In a world covered with hospitals and overrun with medical professionals, why are people forced to spend an arm and a leg on overpriced "healthcare" and then dying anyway? Why can't most Americans afford to get sick? Why are we experiencing a resurgence of long vanquished diseases, and an absurd epidemic of Depression, AD/HD, Autism, Alzheimer's, Diabetes, Heart Disease, and other chronic conditions medicine just can't seem to cure but is all to eager to help you manage (for a price)?
Why don’t more doctors
recommend DETOXING to their patients when all people are exposed to environmental toxins and these toxins are at
the root of most chronic medical conditions?
Why don’t doctors put more emphasis on diet, lifestyle, or natural
remedies but opt instead towards prescribing the latest “wonderdrug” designed
for the long term management of “incurable”
(ha!) conditions?
As shocking as it sounds, the answer to these and many
other questions is unfortunately contained in the title of this article. But you don’t have to take
my word for it. Hundreds of credible experts
are quoted in the following passage and their collective weight states a case
more powerful than any I can offer on my own.
Please see below…
Please see below…
Medical Dark Ages Quotes: compiled by Wade
Frazier
"The thing that bugs me is that people
think the FDA is protecting them. It isn't. What the FDA is doing
and what the public thinks it's doing are as different as
night and day." - Dr. Herbert Ley, Commissioner of the FDA,
San Francisco Chronicle, 1/2/70. (for more on this quote see this link)
(In response to above quote) "What is the
FDA doing? As will be shown by the material that follows, the FDA is
"doing" three things:
"First, it is providing a means whereby key individuals
on its payroll are able to obtain both power and wealth through granting
special favors to certain politically influential groups that are subject to
its regulation. This activity is similar to the 'protection racket' of
organized crime: for a price, one can induce FDA administrators to provide
'protection' from the FDA itself.
"Secondly, as a result of this political favoritism, the
FDA has become a primary factor in that formula whereby cartel-oriented
companies in the food and drug industry are able to use the police powers of
government to harass or destroy their free-market competitors.
"And thirdly, the FDA occasionally does some genuine
public good with whatever energies it has left over after serving the vested
political and commercial interest of its first two activities."
- G. Edward Griffin, World Without Cancer.
"There is a principle which is
a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which
cannot fail to keep man in everlasting ignorance. That principle is
condemnation without investigation." - Herbert Spencer.
"Beware of prejudice; light is good in whatsoever lamp
it is burning; a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom."
- Abdul Baha
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to
one who is striking at the root." - Henry David Thoreau.
"If any man can convince me and bring home to me that
which I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after
truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on
still in his deception and ignorance." - Marcus Aurelius Antonius.
"There are three things which build and maintain
civilization throughout time: pure air, pure water, and pure food. And as
an eternal truth I say unto you, that there are three things which bring the
end of civilization, even the mightiest that have ever been and shall ever be,
from the beginningless beginning to the endless end of all time: impure air, impure
water, and impure food." - Zenda Avesta, c. 3000 BC.
"All the blood of the body is under the
control of the heart and flows in a continuous circle and never stops."
- Chinese writing, 2697 BC.
"The cure of many diseases
remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study
the whole person." -Socrates, (470-399 BC).
"It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of
occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if
not treated, they hold out for a long time." - Hippocrates,
(460-370 BC).
"It is part of the cure to wish to be cured."
- Seneca (4 BC to 65 AD).
(Advanced cancer is)" irritated by treatment; and the
more so the more vigorous it is."
"Some have used caustic medicaments, some the cautery,
some excision with a scalpel; but no medicament has ever given relief; the
parts cauterized are excited immediately to an increase until they cause
death."
"After excision, even when a scar has formed,
nonetheless the disease has returned, and caused death; while ...the majority
of patients, although no violent measures are applied in the attempt to remove
the tumor, but only mild applications in order to sooth it, attain a ripe old
age in spite of it." - Celsus, (1st century AD).
"When (a tumor) is of long standing and large, you should
leave it alone. For myself have never been able to cure any such, nor
have I seen anyone else succeed before me." – Abu’l Qasim, (936 -
1013 AD).
"It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove
cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is
from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from
physicians." - Paracelsus, (1493-1541 AD).
"Smoke.. makes a kitchen also oftentimes in the inward
parts of men, soiling and infecting them, with an unctuous and oily kinde of
Soote as hath been found in some great Tobacco takers, that after their death
were opened." - James I, A Counter-Blaste to Tobacco, p. 32;
1604 AD.
"Sugar...ingrendreth...cachexias...rotteth the teeth,
making them look blacke... and therefore let young people especially
beware..." -James Hurt, Doctor, The Family Companion, 1633
AD.
"The Hellish and dismal cloud of...Coal...perpetually
imminent over (London) ...that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and
thick mist...corrupting the lungs and disordering the entire habit of their
bodies; so the Catarrhs,...Cough, and Consumption, range more in this one City,
than in the whole Earth besides." - John Evelyn, 1661 AD.
"Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of
the body to rid itself of morbific matter." - Thomas Sydenham,
(1624-1689).
"Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their
diseases." - Moliere, (1622-1672).
"He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of
most medicines."
"God heals and the Doctor takes the fee." - Benjamin
Franklin, (1706-1790).
"An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic
doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these
remedies and doses. But the regular profession stands firm in its belief
that such experience is worthless and the whole history is one of quackery and
delusion." - William James (1842-1910).
"You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived
the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it." - Mark
Twain (1835-1910).
"The doctor of the future will prescribe no drugs but
will interest his patients in the care and nutrition of the human frame and in
the cause and prevention of disease." - Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
"To protect herbalists from persecution by the Company
of Physicians and Chirurgeons. Company of Surgeons in London, minding their own
gain, and doing nothing for the profit or ease of the diseased, have sued,
troubled and vexed honest persons (herbalist) ... Said persons have not taken
anything for their pains and skill...Surgeons have small cunning, yet take
great sums of money and do little for it." - Act of Parliament,
1512 AD. Appendix 2, chapter 2. p.2.
"The answer of Richard Guy, Surgeon...to certain
insidious Falsehood and Reflections upon his Method of Curing Cancers without
Cutting...London 1764 AD. 100 cases Successfully
treated..Breast...incipient cancer...how easily in that State they are
remediable by Care and Proper management;...the cancerous Humor is a
Virus...the lymphatic vessels are the immediate instruments of its Circulation...carried
and lodged..to those more remote ('glands')." - Richard Guy, Practical
Observations, 1762 AD.
"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution,
the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover
dictatorship...To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny
equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical
science. All such laws are un-American and despotic..., and have no place
in a republic...The Constitution of this Republic should make special provisions
for medical freedom as well as religious freedom." - Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of Declaration
of Independence; member, Continental Congress; B.S. Princeton U.
"...This large and expensive stock of drugs will be
unnecessary. By...doses of...medicines...multiplying...combining them
properly, 20 to 30 articles, aided by the common resources of the lancet, a
garden, a kitchen, fresh air, cool water, exercise, will be sufficient to cure
all the diseases that are at present under the power of medicine." - Dr. Benjamin Rush.
"Samuel Thomson (1769-1843, herbalist) so
upset New Hampshire doctors that they persuaded the state legislature to pass a
law specifically naming him, not for practicing medicine 'illegally' ('the
usual charge with which to charge non-allopathic practitioners') but to prevent
him (from) healing people without charging them." - Donald
Law, A Guide to Alternative Medicine.
"The entire medical profession of the United States in
so far as its organization is concerned, is today at the mercy of one man and a
board of trustees that is subservient to him." - Editorial, Illinois
Medical Journal, Dec. 1922, p.478.
"The efforts of the medical profession in the US to
control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a
vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of
healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession
for a long time and it bears watching." - Clarence Darrow,
(1857-1938).
"A conspiracy, not a profession...Every
doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than
violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away."
"... I was a member of the Health Committee of London
Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up
statistically by diagnosing all the re-vaccinated cases (of smallpox) as
'pustular eczema, varioloid' or what not - except smallpox." -George
Bernard Shaw, (1856-1950).
(allow access of cancer patients to) "unconventional
therapies, (i.e.) any method used for the control and cure of cancer which has
not been approved by the Federal FDA." - Cancer Therapeutic
Research Bill of 1981, State of Florida, HB747 passed by legislature, vetoed by
governor.
"(The AMA is) "just another mean trust."
- Harry S. Truman.
"...the right of the individual to elect freely the
manner of his care in illness must be preserved." - Dwight D.
Eisenhower.
"(Doctors) collectively have done more to block adequate
medical care for people of this country than any other single group." -Jimmy
Carter.
"I've heard drug experts say they believe if penicillin
were discovered today, the FDA wouldn't license it." - Ronald
Reagan.
"But the doctors in the past, as the review of the
evidence showed, branded Jenner, Semmelweis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,
Pasteur, Lister, Koch and Keen as charlatans...Napoleon said that war is too
important to be left to the generals. We go on the assumption in the
Senate that foreign relations are too important to be left to the
diplomats...this question (on a novel cancer cure) is too important to leave
purely to doctors..."
"It's a terrible thing that we cannot really trust the
FDA or NCI (National Cancer Institute). We need, therefore, an
independent scientific investigation." - US Senator Paul
Douglas, Congressional Record, 1963.
"Yet, not only has the FDA done everything it could to
discourage ('a good or better and non-toxic') treatment of human cancer, but
also the NCI appears to have been negligent in not pursuing this whole line of
investigation."
"Government controlled medical research, which verges on
monopoly, may possibly delay medical advances...
"There has been very little emphasis in NCI on
relatively non-toxic approaches, some radically different."
"..serious shortcomings in the administrative
practices...of the FDA..there is no appeal to the courts in cases involving
medical research." - US Senator Edward Long, "Enzyme
Treatment of Cancer", Congressional Record, 1966.
"The hearings have revealed police-state
tactics...possibly perjured testimony to gain a conviction,...intimidation and
gross disregard for the Constitutional Rights...(of) First, Fourth, Fifth, and
Sixth Amendments, (by the FDA)
"The FDA (is) bent on using snooping gear to pry and
invade..."
"Instance after instance of FDA raids on small vitamin
and food supplement manufacturers. These small, defenseless businesses
were guilty of producing products which FDA officials claimed were
unnecessary."
"If the FDA would spend a little less time and effort on
small manufacturers of vitamins...and a little more on the large manufacturers
of...dangerous drugs..., the public would be better served." - Senator
Long from various Senate hearings.
"(It) could involve the AMA and others in an interstate
conspiracy of alarming proportions..."
"Public and private funds have been thrown around like
confetti at a country fair, to close up and destroy clinics, hospitals, and
scientific research laboratories which do not conform to the viewpoint of
medical associations."
"The record in the Federal Court discloses that (the
NCI) took sides and sought in every way to hinder, suppress and restrict...(a)
treatment of cancer." - Benedict Fitzgerald, Special Counsel to
the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, "A Report to the
Senate IFCC on the Need for Investigation of Cancer Research
Organizations" 1953.
"I and many other Members of Congress have
received a large volume of mail from individuals...benefited from Laetrile
treatments,...who believe the Government is party to a conspiracy to suppress
an inexpensive, non-toxic and effective anti-cancer drug. ...public confidence
in our Government has not been strengthened by the highly unusual actions of
the FDA in first advising...that clinical studies with Laetrile could be
initiated and then terminating this authorization..."
(There is a) "deeply held conviction of a large number
of Americans that they are being forced by their Government to leave the
country in order to obtain therapy with a drug that is both safe and effective
for the control of cancer... (A) review should be done by cancer experts who have
no conflicting interest and who are able to evaluate the evidence
objectively...In light of the tremendous sums of money that have been spent
with relatively little productivity..., I find it very surprising that the NCI
has not sought on its own initiative to do further animal testing with this
drug which apparently has shown some activity in the tests sponsored by the
McNaughton Foundation." - US Congressman L.H. Fountain (in a
letter to HEW Secretary), 1971.
"Amygdalin ('Laetrile')..has been employed medically for
many centuries. Ancient herbal pharmacopeias recommended the bitter
almond for the treatment for a variety of illnesses..."
"Six patients with advanced cancer were treated with
amygdalin at dosages similar to those employed by Laetrile practitioners....intravenously...
(and) orally...No clinical or lab evidence of toxic reaction was seen (by
us)."
"One patient had severe pre-treatment pain resulting
from skeletal meta-stases...at 5 weeks after the onset of (laetrile and
metabolic) therapy, she claimed complete relief..." Charles
Moertel, MD, (and 3 MD's and 2 PhD's), Dept. Oncology and Comprehensive Cancer
Center., Mayo Clinic / Foundation, "A Pharmacologic and Toxicological
Study of Amygdalin."Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA),
February 13,1981.
"Amygdalin (Laetrile) is listed in the US Pharmacopeia
of 1870...so the Grandfather Clause in the Food and Drug (and Cosmetics) Act
prevents FDA from claiming jurisdiction. The US Court of Appeals, 4th
district, #71-1243, May 23, 1972, upheld this..."
"...Amygdalin..is listed in (FDA's) GRAS (Generally
Accepted As Safe) list.." - Walter Ermer, International Health
Council, inserted by Senator Edward M. Kennedy into Banning of the drug
Laetrile from Interstate Commerce by FDA, Hearing, 1977.
"Most shocking, from the point of view of scientific
ethics, is...that...every one of their (SRI - Southern Research Institute)
errors was in the direction of lowering the efficacy of the (Laetrile)
treatment (of animals). ...There is essentially zero probability that such a
system of misrepresentation is inadvertent. There is no doubt to give
anyone the benefit of!" - Dr. Bernard Kenton, City of Hope
National Medical Center, in Harvard Political Review, 1977.
"...The NCI...retrospective analysis...of Laetrile(:)
...among 67 case records that were all submitted...the NCI...could find
complete responses in only two patients..."
"The NCI...prospective trial...of...Laetrile could be
neither controlled and randomized nor blinded...The lack of concurrent controls
was partially offset by the fact that all patients were in advanced stages of a
disease known to be almost uniformly and rapidly fatal. Any objective
responses in tumor size or prolongation of survival could be identified by
comparison with historical controls." -Arnold Reman, Editor, New
England Journal of Medicine, "Closing the books on Laetrile" 1982.
"The (Laetrile) efficacy tests...clinically in
humans..(by) the US NCI...were obviously conducted so that a negative result
could be formulated. The limited number and types of human cancer cases
selected...the omission of necessary additional measures ('e.g dietary'), the
far too short observation periods, and the undefined chemical properties of the
(Laetrile)... all contributed to devaluation of...conclusions."
"The oral (Laetrile) had been 'toxified' by adding
cyano-urea in the NCI...(NCI's) Mayo (Clinic) dismissed well responding
patients to discard them from statistical evaluation...This kind of fraud which
I expressed...and which was openly published...has...not resulted in any
denial." - Hans Nieper, MD, President, International Academy of
Preventive Medicine; Director, German Society for Medical Tumor Treatment;
author of over 200 articles, listed in Who's Who of World Science, and many
other credentials.
"...About Laetrile...we submitted two articles.
The editor turned the article over to his medical advisor and received the same
advice that had been given to another (another magazine): Don't touch it."
"...We were told that owners of drugstores, a vital
outlet for paperbacks, had been notified that any druggist who displayed my
book on his paperback racks, would not receive any more prescriptions from
members of the AMA."
"...After years of paying my income tax without any
problems, in 1964, after my Laetrile book came out, I was summoned by the IRS
for an audit...It took three years...Again (in) 1974. The year before I
had (written) a book about corruption in Congress. I was summoned for
another (IRS) audit, and there went another three years.
"...The Salk polio vaccine (:) When the final report of
the (Salk) tests was ready for publication, there were no takers in the
scientific field. The report was handed out at a press
conference..." - Glen D. Kittler, (author of 40 books, and
articles in Reader's Digest, The Saturday evening Post,
etc.) Laetrile: Nutritional Control for Cancer with Vitamin B-17.
(In)" 1970, in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania....Bruce
Butt...convened a meeting at which he showed...Nature's Answer to Cancer.
The film was made by the International Association of Cancer Victims and
Friends (IACVF)....(The) attorney...defending Mr. Butt (said): Mr. Butt
is criminally charged with 'unlawfully procuring and showing the film, Nature's
Answer to Cancer, which the state of Pennsylvania claims 'constitutes
dissemination of false or misleading advertisement, concerning the efficacy of
Laetrile , as a cure or treatment for cancer'. (And) this constitutes a
misbranding of a drug, ...although ...all parties ("stipulate") that
no drug ("Laetrile") was sold or offered for sale! Present at
the preliminary hearing were...USDHEW, and the FTC,...and FDA... Again when the
film was advertised for showing in a public theater in San Jose, the owner was
threatened by the DA's office with a criminal charge, arrest, and seizure of
the film." - IACVF, Cancer News Journal, 1964.
"The slight variations in extracting
procedure cause many of the amygdalin (Vitamin B-17, Laetrile) molecules to
change to a form unknown to nature(:) isomers...There are ...purveyors who
label their 'iso-amygdalin' products 'amygdalin' contrary to all of the
recognized specs...For commercial or political purposes, they certainly cannot
justify such a fallacy...This scientific heresy and commercial fraud...(is)
tremendously reducing the effectiveness of amygdalin therapy. ...To mislabel
iso-amygdalin as amygdalin is scientifically, medically, and morally
indefensible." - Dr. Ernst T. Krebs, Jr. discoverer of vitamins
B-15 and B-17.
"..Dr. Krebs...is facing the possibility of a jail
sentence stemming from violation of a 1977 court order not to speak publicly about
Laetrile" - Voice of Medical Freedom, April 1981.
"Dr. Ernest J. Krebs, Jr., (and his secretary) ...began
serving a six-month prison term in May (1983) in the San Francisco County
Jail. (They) were found guilty of continuing to promote the merits of
Laetrile in cancer therapy in violation of terms of probation they had
originally secured following their 1973 conviction." - Choice,
spring 1983.
"Five hours after presenting a ...lecture on cancer
before an audience of about 400 in L.A., the windshield was shot out of my car
on the road back to San Francisco. The next night the glass window in the
tailgate (the back window) was shot out (300 miles removed from the first
shooting)...The late Arthur T. Harris, MD, was threatened by two men with
assassination if he continued to use Laetrile." - Dr. Ernst T.
Krebs, Jr.
(FDA's ban on Laetrile is)"arbitrary, capricious, an
abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable." - Dec 1977
(What) "disturbs me mostly...is the willful, deliberate
denial (by the FDA, of) our own citizens, a fair chance to use Laetrile, when
all the record (shows) it is not toxic, ... is safe, ... and is
effective."
"...to say...that Laetrile should not be continued to be
used by those who are suffering from terminal cancer, I would have to hang my
head in shame." - Aug 1980
(The FDA is) "to refrain and desist from interfering
with terminal cancer patients, in their use of Laetrile acquired through the
'Affidavit System." - May 1981, Judge Luther Bohanon, US District
Court, Oklahoma City; Rutherford vs US.
"Dr. (Donald R.) Cole (formerly of Sloan-Kettering and
St. Vincent's Hospital in New York) was charged with three counts: giving false
hope to the terminally ill, using experimental drugs illegally, and practicing
medicine in an unlawful and dishonest manner....The illegal drug charge was
defined as the use of vitamins, enzymes, and Laetrile. ...Dr. Cole administered
Laetrile at the request of patients in the legally prescribed manner with a
signed affidavit....An oncologist from Rosewell Park (Memorial Institute) who
was brought in by the hearing panel...could not substantiate a single
case of incompetence or negligence. ...Dr. Cole's license was
revoked." - CCS, Cancer Control Journal, January 1978.
"Dr. Emory Thurston, PhD, ScD, (lecturer, College of
Pharmacy, USC; member APA (American Pharmaceutical Assoc.), Executive Secretary
of Nutritional Research (had) ...inspectors from the Calif. Food and Drug
office armed with a search warrant, (who) raided his business office.
They confiscated several bottles of Laetrile...and every piece of literature
that contained the word 'cancer'. (They) serve(d) a warrant for the
arrest of Dr. Thurston on the charge of selling Laetrile and practicing medicine
without a license. He was taken to county jail..." International
Association of Cancer Friends and Victims, Cancer News Journal,
1973.
"The (MSKCC) Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
report on amygdalin, or Laetrile(:) It is incomplete because at least
half a dozen experiments with amygdalin performed at the (MSKCC) between 1972
and 1976 have been omitted from the report. (These,) the positive
experiments (showing effectivity against cancer) with amygdalin, carried out by
veteran researcher Kanematsu Sugiura appear to be valid and are not
successfully challenged by the report. (In contrast,) there are numerous
errors in many of these (reported) experiments which allegedly prove
amygdalin's ineffectiveness as a palliative or cure for cancer." - Second
Opinion, Special Report: Laetrile at Sloan Kettering, 1977, published
January 1978.
"In 1977, when the Laetrile bill was first introduced to
the North Dakota Legislature, I was the only MD to testify for it...After that,
my successful tenure...was ended and I was called before the State Medical
Examiners Board in ND, for using vitamins and Laetrile. ...I travelled...to
work...with Dr. Davis, Dr. Cole, and Dr. Manner...When I returned...I was
refused re-instatement to the medical staff...We are being investigated by the
(state) attorney general's office because our methods are not 'usual and
customary'."
"The doctors at M.D. Anderson (Hospital) in
Houston...were recently developing a cancer prevention program for Texas, the
money and direction for which were appropriated by the Texas legislature 40 years
ago." - Brian Briggs, MD, in a letter, 1981.
"Toxicity of Laetrile in dosages currently employed for
human cancer is assumed to be minimal." - NCI Clinical Protocol
for Laetrile.
"Despite intensive effort over many years, the FDA, the
AMA, the ACS (American Cancer Society), the NCI and independent researchers
have been unable to find any scientific evidence that Laetrile has any effect
on cancer." - FDA (press release, Feb 17, 1977.).
"The cyano group of vitamin B-12 (cyano-cobal-amin) is
more labile and potentially more harmful than the cyano group found in
Laetrile. Yet we know how safe and essential vitamin B-12 is."
- Dr. R.A. Passwater, testimony, FDA docket # 77N-0048.
"On the very day that the NCI announced Laetrile's
alleged worthlessness..., West Virginia became the 24th state to allow the use
of Laetrile...In signing the bill into law, Gov. Jay Rockefeller said the
study, 'made no difference at all.' - National Health Federation, July,
1981.
"..The woman...had been relieved of her cancer by
Laetrile.....In the hospital they would not inject Laetrile as it was
illegal. She died. This so incensed the editors of the Santa
Ana Register (Dean and Martinez) that they wrote ("Laetrile
Story") a series of articles on cancer and the true story for the first
time was sent by UPI to (almost) every country in the
world." - Howard
H. Beard, ScD, PhD, Yale U. The Anthrone Test.
"... The cancer statutes (are)
discriminatory against the cancer patient.... No other disease is so restricted
by politics.... It is also discriminatory against the Negro because
Laetrile helps sickle cell anemia.... It is discriminatory against the poor
because the poor can't afford to go to Mexico or Germany (for therapies
outlawed in the US)..."
"...In July 1974 About 15 agents (of Cal. Food and
Drug) arrested me on the charge of selling Laetrile and other substances in the
diagnosis, cure and alleviation of cancer. In Citrus Municipal Court,
West Covina, on Feb 3, 1975, Judge Sam Cianchetti declared this statute
unconstitutional. On Oct. 1974, I received a phone call from...police at
1 (AM, Saturday morning) and he told me that my office was broken into. I
went down to my office...and 2 agents arrest(ed) me on a felony charge -
conspiracy...The law states that before you are even arrested, they must give
you a hearing (Cal. Health Code 1707.4) (Another) judge denied this
motion for a ...hearing and he gave no reason." - Dr. James
Privitera; Roswell Park Memorial Institute,; Scripps Clinic; "The
Nutritional Battle."
"...testifying for Dr. Privitera...To these 19 cancer
victims, the enforcement of (California) Health and Safety Code Sect. 1701.1,
the denial of them medical treatment, albeit unorthodox, albeit unapproved by a
state agency, must surely take on a Kafka-esque, a nightmare quality. No
demonstrated public anger, no compelling interest of the state warrants an
Orwellian intrusion into the most private of zones of privacy." - California
Supreme Court Chief Justice, Rose Bird, dissenting opinion.
"In 1964 (we) conduct(ed) an intensive investigation of
Laetrile...conclud(ing) that there was no justification for making (it)
illegal...Yet, 16 years after... , doctors are still being jailed for
(it). Dr. James Privatera,... was recently released from 55 days...much
of it doing hard labor...on a road gang...If he were solely interested in
making money, as he points out, there is a great deal more to be made from
traditional cancer treatments, than by use of Laetrile." - Santa
Ana, The Register, April 13, 1980.
"Does it make sense that a (Laetrile) smuggler who is
supposed (by the Medical Establishment - Ed.) to be making millions of dollars
off of what he is smuggling, would spend five years of his life trying to
legalize it.?" - Frank Salaman, grad., northwestern U.
(In)"1970, the Pennsylvania Health Dept., swooped down
on a meeting...after the movie Laetrile,...was shown. The
film was confiscated and the association president arrested." - Michael
Culbert, Vitamin B-17, Forbidden Weapon Against Cancer.
"Important Elements of FDA Policy: Encourage local
medical licensing authorities to investigate and take appropriate action to
deal with the use of Laetrile by physicians in their practice." - FDA
Division of Federal-State Relations Director, 1974.
"Not that there are not real quacks in the
field of cancer... But ...no legitimate MD...with a thriving practice and after
years of study and faithful service would give all that up to become a quack
and subject himself and his family to Hell..." - John Richardson,
MD,Laetrile Case Histories.
"I had to stand three expensive trials in California
courts, where in all three actions against me, the charges were
dismissed. Then I had to stand and even longer and more expensive trial
in Federal Court in San Diego, where I was convicted of 'conspiring to smuggle
Laetrile' and was fined $30,000. ... Cal. then revoked my license. - John
Richardson, MD.
"The ...Times..headlined the Assistant US
Attorney...grand jury investigation of myself, six months before the grand jury
was even selected. ...Soon after Bantam printed 200,000 copies of our book, ...Times bought
the serial rights to it. ...After sitting on the serial rights for a suitable
period, the ...Times...unctuously begged Bantam to be released from
their gentlemen's agreement, and the serial market had been destroyed. ...Most
libraries will not accept a book that has not been reviewed by the ...Times or
its affiliate..." - John Richardson, MD, Richardson
Newsletter, 1979.
"Federal, state, and local police raided Dr. (John)
Richardson's Clinic,...beat up a(n) aide, manhandled a nurse, and dragged the
business manager off in handcuffs."
"20 Federal agents in 13 undercover cars...arrested
and...jailed...Robert Bradford (President, Committee for Freedom of Choice in
Cancer Therapy.)...on leave from Stanford University...and two Mexicans..on
charges of conspiracy to smuggle (Laetrile)."
"The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic ACT,...defines any article
'intended for use in the diagnosis, ...treatment, or prevention of disease' as
a 'drug'...Water...to an individual dying of thirst could ...be called a
'drug." - Michael Culbert, Freedom From Cancer.
(This MD)"utilized (Vitamin B-15 & 17) as
therapeutic agents in the treatment of cancer. (These) are not recognized
vitamins in human nutrition. Laetrile...is unsafe for self
medication..."
The management of cancer patients with...vitamins...to the
exclusion of...conventional modalities is an extreme departure from the
standard practice of medicine."
(MD)"Certificate...of John A. Richardson...is
revoked." - California Board of Medical Quality Assurance, 1975. -
the four paragraphs above in John Richardson, Laetrile Case Histories.
"What water is to thirst, so normal metabolism is to
cancer." - John Richardson, MD, Richardson Newsletter,
1978.
"In early 1978 I sent a serious article on approaching
trends of unorthodox cancer treatment to a major British doctor's
publication,..., to which I had frequently contributed before. It was
declined, as was the editor's privilege. This decision I accepted without
comment...But when I published a similar article for a more general readership
in a non-medical publication, the Deputy Editor of ... published a most
offensive attack on me and my views. ...This year another major medical
publication, Doctor, was pleased to accept and print my
views. A huge correspondence from doctors seeking further information
ensued."
"The violent disagreements and vehement proclamations of
different 'experts' at cancer symposia are now well-known, as each defends his
own pet programme."
"In most European countries amygdalin (Laetrile) has
never been illegal...Bitter almond, ...peach (are some) sources of
amygdalin.... Celsus in ancient Rome used almond to treat 'putrid flesh'.
Largus, another Roman, used it for bladder tumours. Galen,,,used almonds
for 'scirrhus of the liver'. ...Avicenna also used (almond) oil for tumours of
uterus, spleen, stomach, and liver."
"The psychosomatic element...in cancer causation and
treatment.(:) Gendon in 1701, Burrows in 1783, Nunn in 1822, Walshe in 1846,
the famous Sir James Paget, describer of Paget's disease, in 1879, Snow in 1893
and Elida Evans in 1922, are the names of just a few (Doctors). - Dr.
Dick Richards, Kent Private Clinic, England, The Topic of Cancer: When
the Killing Has to Stop.
""...HH Beard has perfected ...3
excellent (urine) cancer tests, all of proven accuracy of 95% or better..... in
1942 and onwards."
"The enzyme beta-glucoronidase is necessary to
...'trigger off'.. laetrile.....after the laetrile injection, we injected
directly into the tumor...beta-glucoronidase. The result was white slough
which encompassed the (tumor) growth. ...The slough resorbed and was
replaced by normal (tissue)." - Arthur T. Harris, MD, U. Edinburgh
(under John Beard); PhD, Med.; DSc, Biochem.
"Early one morning in 1946 our lab was mysteriously
destroyed by fire....We then established a lab at ...our present
location. Then again one morning in 1947, this lab was set on fire and
completely destroyed." - Howard H. Beard, ScD; PhD, Yale U. Porter
Fellow, Physiology;MA, Columbia U; Professor and Director., Biochem Dept.,
author of 150 articles and three books, etc., etc. Director John Beard Lab of
Clinical Biochemistry.: A New Approach to the Conquest of Cancer,
Rheumatic and Heart Diseases.
"...Medical mankind in particular, were supposed to be
waiting for the advent of some new scientific discovery concerning the nature
of cancer... ...The physical martyrdom was lacking; but there are, as I can
testify from experience, many more ways than one of burning a scientific man at
the stake." - John Beard. D.Sc., The Enzyme Treatment of
Cancer and its Scientific Basis. c. 1911 AD.
"Dr. (Howard H. )Beard 'was ...charged with...mail
fraud...rendering fake and medically worthless cancer reports...Postal
Investigators satisfied themselves the reports were willfully falsified...' On
Oct. 30, 1967, Dr. Beard was sentenced in US Federal Court, Ft. Worth, Texas,
'to...mail fraud...He alleged he could detect the presence of cancer in urine
in 95% of all tests made." - FDA Papers, 1967-1968 (in ACS, Unproven
Methods of Cancer Management, 1967).
"Arthur Harris (MD, PhD)..was soon forbidden to use
Laetrile on hospitalized patients. ...In...1953, Harris reported: 'Of total
number of cases (82) treated with Laetrile, 43 have been pay patients, many
have paid only a part of their bills...' ...Dr. Harris...received a
summons from the LA County Medical Association to appear for trial...for
unethical conduct in overcharging 3 patients for Laetrile...Files showed that
the (3 patients) had not paid a cent of their bills....Harris received notice
that he had been expelled from the county medical society." - Glenn
D. Kittler, Laetrile: Nutritional Control for Cancer with Vitamin B-17,
c. 1963.
