Junlin Liao, Ph.D.

中文版（Chinese Version）

Scholar A criticized an infamous case of plagiarism of B where a master thesis had been completely plagiarized. He was challenged by B whether his own thesis contained plagiarism. In reply, this scholar openly pledged that if his thesis did contain significant amount of plagiarism so that it no longer deserved the degree, he would give up his degree automatically. Later he was demanded by B to give up his degree because it was found that one of his footnotes was similar to someone else's work.

Any reasonable person can readily see through the logic fallacy of B. If B’s charge of A is true, B is demanding a capital punishment for a minor offense. This type of argument is not the invention of Chinese people. It dupes people worldwide into scams that intend to rob people of their assets. One of such schemes is Dr. Joel D. Wallach. One of his famous claims is that “dead doctors don't lie”. He made videos and cassette types and launched his grand opposition of modern medicine while promoting his fraudulent therapies for the sick and healthy. His bold lie has captured a large audience that had made him rich. With the help of a Chinese named Ma Lan, his lie has spread to China and I was asked by one of my readers if physicians indeed expect a shorter life than that of the general population.

Wallach's claim was that modern medicine is all wrong and the doctors are killing patients. Doctors must have been killing patients systemically because they kill themselves as well and faster. Without knowing the background of Wallach's claim, people hesitate because the image of U.S. doctors being busy and stressed does come to mind. Do stress cuts into life expectancy? Maybe. Do doctors have short life span? Let's find out.

This Wallach must be a greater doctor because he cures the impossible and diagnoses beyond known diseases. You've got cancer that modern medicine cannot cure? Find Dr. Wallach. You are perfectly healthy and want to find out if you are deficient of minerals? Dr. Wallach can help you. While you are satisfied with worthless mineral water, he is satisfied with all the money you paid for the “medicine”, lectures, books, and other materials. What type of doctors is he? He is a vet, animal doctor, the type of doctor that usually does not associate themselves with the title of doctor! What makes it worse; he is not even a good vet! Do you have Alzheimer's? Let Dr. Wallach work on you, he had cured many pigs of Alzheimer's. Dr. Wallach, pigs do not get Alzheimer's. Scientists study Alzheimer's with animal models, and they include mouse, fruit fly, and sea lamprey (a blood sucking parasite fish). The disease has to be induced in those animals in the first place. Currently in veterinary medicine, Alzheimer's like condition called CDS (cognitive dysfunction syndrome) is gradually recognized in dogs, and potentially in cats.

How did Wallach come up with his claim? The esteemed medical journal JAMA publishes obituaries of physicians. Wallach went to a particular issue of the journal (JAMA Jan. 20, 1993 Vol. 269 No. 3) and counted all physicians died that month. He averaged 40 of them, and the magic number of 58 showed up. Then he claimed that physicians have an average life expectancy of 58, very short indeed compared with 75 years of the general population. Do physicians really live 17 years shorter than an average person? If you are B, you certainly want to claim that everybody else’s theses are completely plagiarized as well. A reasonable person will look at the whole thesis of A and find the he wrote his thesis. A reasonable person will also look at more obituaries in JAMA. If you go one month before the issue picked up by Wallach, then you get 83 as average of physician’s life expectancy, much higher than that of general population. [1]