I agree with both of you: Dr. Grossan makes claims for his product and
has never presented evidence to support the claims. I completely agree
that the certitude is not supported. I'd prefer  a statement that "I
believe this to be true, based on my personal observations, but I
can't prove that it removes biofilms or restores cilia".
 And Elizabeth, evidence based medicine is problematic, to say the
least. The Cochrane collaborative makes me nuts: they use bizarre
criteria and exclude the vast majority of studies, and reach no
conclusions. The famous "antibiotics don't work in sinusitis" was
performed over 5 years in England, with many practices contributing a
single patient, and the criteria were purely clinical--so it was
underpowered and inexact, and most patients probably had viral
infections. And the news, and evidence based medicine took the
misleading conclusion and ran with it.
  Anyone currently following the heparin mess: it has been
manufactured in China in unsupervised conditions, much of it from
almost home workshops, and repackaged and sold as the FDA approved
product, and patients have been becoming ill and/or dying. Medicine is
a mess.
Judy
 Here's a citation from HealthCare Renewal:
Pharma arguments and hogwash
Heparin in an Era of Hogwash
Heparin Made Out of Pigs from Elsewhere

The story began with a sudden increase in the rate of severe adverse
effects occurring after the administration of heparin, a 70+ year old
anti-clotting drug.  Attention first focused on a Baxter International
facility in New Jersey, but then it turned out the heparin was not
really made there.  A series of investigative reports found that the
"active ingredient," that is, the heparin itself, came from a supplier
called Scientific Protein Laboratories.  But that company actually got
the heparin from a factory in China, which, it turns out, was never
inspected by the US FDA or any government agency from the US or
China.  Furthermore, that factory actually didn't make the heparin
either, but obtained heparin from middle-men in China, who in turn
apparently got the heparin from a number of suppliers, including tiny
"workshops," where conditions were unsanitary and primitive, and which
were never inspected by anyone.  And the top leaders of Baxter and
Scientific Protein Laboratories denied they actually knew where the
heparin was coming from.  This sorry tale of mismanagement raises
doubt about the most basic quality of the US (and world) drug supply,
so in some ways is even more serious than most of the cases heretofore
reported on HCR.  Anne Peticolas also noted the cynicism of US pharma
execs who have raised doubts about drugs imported from Canada, while
many companies are apparently outsourcing drug production to who knows
where.
Stay tuned for more about what may be an extremely important story.
Link: http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2008/03/pharma-arguments-and-hogwash.html
Link: http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2008/03/heparin-in-era-of-hogwash.html
Link: http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2008/02/heparin-made-out-of-pigs-from-elsewhere.html