Nordfors at the 2^nd GcMAF "Immunology Conference"]

* One could start with Mikael Nordfors, "a medical doctor currently working with holistic treatment of cancer, psychiatric problems and pain conditions in Copenhagen, Denmark. ... Besides being a medical doctor and author, Mikael has also composed music and interpreted classical masterpieces on synthesizers."

Nordfors had his snout in the GcMAF trough for a while, but that seems to have dropped off from his CV and he has switched to the Ozone Therapy scam.

** Eg. https://canliiconnects.org/en/commentaries/27647

The common theme among these groups of litigants, who Mr. Justice Rooke collectively refers to as "Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Argument litigants," is that they believe themselves to be privy to some secret legal principles which allow them to evade the normal rules and regulations that bind every other member of civil society. These people — and I have encountered them in my practice — drape themselves in cobbled-together pseudolegal verbiage and concepts, such as describing themselves as "corporate entities" or "juristic persons," claiming copyright over their own names and spelling their names with add-on hyphens and colons (the husband in the case before Mr. Justice Rooke, for example, referred to himself as "::Dennis-Larry:Meads::"), and filing bogus pseudolegal documents festooned with gibberish and meaningless symbols, such as thumbprints, multicoloured ink, pompous phrases set in capital letters, stamps and references to inapplicable, foreign or repealed statutes.

Nature attacks you and Nature heals you #2: My vegetable love should grow

This is an admirably forthright, doubt-free Review Article:

The authors sing the praises of carnivorous plant-squeezins as a Cure for Cancer, advertising a cancer-fraud product and seeking validation for the bafflegab surrounding it, without actually using its title "Carnivora". I eagerly awake their next project, of staging "Hamlet" while dispensing with the Prince of Denmark character.

We have encountered Carnivora before. Impressed by the ability of carnivorous plants to digest insects without digesting themselves (a common ability across the Animal kingdom), a small-town German doctor reasoned in the late 1970s that their juices would also be able to digest tumours. By energetic hustling, aided by cool stories of celebrity patients (Ronald Reagan and Yul Brynner) and their successful cures,* he managed to collect a loyal and vocal customer base, who lobbied on his behalf when he came to the attention of the authorities and of mainstream media in the mid-80s.

1985 and 1987 saw a couple of mockademic publications, though the world is still waiting for any records from his 15,000 patients to document his claims of a spectacular cure rate of (depending on source) 56%, 82% or 98%. The highest value relied on early detection and treatment: so early, in fact, that the only evidence of a cancer to cure might be Dr Keller's clinical intuition.

Here at the Riddled Research Laboratory we are inspired to extend Helmut Keller's work to triffid juice, which is bound to be even more curative, as soon as we open that portal to the John Wyndham Fictive Realm (don't worry about safety or the risk of escape, all the research will be conducted within our best-practice Fictive Confinement Facility).

The squeezings are not well-accepted in the US, where the Carnivora company fell foul of the FDA by importing it through a fraudulent labelling scheme. It is promoted mainly through Truther Health-Freedom channels, targetting barmpots who want to protect themselves against Chemtrail Toxicity and vaccine injury, and who take it for granted that the only cancer cures that work are the ones that the evil Gubblement is suppressing. Griftospheric channels like "Extreme Health Radio", or Jeff Rense's operation [as well as a conspiracy-weaponising conman, Rense is a literal, unabashed Nazi].

The Carnivora webshop provides a helpful Note from the Founder, Dr Keller himself, in which he retconned his rationale for the product and rebranded it as an immuno-modulator rather than a direct dissolver of cancers:

From this observation, I concluded that the Venus Flytrap plant must have an advanced immune system capable of distinguishing between harmful intruder organisms and its own materials.
In fact, the plant only digests the "primitive" undeveloped, undifferentiated cells of its own prey. These "primitive" cells are the same kind of cells that intrude into the human body.

Did I mention that Carnivora now cures non-diseases like Chronic Lyme Disease as well?

The webshop also provides contact options for dead people, which is unusual even by the standards of medscammers.

