Colloidal silver: quackery for credulous idiots

2005-09-14 21:38 UTC. Comments: 35.

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1. 

   keith

   Wrote at 2007-02-19 01:08 UTC using Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP:

   Well
   Ive cured my sons asthma with silver and he has never ever had a strep infetion . Gee , I wonder why ? I dont get sick , hmmmm , Im 48 years old . I should be getting sick every now and then shouldnt I ???? If I ever injested the amount of flouride , a rat poisen that claims to prevent cavities that I did with CS , I would be dead . hmmmmm , This is very interesting isnt it ? Oh and did I mention we dont use fluride either ? And no cavities ! hmmmmmmm , Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm . And if we do get a cavity rest assured we wont put mercury in our heads . Did you know you cannot get health insurance in sweden if you have mercury in your head ????? My guess is the same group the allows this too happen is the same group behing the anti CS movement . Ya think ?
2. 

   SilverLady

   Wrote at 2008-01-17 01:45 UTC using Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP:

   you obviously know nothing at all about Colloidal Silver – or Colloidal Gold because if you did, you would not be writing all of this mindless bollocks about it. It will onlt turn your skin grey (aggria is the proper name for it) if you drink silver that is not pure, that means compounded with somehting else. If the CS is made using pure silver rods then there’s no chance of aggria occurring. A bit of advice – know your subject matter before speaking about it and making a bitch-ass of yourself as you have done here.
3. 

   Paul Battley

   Wrote at 2008-01-17 09:26 UTC using Firefox 2.0.0.11 on Linux:

   SilverLady, I’m not going to delete your comment despite its egregious offensiveness. (Just what is a ‘bitch-ass’, anyway?)
   
   The condition of grey skin is actually called ‘argyria’. Are you sure that you know what you’re talking about?
   
   > If the CS is made using pure silver rods then there’s no chance of aggria occurring
   
   Yeah, and you can’t get pregnant standing up. I don’t think your contention is supported by chemistry or biochemistry.
4. 

   Justin

   Wrote at 2008-02-25 20:54 UTC using Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP:

   collodial silver works. I’ve used it since i was a child (not daily – only when needed). I’ve never had a problem unless never having a canker sore since the age of 8 is a problem. Or if getting a cold that lasts only one day once every few years is a problem.
   
   you are just some kid that has no idea what he’s talking about.
5. 

   frank

   Wrote at 2008-04-04 16:24 UTC using Firefox 2.0.0.13 on Windows XP:

   what really annoys me is quackery from the pharmaceutical establishment, there are a lot evidence going back for centuries that silver and silver water , are an effective anti-pathogen, don’t be fooled by the pharmaceutical mafia. do your home work before you put silver down, the only reason i can see that an intelligent person would put silver down is that they must be associated to the big mafia.more people die or become ill because of the medical pharmaceutical mafia and all their evil drugs that they push on to the public
   wake up and smell the sh.t
   love and light
   god bless
6. 

   H

   Wrote at 2008-12-20 11:44 UTC using Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows Vista:

   You obviously have a brain, so why do you insist on making wild assumptions about Colloidal Silver (and more importantly, telling others what you assume) without investigating thoroughly or trying it yourself. COLLOIDAL SILVER does not change your skin colour, other forms of silver can do this, such as Silver Nitrate, but that is silver in COMPLETELY different form (i.e. much, much larger particles that stay around in the body – saying that Colloidal Silver can cause greying of the skin in the same way that other forms of silver can it is like saying that a bucket of water thrown on your head from 5 stories above can kill you because in the same situation a bucket of ice would .) Colloidal Silver is something that anyone can make effectively at home without the need to line ANYBODY’S pockets and is incredibly cheap to make – there is no need to buy it from anyone. There have been many, many self-funded independant scientific studies conducted by universities showing the effectiveness of Colloidal Silver against a whole host of viral, fungal and bacterial infections. Personally I haven’t had a single cold in 5 years of making and taking my own CS. Intelligent people have a right to examine the evidence for themselves and make their own minds up about what may be best for them
7. 

