Beware of Dr. Horowitz - lies and mistreatments for profit

I ran across something that really had me wondering. A cure for AIDS, malaria, and infectious disease. This wasn’t something that hit the major news media, nor most of the minor media outlets. So I have my questions about it.

If there is a cure for AIDS and other diseases plaguing the world you would expect that it would be on every cable channel and across the internet. But it may be the nature of this “cure” that is the problem. It is essentially a natural cure and not some drug created in a major pharmaceutical think tank. And it is currently being tested in Africa.

Now the article that I learned of UPCOSH™, short for Uniform Picoscaler Concentrated Oligodynamic Silver Hydrosol, reads like an advertisement better suited for an infomercial than a scientific report. Still that does not mean it is false. But the video of this product reinforces the infomercial aspect and leaves me concerned for those that may look at this as some kind of super cure for their ailments.



So I looked up the man behind this product, Dr. Leonard Horowitz. And what I found was very interesting.

Dr. Horowitz is a dentist. Not a genetist or a doctor of any applied medicine. He writes books about conspiracy theories. And he makes money from websites selling hollistic medicine. His crediential are weak at best. Which does not help his current claims, as did his claim of having a cure for SARS.

Dr. Horowitz has had several of his websites close. Each of the defunct sites promoted a “cure” for various maladies in the world. Most were related to his cure for SARS which he continues to sell under various names and formulas today. None have been proven to be effective.

He also has an eye for being very promotional. He is noted for releasing a press release that highlights a book he wrote and it’s connection to the Will Smith film I AM LEGEND. The manner of the press release made it seem the film was at least in part based on his book, which is false. In fact, and noted carefully in the press release (made by Dr. Horowitz himself), his book was used in a scene in the film and that was all.

So overall I comne to this conclusion.

Dr. Horowitz is a modern day snake oil salesman. He is profiting off of the fears of the public, and the desire of many to use natural means to cure harsh and deadly ailments. He has no credibility, and any item he promotes should be viewed with high levels of doubt and incredulity.

There may well be many products that will provide natural cures to various ailments that beset people across the world. I believe that virtually ever ailment has a natural antidote, remedy, or prevention. And I believe there are many credible scientists and doctors that are investigating and presenting these cures to the benefit of millions or perhaps billions in the world. But Dr. Horowitz is not among them.

I would love to find that credible international agencies and institutions agree with a cure promoted by Dr. Horowitz or some other opportunist. Because even a broken clock is right twice a day. But at this point I cannot say this has happened. And I disapprove of con-artists profiting off of the hopes and needs of ill people.

Dr. Horowitz, in my opinion, hurts those seeking natural cures, and the industry that seeks to create those cures. He is of the lowest class of slime, as I understand him, because of what he is doing. I feel he has violated his oath to do no harm, for no reason beyond greed – and that is sickening.

In the past snake oil salesman would be tarred and feathered. Today, because of the internet and infomercials many make millions. So I can only say please be cautious and aware. If this post has saved anyone the heartache or pain a false cure can bring, I am glad.

And if this huckster and formenr dentist can provide authoritative proof of his cures I invite him to do so. Otherwise I hope that he slithers under a rock and is never heard from again. Until then I say to Dr. Horowitz, Ne Pizdie [it’s russian].