"Why is it that the US Supreme Court says physicians may
perform abortions on the ground that the physician - patient relationship is
inviolable; but that the same physician is not permitted to prescribe Laetrile
for his patients...but not to destroy life but to save it? Why are we
told that a patient has the "right to die with dignity", but may not
take Laetrile in an attempt to live?" - Alan Stang,American
Opinion (from Princeton paper, "The Political Implications of
Laetrile...").
"The average citizen in this country does not have...the
background that will enable him to make enlightened decisions concerning the
selection and use of therapeutic agents." - Acting director,
National Cancer Institute.
"In a study of 252 people who attended a Laetrile
symposium sponsored by the CCS (Cancer Control Society), we found that those
attending were predominantly white, female, rural, and highly educated."
- Gerald E. Markle and James C. Petersen, Professors of Sociology,
Western Michigan University; editors of Politics, Science, and Cancer;
the Laetrile Phenomenon.
"Nearly 8 out of 10 persons agree that, 'since we don't
know how to cure cancer, if Laetrile is harmless, people ought to be able to
buy it if they want to use it.' Reinforcing this view are public doubts about
the FDA and other government health agencies." - Lou Harris Poll
of 1600 Americans, July 1977.
"A nationwide Harris Poll showed that the public
favoured the use of Laetrile by a 30% margin. ...In over 250 cases of cancer with
which I have been associated, all of whom used (Laetrile, vitamin) B-17, not a
single one had side effects as a result...." - Leon Chaitow, ND,
DO, Member, British Naturopathic and Osteopathic Association., An End
to Cancer?
"Such letters...from the FDA, are, filled with
objectively demonstrable lies, practiced deceptions and deviousness, red
herrings, directed misinformation, misdirected information, etc. ...Once
FDA-NCI-AMA-ACS...concedes that Laetrile anti-tumor efficacy was indeed even
once observed...a permanent crack in bureaucratic armor has taken place."
- Dr. Dean Burke, co-founder, National Cancer Institute (NCI),
Cyto-chemistry section: open letter July 3, 1973.
"I was about the most negative person in the country
about interferon." - Dr. Frank Rauscher, Director, NCI, vice
president, ACS (American Cancer Society) in Time, 3-31-1980.
I would certainly not turn off Laetrile if it had an iota of
activity that we could pinpoint. Unfortunately, there's no evidence at
all." Dr. Frank Rauscher, 60 Minutes 3-31-1974.
"We don't have any pesticides showing up in the food
chain anymore." - NCI Director and ACS vice president, Dr. Frank
Rauscher.
"...there is no basis for the use of Laetrile in man
based on data derived from experiments on animals.": - Dr. Jesse
Steinfeld, Surgeon General, US Public Health Service.
"The data provided by the McNaughton Foundation
certainly indicates some activity (of Laetrile) in animal tumor systems.:
- Dr. Carl Baker, Director, NCI 1970-1972.
(Laetrile)"may be useful in sickle cell
anemia...(Laetrile) used in animals with tumors show: a decrease in lung
metastases; slower tumor growth; and pain relief." - Lloyd Old,
MD, vice president, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, at FDA 7-2-1974.
"When results of the (Laetrile) toxicity tests at Loyola
(University, Chicago) were complete, (Dr. Harold Manner, Chairman Biology
Dept., author 50 articles, 5 texts) asked NCI to publish the findings in Journal
NCI. This the agency refused to do. Publication in other
journals was also denied him." - in National Health
Federation, Bulletin, Nov. 1977.
"When Dr. Manner reported on the total remission of
breast cancer in lab animals (Using 'Laetrile in conjunction with vitamins and
enzymes')..., ACS President, Ben Byrd, criticised (him) for making his
announcement in public, and said such announcements should be made only in a
proper scientific forum."
"But, as all scientists know, there is a time lag of 12
to 18 months between the time a manuscript is submitted and the time it is
published in a scientific journal."
"...Delay, says Dr. Manner, is a luxury which people
with right-now cancers cannot afford." - Paul Harvey, "Cancer
Remission with Laetrile", LA Times, 10-10-1977.
"...The ...experts of the FDA have declared Laetrile to
be worthless...quackery and fraud...These experts are the professional
descendants of experts...confident that mental illness should be cured by
drilling holes in the skull, the better to let the demons out. ...This is the
Orwellian fashion in which the medical establishment throws its weight
around...." - James Kilpatrick, Washington Star, 1976.
"For some places you want harsh regulations backed by
full weight of the law - (we) have had IND's (request to test on humans and
Investigational New Drug) for Laetrile, for example, and other hoax
remedies...Sometimes we say it is proper to hinder research."
(The FDA has)"what some people call the worst personnel
in government...Open drunkenness...for months...intimidation...tittering in
corners, throwing spitballs; I am describing physicians, (who) slouch down in a
chair, not respond to questions, moan and groan with sleeping gestures, a kind
of behavior I have not seen in any other institution as a grown man."
- FDA, Bureau of Drugs Director, Dr. J. Richard Crout.
"Dr. Helen Calvin...spearheaded...Indiana to approve
Laetrile, and then she used the Laetrile and metabolic program...until the FDA
arbitrarily and illegally held up her Laetrile shipments...patients started
dying...When four of them had died, Dr. Calvin ended her own life."
- Arlin Brown, Cancer Victory Bulletin, Oct. 1978.
(Maurice Kowan, MD)"served three months in jail, paid a
fine of $3,000, and was forbidden to see a cancer patient...for three
years. Before sentencing, it had been suggested to Dr. Kowan...to sign a
statement that...Laetrile...had proved no benefit....He refused any
'deals'..." - Betty Lee Morales, "The National Health
Federation, Do We Need It?".
"The jury had never been allowed to see any evidence
that Laetrile actually worked. (Yes Virginia, they can bury medical
breakthroughs in court this way also.) Dr. Kowan...was...age
70..." - G.E. Griffin, Cancer Control Journal,
1977.
"...In treating approximately 100 cancer cases, most
...terminal, (Dr. Kowan) was able to achieve dramatic relief from pain in
virtually every single case. ...Several patients told...that the fees Dr. Kowan
charged were ridiculously low.... Dr. Kowan was sentenced (including) 30 days
in the workhouse..." - David Martin, Staff member, US Senate
Internal Security Committee, in Cancer News Journal, Jan 1971.
"In a free society men and women should not be prevented
by Government from seeking medical remedies which they believe will be
effective. ..."
"Despite the fact that a predicted 350,000 persons in
the US will die of cancer this year, the cancer bureaucracy keeps a closed
mind. ...the basic issue is not the efficacy of Laetrile, but the infringement
of freedom in what amounts to a life and death question."
"Freedom of choice must be brought to bear upon the US
Medical practice." - US Congressman Philip M. Crane,Congressional
Record, 1975.
"More than half of all great remedies known to medical
history have come from empiricists...'irregulars'...of no or little scientific
training. There is no reason to believe that conditions have essentially
changed." - Dr. Alex Carrel 1912 Nobel Prize in Medicine,
"in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of
blood-vessels and organs."
"Patients have been cured almost instantaneously
of...lupus...,cancer ...,ulcers..., tuberculosis ...In a few seconds, at most a
few hours, the symptoms disappear and the anatomic lesions mend. The
miracle is characterized by extreme acceleration of the normal process of
healing." - Dr. Alexis Carrel,
"...the influence of the factory upon the physiological
and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected."
"The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full
of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise..."
"Enormous amounts of money are spent for
publicity. As a result, large quantities of alimentary and pharmaceutical
products, at the least useless, and often harmful, have become a necessity for
civilized men." - Alexis Carrel, Man the Unknown.
"Dr Alexis Carrel,...(:) After his book was published in
1935, titled Man the Unknown, he was eased out of the Rockefeller
Institute of Research, and he went to France...When he arrived, he was arrested
on a false charge and put into prison...Two months later he died.: - Professor
Hilton Hoptema, Health Research Sheet.
"The discovery of radium by the Curies was facilitated
by observing a witch doctor treating sick people by burying them up to their
necks in radium-bearing mud." - Donald Law, A Guide to
Alternative Medicine.
"Everybody should know that the 'war on cancer' is
largely a fraud, and that the NCI and the ACS are derelict in their duties to
the American people who support them." - Linus Pauling 1954 Nobel
Prize in Chemistry for"his research into the nature of the chemical bond
and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex
substances.", and 1962 Nobel Peace Prize.
"..The truly fraudulent claims must be discarded.
But novel methods of therapy should not be rejected because they are novel, or
because they run counter to some generally accepted belief ("which may
just be biased"), or because we do not understand the mechanism of the
proposed treatment, or because it has come from an unconventional source."
- Linus Pauling
"'Cancer dialogue '80'...(was) sponsored by the Omega
Institute, and co-sponsored by the American College of Preventive Medicine, and
the American Holistic Medical Association....The New York Times reported
on Oct. 13, 1980 that 9 of the 27 (speakers: NCI Directors, Drs. Arthur Upton
and Frank Rauscher, Sr. V. President of ACS; Dr. Emil Frei III, Director,
Sidney Farber Cancer Institute; et al)..had withdrawn about two weeks before
the opening...from this discussion of traditional and 'alternative' approaches
to cancer treatment...Some of the speakers said that pressure had been put on
them...the Medical Tribune (Oct., 1980) 'Most of the 8
dropouts received influence-wielding phone calls from (the) chairman of the
ACS's committee on unproven methods of cancer management, or other ACS
officials.'" - Linus Pauling
"...Terminally ill cancer patients,...100...who took 10
grams of Vitamin C daily lived four times longer (from date of diagnosis as
'untreatable', than controls)...Dr. (Linus) Pauling submitted these findings in
a scientific paper to Journal of the AMA, and New England Journal of Medicine,
and both have refused to publish this illustrious Nobel Laureate's work."
- D. Ian Thierman, Yale U. Grad., (in International Association of
Cancer Victims and Friends, Jan. 1979).
"Dr. Anthony Verlangieri, ..Rutgers U. ..., was refused
funds for...reducing athero-sclerosis with Vitamin C. ..Dr. Jorgen Schlegel
(is) combatting cancer with vitamin C at Tulane Med. ...And Dr. Eli Seifter
(discovered) that vitamin A (fights) cancer tumors of viral origin. Yet
both distinguished scientists have been refused funds. ...Dr. Linus
Pauling,...two time Nobel Prize winner..., has found it impossible to get
federal funds for his research in treating cancer with...vitamin C."
- Jack Andersen, "Tired Blood in Federal Health
Research". Rocky Mountain News, 1975.
"The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research
foundation." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, discoverer of vitamins C and
P, 1937 Nobel Prize ," for his discoveries in connection with the
biological combustion process, with special reference to Vitamin C and the
catalysis of fumaric acid.".
"(The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of
(obscenity)."
"The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of
goods about cancer." - James Watson, co-discoveror of the DNA
double helix, and 1962 Nobel Laureate in Medicine for that discovery and
related work.
"The American Cancer Society has done the American
public a really great disservice." - Dr. David Baltimore, 1975
Nobel Laureate in Medicine for, "their discoveries concerning the
interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell.".
"...cancer...there is no disease whose prime cause is
better known...In the meantime, millions of men must die unnecessarily." -Otto
Warburg, Nobel Laureate in Medicine in 1931 "for his discovery of the
nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme.".
"But how long prevention will be avoided depends on how
long the prophets of unbelief will succeed in obstructing the application of
scientific knowledge in the cancer field. In the meantime, millions must
die of cancer unnecessarily." Otto Warburg.
"...It would be possible to make much more progress than
has been made if the NCI knew its job better, knew how to make
discoveries...The NCI really does not know how to make discoveries....So long
as the NCI is not willing to follow up ideas that seem good to people who have
had experience making discoveries, the work of the NCI is going to be
pedestrian." - Linus Pauling.
"...What kills science in this country now, (is) that
you must tell in advance what you will find, and what you will do exactly, and
what you will spend your money on. And if you knew it all, then you
wouldn't need to do it. ... And so you cannot have (any) new discoveries.:
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi.
"Money appropriated for FDA in 1945 (was) $3 million; in
1968, $66 million. Number of employees in 1945, approximately 850; in
1968, 5100. Seizures of foods in 1945, 2504; in 1968, 384.
Injunctives for violative foods in 1945, 26; in 1968, 3....Prosecutions for
violative foods, in 1945, 278; in 1968, 70. - US Congressman L.H.
Fountain (In Beatrice T. Hunter, Mirage of Safety.
"Anyone may logically wonder why this information has
not been put into proper investigative format and presented toward various
medical bodies. The answer is simple. With the powerful alliance of
the media, the federal agencies and orthodox medical groups, anyone attempting
to present such...would be destroyed with orchestrated cries of
'Quackery.' There is ample evidence to document this beyond
question." - US Congressman Larry McDonald, MD.
"When it was first introduced, the claims for penicillin
were also a minority view, and it (penicillin) was suppressed for 11 or 12
years. - Congressman Larry McDonald, MD. (in Steven Fredman, MD and
Robert Burger, Forbidden Cures.)
"No one seems to care. Certainly, no
one in the million dollar fund-raising cancer clinics are excited over the
almost miraculous ...record of...Krebiozen..."
"Maybe the raising of millions of dollars of funds for
charitable projects has become 'a racket', and the longer they remain in the
test-tube stage of development, the longer patronage and job payrollers remain
in their soft berths."
"...this charity...They quibble too much over
procedures...while we seek a cure. They complain too loudly against
another who, seemingly, has perfected a work that the public expects its
charity dollars to do. Maybe we should investigate the American Cancer
Society's operations."
"..Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, (is) the champion of the
scientific doctrine of freedom of research, which has suffered in recent years
through the falsity of certain politico-physician leaders of the AMA, who faked
reports, suppressed honest information, brutally slugged the opposition, both
physically and through pressures, used to prevent the truth about Krebiozen
reaching the American people." - US Congressman Roland V.
Libonati, Congressional Record, 1959.
"...Whereas spontaneous cure (of cancer) remains a
scientific curiosity with a rate of 0.00001%, the administration of Krebiozen
has given a recovery rate of 12.5% or a 1,250,000 fold increase." - Steven
Durovic, MD, post-graduate at U. of Vienna, and Pasteur Institute,;
"Cancer and Krebiozen...", Today's Japan Orient/West, May
1961.
"...All the TV stations in the NY-Philadelphia
metropolitan area refused to sell time to Timex to permit public showing of a
documentary it had produced on Krebiozen. ..Where the AMA previewed the
documentary..." - American Jewish Ledger, 1964.
"The FDA and much, but not all, of the orthodox medical
profession are actively hostile against vitamins and minerals... They are out
to get the health food industry...And they are trying to do this out of active
hostility and prejudice." - Senator William Proxmire (inNational
Health Federation Bulletin, April, 1974.
"This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even
more astonishing..."
"This total failure to address the diet/cancer
relationship is most disturbing to ...those...informed..." - Senator
George McGovern. 1978 Subcommittee hearings on Nutrition.
"Even though the nutrition research budget has
increased 21 fold in the last four years, it still remains less than 1% of
total NCI budget, even though one half of all cancers are diet related...Does
the peer review simply turn into a 'buddy' system for awarding grants? - Senator
Bob Dole., 1978 Subcommittee hearings on Nutrition.
"Eminent nutritionists have traded their independence
for the food industry's favors." - US Congressman Benjamin
Rosenthal.
"There are only three proven ways - and only three- to
curb cancer: (1) X-ray, (2) radium, (3) and surgery, either singly or in
combination..." ACS , Cancer Facts, 1955.
(Why is there frequent criticism that the cancer research
system is unreceptive to unorthodoxy?) "Because its true. Not cancer
research, all research systems. It's a very important issue...The entire
system...tends to exclude people from the fringe who have ideas that are
radical departures, and we ought to pay a lot more attention to them....I
try." - Dr. Vincent DeVita, Jr., Director NCI.
"Non-acceptable type of therapy, including Laetrile,
Krebiozen,etc." - NCI 1976 SEER Code Manual.
"Because of the vast areas of ignorance that still exist
in our understanding of the cancer problem...areas of basic research are
essential...This...must be supported at an adequate level." - Report
of the President's Cancer Panel, 1975.
"The main criterion for an award (of a research contract
from the NCI) is the capacity to demonstrate the relevance of the project to
the program's target. But the only sure way to prove this relevance is to
have, in fact, already proved it." - June Goodfield, FRSMThe Siege
of Cancer.
"During the 1960's...HIP...study showed no gain from
mammography to women under 50, ('yet') all women over 35 were invited to
participate in the (Breast Cancer Detection) Demonstration Project (of the ACS
&) NCI..."
"In 1973, Alan S. Rabson of the (NCI) Division of
Cancer Biology and Diagnosis (said) mammography was the real risk, (the test
itself causing cancer). William Pomerance (Chief, Diagnostic Branch, same
NCI division, wrote:) '...At a meeting of some contractors, ...I made the
statement...I would change the initial age to 45...They 'fell on me' and went
so far as to decide (to) start at age 30...Their reaction is hysteria..."
...John Bailer III (of NCI) published in Jan. 1976...that for women under 50,
the risk...might equal the chance (of detecting)..."
(When)"the controversy became public....An independent
NCI committee (found:) Of 1850 women diagnosed (by mammography) as having
cancer, the review of the (pathological) tissue showed that 66 did not have
cancer at all...NCI 'reclassified' (18) cases. For the remaining 48
cases, there appears to have been no evidence of cancer; 37 of 48 women have
undergone mastectomies. The National Women's Health
Network...complained...Dr. Vincent DeVita (Director), NCI responded (in) 1980,
that NCI chose not to inform the women...' and that 'NCI does not acknowledge
that 'there were serious problems' in this program.'" - Susan
Rennie,National Women's Health Network News, March 1981.
"...When I submitted my manuscript for clearance, I was
called...in to the office of my (NCI) director. He said, 'Now, the
medical official of the AEC (Atomic Energy Commission) objects against
that. They said there are quite other reasons why uranium miners develop
cancer; it's not radioactivity. You shall omit that from your
presentation."
"My...studies on occupational cancer...in...industries
was forcefully and abruptly brought to a halt in 1952 by an order of the
Surgeon General...(This followed) a protest by the Public Health Service (PHS)
by....(an) industry...alleg(ing) that my activities were detrimental to their
interests...I was forbidden (by PHS) to contact, thereafter, state health
departments and industrial concerns on all matters of occupational
cancer. (I was) to discontinue all field work..." - Dr.
Wilhelm C. Heuper, Chief, Environmental Cancer Section, NCI (In Larry
Agran, The Cancer Connection).
"The problem with 'prevention' is that it does not
produce revenues. No health plan reimburses a physician or a hospital for
preventing a disease." - NCI Deputy Director, Division of Cancer
Cause and Prevention; and of Diet, Nutrition and Cancer Program.
"...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit
because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of
circumstances." - Dr. Rene Dubos, Rockefeller Institute.
"The evidence is truly overwhelming that disease is
pluri-causal." - E. Cheraskin, MD, DMD, Professor Emeritus and of
Medicine and Chairman Dept. of Oral Medicine, U of Alabama Med School, in Diet
and Disease.
"In 1906,...Upton Sinclair's sensational novel, The
Jungle, (appeared)...Meat consumption in the US fell by 25% in the
year following publication of The Jungle. (In) ...1967, President
Johnson signed the Wholesome Meat Act into law. Upton Sinclair, in a
wheelchair, was at his side. ...130,000 cattle carcasses were held back by
federal inspectors in 1969 for removal of carcinomas and cancer eye."
"On fatal poisoning, in Dade County, Florida, ...in the
under 5-year (old) group, pesticides were the leading cause of death.
"...Environmentalists...rarely leave energy in reserve
for monitoring enforcement...The constituencies mobilized by the original event
tend to equate enactment of a program with solution of the problem...FCC
Commissioner Nicholas Johnson...(to) Senate Subcommittee:'...Then the pressure
starts - on those who have been handed the job of investigation and
reform. Corporate interests that will be adversely affected will move to
delay, to water down, to remove 'dangerous people', and then finally to participate
in the final whitewash." - Harrison Wellford, Cambridge U.,
England, and a bunch of other credentials (Sowing the Wind).
"The chief, if not the sole, cause of the monstrous
increase in cancer has been vaccination." - Dr. Robert Bell; V.
President International Society for Cancer Research, British Cancer Hospital.
"Dr. David Grasetti...said, 'The spread of cancer in
mice...is astounding after they are given a dose of Rifampin'...a miracle
antibiotic...in 1973, (a manufacturer of Rifampin) Dow Chemical, received
almost $900,000 in contracts from the NCI. (the) research (results were)
permitted to remain confidential." - Health Writers, Health
Newsletter, 1974.
"During three different strikes by MD's (in) the
mid-1970's (in Israel, Columbia, and California), death rates fell between 18%
and 50%..." - Peter Chowka, "The Failure of Specialty
Medicine", Journal of the Nutritional Academy.
"Doctors...make periodic surveys of their
techniques. I don't know why. After they're done, nobody seems to
pay much attention to them..."
"One of the first controlled community studies on
tonsillectomy (in Rochester, NY, in 1922), showed it had no effect...; yet this
past year (1970), 1/3 to 1/5 of all children hospitalized in that same area
(Rochester) were admitted for tonsillectomies!" - Leonard Tushnet,
MD, The Medicine Men.
"I have given orders to my Death units to exterminate
without mercy or pity men, women and children belonging to the Polish speaking
race...After all, who remembers today the extermination of the Armenians?"
- A. Hitler, Aug 22, 1939, (in James Nazer,The First Genocide of the
20th Century,...Armenian Massacres).
"...In Europe at the present time (1943, it is) A crime
punishable by death to spread information in regard to nutrition in Norway,
Belgium, Holland, and all other conquered countries." - D.T.
Quigley, MD, Fellow American College of Surgeons, in The National
Malnutrition
"It has been common...to combine such unproven
ingredients as bio-flavinoids, rutin..., with such essential nutrients as
Vitamin C..., thus implying that they are all nutritionally valuable for
supplementation of the daily diet. The courts have sustained FDA legal
action to prevent such practices, and the new FDA regulations preclude this
type of combination in the future...Similarly, it has been common...to state or
imply that the American diet is inadequate because of soil deficiencies,
commercial processing methods, use of synthetic nutrients, and similar
charges. FDA recognizes that these false statements have misled, scared,
and confused the public, and is prohibiting any such general statements in the
future...The medical and nutritional professions have shown strong support of
this policy,..." - FDA (Assistant General) council's letter to 5
US Legislators, Hearings, US Congress, 1973.
"A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to
public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic
checks as elections little more than rituals." - Ralph Nader.
"The food industry, its trade associations, and research
foundations, is well financed and highly organized to pressure the FDA." -Ralph
Nader.
"22 of 52 top (FDA) officials have worked for regulated
industries, or organizations that cater to those industries...During a hearing
held in 1969 by the House Inter-governmental Relations Subcommittee, it was
disclosed that of 49 high ranking FDA officials who had recently resigned or
retired, 37 joined or served as consultants to regulated industries."
- Michael Jacobson, Food for People, Not for Profit.
"...FDA was allegedly using one standard of safety,
efficacy, and design of clinical tests for the little investigator...,but a
different (more lax) standard for government paid NCI investigators using the
drugs of the big drug companies." - Dr. Miles H. Robinson,
inserted by US Senator Edward V. Long into Congressional Record, 1966, "Is
the FDA Hamstringing Cancer Research?".
"The Establishment...undismayed by the futility of funds
dumped into the bottomless barrel of its 'proven methods', it remains adamant
in refusing to investigate 'unproven methods'..."
"Nobody in the science and medical departments (in the
ACS) is capable of doing real science...They don't know how to prevent cancer
or cure patients; instead, they close the door on innovative ideas. ACS
money goes to scientists who put on the best show to get grants, or who have
friends on the grant-giving panels." - American Cancer Society
Science Editor (for 25 years), ACS Science Writers' Conference originator, Pat
McGrady, Sr.
"I've heard of cancer politics, but I've never seen
anything like this in my entire life. In fact, I wouldn't believe it, if
I hadn't seen it with my own eyes."
"...Everybody's afraid. Fear is overriding
scientific inquiry and the ability to let the audience to make up its
mind."
"The whole set-up (NCI-ACS) is a farce and a
fraud." - Joseph Gold, MD, Director, Syracuse Cancer Research
Institute, March 1981.
"The surgeons. They controlled medicine, and they
regarded the X-ray as a threat to surgery. At the time surgery was the
only approved method of treating cancer. They meant to keep it the only approved
method by ignoring or rejecting any new methods or ideas. This is why I
was called a 'quack' and nearly ejected from hospitals where I had practiced
for years." - Dr. Emil Grubbé. Dr. Emil Grubbé,
...discovered...X-ray therapy (for cancer) in 1896...X-ray was not recognized
as an agent for treating cancer by the American College of Surgeons until
1937...Dr. Grubbé...still was not recognized as late as 1951." - in Herbert
Bailey, Vitamin E, Your Key to a Healthy Heart.
"...students were obliged...to learn about an
interminable number of drugs, many...valueless, ...useless,
some...harmful."
"...there is less intellectual freedom in the medical
course than in almost any other form of professional education in this
country." -Harvard Medical School Dean, Dr. David Edsall.
"...Members of the US 'cancer cartel' have staked their
reputations on their oft repeated claims that the non-toxic, nutritional
therapy of cancer is ineffective...The time will...come when (its)
efficacy...will be officially acknowledged here in the US, as it already has
been in many other countries." - Albert Schatz, PHD, discoverer of
streptomycin, and many other credentials.
"Gregor Mendel, who had never received a teaching
certificate because he couldn't pass in biology, began in 1856...(his) work,
which was virtually the birth of genetics, wasn't widely appreciated until the
end of the century. ...Charles Darwin...dropped out of medical school because
he couldn't stand science." - C.R. Scriver, MD, "Inborn
Errors of Metabolism, A new Frontier of Nutrition." Nutrition
Today, 1974.
"In 1966 the ACS formulated a State Model Cancer Act
which was instrumental in the enactment of anti-quackery laws now enforced in 9
states...In California (it is a) felony...The use of unproven methods is also a
criminal offense in Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Nevada, North
Dakota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania." - Jane Brody of New York Times,
and Arthur Holleb, MD of ACS, You Can Fight Cancer and Win.
"The California cancer law places the burden of proof of
efficacy and safety of a cancer agent on the proponent...In Sept, 1974, the
State of California enacted new legislation which makes a conviction of a
'quackery' charge a felony..., with jail terms of 5 years and fines as high as
$10,000." - ACS, Unproven Methods of Cancer Management.
- 1976.
"On April 17, 1952 the Dickinson County, Iowa chapter of
the ACS ran a full page ad in ...'The Spirit Lake Beacon', asking society to
enter the new field of investigating cancer cure claims. They cited 4
such 'cures'. The chapter was expelled from the ACS. Its
chair(woman), Mrs. Roy Tatman, felt compelled to declare: 'We were asked to
help conquer cancer. We tried to do just that. Has the society
(ACS) another motive?'" - Arlin Brown, March of Truth on
Cancer.
"'The historical phenomenon' of the 'long interval
which' elapses 'between the making of a fundamental discovery and the general
understanding of its importance and full realization of its benefits'...Nowhere
today is this delay more unhappily evident than in the field of cancer
research. The accumulated data of Rous, Shope, Coley, Bittner, Strong,
Andervont, Green, Williams, Taylor, Furth, Twombly, Cowdry, Diller, Bawden,
Pirie, Stanley, Wycoff, Kunits and others indicate...the path for...something
of practical benefit to the cancer patient...other than surgery and
radium." - Frederick S. Hammett, Lankenau Hospital Research
Institute, Science, 1946.
"The...commission on Professional and Hospital
activities maintains a computer bank of information on...American hospitals,
including comparative death rates for procedures, accidents, infections,
errors....with a vengeance the government would envy...the information is 'classified'...this
computer bank contains the potential for a 'Pentagon Papers' and 'Watergate'
combined." - Robert Mendelsohn, MD, Chairman, Medical Licensing
Commission, State of Illinois, and many other credentials.
(You)"would be shocked...at the amount of unnecessary
surgery that is performed (for) money...And I can prove it." - Paul
R. Hawley, MD, Director, American College of Surgeons, 1953.
"... A class action effort by 150 Iowa chiropractors
(is) seeking $300 million on charges of conspiracy by the AMA. Exhibits
for evidence,...include...a 1965 letter from (an AMA organized) Quackery
Committee, warning AMA members it was unethical to associate with 'the
cult of the chiropractic'..."
"Last year the AMA adopted a new code of ethics allowing
MD's to work with chiropractors." - Voice of Medical Freedom,
March 1981.
"The belief of some trustees and staff members (is) that
the selection of (the new Chairman, Board of Trustees) was in part engineered
from within federal prison (by the) former board chairman now serving an
18-month sentence for bank fraud."
"...Control of the (AMA) is solidly in the hands of a
layman of whom most AMA members have never heard of..., (a) former
executive director of AMPAC - the American Medical Political Action
Committee.".
"...Former AMA employees say that telephones at
headquarters were tapped." - "Turmoil at the AMA", Medical
World News, 1974.
"...purely for pleasure...In this perspective, there is
no such thing as a junk food." - AMA Secretary, Council of Foods
and Nutrition, Philip White, 1979.
(It is)"inappropriate at this time to adopt the proposed
national Dietary Goals (of the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs,
US Senate, Feb 1977)...There is the potential for harmful effects (from
it)." - AMA Exec. V. Pres. James Sammons to the Senate Committee.
"...how frequently...(is) the patient's suffering made
worse by...frank mismanagement, if not downright neglect, of the patients'
nutritional health in our hospitals."
...one of the largest pockets of unrecognized malnutrition in
America...(is) in the ...hospitals." - Charles E. Butterworth, Jr.
MD, Chairman, Council on Foods and Nutrition, AMA.
(In)"1916...that grand old pioneer of advancement in
dentistry, G.V. Black...presented his epoch making studies on the role of
fluorine in producing mottled enamel....The studies...by...the US Public Health
Service (USPHS) led to a nationwide effort to eliminate...excessive fluorine in
the drinking water (by) the USPHS..."
"...our knowledge of the subject certainly does not
warrant the introduction of fluorine in community water supplies
generally."
"Sodium Fluoride is a highly toxic substance..., it may
be definitely harmful."
"...the potentialities for harm far outweigh those for
good. - Editorial Dept., Journal of American Dental Association.
L.P. Anthony, DDS, Editor, Oct. 1, 1944.
"Don't drink fluoridated water...Fluoride is a corrosive
poison which will produce harm on a long term basis." - AMA
President, Dr. Charles Heyd.
"I am a former state health director...It is disturbing
to me when the men in the Public Health Service (PHS), who, as late as 1950,
were not ready to endorse the universal use of fluorine, have now (1952),
almost to a man, come out for the endorsement."
"It is difficult for me to understand how high officials
in the PHS could change their mind, over a three-month period, and completely
reverse the field. Where once they advocated the go-slow sign on the use
of fluorides, they now apparently have gone overboard, and put out large
amounts of propaganda favoring the fluoridation of water. I am certain
that the dental profession merely echoes and endorses the opinions of the
PHS."
"...I cannot find any public evidence...that the AMA,
the ADA (Dental), or several other health agencies, now recommending the
fluoridation of water, had done any original ("experimental") work of
their own. These groups were simply endorsing each other's
opinions."
