Regarding the telephone interview of the American Distance Education and Training Committee and the qualification certification of the American Global University, I interviewed the American Distance Education and Training Committee by telephone.
DETC, the Distance Education and Training Committee, is a non-profit independent distance education certification institution approved and recognized by the US Department of Education. Rachel Hill, a staff member of the Committee, said: "American Global University" applied for accreditation to the Distance Education and Training Committee in September 2006. After receiving the application, the Committee sent personnel to the field for verification in March this year, but the school informed them that they were not ready for verification, and proposed to wait until June 2, 2008, together with the revised self-assessment document, to apply for resumption of verification. The American Distance Education and Training Committee is tentatively scheduled to be established in June 2008.
When I ask "American Global University" to list in the qualification column of its website the words that they are seeking the certification of American Distance Education and Training Committee (that is, status: American Global University-in the process of seeking the certification of DETC), does this mean that "American Global University" has certain qualifications? Hill pointed out that "American Global University" should not indicate on their website that it is "applying for accreditation" because applying for accreditation does not represent any accreditation status and qualification. Hill said that as far as the certification review process of the American Distance Education and Training Committee is concerned, it usually takes more than half a year to one year from the beginning of the certification application to the final approval, and many of the applications were rejected by the American Distance Education and Training Committee because they did not meet the relevant requirements or did not have certain conditions. Therefore, the application process itself has nothing to do with whether the applicant is qualified for certification.
About Northwest University and Notre Dame University
There are indeed Northwest University and Notre Dame University in the United States, and their English names are Northwest University and Notre Dame University respectively. These two universities are well-known in the United States, ranking 14 and 20 respectively in the ranking of American universities published by American News and World Report in 2007.
But the English standard abbreviation of Northwest University is NU; The standard abbreviation of Notre Dame University is ND, not the abbreviation of Northwest University and the abbreviation of Notre Dame University shown in the academic column of his website, and his website does not provide the English full names of these two universities. As for Lin Guangchang's "American Global University" with a doctoral degree, although its full English name is marked on Lin Guangchang's website, it has been searched in the university accreditation institutions recognized by the US Department of Education and the university directory published by Wyoming, but it is still nowhere to be found.
About "American Global University"
Enter the home page of "American Global University", and the home page is marked with "Providing Degree" in bold English. The so-called "Global Headquarters of American Global University", from staff recruitment to enrollment to registration, all office affairs use the same phone number and the same office brand. I tried to contact the school with the telephone provided on the website for three consecutive days from April 30th. But no one answered the phone every time, and there was no function of transferring to other extensions. Although the telephone voice prompt indicates that I can leave a message, the following voice message says that the message space is used up. Therefore, I don't know Lin Guangchang's specific situation in "Global University of America" or the "University" itself, but one thing is certain: "Global University of America" has not been certified by any educational accreditation institution since its establishment in 2000, including Lin Guangchang's study in "Global University of America" in 200012003. Dr. Lin Guangchang, an "alternative nutrition expert" from Taiwan Province Province, performed in the "Search Ji Cheng" program of Beijing Satellite TV. There was an impressive detail: he picked up two apples, a big one and a small one, and said, why is this small apple more expensive than that big one? Because it is imported from America. How do I know it is an American apple? Because there is a small label with four numbers written on it. The U.S. government requires all fruits to be labeled with this ID card, indicating whether they are genetically modified products and whether they have been sprayed with pesticides. The label on this apple begins with "4", which means it is a genetically modified apple. Genetically modified products can be sold in the market, but consumers have the right to know, so put this label on it to let consumers know that this is a genetically modified apple, and you can choose not to buy it. If the number starts with "3", it means that pesticides have been sprayed, and starts with "5", it means that it is organic food ... (The following words were said by him at the scene and were cut off during the broadcast) Most people don't know what I said, and neither do Americans. When I gave a lecture in America, the audience was very surprised. We don't know!