   Mark Seddon

   Wrote at 2008-12-30 11:03 UTC using Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows XP:

   I have been as gullible as anyone in my attempts to find cures for various ailments, but I do observe, as do most humans, cause and effect. before scientific method let us really move forwards, it was the backbone of all technology.
   My brother had candida albicans (Thrush) so bad that the doctor sent him for an Aids test. when it came back negative the doctor lost interest! he could have prescribed Diflucanazole, a very effective anti fungal, but a bit expensive, so he gave out some ineffective mouth lozenges containing Nystatin. anyway, six months of elimination diet cured the problem. So what has this to do with colloidal silver? well, I suffer from Candida Albicans too, (Genetic disposition? environmental?) and control it also with diet. At least till I took some (commercially prepared) colloidal silver. after about 2 weeks my symptoms dissappeared (I had suffered for 10 years, most notably vicious, month long sore throats if i ate yeast encouraging food) and unless I eat cheese or vinegar for several meals in a row, i dont get any symptoms now. and the symptoms are very mild. I am absolutely convinced that the silver “cured” the condition. So would Diflucan, but good luck getting that (need about 2 week course, not a silly one dose pill. there appears to be no toxic dose, btw). I got no help from the medical profession with Candida, although it blighted my life, so pardon me if I dont dismiss self help. btw I poured the rest of the bottle of silver on my hair, and let it dry, and that relieved a condition of itchy scalp that had been driving me crazy for most of my life. That condition has returned after about 5 years, so im looking on the internet now, to see if I can make my own colloidal silver.
8. 

   Dan

   Wrote at 2009-02-11 05:36 UTC using Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows Vista:

   Well, Paul Battley… All the people above are right. Being a practitioner who uses colloidal silver in many cases, and seeing its effectiveness, I can’t be silent. MY BEST ADVICE TO YOU: PLEASE, TRY IT ON YOUR OWN. MAYBE ONE DAY IT WILL SAVE YOUR OWN (or your loved one’s) LIFE OR HEALTH. God Bless you and yours.
9. 

   Kim Logan

   Wrote at 2009-03-09 12:26 UTC using Firefox 3.0.7 on Windows XP:

   A few years ago a friend of mine was bitten by a dear tick, the result was he was diagnosed with lymes disease, very nasty if left untreated. The only thing his doctor could offer were antibiotics, which by her own admission would only hold the worst effects at bay, she advised him to seek alterative help. As I have been in the business for many years he came to me, and although sceptical took my advice and enbarked on a two month course of CS. Further medical tests have shown him to be clear of the lymes.
   Just for the record he skin is as pink and rosey as it has ever been, only high concentrations of CS taken regularly can cause greying of the skin,
   to quote an old analergy, it is not nescessary to use a sledge hammer to crack a walnut.
10. 

    Mr Ross

    Wrote at 2009-06-08 20:51 UTC using Firefox 3.0.10 on Unknown OS:

    bullshit all the way.. Any natural remedy is far better than the pharmaceuticals. They are just there to make money off the sick, and will never tell you about the cures, because then they would lose the money..
11. 

    SC

    Wrote at 2009-07-27 03:48 UTC using Firefox 3.0.12 on Windows Vista:

    I agree that you really do not know enough
    to really write about this topic or call it quack. Do you realize NASA uses a silver ionization equipment to recycle its urine for pure water. If you look into this, you’ll know that silver kills everything.
    
    Have you searched google scholar to see what research has been done with silver on bacteria?
    
    You’ll be amazed.
12. 

    math Boylan

    Wrote at 2009-08-06 16:57 UTC using Safari 419.3 on Mac OS X:

    The guy who put this up use insults as an argument no logic and an official depop and big pharma reaction, by simply insisting that silver ingestion is a conspiracy theory? That’s ridiculous. How can silver ingestion be a conspiracy theory and quackery ? Point is you get sick we don’t HA! When we all don’t get sick after using it , that means wow , placebo is the cure for all viruses . Dido for me never sick since using it, idiot.
13. 