Senior Vice President
the late Robert Ostrow 1927-2014
robert@carnivora.com
Founder
the late Dr. Helmut Keller
info@carnivora.com

It is tempting to email them to see if a pre-recorded message bounces back (along the lines of Brian O'Blivion), or even a response: "For God’s sake! — quick! — quick! — put me to sleep — or, quick! — waken me! — quick! — I say to you that I am dead!”

Disgraced data-forger as co-editor:
a positive for intended readership

Keller's magical thinking resonated more successfully in Europe. The mystical mind-set of "Nature knows best" / "Nature Heals All" is not exclusive to Europe... the "green nanotech" tradition of alchemical-compost junk science is universal (this is where nanoparticles are synthesized using juice or leaves from some culturally-valued medicinal plant and thereby inherit the plant's magical powers). Bharat Aggarwal managed to leverage his systematic curry-based science fraud into a lucrative decades-long career, because natural product! BUT that mysticism seems to be especially strong in the German Mitteleuropa culture-sphere, for which I am inclined to blame Goethe and the whole Romantic anti-Aufklärung backlash.

"Anti-Inflammatory and Anticancer Drugs from Nature"

Nature vitalism: Often ends in
human sacrifices to green cats

So Carnivora was dragged along in the slipstream. In the Green Millennium tradition of phytopharmacology / ethnopharmacology it makes perfect sense to delve into medieval-herbalist magic from different cultures, and to genuflect before the toxic scammocopoeia of Indian Ayurveda [shorter version: arsenic and cowdung poultices cure everything] and Traditional Chinese Medicine [shorter version: tiger bones and mercury cure everything] and Traditional Renaissance Medicine [shorter version: antimony and trichobezoars cure everything]. Also, to treat some mountebank's recent-past brainfart with the same reverence for Time-Honoured superstitions, as if it were just another Tribal Healing Modality.

This makes it difficult to distinguish between authors / researchers who were on the Big Carnie payroll, and those who believed the lies that fell out of Keller's face-hole and were sincerely convinced that flytrap constituents must be therapeutic (because plant-based) so it only remains to determine how and on what they therapeutise. There is a substantial genre around flytrap toxins, scrutinising their Petri-dish injurious effects on cancer cells as well as normal tissue (though actual clinical trials have not been repeated after the early negative results: Hauser 1988). In the former group we find the Bulgarian group of Todorov and Ilarionova, whose laudatory paeans to the active ingredients in Flytrap Juice and how well they killed cancer in test-tubes were promulgated as in-house reports for Carnivora-Forschungs GmbH.** I am not so sure about the papers and posters of Kreher, Wagner, Jurcic and / or Neszmelyi. Readers who like this sort of thing can find the motherlode in Kukułczanka & Budzianowski (2002), whose comprehensive literature review cries out to be illustrated with artwork by Philipp Otto Runge.

Anyway, Kreher & Wagner cite Keller (1985) in reverential terms (and are in turn cited approvingly on the carnivora.com "Science" page as the most credible sciency support for the fraud). Gaascht et al. (2013) read and cited Kreher & Wagner, so they were aware of Keller’s central role as instigator of the whole Better-Living-through-Flytrap grift. As noted, they take trouble not to mention "Carnivora" directly or cite the primary source, so they were also aware that Keller’s reputation as a lying gobshite charlatan might raise concerns, even among Frontiers reviewers.

[H/t Leonid Schneider @For Better Science]

* "...President Ronald Reagan who received the substance postoperatively following his operation for malignant polyps of the colon. The President took Carnivora drops for their healing and preventive powers against cancer recurrence." "Actor Yul Brynner also received dosages of Carnivora in injections and/or Carnivora drops. Yul Brynner's lung tumor's were rapidly diminishing in size until he foolishly followed the recommendation of a New York City oncologist and failed to keep up with the remedy."

** Todorov, Ilarionova & Pajeva (2000) did stovepipe one of their paid fabrications into the legitimacy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

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UPDATE: Keller and his followers were not doctrinaire about flytraps and were open to the possibility that other genera of carnivorous plants would be equally all-curative.

