April 19, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): American conmen used to journey town to town to vend medical cures said to be generated utilizing Chinese snakes. Snake oil was ineffective and hazardous. Therefore, the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was established to put an end to it and other food and drug swindles.

But, today, fake medicine has never been larger. In the 21st century, snake oil has been substituted in America by spurious treatments utilizing stem cells. Stem cells may tender efficient cures one day. However, medical impostors on the Internet today are enacting contemptible assertions that they can overturn the untreatable, from autism to multiple sclerosis to every sort of cancer. Distressed people are being defrauded.

The cameras of ’60 Minutes’ of CBS has been taking a look at this swelling felony and they unearthed that there is no improved window on how this felony functions than the conduct of a male who refers to himself as ‘doctor’. His name is Lawrence ‘Larry’ Stowe.

Stowe has been uninformed that, lately, some of his patients have been functioning with ‘60 Minutes’.

One of those patients is Steven Watters, a college commissioner in Texas, who, six months ago, obtained perhaps the most horrible verdict conceivable. He has ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Approximately 30,000 Americans have ALS at any given time. And like Watters, all of them will breathe their last breath, mostly within five years. This will happen as their nervous system steadily disengages from their muscles. In due course, Watters will be able to shift nothing but his eyes.

The same fate is awaiting Michael Martin, who also has ALS. Martin has nearly lost any capability to converse. Very soon, he will not be able to stroll.

No patient has ever been rescued from the vicious clutches of ALS. No patient has ever witnessed the indications upturned, even momentarily. Nonetheless, still, ’60 Minutes’ discovered that worried people find themselves magnetized to a location that endorses the unattainable. The location is Stowe Biotherapy at La Mesa in California. This location has labeled itself as a “medical oasis.”

’60 Minutes’ requested a multiple sclerosis (MS) patient to gain admittance to Stowe Biotherapy with a hidden camera to pay attention to Larry Stowe’s pitch for his allegedly miraculous healing.

Stowe explicated to the MS patient that he can overturn her malady with his agenda of herbs and vitamins to enhance the immune system, with custom vaccines and stem cell boosters. Nevertheless, ominously, many American medical specialists have expounded that this is hogwash. However, it is the same pitch that ’60 Minutes’ clandestinely recorded again and again as Larry Stowe bragged about his ’ability’ to quash cancer, ALS, MS, Parkinson’s disease, etc.

Larry Stowe is not a medical doctor. He has asserted that he possesses two PhDs, but ‘60Minutes’ uncovered that he only has one in chemical engineering. Stowe had a career at Mobil Oil and possesses patents in the oil industry.