"You will note that all of the experts grounded in the
science of bio-chemistry have advocated the go-slow sign on the use of
fluorides in drinking water. I believe that the dental profession and
other public-minded individuals. like myself, have been misled by the PHS,
because all of the facts have not been made available upon this
subject."...
"I sometimes wonder if (a major aluminum company) might
not have a deep interest in getting rid of the waste products from the
manufacture of aluminum, because these products contain a large amount of
fluoride. In this connection it is interesting to know that (a
bureaucrat), who now heads up the Federal Security Administration (precursor to
the US Public Health Service), and the firm of attorneys he was
with...represents (that aluminum company)." - US Congressman, Dr.
A.L. Miller, Chairman, Special Committee on Chemicals in Foods,
"Fluoridation of Water, Extension of Remarks., Congressional
Record, 1952.
(As of 1983)"Belgium, West Germany, and Sweden have
abandoned their pilot fluoridation experiments on human populations, and are
not fluoridating any public water supplies. Sweden, Denmark, and Holland
have banned it completely. Many other countries, such as France, Italy,
and Norway have never fluoridated their drinking water. Only about 2% of
the population of Europe is living in a fluoridated area;" - John Yiamouyiannis,
PhD, bio-chemistry, BS, U of Chicago; President, Safe Water Foundation,Fluoride:
The Aging Factor.
"Within weeks after Dr. Yiamouyiannis next spoke out
against fluoridation, he was put on probation, was told he would never receive
a raise again, and was advised to find another job. Dr. Yiamouyiannis was
ultimately forced to resign." - John Yiamouyiannis, PhD, editor,
Chemical Abstracts Service, American Chemical Society, Fluoride: The
Aging Factor.
"The fluoride ion exerts its toxic effect by inhibiting
the action of many enzyme systems." - Dr. L.P. Sumner, Cornell U.
and Dr. H. Theorell; Uppsala U., Sweden, both Nobel Laureates, enzyme
chemistry. (Sumner 1946, Chemistry, Theorell 1955, Medicine).
"Thus some some of the serious charges that are being
laid at fluoride's door - genetic damage, cancer, birth defects, and allergy
response - may arise from fluoride interference after all." - Journal
of American Chemical Society, and New Scientist, both January
1981.
"It took almost six months to persuade the public
library in ...to include the book, The American Fluoridation Experiment,
by F.B. Exner, MD, and G.L. Walbott, MD. Then, one year later it was
found in the waste disposal container stamped 'Discarded...'" - Eden
Ranch, Organic Consumer Report, 1978.
"Thus, under careful examination of original data,
cross-examination under oath of scientific proponents, and critical follow up
assessments of effects, neither the efficacy nor the safety of fluoridation has
been demonstrated. Nevertheless, it seems impossible to engage the
scientific community or the public health authorities in any effort to examine
the subject."
"The reexamination of subjects on which strong
recommendations have been made challenge one's commitment to integrity.
If, as scientists and public health advisors, we can't muster the courage to
meet those challenges, perhaps we should all take up a more honest profession
such as used car sales or TV repair where at least the results of our services
are unequivocal." - Frederick I. Scott, Editor(ial), American
Laboratory, September 1980.
"The legislation...of...fluoridation..is unreasonable
and a violation of the due process clause of the Illinois Constitution..."
"This record is barren of any credible and reputable,
scientific epidemiological studies and/or analysis of statistical data, which
would support the Illinois Legislature's determination that fluoridation of the
public water supplies is both a safe and effective means of promoting public
health.
"..(Fluoridation) is unconstitutional....(and)..an
unreasonable exercise of police power..." - Judge Ronald Niemann,
Circuit Court, Ill. Decree, Illinois Pure Water and Ruby Hale vs. Director of
Public Health and Director of EPA, State of Illinois., Health Action,
Feb, 1982.
"...The evidence that fluoridation of the public water
supply at the rate of one part per million is carcinogenic is
irrefutable."
"...Say somebody shot somebody....We...are so concerned
about whether this evidence was admitted properly...(and) not recognize the
intrusion into our sacred individuality that is being caused every time people
turn on the faucet? ...I am astounded by how much untruth has been officially
promulgated (pro fluoridation)." - Justice John Flaherty, Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania, address, June 7, 1981.
"Dr. Miller: 'The USDA made some examination...(and)
recommended to the farmers that fluorine not be added to the water...of
(pregnant) sows because it did something to the pigs that were unborn...Do you
think it might be wise for the (US)PHS...to inquire what might happen to
pregnant women and the unborn child...?'"
"Dr. Porterfield: 'No, sir; I think there is a
difference....There is more money available for matters that have economic value
than there is for health.'" - Chemicals in Foods and Cosmetics,
Hearings, Select Committee, US House, 1952.
"In the feeding of hospital patients, more attention
should be given to providing tasty and attractive meals, and less to the
nutritive quality of the food."
"People say that all you get out of sugar is calories,
no nutrients...There is no perfect food, not even mother's milk."
"Have confidence in America's food industry, it deserves
it." - Harvard U. School of Public Health, Nutrition Dept.
Head, Dr. Frederick Stare.
"...attempts to make further reports were blocked by
requests of the Journal of the AMA, made the (other) official
journals, to refuse me the right to report my findings further."
"...so when the Cancer Quack conventions of the AMA
annually proclaim that the sign of a quack is his refusal to report his work in
official journals, they are putting on a gigantic fraud. It was so in my
case." - William Frederick Koch, MD, Prof. Chemistry and
Histology, U Michigan Medical School, nephew of Nobel Laureate in Medicine,
Robert Koch, and other credentials.
"I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the
most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly
impeded by adverse political conditions."
"...try to tell the people of America about Dr. Gerson's
merits and ...results...I wish you the best in your difficult task."
- Dr. Albert Schweitzer.
"Dr. Ferdinand Sauerbruch, MD, arranged a grand test for
using Gerson's diet therapy (against cancer, etc.) on 450 'incurable' lupus
patients. 446 recovered."
"Gerson was invited...on...a...talk show by...host Long
John Nebel...Nebel was fired....the very next day and the radio network was
threatened by the AMA."
"Even when a very rare Jew...escaped from a
concentration camp and sneaked back to his people to warn them...they could not
believe the escapee."
"On two occasions Gerson became violently ill...Lab
tests showed...arsenic in his urine...Some of Gerson's best case histories
mysteriously disappeared from his files. The manuscript and all of his
copies for Gerson's almost completed book were stolen and never
recovered....They spread the lie that Dr. Gerson died of cancer." - Norman
Fritz, space shuttle engineer, Healing, Journal of the Gerson Institute.
"Gerson was treating nine out of ten (cancer) patients
without cost."
"The AMA, of which Gerson was a member, promptly saw to
it that he was no longer allowed to use the facilities of any New York
hospital." - Health Research, Is Cancer Curable?, 1954.
"In 1946 Dr. Gerson became the first physician to
demonstrate recovered cancer patients before a US (Legislative)
committee. This Senate committee was holding hearings on a bill to find
means of curing and preventing cancer. Unfortunately the lobby supporting
surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy lobbies caused the defeat by four votes of
the Senate bill which could have supported extensive research into the Gerson
therapy." - Max Gerson, MD, A Cancer Therapy: Results of
50 cases, (not quote from Dr. Gerson, but on book jacket).
"She reported that 'Dusty' Rhoads, head of
Sloan-Kettering, told her he would use the Gerson Therapy if he had cancer, and
explained the reasons he was blocked from using it at the hospital"
- Norman Fritz.
"...An editorial of the Journal AMA, Jan 8,
1949, discussed the Gerson Therapy under the heading 'Frauds and Fables'.
At that time, Dr. Gerson's lawyer wrote a letter to the JAMA, threatening a
suit for libel...The editorial was withdrawn...(leaving) columns which were
blank." - Charlotte Gerson, both above from Healing,
Journal of the Gerson Institute and...Therapy.
"Sometimes there is little regard for people's
lives....A hospital tested a new NCI drug ...on children. Their kidneys
were lost within days. This was no big deal, because new drugs are
routinely given out with literally no safeguards for people..." - FDA
drug review section's Robert Young.
"...It's been like swatting flies with a
sledgehammer....I suppose as far as end products are concerned it's been a
bust, but then so is the over-all treatment of cancer." - Dr.
Charles Moertel,. Director, NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic.
"A one year study by the Washington Post has
documented 620 cases in which experimental drugs have been implicated in the
deaths of cancer patients....And they amount to merely a fraction of the
thousands of people who in recent years have died or suffered terribly from
cancer experiments..."
"...In the vast majority of drug experiments, it is not
uncommon for none or one or two of hundreds of patients to benefit from the
drug."
"These human experiments have gone largely unchallenged
and unquestioned by Congress, the medical profession, and the scientific
community at large." - Last five paragraphs above in Ted Gup and
Jonathan Neumann, "Cancer Cures Often a Curse", Washington
Post, Reprinted in Chicago Sun Times, Oct 25, 1981.
"The new medical-industrial complex is now a fact of
American life...with broad and potentially troubling implications..."
- Dr. Arnold Relman, Editor, New England Journal of Medicine.
"Corruption has permeated virtually every area of the
Medicare-Medicaid health-care industry." - FBI Assistant Director,
Francis Mullen, JR. to Congress.
"Nearly 90% of more than 10,000 publications about
phenothiazines have been financially sponsored by the drug industry.
Independent research studies conducted without drug company backing have failed
to indicate overall usefulness of phenothiazines." - D. Springer,
"Thorazine; Chemical for Social Control", Issues in Radical
Therapy, Spring '76.
"The dilemma of the (AMA) Board of Trustees (is that it)
...had no choice but to appease the pharmaceutical industry...or forego income
from advertising (in its journals)...The (AMA) Council on Drugs...(made up of
'independent thinking scientists and practitioners...was dissolved' and
replaced) by the staff of the (AMA's) Dept of Drugs ('obligated to do the
bidding of their superiors,...emasculated and worthless')...Thus the AMA has
abrogated its responsibility of providing factual information on drugs to the
physician in the public's behalf." - AMA Council on Drugs
Chairman, Dr. John Adriani, Professor of Surgery, Tulane U. Med. School, to US
Senator Gaylord Nelson's Subcommittee on Monopoly.
"In the first five years of his television 'practice',
Marcus Welby, MD, received 250,000 letters from viewers seeking medical
advice." - ACS solicitation letter."
"Each spring there is a media blitz in conjunction with
ACS's fund raising campaign. The vast majority of advertising space and
time is contributed free of charge as a 'public service'." - "Overview
Needed of Cancer Cabal", Spotlight, 1981.
"...the US Postal Service...issued an order to stop my
...mail....I have had to report to the local ...Postal Service...and open my
mail in front of a local postal inspector. If any person...orders the
herbal Cancer preventative formula...the letter...is confiscated..., stamped
'Fraudulent', and returned to the sender. The FDA recommended to the US
Postal Service...that this...formula was not beneficially effective towards the
treatment of cancer. (The FDA) did not even know what the ingredients of
the formula were."
"(Active chemicals and) alkaloids are only harmful when
extracted from the crude herb or botanical(;) becom(ing) imbalanced, causing
contra-indications and side effects....Jurisdiction of the FDA is restricted to
those new drugs manufactured after 1938." - F. Joseph Montagna,
Alternative Medical Association.
"In 1971, the (US) Postal Service attempted to ban
(Arlin Brown's) book, March of Truth on Cancer, from the
mail." - Arlin Brown (In Spotlight, 1981).
"...The Cancer Biopathy...was...forced out of
print by an injunction that caused Reich's books to be withheld or destroyed by
an agency of the US Government." - C.M. Raphael, MD, in froward
to The Cancer Biopathy, by Wilhelm Reich, MD, U. Vienna, associate
of Sigmund Freud.
"In...1954, a permanent injunction was issued by the
Federal District Court...enjoining Dr. Wilhelm Reich, his wife, ...from
distributing 'orgone energy' devices, on complaint of the USFDA, ...for
treatment of cancer...The decree was won by default, since Dr. Reich contended
that the court had no jurisdiction (in)...'Basic Natural Law' and he failed to
appear or answer the complaint...The decree (was) for destruction...of...all
misleading labeling which included 10 (different) books by Dr. Reich...His followers...charg(ed)
interference of freedom of the press....Dr. Reich was sentenced to two years,
and Dr. (Michael) Silvert to one year...in jail. After appeals were
appeals were carried to the Supreme Court and denied...Dr. Reich died in
prison; Dr. Silvert died shortly after he was released. (Their)
foundation was...fined $10,000." - ACS, Unproven Methods
of Cancer Management.
"That the percentage of efficient and beneficial
treatments by respondent (Hoxsey-herbs) is reasonably comparable to the
efficiency and success of surgery and radium, without the physical suffering
and dire consequences (of the last two)" - Judge William H.
Atwell, US District Court for Northern Texas, Dec. 20, 1950., Decision.
"I am of the firm opinion and belief that Hoxsey has cured
these people of cancer (with herbs). Hoxsey has been done a great
injustice and articles and utterances by defendant Morris Fishbein (AMA chief
and Managing Editor) were false, slanderous, and libelous." - Judge
W.L. Thornton, Decision, Hoxsey vs. Fishbein.
"Warning against the Hoxsey (herbal) Cancer
Treatment...Cancer can only be cured through surgery or radiation."
- FDA poster 1955, sent to 46,000 post offices for display.
""...an investigator for the State Medical Board
appeared...with warrants for (our) arrest...(for)...practicing medicine without
a license. (Our) Dr....protested that he was the only man in the clinic
who treated patients, and produced his license...But...it had been cancelled
the day before...I pleaded with them not to arrest my wife who (did paperwork,
and) told (them) that we had a 6 month old infant at home who had to be nursed
regularly...(My wife was) locked up with degenerate females...They ganged up on
her, slapped her, knocked her down and kicked her." - Harry Hoxsey, You
Don't Have to Die.
"..Our paper's ...article...(:) The research on which it
is based has taken us no less than four years. Two of our chief writers
have followed the treatments and checked up on patients' records for months on
end. We have made journeys to America..Our firm, at our request, has
spent thousands of pounds on investigations...Certain kinds of cancer have
been...treated with success by a man (Harry Hoxsey) who is not a qualified
medical practitioner, and who has in the past been bitterly attacked in public
for the treatment he has given." - Man's Magazine, 1953.
(This issue)"for some strange reason disappeared from
the news stands." - Health Research, Is Cancer Curable,
for two paragraphs
"New methods of health care have been discouraged,
restricted, and in some cases eliminated (by the AMA)."
"...the AMA has prevented dissemination of truthful,
objective information that could provide substantial benefits to the
public."
"Competition...potentially poses a threat to the income
of physicians in private practice. The costs to the public in terms of
less expensive or even, perhaps, more improved forms of medical service are
great."
""...a conspiracy between the AMA and its
constituent and component medical societies...The record evidence contains more
then sufficient quantity of independently admissible evidence to establish the
existence of the conspiracy."
"The means (of) restraints..include...the "Principles
of Medical Ethics",...and communication with medical societies and
individual physicians to promote compliance with these...
(AMA's)"Judicial Council issues interpretations (on
'Ethics', and) is empowered to institute disciplinary proceedings...against
physicians...and has appellate jurisdiction..."
"...when a physician disregards 'local custom',...he has
acted unethically."
"In 1976, (AMA's) AMPAC reported campaign fund transfers
of more than $1 million, making it the second largest political action
committee in the US." - Federal Trade Commission, Docket n.9064,
Initial Decision, Finding, Upheld by 2nd US Court of Appeals.
"...Dr. McQueen-Williams, Mr. Sarkisian,...filed suit in
the US District Court...for $5 million against the ACS (American Cancer
Society) for allegedly libelous statements...in Cancer - A Cancer
Journal for Clinicians..."
"...the FDA seized (their herbs)..Court action was based
on charges that the product was shipped..as a drug without prior showing of
safety..."
"Dr. McQueen-Williams said no (NDA) new drug application
had been filed since they do not believe the law covers botanical
compounds." - ACS Unproven Methods.
(The FDA)"is seeking, under the guise of (other)
charges, to prohibit the sale of a food in the marketplace simply because it is
not in sympathy with its use." - Judge's finding, in US vs.
Dextra..., (In, The Dictocrats, Our unelected Rulers.).
"Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a
legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body." - US
Supreme Court Justice B.N. Cardoza, decision.
"It may be conceded that the legislature has no
constitutional right to compel any person to submit to vaccination."
- Judge Woodward, New York State Appellate Court, 1903, Viemester case.
"I would like to maximize the level of human choice in
the medical field...The choice of a treatment in many ways is like the exercise
of religion."
"Everyone's heard about the military-industrial complex,
but they know very little about the medical-industrial complex...(in) a medical
arms race..." - California Governor Jerry Brown, June 1980.
"Following the Koch trial, a number of
physical attacks were made upon me...I was robbed and beaten in my office and
on the street...Similar attentions were paid other physicians who agreed with
Dr. Koch.' - Anonymous MD."
"...one death from poisoning, and one from being run
down by an automobile, both victims being physicians of distinction and
prominent in the advocacy of the Koch treatment. Mail has often been
opened, and cartons of certain chemicals often arrive empty..."
"(Dr. Koch himself was the target of at least 13
unsuccessful attempts on his life' - Riley H. Crabb.)" - M.
Layne, The Koch Remedy for Cancer..., Borderland Sciences
Research Foundation.
"One doctor...J.W. Kannel, saved a young girl...She had
hopeless cancer of the spleen...One shot of Glyoxylide, and she became well (in
1943; still alive in 1983)...For (this), Kannel was barred from all hospitals
in Fort Wayne...The FDA had (Glyoxylide inventor, Dr. William Frederick) Koch
arrested and thrown into an incredibly filthy jail cell in Florida in
1942."
"In 1926...The AMA...attempt(ed) to send a doctor using
Koch shots to prison...(in) Massachusetts...Justice Pierce...berated the
District Attorney, calling the opposition to Koch 'a moral crime of the very
worst kind'." - Wayne Martin BS, Purdue Univ. (Author,Medical
Heroes and Heretics); We Can Do Without Heart Attacks. c. 1983.
"...They forced (Chauncey Smith) to leave Loma Linda
(U.)....So he went east...and resumed his research (on germs causing cancer).
(then) mysteriously, he had died..."
"It was in 1936 that I copyrighted...Cancer, Its
Cause and Control......They forced me to serve a whole year in
jail,...where I was so fed and treated that I had to cure myself of
cancer...But when I had everything ready to put out a third edition...they
notified in no uncertain terms 'Unless you stop...we will snatch you...and do a
lobotomy on you...'" - Emerson Hartman, International Association
of Cancer Friends and Victims, Cancer News Journal.
"...Dr. Thomas J. Roberts...one of the leading holistic
physicians in the metropolitan Washington DC area...had his hospital privileges
suspended because he doesn't believe in the Establishment 'cut-burn-poison'
(Surgery-Radiation-Chemotherapy) cancer 'treatments'." - Carol M.
Dunn and William Carmichael., Spotlight, 1979.
"The board of directors...decided (to end) Chelation
Therapy in the very hospital that I owned!...I donated (my) 109-bed..hospital
and 50-bed nursing home to the church."
"...The State Medical Board of Examiners of
Louisiana...ruled that a doctor practicing Chelation Therapy or using...natural
minerals and vitamins was 'incompetent',...defrauding the public'."
"The US Patent Office (, for my) chelating
agents...granted a patent."
"...In a period of thirty days, three lawsuits were
filed against me for malpractice for a million dollars each....I lost my
malpractice insurance."
"I have declared bankruptcy. My home and furniture
have been auctioned off." - H. Ray Evers, MD, Vanderbilt U.; BS
Biochemistry and Biology, Auburn U. Knight, Order of Malta; in Voice of
Medical Freedom, Americans for Medical Freedom.
"Our present state law has a 100% conviction record
before the board (of medical examiners). There's not a D.A. in the
country that would not love that record..." - Dan and Beverly
Dotson, MD's, in Voice of Medical Freedom.
"Several hundred (ex-) patients...of the Shute
Clinic...treated successfully with Vitamin E therapy for cardiovascular
conditions, formed...'The Cardiac Society'....The AMA...enlisted...the US Post
Office. Letters addressed to the society were returned to the sender
marked 'Fraudulent." - Herbert Bailey, Vitamin E... .
(Dr. Nathan) Pritikin...maintains that patients with
atherosclerosis, heart disease, ...can be 'returned to normal function' by
...diet...low in fat, cholesterol, protein, and high in complex
carbohydrates..."
"Loma Linda ...reported...that of the first 111
patients..with blood cholesterol between 260 and 279..., the average patient
left... with...190...Of 218 patients (on) anti-hypertension drugs, 186 left
with normal blood pressure..."
(Pritikin's diet is) "bizarre...fad." - AMA
public relations official, F. Chapel.
"Until he shows us more than anecdotal evidence, there
is nothing to evaluate his work on." - American Heart
Association's Mary Winston.
"We've seen atherosclerosis turned on and off in monkeys
(by nutrition, etc.). The problem is you've got to be a monkey to get
proper treatment for heart disease in the country." - Dr. William
Castellini, Director, Framingham Project. - Last five paragraphs in Nutrition
Action, April 1980.
"Blood from coronary thrombosis patients....(:) on about
60...patients... hemoglobin was in all cases up (high)...Fort three
years...examining blood of...several hundred people a day...testing out various
diets...I came to the conclusion that (a vegetable-fruit diet and) one-third
natural fruit juice, two-thirds water are the most suitable liquid foods to
drop hemoglobin number as quickly as possible to a normal level...The Medical
Society of New York accepted...my article and published it in New York
Medicine for May 20, 1949. On May 21, 1949, I was fired from my
position at the hospital. My daughter who also worked there, was fired,
too." -Ernest Klein, MD, "A New Theory for Diet and Coronary
Thrombosis.", Prevention; J.I. Rodale, Ed. 1954.
(Coronary artery bypass surgery:)"5 to 40% of
patients...experience a heart attack during or soon after surgery...(;) typical
rate...15-25%...20-30% of vein grafts become occluded (blocked) within one year
of surgery....Grafts increase the likelihood that new occlusions will develop
in the arteries at points both before and after the graft (parallel bypass)
insertion site. ...six months after surgery...; New total occlusion developed
in only 16% of arteries not bypassed, in 29% of arteries with
a patient (open bypass) graft, and in 62% of arteries with an occluded
graft."
"The US has a ratio (of thoracic surgeons to
population)...many times greater than any other nation."
"Questionable medical practice is not just the result of
mistake, occasional incompetence, and faulty regulation, but is the outcome of
vested interests." - Marcia Millman, The Unkindest Cut.
"Although I found that the booklet (Stale Food vs. Fresh Food)
contained some helpful suggestions and its author, Mr. Robert Ford, is a
knowledgeable and sincere person (i.e. no intent to defraud), I found the
representations in the Respondent's booklet to be unproven and contrary to the
weight of informed medical and scientific opinion. As indicated by
Dr.___, (the only US Post Office medical witness) a danger of this publication
is that it will deceive people who have arterio-sclerotic problems into
believing that they can cure these problems by diet alone instead of seeking
medical (AMA) help. Because the ads and this booklet contain materially
false representations, they violate the provisions of 39 US Code Section
3005. Therefore...a mail stop order...should be issued..." - E.S.
Bernstein, Administrative Law Judge, (1982).
"...Many physicians who agree with...safe alternatives
will not participate in them for fear... ...Doing so would be tantamount
to...professional suicide."
"Nearly 25% of all childbearing women in this country
(US) are now having Cesarian sections!" - David Stewart, PhD,
Executive Director, NAPSAC (International Assoc. of Parents and Professionals
for Safe Alternatives to Childbirth), The Five Standards for Safe
Childbearing.
"...Nial Ettinghausen, DP...Calif., has attended over
7,000 home births over the past 40 years. His Cesarian rate is 1.1% and
his perinatal mortality rate for the past five years (2,508 births) is 4.2 per
1,000 - a rate less than one-quarter of the national average. Dr.
Ettinghausen lost his license to practice in January of 1981..."
"Hai Abdul, MD, ...(is) offering natural
childbirth...Since 1978, the California (BMQA) Bureau of Medical Quality
Assurance has sent investigators to his clinic...On Christmas Eve, 1980, the
investigator visited Dr. Abdul and his wife, who were in the midst of wrapping
Christmas gifts, to inform them that the BMQA planned to level charges...'in
two months'....Dr. Abdul lost his hospital privileges...Said Dr. Abdul...'It is
an attack against every family who wants to choose the place and manner of
their births.'..."
"It has been estimated that of the physicians in support
of home birth and other safe alternatives, at least 90% are in trouble
today. Either their licenses have been suspended or in threat..., their
hospital privileges are in jeopardy, their insurance coverage has been
cancelled, or all..."
"Do medical licensing boards, insurance companies and
hospital boards judge all physicians by the same standards, or are there two
sets - one strict, the other lenient - depending on whether the doctor supports
alternatives or not?" - NASPAC, NASPAC News, Spring
1981.
"Doctors who have been doing home births, in many
instances have lost hospital privileges, been threatened with loss of
insurance, and threatened with criminal prosecution. ...There certainly
isn't criminal prosecution when something goes wrong in the hospital. ...I know
horrendous stories of women...just really being abused within the hospital because
they tried to have their babies at home...Practitioners are threatened with
loss of license..." - Michelle Harrison, MD, (author, A Woman in
Residence) in "Behind the Mask of Women's Medicine", East-West
Journal, Oct 1982.
"I concluded that mongolism was a genetic defect
resulting in metabolic accumulations. I treated it as such by removing
the accumulations."
"Even the NIH (National Institute of Health) (has)
written (my) medicines are safe."
"Why...was my office robbed and vandalized while I met
with the FDA in Washington...a thief who only stole and destroyed patients'
records...? Why was my telephone tapped...? Why were mail checks
put on parents of my patients, friends, and relatives?"
"...The Japanese National Health Institute of Mental Health
came to Detroit to extend me their gratitude for the 'U' series (used)...in 60
universities and national hospitals...(where) 3,000 children had been
treated...one-third...improved both mentally and physically; an additional
third improved physically only."
(My patient)"so impressed the (Michigan)
legislatures...that both Houses passed...(a) Resolution...signed by the
Governor, to treat institutional mongoloids with (my) 'U' series (of
'vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and prescription drugs...in...small dosages').
The Michigan Department of Health turned down this Resolution..."
"(US) Senator McGovern wrote...he had seen improvements
in...his constituent, my patient..."
"...South African doctors...were told by the US State
Department that our FDA would no longer allow them to treat..."
"...the National Association for Retarded Children, The
National Institute of Mental Health (of NIH), and the March of Dimes had
declined to investigate (my treatment)." - Henry Turkel, MD, New
Hope for the Mentally Retarded.
"The Health...Department of the State of New Mexico
'took my children away....One of the charges leveled against me was that I had
been raising my children on a vegetarian diet. I try to show my children
respect for animals...I was outraged when I found out they fed my children
meat.'" - Vegetarian Times.
"Dr. (William D.) Kelly has become harassed by agents
from the IRS, FDA, HEW, CIA, CDC, Texas medical and dental boards, controllers,
US Postal authorities, US Chamber of Commerce, Consumer Protection
Agency...local and county ..police...Dr. Kelly was told by the Texas State
Board of Dental Examiners that if he would stop distributing his book to cancer
patients, they would drop all charges. ...Blue Cross will pay for cancer
surgery, for chemotherapy, for cobalt (radiation..." for a terminal cancer
patient...of $30,000") but...refuses to pay for unorthodox
treatments. My (five) visit(s) to Dr. Kelly cost...$150 per visit."
- Foundation for Alternative Cancer Therapies, Cancer Forum.
"The Rev. Edward Stone, an..English Clergyman...sought
new drugs according to a rule: God (is) placing the cures for diseases in
close proximity to their causes ...In 1763 ...Stone..learned that the
countryfolk...treated fevers with...bark of the willow, a tree common in marshy
locations. Willow bark...had the same 'extra-ordinary bitterness' as
quinine...Stone treated some 50 fever-stricken patients (and)...it reduced the
fever and relieved pain in every case...Chemists later (were) isolating the
bark's active principle and synthesizing...salicylates...acetyl-salicylic acid...aspirin....Stone's
re-discovery...of salicylate-containing plants had been known in
antiquity..."
"...Dr. Bruce W. Halstead, Director World Life Research
Institute, recalls...Indian Snakeroot...was 'laughed out of the office' of one
important drug company official. Another company, with fewer prejudices,
took the trouble to investigate it - and ultimately marketed millions of
dollars worth of reserpine (toxic)." - Dr. W. Modell. Professor of
Pharmacy, Cornell U., Board member, US Pharmacopoeia, and many other
credentials including consultant to US Surgeon General.
"A contributory factor to the increase in cancer might
be the widespread use of antibiotics since 1940. 'The antibiotics may
absolve the body of the need to bring the normal immunological mechanisms into
use..."
"In Japan, the daily use of the hot full bath may
destroy incipient cancers..."
"Thousands more cancer patients were not given the
benefit of such (fever/immuno-/(heat)) therapy since it was first initiated by
(Dr. William Bradley) Coley 90 years ago...The incredible barriers created by
the FDA since 1963. (:) To rule Coley's MBV (mixed bacteria vaccine) as a
'new drug' when it had been used for 70 years in nearly 900 patients was
incredible. The red tape involved in securing (IND) Investigational New
Drug Licenses....Progress will now have to come from clinical trials in...countries
which do not have such paralyzing restrictions." - Helen Coley
Nauts, Executive Director, Cancer Research Institute., "Bacterial Products
in the Treatment of Cancer: Past, Present, and Future", read at
International Colloquim on Bacteria and Cancer, Cologne, 1982) in Bacteria
and Cancer, Jeljaszewicz, et. al., eds, 1982.
"Mrs. Joseph (Kitty) Schumacher..fought against the
government's ruling which bans Krebiozen (another famous alternative method
snuff job) from the State of Illinois...As a result of her efforts, she was
indicted in federal court in Chicago. She criticized the judge...,
government,...and the prosecuting attorney. Yet, a jury found her not
guilty." - Butcher Workman. Sept., 1968.
"Adolph Hohensee...operated a health farm for many
years, hoping to find a violation, etc. Well, they did. They found
he had mislabeled a vitamin, and they took him out at 2:00 AM in his pajamas
and imprisoned him..."
"..The Durovics (of Krebiozen:)...how costly (their)
nine month trial was, and no government paid their legal fees as was done for
the FDA." - Kitty Schumacher, Cancer Information Crusade, in
letter to MDAC author, 1982.
"There is a strong possibility..that selenium may
prevent and/or cure cancer. ...As a scientist, you have to consider the possibility
that (Dr. Revici) has something to offer." - NCI selenium
committee, Dr. Marc Micozzi.
"After a (NBC TV) Today Show report...on
Revici and his unorthodox treatment using...selenium,...officials suspended his
license." -Miami Herald for 2 quotes above.
"Dr. Emanuel Revici...directs the Institute of Applied
Biology....(and) is a veteran of over fifty years of research in biochemistry
and holds over 100 patents. The New York State Health Department charged
Dr. Revici with fraudulent practice, gross incompetence, and gross
negligence." - National Health Federation, Health Freedom
News, April 1984.
"There is not one, but many cures for cancer
available. But they are all being systematically suppressed by the ACS,
the NCI, and the major oncology centers. They have too much of a vested
interest in the status quo." - Robert C. Atkins, MD, Cornell
University Medical College; Bach university of Medicine; (author Dr.