After all, sundews (Drosera sp.) contain many of the same toxic secondary metabolites like plumbagin and hydroplumbagin.

Predictably enough, this has inspired another genre of bad science. So far, "Plumbagin Suppresses the Invasion of HER2-Overexpressing Breast Cancer Cells" (2016) has been retracted for an unaccaptable proportion of faked results, while "Ramentaceone, a Naphthoquinone Derived from Drosera sp." (2016) is under investigation.

An béal bocht a chur ort

A classic tale of struggle, power, personalities and tripe

Oh noes! I must have dozed through an episode of the long-running saga of tripe GcMAF (the all-curative blood- or colostrum-sourced glycoprotein), so I missed the reasons why Candice Lee-Bradstreet dropped out of the medicinal fortified skin-cream industry. and is now putting on the poor mouth.

That only leaves Margaret Shaver and her Maine-based webshop MWSdistributing.com still dealing in the 'GlycoPlus / GcMAFplus' range of healing unguents, out of a broad though collegial cartel of rivals who had shared the North American market between them. The only activity at their GcMAF GlycoPlus of the America's FaceBukkake page is that of tumbleweeds and crickets. Florida Woman Nicole Sullivan at PureLivingHealth remains in business but has dropped the product range.

Huzzah! The market is wide open now for the Riddled product, 'Liniment of Gratified Desire' (alternative brandname is 'Crème Passionel'; Space-Time Eddie is in charge of sourcing the fortifying protein, and we know better than to question him in depth). All the old suppliers plagiarised a blurb about 'hyaluronic acid' from an Asian medscam company, so we are happy to follow suit.

Pharmaceutical Grade Hyaluronic Acid
The Hyaluronic acid in all our products is pharmaceutical grade. Ours is formulated with a much higher molecular mass than other similar products. This helps boost anti-viral activities and stimulate an endogenyous production of Granulocyte Colony Macrophage Activating Factor. This is different than other suppliers who use low molecular Hyaluronic Acid that does not provide the same effect upon your immune system.

I have glossed over a slight complication of competition in the form of Candice's mates, Mock-Doctors Tent and Senechal, who play white-labcoat medical dress-up games at Diverse Health. This time last year their webstore pretended to distribute the GlycoPlus range, but this was a bait-and-switch to lure in suckers, and all they had were some concept-stage packaging mock-ups. Now they claim to stock the genuine article in their scammocopoeia.

But wait! The previously-abeyant webstore glycoproteinplus.com is active again, currently selling the ointments and extracts. Crucially, it continues to route enquiries and purchases through Candice's e-address (glycoplus@protonmail.com)... which leads one to infer that her departure from the industry was not entirely honest.

There is also the primary manufactury / dispensary gcmafplus.com, which is heavily anonymised (though purportedly grounded at a location in Hong Kong). On a previous visit, it and Candice's domain were housed in the same Icelandic server and the same IP address. Things have changed, and gcmafplus.com now inhabits its own unique IP address, 72.52.133.222... coincidentally, someone once chose the same address to use as name-server for glycoproteinplus.com -- fostering a suspicion that Candice remains active in both entities. Also encouraging one to associate the 'Thomas Cosner' -- mentioned in bulletin-boards and FB chatter as "Senior Partner and Lab Owner" of GcMAFplus -- with Candice's husband, Thomas Bradstreet.

Yet Candice must be destitute because there is a GoFundme appeal for her and Thomas, to pay for

alternative treatments that are necessary to beat this cancer. Suggested treatment include oxygen hyperbarics, high-dose Vitamin C infusions plus many other alternative treatments

One downside of being a fauxvangelist grifter, networked with a community of other fauxvangelist grifters, is that friends and business contacts are bountiful with the Thoughts and Prayers but not so generous when reaching into their pockets.

Despite the fraudulent therapies, it may be that Thom's actual diagnosis is genuine. Just saying: the couple previously ran a GoFundMe appeal after the suicide of Thom's brother Jeff (a careerist con-man who specialised in autism-cure scams), aiming for $25000 for a PI to re-investigate Jeff's death, then raising the target and eventually taking in $43000. The account was wound up and there the investigation rests.