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Especially when they may harm others, although in a fairly obscure or indirect way?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Take the whole &#8216;Oxygen Kills Cancer&#8217; stuff. Now, it&#8217;s true that hypoxic malignant cells in a petri dish die less often than the oxygenated ones. And that when you look a chopped out tumours, those in hypoxic areas can be more alive. But that&#8217;s about seventeen steps from <a title=\"Woo website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.breathing.com\/\">&#8216;If your breathe better you will cure your cancer&#8217;<\/a>. I&#8217;m sure that breathing is unlikely to harm anyone. But what about the effect of finding that your, or your child&#8217;s, cancer is NOT going away. Does this sort of inaccurate information make you feel much, much worse about the condition you are in? 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