I was watching Dr. Lin's performance in the audience, which was unheard of, but I know that the US government did not require that genetically modified foods must be labeled, and there are no genetically modified apples on the market at present (genetically modified apples are still under development), so I dare to conclude that Dr. Lin is talking nonsense. I used this as an example to satirize Dr. Lin's rich imagination after I took office. Dr. Lin refused to accept it, saying that as long as you check it on the website of USDA, you can find relevant information. I said that the logo of genetically modified food in the United States belongs to the FDA, not to the Ministry of Agriculture. Dr. Lin insisted that he belonged to the Ministry of Agriculture and asked me to go to the website of the Ministry of Agriculture myself. There is no way to tell who is right and who is wrong online. The host said categorically: "Who is right or wrong about this question? We will check it on the website of the US Department of Agriculture later." Of course, the end result is that the program is broadcast without verification.
I went back to the United States Department of Agriculture to check, and of course, as I expected, I didn't find any relevant information. At first, I speculated that four digits indicated the number of the place of origin or something. Later, I remembered that when I bought fruit in an American supermarket, the cashier would input the number into the cash register to print out the price of the fruit, so I guessed it was something like a product bar code.
Today, I received the manuscript "Lin Guangchang's Criticism and Corrigendum on the" ID Card "of foreign fruits" from reader Li Lei, and I know that this label is called PLU code (price inquiry code). According to this, the search will reveal the truth.
This code is not managed by the US Department of Agriculture as claimed by Dr. Lin, but a standard formulated by the Agricultural Products Electronic Labeling Committee under the Agricultural Products Marketing Association, an industry organization. The purpose is not to give sellers the right to know, but to facilitate the management and sales of products by merchants, just like bar codes. This code generally has 4 digits, indicating the types of agricultural products, such as varieties. Now all the numbers start with 3 or 4. If it is organic food or genetically modified food, the number has five digits, with an extra "9" before the ordinary number of organic food and an extra "8" before the genetically modified food.
The apple number in Dr. Lin's hand is only 4 digits, and it is definitely not a genetically modified apple. In fact, I don't know what kind of genetically modified fruit has been widely promoted. Of course, if the genetically modified fruit goes on the market, it must have passed all kinds of safety tests, just like the genetically modified food that has been on the market at present, there will be no safety problems (this program seems to have confused me when introducing me). However, this program is not a debate about whether genetically modified products are harmful. I just want to explain all kinds of health-preserving fallacies advocated by Dr. Lin, but that's just nonsense and there is no reliable basis. Don't believe it.
Finally, by the way, Dr. Lin's diploma. The netizen turbulent asked: "It is strange that a Lin Guangchang person who lacks scientific literacy should still be a doctor? I don't know what his major is, and what is his doctoral thesis? " He got the diploma of "Doctor of Oriental Medicine" from Global University, a correspondence school known as "diploma factory" in America. No matter how scary the name of the school is, this "diploma factory" usually gives you a diploma as long as you pay the tuition, and you don't need to do any doctoral thesis research. The host of the program called me by my first name, but addressed Lin Guangchang as "Dr. Lin", which is also a feature of this era of reversing right and wrong. Cancer is the leading cause of death in China. By analyzing the cure rate of patients receiving formal treatment in China, there is no difference with the reports of developed countries in the same period.
However, so far, the overall cure rate of cancer in China is quite low, one of the reasons is that most people in China have the habit of delaying medical treatment, but what is even more frustrating is that 42% of cancer patients have not received formal treatment and seek alternative treatment without scientific evidence.
A few days ago, a book named Professor Lin Guangchang published his personal views on health preservation and cancer on the page of One Happy and Fifty, and introduced 100 pages of "healthy detoxification meal", "plant enzyme", "Yilin Yuanqi water machine" and "ozone machine". The most striking thing about this book is that the introduction of the cover author and the cover are printed with the words recommended by well-known enterprises and lectures by Christian churches, so it is impossible to distinguish its authenticity. There are more misinterpretations of the Bible in the text to cater to his personal argument.
Wrong information will hurt the public, especially the brothers and sisters in the Lord.
