Here are a few interesting tidbits about Matthias Rath and the Rath Foundation collected from around the Internet. Nothing mentioned here is actually new but its worth knowing:

Quackwatch criticizes Matthias Rath’s proclaimed miracle cancer treatments. Interestingly it highlights the advert Rath placed in the Mail & Guardian in 2004. One which he now passes off as support for this stance from the paper. I’m willing to bet the M&G editor regrets allowing that advert to go through in the first place as I doubt they ever wanted the M&G name tagged to the HIV/AIDS denialist cause.

Harvard Researchers, Fawzi and Hunter have attacked Rath for misrepresenting their research on nutrition for those living with HIV.

The Treatment Action Campaign highlights how the World Health Organisation, UNICEF and UNAIDS organisations have condemned the Rath Foundation’s misrepresentation and twisting of their advice on nutrition to its own commercial advantage and dubious science.

Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, the South African Minister of Health, refuses to criticise Matthias Rath. That’s not necessarily a bad thing though considering that she prefers to support witch doctors and superstition over conventional doctors and medicine. Her own garlic, lemon, beetroot and olive oil’ cures are not even valid alternative medications or proper nutrition.

Matthias Rath is also a staunch believer in conspiracy theories per the Skeptics Dictionary and alleges that the pharmaceutical companies are out to halt his attempts to save the millions dying in Africa. He claims that George W. Bush, Tony Blair and Paul Wolfowitz are involved even as ‘several countries forbid the sale of his products because the vitamin doses are too high to be classified as nutritional supplements and the products have not passed the required scientific tests to be labeled as medicines’.

It also appears that he pulled a stunt in the New York Times similar to what he did to the Mail & Guardian above – paying for an expensive advert and then claiming it was a feature conducted by the paper itself. It was no such thing.

Casewatch also picked up on a letter from John B. Foret Director of the Food and Drug Administration. One that warns Matthias Rath for promoting the ‘medicines’ on his website when such items are not registered, nor have they undergone proper medical trials.

Matthias Rath has also created multitudes of websites of himself or his cause, in an attempt to promote himself and create the false impression of popular consensus over his claims.

Kader Asmal has publicly spoken out against Matthias Rath, in opposition to his claims and that of Manto-Tshabalala Msimang. The Democratic Alliance, the main opposition party in South Africa, is also hostile to Rath’s junk science.