Atkins Diet Revolution and Dr. Atkins' Nutrition Breakthrough).
"...The plaintiff's lawyers have already filed and won a
case allegedly proving that I have abandoned my homestead....My beautiful
homestead will be sold at auction by the Sheriff..." - V.V.
Vetrano, Natural Hygienest, (by fasting).
"The suit charged Dr. (Herbert) Shelton (author of 12
books on fasting) and Dr. Vetrano with starving with starving to death a guest
(suffering from side effects from 'ethical pharmaceuticals') to death.
Despite ample evidence produced to show that the guest did not die from starvation..."
- T.C. Fry, College of Life Science, Healthful Living, 1983.
(regarding above case)"...For appeal purposes were
several hostile rulings by the presiding Federal Judge on questions of
admissible evidence..." - American Natural Hygiene Society, Health
Science, 1982.
"The Chicago Women's Health Center was struck by
arsonists on the evening of (1983). ...Damage is estimated at $10,000.
The damages are not covered by insurance....Clinic health workers take time to
explain procedures and options to each patient they see..."- Heartland,
'83
"...Mark Baum...MD...(adopted) living
healthfully...(and) started advising healthful regimens for his clients.
Dr. Baum's local medical society objected to his practices and invoked powers
of state to close him down." - Healthful Living, May 1983.
"Our attorney...then filed a running complaint with the
Hearing Officer that the panel of doctors on this District Review
Committee...could not possibly give Dr. (Alan H.) Nittler (MD, author, A
New Breed of Doctor) a fair hearing, in that they were totally unaware of
nutritional metabolic therapy...and prejudiced against him....The District
Court of Appeals also denied Dr. Nittler's request for a stay...The
hearing...had to totally disregard all of the evidence presented by Dr.
Nittler, and his witnesses....to revoke his license, the maximum penalty
allowed." - Foundation for Alternative Cancer Therapies Journal.
"A person is a quack if:...He claims he is being
persecuted by the 'medical establishment'. (and/or) He uses letters of
testimonials...from patients in support of his treatment." - New
York State Education Dept., Curriculum Development Center, Bureau of School
Health Services, 1977.
"Their (hospital's) annual application for renewal of
their license to operate would not be granted unless the
ortho-molecular (nutrition) program was closed." - M. Artery,
attorney for Forest Hospital, in (Nutrition for Optimal Health Association)NOMA
News, 1981.
"...Incarceration and deprivation of the rights of
mental patients, as if they were criminals rather than sick people(:)...In less
the one-fourth of the states is a patient's right to communicate with the
outside world protected by law; in less than one-half is his right to receive
visitors protected by law; in less than one-tenth is he guaranteed the right to
correspond with his attorney; the use of physical restraints is restricted in
less than one-fourth of the states; and less than one-fourth of the states
assure that he will receive a periodic examination for consideration for discharge."
- Arthur Frank, MD, and Stuart Frank, MD, The People's Handbook
of Medical Care.
"In my legal practice, I have seen certain Federal
judges controlled or influenced by large corporations..., by large law
firms...on more than one occasion(, and) ...by special interests...(some) ought
to be thrown right off the bench because they are breaking every code of
conduct..." - US Senator Orrin Hatch.
"Dr. James D. Rogers, a general surgeon...after being
the victim of a frivolous malpractice suit,...countersued a former patient andthe
attorneys involved for making 'reckless, slanderous, ...charges'
against him...He acted as his own attorney (,) when he couldn't find a lawyer
who would help him..." - last two paragraphs above in HALT (Help
Abolish Legal Tyranny), Americans for Legal Reform., Winter 1980.
"I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted
money can never influence my decision." - Sir Francis Bacon, Lord
Chancellor of England, (in Charles Ashman, The Finest Judges Money Can
Buy).
"Victimless crimes account for half of all arrests..The
National Council on Crime and Delinquency declares, '(This) so preoccupies the
criminal justice system that it prevents it from dealing effectively with real
crime." - Anne Strick, Injustice for All.
"Employing...nutrition and vitamin therapy...one of the
nation's largest alcoholism treatment programs reports a 71% success rate. This
contrasts with...(a) national...rate (of) 25% as reported by NIAAA."
"...All patients reported a loss of craving for drugs
while taking large doses of Vitamin C, during detoxification. Of the first 30
carefully monitored heroin addicts, 30 successfully withdrew from their
addiction with no more than minor discomfort. None of the 30 were reported to
have relapsed...Similar results have been reported by other doctors...:Archie
Kalokerinos..." - Irwin Stone, Journal of Orthomolecular
Psychiatry, 1977.
"Tobacco pesticides had no tolerance and no instructions
for waiting periods between use and harvest. ...In 1964...organic phosphates...parathion,
have replaced the chlorinated hydrocarbons aldrin, chlordane, dieldren, and
heptachlor...; however, residue of all...including arsenic... would
remain...Can it be, then, that the cancer-producing quality of cigarettes is
related to the pesticides used? ...I received no reply. ...embarrassed
silence." - Laura Tallian, The Pesticide Jungle.
"While millions of dollars were being projected for
research on radiation and other cancer 'cures', there was an almost complete
blackout on research that might have pointed to needed alterations in our
environment, our industrial organization, and our food." -Carol Lopate,
in Health Policy Advisory Center, Health PAC Bulletin.
"...The asbestos industry...has for decades successfully
suppressed and manipulated information on the carcinogenicity and other hazards
of asbestos. Involved in this conspiracy network were senior industry
executives, their medical staff, attorneys, insurance companies, trade
associations, scientific consultants, and commercial labs." - Samuel
S. Epstein, MD, Harvard Medical School.; President, Rachel Carson Trust; The
Politics of Cancer.
"...In the preceding chapters...are hypothesis linking
scattered observations. ...Relevant research on the system as a whole has not
been done..."
"It is remarkable that with the continuing health care
'crisis', so few studies of the consequences of alternative modes of delivering
care have been done. Such a paucity of studies is no accident; such studies
would challenge structural interests of both professional monopoly (MD's) and
corporate rationalization in maintaining health institutions as they now exist
or in directing their 'orderly' expansion." -Robert R. Alford, Professor,
UC Santa Cruz, Health Care Politics.
"A minimum of 30,000 Japanese (were) paralyzed and
blinded, many permanently, after taking Quineform,...manufactured and marketed
by...., under various trade names, still being sold throughout the world....In
1964, British...ban(ned) (it even) for the treatment of dogs and cats. In
1965...circulated an alert across the European continent...In 1970, Japan's
Health and Welfare Ministry...banned (it) while they assured their
Pharmaceutical Assoc. that 'withdrawal..was not mandatory'...The 7th revised
Japanese Pharmacopoeia...(insert) reads 'This drug is non-absorbable, side
effects rarely seen.'...In 1969....'s confidential memo...enumerated 56 reports
on (its) side effects....In 1973....released a report which stated the drug was
harmless. - IDA Honorof, "The 'SMON' Tragedy...", The
Provoker, 1978.
"Dr. (Henry K.) Wachtel...after escaping the Hitler
regime resumed work in New York City, aided by Columbia U. He served (9 years)
as professor of physiology, and director of the Cancer Research Council at
Fordham U. But when he began to test his pituitary substance, he was removed
from both posts, (and) no other funds could be secured. Dr. Wachtel (is)
outspoken in identifying...an international drug cartel....of controlling every
phase of cancer research and therapy, including the allocation of grants from
private foundations and government....to maintain its monopoly, strangl(ing)
every independent approach to cancer." -Nat Morris, The Cancer Blackout
Amended.
"The information that follows is taken primarily...from
government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House
committees."
"By...WWII, I.G. Farben had become...part of the most
gigantic and powerful cartel of all history...interlocking agreements...over
2,000 of them...In the US, the cartel had established important agreements
with" (very many major drug, oil, and chemical companies)
"In 1938, I. G. Farben sent a letter to (a major drug
firm), one of its American subsidiaries, (that)..all advertising contracts must
contain '...a legal clause whereby the contract is immediately cancelled if
overnight the attitude of the paper toward Germany should be changed."
"During the Nuremberg trials, Oswald Pohl, an SS
Lieutenant General,...is shown here explaining how Farben operated such
concentration camps as Auschwitz and Buchenwald." (Photo by) "US
Army". (picture section of book.) - G. Edward Griffin, World
Without Cancer.
"...a surgeon told John D. (Rockefeller) that everyone
should have an appendectomy before the age of 16 as a preventative. The oil
wizard saw the point at once. 'Why, you've got a better thing than Standard
Oil!', he exclaimed." - In Nat Morris, The Cancer Blackout.
"Bankers regard research as most dangerous and a thing
that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in
industry." - Charles Kettering, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer
Center, and Vice President of General Motors, (in Ralph Moss, Cancer Syndrome).
"We have a tremendous investment in facilities for
(internal combustion engines, transmissions, and axles) and I can't see
throwing them away just because the electric car doesn't emit fumes."
- Henry Ford II, in Look, May 28, 1964.
"In 1899 an electric vehicle captured the world land
speed record (at) 66 MPH..." - Peter Barry Chowka, East West, May
1981.
"Fundamental scientific breakthroughs seldom happen in
giant company labs. They take place in bedrooms, garages, and makeshift labs.:
for example, Moulton's bicycle, Carlson's Xerox, DeForest's vacuum tube,
Wankel's rotary engine, Von Neumann's computer, etc. The dial telephone was
invented by an undertaker, and the ball point pen by a sculptor. A French monk
invented the principle of hermetically sealed refrigeration. Two concert
pianists invented Kodachrome in their kitchens."
"It is possible...to produce a vehicle for $150, a radio
receiver for 9 cents, and a $9 one-channel TV set...need(ed) in underdeveloped
countries...." - Richard Barnett and Ronald Müller, Global Reach,
The Power of the Multinational Corporations.
"...President Truman's chief of staff, Admiral W.D.
Leahy, told his boss about the atom bomb: 'This is the biggest fool thing we
have ever done. The bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in
explosives."
"...The press as a whole refused to believe the Wright
Brothers for nearly five years (after their first flight). ...Editors discarded
invitations to witness numerous flights...."
"...Dr. Thomas H. Moray...used a simple antennae, (etc.
per Nicola Tesla)...to generate large amounts of....electricity....During the
1930's he demonstrated (this)...even under the water....(It) weighed about 55
lbs. and was capable of obtaining 50,000 watts of power on a steady basis. (It)
utilized a transistor more than 20 years before anyone (else; of) germanium.
The (REA) Rural Electrification Administration...was ordered (by President FDR)
to work with Dr. Moray on his invention, which took twenty years and $200,000
of his own money to develop. An REA engineer...smashed the Moray Device with an
Axe. ...Dr. Moray was shot in a gun battle that took place in his lab...In 1973
Lt. Colonel Thomas Bearden, a nuclear engineer with the Army Missile Command,
wrote of the Moray experiment which he had witnessed: 'It was ...a legitimate,
widely recognized demonstration that got electricity out of the thin
air.'" - Tom Valentine, Editor, Newsreal, "Suppressed
Inventions" issue, June 1977.
"...William Bolton('s) Rialto, Calif., (auto) steam
engine weighed less than 50 pounds and eliminated the usual transmission and
drive train...Detroit (asked) the inventor ...to sign forms releasing....his
claims to the design before they would even look at it. After a Sun-Telegraph
article..his factory was fire bombed to the tune of $600,000
(Eric Cottle's)"ultra sonic fuel system...'vibrate(s)
existing fuels to much smaller particles'..(winning) congratulations
from...(June 17, 1974 Newsweek, etc.). Later ...silence. Cottel...explained
that Detroit was so myopic that they would probably turn down even the wheel if
it were a newly offered invention."
"In his Suppressed Inventions, Mike Brown...tells of
Gulley (who) could supposedly get 115 MPG out of his big 8 cylinder Buick,
using his (fuel) vaporizing" (carburetor). - John Freeman,
Suppressed and Incredible Inventions.
"An investigation was initiated by the FDA, EPA, NCI,
and the Inspector General of HEW, and evidence revealed that IBT (Industrial
Bio-Test Labs, Inc.) deliberately falsified data submitted on potential
carcinogens, and four major pesticide manufacturers were aware...but...silent.
1,781 (tests) required auditing. ...94% of tests...for cancer caus(ation) were
invalid....The Wall Street Journal reported that EPA is asking 235 chemical
companies to reexamine 4,363 IBT tests that were crucial in obtaining federal
clearance to market 483 different pesticides.' (Feb. 21, 1978) ...The average
(%) invalid, (of 1,781) tests...studied was 75%." - Ida Honorof,
Report to the Consumer., Aug 1981.
"...we are on a collision course with disaster. Our poor
farming practices are laying the groundwork for a severe disaster in American
agriculture...By destroying farmland and water resources...the erosion of American
Farmland today is probably at a record high....this simply cannot go on."
- Secretary of Agriculture, Bob Bergland, Oct. 1979.
"Using spinach, we had two rows of bugs, then (rows of)
no bugs, two rows of bugs then no bugs. Not because we sprayed (pesticides),
but because we got a different condition (natural fertilizer) in the soil
under, (the rows of no pests)." - Dr. William A. Albrecht, U.
Missouri, to US Congressman James J. Delany, Hearings, Chemicals in Food
Products.
"Despite a tenfold increase in the use of pesticides
between 1947 and 1974 (in the US), crop losses due to pests have...remained at
an estimated 33%. Losses due to insects alone have nearly doubled, ...from 7%
in the 1942-1951 period to about 13% in 1974."
"During the drought years 1970-1974, the total value of
agricultural exports from Sahel(Africa) was three times that of all cereal
imported...The governments have pressured farmers and skewed every conceivable
program to favor export production..(over) food crops (for native nutrition)...(Exports)
earn foreign exchange...used to enable government bureaucrats and better-off
urban workers, to live an imported life style....In its need to extract wealth
from the colony,...the increasing landlessness of the many...In Bangladesh...a
landlord (will) sabotage irrigation, (etc.)...because he does not wish his
tenants to prosper and become less dependent. (I think that's called deciding
to rule in hell.) - Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins, Food First,
Beyond the Myth of Scarcity.
"...I took a pen name for sending the leaflets
(protesting pesticides)...Discovery...had...result (that): Planes had come and
dropped their pesticides upon (my) apiaries."
"Hugh McDonald, an organic farmer...stated on television
in LA that he did not use insecticide because of the relationship of
cancer...Within days, banks demanded payment of his loans, and packing house
officials...(took) control of his grove prior to picking. ...They placed guards
upon his ranch and threatened to spray all his trees." - Laura
Tallian, The Pesticide Jungle.
"Kenneth Little, San Diego County Agricultural
Commissioner: (In)'some of the Japanese beetle traps (used to assess need of
pest control)..people are placing (on purpose)...Japanese beetles..."
"Floyd Morrow, Councilman: 'And how did they know it was
a Japanese beetle (they were putting in the trap)...'"
"K. Little: '...they are pretty expert at it.'"
"F. Morrow:' You mean they...to sell a lot of
insecticide?'"
"K. Little: 'I think it's (like) ...a false fire
alarm.'" -Laura Tallian, People's Lobby, Politics and Pesticides.
"Four distinct groups of bacteria survive
pasteurization....the strep of pasteurized milk are the most frequent cause of
rheumatic fever --the most deadly disease of childhood.'" - USDA
"...Cartels...(drove) independent (milk) distributors
out of business....The small (milk) producer couldn't afford the excessive cost
of pasteurization machinery,...manufactured by the (cartel)." - American
Capsule News, Jan. 19 & Feb. 9, 1957.
(For)"Deaths of children under 15 years attributed to
scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, and measles...90% of the improvement
in death rate had already occurred prior to the introduction of immunization
and the use of antibiotics." - Alan Kass, BA, MD, Fellow Royal
College of Surgeons, Edinburgh and many other credentials, There's Gold in them
Thar Pills.
"I see little hope for a nation that values the health
of its livestock more than that of its people....Farmers are not criticized for
routinely giving their (live)stock nutritional supplements....superior to any
sold for humans...Millions of families could plant home gardens if they truly
wanted health. Refined food are practically unknown in Russia. The life
expectancy of the 40-year-old American is near the lowest in the world."
- Adelle Davis, MS, Biology, USC Med. School., Let's Get Well.
"...People who would not think of feeding a dog
(junk)...eat such foods with abandon...There has never been a successful
feeding of a synthetic diet to several successive generations of animals."
- Roger J. Williams PhD, discoverer, Vitamin B-5; pioneer, folic acid;
President, American Chemical Society, etc, .etc., Nutrition Against Disease.
"Artificial vitamins...are not balanced by...associated
factors...and lead...to compensatory deficiency of other vitamins..."
"Crystalline vitamins are made...by the treatment
of...natural source material with...chemical solvents: Ether..., Benzene...,
Toluene...then precipitant(:) barium..., lead..., aluminum..."
"Synthetic vitamins ...(are) made from cheap
materials." - Raymond Bernard, PhD, "Natural vs. Synthetic Vitamins",
Health Research.
"The degree to which patients desire to control their
own fate is continually underestimated by physicians. For the most people, diet
is the easiest health measure to manipulate." - Jan van Eys, MD,
PhD, in ACS, Nutrition and Cancer, 1978.
"...the NCI...Annual planning Project Requirements (says
that) by July 1, 1975, it is estimated that 670,000 people in the US will be
working on cancer." - June Goodfield, The Siege of Cancer.
"...Modern biomedical science clings to the Inquisition...Censorship
by the reviewers for a journal...is anonymous...Most biomedical scientists
cannot keep up with the volume of even specialized articles. ...In times of
limited funding...A lottery could equally well...distinguish the 'worthy' from
the 'unworthy' grant proposals. ...The anonymity of the closed peer review (is
a) dire threat(:) ...signing reviews will dispel this threat....No true censor
can tolerate public exposure." - T.J. Sernka, PhD,
"Biomedical Free Speech." Physiology, Chemistry, and Physics.
"We are aware of many cases in industry, government
laboratories, and even universities where scientists have been retaliated
against when their professional standards interfered with the interests of
their employers or funders. This retaliation has taken many forms, ranging from
loss of employment and industry-wide blacklisting to transfers and withholding
of salary increases and promotions. We are convinced that the visible problem
is only the tip of the iceberg." - American Chemical Society President,
Alan C. Nixon, (in Science, 1973).
"...Lag...occurred between an initial discovery and its
effective clinical application. We analyzed 111 such lags: 8% amounted to 0.1
to 1 year; another 18% were 1 to 10 years; 17% (lagged) 11-20 years;...39%
(lagged) 21-50 years; only 18% required more than 50 years for
application." - NIH; Julius Comroe, Jr. MD, and Robert Dripps,MD,
The Top Ten Clinical Advances in Cardiovascular-Pulmonary Medicine and Surgery
1945-1975. Jan 1977.
"Several nutrition experts...believe that nutritional
activities in general..are not adequately supported at the (NIH Clinical)
Center."
"Harvard School of Public Health officials reported in
the Oct. 1973...Journal, American Dietetic Assoc., ...that half of the nation's
medical schools did not mention nutrition in any course description, and only
4% ...showed an independent course on nutrition as a requirement for all
medical students." - US General Accounting Office, 1979.
"Many research...activities have been subject to the
phenomenon called problem displacement, i.e. the substitution in organizational
concern, of trivia for significant problems, since the latter appear to be
unsolvable. Furthermore, in some organizations, goal displacement is evident:
turning away from original goals and substituting means for ends." - NCI,
Planning Biomedical Research Programs, Feb 1974.
"It is not possible to make a certain evaluation...that
cancer may be arrested if 'caught early'." - Hardin B. Jones,
"Demographic Consideration of the Cancer Problem." 1956.
"...No studies have established the much talked about
relationship between early detection and favorable survival after treatment (by
surgery, radiation, etc.)...Neither the timing nor the extent of the treatment
of true malignancies has appreciably altered the average course of the
disease." (e.g.: Cancer treated early shows a better 5-year survival rate,
by merely observing the earlier, optimistic, part of an unswerving (?) cancer
course. - Ed.) - Hardin B. Jones, (Professor Donner Lab of Medical
Physics, University of California Berkeley and Davis, etc.) in Cancer Control
Journal.
"My studies (show) untreated cancer victims actually
live up to four times longer than treated individuals." - Dr.
Hardin B. Jones, (in Spotlight, 1981).
"Complete Expectation of Life in Years (Remaining) for
each sex at selected ages, Massachusetts, 1789-1929:
1789: Expectation of life in years, at ...age ...60: Male:
14.8 years; Female 16.1 years
1929: Expectation of life in years, at ...age ...60: Male:
14.0 years; Female 15.4 years
- E. Sydenstricker, Health and Environment.
"In 1972 the (WHO) World Health Organization issued its
statistical report...for 34 countries...the life expectancy for persons who had
already reached 65. ...23 of the 34 nations reported showed a drop in the life
expectancy of their 65-year-olds from the previously recorded 1958 figures.
Except Japan, all the highly industrialized nations were in this group of 23.
- Ivan Popov, MD, Stay Young.
"United Nations...Population and Vital statistics (said
that:) 88 nations of the world have a lower death rate, (fewer deaths per 1,000
people), than we (in US) have!"
"Although in America today life expectancy at birth is
near the best of any civilized country in the world...at age 40, life
expectancy is near the bottom...'" - New York State Medical
Journal, Sept. 15, 1955.
"...the incidence of cancer in children under 14 has
almost doubled in little more than a decade, and that of leukemia has increased
almost six-fold in the 50-year period ending in 1951." - Emanuel
Cheraskin, MD, DMD, All sorts of University credentials, Diet and Disease.
"Beginning in 1940,...questionable grades of (low)
malignancy were classed as cancer. ...the proportion of 'cancer'
cures...increased rapidly...'"
"If persons in the untreated...group die at any time in
the study interval, they are reported...In the treated group, however, deaths
which occur before completion of the treatment are rejected from the data,
since these patients do not then meet the criteria...of the term 'treated'. The
longer it takes for completion of the treatment,...the worse the
error...."
"...The likelihood of treatment (of any one patient)
increases with the length of time since the origin of the disease. ...Those
cases in which the neoplastic process progresses slowly...are more likely to be
transferred to the 'treated' category than to remain in the
'untreated'...." - Hardin B. Jones, PhD, ACS 11th Annual Science
Writers Conference.
"...One of the side effects of (surgery, anesthesia,)
X-ray..., and chemotherapy, is the suppression...of the patient's immunological
defenses...A simple cold often leads to the death from pneumonia - and
('pneumonia') is what appears on the death certificate, not cancer."
- G. Edward Griffin. "The Hoax of the Proven Cancer Cure; A Second
Look at Orthodox Therapy", Cancer Control Journal, 1977/1979.
What is being left out here are the statistical tables that
list dozens of alternative cancer treatment methods and their impressive
success rates, also in MDAC are some unpleasant stats in the tables regarding
orthodox treatment, such as: at the NCI a study was done on 35 patients getting
chemotherapy; radiation and chemotherapy caused a 2900% increase in secondary
cancers, another study of 200 child patients showed a 17,100% (!) increase in
secondary cancers related to orthodox therapy.
"'In the only two categories of cancer where good
results from chemotherapy are generally acknowledged...(i.e.) in acute
lymphocytic leukemia in children and in choriocarcinoma, the validity of
(chemotherapy) is ...challenged. In leukemia the real benefit (is from)...concomitant
use of corticosteroids and antibiotics; and in choriocarcinoma, the
(differential) diagnosis between this and benign precursor, hydatid mole, is
unreliable.'" - Miles H. Robinson, MD, "who has taught and
done research in physiology and pharmacology at the U. of Pennsylvania and
Vanderbilt medical schools"; in Congressional Record, 1966.
"...Every alternative cancer therapy would be judged in
comparison to the so-called 'treatment of choice', not only in ...survival, but
in...costs of treatment, freedom from pain, necessity of hospitalization,
(etc.)...Statistics...should be available from the Cancer Establishment; (but)
they have no reliable statistics, (or) records (are)...unobtainable and every
effort to obtain them would be evaded...Once reliable figures are obtained, the
bitter controversies over therapies can be resolved once and for all."
- Nat Morris (Morris Natenberg) International Association of Cancer
Friends and Victims, Cancer News Journal, 1979.
"The best estimates are that the medical
system...affects about 10% of the usual indices for measuring health."
- AMA President, Dr. Richard Palmer.
"(Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:)"The
question is much too difficult for me." - Albert Einstein (quoted
by Dr. Carl O. Simonton, famous cancer researcher, author, Getting Well Again).
"It has been found that...changes in age, sex, hormonal
status, diet and nutritional status, genetic factors, individual variation in
the metabolic handling of chemicals, or the combined effect of different
chemicals, all can alter the response of an individual to a chemical
carcinogen; .differences in responses as high as 100 fold or 1,000 fold can be
obtained by changing only one factor at a time.'" - NCI Associate
Director from Carcinogenesis, Dr. Umberto Saffiotti.
"..Humans were 60 times more sensitive to thalidomide
than mice, 100 times...more than rats, 200 times more than dogs, and 700 times
more sensitive than hamsters." - Dr. Jacqueline Verrett, FDA,
first to alert on cyclamates, top FDA chick-embryo tester; and Jean Carpenter,
Eating May be Hazardous to Your Health.
"The literature has become too vast to comprehend...It
is...difficult to grasp even for workers in closely neighboring fields.
...There is much more reliance on word of mouth for the transmission of
scientific data...gossip."
"Some of the shrewdest insight into natural processes
have been greeted at the outset by the exclamation 'But that's
ridiculous'."
"The most solid...piece of scientific truth that I know
of,...is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. Indeed, I regard this as
the major discovery of the past 100 years of biology." - Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer President, Dr. Lewis Thomas, "Hubris in
Science?", American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, June 30, 1978.
"First a new theory is attacked as absurd. Then it is
admitted to be true but insignificant. Finally it is seen to be so important
that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it." - William
James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher.
...one-fourth to one-half of medical and paramedical
terminology consists of synonyms, some...obsolete...The micro-organism Candida
Albacans has...more than 170 different names. ...Terms...have multiple,
sometimes opposite, definitions. 'Nyctalopia' means night blindness in English,
but in French it means day blindness. Some assign the designation 'petit mal'
to 3% of all forms of epilepsy; others classify 80% of all seizures
(thusly)." - Jean Kennedy, and C.E. Kossman, M.D.,
"Nomenclature in Medicine", Bulletin of Medical Library Science, 1973.
""...a random examination of 18 recent reports in
the English literature on therapy and survival in lung cancer showed that eight
different systems of histo-patho-logical nomenclature were used. Evidently,
valuable data is being wasted due to poor comparability." - L.H.
Sobin, "The WHO's Programme for the Histo-patho-logical Definition and
Classification of Tumors, 1971.
"If too much salt is used in food, the pulse
hardens.'" - Ch'i Po, 2600 BC.
"It is changes that are chiefly responsible for
diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the
seasons and in other things. (:)...regimen and temperature, and one period of
life to another." - Hippocrates.
"Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to
form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments."
"As theories increased, simple medicines..were
forgotten, at least in the politer nations. ...Medical books, were immensely
multiplied,...(towards) an abstruse science, quite out of reach of ordinary
men."
"Physicians now began to be..more than human. And profit
attended employ...(for) keeping the bulk of mankind at a distance...They filled
their writings with abundance of technical terms, utterly unintelligible to
plain men...Those who understood only how to restore the sick to health, they
branded with the name of Empirics. They introduced...compound medicines
consisting of so many ingredients, that it was scarce possible for common
people to know which it was that wrought the cure; ..., of chemicals, such as
they neither had skill, nor fortune, nor time to prepare, yea, and of dangerous
ones, such as they could not use..., but by the advice of a physician."
- John Wesley, Founder of the Methodist Church, MA, Oxford; (1703-1791)
Primitive Remedies.
"Medicine is a social science and politics is a medicine
on a large scale...The very words 'Public Health' show those who are of the
opinion that medicine has nothing to do with politics the magnitude of their
error.: - Rudolf Virchow, (1821-1902) founder of cellular pathology.
"I spent a part of ...1923 with...Dr. W.W. Keen...In the ..Civil War....he
was a surgeon...and had seen many men die from suppuration of wounds after he
had operated. ...He would hold the sutures in his teeth and sharpen his knife
on the sole of his boot, after he had raised up his boot from the muddy ground.
That was the accepted practice at the time."
"...He went to Scotland and studied under
Lister...("Lister was persecuted by the British Medical Association. He
was threatened with having his license revoked.") Yet in Lister's hospital
virtually no one died as a result of operations because Lister had developed a
carbolic acid wash and disinfectant. Dr. Keen came back from Scotland...He was
referred to as a crazy Listerite.....He was denied an opportunity to practice
in every hospital in Philadelphia."
"Finally there was one open-minded surgeon in the great
Pennsylvania General Hospital. He said, 'Let us give this young fellow a
chance.' So they let him operate."
"...No one died from infection under Keen. ...He (Keen)
began to chronicle the results in statistical articles. He was threatened with
expulsion from the Pennsylvania Medical Association.....This was in the
1890's....Finally was accepted as the greatest surgeon in the US. The old man
told me - and he started to cry...'I nearly went under. I was nearly shut
off." - US Senator Paul Douglas, Congressional Record, 1963.
"(...The Congress had exhibited) unequaled liberality in
protecting our domestic animals against every sort of disease and pest." -US
Senator Matthew Neely, 1928.
"Federal aid was extended...to the studies on the health
of farm animals, while almost no funds were available for direct work on the
disease of man...This was...prior to 1885...partly because human welfare
brought no direct financial return. Hogs did." - Richard Shyrock,
American Medical Research, (1947).
"Food additives are far safer in actual use than the
basic natural food themselves." - Dr. Frederick Stare, Dept. Nutrition,
School of Public Health, Harvard.
"It is wholly unscientific to state that a well-fed body
is more able to resist disease than a less well-fed body.' - FDA's
Nutrition Dept head, Dr. Elmer M. Nelson. in Gene Marin and Judith Van Allen,
Food Pollution: The Violation of Our Inner Ecology.
"...Next to tobacco and alcohol, meat is the greatest
single cause of mortality in the US." - John Scharffenberg, MD,
Associate Professor, Applied Nutrition, Loma Linda U. Problems With Meat.
"As any trauma in a cancer area tends to dislocate and
disseminate cancer cells....No doubt many curable cases of external cancer have
been made incurable by biopsy."
"...J. Ellis Barker's book, Cancer, Surgeon, and
Researcher,...shows the cancer mortality rate of (:) Physicians and Surgeons -
70, as compared to Coal Miners - 61, Agricultural Labourers - 54, Clergymen and
priests - 45." - (i.e. MD's have less survival, if they have cancer)
- John Tobe, Provoker Press, Cancer: How to Prevent and Gain Remission
from Cancer.
"That's the trouble with the conventional doctors. They
always say, 'How does it work?' but often there isn't any neat little
answer...Something simply works...We don't really know how it works. We say we
do. We know one or two things we can see and measure..."
"There are plenty of quacks in the field. Fewer than
you'd expect, though still plenty (in alternative medicine)." - John
Bradshaw, MD, Doctors on Trial.
"The profession to which we belong, once
venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social
position..." - Dr. Nathaniel Chapman, first president, AMA, 1848.
"Any system of medicine that offers complete coverage
and relieves the recipient of making any direct contribution for his own
medical care will lower his own health...Such a system is inherently
wasteful....It offers endless opportunities for 'chiseling' on the part of both
dispenser and recipient, and tends to the corruption of both." - AMA
House of Delegates, June 1952. in Richard Carter, The Doctor Business.