His fallacies and heresies are many pages, and it is difficult to write a book. Just a few examples to help distinguish.
First, medical fallacies and deviations.
(a) Page 23 "In Taiwan Province Province, one in every 20 women aged 30 to 64 suffers from cervical cancer. ..."
(b) Page 23 "Half of the smears were misjudged."
Fact: There are about 3,000 new cases of cervical cancer among women in Taiwan Province Province every year, with a prevalence rate of1100,000. Women who live to 85 years old have a cumulative risk of cervical cancer in their lifetime of 4.2%. Cancer statistics have certain significance, which cannot be explained at will and is alarmist. The accuracy of smear examination is generally 70-80%. Therefore, the probability of being investigated for three consecutive years without being detected is only 0.8% to 2.7%. Therefore, cervical smear is recognized as an effective method to prevent cervical cancer. Human papillomavirus is the pathogen of cervical cancer and has nothing to do with food, water and ions. Written in this book.
(3) P.23 The author regards diabetes as an infectious disease, which is far from the truth.
(4) P.34 The author's description of the relationship among immunity, cold, glomerulonephritis and uremia is specious. Fact: At present, it is considered that glomerulonephritis is caused by autoimmune disorder, and only a part of it is caused by immunoglobulin deposition on glomerulonephritis caused by streptococcal pharyngitis. Streptococcus only accounts for 5-20% of upper respiratory tract infections. Not all patients with glomerulonephritis are caused by neglect of health.
(5) P.34 The author himself lacks correct medical knowledge and arbitrarily criticizes the significance of liver function examination in health examination. Fact: In fact, AFP is a tumor marker of liver cancer. When liver cells are injured, liver function indexes GOT and GPT increase.
(VI) Page 42-43 "Lupus Erythematosus … physiological cold … taking antibiotics … impaired heart function, menstrual blood … entering the heart … causing spots on the body." ..... "My clinical treatment ... first, detoxification of liver toxicity. Second, tonify the heart and kidney. The third is to remove blood stasis. " Fact: The above statement is sheer nonsense. Lupus erythematosus is an autoimmune disease, which often occurs in young women and has nothing to do with menstruation. Menstrual blood can never flow into the heart. At present, early diagnosis, immune function adjustment and good control can be achieved.
(7) P 125- 127 "the twelve meridians Cycle" and its explanation. According to the knowledge of modern anatomy and physiology, there is no rest time for the operation of various functions of the human body, which should not be overemphasized.
(8) P. 149- 150 "Meditation and meditation can reduce stress, thus reducing the secretion of adrenaline that is" not good for the body "and enhancing the body's immunity." Fact: "Adrenaline" secreted by adrenal medulla and "corticosterone" secreted by adrenal cortex are necessary for human body to cope with emergencies, but they are not beneficial to human body. Long-term overdose of adrenaline has adverse effects on cardiovascular system, but it has nothing to do with whether immunity is enhanced or weakened. And the immune response in normal people is moderate, which is a good thing. Too high and too low are all diseases.
(9) P 159 "Patients with chronic diseases should drink at least 4000cc or even 5000cc of water." Fact: Chronic diseases, including heart disease and uremia, need water restriction. Drinking plenty of water can lead to heart failure and pulmonary edema, which can be fatal.
Second, the fallacy of basic scientific common sense
(X) P.66 "The PH value of pure water is acidic". Fact: Pure water is neutral. In any case, the amount of positive ions and negative ions produced by electrolyte hydrolysis is equal.
(Xi) P.59 "Children are 80% negative ions and 20% positive ions."
(XII) On page 65, "Trihalomethane will be produced when water boils at high temperature in the process of dechlorination" ... As long as it is trace, it will lead to cancer. "Plain boiled water can be called stagnant water. Fact: Boiling water disinfected with chlorine is the way to remove "trihalomethane".
(XIII) P.7 1 "Fish and pork will not go bad if they are sterilized in the sun". Fact: Meat breeds bacteria quickly in the air, and bacteria breed faster at high temperature.
