Snake Oil Alert: Blue Light Cancer Treatment at ThinkGene

Here's a post from Josh Hill at ThinkGene about an unpublished study of Blue Light effect on tumors in mice.  It's a hands-down winner of today's Snake Oil of the Day Award.  Lest we give cancer patients and the general public false hope and the wrong impression, it might be wise to let one like this at least get through peer review before sensationalizing it...

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[Andrew Yates]

Hi Matt,

I'm Andrew Yates, the editor of Think Gene. You're right, Josh made a small mistake, and so did I for not catching this one. I've removed the article (which now links to a retraction message). Thanks for keep us on our toes!

-Andrew Yates
www.thinkgene.com