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Enter alt-med, who sells terminally ill patients overpriced snake oil that is *guaranteed* to have no therapeutical effect, often drawing them away from actual drugs that are toxic but give at least say 25% chances of survival.
In 2004 I was saddened by death of a legendary Polish singer Jacek Kaczmarski, who suffered from throat cancer. I was then shocked to learn he refused chemotherapy and instead spent 100'000 CHF in some phony "holistic threapy" clinic in Switzerland.