{"id":9364,"date":"2025-10-31T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9364"},"modified":"2025-11-01T02:56:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:56:14","slug":"cbcs-flagship-program-platforms-quackery-for-long-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/cbcs-flagship-program-platforms-quackery-for-long-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"CBC\u2019s Flagship Program Platforms \u201cQuackery\u201d for Long COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October&nbsp;26th, CBC\u2019s flagship program <em>The National<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=DXriOJHL0_c\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">aired an interview<\/a> featuring former CBC host Gill Deacon discussing her recovery from Long COVID using a brain retraining program and promoting her upcoming book.<\/p>\n<p>Although host Ian Hanomansing clarified on air that Deacon doesn\u2019t endorse the brain retraining therapy, the segment still provided national coverage for an unproven therapy. <em>The National<\/em> failed to mention that there\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thesciencebit.net\/2024\/11\/28\/that-bmj-review-of-long-covid-therapies-does-not-show-what-it-says-it-does\/\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">no strong evidence<\/a> CBT, and related brain retraining programs, are effective for Long COVID. The specific brain retraining course Deacon used to recover, according to her <a href=\"https:\/\/aloveaffairwiththeunknown.substack.com\/p\/this-is-how-i-recovered-from-long\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Substack<\/a>, the Lightning Process, has been accused of exploiting people with Long COVID.<\/p>\n<p>At best, this suggests <em>The National<\/em> did not conduct sufficient background research that would have flagged the problematic nature of the Lightning Process. At worst, the program may have been aware of the concerns surrounding the Lightning Process but chose not to mention it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October&nbsp;26th, CBC\u2019s flagship program <em>The National<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=DXriOJHL0_c\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">aired an interview<\/a> featuring former CBC host Gill Deacon discussing her recovery from Long COVID using a brain retraining program and promoting her upcoming book.<\/p>\n<p>Although host Ian Hanomansing clarified on air that Deacon doesn\u2019t endorse the brain retraining therapy, the segment still provided national coverage for an unproven therapy. <em>The National<\/em> failed to mention that there\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thesciencebit.net\/2024\/11\/28\/that-bmj-review-of-long-covid-therapies-does-not-show-what-it-says-it-does\/\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">no strong evidence<\/a> CBT, and related brain retraining programs, are effective for Long COVID. The specific brain retraining course Deacon used to recover, according to her <a href=\"https:\/\/aloveaffairwiththeunknown.substack.com\/p\/this-is-how-i-recovered-from-long\" target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Substack<\/a>, the Lightning Process, has been accused of exploiting people with Long COVID.<\/p>\n<p>At best, this suggests <em>The National<\/em> did not conduct sufficient background research that would have flagged the problematic nature of the Lightning Process. At worst, the program may have been aware of the concerns surrounding the Lightning Process but chose not to mention it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/cbcs-flagship-program-platforms-quackery-for-long-covid\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CBC\u2019s Flagship Program Platforms \u201cQuackery\u201d for Long COVID<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,18,11,14],"class_list":["post-9364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-long-covid","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9366,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9364\/revisions\/9366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}