THERMOGRAFIE

De vraag is vanzelf of er met Thermografie meer dan koude voeten of een koude neus mee valt te detecteren.

En of de populariteit in de USA niet juist betekent dat daar de befoefelarij al in de gaten begint te lopen:

The Huffington Post promotes breast cancer quackery again

If mainstream medicine were ever to validate thermography scientifically, then it would become science-based medicine, and the quacks can’t have that. It’s too profitable to market the test through fear and misinformation. There’s gold in that thar machine if you don’t care about science, don’t understand breast cancer biology, and have no scruples.

{Indien de reguliere geneeskunde ooit het nut van thermografie zou bevestigen dan zou het een wetenschappelijk verankerde benadering zijn die buiten het bereik van de kwakzalvers valt.}

Voor kwakzalvers is het veel te profijtelijk om hun test met misleiding en vrees aanjagen te adverteren. Je kan goud verdienen met je machine als wetenschap je niets interesseert, niets weet van borstkanker-biologie en geen scrupules kent.}

http://www.chirobase.org/06DD/thermography.html

http://sciencebasedpharmacy.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/thermography-worse-than-useless/

Thermography has emerged as an alternative therapy offered by naturopaths, homeopaths, and some health professionals, like pharmacists. Note the claims made:

Verderop:

Perhaps not surprisingly none provide supporting evidence for these statements. That’s because the scientific evidence actually shows thermography isn’t a useful tool for screening or diagnosis.

http://www.aetna.com/cpb/medical/data/1_99/0029.html

Aetna considers thermography (temperature gradient studies) experimental and investigational because available medical literature indicates thermography to be an ineffective diagnostic technique.

Aetna considers dynamic infrared blood perfusion imaging (DIRI) experimental and investigational because of a lack of evidence of its clinical utility.

http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm257633.htm

FDA: Breast thermography not a substitute for mammography
Telethermographic, ‘infrared’ devices not approved for primary cancer screening
 
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today warned women not to substitute breast thermography for mammography to screen for breast cancer.
 
Unlike mammography, in which an X-ray of the breast is taken, thermography produces an infrared image that shows the patterns of heat and blood flow on or near the surface of the body. Some health care providers claim thermography is superior to mammography as a screening method for breast cancer because it does not require radiation exposure or breast compression.

Hierna nog wat advertentieteksten die de lezer het besef proberen te ontnemen dat algemeen bekend is dat de plaatjes gemaakt met een infrarood-apparaat  nergens goed voor zijn.