It's nice that the subject in the "Karnes Man" story is doing better than expected, but it's irresponsible journalism to report on the Grape Seed thing with an unsubstantiated and grossly unscientific inference that it had any effect whatsoever on the man's illness.

Aside from there being no scientific evidence supporting this application of a supposed cure-all, if you search up the author of the grape cure book mentioned in the article, you'll find she wasn't exactly an adherent of any sort of scientific or intellectual rigor, or even human decency. I'll spare the details because I have no desire for aspersions to be cast on the Karnes family in the report.

Yes, it's a heartwarming human interest story about an undoubtedly nice man surviving against the odds. Unfortunately, this kind of uncritical reporting can lead other poor souls out there to take inspiration and rely on grape seeds and grape juice for a cure, but when they die anyway, no one will write a human interest story about that.

As a result, because there are no testimonials from the people who unsuccessfully tried the grape cure, an article like this only adds to the internet trail of self-selected anecdotes that give the impression that it works.

At least grape juice probably doesn't hurt anyone, but some people out there who read these things will, unlike the man in this story, decide to skip the chemo and just go with grapes instead. It's those folks who will be most hurt by this.