Responding to a BBC programme, Dr Edzard Ernst highlights data showing many are harmed by the Lighting Process and the lack of evidence for claims made.
He concludes: "Does anyone think that LP or its promoters are remotely serious?"
BBC: #LongCovid course is 'exploiting people', says ex-GB rower
Former Team GB rower Oonagh Cousins was offered a free course of the contested
alternative treatment "Lightning Process" (LP) for her long Covid. She says: "They were trying to suggest that I could think my way out of the symptoms, basically". The BBC has secret recordings from an LP-course confirming patients are told they can recover by changing thoughts, language and actions.
"Health-care experts and medical studies have found that racist myths about Black people … coupled with physicians’ biases, mean Black patients are more likely to be seen as drug-seeking and described negatively in electronic medical records."
“Who gets diagnosed with Long Covid, it’s socially and economically skewed”