    Paul Battley

    Wrote at 2009-08-06 22:40 UTC using Mozilla 1.9.1.1pre on Linux:

    Wow. It’s been four years since I wrote this post, and it’s turned out to be like a lightning rod for stupidity.
    
    Let me assure you: there is no big pharma conspiracy or grand plan to depopulate the planet by hiding the magical silver cure for every known ailment.
    
    Silver may well be an effective antibacterial agent outside the body. So is bleach! That doesn’t mean it’s a safe or effective treatment when taken internally. Medicine doesn’t work that way. Science doesn’t work that way.
    
    You’re all a bunch of ignorant, credulous fuckwits. But you do make me laugh. And that’s why I still leave comments open.
14. 

    Nei

    Wrote at 2009-08-27 02:43 UTC using Safari 530.19.1 on Windows XP:

    What you do?
    Are you understand anything about science?
    Are you working in big farma?
    penincillium has been discovery out of human bodies.
    stop donkey, cut off the comments now, its a shit!!!
    do you now who was Hiprocrates, Paracelso, Bach, Aristoteles, Bohm, Bohr, Pauli and others?
    You are a stupid!!! goood night!!
15. 

    Stupid Paul

    Wrote at 2009-09-17 23:50 UTC using Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP:

    Well Paul you got ripped in this thread.
    
    You dont work for the goverment by any chance?
    
    Open your eyes and get off the fluoride you might see there are agents out there that are more powerful then western medicine.
    
    So do what people have mentioned read some studies before you post crap like this.
16. 

    motherfunky

    Wrote at 2009-10-27 23:36 UTC using Firefox 3.0.14 on Mac OS X:

    You need to worry about the poison big pharma push on the Public instead of attacking an age old proven natural anti biotic. Put Fluoride in your search engine and smoke it.
    
    BTW people conspire all the time, so a conspiracy theory is just people who can think having an opinion.
    
    manamana
17. 

    motherfunky

    Wrote at 2009-10-27 23:37 UTC using Firefox 3.0.14 on Mac OS X:

    You need to worry about the poison big pharma push on the Public instead of attacking an age old proven natural anti biotic.
    
    BTW people conspire all the time, so a conspiracy theory is just people who can think having an opinion.
    
    manamana
18. 

    zephyr beau-bradley

    Wrote at 2009-11-23 09:55 UTC using Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP:

    Four years ago I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis, and I became so ill that I thought I may have to give up work. I was in so much pain I struggled to get out of the bath and cried with pain when walking any distance. Although I was taking bucket loads of medication, including methatrexine, my stomach started bleeding because of the medication strengths, and so even though I was still in extreme pain I came off all medication.
    
    I decided to look at alternative medicines and cured myself by taking Colloidal Silver and wearing a Q-link pendant. I am now pain free and I know it works, I am living proof that we can cure ourselves naturally.
    
    The big pharma guys don’t want to cure anyone, they want us to remain ill so that they can keep medicating us with rubbish. They make more money that way and have customers on medication for life.
    
    I thank god that I found out about Colloidal Silver and the benefits and cures on Youtube, and I am grateful to those who have put up valuable information on this subject to help so many. I believe so strongly in this CS cure that I sell this product because it works.
    
    You do not turn grey or blue drinking Colloidal Silver, the person who turned blue made his own silver solution with tap water (which is incorrect) and added other things to the mix, which is wrong. Colloidal Silver is safe when made correctly and the nano-particles of silver are very small.
19. 

    richard madsen

    Wrote at 2009-12-01 20:57 UTC using Safari 531.21.10 on Mac OS X:

    Hi guys,
    
    Can I ask all you guys something except for Paul?
    
    Would you like to buy some magic beans?
    
    Think about it, cancer and HIV are independently researched all over the world by private companies and charities, many made up of people directly affected by these illnesses. They have nothing to do with pharmaceutical companies, they have tried these magic remedies. They may have medicinal qualities but so does a diet of fruit and vegetables – it’s not a cure.
    
