Alt med ghouls

I was saddened to hear last week that actor Patrick Swayze had died. I get grief for it, but "Roadhouse" is a favorite movie of mine, and of course his skit with Chris Farley on SNL is a classic. I hear Swayze was a good man, and his death from pancreatic cancer is a loss to us all. But some people are gaining from it; they're ghoulishly using his death to promote their own agendas, and in some cases it's truly horrid. Take, for example, the website Natural News, an "alternative medicine" website which prides itself on promoting health threats like antivaccination nonsense and other provably wrong claims. They have published a particularly obnoxious and loathsome article that says Swayze's death was caused not by his cancer, but by his chemotherapy. This is, to be quite clear, utter crap. The author, Mike Adams, goes on and on piling one awful ...