I hate snake oil salesman. I hate them with an ever growing passion. They take advantage of innocent, sick people for nothing more than money. They make the world a worse place and ought to be jailed. Lawrence Stowe is one of the worst.
Con men used to travel town to town hawking medical remedies said to be made of Chinese snakes. Snake oil was useless and dangerous. So the FDA was created to put a stop to it and other food and drug scams.
But, today, quack medicine has never been bigger. In the 21st century, snake oil has been replaced by bogus therapies using stem cells. Stem cells may offer cures one day, but medical charlatans on the Internet are making outrageous claims that they can reverse the incurable, from autism to multiple sclerosis to every kind of cancer.
Desperate people are being bilked out of their life’s savings.
We’ve been looking into this surging crime and we found there is no better window on how it works than the practice of a man who calls himself “doctor,” a man named Lawrence Stowe.
Stowe has been unaware that, lately, some of his patients have been working with 60 Minutes.
I wish 60 Minutes could look into every quack out there, but there are just so many.
Stowe told our MS patient that he can reverse her disease with his program of herbs and vitamins to boost the immune system, custom vaccines and stem cell injections. Medical experts say it’s nonsense but it’s the same pitch that we secretly recorded again and again as Stowe claimed to reverse cancer, ALS, MS, Parkinson’s disease and more.
Honestly. I cannot understand how these people live with themselves. Stowe charges exorbitant sums of money so he can insert IVs into people in some dank, run-down building in Mexico. One family sold their home to pay for Stowe’s bogus treatments. Others have paid tens of thousands of dollars of their savings with no results. This guy is a piece of work.
Everyone who reads FTSOS knows I rag on Andreas Moritz over and over. A very small part of the reason is that he’s just too dumb to stop showing up on my radar, but far, far, far more important than that is the fact that I view him as legitimately dangerous. I’ve managed to divert a few specific individuals from his potential harm (and I will not mention any specifics because I do not want Moritz contacting and conning them), but I suppose I can at least give him credit for not charging massive sums of money for his ‘services’; his style is to play small ball and take small amounts of money from desperate people. And even though that’s just one of a depressing number of horrible traits that man holds, he’s nothing compared to Lawrence Stowe; there is no comparing the two. Stowe is in a league all his own: if Moritz is Mario Mendoza, Stowe is Babe Ruth. (I would say Ted Williams but it would pain me a little too much as a Red Sox fan.)
Watch these two videos. Every person needs to be aware of the scams that are out there.
Lawrence Stowe is a scumbag part 1.
Lawrence Stowe is a scumbag part 2.
Filed under: Pure bullshit | Tagged: 60 Minutes, Andreas Moritz, Con man, Lawrence Stowe, Quack quack quack, Snake oil |
For the Sake of Science 
I think that if I were dying of an incurable disease, I’d hope to have the wherewithal to take down one of those SOBs with me.
And his website is still operational, with his attending “fake” physicians with no real degrees, that have dropped out of medical school. Promising false hope, praying off the sick, ridiculous. They have a lot of nerve to impose as a M.D. with no certifications, malpractice is way beyond that… If these were approved trials, the FDA would make it known globally that they’ve found cures in the most devastating diseases. Just a little research, American’s should know that they are not approved. Never take it for granted, there is a reason why they were traveling to Mexico. ALWAYS ask for credentials, and then again, those can be falsified.
After I saw the Sixty Minutes piece on Lawrence Stowe, I wished that someone would slowly garrot him to death.
Stowe is hubris incarnate.
I Hope you die a slow death you piece of dog shit. Dont you dare show youre face in Massachusetts. That wouldn’t be good for your health. In time you will deal with the wrath if God!
I’m jealous Michael, I haven’t gotten a threat from an ignorant post-jockey for more than a year! You must have really struck a nerve.
The world is full of crazies isn’t it? Pack heat.
When someone makes a post of pure rage it can be difficult to tell who the intended target is. I can only hope it’s me and not Lawrence Stowe.
Trolls… They are everywhere….. Trolling…..
Justice is being served!!!
Stowe was also indited: Stowe remains on the run. There is an outstanding warrant for his arrest.
http://www.fbi.gov/sanantonio/press-releases/2011/federal-indictments-lead-to-arrests-in-stem-cell-case