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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Robyn Vinter

Doctors complain to BBC over Dragons’ Den contestant’s claim ‘to have cured ME’

Screengrab of Giselle Boxer against a dark blue background talking to someone off camera
Giselle Boxer making her pitch to the Dragons' Den panel. Photograph: BBC

Doctors and campaigners have complained to the BBC and MPs about “unfounded” claims made on the TV show Dragons’ Den that Chinese medicine had helped a woman recover from myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), a disease with no known cure.

An open letter to the chairs of two select committees was organised by Action for ME after an episode of the programme, in which entrepreneurs pitch their businesses to a panel of investors, aired on 18 January containing “misleading and potentially dangerous information”.

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