Quite a few news sites today are covering the filing of charges of and arraignment of rosacea identity “Dr. Syed”.
Known to rosacea sufferers as Tanweer A. Syed MD. PhD, 66 year old Timothy Syed Andersson is facing 51 felony charges including practicing medicine without a license, grand theft by deception and perjury.
Andersson has been found to have no formal training or license in the United States or abroad.
His web site has impressive sounding terminology such as “professional expertise in the field of extracting and synthesizing natural bioactive” and “incorporating biologically active natural ingredients into skin cream emulsions”, as well as “patent pending proprietary formulation” and also “powerful antioxidant is truly bio-available”.
Rosacea News has covered Dr. Syed and his products in the past. He was well known to rosacea sufferers for his very expensive Green Tea based cream. His cream was in fact found to contain hydrocortisone. The District Attorney Kamala Harris was quoted as saying the green tea cream was “a bunch of BS”. Users of his cream were found to be located all over the United States as well as several overseas countries.
Andersson has cleverly promoted his cream as appealing to rosacea sufferers. In 2007 he was listed as a member of the RRDi Medical Advisory Committee. His $125 Hypo-Allergenic Facial Cream (supposedly green tea based) was not well received by rosacea sufferers as you can see in a few forum postings.
Be Careful out There
The charging of Andersson on serious charges is a great opportunity for rosacea sufferers to step back and think about what they read and accept and who they trust. Especially online, we all need to watch out for people who call themselves a doctor and have a web site full of gobbledegook.
Don’t trust someone who is not a licensed M.D. to offer you a consultation. Don’t buy products that promise results that appear suspicious.
Andersson has claimed to investigators that he does not practice medicine and just sells his facial cream from his home.
The District Attorney urges everyone to check the official registration of medical doctors and to not visit Andersson/Syed’s web site.
6 comments ↓
Thanks for this information. Ouch! I have removed him from the RRDi MAC.
Brady
Dr. Syed or shall we say Mr Anderson isn’t the only fraudster out there with an interest in rosacea. Despite being aware of this person’s background and history you are currently advertising the product of another very suspicious character who is well known to many of us in the Rosacea Community.
I wrote to you privately about this and you never replied. Unless you want to damage your own reputation then my advice would be to review what products you allow to be promoted via your website.
Once all the facts about the Syed deception come out, then questions will be asked about some of these other bogus doctors around, who falsify their qualifications so they can con innocent people.
Thanks
Peter
Unfortunately I bought two jars of his magic
until it dawned on me his background claims had every indication of fraud. Product of course didn’t work
as suggested. Thanks for info. Hang him!
Just goes to show that we most certainly can’t believe everything we read on the Internet! Sadly, there are more charlatans out there! Thanks for keeping us up-to-date David.
Hello Jenny
Well however we want to describe this type of person, charlatan, fraudster, conman, impostor, cheat, swindler, phoney etc etc – despite Syed being nailed recently, the main one involved or still trying to be involved with rosacea, remains out there trying to peddle his wares via the internet. He claims to be in rosacea remission for many years due to this wonder product of his or the ingredients contained within but nobody ever gets to meet him or see a series of genuine photographs as proof? Now you would have thought most people would find that very odd?
Despite all the rave reviews emanating from his own press releases and some suspicious looking testimonials, the claims about product testing and clinical trials etc, we never get to see anything authenticated from a known and reliable source or respected medical body. Very strange considering this doctor’s claimed qualifications and the fact he tells everybody he is always at the forefront of cutting edge rosacea research?
If you regularly use the internet to research rosacea or belong to the Rosacea Support Group Forums then you really must have been asleep for most of the time or had your head buried in the sand to miss all the adverse publicity about this particular doctor.
Anyway after a recent exchange of PM’s it was good to see Brady Barrows do the decent thing and remove the Rosadyn adverts from his website.
Thanks
Peter
Wow, another “doctor” down. This really drives home the need to check people credentials out, and wait for research from respected institutions that have nothing to do with said inventor. I big give away I suppose is his “all natural” slant. The “natural products” industry has more than it’s share of fraudsters (just check all the weight loss products, and 80% of what is out there on natural cures).
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