"The individual who violates the rules in a zealous
search for an answer to the problem may overstep the bounds and thereby suffer
the loss of his relationships to the organized medical profession."
- Journal AMA editorial under Morris Fishbein.
"Today, expulsion is again mustered into service in a
war of ideology. ...Modern society makes its heresies out of political
economy...Ethics has always been a flexible, developing notion of medicine,
with a strong flavor of economics from the start." -Oliver Garceau,
Dept. of Government, Harvard U., The Political Life of the AMA (1941).
"I invite your attention to the latest piratical
development commonly known as the 'radio trust'. It would seem that human
cupidity could not reach so far, or human insolence become so gross as to
attempt...to withhold from the public use the instrumentalities of
communication through the air; and yet that is exactly what a group of great
capitalists are attempting through the organization of a huge monopoly." - US
Senator James A. Reed, (first term 1911-) this speech cut off air.
"The American consumer has about one billion dollars
invested in radio sets,...ten times greater than the inflated capital of
commercial broadcasting companies. Yet the consumer...has delegated -by
default- to the broadcasting companies and the program sponsors a power that he
should have retained: that of regulating the traffic through his own receiving
set. ...an unending stream of..false statements on the supposed merits of a
long list of advertised foods, dentifrices, medicines, cosmetics..."
"Radio frequencies are recognized as public property by
the Congress of the US." - Peter Morell, Poisons, Potions, and
Profits, c. 1937.
"Most patent medicines depend for their success upon
utterly false curative claims. ...Many people automatically believe anything
they see in print - doubtless a holdover from early childhood, when the
textbook was regarded as the acme of truthfulness..."
"...A prize of $50,000 was offered for a successful
treatment of cancer....Before the prize offered had expired almost 4,000 cures
had been submitted....Not one was judged worthy of being tested in a cancer
lab." (by ACS predecessor, ASCC) - August A, Thomen, MD, Doctors
Don't Believe it - Why Should You? c. 1941.
(An)" incident (was) reported in Journal, AMA ...after
more than 20 physicians failed to find the cause, the woman finally made the
diagnosis herself. An investigation of the medical literature convinced her
that she was suffering from lead poisoning. Subsequent testing revealed that
she was right." - Consumers Union, Health Quackery.
"...Your company...will send drugs to all the
underdeveloped countries of the world, and since they do not have any
standards, we will fool them all and can make a great big profit and never tell
the doctors that there is a risk.....You will meet the standards of the country
in which you are advertising, not the...proper standard...I would think that
you would not sleep at night....I do not think this country will not stand for
it." - US Senator Gaylord Nelson.
"100,000,000 Guinea Pigs sparked a rising wave of
consumer indignation. But...it takes a major catastrophe to carry legal and
enforcement action over the hump of lethargy and inaction....Today, nearly
forty years later, the situation is worse, not better." -John Fuller,
(Emmy Award producer of The Great American Dream Machine, 1970-71), 200,000,000
Guinea Pigs, c. 1972.
"...The governments in the first world countries
(should) stop their own companies from exporting drugs that are already banned
or withdrawn in their own countries..." - Consumer Association of
Penang (Malaysia).
"...The company...(:) ...they omit 'contra indications',
they omit 'side effects' indications, they enlarge the spectrum of
'indications' ...in order to make of each drug ...a best selling..."
- a famous health activist writer.
"The pharmacist says it's the doctor's responsibility,
the doctor says it's government's or its manufacturer's responsibility, now the
manufacturer is saying its the government's (or local distributor's)
responsibility. Everybody is passing the buck to somebody else."
"The International Organization of Consumer Unions has
recently helped establish a global health information network." - Robert
Richter, Producer, "Pesticides and Pills: For Export Only", Non
Fiction on Television, WNET, Ch. 13, NY 1981.
"The association between cigarette smoking and wrinkling
was striking in both sexes...Smokers in the 40-49 year age group were as likely
to be prominently wrinkled as non-smokers who were 20 years older...Encourage
young women (against smoking...(It is) ironic how much of the successful
cigarette ads use youth and sexiness." - Dr. H. Daniell.
"Dr. Herlich found that 75% of the (balding) men between
21 and 22 years of age were heavy smokers." - Don C. Matchan, We
Mind If You Smoke.
"'Health experts working on a union backed screening
program to detect bladder cancer in a Georgia chemical plant were stunned when
the local (ACS) cancer society not only didn't support the program, but tried
to discourage participation in it." - Jack Anderson, "Big
Charitable Funds Bully Their Smaller 'Competitors'".
"A recent EPA action (:) ..that agency (EPA) is not only
not publishing booklets, but they are destroying 86 of the 104 publications
they have on hand. Most are objectionable to the chemical industry because they
emphasize the danger of pesticides and chemicals." - Caveat
Emptor, Feb, 1982.
"On Dec. 1, 1977...NBC Nightly News presented to the
nation...that the possibility for a universal preventive does exist...NBC News
spent several months checking out the data before airing the presentation. What
was the result...? Three years of silence (to date) from the cancer
establishment."
"...The AP and the UPI did not report upon the NBC News
telecast, so nothing further appeared in the newspapers across the
nation."
"...20 research institutions receive 50% of all NCI
funding for cancer research annually!" - Dr. Robert Netterberg and
Robert Taylor, The Cancer Conspiracy.
"The health establishment is a blood brotherhood known
by the company it keeps, and these moguls need no oath or ritual as they work
hand in glove with and for each other - if medicine benefits in the process,
all to the good."
"...They are wise to the ways of Wall Street -
and...getting their fair share of the loot.(:)...from who will be the head of
NIH, to which honorary degree will go to whom, which congressman gets the
campaign funds from AMPAC (the political arm of the AMA), and whether Medicare
fees can be hiked a bit for the suffering specialist. ...(or) to nominate their
favorite for a Nobel Laureate..."
"Cancer has pizzazz, box office and glamour, and in
actual dollars and prestige, even heart and mental can't hold a candle to it.
It's a health dodge with a future and everybody who's anybody is jumping
in..."
"But cancer can also be fun with its luncheons, theatre
parties, and fund raising luaus. ...What will they all do if a cure comes out
of it? Considering how easily the March of Dimes conglomerate shifted gears
after the polio vaccine, it should pose no problem." -Edgar Berman, MD,
teacher, John Hopkins Medical School. President, MEDICO, surgeon with Dr.
Albert Schweitzer, 1st plastic transplant on human, 1st successful heart
transplant on animal (dog); medical consultant to V. President Hubert Humphrey,
medical school fellowships in nine countries), The Solid Gold Stethoscope.
"...Physicians who are members of medical societies
flock to the defense of their fellow member charged with malpractice, and the
plaintiff is relegated...to the occasional lone wolf or heroic soul who,...has
the courage to run the risk of ostracism by his fellow practitioners and the
cancellation of public liability insurance policy..." - Justice
Jesse Carter, Calif. Supreme Court, 1951.
"...Loss of medical society membership...(:) Ethical
condemnation can result in professional embarrassment and disgrace, loss of
referrals and other patronage, deprivation of malpractice insurance, the
withholding of claims reimbursement by health insurance carriers, possible loss
of hospital staff privileges, and denial of speaker and exhibitor status at
professional society meetings. ..."
"The most notorious application of AMA contract practice
restrictions resulted in the criminal conviction of AMA...for violating the
Sherman Act by attempting to restrain the development of...(an HMO) through the
use of boycotts...AMA vs. US. This conviction did not deter AMA and its
affiliates from continuing to implement the same underlying contract practice
restrictions against similar proposed arrangements..."
"In fact, petitioners' (AMA's) long history of illegal
behavior strongly supports the need for remedy to reverse the effects of
restraints of trade they have imposed. And although petitioners (AMA) are now
quick to admit their past conduct was unlawful, they have not been so quick to
mitigate the effects of their past violations." - US Dept. of
Justice, brief filed in US Supreme Court (in Caveat Emptor, 1982.).
"I shudder to think what a Martian astronaut...would
think of our courts and what goes on, or does not go on, in them. As to the
judges, what would he think of certain of them, in theory elected by the public
but in fact hand-picked by political leaders for purely political purposes
irrelevant to merit?" - Francis Plimpton, President, New York City
Bar Association (in Richard Ney, The Wall Street Gang).
"....The International Association of Cancer Victims and
Friends...tells of a (recent) raid against one of their public meetings by the
Nassau County New York D.A. during which several people were arrested,
handcuffed, and dragged away...Their homes were searched..." - March
1975 - Institute of Nutritional Research, Nutritional Therapy.
"...The AMA, National Health Council, FDA, American
Pharmaceutical Association, Federal Trade Commission, Arthritis Foundation,
Council of Better Business Bureaus, and the US Post Office (were together)
operating under the name 'Coordinating Conference on Health Information'....Minutes
of these meetings (were) ("obtained through the Freedom of Information
Act"). ...The prime mover of the gathering was (the) head of the AMA's
Department of Investigation...(who) also was overseeing...AMA's Committee on
Quackery..."
"...The FDA...against chiropractic....not only intended
to 'take the products off the market, but it would initiate criminal actions
involving advertising agencies...promoters, and also the people doing the
research."
(In contrast)"...although the Federation of State
Medical Boards estimates that 16,000 doctors are unfit to practice medicine, an
average of only 66 licenses a year are revoked, nationwide. - "The
Great Conspiracy to Stamp out Quackery", Freedom, 1978.
"...Galen...was...forced to flee Rome tp escape the
frenzy of the mob....Vesalius was denounced as an imposter and
heretic...William Harvey was disgraced as a physician...William Roentgen...was
called a quack and then condemned..."
"In...1535, when...Jacques Cartier found his
ships...in...the St. Lawrence River, scurvy began...and then a friendly
Indian showed them (that) tree bark and needles from the white pine - both rich
in...Vitamin C - were stirred into a drink (for) swift recovery. Upon returning
to Europe, Cartier reported this incident to the medical authorities. But they
were amused by such 'witch-doctor cures of ignorant savages' and did nothing to
follow it up..."
"It took over 200 years and cost hundreds of thousands
of lives before the medical experts began to accept...Finally, in 1747, John
Lind..discovered that oranges and lemons produced relief from scurvy...and yet
it took 48 more years before his recommendation was put into effect....'Limeys'
would soon become rulers of the 'Seven Seas'..."
"In 1593, Sir Richard Hawkins noted and later published,
in observations on his voyage into the South Seas, references that natives of
the area used sour oranges and lemons as a cure for scurvy, and a similar
result was noted among his crew. ...In 1804, regulations were introduced into
the British Navy requiring use of lime juice....(and) into law by the British
Board of Trade in 1865....It took two centuries to translate empirical
observations into action..." - Maureen Salaman, MSc, Nutrition,
the Cancer Answer.
"The Indians had no scurvy and neither did the few daring
(Pilgrim) Colonists who followed the Indian custom of drinking hemlock tea.
(They) were accused of being protected by the devil from the illness. ...Those
free of (scurvy) were put under surveillance and suspected of hemlock tea
drinking. Amazingly, most people chose to have scurvy, rather than be ridiculed
or burned at the stake as witches." - Thelma Arthur, MD, Journal
of American Pathology and Bacteriology, 1975.
"Societies that eat unrefined foods produce large stools
and build small hospitals; societies that eat fiber-depleted foods produce
small stools and build large hospitals." - Denis Burkitt, MD, in
Nutrition for Optimal Health News, Fall 1981.
"...One health study comparing poor to non-poor areas of
Chicago found that the poor areas had a 60% higher infant mortality rate, a
200% higher incidence of premature births, 200% more new cases of tuberculosis,
and a 100% higher death rate from cancer of the cervix. In the country as a
whole, the maternal death rate for non-whites is four times that of whites. In
the city slums there is three times as much heart disease, five times as much
mental disease, four times as much high blood pressure, and four times as many
deaths before age 35 as compared to the national averages. ...In 1969, at least
400,000 children were found to be suffering from lead poisoning - most of them
in the older ghetto(s)..." - R. Feldberg, in "Science for the
People", Issues of Health Care.
"...The (giant cereal) company had published in 1942
(that:) The rats who got nothing but water and vitamins lived for about eight
weeks....But the (company's) own laboratory study showed that rats given
vitamins, water and all the Puffed Wheat they wanted died in two weeks.
...Putting the grain under 1500 PSI (pounds per square inch) of
pressure....may..produce...a poison...The president of the company (said:)'I
know people should throw it (puffed cereals) on brides and grooms at weddings,
but if they insist on sticking it in their mouths, can I help it? Besides we
made $9 million on the stuff last year (early 1970's).'" - Paul
Stitt, Fighting the Food Giants.
(In) Leicester....Clean Streets, clean markets and dairies,
efficient garbage removal, sanitary housing and a pure water supply, took the
place of vaccination scars, with the notable result that...in the much
vaccinated and revaccinated British Army and Navy, the death rate (from
smallpox) was three times as high (as Leicester's)."
"..The population of England and Wales is more than four
times as high that of the Philippines, and the number of vaccinations per 100
persons in the (Philippines) Islands was over 26 times that in England. Yet the
total of smallpox fatalities in England and Wales for ...1911-1920 was
only...14 for each year, as against a yearly average of 7,533 fatalities in the
Philippines." - Anne Riley Hale, The Medical Voodoo. (c. 1935).
"Nearly half of the world's rain forests have been
destroyed...Every year we are losing some 6 million hectares (over 2 million
acres) of arable land, going out of agriculture to...desertification. ...29
million acres of agricultural lands were converted to non-agricultural uses
(urban sprawl - ed.) in the US in the past ten years. ...Coastal land and
breeding grounds for over two-thirds of the world's fisheries are being
degraded or destroyed...Over 1,000 animal and some 25,000 plant species are
today threatened with extinction." - from the United Nations
Environmental Programme.
"The practice of laying birthing mothers flat on their
backs was initiated to satisfy...Louis XIV! (who) got his kicks by peering from
behind a curtain while his mistresses ...gave birth. ...His vision was obscured
when the women were seated on birthing stools. ...The law of gravity had been
repealed. ..Intra-abdominal pressure...during labor.(:) the greatest pressure
was exerted in the sitting position. ...Squatting alters the pelvic shape (and)
makes it advantageous for delivery." - Robert Mendelsohn, MD, Male
Practice: How Doctors Manipulate Woman.
"Though it is hard to believe, it is conservatively
estimated that 25 to 50 million Americans carry trichinae larvae in their
muscles and internal organs. ...If the (trichinosis) worms affect the heart,
respiratory systems, or the nerves, severe symptoms or even death may result.
"Amebic dysentery is endemic throughout the world,
affecting 17.6% of the population. In the US, it affects 13.6%. ...No
one..really knows the extent of the parasites and the diseases they cause."
- Ruth Winter, Poisons in Your Food.
"...Keep in mind the comparative effects of different
altitudes, latitudes, temperatures and races, and...note the similarity of
reactions of these (14) primitive groups when (dietary) contact is made with
our modern civilization(:) ...Susceptibility to dental caries (tooth
decay)...data reveal an average increase in susceptibility of 35 fold
(3500%)." - Weston A. Price, MS, DDS, on Research Committee
of American Dental Association, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.
"...Pets are found to suffer from all the ailments known
to the human..."
"...Humans were the only creatures in the world that ate
their food cooked. You'd never find a Gorilla frying up some bananas for dinner
or a lion charcoal-broiling a zebra steak. Cats don't often run to the oven
with a mouse or bird they've captured, and a dog wouldn't naturally prepare its
rabbit dinner in a stew." -Dick Gregory, comedian, and Alvenia Fulton,
Dick Gregory's Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat.
"... I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide
for my walking...I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without
strain...by taking lessons in seeing...optometrists hate the method..."
"Every guild and trade has its own...private patriotism,
which makes it resent all rebellion from within and all competition or
criticism from without. ...Vested Interests. The manufacture of optical
glass..." - Aldous Huxley (author 45 books: Brave New World, The
Art of Seeing (c. 1942, 1975).
"...Pesticides manufactured by...Oil Companies
are....why such a high percentage of farmers are sick with cancer. The medical
people..blame the sun for their cancer. Is the sun any different today than it
was in the past?" - Anonymous, Cancer: American Holocaust.
"'...around 1972 or '73, we stopped including in our
calculations all skin cancers except melanoma, the only one that's fatal, and
also in situ cervical cancers, because many experts don't consider these to be
cancers at all. Since together they account for a large number of cases, that
could be why the incidence has gone down.'" - ACS vice president
of Public Information, I. Rimer.
"I never even heard from the ACS - in five years no one
from there has even called me." - Benno Schmidt, Chairman,
President's Cancer Panel (including ACS president Dr. Lee Clark, for five
years) in US hearings, House.
"When 253 of the professionals on the NCI staff were
asked in a 1974 survey to indicate problems adversely affecting their job
performance at the Institute (NCI), half cited 'widespread lack of confidence
in the scientific acumen of the decision-making hierarchy, and a third
complained of the 'shortage of qualified and technical personnel'."
- Ruth Rosenbaum, "Why America is Losing the War on Cancer",
New Times (1978).
"In the year following the 1979 NIH Consensus Conference
which deemed the radical mastectomy obsolete, 11,000 woman received this
treatment." - Maryann Napoli, (Editor, Health Facts) Breast
Cancer: A Critical Look at Early Detection." - National Women's Health
Network Newsletter, May 1982.
"Analysis of survival curves of women with breast cancer
suggests that two or more populations exist, with about 40% suffering fatal
outcome unaffected by treatment. The remaining 60% exhibit a relative mortality
only modestly different from that of women of similar ages without evidence of
disease. Increasing detection of an entity that is histologically defined as
malignant but biologically benign (exists)." - Maurice S. Fox,
PhD, Biology Dept., MIT, Journal AMA, 1979.
"Six of the ten leading causes of death in the US have
been linked to poor nutrition. ..Various nonfatal conditions have also...(e.g.
dental decay)."
"The AMA and the Nutritional Foundation sponsored a 1962
conference...after an AMA survey found that 'Medical education and medical
practice have not kept abreast of the tremendous advances in nutrition
knowledge.' ...The situation has not changed, according to an August 1978
Senate Committee Report..."
"(A) review (of) the 1978 National Board Exam
for..nutrition questions (shows) 3 to 4 percent of the questions were on
clinical nutrition..."
"...Social, ethnic, economic, and cultural
factors..affect food selection."
"...We suggest that interested groups outside of the
federal government initiate action..." - US General Accounting
Office, Greater Efforts Are Needed to Improve Nutrition Education in US Medical
Schools, Jan 1980.
"...Rodale Press (publisher of Prevention)...in 1965,
...brought out a ...book ...Health Finder...on..April 3, 1964, the FTC served
the publisher with a show cause order in an administrative cease-and-desist
proceeding...Rodale...spent nearly five years fighting for a right guaranteed
every American..."
(for)"instance(s) of a federal agency,,,censor(ing)
publications...a long list of books could be cited, including those of Gaylord
Hauser, Dale Alexander, LeLord Kordel, Dr. Royal Lee, Dr. Herman Taller,...Paul
C. Bragg,...Joseph Boardman, MD,...H. Curtis Wood, Jr, MD,..." - Omar
Garrison, The Dictocrats, Our Unelected Rulers.
"An Athenian citizen does not neglect his state because
he takes care of his own household; even those of us who are engaged in
business have a very fair idea of politics. We do not regard a man who takes no
interest in public affairs as harmless. We do not say that such a man 'minds
his own business'. Rather we say he has no business here at all." - Pericles,
(495-429 BC).
"..A democracy always collapses over loose fiscal
policy...The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200
years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to
spiritual faith; (next) to great courage;...to liberty;...to abundance;...to
selfishness;...to complacency;...to apathy;...to dependence;...back again into
bondage." - Alexander Tyler, Cycle of Democracy, 1770 AD.
"..The press has become the greatest power within the
Western countries; more powerful then the legislative, the executive, the
judiciary." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Literature Laureate,
Soviet emigré. 1982.
"...In ancient times the people lived to be over a 100
years, and yet they remained active...But nowadays people reach only half of that
age and yet become decrepit and failing...There was temperance in eating and
drinking. Their hours of rising and retiring were regular and not disorderly
and wild. ...Nowadays, people..adopt recklessness as usual behavior...They
devote all their attention to amusement(s)..." - The Yellow
Emperor's Classic on Internal Medicine. (c. 479-300 BC).
"In ancient India, organ transplants, involving bone,
earlobe, nose and other tissues, were pretty much 'a matter of routine' some
5,000 years ago." - John Heinerman, Understanding Herbal Medicine.
"He who would eat much must eat little, for by eating
less he will live longer, and so be able to eat more." - Luigi
Cornaro, 1538 AD.
"Only by understanding the wisdom of natural foods and
their effects on the body, shall we attain mastery of disease and pain, which
shall enable us to relieve the burden of mankind." - William
Harvey, (1578-1657 AD).
"Every one should be his own physician. We ought to
assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the
body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise.
What will recruit strength? Sleep." - Voltaire, (1694-1778 AD).
"The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave
two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'" -Voltaire.
"The best doctors are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr.
Merryman." - Jonathan Swift, (1667-1745).
"The mischievous effects from lead have
been known to scientists for at least 60 years. You will observe how long a
useful truth may be known to exist before it is generally received and practiced
on." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), 1786.
(Save) "opium, which the Creator himself seems to
prescribe, for...pain to be soothed;...and wine...; and I firmly believe that
if the whole (remaining medicine of) materia medica, as now used could be sunk
to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind - and all the
worse for the fishes." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., MD,
(1809-1894).
"It is not as if our homeopathic brothers are asleep:
far from it, they are awake - many of them at any rate - to the importance of
the scientific study of disease." - Sir William Osler,
(1849-1919); "Father of Modern Medicine".
"We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can
be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to
mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase
to the number of doctors in a place."
"Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth
has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be
the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it
up with the help of medicines." - Mohandus K. Gandhi.
"I think doctors care very deeply about their patients,
but when they organize into the AMA, their responsibility is to the welfare of
doctors, and quite often, these lobbying groups are the only ones that are
heard in the state capitols and in the capitol of our country." - Jimmy
Carter, 1978.
(My chemotherapy is) "death in a bottle." Hubert
H. Humphrey.
"...It seems that public officials are afraid that if
they make any move, or say anything antagonistic to the wishes of the medical
organization, they will be pounced upon and destroyed. ..Public officials seem
to be afraid of their jobs and even of their lives." - US Senator
Elmer Thomas, In Morris A. Bealle, The Drug Story. c. 1949 and 1976.
"It is our understanding that the NIH with FDA approval,
clinically test at least 100 products a year on cancer patients. We feel
Krebiozen deserves a similar test. Why should either side be afraid of the
truth? - US Senator Paul Douglas and ten other senators (in Chicago's
American, 1966).
"I think every doctor should know the shocking state of
affairs...We discovered they (the FDA) failed to effectively regulate the large
manufacturers and powerful interests while recklessly persecuting the small
manufacturers. ...(The FDA is) harassing (small) manufacturers and
doctors...(and) betrays the public trust." - Senator Edward V.
Long. 1967.
"I could not move them. They would not even agree to a
modification, of the ruling (banning the Rand vaccine), which would at least
allow the 100 (cancer) patients at Richmond Heights (Ohio) to complete their
injections. The Justice Department was prepared to go along, but the FDA
commissioner, Dr. James Goddard, was adamant, even belligerent. It's wrong of
the government to snatch away this hope when there is no evidence against its
use offered in court. It's damnably wrong." - US Senator Stephen
Young, (in Len Gutridge, "How the US Government is Blocking a Cancer
Cure", Saga, 1968.
"Dr. Lawrence Burton....in fighting cancer.(:) Many of
his patients are now living normal lives after being told there was nothing
more the conventional treatments could do for them, and that death was
imminent....Why are Americans being forced to go off shore for treatment for
cancer from an American doctor and for a program that was developed in
America?" - US Congressman Larry P. McDonald.
"In 1962, the FDA tried to prohibit the sales of
vitamins and minerals in all but very limited potencies and combinations, by
first classifying, and then regulating them as prescription drugs. Congress
blocked it at that time, unanimously adopting a resolution offered by Senators
Bill Proxmire and Dick Schweiker..."
"However, FDA attempted to reverse this clear congressional
intent in March, 1979, by proposing to regulate vitamins and minerals as
'Over-The-Counter' drugs.."
"As was noted in the Wall Street Journal, last March
21st, FDA approval of drug labelling, '...requires seven to ten years, and
costs each applicant an average of $70 million.'" - US Senator
Orrin Hatch, Chairman, Commission on Labor and Human Resources, Oct 1981.
"Indeed, after the testimony...I was convinced that the
NCI does not adequately protect patient safety. ...Every hearing we have held
on this subject this year is evidence to the world that there is critical need
for better management at NCI....When the NCI did learn of this drug's
life-threatening effects on humans, the NCI did not promptly inform the FDA and
all of its clinical investigators."
"Your assurances to me...that the adverse reaction
controversy was resolved have left significant question of credibility. Each
time we meet, you tell me you have solved the problems that we are now pointing
to." - US Senator Paula Hawkins, Oversight of the National Cancer
Institute, 1984, Hearings, US Senate 1981.
"The AMA puts the lives and well being of the American
citizens well below it's own special interest...It deserves to be ignored,
rejected, and forgotten. No amount of historical gymnastics can hide the public
record of AMA opposition to virtually every major health reform in the past 50
years....The AMA has turned into a propaganda organ purveying 'medical
politics' for deceiving the Congress, the people, and the doctors of America
themselves." - Senator Edward Kennedy, in UPI National Chronicle,
1971.
"...you can extend your life tremendously by eating the
right things. By eating right you can combat almost everything: disease,
fatigue, over-work."...
"Holland gets by on a total of four food additives; we
have over 1,400."
"...Other countries are way ahead of ours in
nutrition." - US Congressman Fred Richmond, Chairperson,
Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations and Nutrition.
"This is a blatant attempt (by OSHA supervisors) to rid
the government of a competent scientist who happened not to agree with an
industry whose profits are at stake. (Government scientists) may be forced by
political hatchetmen to abandon widely held views, in favor of the line
currently advocated by industry." - US Congressman, Albert Gore,
Jr., in subcommittee, 1981.
"...Prevent postal investigators from aggressively
interfering with, or closing, a commercial enterprise merely because it has
been deemed not to adhere to the prevailing body of scientific opinion -
whatever they have determined that to be."
"After examining some of the recent cases which the
Postal Service has pursued, vigorous prosecution of, for example, a health food
advocate." - US Congressman Vin Weber, Congressional Record, 1982.
"If the administration is really serious about
free-market energy policies, then I suggest we join together to root out the
billions of dollars of subsidies we now give each year to petroleum, gas, coal,
and nuclear industries. But if this administration will not or cannot do this,
then they should at least stop trying to kill the emerging new technologies
that are arising to compete with those older sources of energy." - US
Congressman Berkley Bedell, in Sun Times, 1983 (Amen!)
"I can't be bought, but I can be rented." - US
Congressman J. Breaux. 1982.
"The basis of sound science is solid difference of
opinion. When I was Director of NCI, I found myself rescuing people who
incurred the displeasure of certain groups or their superiors. I did it three
or four times. And I did it because they were good scientists." - Dr.
Arthur Upton , Director, NCI. 1982.
"I have had some very interesting work with Dr. (Andrew
C.) Ivy, and have had what I think, unusually good results with Krebiozen. Due
to the controversy which was stimulated by adverse quarters, it was Army policy
not to allow me to continue with this particular type of research project. I
feel that Krebiozen, or perhaps a similar substance, is certainly on the
threshold of finding an answer to some of our malignant (cancer)
problems." - Wallace H. Graham, Major General, US Air Force;
physician to US President, letter in 1952.
"Variety is not only the spice of life, it may be the
staff of life."...
"Unfortunately, in a terrible blow to natural-products
chemistry in the US, the Board of Scientific Counsellors, Division of Cancer
Treatment, NCI, voted on Oct. 2, 1981 to abolish the NCI research program
concerned with the development of anti-tumor agents from plants. On the other
hand, the synthetic drug development program was left intact, though reduced.
...Pharmaceutical firms...have clearly signaled their relative disinterest in
natural products. ...The search for natural drugs, the safest and economically
and/or ecologically most desirable types, has been abandoned in the US."
- James Duke, PhD; Chief, Germplasm Resources Lab., and Economic Botany
Lab, "The Spices of Life", (Unedited discussion draft, neither
approved nor expected to be approved by NIH of the USDA".).
"I have never and will never approve a 'new drug' to an
individual, but only to a large pharmaceutical firm with unlimited
finances." -FDA, Bureau of Drugs Director, Dr. J. Richard Crout, 1982.
"In 1950, the NCI of the US Public Health Service
established a program for study of environmental chemical factors in cancer.
Within a few years, a Dr. ..., then director of the Institute of Industrial
Medicine at NYU, told me that he had been retained by a group of chemical
industries to call upon the Surgeon General and object to studies conducted
under this program. He stated that his objection had been successful, and that
all field studies by the NCI in this program would be stopped. They were."
"A few years later, I showed this same gentleman data
indicating a cancer hazard for man employed in another industry that had
retained him as a consultant. He advised me to keep out of this problem, and
shortly thereafter, notified me that my appointment as associate professor of
industrial medicine at NYU would not be renewed. It was not renewed."
- Dr. William E. Smith; Hearings subcommittee on health and science, US
House of Representatives, 1957. in Pulitzer Prize winning journalist William
Longwood, Poisons in Your Food. (c. 1960).
"In 1981, the AFL-CIO and..the Teamsters, urged (Thorne)
Auchter (Director of OSHA) to act immediately...three authoritative
governmental studies had projected 999 cancer deaths out of 1,000 workers
exposed to EDB (Ethylene Di-bromide, a pesticide) at the existing OSHA limit.
...Instead Auchter embarked on a time-consuming rule-making process that
ignored the urgency..." - Ida Honoroff, Report to the Consumer,
1984.
"...A charge of conflict of interest against former OSHA
Director Thorne Auchter (is) being examined by the FBI. ...Auchter resigned as
head of OSHA to become president of (a company). Earlier, he had dismissed a
series of twelve OSHA violations against the same company." - Health
Policy Advisory Center, Health PAC Bulletin, 1984.
"In my practice as surgeon, I am impressed by the
alarming increase of cancer cases brought to my notice; an increase, which in
the light of the general hygienic and sanitary improvements of our time, can
point to no other cause than the indulgence in certain foodstuffs detrimental
to normal life of the body." - Dr. Charles Mayo, Mayo Clinic (in
Richard Welch, New Hope for Cancer Victims).
"...the opinion has frequently been advanced by ancient
and modern writers that there is a direct relationship between diet and cancer
frequency, and particularly...in regard to the excessive consumption of salt
and meat. The per capita rise in the meat consumption of the principal
civilized countries has often been referred to as a causative factor in the
corresponding rise in the cancer death rate." - Dr. Frederick L.
Hoffman, chief statistician, Prudential Life Insurance Company (author, Cancer
and Diet); The Mortality of Cancer Throughout the World. c. 1914.
"Food is infinitely the most important problem of the
present day and, if properly dealt with, must result in the disappearance of
the vast bulk of disease, misery, and death. - Sir Arbuthnot Lane, MD,
famous surgeon, England.
