The Balearic Government will sanction 300,001 euros to the organizers of the pseudo-scientific event organized last July in Mallorca during which the singer Miguel Bosé and the healer Josep Pàmies agitated their speech against medicine and their support for pseudo-therapies despite the absence of any scientific basis. At the event, the artist, now a regular disseminator of conspiracy and pseudo-scientific theories and an anti-vaccine icon during the COVID pandemic, declared himself a “proud Holocaust denier” in front of an audience of 800 people gathered at the restaurant in Palma Es Molí from the east. Account.
The Ministry of Health has decided to open a sanctions file against the entity Dolça Revolució, organizer of this, after its inspectors verified on site how participants spread false health information, promoting treatments without scientific evidence that “may even produce harmful health effects.” Pàmies, a farmer from Lleida who became one of the main gurus of pseudotherapies in Spain and defender of the effectiveness – not scientifically proven – of different plants, was fined several times for encouraging the use of sodium chlorite or chlorine dioxide (MMS). ). ) to treat autism and cure diseases like cancer or ALS.
As elDiario.es was informed by ministry sources, according to the inspection report, “information was provided and MMS or sodium chlorite was promoted as a medicine with curative properties for diseases such as cancer, ALS, tuberculosis or autism, without this product being legally authorized as a medicine for such therapeutic purposes. The government qualifies the facts as a very serious offense, based on article 111.2 of Royal Legislative Decree 1/2015 of July 24, which includes in this type the promotion, information or advertising of unauthorized or unlicensed medicines. that such activities comply with the provisions. of said regulation or of the general legislation on advertising.
It should also be remembered that a few days before the celebration of the event, after learning of the appeal, the Ministry also sent to Dolça Revolució a request for warning for possible non-compliance with the regulations in force in regarding the promotion of illegal drugs and remedies. unauthorized, or proven effective and safe, informing them of the liability they could incur. In the same letter, the department recalls that the association had already been sanctioned by the Health Department of the Generalitat of Catalonia for the commission of a serious offense consisting of intentional advertising and promotion of the drug sodium chlorite without the warnings prerequisites that this implies. . for health, a sanction that the Superior Court of Justice of Barcelona, by judgment of November 8, 2022, ratified.
In this regard, the Ministries of Health and Science and Innovation have a Plan to protect people’s health against pseudotherapies which aims to provide citizens with truthful and rigorous information to be able to differentiate the practices of which the The effectiveness in the treatment or cure of diseases has been scientifically demonstrated. contrasted, compared to others which have not demonstrated this effectiveness, and thus improve the adoption of informed decisions. The Collegiate Medical Organization (OMC) also has an Observatory ( ) updated with the latest therapies without scientific validity.
Bosé: “Proudly negationist”
During this Friday’s event, Bosé declared himself a “proud Holocaust denier” and assured that neither he nor his children had been vaccinated against COVID. The singer has repeatedly come to assert that he was, like his supporters, “on the side of truth”, launching an attack against medicine and science: “Those who are on the other side are afraid of traditional medicine. » because it is an area that is developing every day, because of its effects and because of the conviction that to treat stomach aches, a mixture of fennel, chamomile and stevia does not kill.
For his part, Pàmies attacked the “criminal confinement orders” issued by “puppet governments”, asserting that “fascism is not only Hitler”, but that “current democracy is fascist, because it prevents the freedom of ‘expression or meeting’. Among other unfounded statements, the healer even said that if parents of autistic children “don’t talk about how Agüita healed them – in reference to sodium chlorite – it’s because the fascist state would steal their children “.