Third, the fallacy and exaggeration of food and nutrition
In order to promote "detoxification meal", the author put forward exaggerated and untrue information about general fruits and vegetables, livestock meat and dairy products. , just a few points:
(XIV) P 167 "Meat problems occur frequently in the world, such as mad cow disease, mad cow disease and chicken plague. ... Chang Gung Memorial Hospital tracked 13 years and found that the bacteria produced by this meat have now developed serious drug resistance. " Fact: The pathogen of mad cow disease is virus-like, not bacteria.
(XV) P 187 "When fruits and vegetables are attacked by viruses, they will produce an antibody, and humans can obtain the same anti-cancer effect after eating them." Fact: Immune function has its specificity for antibodies produced by cells of different bacteria, viruses and cancers. Even though plants can produce antibodies to the virus they are infected with, they still cannot produce anti-cancer effects after entering the human body. Because the antibody is basically a kind of protein, it has been heated, digested and denatured in the gastrointestinal tract, and then it can be absorbed by breaking down into small fragments or amino acids. Of course, it is impossible to show the function of the original antibody.
There are many mistakes in the information about milk in the book. For example, in P 168- 169, it is emphasized that "milk will cause calcium loss, but it will cause osteoporosis", and the author of P 169 even told people to "raise a cow by themselves".
Fact: For human babies, breast milk is absolutely the best. It is absurd to attack milk with the perfection of breast milk. Can we ask adults to take breast milk? Besides, the ingredients of breast milk are not designed for adult nutrition. Milk is rich in protein and calcium. For people who lack protein and calcium, it is a good source of protein and calcium, which is better than other protein sources with less calcium. However, excessive intake of protein will increase the excretion of calcium in urine, so people who originally consumed high protein will lose the benefit of increasing calcium with milk. The absorption of so-called organic calcium such as calcium acetate is better than calcium carbonate, but the dosage of various calcium tablets has taken into account the absorption situation, so there is no difference.
Pasteur disinfection is a low-temperature disinfection method (only to 60℃), and the damage to nutrients can be ignored. Raising cattle and milking yourself can't avoid pollution. If there is no proper sterilization, its safety is even more worrying. Most of the remarks about female osteoporosis in the book are alarmist. In fact, young women, like men, rarely suffer from osteoporosis.
Fourth, about "healthy detoxification meal"
The author dares to write "Healthy Detoxification Meal" to treat breast cancer patients (P 140) and liver cancer patients (P 154), and mentions "using a chopstick" as a disease diagnosis in many places, which is absurd, arrogant and deceptive, and most importantly. Most cancers are not caused by the long-term accumulation of toxins produced by our daily diet, but, as the book says, we must use a "detoxification meal" to expel "stool" in order to "detoxify" a lot. It is impossible to control or even treat cancer just by limiting food!
"Healthy Detoxification Meal" is mainly introduced in P 154- 178. Look at its low calorie and high fiber (high residue) in detail. Its nutrient composition is extremely unbalanced, which is almost completely lacking in protein, and only contains sugar food that can generate heat. Can only be used for short-term rapid weight loss. Due to the lack of protein, amino acids and lipids necessary for human metabolism, it is definitely not suitable for patients with chronic wasting diseases, such as cancer patients, which will inevitably accelerate their physical exertion and accelerate their death.
It is more dangerous for patients with chronic diseases. On the page of P 163, the author wrote: "Some people with chronic diseases and diabetes may have higher blood sugar (don't worry about this). Ignore it, they will naturally return to normal in two days. " Far from it, diabetic patients may die of ketoacidosis or hyperglycemia syndrome due to abnormal metabolism.
All the witnesses listed had four or five bowel movements, diarrhea and weight loss. This is the same as what many folk remedies claim as "expelling tumor toxins". Only the author took the opportunity to promote "plant enzymes". Patients receiving regular cancer treatment must have enough nutrition to have physical strength and immunity to fight the disease. Adequate nutrition and personal favorite food are very important for the quality and quantity of life of advanced patients receiving supportive therapy. However, terminally ill patients are the easiest to be deceived. If their death is accelerated, the crime of money murder is not serious. It is cruel to deprive a patient with limited life of food.