"The relationship of nutrition to cancer has received
much attention in the past ten years...Diet and nutrition must be considered by
all investigators in the cancer field, and not only by those who happen to be
specifically interested in nutrition...It is now well established that a diet
restricted to approximately two-thirds of ...ad libitum (maximum desired)
effects a significant reduction in...tumors...; in the mouse (; and) the
incidence of spontaneous breast tumors is significantly increased...by a high
fat diet; (as are)...skin tumors..."
"At the present time, there is a widespread interest in the
relationship of nutrition to tumors...A natural diet contains a more adequate
quality, quantity, and balance of essential components than our present day
synthetic diets." - Albert Tannenbaum, MD, Director, Department of
Cancer Research, Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, 1944 and 1945. in Peter Barry
Chowka, "The NCI and the Fifty Year Cover-up", East West Journal,
1978.
"Dietary deficiencies lead to malfunctions of the body
that cause cancer." - Dr. Ernst L. Wynder, President, American
Health Foundation.
"...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at
each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing
modes of knowledge." - Alfred North Whitehead, in
Netterberg/Taylor, The Cancer Conspiracy. c. 1981.
"Now and then, in all ages and at all levels,
exceptional individuals appear who rise above current concepts, who seem to be
actuated by higher principles and greater humanity. Perhaps such individuals
are outstanding in that they refuse to accept commonly held basic assumptions."
- Karl Menninger, MD, Founder, Menninger Clinic.
"In 1946, Oxford University in England was offered large
funds to create a new Institute of Human Nutrition. The University refused the
funds on the ground that the knowledge of human nutrition was essentially
complete, and that the proposed institution would soon run out of meaningful
research projects." - Rene Dubos, Professor Emeritus, Rockefeller
University.
"...These healers...my intellect has been unable to
assimilate their theories....But their facts are patent and startling; and
anything that interferes with the multiplication of such facts, and with our
freest opportunity of observing and studying them, will, I believe, be a public
calamity." - William James, in Boston Transcript, 1894.
"...The inertia of the human mind, and its resistance to
innovation are most clearly demonstrated..by professionals with a vested
interest in tradition and in the monopoly of learning. Innovation is a two-fold
threat to academic mediocrities; it endangers their oracular authority, and it
evokes their deeper fear that their whole laboriously constructed intellectual
edifices may collapse." -Arthur Koestler, The Sleepwalkers. both above
in Brian Inglis, The Case for Unorthodox Medicine.
"...As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific
Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with
skepticism because scientists become attached to the old perspective earlier in
their careers." ...
"Whatever the rationale, the suppression of unorthodox
cancer therapies and the sustained persecution of their proponents by
government and colleagues runs counter to freedom of thought, much less freedom
of choice." - Marilyn Ferguson (author The Aquarian Conspiracy)
"Are Promising Treatments Being Blacked Out?", Leading Edge Bulletin,
1980.
"..Innovation is necessarily alternative...The advance
is early branded as heresy ("quackery, charlatanry, fraud, hoax") to
be condemned and proscribed without serious testing by all respected,
responsible members of the virtuous elite."..
"In the past century over 100 methods have been offered
by independent researchers as aiding in recovery from cancer. ...contrary to
the nihilistic litany of cancer bureaucrats that there is 'no evidence.'"
- Robert Houston, "The War on Answers", Our Town, 1978.
"A frequent criticism of wholistic medical practices is
that they have not been scientifically validated by research studies, published
in peer-review journals. Individuals making this criticism imply that they, the
established conformists, are peers of the innovative, unorthodox, and truly
creative individuals who are bringing about the next step in the evolution of
medicine. The fact is that such innovators have no peers. They stand alone on
the leading edge of science." - Elmer M. Cranton, MD, President,
American Holistic Medical Association, in Holistic Dental Assoc., The
Communicator, 1981.
(The system is)"fostering...a climate of conformity, not
by the total suppression of dissent, but by the presentation of views falling
outside the consensus as curious heresies, or, even more effectively, by
treating them as irrelevant eccentricities, which serious and reasonable people
may dismiss as of no consequence." - R. Miliband, The State in
Capitalist Society. c. 1969.
"...The system of influence and control..is highly
skewed in favor of the corporate and financial system. And this dominant
influence is felt not only in universities, foundations, and institutions of
higher learning, but also...from media to all other instruments of
communication." - Vincente Navarro, (Professor of Health and
Social Policy, John Hopkins U., and other credentials).
"It's not what you know, but who knows what....At the
heart of the matter is society's tendency to insist on credentials before
listening seriously to a claim of new discoveries or ideas. ...Only
rarely...does the public acknowledge that an unknown and unanointed person may
have noteworthy capacities." - Fred Hechinger, of and in New York
Times, 1981.
"...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true.
Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history;
this is all I know for sure." - Eric Hoffer. (author, The True
Believer, and Thinking and Working on the Waterfront.,...).
"We live in a society that penalizes highly creative
individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of
problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A...student (has)
massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of
mis-education..." - Professor Victor Papanek (Dean, School of
Design, Calif. Institute of Arts). on Design for the Real World, c. 1971.
"The Catch-22 in any funding system is the inability of
those not funded to complain - by definition, they are the unchosen, and hence
their testimony is suspect." - Federation of American Scientists,
Public Interest Report, 1980.
"Scientists and technologists are ordinary human beings.
...susceptible to...herd instinct, following the leader, and falling for
fashions. ...Fashions rage among scientists. ...Big instruments make us
force-fit our problems to the solution....As our instruments push us toward picoseconds,
and one angstrom, and parts per billion, we get ultimately reductionist in a
sense, while the real problems go far beyond our data and papers, to the
survival of local industry, and international trade, and nuclear
annihilation." -Rustum Roy, Director Materials Research Lab., Penn
State U., (in American Lab, 1982.).
"...The Chinese in the 9th century AD utilized a book
entitled The Thousand Golden Prescriptions, which described how rice polish
could be used to cure beri-beri, as well as other nutritional approaches to the
prevention and treatment of disease. It was not until twelve centuries later
that the cure for beri-beri was discovered in the West, and it acknowledged to
be a vitamin B-1 deficiency disease." - Jeffrey Bland, PhD, Your
Health Under Siege: Using Nutrition to Fight Back.
"...In 1540..Ambroise Paré...persuaded doctors to stop
the horrid practice of pouring boiling oil on wounds and required all doctors
to wash thoroughly before delivering babies or performing surgery....(in)
1844...Ignaz Semmelweis in Vienna proved...that clean, well-scrubbed doctors would
not infect and kill mothers at childbirth. For his efforts Semmelweis was
dismissed from his hospital...(and) despite publication, his work was totally
ignored. As a result he became insane and died in an asylum, and his son
committed suicide."
"As a chemist working for the US Government in 1916 on
the island of Luzon (Philippines), (R.R.) Williams, over the opposition of
orthodox medicine, had managed to eradicate beri-beri...by persuading the
population to drink rice bran tea. In 1917, Williams was recalled to the US,
and thereafter orthodox medicine discouraged anyone from drinking rice bran
tea, so by 1920 there were more beri-beri deaths on Luzon than in 1915. ..In
1934, R.R. Williams (now) at Bell Telephone Labs., discovered thiamine (vitamin
B-1), and that thiamine in rice bran both prevented and cured beri-beri."
"Christian Eikman in Holland...shared the Nobel prize
for Medicine in 1929 for Proving in 1892 that beri-beri was not an infectious
disease..." - Wayne Martin, BS, Purdue U.; (author, Medical Heroes
and Heretics, and "The Beri-beri analogy to myocardial infarction.",
Medical Hypothesis.
"(in)"1914...Dr. Joseph Goldberger had proven that
(pellagra) was related to diet, and later showed that it could be prevented by
simply eating liver or yeast. But it wasn't until the 1940's...that the
'modern' medical world fully accepted pellagra as a vitamin B deficiency."
- G. Edward Griffin, World Without Cancer.
"In the 1850's, Ignaz P. Semmelweis, a Hungarian doctor,
discovered that childbed fever, which then killed about 12 mothers out of every
100, was contagious...and that doctors themselves were spreading the disease by
not cleaning their hands. He was ridiculed...Opponents of his idea attacked him
fiercely....(and) brought on (his) mental illness....(he) died a broken
man." - Salem Kirban, Health Guide for Survival.
"Vesalius, a...layman, was born in 1514 (AD) ...He
...found things different from Galen's ideas. He found also that a man has just
as many ribs as a woman, despite the fact that God used one of Adam's ribs to
create Eve. He..prepar(ed) a new book on anatomy. It was not from the Church
that he suffered persecution...His fiercest opposition came from his
colleagues, and he had to abandon his position as an anatomy instructor. In disgust,
he burned his books and gave up the study of anatomy altogether. Later he was
made court physician. It is fortunate that he was not able to burn all his
books and many remained in other hands. In due time, these books proved that
Vesalius was far ahead of his day." - Carl J. Scherzer, The Church
and Healing., c. 1950.
"Cotton Mather..asked (his slave) if he had ever had the
pox. The slave...answered, 'Yes and no,' ...(and) explained that his tribe in
Africa had the custom of (inoculation). Mather seized the idea as his own and
today is credited with...introducing inoculation to the New World."
- Hugh Drummond, MD, (in Mother Jones, Foundation for National
Progress, A Sourcebook on Health and Survival.").
"Marshall Hall...was rejected, reviled, and ridiculed,
but his work concerning the reflex action of the spinal cord was finally
recognized....Bodington...taught that tubercular patients needed fresh, clean
air as part of their cure. His medical colleagues execrated him and called him
a charlatan, but were later forced to admit that his work was logical and
correct." - Donald Law, PhD, DBM, Psy.D., A Guide to Alternative
Medicine.
"In Boston, somewhat later (than 1842), medics ask for -
and get - a law permitting bathtubbing only on possession of a prized medical
prescription."
(In)"1844...Dr. William T. G. Morton, two years out
of...dental college...runs into sulphuric ether. ...the birth of anesthesia.
...Physicians and surgeons labeled him a 'quack', even while they hurry to
capitalize on (it). (Morton) died a pauper."
"Sister Elizabeth Kenny, an Australian
nurse...showed...how to cure...infantile paralysis....(by) apply(ing) hot packs
to the paralyzed limbs...(She was) ordered to leave the country." - Morris
A. Bealle, The Drug Story, 1949.
"Dr. Carlos Finlay knew the cause of yellow fever, but
because he had not carried out experiments to 'prove' it, he was laughed off
the rostrum at a medical meeting. Twenty years later, Dr. Reed found that
Findlay had been right all along. How many died in the interim while the
establishment waited for what they would accept as 'proof'?" - Herald
of Health, 1977.
"What if Major Walter Reed had not listened and learned
from an old Scotch-Cuban physician, Carlos Finlay, that yellow fever was due to
a mosquito and not from the dank marsh air? Or contaminated feces? The great
medicoes in Washington and elsewhere thought Reed was crazy and had done
everything in their power to discourage him and his human-volunteer experiment
- which finally scientifically proved the cause of the fatal 'Yellow
Jacket'."
"What of the mob howling and throwing stones outside the
house of Dr. Crawford W. Long, the discoverer of ether anesthesia?"...
"What of Frederic Gibbs, the brain researcher, who
demonstrated one of the first electro-encephalographs in America? At an AMA
meeting in 1934, the machine was publicly called a 'fake'. By...'eminent
physicians'..." - Herbert Bailey, A Matter of Life or Death, the
Incredible Story of Krebiozen.
"...Until 1954, great and wonderful discoveries were
based on what is now called (disparagingly) 'anecdotal evidence'....In 1921, 29
year-old Frederick Banting in Canada, on no one's payroll and with $500,
discovered insulin. ...A controlled study on insulin for diabetics would have
been a legal form of murder....(:)...50 patients in one group...would have been
given no insulin. They would have died....In 1923....Banting shared the Nobel
prize in medicine for his anecdotal discovery of insulin."
"It took orthodox medicine 57 years to understand and
accept Sir William Osler's teaching that a heart attack involved a blood clot
in a coronary artery, followed by a myocardial infarction." - Wayne
Martin, We Can Do Without Heart Attacks.
"Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was
called a quack." - Sir Alexander Fleming.
"The intolerance and fanaticism of official science
toward Eijkman's observations (that refined rice caused beri-beri) brought
about the death of some half million people on the American continent in our
own century alone between 1900 and 1910." - Josue Castro, The
Geography of Hunger.
"From about 1850 until the late 1930's, one of the
standing jokes in the medical profession, was about a few idiots who called
themselves doctors, who claimed they could cure pneumonia by feeding their
patients moldy bread. ...Until...they discovered penicillin...in moldy
bread!" - P.E. Binzel, MD, in Thomas Mansell, Cancer Simplified,
1977.
"The proponents of new or unproven methods of cancer
management(:)...A few hold PhD or MD degrees....They may have multiple unusual
degrees....from correspondence school." - American Cancer Society
(ACS), Unproven Methods, 1971.
"...60 advocates of unorthodox therapies whose
credentials are given in the ACS book (above).(:) Of these 60, thirty-nine or
almost two-thirds, hold...medical degrees from such universities as Harvard,
Illinois, Northwestern, Yale, Dublin, Oxford, or Toronto. Two are osteopaths.
3...also hold...(PhD's)....scientific....reputable....8 others received PhD's
in such fields as chemistry, physiology, bacteriology, parasitology, or medical
physics, from...Yale, Johns Hopkins, UC Berkeley, Columbia, and NYU. Thus over
75%...are medical doctors or doctors of philosophy in scientific areas."
- Ralph Moss, The Cancer Syndrome. c. 1980.
"Radium will not cure cancer. It only destroys cancer
tissue within a certain radius, but does not drive the disease from the
blood." -Dr. Francis Carter Wood; V. President, ASCC (American Society
for Control of Cancer, which changed to ACS in 1944); Professor Emeritus, St.
Luke's Hospital, NY.
"...Doctors' investment in radium...the price of radium
increased 1,000% when they began to use it on cancer victims..." - E.
Josephson, MD. both above in Emanuel M. Josephson, MD, Your Life is Their Toy.
before 1949.
"Research in the US has been seriously affected by
restrictions imposed by foreign cartel members. ...It has attempted to suppress
the publication of scientific research data which were at variance with its
monopoly interest. ...The hostility of cartel members toward a new product
which endangers their control of the market(:)...In the field of synthetic
hormones, the cartel control has been ...detrimental to our national
interest." - US Assistant Attorney General, Wendell Berge,
Cartels, Challenge to the Free World. - in Eleanor McBean, The Poisoned Needle.
"Indeed, dietary regimens are among the cruel and
deceptive practices used by 'quacks' in attracting healthy people as well as
cancer patients to follow their approaches and dangerous philosophy."
- Dr. Vernon R. Young, Dept of Nutrition and Food Science, MIT and Dr.
Paul M. Newberne, "Vitamins...." ACS, Proceedings of the National
Conference on Cancer Prevention and Detection. - 1980.
"Questions arise with respect to ACS's accumulation of
assets beyond the amount required for next year's budget."...
"...For many years, the primary focus of the (ACS's)
promotional and fund-raising materials has been the need for funds for
research, for which (research) the percentile allocation (by ACS) has actually
declined over this ten year period."...
"...The percentage of...research to total expense has
ranged from a high of 36.8% in fiscal 1967, to a low of 27.1% in fiscal 1975.
During the same ten year period, total assets have increased about
$110,300,000, from about $76,500,000 to $186,800,000; and total expenses have
increased...to about $113,900,000." - NIB (National Information
Bureau), "ACS" 1978.
"...The ACS raised over $180 million last year through
its network of 58 Divisions and 3,000 local Chapters. The Society's major
public campaign is aimed at reducing smoking and cancers related to it.
Yet...the ACS has but a single (lobbyist) in Washington DC. The
industry-supported Tobacco Institute, on the other hand, has a ten million
dollar budget which supports dozens of Washington staff." - Michael
Jacobson, Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest, in Heartland,
1982.
"We are guilty of pussyfooting in a number of areas like
this (diet and prevention)." - American Heart Association (AHA)
Deputy Executive Vice President, John T. Connoly.
"Question arises whether if AHA received more in
contributions, the additional money would go to research. ...AHA's assertion
that it was 'forced to decline many (research) applicants deserving of funding
because the money was not available to them' is misleading to
contributors." - NIB Report, 1979.
"...The NIB (is) an independent charity watchdog
organization..."
"...The AHA (is) the second largest private charity in
the US. (First is the ACS - Ed.) - Peter Barry Chowka, "Laying
Bare the Heart Disease Industry: the 25 Billion-Dollar-a-Year Dead End."
East West Journal, 1980.
"Last year American's gave over $6 billion to public
health charities. But where are those charities when the Congress moves to dismantle
OSHA or to weaken standards over substances linked to birth defects?"
- Belita Cowan, Exec. Director, NWHN (National Women's Health Network),
NWHN Newsletter, 1982.
"'Reach for a (cigarette) instead of a sweet' -
...advertising slogan..(of) Albert Lasker, (with) Mary Lasker, health
philanthropist, and originator of the Lasker Awards, an American version of the
Nobel Prize. ...and Memorial Sloan Kettering trustees." - Ralph
Moss, Cancer Syndrome.
"...Before the introduction of paramedics, less than 1%
of the patients that suffered a cardiac arrest...lived through...With
paramedics...23% (of same) go back to productive work in society. We think
that's pretty amazing. ...However, relating that to the medical community is
sometimes very difficult." - J. Dolphin, paramedic.
"...Only physicians are likely to be regarded as
competent to judge the qualifications of potential physicians, so licensing
boards in the various states...are typically composed..of physicians,...members
of the AMA. The boards, or the state legislatures...give the AMA the power to
influence the number of persons admitted to practice (by) lengthy
training,...(and) the list of 'approved' schools and hospitals (which) is
generally identical with the list issued by the Council on Medical Education
and Hospitals of the AMA." -(Nobel Laureate) Milton and Rose Friedman,
Free to Choose.
"...The physician may continue to enjoy his title and
pursue his practice, although he may have violated every rule of professional
honor and every principle of morality. It is surely time that this anomaly were
rectified." - AMA President, Alfred Stille, Transactions of the
AMA, 1871.
"...To mix yourselves up with an organization (e.g.
homeopathy) for which every member of the regular profession has a sovereign
and immitigable contempt(:) the AMA and all our colleges would unquestionably
place the medical department of your university under the ban, and cease to
recognize your pupils." - AMA President Samuel Gross; Proceedings
of the Michigan Institute of Homeopathy, 1867.
"...Any such unnatural union as the mingling of an
exclusive system, such as homeopathy, with scientific medicine in a
school,...(will) render every school adopting such a policy unworthy of support
of the profession." - AMA, Transactions AMA, 1855. - All three
above in Harris L. Coulter, PhD, The Conflict Between Homeopathy and the AMA.
"Our reasons for being in political action are exactly
the same as the AFL-CIO's. Exactly." - AMA Vice President James
Sammons, on Phil Donahue Show, TV, November 22, 1982.
"..The House of Representatives...voted...to exempt the
business practices of state-licensed professionals ("including doctors and
dentists") from (FTC) Federal Trade Commission jurisdiction. ..The 208
Representatives who voted for the AMA/ADA backed position received more than
twice as much (on average) from those (AMA/ADA political action committees)
PACs as the 195 Members who voted for the compromise." - Common
Cause, "$3.3 million in PAC money Pays Off in Key Legislative Victory for
AMA and ADA, Common Cause Study Shows", 1982.
"Even Hitler could not control his physicians, as seen
from the report of Dr. Karl Beghart, who was called in to treat R. Heydrich,
the Chief of the Security Service..., who had been shot:
'..By daily personal telephone calls from Hitler and Himmler
in person, asking for information, very many suggestions were naturally
made...I did not hesitate to take personal responsibility and state my own
view....I refused, in reply to direct demands, to call in any other doctor, not
even Morell (Hitler's personal physician) or (Ferdinand) Sauerbruch. Heydrich
died in 14 days'"
- Thomas Preston, MD, Professor, The Clay Pedestal: a
Re-examination of the Doctor-Patient Relationship, c. 1981.
"....An incongruity exists between the training of the
dental health team and the influence of diet and nutrition upon oral health.
Little or no time has been allocated in the dental curriculum on this subject.
- Herman Corn, President, American Society of Preventive Dentistry.
"Though few dentists let it out that dentin is
continuously growing inside the tooth throughout our lives, the dental research
literature leaves no doubt about this fact. ...It is the body's repair
response..." - Soaring Bear, Natural Dental Wellness.
"Although the stated purpose of licensure is to benefit
the public...Consumers...have learned that licensing may add to the cost of
services, while not assuring quality....Charges...the legal sector that
licensure restricts competition, and therefore unnecessarily increases costs to
consumers....Like other professionals, dietiticians can justify the enactment
of licensure laws because licensing affords the opportunity to protect
dietiticians from interference in their field by other practitioners...This protection
provides a competitive advantage, and therefore is economically beneficial for
dietiticians" - ADA President, Marilyn Haschske, JADA, 1984.
"The chief of the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of
Chemistry (FDA now), Dr. Harvey W. Wiley...wrote a book telling...how those
("Pure Food and Drug Laws") had been scuttled from within the
government. Wiley...turned his precious manuscript over to a printer. That
manuscript mysteriously 'disappeared'...Dr. Wiley valiantly returned to work,
rewriting his book from scratch. This chore occupied him totally for ten years.
...His volume, The History of a Crime Against the Food Law was a primer on
government corruption...When distribution began in 1929,...books disappeared
rapidly from bookstore shelves. Yet no letters were received from
readers,...and virtually no reviews. ...Copies could not be found anywhere. In
desperation Dr. Wiley put the few remaining books in libraries around the
country - they disappeared from libraries as quickly as they had from the stores."
- William Duffy, Sugar Blues, c. 1975.
"..In 1963...I had the audacity...to publish a list of
beneficial cancer treatments, where to obtain them, and what doctors were using
them. Not long after (this was) published by my friend, an arsonist set fire to
(his building's) first floor and completely gutted it. Firemen (stopped) the
fire just (before) his apartment. ...After the firemen told my friend that he
could return to his apartment, the police stepped in and said no he couldn't,
whereupon the police ransacked the apartment and even took the man's money
which they never returned to him." - Arlin Brown, Health Victory
Bulletin, 1982.
"...My first book K - Krebiozen - Key to Cancer?
(:)...An ad for the book placed in the Times ...the freest of the large
circulation newspapers...The Times categorically refused a second ad...The
Time's medical counselors had advised against accepting an ad..."
"...I went to the Main Branch of the New York Public
Library, the largest in the world. The librarian-in-charge advised me
that...the author 'went against' the AMA (and) it was decided that this book
(K-Krebiozen..) was to be 'taboo'." - Dr. Ivy.
"Dr. Ivy (co-author of 1500 articles)...sent his article
(on Krebiozen) to one medical journal after another. The journals accepted his
article for publication, only to return it with apologies. ...Dr. Ivy was
informed that the publi(shers) were told by the AMA Headquarters they would
lose all their revenues from pharmaceutical advertising if they published Ivy's
article. ...Finally, in desperation, Dr. Ivy turned to a small general
publisher ("Henry Regnery, Chicago") and arranged for publication of
his medical work." - Herbert Bailey. A Matter of Life or Death:
The Incredible Story of Krebiozen.
"In cancer, the fertilization of the cell-nucleus is
produced by the virus phase of the microbe - of a streptothrix in sarcoma - of
commonly a staphylococcus in carcinoma(:)..the cell invaded...and the nature of
the microbe..determines the particular form of tumor." - William
M. Crofton, MD, Lecturer in Special Pathology, U. College, Dublin, Ireland, The
True Nature of Viruses. c. 1936.
"Crofton's work was bitterly attacked, and he found it
impossible to publish articles, although others confirmed his techniques and
results."
"A quick survey of the cancer papers in many medical
journals will convince any reader who can plow through them that much research
is trivial or of no consequence." - Dr. Robert Netterberg, and
Prof Robert Taylor, The Cancer Conspiracy. c. 1981.
"...George Crile, Jr. a Cleveland (Clinic) surgeon, was
rebuked by the Ethics Committee of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine for
expressing in a newspaper interview his opinion that radical mastectomy was
archaic and no longer necessary." - Thomas Preston, MD, Professor
of Medicine, University of Washington; Director of Cardiology US Public Health
Hospital, Seattle. etc., The Clay Pedestal, c. 1981.
"..The incidence of cancer among the
...nurse-anesthetists was three times the expected rate. ..When I presented the
data at the annual meeting of the Anesthesiologists....Several of the
anesthesiologists present even went so far as to call the Editor of the IARS
Journal...., and ask him to withhold publication of the paper. ...I was dropped
without explanation from the ASA Committee of Effects of Trace Anesthetics on
Health." - Thomas H. Corbett, MD, U, Michigan Medical School, Professorship,
awards, etc.
"When a person is found innocent of a crime...He can
never be tried on the same charge again. But in these cancer cases...a given
doctor can be yanked into (administrative) court again and again on any charge.
It's a crime that a professional doctor is not given the same privileges as a
criminal." - Howard H. Beard, ScD, PhD, Yale U., The Anthrone Test.
"...One of the few growth industries in contemporary
Britain is...alternative medicine. ...A survey of the attitude of 100 young
trainees in family practice revealed the 86 had a positive attitude toward
alternative medicine. Of these, ...12 made referrals to non-medically qualified
practitioners - a step that only a few years ago would have led to disciplinary
action by the General Medical Council..."
"...The debate has gathered momentum since the British
Holistic Medical Association was formed and since the Times published three
major articles on various aspects of alternative medicine by Ruth West and
Brian Inglis..."
"The president of the Royal College of Physicians of
London, Professor Raymond Hoffenberg ...could understand why patients with
cancer seek alternative methods of treatment, and why any physician would
welcome an unequivocal demonstration that a malignant tumor could be cured by
any form of alternative medicine."...
"..The Prince of Wales is immediate past-president of
the British Medical Association...The British Royal Family has long had a high
regard for homeo-pathic medicine, and....the Prince made a plea to doctors to
remember old-fashioned, traditional methods of healing." - John
Lister, MD, "Current Controversy on Alternative Medicine", New
England Journal of Medicine, 1983.
"...Paul Crowther...herbalist in the British
Isles...could recall at least six old cancer remedies which were withdrawn from
service about 100 years ago because they were also powerful abortifacients
(induced abortion), the then medico-legal set up made it inadvisable to be
caught with them on your shelf." ...
"British herbalists have for centuries used complex
infusions which include Periwinkle against cancer. The Periwinkle is also the
source of the Vinca Alkaloids used in orthodox treatment. Why are the isolated
alkaloids so poisonous in marginally effective doses, whereas the herbal
infusions are effective without giving any signs of toxicity?"
"Some of the most valuable information has come by
private information." - Frank Hourigan, author, Shape of the
Elephant, in letter to MDAC author, 1984.
"The (modern, orthodox) medical care system does some
things very well - principally emergency and acute care. Accident
victims...need...mechanistic medicine - and fast." - R.J. Carlson,
JD, in Wholistic Dimensions in Healing, A Resource Guide.
""...In most of the affluent populations I have
considered, the prevalence of coronary disease is associated with the
consumption of sugar. Since sugar consumption is only one of a number of
indices of wealth, the same sort of association (to coronary disease) exists
with fat consumption, cigarette smoking, cars..."
"Professor Ian McDonald of Guy's hospital in
London...has found that, in young men, sugar raises the level of cholesterol in
the blood, and especially...tri-glycerides."
"I did not agree..to having my article censored. ...The
published report of the conference gives my name as a participant, but you will
not find in it the paper I read. ...Scientists as a group are no more, and no
less, influenced by emotional and irrational reactions than other people
are."
"...Directors of a large food-manufacturing firm
(:)...At one extreme (: one) said it was not his job to protect people from
themselves; he was not forcing people to eat his products, and if they chose to
do so at the risk of harming themselves, it was of their own free choice."
- John Yudkin, MD, Professor of Physiology and Nutrition and Dietetics,
Queen Elizabeth College, London. Sweet and Dangerous.
"What is the explanation for the blind eye that has been
turned on the flood of medical reports on the causative role of carbohydrates
in overweight, ever since the publication in 1864 of William Banting's famous
"Letter on Corpulence"? Could it be related, in part, to the vast
financial endowments poured into the various departments of nutritional
education by the manufacturers of our refined carbohydrate foodstuff?"
- Robert C. Atkins, MD, Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution, c. 1972.
"Freedom of the press is reserved for those who own
one." - A. J. Liebling.
"Business spends annually $500 million to $1 billion (in
1970's dollars) to promote its editorial and institutional point of view."
-Mark Green, "How Business is Misusing the Media." The New York
Times, 1977.
"My estimate is that about 94,000 cancer fatalities for
the future are being induced with each year of medical diagnostic X-rays (in
US)." - John Goffman, MD, PhD, co-discoveror of four isotopes and
four nuclear processes, Physics Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley, and about five
lines of other credentials, awards, inventions, books, etc
"..Radiation...the biggest lobby ...in the world. It's
involved in university research. ...industries...the whole medical
profession.., the whole military establishment, and the economic and military
policy of the country depends on people being willing to handle radio-active
materials."
"The NCI sent (,)...to review our funding(,)...people
connected with the nuclear establishment...It was a pretty much foregone
conclusion, that if you send people in to review the funding, who stand most to
be hurt by this research, the funding will be denied." -Dr. Rosalie
Bertell, Bio-statistician - Non Fiction Television, WNET, PBS, The Cancer War
by Ralph Moss, PhD and others, 1983.
"...The connection between TV and real life violence....NCTV
has found 15 reviews of the scientific literature since 1976 and every one
concludes that a causal connection exists. (i.e.. TV influences behavior, as
advertisers well know - Ed.)...NCTV has now found 700 scientific studies and
reports from the US and 15 other nations...The overwhelming consensus of this
research is that a significant and important connection exists...All age
levels, social classes, ethnic backgrounds, and IQ levels are negatively
affected in a variety of ways."
(Other)"'Clean up TV' (groups) make no mention of trying
to decrease violence, only sex." - NCTV (National Coalition on
Television Violence), NCTV News, 1981.
"...Based on (1400) energy crisis stories seen on...CBS,
NBC, and ABC (,) correspondents relied on government sources more than 55% of
the time. ...Outside sources - independent experts... - were consulted less
than 3% of the time. (On) possible solutions to the crisis, the government was
consulted a whopping 77% of the time." - "A New Study of Network
Coverage Reveals Disturbing Omissions", TV Guide, 1982.
"Day and night the telescreens bruised your ears with
statistics proving that people today had more food...lived longer, worked
shorter hours, were bigger, healthier, stronger, happier, more intelligent,
better educated, than the people of 50 years ago. Not a word of it could ever
be proved or disproved. ..The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the
lie became truth. ..A party member is required to have...the right instincts.
...Attitudes demanded of him are never plainly stated...He is a person
naturally orthodox...In Newspeak, the expression of unorthodox opinions, above
a very low level, was well nigh impossible." - George Orwell,
1984. c.1948.
"...Poetic injustice...having made over Japan in our own
image. The Japanese, ...are now, next to us, the greatest consumers of meat in
the world." - Mother Jones, A Sourcebook On Health and Survival.
"The role and weight to be accorded
medical testimony in Administrative hearings before the Post Office Department
was established....These decisions enunciate a rule that informed medical
consensus and the 'universality of scientific belief' may be established
through the testimony of a (one, single - Ed.) medical doctor."
"If the fraud charges are proven, fraud order...is
issued, a promoter can receive no funds through the mail..., shut off. All mail
sent to him is returned to the sender marked 'Fraudulent'." - J.
Edward Day, Postmaster General, US Post Office.
