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

Entrepreneurs on TV show’s panel all offered to invest in business selling ear seeds as part of treatment for chronic illness

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”.