Five, about "using forest vitality water". There are obviously many contradictions in the composition table, so readers should be able to observe them by themselves and not repeat them.
Six, the fallacy of faith and truth. This book uses biblical words to emphasize the importance of the chapters it writes, and misinterprets the scriptures to echo its personal arguments. Only fallacies related to "health" are put forward.
(XVII) P.20 "Christians are in poor health, especially missionaries, and what is worse is Jenny."
(XVIII) Page 28 "All spiritual people are in poor health". Fact: Although God's glory is also manifested in people's illness and weakness, according to the consistent truth of the Bible, physical health and spiritual prosperity can be consistent. See 3 John 2.
(XIX) p.44 "'If your body is damaged, you can't be damaged by your parents. Filial piety begins.' "In order to be filial, I decided not to have surgery, so I have a healthy capital today. Fact: The author misleads patients who need surgical treatment and delays their illness, which violates the old filial piety that "parents only worry about their own illness".
As medical practitioners, we don't need to read and criticize publications that have nothing to do with correct medical knowledge. I heard that this book sold well in various churches, confusing many people, so I made the above statement so as not to hurt my body and all people.
He Shizhu, obstetrician and gynecologist of Taichung Veterans General Hospital
Liu Fuxing, obstetrician and gynecologist of Taichung Veterans General Hospital.
Zhou Mingming, obstetrician and gynecologist of Taichung Veterans General Hospital
Chen Mingzhe, obstetrician and gynecologist of Taichung Veterans General Hospital
Lin Shengkai, obstetrician and gynecologist of Taichung Veterans General Hospital
Huang Xiaofeng, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Taichung Veterans General Hospital.
Zeng Zhenzhi, obstetrician and gynecologist of Taichung Veterans General Hospital
Yi Yuqiao, obstetrician and gynecologist of Taichung Veterans General Hospital
Hong Manrong, obstetrician and gynecologist, Taichung Veterans General Hospital
Ge Yumin, obstetrician and gynecologist of Taichung Veterans General Hospital
Yang Xiaojun, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Taichung Veterans General Hospital.
Lu Jianxing, obstetrician and gynecologist, Taichung Veterans General Hospital
Zhang Xuanru, obstetrician and gynecologist of Taichung Veterans General Hospital
Chen Liqin, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Taichung Veterans General Hospital.
He, obstetrician and gynecologist of Taichung Veterans General Hospital
Li Guanghan, obstetrician and gynecologist, Taichung Veterans General Hospital
Chen, obstetrician and gynecologist of Taichung Veterans General Hospital
Rodanzi, obstetrician and gynecologist, Taichung Veterans General Hospital
Xu Shidian, obstetrician and gynecologist of Taichung Veterans General Hospital
Lin, obstetrician and gynecologist of Taichung Veterans General Hospital
Xie, obstetrician and gynecologist, Taichung Veterans General Hospital
Lin, obstetrician and gynecologist of Taichung Veterans General Hospital
Chen Yuru, obstetrician and gynecologist of Taichung Veterans General Hospital.
Lin Rongliang, obstetrician and gynecologist of Taichung Veterans General Hospital
Chen Yiting, obstetrician and gynecologist of Taichung Veterans General Hospital.
Huang Yingfen, obstetrician and gynecologist of Taichung Veterans General Hospital.
Chen Nanni, obstetrician and gynecologist of Taichung Veterans General Hospital
Zhang jisen, gastroenterologist, taichung veterans general hospital
Ye Hongren, gastroenterologist, Taichung Veterans General Hospital.
Department of Gastroenterology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital Lian Hanzhong
Huang Wei, attending physician, Department of Immunorheumatology, Puli Christian Hospital
Attending physician of family medicine, Lipuli Christian Hospital
Zhang Changsheng, Attending Physician of Nephrology, Puli Christian Hospital
Li Wenche, Attending Physician of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Puli Christian Hospital