"The US Postal Service has prosecuted a disproportionate
number of health book authors and publishers and chiropractors. The Post Office
has refused to respond to our Freedom of Information Request for a copy of its
policy manual which sets out the basis by which cases are selected for
prosecution. The (Post Office) will not open their consumer complaint files to
the public or to the Congress so you can see if it is going after the real
criminals. ...or...if anyone complained...except the AMA." - Clinton
Miller, Executive and Legislative Advocate, National Health Federation. - Last
four paragraphs above in "Statement of Clinton Ray Miller...before the
Subcommittee of Postal Personnel and Modernization", US House, 1982.
"The Postal Service may require...that any officer or
employee designated by the Postal Service be given access at reasonable times,
to inspect or copy any books, records, documents, or other objects that the
Postal Service has reason to believe relate to any matter under
investigation..."
"Any person ...who fails to comply...or..engages in
conduct which assists any such person to...fail to comply...shall be liable to
the US for a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed $10,000 for each
day...Separate penalties may be assessed ($20,000/day)...The resumption through
the use of any instrumentality of interstate commerce of any activity with
respect to which a cease and desist order has been issued... shall...be a
failure to comply..." - A Bill, S. 1407, with amendments, US
Senate, 1981. (300 Co-sponsors in House).
"Welcome to the new Dark Ages. Get ready for 1984....The
(bill)would:...Authorize...600,000 post office employees to 'demand' 'access'
without search warrant to any home, business, private library...'to
inspect'...(; and) Forbid the shipment..not only by mail, but by any other
'instrumentality of interstate commerce' including airlines, parcel service,
trucks or your own auto."...
"The history of medicine and health care shows that
nearly all progress has started with unorthodox ideas which were opposed to the
'weight of informed medical and scientific opinion'." - Maureen
Salaman. President, National Health Federation in "Statement ...before the
subcommittee on Postal Personnel and Modernization", on H.R. 3973 and S.
1407., 1982.
"It is especially imperative for Congress to exercise
careful judgment in this area, because of the difficulty under existing laws,
in obtaining judicial review of Postal Service abuses. ...We strongly oppose
the legislation's infringement of rights guaranteed under the First, Fourth,
and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution." - John Shattuck,
Director, ACLU, Washington Office.
"...The charges concern medical practices in fields
where knowledge has not yet been crystallized in the crucible of experience.
For in the science of medicine, as in other sciences, experimentation is the
spur of progress. It would amount to condemnation of new ideas without a trial,
to give the Postmaster General power to condemn new ideas as fraudulent, solely
because some cling to traditional opinions with unquestioning tenacity."
- US Supreme Court, Reilly vs. Pinkus, 339 U.S. 269 (1949). Last two
paragraphs from US House subcommittee, 1982.
"Individuals for whom no orthodox cure is available
surely are entitled to select a health care approach.....This right (is)
specifically within,,,the 1st, 4th, 5th, 9th, and 14th amendments to the (US)
Constitution....To be insensitive to the very fundamental civil
liberties....(:) the choice...of the person whose body is being ravaged (by
disease), is to display slight understanding of the essence of our free society
and its constitutional underpinnings." - Judge Luther Bohanon, US
District Court, Oklahoma City, Dec 5, 1977, Rutherford v. US.
"The freedom of the individual to select his preferred
system of medical care and free competition among physicians and alternative
systems of medical care are prerequisites of ethical practice and optimal
medical care."
"A physician should expose, without fear or favor,
incompetent or corrupt, dishonest or unethical conduct on the part of members
of the profession." - AMA, Current Opinions of the Judicial
Council of the AMA, 1981.
"Where medically significant alternatives for care or
treatment exist, or when the patient requests information concerning medical
alternatives, the patient has the right to such information." - AHA,
A Patient's Bill of Rights, 1972.
"Congress did not intend to empower the FDA to interfere
with medical practice by limiting the ability of physicians to prescribe
according to their best judgment." - US District Court Judge
Robert E. Varner, decision, June 28, 1978.
"...The 4th Amendment (:) the governing principle...is
that 'except in certain carefully defined classes of cases, a search of private
property without proper consent is unreasonable unless it has been authorized
by a valid search warrant...' ...The manufacture and distribution of food and
drugs has not yet been specifically held to be among these exceptionally
regulated industries....The inspection of any place thought by FDA agents to
contain the regulated articles....(is) ...an unconstitutional authorization of
unlimited exploratory searches...." - US District Court Judge
Robert M. Duncan, July 14, 1977, FDA Search and Seizure.
"At least one member of the (Medical Grievance
Committee, Board of Regents, University, State of New York) which conducted the
hearing evidenced a wholly unfair and partial attitude. ..This doctor effected
a cure (of cancer) when the so-called orthodox methods of treatment had failed,
and now he has been punished for it. It is not fraud or deceit for one already
skilled in the medical art, with the consent of the patient, to attempt new
methods, when all other known methods of treatment had proved futile, and least
of all when a patient's very life had been despaired of. Initiative and
originality should not be thus effectively stifled..." - Appellate
Division, NY State Supreme Court, Stammer vs. Board of Regents of University of
State of New York, 262 App. Div. 372, 29 N.Y.S.
"Utopians have no lawyers among them, for they consider
them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters."
- Sir Thomas More (1478-1535).
"When this country was originally formed...the first
rule that was passed by every single body in the 13 original states said (that)
two people shall be banned from this colony: felons and lawyers." - Rosemary
Furman (on Phil Donahue Show, Donahue transcript #12161.).
"...If the American bureaucracy turns its attention on
you (:) ...The men who sit in judgement on you will be the men who originally
complained against you. ..You may...be ordered to stop doing something which is
right. Perhaps you will be saved the burden of defending yourself by being
tried in absentia. ..At a trial where all the witnesses testified in your
favor,...the courts will nevertheless uphold your conviction...Final arguments
were made in front of Commissioners, but the decisions were written in a secret
back room by an entirely separate group of men." - Lowell B.
Mason, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission, The Language of Dissent. (in
Suzanne Caum, Cancer Cures Crucified).
"...Whole plants differ in their effects from refined
drugs (:)...Plants are dilute preparations (of) the active principles...Plants
usually go into the body through the mouth and stomach, whereas purified
chemicals can be put...by snorting or injecting...directly into...bloodstreams
without giving...bodies a chance to process them. Other compounds in drug
plants...may modify the active principles, making them safer..."
"...Society's blunders in trying to control the abuse of
drugs (:)...Prohibition of opiates (and other drugs and plants) has directly
spawned an ugly criminal underworld...Addicts with habits costing $100's a
day...resort to daily criminal activity...to avoid unpleasant symptoms of
withdrawal. ...Heroin maintenance...supplying addicts with pure
(un-contaminated) legal heroin in (a) supervised setting (no: driving,
firearms, health insurance - ed.) has been proposed...,but our society (is)
unwilling to abandon its prohibitionist mentality. ...Major drug
trafficers...are powerful enough to stay in business. Instead, drug law
enforcement falls disproportionately on small-scale dealers and users. ...In
some states, people convicted for small-scale dealings of drugs...are treated
more harshly than rapists, armed robbers, and even murderers." - Andrew
Weil, MD, Harvard Medical School, Professor of Addiction Studies, University of
Arizona and other credentials, and Winifred Rosen (author Cruisin for a
Bruisin, etc.), Newberry Award nominee; Chocolate to morphine: Understanding
Mind Active Drugs.
"...A juvenile detention home (:)...Neither the boys nor
the staff of the home were told that the aim of the menu changes was to reduce
sugar intake, or that the boys behavior was being studied. ...The 24 boys on
the sugar-reduced diet showed a 45% lower incidence of formal disciplinary
actions than the boys on the earlier diet."
"With the repeated successes of nutritional methods, one
would think that ortho-molecular treatment would be revolutionizing our
criminal justice system. Unfortunately, it is not. Ignoring scientific evidence
and thousands of clinical reports, many in psychiatric, law enforcement, and
rehabilitation communities, still dismiss dietary treatment as quackery. The
ortho-molecular approach isn't 'high-tech' enough; it isn't complicated and
expensive, it doesn't require powerful drugs and armies of MD's - how could it
possibly be effective?" - Barbara Reed, Chief Probation Officer,
Cuyahoga Falls Municipal Probation Department (testifier at US Senate select
Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs); Nutritional Guidelines for the
Counselor.
In 1979 US government appropriation to fight smoking: $29
million;
In 1979, amount US government spent in price subsidies, farm
loans, and other direct support for the tobacco industry: over $1 billion.
- sheet found in ACS distribution shelf.
"Since I have been associated with the NCI Advisory
Committee for the Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer Program, I feel very strongly
that nutrition research has been consciously ignored...by the NCI. The Advisory
Committee's final resolution, before it was abolished, was that a minimum of
$15 million should be spent on new research programs. ...No such action was
ever taken, even though Congress subsequently recommended that the NCI spend a
minimum of $7.5 million...At the time our committee was terminated, there was a
backlog of 119 projects needing a total of $26 million....I think people who
have training in clinical human nutrition are oftentimes not individuals who
are medical doctors, but people who have a training in nutrition by another,
different route."
"...The juice of the lemon (:) consider the tremendous
beneficial effects that this single dietary modification has had upon the
seafaring nations...Uncomplicated solutions to seeming complex problems of the
past are often ignored..." - Peggy C. Fry, PhD, Assistant
Professor and Chief Nutrition Service, Children and Youth Project, University
of Texas Health Science Center, (In Nutrition and Cancer Research Hearings,
Subcommittee on Nutrition US Senate 1978).
"The AMA protects the image of the food processors by
its constant propaganda that the American food supply is the finest in the
world, and that (those) who question this are simply practicing quackery. The
food processors, in turn, protect the image of the AMA and of the drug
manufacturers by arranging for the USDA and its dietitic cronies to blacklist
throughout the country and in every public library, all nutrition books written
for the layman, which (:) preach simple, wholesome nutrition and attack ...both
the emasculation of natural foods and orthodox American medical care, which
ignores subtle malnutrition and stresses drug therapy, ("as distinct from
vitamin therapy") for innumerable conditions. The drug manufacturers
vigorously support the AMA since only MD's can prescribe their products."
- Miles H. Robinson, MD; Professor, University of Pennsylvania and
Vanderbilt Medical Schools, exhibit in Vitamin, Mineral, and Diet Supplements,
Hearings, US House of Representatives, 1973.
"During the early years of Hitler's regime, the
government's medical program was looked upon by many observers as one of the
greatest props in the totalitarian state." - Canadian House of
Commons committee report, March 16, 1943.
"..The German government health insurance plan is
obligated by law to pay for a special four week treatment with nutritional
therapy in post-intensive care hospitals every year for up to five years after
the intensive care of every cancer patient..." - International
Association of Cancer Victims and Friends, Dade County Chapter, Holy Cancer.
" We found that medical expenses for people who had been
paying at least $10,000 a year decreased approximately 80% over the two years
spent in our (holistic) program. ..Blue (Cross and) Shield is not likely to pay
for what we do." - C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD, President American
Holistic Medical Association; Self Help for Patients.
"Dr. Nathaniel W. Boyd...was an invited guest speaker at
the recent annual national convention of the American Osteopathic
Association....He has treated more than 8,000 patients..Boyd's method (:)
..injection of sclerosing agents to promote fibrous tissue growth in weakened
areas that cause hernias and hemorrhoids. ...His success rate with hernias is
an incredible 95%. ...In 1974 Boyd's license was suspended for six months because
he had advertised...As the Medicare program edges toward bankruptcy, it refuses
...to pay $600 for non-surgical treatment of hernias, preferring instead to pay
for the surgical methods, which today cost a minimum of $3,000." - Liberty
Lobby, Spotlight, Feb 11, 1985.
"Between 16 and 20% of every dollar paid in malpractice
insurance went to compensate the victim; the rest was paid to lawyers and
medical experts. In (malpractice) cases, doctors are vulnerable only to the
charge of having acted against the medical code, or the incompetent performance
of prescribed treatment, or of dereliction out of greed or laziness. The
problem, however, is that most of the damage inflicted by the modern doctor
does not fall into any of these categories. It occurs in the ordinary practice
of well trained men and women who have learned to bow to prevailing judgement
and procedure, even though they know ("or could or should know") what
damage they do."
"The USDHEW calculates that 7% of all patients suffer
compensable injuries while hospitalized .....One out of every five patients
admitted to a typical research hospital acquires an iatrogenic (Caused by the
treatment process) disease, one case in thirty leading to death. Half of these
episodes result from complications of drug therapy; amazingly, one in ten come
from diagnostic procedures." - Ivan Illich, Medical Nemesis, c.
1975.
"...Patients in cancer wards being fed a hospital diet
of syrup-stewed fruits, custard, ice-cream, pastries, pies, and adulterated,
preserved vegetables, is demonstration of the most infamous professional
negligence."
"The doctor (treating cancer:) No one expects more of
him than he goes through the standard rigmarole. ...If he tried an unorthodox
method and, even after a period of success, it failed, he could find himself
the object of litigation. As long as he sticks to orthodox methods of certain
failure, he is totally safe."
"...Alternative medicine has grown from (:) 'old wives
tales'...common sense...experience and observations..."
"If a researcher, working in a well recognized field,
makes a small discovery, it is likely to be published in a learned journal.
...a tiny step into the still unknown. ...However, let someone take an
unexpected leap forward, ... and his action will tend to engender surprise,
criticism, perhaps ostracism, and ...lack of acceptance." - Dick
Richards, MD, The Topic of Cancer: When the Killing Has to Stop, c. 1982.
"..The Senate Aging Committee termed pacemaker fraud and
abuse a billion dollar scandal, alleging that 30-50% of all pacemakers
prescribed were not medically necessary." - American Association
of Retired Persons, 1983 Federal and State Legislative Policy.
"..31% of all hospitalized patients on the medical wards
suffered adverse affects that were probably or definitely drug related. ...At
least 1% of all admitted patients...died of an apparent drug reaction. ...2 to
8% of all drug doses given in hospitals are in error: wrong drug, wrong dose,
wrong route of administration, wrong patient, or failure to give the prescribed
drug. ...(Calculate) this....%...applied to all patients admitted to all
hospitals in the US: ...32 million admissions per year..." - Milton
Silverman, PhD, biochemistry and pharmacology, Stanford U and U of California
Medical School; President, National Association of Science Writers and many
credentials, and Philip R. Lee, MD, Stanford U, Assistant Secretary for Health,
USDHEW and other credentials; Pills, Profits, and Politics.
"...The willingness of the representatives of both
international and local capital to allow malaria to spread in some areas of the
world is part of the repressive underdevelopment of those areas.....Only
mosquito and parasite resistance (to pesticides) appears to be a 'purely
technical' problem. ...Bureaucratic ineptitude could explain only the initial
period (before)...widespread publicity and criticism of the programs..."
"...Capital tries to undercut...through shortages,
especially in energy and food. ...Education in the US ...(:)...the campus
upheavals of the late 60's have now been replaced by underdevelopment in the
form of fiscal crisis, budget cuts, accountability, and restructuring."
- Harry Cleaver, Dept of Economics, U of Texas, Austin, "Malaria,
the Politics of Public Health and the International Crisis", The Review of
Radical Political Economics, Spring 1977.
"...Americans...automatically equate dissension with
disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and
political forms, as sedition and subversion. ...(" The growing reluctance of
Americans to criticize, and their increasing tendency to condemn those who, in
ever dwindling numbers, will still voice dissent") is disturbing,
deplorable, and truly dangerous."
"Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and
expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly
serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In
the meantime, the public is lulled into a perilous somnolence, spoon-fed pap,
and palpable untruths, many of which are turned out by special-interest and
pressure groups and well organized propaganda machines."
"Some of our newspapers and magazines are more concerned
with the welfare of their advertisers than they are with the dissemination of
news and the discussion of matters of lasting importance. ...Radio, television,
motion pictures, popular books - all contribute...to...the stifling of dissent
on all but the most banal levels. ...a renunciation of the most basic and
precious of democratic principles." - J. Paul Getty, ("the
richest man in the world" - Fortune, Oct. 1957), How to be Rich.
"Xerography and Polaroid film were developed by small
innovator-entrepreneurs only after larger firms turned down the ideas."
"The 1969 increase in capital gains taxes from 25% to
49% dried up venture money, especially for small companies. From 1969 to 1975,
the amount of new capital acquired annually by small firms sank from $1.5
billion to $15 million (1% of previous level)." - "The Sad State
of Innovation", Time, Oct 22, 1979.
"Styling cars sells cars and safety does not."
- Lee Iococca.
"...Francis W. Davis...developed power
steering for autos...during the early 1920's...Major auto
manufacturers...figured their engineering staffs could come up with something
similar that could get around his patent. After all, their available engineering
talent and resources went far beyond those of a lone inventor. ...The
manufacturers tried to invent their way around Davis but without success. 26
years later, in 1952, Chrysler introduced power steering..using Davis' early,
expired patents." - D. Dial, "The Creative Spark vs. The
Status Quo; or, Why Big Companies aren't interested in New Ideas", (In
Michael Brown, Suppressed Inventions and How They Work).
"Only about 40 years ago, Professor Herman Oberth, the
teacher of Dr. Werner von Braun, offered his book, By Rocket to Interplanetary
Space to about 10 different publishers. Each sent it back to him."...
"In his day, Professor Goddard was called 'moon-mad
Goddard'. But...the (US) House passed a bill to establish...(a) National
Goddard Day."
"Franklin was the subject of laughter at the English
Academy of Science when he reported his discovery of the lightning rod. They
refused to print his report."...
"Finsen, discoverer of the curative powers of
ultra-violet rays, was persecuted too...yet after his death, a monument was
erected in his honor." - Rho Sigma Ether - Technology: a Rational
Approach to Gravity-Control, c. 1977.
"..I did have on occasion in 1951 to have two days of
observation of many flights of them (UFO's)...They were at a higher altitude
than we could reach with our jet fighters of that time. ...Those few astronauts
who have continued...in the UFO field...do so very cautiously. There are
several of us who do believe in UFO's and who have had occasion to see a UFO on
the ground or from an airplane." - US Astronaut Gordon Cooper, UN
Conference on Flying Saucers, Nov 28, 1978, (in UFO Review).
"Our president Jimmy Carter has stated that he believes
in UFO's because he has seen one. ..in 1973 (at) the Thomaston, Georgia Lions
Club. About 20 other people also...watched it for ten minutes. President Carter
was quoted as saying it was the darndest thing he had ever seen, and that he
would never again make fun of people who say they have seen UFO's" - Winfield
S. Brown, UFO's Key to Earth's Destiny.
"People in the long run are going to do more to promote
peace than our government. ...One of these days government had better get out
of their way and let them have it." - Dwight D. Eisenhower.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every
rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and
are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - Dwight
Eisenhower.
"...Senate Doc. # 259. The 65th congress(:)...The coal
companies made between 100% and 7,856% on their capital stock during the war
(to end all wars, WWI). ...The leather people sold your Uncle Sam hundreds of
thousands of saddles for the calvary. But there wasn't any calvary
overseas!"
"...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39
billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16
billion in profits.
"No one told these American soldiers they might be shot
down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the
ships on which they were going to cross might be torpedoed by submarines built
with US patents."
"It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of
country...but the profits...skyrocket..."
...We can all make more money out of peace than we can out of
war..." - US Marine Corps Major General (Retired) Smedley Butler,
Distinguished Service Medal,...4th officer to receive two Congressional Medals
of Honor before WWI, War is a Racket, c. 1935.
"Since the end of WWII, 25 million people have died in
war somewhere in the world. War has been fought in as many as 12 countries at
one time. ...In 1981 the world spent about $22 for military purposes for every
$1 it spent on development aid to poor countries." - War vs.
Development, Oxfam America News, Winter 1983.
"The idea of constructing shields of any material at
all, for protection against uranium and plutonium is only a temporary
expedient. The time will come when the shields will be as dangerous as the
cores. - Walter Russell PhD, American Academy of Sciences; (lauded by
Nicola Tesla as 1,000 years ahead of his time) and Lao Russell, Atomic Suicide?
c. 1957.
"Peace is our Profession" - Strategic Air
Command and US air Force letterhead, motto.
"If the Air Force is truly sincere about their
commitment to peace, they would develop peace corps, peace academies, and
dialogues with the peace movement."...Deployment of even 1% of the nuclear
weapons would disrupt the planet for human habitation. If your 'best' weapons
are unusable, they are obsolete. ...It is time for a new philosophy. Mankind
could never reached the moon by an aircraft with propellers. Peace tactics are
the only alternative. Peacefare..." - Kim C. Gates, AC1, USAF,
"Rebuttal to Letter of Reprimand" (followed by honorable discharge).
"One of the signs (you) displayed (said): QUESTION
AUTHORITY. Comments or slogans of this nature cannot and will not be
condoned." - C.L. Wilson, 1st Lieutenant, USAF, Commander, Hq. Sq.
Section; 93 CSG/CCQ; "Letter of Reprimand", Jan 5, 1984.
"...Over 100 million animals will die this year in our
nation's hospitals, universities and government and commercial labs...most of
them for no scientific or medical reason. ...scalded, suffocated, frozen,
electrocuted, mutilated, or starved....Last year,...American taxpayers spent $4
billion on government-funded animal torment. ...encourag(ed by) the powerful
animal supply industry...pushing many species ("primates") to the
brink of extinction." - leaflet, People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals.
"...Chemicals(:)...We not only don't know what's going
on out there is dangerous - we don't even know what is going on out there. It's
what we don't know that can really hurt us - kill us. ...It is time we started
putting chemicals to the test - not people. It is time we gave people of this
country some reason to believe that every time they take a breath, or eat, or
drink, or touch, they are not taking their life into their hands. It is time
that, down here on earth, we took a couple of small sensible steps on behalf of
human health and life..." - EPA Administrator Russell Train,
speech at National Press Club, February 1976.
"Mechanical and chemical technology can exact a high
price in terms of erosion and human health. ...I have become increasingly
uneasy about the state of agriculture and what it portends for the future of
rural America. - Secretary of Agriculture, Bob Bergland, in Heartland,
Summer, 1981.
"The chief fault of many American diets is that they
provide too little of the essential minerals and vitamins. This fault is due in
large measure to the fact that refined foods are consumed in such amounts that
the intake of mineral and vitamin-rich natural foods is lower than it should
be." -Food and Life, USDA Yearbook for 1939.
"Today, despite the tremendous amounts of pesticides
being used, approximately one-third of the drops planted in the US fail to
reach harvest due to pest damage. ...Ironically, these problems are caused by
the very chemicals formulated to control pests. (:) increasing...resistant
insects(,) loss of...beneficial insects..."
"An estimated 40,000 people were treated for pesticide
poisoning in 1978. (US?). The actual number of poisonings may be even larger
since many cases are not reported or are misdiagnosed. ...The symptoms of
pesticide poisoning often mimic those of common illnesses (flu -ed.)."
"Integrated Pest Management is an inter-disciplinary
approach(:) ...Crop-Pest Eco-Systems....In...single plant communities, natural
ecological balances are altered, leaving crops highly susceptible...Biological
Controls...(:) Preservation of natural enemies (and their)
habitats...Predators...introduced from other countries. ...Disease causing
micro-organisms (attacking pests) ...Phero-mones...Pest resistant plant
(varieties) ...Cultural Controls...(:) crop rotation, and removal of crop
residues which shelter pests after harvest. ...Proper timing of
crop....life-cycle...'Trap Crops'...Urban(:) ...Pesticide treatments were
reduced 99%..." - USEPA, Integrated Pest Management, EPA
600/8-80-044, Sept. 1980.
"A decade ago the World Health Organization estimated
every year at least 500,000 people were poisoned - and 10,000 killed - by
pesticides in the third world. ...Since then...Dr. P. Deemar, toxicology
director of Thailand's Ministry of Agriculture, estimates that 500,000 people
are poisoned by pesticides in Thailand alone. ...Citizens of the industrialized
countries are also victims when we eat pesticides in the food we import."
- Food First, Institute for Food and Development Policy, Food First
News, Fall 1982.
"...The export of banned pesticides (in, made by, and)
from the industrial countries (US) to the third world. ..(is) later returning
to us in the food we import (from) the third world." - David Weir
and Mark Shapiro; Center for Investigative Reporting; and Food First, Circle of
Poison.
"Anyone who speaks up against food adulteration in any
of the many forms, is subject to 'name calling'. The most common epithets are
'food faddist' or 'food fakir'. If...you are offending...some of our largest
and most influential corporations...We can be certain that the public relations
counselors will go to work...-even if that requires a bit of character
assassination...." - Dr. Edward J. Ryan, Editor, Dental Digest.
"Our agricultural colleges continue to graduate
specialists who become vocational agricultural teachers in the schools, and
county agents, who go forth to extol the virtues of poison insecticides,
herbicides, and commercial fertilizers." - Joe Nichols, MD,
President, Natural Food Association; Please, Doctor, Do Something!.
"My position is that radical mastectomy is archaic. For
some strange reason, in the US, surgeons continue to mutilate women by removing
muscles and excessive tissue even though modern knowledge and cancer therapies
have outmoded this form of crippling surgery." - George Crile,
Jr., Emeritus Consultant in Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Ivy Cancer News, Nov.
1974.
"Though it is a great frustration to realize that less
than 10% of all cancer patients are willing to make necessary lifestyle changes
(My experience can certainly vouch for that, and the number comes from hard
research.), required by most alternative cancer therapies, all we can really do
is inform the patient as thoroughly as possible and then let him or her make
the final decision. ...(:) To undergo the Orwellian nightmare of conventional
cancer treatments or ..(the) non-toxic alternative, the Utopia choice of Earth
as a beautiful place...Pro-Life Freedom of Choice..." - Hellfried
Sartori, MD, MPH, MS, U. of Graz Medical School, Austria, President, Life
Sciences Universal (1200 Medical Centers Worldwide) Cancer 1984.
"That cactus went right through my eye. It left my eye
flat. They took me to a doctor, and he said, 'We'll have to take the eye out.'
...I fought like a tiger. I said, 'No! Leave the eye alone. I am sure it will
grow back.' The doctor said, 'You're too young to know.' ...But in a year's
time that fluid came back, and that eye is just as good as the other one
today." - Bernard Jensen, DC, ND (Author, The Science and Practice
of Iridology), FACT Journal.
"Some doctors blame the patients for demanding treatment.
..(which is too) powerful and dangerous...for mild (illness)...Patients demand
more considerate care, more natural healing techniques, and discussion of
alternatives - and doctors rarely give in on these issues." - Robert
Mendelsohn, MD, (lecturer on "who are the Real Cancer Quacks?";
Chairman Medical Licensing Committee, State of Illinois, etc.) Confessions of a
Medical Heretic.
"We are not at all sure that the state is serving the
public interest by enforcing a professional monopoly." - Florence
Stroud, RN, Member Calif. Board of Medical Quality Assurance, in American
Medical News, 1983.
"The FDA was ordered by Congress ("Agricultural Act
of 1938") to stop two years of experiments designed to learn the dangers
of poisoning from lead and arsenic, commonly used as insecticides until largely
replaced by DDT, and the test animals were ordered killed - a procedure
Consumer's Research compared to the Nazi book burnings."
"Many 'health stores' sell naturally grown products.
..but they also have much junk. There are quacks and frauds in their ranks,
just as there are among chemical growers and processors who enjoy favors of the
Government." - William Longwood, Pulitzer Prize winner in
Journalism, The Poisons in Your Food, c. 1960.
"Many of the plants familiar to the 'wise woman' or the
'witch doctor' really do have the healing powers that tradition attaches to
them! There is no doubt that the judicious use of such herbs, flowers, and
other plants for palliative purposes in primary health care can make a major
contribution towards reducing a developing country's drug bill. - Dr.
Halfdan Mahler, Director General, WHO, "The Staff of Aesculapius",
World Health, Nov. 1977.
"...The empirical application of plants to the ailing
human body over thousands of years has...culminated in the development of many
useful drugs ....It is easy to make fun of medieval recipes; it is more
difficult and may be wiser to investigate them." - Dr. Jonathan
Hartwell, NCI, "Plant Remedies for Cancer" Cancer Chemotherapy
Reports, May 1960.
"In a noted 1943 Harvard study, there were no cases of
toxemia, congenital anomalies, or neonatal deaths among a group of well-fed
woman. In contrast two-thirds of the children born to women who were on poor
prenatal diets had congenital abnormalities, dies, or (had) neurological
dysfunction. and 44% of the mothers had developed toxemia..." - Tom
Brewer, MD, Tulane Medical School, The Pregnant Issue: Medicate or Educate?,
1982.
"Animals fed on raw milk and raw meat reproduce
homogeneous litters and the usual causes of death are old age and
injuries....The cats fed pasteurized milk...show skeletal changes, lessened
reproductive efficiency, and their kittens present progressive constitutional
and respiratory problems. ...Cooked meat (fed) cats commonly (have) heart
problems,...infections of the (organs), inflammation
...parasites...abortions..." - Francis M. Pottenger, Jr, MD,
author of 55 articles, Pottenger's Cats: a Study in Nutrition, c. 1983.
"...During the summer of 1978 in Rhode Island, 300 advanced...members
of TM (Transcendental Meditation) split up into small groups to meditate...The
entire state of Rhode Island benefitted. Statistics revealed: the state murder
rate dropped 50%, traffic deaths decreased 48%, suicides dropped 45%, total deaths
decreased 11%. Statisticians, state officials, psychiatrists...attested to the
...success of the experiment. Dr Charles Hill, President, Rhode Island Medical
Society, admitted we can..." - Linda Clark, MA, editor, Linda
Clark's Good Health Keeping Newsletter.
"...In the history of medicine and science, no chronic
or metabolic disease has been cured by factors foreign to the diet, (or) to
biological experience."
"The agent which cures prevents, and the agent that
prevents cures." - Dr. Ernst T. Krebs, Jr. in Spotlight, 1978.
"According to recent ACS reports, the discovery of the
anti-tumor properties of beta-carotene (nutrient "from which the body
makes vitamin A") is one of the most important developments in cancer
research of the past ten years, i.e., since the passage of the National Cancer
Act. ...The NCI and the NIH...did not participate in the initial development or
funding of the beta-carotene studies!...The NCI has promoted...retinoic acid
and retinoids, chemically related peripherally to vitamin A...The chemicals were
known by the NCI to be dangerous to...animals even before the NCI tests with
the retinoids were initiated; however, these chemicals (retinoids and acid)
were inaccurately represented as being less toxic or more efficacious than
(Vitamin A and beta-carotene).....We have been applying to the NIH for grant
support on (beta-carotene) since 1974. However, the NCI had consistently
rejected both (the) grant requests and the concept of using beta-carotene,
until the collapse of the retinoic acid studies. ...We found that beta-carotene
increased the effectiveness of tumor therapeutic agents, whereas retinoic acid
only served to increase the toxicity of the chemotherapeutic agents. ...When
novel studies were proposed, the NCI seemed determined to stamp them out. They were
so restrictive as to discourage the development of even one concept that did
not conform to their dogma. ...The NCI and the NIH are...creating unnecessary
confusion among scientific workers who were misdirected by the distortions...I
fear that some members of important sections of the NCI may have been more
concerned with service to themselves and their associates than to the public or
the extramural scientific community, and repeatedly have made grievous errors.
...Your (legislative) committee might determine if these errors can be
rectified, and procedures altered to prevent repetitions of grievous errors by
the NCI and NIH." - Eli Seifter, MD, Professor of Surgery and
Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, (in letters to US Senators
Orrin Hatch and Harrison Schmitt, 1982).