    No doubt you guys are all behind the depopulation/big pharma conspiracy too? That is hilarious. CS websites usually use this as a back story. You fucking idiots cannot see the blatant contradictions and out-of-context quotes that plague this type of nonsense.
    
    They say that the evil big pharmas are only interested in making money from sick people, yet they claim these same big pharmas and the NWO (I love that one!) want to depopulate the earth by 90%...would that not defeat the purpose?
    
    So, anyone for some magic beans?
20. 

    Joan G.

    Wrote at 2009-12-16 05:31 UTC using Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows Vista:

    I would like to respond to Richard,
    
    I don’t know anything about the NWO. (A golf date kept me from the last Bilderberg meeting, I guess). I don’t know anything about a conspiracy to depopulate the planet. (Didn’t get the memo?)
    
    But I do know that greed can be a powerful motivator. Are you asking me to niavely believe that the world is full of philanthropic do-gooders diligently searching for cures for Cancer and AIDS just to make the world a better place?
    
    Tell me something. If I had the cure for AIDS and cancer in my hot little hands right now, and had the means to mass produce and distribute it to the sick and dying, who would lose out? Who would NOT profit from a cure…...How about the Pharmaceutical companies making Billions a year on chemo theraputics, AZT and other AIDS drugs, as well as the numerous medications used to treat the side effects of these treatments. Wake up and smell the magic coffee beans, Pal.
21. 

    SlickMick

    Wrote at 2009-12-21 15:05 UTC using Firefox 3.5.6 on Windows Vista:

    Dear Paul, they started using silver colloid solution to clean down hospital floors during the hospital supervirus outbreak. Why might that be, thicko???
22. 

    Paul Battley

    Wrote at 2009-12-21 15:11 UTC using Chrome 4.0.272.0 on Mac OS X:

    And they use bleach for cleaning in hospitals, too.
    
    Killing bacteria and viruses ex vivo is easy. But that doesn’t mean that the same substances are safe or efficacious when taken internally.
23. 

    perfectmus@yahoo.com

    Wrote at 2010-01-16 22:14 UTC using Internet Explorer 7.0 on Windows Vista:

    big drug companies fund groups behind plot to regulate colloidal silver
    
    there has been an excessive and over exaggerated concerted effort to hinder the sales of colloidal silver products due to the fact that they have been proven and *documented in medicals books since 1914 that silver has been used as treatment of viral and bacterial symptoms. the fact that modern universities and research institutions that have found those same conclusions has raised and caught the attention of major pharmaceutical companies.
    
    pharmaceutical companies loathe and hate any vitamins or sales of supplements especially strong competition from the colloidal silver industry, and if they have petitioned the us government to stop the sales of colloidal silver and if the could stop the sales of any vitamins health supplements like they did in europe
    
    while there maybe a reason for concern of argyria, there are chemical free alternatives to the colloidal silver process that are state of the art and actually produce colloidal silver with higher ppm values without the use of chemicals.
    
    you can get them at www.gold2live.com
24. 

    Silver Morons

    Wrote at 2010-02-10 23:01 UTC using Firefox 3.5.7 on Windows 2000:

    http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/PhonyAds/silverad.html
    
    Imbeciles and asshats believe this miracle cure.
    
    Really? Please sell your conspiracy theory BS somewhere else like in your 9/11 truther sites and you moon landing hoax sites.
25. 

    John

    Wrote at 2010-03-11 09:08 UTC using Firefox 3.5.8 on Windows Vista:

    I don’t get why you’re so closed minded to CS. There is a ton of research on it’s effectiveness, and the fact that it is safe for ingestion. It’s not a mystery as to why it works. I’d suggest checking out the documented scientific journals about it’s effectiveness. There are non-scientific sites like this:
    http://tuberose.com/Colloidal_Silver.html
    
    which have a pretty straight forward explanation about how CS works, and it’s history.
    
    If you have any questions, then ask.
26. 

