Vasconcellos-Silva Paulo R, Castiel Luis David, Bagrichevsky Marcos, Griep Rosane Harter
Laboratório de Inovações em Terapias, Ensino e Bioprodutos, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Rev Panam Salud Publica. 2011 Jun;29(6):469-74. doi: 10.1590/s1020-49892011000600013.
This article discusses the proliferation of medical quackery and fraud appearing and disappearing daily on the Internet. The customers of these scams, made vulnerable by disease or the prospect of death, use the Internet to buy products that would probably be ignored in other contexts. This vulnerability is linked to strenuous physical demands that compromise the ability to make decisions. The attempt to control the phenomenon of fraud as strictly rational, without taking into account the vulnerability of consumers who have little to lose and not considering their demands for comprehensive care, can lead to disappointing results, since these nostrums seem to be filling the gaps left by health care structures that have been insensitive to the immaterial nature of human fears.
本文探讨了互联网上每天都在出现和消失的医疗骗术和欺诈行为的扩散情况。这些骗局的受害者因疾病或死亡的前景而变得脆弱，他们利用互联网购买在其他情况下可能会被忽视的产品。这种脆弱性与巨大的身体需求有关，而这些需求会损害决策能力。试图将欺诈现象严格地控制为理性行为，却不考虑那些几乎没什么可失去的消费者的脆弱性，也不考虑他们对全面护理的需求，可能会导致令人失望的结果，因为这些万灵药似乎填补了医疗保健结构留下的空白，而这些结构对人类恐惧的无形本质一直漠不关心。
