Medical Dark Ages Quotes
By Wade Frazier
I discovered Ralph Hovnanian's Medical Dark Ages in 1990. It was a seminal experience for me in understanding how the medical establishment works. I spent many hours reading his quotation collages, and several years ago I copied seventy pages of quotes from Medical Dark Ages into a book that I wrote. In that version, I inserted many editorial comments regarding how the quotes related to my experiences. The rest of my web site does that talking, and I have decided to let the Medical Dark Ages quotes speak for themselves. Ralph's book is more than just quotes, and what follows are not all of them, but the next seventy pages will be a wild ride if you decide to take it. I have broken it into seven sections, to make it easier to plow through. In Medical Dark Ages, Ralph also summarized the results of published studies on alternative cancer treatments and their success rates. Ralph did it for hundreds of studies on dozens of alternative treatments.
Ralph is a friend of mine, and will always have my gratitude for the years of effort that he spent in compiling Medical Dark Ages. After reading this section, I hope he has yours.
"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 (in National 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, FRSM The 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)