    Colloidal Silver Advocate

    Wrote at 2010-04-14 14:27 UTC using Internet Explorer 8.0 on Windows Vista:

    Its a fact that pharmaceutical companies PAY bashers. Quak Morans that quak for cash by writing articles that discredit not only colloidal silver but other good products. In case you are ignorant of the facts, there are approved Patents on colloidal silver, done with medical case studies and clinical trials proving that silver does have anti viral and anti bacterial properties.
27. 

    Adam

    Wrote at 2010-04-27 16:14 UTC using Internet Explorer 8.0 on Windows XP:

    These are hilarious. It really is amazing how people will defend ridiculous magic cures and such.
    
    I’ve seen people adamant that honey cures hayfever, homeopathy is medically supported and, now, that colloidal silver is a safe and effective substance that somehow kills all pathogens?
    
    What a world.
28. 

    Just me

    Wrote at 2010-04-30 00:28 UTC using Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows XP 64 or Server 2003:

    Actually honey can cure hayfever if its locally made.
    
    http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/jmf.2006.163
29. 

    Tolpuddle Martyr

    Wrote at 2010-05-02 06:14 UTC using Firefox 3.0.11 on Mac OS X:

    Damn, someones being mobbed by a plague of raving grey – skinned nutters. Good luck de-infesting your website pal.
    
    I wonder if their foil hats are wrought from Colloidal Silver?
30. 

    michu

    Wrote at 2010-06-02 11:26 UTC using Firefox 3.0.19 on Mac OS X:

    have you tried it? i tried colloidal silver water for a bacterial infection and it worked…i have since treated my whole family with it and not one of us has needed to take any pharmaceutical medicines since – 4 years! And there have been illnesses. And we don’t have grey skin.
31. 

    Nick Heer

    Wrote at 2010-06-04 21:09 UTC using Safari 531.21.10 on Mac OS X:

    Wow, you’re getting overrun by people who actually believe this stuff works. It doesn’t. Just because your colds only last a little while or because you don’t get sick very often, that doesn’t mean it’s the silver working. I also get sick very rarely (once in the last few years). I haven’t had cancer. I don’t take CS because it’s bunk. Though, if I said I chew on rocks every day, would that mean chewing on rocks prevents cancer? No, obviously not.
    
    CS is snake oil, pure and simple. If you wish to continue wasting your money on it (directed at the other commenters), you’re more than welcome to.
32. 

    Pssst...Paid Basher Look!

    Wrote at 2010-06-16 19:24 UTC using Internet Explorer 8.0 on Windows Vista:

    http://www.jnanobiotechnology.com/content/8/1/1
    
    This study actually proves that silver kills viruses!
    
    The paid basher campaign main objective: Ridicule and discredit.
    
    There is just too much proof that colloidal silver works, you can cuss and moan all you want, but people are much to smart to fall for your tactics.
33. 

    Paul Battley

    Wrote at 2010-06-17 12:15 UTC using Chrome 6.0.440.0 on Mac OS X:

    No one’s paying me.
    
    That silver is an effective antibacterial and/or antiviral is not the issue.
    
    The question is, is it an effective, safe, and side-effect-free medicine when take internally? I’m not aware of any trials on efficacy, but, it doesn’t appear to have killed anyone.
    
    On the other it may turn you blue.
34. 

    perfectmus

    Wrote at 2010-07-28 18:53 UTC using Internet Explorer 8.0 on Windows Vista:

    Any child with a 3rd grade education can do internet research and see through all the bashing, to suppress knowledge of the oldest non toxic antiviral and anti bacterial metal in the world. Is it safe? YES its safe, are chemicals products safe? Sure colloidal silver NITRATES will turn you blue, the answer to your questions is YES the right KIND of Colloidal Silver is safe. If YOU WANT to turn blue like our Smurf freind Paul, then Make IT Yourself Like HE DID.
35. 

    Tomek

    Wrote at 2010-07-28 21:56 UTC using Firefox 3.6.7 on Linux:

    Guys, this matter isn’t worth a sec. of your time :). And Paul’s got the right to believe in anyting he chooses :). What’s the point in convincing him ?? And how do U know he’s not blue :)?
    Be tolerant :), give the him a break ;).

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