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According to Jan Dundr, a spokesman for the Czech Prosecutor-General’s Office, Sladkovsky has been under investigation for five years.
Dundr said that investigators from the Czech Republic and the European Union started working with US law-enforcement agencies after
numerous complaints to the US Food and Drug Administration about Sladkovsky’s treatments.
As a result of the investigation, the European Medicine and Healthcare Regulatory Agency has banned the use of his immuno-engineering products and suspended Sladkovsky’s medical license.
Dundr said that more than one thousand vials of drugs were seized in a police raid on the clinic. They said that Sladkovsky, who has declined to comment on the charges, was cooperating with investigators.
Sladkovsky has attracted controversy in the past for his expensive and untested therapies. While many of his former patients have claimed that they have been cured by the doctor, others have publicly criticized the clinic...
A prickle of cold sweat on my back and I can feel the panic rising, the palpitations of my heart, a numbness in my left arm that makes me want to crush my fist or scratch out my eyes.
I look for more online, but the stories just parrot the BBC report, so I click on Hope’s Place to see if there has been any discussion.
It is strange coming back here again. It was a bookmark in my Favorites for so long, a place that I checked fifty, sixty times a day. I look down the list of posts and do not recognize any of the names: Motherofanangel, glioblsurvivor, strength, pleasegodhelpus. The board has a high turnover. Children die and their parents don’t come back.
I start scrolling and halfway down the page, there is a thread.
Dr. Sladkovsky arrested
by Chemoforlifer? Fri May 12, 2017 7:39 pm
As some of you have no doubt seen, Dr. Sladkovsky has been arrested.
I’m posting the link to the BBC news story.
http://www.bbc.com/news/europe-sladkovsky-35349861k
I am angry that so many have been tricked by this man. I am angry that children have died in his clinic, children who would have lived longer under standard medical care.
I am angry because over the years there have been many discussions
about Sladkovsky and his treatments on this board. It would be nice if these people who supported him came out now and said that they were wrong—wrong to support this treatment that has cost countless families inordinate amounts of money and time that would have been better spent elsewhere.
Chemoforlifer
Re: Dr. Sladkovsky arrested
by TeamAwesome? Fri May 12, 2017 9:14 pm
Disgusted to hear that but happy this man has been arrested. How can he even call himself a doctor? Just terrible.
I hope this will finally put the disagreements we have had here to rest and Hope’s Place can continue doing what it does best. PROVIDING
SUPPORT and COMMUNITY to everyone going through this terrible journey.
I still don’t understand. Human plasma, medical malpractice? Did that mean immuno-engineering didn’t work? What about children like Josh?
I read down the thread on Hope’s Place to see if there were any more details about the charges against Sladkovsky, but there was nothing. Just outrage, peacocking, a stream of I-told-you-sos, the people who said they always knew Sladkovsky’s treatments were too good to be true.
But where is Nev? It is strange that he has not posted. Because on every thread concerning Dr. Sladkovsky, he was always there, linking to academic papers or testimonials, sometimes just posting pictures of Josh. In recent months, I have read all of his messages again. There were nearly fifty of them and, even though they were painful to read, I was always looking for clues, something I might have missed, any explanation as to why Nev suddenly stopped writing to me. Perhaps he had just moved on, sick of being in the cancer world, fed up with the attacks and the threats, the people who called him a liar.
I search Nev’s username on Hope’s Place, but it says “account inactive.” So I decide to do something that I haven’t done in a very long time. I hack the forum.
There is an easy exploit using Perl that should work. At Cambridge, we used it to hack into the college message boards, high on Red Bull and vodka. We never did much: a bit of ghost posting, a few puerile jokes.
I upgrade my Perl distribution and drop the exploit file into the main directory.
I open up the command prompt and try to crack Nev’s password. While his account is inactive, I am hoping that all his posts and private messages will still be archived.
ipb.pl http://devasc/forum Nev
Letters and numbers appear on the screen as the exploit pings the forum, trawling through lines and lines of code. It takes longer than I remembered, and I worry that the password might be wrapped in layers of encryption. Then, to my surprise, a hashed password appears.
4114d9d3061dd2a41d2c64f4d2bb1a7f