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Did Alternative Medicine Woo Help Kill Steve Jobs?

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
October 13, 2011
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Submitted by Hank on Thu, 10/13/2011 - 06:51
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Add Steve Jobs to the list of famous people who died treating terminal diseases with woo rather than with medicine.

It turns out Jobs had been treating his pancreatic cancer with a special diet prescribed by the alternative medicine promoter Dr. Dean Ornish instead of opting for early surgery. 

A Lesson in Treating Illness by Brian Dunning, Skeptoid

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