Phillip Day

Phillip Day (not to be confused with the British documentary film director with the same name) is the founderhttp://credence.org/tours/OZ2012/?page_id=2 of both the self-proclaimed Campaign for Truth in Medicinehttp://campaignfortruth.com/home.htm and Campaign for Truth in Europe.http://campaignfortruth.com/CTE/ He is also the figurehead of Credence Publishing,http://credence.org/ through which his 'organization' performs independent research so that they might report 'contentious issues that may harm the public' and 'report properly annotated and verified information that enables you to make wise health decisions'.http://www.credence.org/whoiscredence.htm He claims to be a 'world renowned health researcher'http://credence.org/tours/OZ2012/?page_id=191 and is a strong proponent of natural medicine and expounds many conspiracy theories. Most interestingly his insistence that the European Union is an autocracy dominated by France and Germany.http://campaignfortruth.com/CTE/tour1.htm
The two campaigns he figureheads, respectively for Truth In Medicine and Truth In Europe both seek to raise public awareness and action against the evil politicianshttp://campaignfortruth.com/tour4.htm who are hurting his sense of national identityhttp://campaignfortruth.com/CTE/tour1.htm and killing us all with medicine.http://campaignfortruth.com/tour.htm
==Alternative medicine beliefs==
Phillip Day's core medical ethos is that orthodox medicine is well meaning yet wrong and is deeply misled by false premises and incorrect beliefs about health. Instead, Day offers that all illness (particularly cancer)http://www.credence.org/sc/cancinfo/slide1.htm can be traced back to an insufficient diet, toxins in food and environment, and pharmaceutical drugs.http://campaignfortruth.com/Eclub/200901/canceranddiet.htm This includes claims that reversing those conditions to a correct state can correct the ailment. He has a disconcerting habit of citing his own books as sources, and such citations often link to the Credence e-store.http://campaignfortruth.com/Eclub/180208/CTM-cancercautionarytale.htm Day often cites anecdotes and hearsay as evidence for efficacy, and cherry picks web media from locations as reputable and rigorously reviewed for accuracy as YouTube.Credence Film (archived from May 2, 2007). He is also strongly against fluoridated water, pharmaceuticals and vaccines.http://campaignfortruth.com/Eclub/200901/ukfluoridemilk.htm
Day strongly suggests the use of laetrile, under its woo pseudonym Vitamin-B17 as a cancer cure, despite not being a vitaminhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3322%2Fcanjclin.31.2.91 and producing hydrogen cyanide when metabolized.http://www.cancer.org/Treatment/TreatmentsandSideEffects/ComplementaryandAlternativeMedicine/PharmacologicalandBiologicalTreatment/laetrile The general scientific consensus is that laetrile does not work very well as a cancer treatment, let alone a glorified cure.http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM198201283060403 The other metabolite of laetrile, benzaldehyde, is a stringently controlled precursor to illicit drugs, making it's users walking containers of a DEA List I Precursor.
Despite claiming to be a science journalist, he has no formal background in any scientific discipline. Rather interestingly, Day's qualifications are limited to the realm of sales and marketing.http://credence.org/tours/OZ2012/?page_id=2 Knowing this, one could deduce that Day lacks the required knowledge of biology, particularly molecular biology and pharmacology, to credibly assess the claims he 'reports' on for efficacy and rational sense.
==External links==
*Credence Publishing, the suspiciously consumerized research organization in all its glory.
*The Campaign for Truth In Medicine
*The Campaign for Truth in Europe.
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