RNC Ignores Science, Embraces Pseudoscience

Giving the national convention stage to someone associated with Youngevity feels like a surprising low. The CEO of Van Etten’s company is a man named Joel Wallach: He’s not a medical doctor, and yet, according to him, he’s cured several diseases the rest of medicine has yet to crack. For instance, Wallach has claimed he has the cure for muscular dystrophy. He’s got the cure for cystic fibrosis, too, which you can conveniently get in the products his company sells. While we’re at it, in his book Black Gene Lies: Slave Quarter Cures he apparently explains that the reason some diseases disproportionately impact African Americans, including “hypertension, type II diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, cancer, cardiovascular disease, obesity, etc.,” is simply due to deficiencies of trace elements that are “easily, safely and economically overcome by the use of simple nutritional supplement program and herbal remedies.”