Prior to that, ozone gas was used to disinfect operating rooms in Switzerland.7 The German army used ozone extensively during World War I to treat battle wounds and anaerobic infections. It makes the sky blue, provides our planet with a protective layer from the sun’s UV rays and, for almost a hundred years, has been used medicinally to treat a wide variety of diseases. Ozone therapy is being used to treat a wide spectrum of diseases They have pretty much nothing to do with the contents of the article. The cited authorities are trusting their instinct and not listening to the cautious voice of scientific inquiry as a result they are promoting a “miracle cure” which may well be legitimate in some cancers and from which useful therapeutic results may come, but without going through the process of checks and balances that is being applied by their more cautious colleagues. These sciencey-looking pods are used by quacks to perform “ozone therapy” on the credulous and/or desperate. The most dangerous words in medicine are said to be: “in my experience”. While it is not a quack therapy as such, fringe claims made by true believers go well beyond the current state of evidence. Ozone therapy occupies an interesting niche at the fringes, and WDDTY’s coverage of it is usefully indicative of its approach to fringe subjects generally.
Outright quacks are quoted alongside qualified doctors, albeit with practices that push the boundaries of what is ethically and evidentially supportable. The stated authorities for the more extravagant claims have evident conflicts of interest and red flags for fringe practitioners such as claiming unrecognised certification. It conflates legitimate science, exaggeration of early findings, fringe claims and unproven claims to present a novel synthesis that is significantly different from the consensus view. In the o-zone is an article from the November 2013 edition of WDDTY.