The Balearic Government sanctions with 300,000 euros the act in which Miguel Bosé declared himself “proudly a denialist”

The Balearic Government will sanction 300,001 euros to the organizers of the pseudoscientific event held last July in Mallorca in which the singer Miguel Bosé and the healer Josep Pàmies agitated their speech against medicine and their support for pseudotherapies despite the absence of any scientific basis. During the event, the artist, now a regular disseminator of conspiracy and pseudoscientific theories and an anti-vaccine icon during the COVID pandemic, declared himself “proudly a denialist” before an audience of 800 people gathered at the Palma restaurant Es Molí d’ is Compte.

The Department of Health decided to open a sanctioning file against the Dolça Revolució entity, organizer of the same, after its inspectors verified on site how participants spread false information about health, promoting treatments without scientific evidence that “can even produce harmful effects on health.” Pàmies, a farmer from Lleida who has become one of the main gurus of pseudotherapies in Spain and defender of the effectiveness – not scientifically proven – of different plants, has been fined on several occasions for promoting the use of sodium chlorite or chlorine dioxide (MMS). ) to treat autism and cure diseases such as cancer or ALS.

As sources from the Ministry have informed elDiario.es, according to the inspection report, “information was provided and MMS or sodium chlorite was promoted as a medicine with curative properties for diseases such as cancer, ALS, tuberculosis or autism, without such product being legally authorized as a medicine for such therapeutic purposes.” The Government qualifies the facts as a very serious infringement, based on article 111.2 of Royal Legislative Decree 1/2015, of July 24, which includes in this type the promotion, information or advertising of unauthorized medicines or without such activities. comply with the provisions of said regulations or the general legislation on advertising.

It should also be remembered that days before the celebration of the event, after learning of the call for it, the Ministry also sent Dolça Revolució a warning request for possible non-compliance with current regulations in relation to the promotion of illegal medicines and remedies. unauthorized, or proven effective and safe, informing them of the liability they could incur. In the same letter, the department recalled that the association had already been sanctioned by the Department of Health of the Generalitat of Catalonia for the commission of a serious infraction consisting of intentional advertising and promotion of the medicine sodium chlorite without the prior warnings that it entails. for health, a sanction that the Superior Court of Justice of Barcelona, ​​by ruling of November 8, 2022, ratified.

Regarding this, the Ministries of Health and Science and Innovation have a Plan for the Protection of People’s Health against Pseudotherapies that aims to provide citizens with truthful and rigorous information to be able to differentiate practices whose effectiveness in treating or curing diseases. It has been scientifically contrasted, compared to others that have not demonstrated this effectiveness, and thus improve the adoption of informed decisions. The Collegiate Medical Organization (OMC) also has an Observatory ( ) updated with the latest therapies without scientific validity.

Bosé: “Proudly denialist”

During this Friday’s event, Bosé declared himself “proudly a denialist” and assured that neither he nor his children have been vaccinated against COVID. The singer came to state on several occasions that he was, like his followers, “on the side of truth”, raising an attack against medicine and science: “Those who are on the other side are scared by the traditional forms of medicine.” because it is an area that is growing every day, because of its effects and because of the conviction that to cure stomach pain, a mixture of fennel, chamomile and stevia does not kill.”

For his part, Pàmies attacked the “criminal confinement orders” by “puppet governments,” asserting that “fascism is not only Hitler,” but that “current democracy is fascist, because it prevents freedom of expression or meeting are met.” Among other unfounded statements, the healer has even stated that if parents of children with autism “do not talk about how agüita has cured them – in reference to sodium chlorite – it is because the fascist State would steal their children.”