"Cancer politics: To suggest people eat less meat
infuriates the cattlemen's association. To suggest people eat less candy angers
the confectioner's association. To suggest people eat more fresh vegetables
throws the canners association into fits." - Ross Hume Hall, PhD,
principal cancer researcher, Roswell Park Memorial Institute and other
credentials, "Cancer and Nutrition", En-Trophy Review.
"The hospital that feeds you refined sugar, white bread,
canned soup, bouillon cubes, and frozen vegetables should be closed by the
health department as a menace to the public health." - Dr. David
Reuben, Everything You Always to Know About Nutrition, c. 1978.
"...The introduction of trans-trans-linoleic acid in the
1920's in margarines and refined vegetable oils was a main cause of the
pandemic of myocardial infarction (coronary heart disease), and ...since 1960,
orthodox medicine has been fostering (promoting) a cause of this disease as the
cure." - Wayne Martin, "Margarine ("Not Butter")
the Culprit?", Lancet, 1983.
"Avoid foods that don't interest you (:) ..cauliflower,
corn, broccoli, beans..."
"Hints(:) ...add milk powder...Choose from: ...Angel
food cake, Popsicles,...Hard and jelly candies...Use mixes, frozen ready to eat
main dishes, and take out foods whenever possible. ...fry....Microwave
oven..."
"Recipes...high in nutritional value(:)...non-dairy
creamer....ice cream...condensed milk...soft shortening...chocolate
chips...sugar...oil...baking soda...baking powder...salt..." - OCC
(Office of Cancer Communications), NCI, Eating Hints..., NIH Publication
80-2079; January 1980.
"...Recipes...selected (:)..ice cream...carbonated
beverages...processed sharp cheese spread....sausage or hot dog...lard or
shortening...sugar...soda...baking powder...all purpose flour...baking
soda...salt...cooked or canned vegetables....chocolate...malted...ice cream,
jello...coffee, coffee substitute, carbonated beverages...bread (,) enriched
white...pureed, baby, or whole cooked (..canned or frozen)...sweets as desired,
hard candy,...jellies, jams..." - ACS, Nutrition, for Patients
Receiving Chemotherapy and Radiation Treatment, c. 1974.
"Allowed foods: Carbonated beverages...fruit flavored
drinks...sugar candy...salt...ice
cream...chocolate...cereals...refined...oils..pork...fudge...lollypops...crisp
bacon..." - Diet, Nutrition and Cancer Program, NCI, Diet and
Nutrition: a Resource for Parents of Children with Cancer., NIH Publication
82-2038, May, 1982.
"In..categories which make up about...eight % of the
incidence, 5-year survival rates have actually fallen - those are cancers of
the lip, penis, esophagus, vulva, and bone, and invasive cancer of the cervix
(all where the prognosis is worse now than in the 1950's)." - Newsday,
Jan 10, 1977, article submitted by Senator Robert Dole, into Nutrition and
Cancer Research, Hearings, Subcommittee on Nutrition, US Senate, 1978.
"After approximately two decades and several billion
dollars....Among the various types of cancer that account for 78% of the
incidence..the upward trend in survival rates has not exceeded a few %....a far
gloomier picture than has been generally conveyed to a hopeful public by our
leading cancer research institutions...A generally passive lay press has been
the means of transmission."
"Papanicolaou published for 15 years before anyone would
listen to him, but now you find (the) ACS extolling the virtue of the Pap
test." - Daniel S. Greenberg, (Editor, Science and Government
report; columnist New England Journal of Medicine), "Cancer: Bad
News", Washington Post, January 19, 1975.
"In many quarters, the superiority of combination
therapy ("surgery and radio-therapy) is accepted as established dogma, and
re-examination of treatment policies as heretical. Despite the confident air of
this position, a life-sparing effect, specifically attributable to the
radio-therapeutic component of combination regimens has not been proved."
- Morrow and Di Sala, "The Role of Post-Operative
Irradiation...", American Journal of Roentgen-ology, Aug, 1976.
"..This issue will explore..all forms of cancer
therapies, even those frowned upon, and, in some cases, actively thwarted, by
organized medicine."...
"The medical establishment would have us believe that
before all treatment procedures become acceptable for general use, they are
subjected to exhaustive studies which have proven both safety and
effectiveness. This belief is reinforced by ('medics') criticism of the
non-medical cancer treatments, the most damning is: 'They are
unscientific.'"...
"...Surgical and radiation treatments...do not lend
themselves to double-blinding or use of placebo." ...
"According to JAMA, over 30 different surgical
procedures have been introduced over the years for the relief of angina and
myocardial blood supply, yet only two were subjected to the appropriate
controlled studies." - Maryann Napoli, Editor, and Arthur Levin,
Master of Public Health, Director, Center for Medical Consumers, and Health Care
Information, Inc., Health Facts, "Cancer....", January 1979.
"It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis
of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the
intellect." -Immanuel Kant (1724-1804).
"(The) percent distribution of persons with...limit in
major activity...due to chronic conditions, under 17 (years old, in:) 1967
(was) 1.1%, in 1976 (was) 1.9%. - National Center for Health
Statistics, Vital and Health Statistics.
"...Pathological states are the consequence of several
determinate factors acting simultaneously...The manifestations of any given
agent differ profoundly from one person to another. ...Each noxious agent can
express itself by a great variety of different pathological states. ...Different
agents can elicit similar reactions. ...The total environment and the (interior
medium) constitute a multifactorial system..." - Rene Dubos, MD,
Professor, Rockefeller Institute; Professor, Harvard Medical School (Mary)
Lasker Award; Ways of Health.
"Most diseases can be detected only after symptoms
appear....Repetitious annual exams of healthy individuals seem to be profitable
only for the physician." - Dr. Richard Spark, Harvard Medical
School, in George Berkley, PhD, Cancer....
"...One third of cancers found in Health Insurance Plan
study were not felt by the clinician. ..Two-fifths of the cancers were noted by
the surgeon, but not detected by the radiologist. In only one-fifth of the
cases were the cancers found by both physicians." - Philip Strax,
MD, Early Detection.
"The fact that a patient survives for five years after
an operation does not imply that he is cured. ...The number of recurrences
drops after five years only because the total number of survivors has
dropped...In reality, the curves show that between one month and ten years, the
rate of death remains constant." - Lucien Israel, MD, NCI
consultant, French Hospital Director, Conquering Cancer, last four
paragraphs in Cameron Stauth (many credentials), The New Approach to
Cancer.
"There isn't one shred of evidence that early diagnosis
does any good, except perhaps in the cancer of breast, cervix, and
bladder." - Dr. James Peters, NCI Division of Cancer Cause and
Prevention Director.
"Doctors...from the Office of Info. Tech. at Harvard
U.(:)...Their appraisal of 46 surgical or anesthesia
breakthroughs...suggested...only 13% were highly preferred (and)...in nearly
half the cases the new therapy was no better than the therapy it replaced.
...About 12% of the innovations increased complications..."
"In 1971, the Joint Task Force of the USDA, in..An
Evaluation of Research in the US on Human Nutrition...(concluded) that (in the
US) a more fundamental (less "convenience food") diet...would result
in 1.2 million fewer cases of heart and vascular disease each year, 64,000
fewer cancer deaths and 120,000 fewer cases of cancer each year, 49 million
fewer cases of respiratory infections, 3 million fewer cases of birth defects,
8 million fewer cases of arthritis, 2 million cases of diabetes either avoided
or improved, 3 million fewer cases of osteo-porosis, 16,200 fewer cases of
blindness, 3 million fewer cases of allergies, and 2 and one-half million fewer
mental health problems necessitating hospitalization." - Jeffrey
Bland, PhD, Biochem, and a bunch of credentials, Your Health Under Siege.
"...Cancer patients are constantly being urged to go to
their doctors as soon as the 'danger signals' appear...The implication is
always that patients...with the shortest possible duration of symptoms, will
have the best prognosis. The results of this study certainly do not support
this." - G.H. Green, Associate Professor, School of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, U. Aukland, New Zealand, "Duration of Symptoms and Survival
Rates for Invasive Cervical Cancer." Australian and New Zealand OB/Gyn,
Nov. 1970.
"Taking a biopsy often aggravates and stimulates growth
- and does not indicate how many secondary tumors have developed." -Dr.
Charles Mayo, (in Dr. Lynn Dallin, Cancer Causes and Natural Controls).
"...The resort to a biopsy is a confession of failure,
due to clinical inexperience or lack of data from other methods of
diagnosis." -Dr. Ewing, Beaumont Foundation Lecture, (in Boyd, Textbook
of Pathology, (in Health Research, Is Cancer Curable? c. 1954.)).
"There seems to be little doubt that cancer can be
spread from the primary site to distant tissues through..the numerous ways that
surgical manipulations (e.g. biopsy, therapy) could be responsible for this
phenomenon." - Vincent Vita, Director, NCI, and Steven Rosenberg,
MD, PhD, Chief Surgeon, NCI, and S. Hellman, MD, Director of Radiation, Harvard
Medical School.; Editors, Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology.
"...Establishing a diagnosis....'benign' or 'malignant'
is not an exact science. In spite of the aura of infallibility..pathologists
are human...(:) the super specialist (with) 'tunnel
vision'...Histo-techs...make grievous errors...(:) proper patient...sample...injuries
to the tissues...Pathologists are not omniscient...(; some) afflicted with such
delusions. ...Trapped by semantics. ...A 'guessing game' when patients' lives
are at stake." - Roger Terry, MD, "Pathology of Cancer",
Clinical Oncology: A Multi-disciplinary Approach, ACS.
"...All too many...scientists...have forgotten that not
everything that counts can be counted, and not everything counted,
counts." -Denis Burkitt, MD, (of Burkitt's Lymphoma), in Judith
Glassman, The Cancer Survivors.
"...Half or more of the numerical
data published by scientists in their journal articles is unusable because
there is no evidence that the researcher accurately measured what he thought he
was measuring, or no evidence that possible sources of error were eliminated or
accounted for." - Dr. Richard W. Roberts, Director, National
Bureau of Standards, in Robert Mendelsohn, MD, Confessions of a Medical Heretic.
"It is not enough to show that drug A is better than
drug B on the average. One is invited to ask, 'For which people ("&
why") is drug A better than drug B, and vice versa? If drug A cures 40%
and drug B cures 60%, perhaps the right choice of drug for each person would
result in 100% cures." - Lancelot Hogben, MA, with five lines of
medical credentials, Annual Review of Medicine, 1958.
"...To test new materials..., it was reasoned that the
primary mouse cancer used should...respond the best to the then existing
anti-cancer drugs. Accordingly, ...leukemia has become the standard for
testing....This has resulted in the development of several drugs that are
highly effective clinically against (A.L.L.) leukemia, chorio-carcinoma..., but
of only limited effectiveness against the commoner (solid) cancers. ...There
are anti-cancer agents with a high degree of effectiveness against a solid
tumor ("melanoma") although totally ineffective against the
leukemias. ...We suggest...each material...be tested on...solid tumor
regardless of its effectiveness...against the leukemias ("during initial
primary screen")." - Dr. Roy Asplund, "Isolation of
Anti-Tumor Poly Saccharide Fractions from Yucca..." Growth, 1978. (in
John Hinerman, The Treatment of Cancer with Herbs, c. 1980).
"...I am told that I cannot discover anything more
because I had discovered other concepts in the past and those are now
regulations. ...I am the senior author of the randomized clinical trial. Now, I
am told by the FDA that, if I don't do a randomized clinical trial, I can't do
research. ...When I ask them where they got that dumb idea, they cite my
publications." - Dr. Emil Freirich, head Developmental
Therapeutics, MD Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute (in Pat McGrady, Jr.,
"The Cancer Patient's Quandry", Newsday, Sept 30, 1982.
"If a useful (therapy) became available...it would be
difficult to find an adequate number of experienced investigators to test it.
The great danger might not be that a useless material was judged useful, but
rather that a worthwhile one was rejected by inexperienced investigators."
- Ernest Herrman, PhD (in Postgraduate Medicine, May 1964) (in
Independent Citizens Research Foundation for Study of Degenerative Diseases),
Is the Answer to Cancer Just Around the Corner?, c. 1964.
"In the early 1700's, two physicians...learned about
pinkroot's efficacy from the Indians. The word soon spread to the general
public, who praised this worm treatment, particularly against roundworms, for
the next 200 years. Pinkroot fell into disuse in the early 1900's, simply
because greedy herb dealers adulterated or even substituted shipments of true
pinkroot with quantities of other plants..." - Michael A. Weiner,
PhD, nutritional ethno-medicine, U of Calif, Berkeley, Earth Medicine - Earth
Food,: Plant Remedies, Drugs, and Natural Foods of the North American Indians,
c. 1972.
There are some sections of my original medical essay that are
not appropriate for my essay today, but are very good reading. I refer to
and link to these sections from my medical essay. The
first section has to do with Dr. Bruce Halstead. The second has to do
with Jimmy Keller.
First, some Medical Dark Ages quotes about
Halstead.
"...Adequate dosage by the most effective and least
toxic route. ...('Laetrile') is about 44 times more toxic when given by mouth
than by intra-muscular injection, and 21 times more toxic than intravenous
injection. ...When the patient is on high doses of vitamin A, alcoholic
beverages are absolutely prohibited."
"An excellent example of what not to eat is the
nutritional program as recommended in the booklet published in 1974 by the
American Cancer Society, Inc. under the misnomer of 'Nutrition.'" - Bruce
W. Halstead, MD, author of several books.
"A little after 7 am...25 officers...and California FDA,
raided Halstead's residence...The LA county DA's office charged Halstead
(consultant to World Health Organization; commander, US Navy; director, World
Life Resources Institute) with some 24 counts including 'conspiracy, 'grand
theft', unlawfully selling drugs for cancer treatment, and 'fraudulently
providing a treatment to arrest cancer.'...The DA took all of his cancer
patients' records and refused to give him either a list or receipt for
them." - Choice, 1984.
"The Committee for Freedom of Choice in Medicine...has
filed a complaint with the United Nations Center for Human Rights,
charg(ing)...'medical genocide' and accus(ing) the AMA and ... FDA...(this)
complaint was spurred by the recent raid on the home and office of Bruce
Halstead, MD..." - Medical Freedom Group takes Complaint to
UN.", Spotlight, 1984.
Halstead may be one of America's most brilliant
physicians. His battles with the medical gangsters continue to this very
day. OnThe Winds web site is a recent interview with
Halstead. From their web site:
"A decades-long dispute between a highly respected
physician/scientist and the State of California ended with the elderly doctor,
Bruce Halstead, on criminal probation and stripped of his license to practice
medicine.
"In light of this and other recent actions taken by
state governmental authorities in cooperation with such U. S. institutions as
the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the FTC (Federal Trade Commission),
the government appears to be engaged in a concerted war against a domain of the
healing arts known as alternative medicine. This war, ostensibly for the
protection of American citizens from unscrupulous "quacks," has
apparently moved into a new phase. The FDA's pursuit of medical "public
enemies" is no longer restricted primarily to non-MD practitioners not
trained at established medical schools--those the general public largely
considers the unorthodox fringe of the medical world. These federal agencies
are now engaging the force of the government's legal machinery in the prosecution
of physicians practicing "conventional medicine"--those who have
dared to recognize and even incorporate into their practices the efficacy of
holistic natural remedies.
"Dr. Halstead is a graduate of Loma Linda University, a
medical school which, to those in the field of the human physiological
sciences, ranks as one of the more prestigious schools of medicine and
scientific research in the world.
"The 77-year-old physician is currently on probation
under the State of California, Los Angeles County, for his activities involving
the prescribing of alternative medication, specifically for his cancer
patients. Dr. Halstead has been suspended from any form of medical
practice. "In fact," he told The WINDS, "I can't even talk
to a patient about nutrition."
"When his home and clinic in San Bernardino County were
raided by the Los Angeles District Attorney, "I challenged their legal
jurisdiction," Halstead informed The WINDS, "since I had never lived
or worked in Los Angeles County, but that did not matter. I was a legal
novice and had not yet learned that jurisdiction and venue were merely legal
fantasies which have no meaning in actual fact for the alternative health
physician." (Nor, apparently, does the constitutional doctrine of habeas
corpus).
"Dr. Halstead was charged with twenty-eight counts of
conspiracy, grand theft and violations of the Health and Safety Code, along
with twenty felony and misdemeanor counts.
"The prosecutor wanted me to go to prison for eight
years," he told The WINDS, "but the court ultimately reduced the
sentence to 32 months. I was offered, on at least ten different occasions, the
'opportunity' of plea bargaining for a crime which I did not commit,"
Halstead explained. "My reply was 'not until hell freezes over.'"
"The assault upon alternative medicine "is not just
against me," he said. "They're after everybody and everything"
connected with the field.
"Perhaps something else Dr. Halstead revealed to The
WINDS has played a part in the FDA's zeal to relegate him to the medical
"scrap heap". "We have been monitoring the illicit
regulatory activities of the FDA and the cancer establishment, " Halstead
claims, "and are in constant contact with a network of organizations and
attorneys dealing with their illegal health activities in this country which
are steadily driving up our national health costs."
"Is it not interesting how money keeps introducing
itself into the mix? Halstead concurs making the ominous assertion that,
"Cancer is the sacred cow of the medical industry. More people make money
by treating cancer than there are victims dying from the disease."
"Dr. Halstead, acclaimed as a genius even among his
peers, has authored hundreds of books and research publications. Among them are
benchmark works such as Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals of the World
which the U.S. Navy considers of such importance as to fund a project to put
the entire three-volume tome on CD-ROM.
The WINDS obtained a copy of Dr. Halstead's Curriculum Vitae,
the academician's equivalent of a resume. The following qualifications belong
to a man whom the government deems dangerous to his patients, incompetent to
practice medicine and academically inadequate to determine what is harmful or
beneficial to human physiology:
- Eleven years teaching on the medical faculty of Loma Linda
University.
- Specializes in global preventive medicine, tropical
diseases and biotoxicology.
- Assistant Director on the School of Tropical and Preventive
Medicine, Loma - Linda University, Loma Linda, California.
- Assisted in developing a global preventive military medical
program at the U.S. - Naval Medical School, Bethesda, Maryland.
- Lectured on biotoxicology at the School of Aerospace
Medicine, U.S. Air Force, San Antonio, Texas.
- Conducted Arctic expeditions for the U.S. Army, Navy, Air
Force and National Institutes of Health, studying poisonous and venomous marine
animals, and potential drugs from the sea.
- Contributor to Dorland's Medical Dictionary and the
Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th Ed.
- Engaged in marine scientific research with the Jacques
Cousteau Society, traveling extensively with the Cousteaus for eighteen years.
Additionally, Dr. Halstead has been deeply involved in the
study of the use of oriental herbal therapy on immune deficiency disorders.
After a 25-year effort into medical/biological research,
"I was shocked," Dr. Halstead exclaimed, "to find upon my Rip
Van Winkle return to clinical medicine that dangerous toxic drugs, all FDA
approved, had proliferated to a frightening extent--over 1.54 billion
prescriptions written in the U.S. per year.
"I found," Halstead continues, "that many of
these drugs destroy your immune system and are carcinogenic. New and
awesome medical technologies were also being spawned, mind-blowing in both
their diagnostic capability and staggering costs to the consumer.
"However, in evaluating this new drug and health
technology, I did not find a commensurate improvement in either morbidity or
mortality statistics in chronic degenerative afflictions such as cardiovascular
disease and cancer. Costs had increased, but not the overall health
index. We had dropped to about 23[rd] position among the nations of the world
in health care."
"This data, presented by an eminent physician/scientist,
raises the logical question as to whether this may be a reasonable explanation
as to why the strike by New York doctors several years ago resulted in a
decline in the city's overall death rate. "At this point in
time," Halstead concludes, "I have the profound conviction that
America is on a disaster course in health care both economically and
therapeutically...A dangerous therapeutic mind set exists in this country that
it is better to die in an orthodox fashion than to survive in an unorthodox
manner."
"In reference to his implication that the government
would rather allow an individual to die than to condone the application of
"unorthodox" treatment, Dr. Halstead relates the following event he
presented in his court trial:
"During my final oral argument I recounted the incident
when defendant Alfred Dix and his wife had their home raided by the Los Angeles
District Attorney. Mr. Dix had been using and selling the herbal drink." [The
doctor is here speaking of a specific compound of Japanese herbs (ADS) from
which a tea is made that many clinical trials, according to Halstead, have
proven very effective in the treatment of cancer].
"Mrs. Dix had been diagnosed as having terminal abdominal
cancer. She had had surgery, nine different types of chemotherapy, and over
ninety different treatments of radiation, all of which had failed. Her
doctors told her that she had only 30 to 45 days to live. She was
bedridden, had given up hope, and was preparing to die. She and her
husband had even contacted a mortician to make funeral arrangements.
"Mr. Dix then came in contact with ADS [the herbal
compound]. After taking ADS for about ten days, Mrs. Dix began to feel better,
started doing housework, shopping, traveling, and started entertaining
again. I met Mr. and Mrs. Dix one day in the lobby of a hotel in
Pasadena. She was walking, mentally alert, happy and laughing, and stated
emphatically that she was feeling great. No aches or pains - thanks to ADS.
"At the time of the raid at the Dix home, the D.A.
confiscated all of her ADS. Her husband begged and tearfully pleaded with the
D.A. to release enough of the ADS for his wife's use. The D.A. refused to
release any of the tea to her.
"The next time I saw Mrs. Dix was in the
courtroom. She looked pale, in a weakened condition, unable to walk,
crestfallen and anguished. A few days later she died - a broken woman, a
victim of the land of the free and the home of the brave.
"What has happened to our national ideal of life,
liberty and pursuit of happiness? Why has the prosecution denied Mrs. Dix
the right to retain a cup of harmless adaptogenic tea which she purchased for
her own cancerous condition? What has happened to her civil liberties?
"I could not think of a single tyrannical country in
which this scenario could have taken place."
And here is a first-person account about Jimmy Keller, his treatment, and how they
took care of him.
“My wife Kathy had fully-metastasized ovarian cancer which
had spread throughout her abdomen. She had large and growing tumor masses
basically everywhere below the diaphragm when we brought her to Jimmy Keller's
clinic in March of 1991. She was unable to walk fully erect, had hard masses
in her stomach area, was very weak and suffering abdominal pains and digestive
distress because of the growths.
”She had been earlier mis-diagnosed (rather reprehensibly so in my opinion) with fibroid tumors of the uterus. Her cancer was discovered in a surgery (intended to remove her uterus and ovaries) on 5 February 1991, immediately upon opening her abdomen with a huge T-shaped incision. A biopsy was taken and she was stapled-up immediately. The surgeon returned his fee within hours, and we were left with a dismal prognosis.
”A longtime acquaintance who had experienced a near-miraculous and seemingly permanent recovery from an apparent brain tumor, recommended us to the Keller clinic. We spoke to Jimmy and several others by phone and decided to attempt his treatment.
”Mr. Keller interviewed us upon our arrival at the Tijuana clinic, and detailed what we could expect. He was guardedly optimistic, explaining that the surgery would have caused the cancer to spread aggressively (it had, in spades). He said the fact Kathy had not undergone chemotherapy, and that she was young and basically healthy meant her chances were good of making dramatic progress. He said the daily treatments would make her very tired and she must sleep long hours. He said she would almost certainly experience "pulling" sensations in the areas of the tumors as the masses shrank. He told us the process of recovery would involve a stringent diet which must be maintained indefinitely, as well as the treatments, and would require many months and repeated visits to the clinic.
”She had been earlier mis-diagnosed (rather reprehensibly so in my opinion) with fibroid tumors of the uterus. Her cancer was discovered in a surgery (intended to remove her uterus and ovaries) on 5 February 1991, immediately upon opening her abdomen with a huge T-shaped incision. A biopsy was taken and she was stapled-up immediately. The surgeon returned his fee within hours, and we were left with a dismal prognosis.
”A longtime acquaintance who had experienced a near-miraculous and seemingly permanent recovery from an apparent brain tumor, recommended us to the Keller clinic. We spoke to Jimmy and several others by phone and decided to attempt his treatment.
”Mr. Keller interviewed us upon our arrival at the Tijuana clinic, and detailed what we could expect. He was guardedly optimistic, explaining that the surgery would have caused the cancer to spread aggressively (it had, in spades). He said the fact Kathy had not undergone chemotherapy, and that she was young and basically healthy meant her chances were good of making dramatic progress. He said the daily treatments would make her very tired and she must sleep long hours. He said she would almost certainly experience "pulling" sensations in the areas of the tumors as the masses shrank. He told us the process of recovery would involve a stringent diet which must be maintained indefinitely, as well as the treatments, and would require many months and repeated visits to the clinic.
”The daily therapy consisted of a grab-bag of alternative
approaches; Mr. Keller seemed to use every therapy he knew which had any chance
of success. Kathy was given everything from pancreatic enzymes to Laetrile, in
a constantly-varying daily routine.
”But it consisted of two very essential items which were never omitted: an IV drip of saline solution containing a very large dose of Vitamin C; and an intravenous serum, normally added to the same saline solution, which we were
told consisted of amino acids and polypeptides.
”This last serum was the one totally unique aspect of their treatment, and it was to that which they attributed the lion's share of their success. And success it was.
”But it consisted of two very essential items which were never omitted: an IV drip of saline solution containing a very large dose of Vitamin C; and an intravenous serum, normally added to the same saline solution, which we were
told consisted of amino acids and polypeptides.
”This last serum was the one totally unique aspect of their treatment, and it was to that which they attributed the lion's share of their success. And success it was.
”I will not detail their stories here, but we were surrounded
with people whose tales of recovery were consistently heartening, and sometimes
bordered on the incredible.
”A typical day at the clinic consisted of arrival at 9AM; an interview with Mr. Keller in which he used a technique (which I had never before seen) of body-response to his questions which led him to prescribe the day's mix of therapies. Items and proportions changed daily. Laetrile some days, not others. More serum one day, less another. All based, apparently, in a method of physical feedback where he pressed downwards upon the patient's extended arm as he asked questions or named medicines. The arm's resistance to pressure seemed to vary and provided Keller his response. Keller also seemed to examine his patients' outward appearance very closely, and asked searching questions about diet, sleep, how they felt, and so forth. An assistant noted his comments on the day's therapy for each patient.
”We then sat upon chairs, arranged throughout the several rooms and hallways of the small clinic, and with about 40 to 60 other patients, were provided with the IVs, injections and tablets. I assisted with some aspects of my wife's treatment, including needle "sticks" and IV "pushes." Usually we were done by noon or so, then went "home," Kathy usually to bed-rest.
”As to cost, the various medicines involved specific charges for each; generally, as I recall, a day's treatment would cost anywhere from $150 to $250.
”I remained there with my wife for about a week, and attended all her visits to the clinic. We set her up in a kitchenette -equipped motel room near the border.
”A typical day at the clinic consisted of arrival at 9AM; an interview with Mr. Keller in which he used a technique (which I had never before seen) of body-response to his questions which led him to prescribe the day's mix of therapies. Items and proportions changed daily. Laetrile some days, not others. More serum one day, less another. All based, apparently, in a method of physical feedback where he pressed downwards upon the patient's extended arm as he asked questions or named medicines. The arm's resistance to pressure seemed to vary and provided Keller his response. Keller also seemed to examine his patients' outward appearance very closely, and asked searching questions about diet, sleep, how they felt, and so forth. An assistant noted his comments on the day's therapy for each patient.
”We then sat upon chairs, arranged throughout the several rooms and hallways of the small clinic, and with about 40 to 60 other patients, were provided with the IVs, injections and tablets. I assisted with some aspects of my wife's treatment, including needle "sticks" and IV "pushes." Usually we were done by noon or so, then went "home," Kathy usually to bed-rest.
”As to cost, the various medicines involved specific charges for each; generally, as I recall, a day's treatment would cost anywhere from $150 to $250.
”I remained there with my wife for about a week, and attended all her visits to the clinic. We set her up in a kitchenette -equipped motel room near the border.
”We bought her all the elements of the very strictly organic
and vegetable-laden diet Keller had prescribed.
”I then returned to my work in Seattle, but stayed in constant contact with Kathy by phone. As she had done from the beginning, she reported the "pulling" sensations predicted by Mr. Keller, and slept a large proportion of every day. She was not very descriptive of her progress during this time; I later learned it was because she wanted to surprise me.
”The initial surprise, though, was not a happy one, when Kathy called to report the incident of Jimmy's abduction. She had been there for about three weeks. She was slated for just a few more days' treatment, then to be sent home for about a month before another stint at the clinic. Mr. Keller had no more told her this than he was assaulted and taken by force from the clinic by three armed men. My wife physically fought one of them, and was threatened with a gun for her trouble.
”I then returned to my work in Seattle, but stayed in constant contact with Kathy by phone. As she had done from the beginning, she reported the "pulling" sensations predicted by Mr. Keller, and slept a large proportion of every day. She was not very descriptive of her progress during this time; I later learned it was because she wanted to surprise me.
”The initial surprise, though, was not a happy one, when Kathy called to report the incident of Jimmy's abduction. She had been there for about three weeks. She was slated for just a few more days' treatment, then to be sent home for about a month before another stint at the clinic. Mr. Keller had no more told her this than he was assaulted and taken by force from the clinic by three armed men. My wife physically fought one of them, and was threatened with a gun for her trouble.
”Upon her return, I was flabbergasted at what I saw.
She was utterly transformed to a state of emphatic *health*. It was
nothing less than amazing. Kathy walked fully upright. Except for a
few small hard masses in the lower abdomen, all evidence of her tumors was
gone. She was more energetic and alert than I had *ever* seen her.
She had the complexion of a robust child, peaches and cream, rosy cheeks!
Never before had she had such an appearance.
”Though this triumph was overshadowed by the knowledge that the clinic was closed and no more treatment would be available, Kathy's wonderful condition persisted for months. She woke early and slept light. She practically bounced out of bed, something she'd never done before.
”Though this triumph was overshadowed by the knowledge that the clinic was closed and no more treatment would be available, Kathy's wonderful condition persisted for months. She woke early and slept light. She practically bounced out of bed, something she'd never done before.
"Her energy was remarkable. It required about four
months before she began to experience the symptoms of digestive distress again,
and several more before the growths became as strongly evident as before.
”Our tale from there is much like those of many another sufferer of that cancer. Other efforts to duplicate Keller's treatment, on which we spent thousands, were unsuccessful. We were finally left with nothing but surgery (a colostomy, finally necessary to keep Kathy alive) and the usual spiral of chemotherapy.
”Kathy died, a remarkable three years after her diagnosis, on 16 March 1994, of liver failure. But for an almost-successful attempt at killing her with Taxol (which weakened her terribly and after which her doctor recommended euthanasia to our horror), Kathy would probably have lived many months longer. I am convinced Kathy would have lived a fraction of that time without Jimmy Keller's amazing treatment.
”Our tale from there is much like those of many another sufferer of that cancer. Other efforts to duplicate Keller's treatment, on which we spent thousands, were unsuccessful. We were finally left with nothing but surgery (a colostomy, finally necessary to keep Kathy alive) and the usual spiral of chemotherapy.
”Kathy died, a remarkable three years after her diagnosis, on 16 March 1994, of liver failure. But for an almost-successful attempt at killing her with Taxol (which weakened her terribly and after which her doctor recommended euthanasia to our horror), Kathy would probably have lived many months longer. I am convinced Kathy would have lived a fraction of that time without Jimmy Keller's amazing treatment.