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Now we can ask ourselves whether it was perhaps the fault of conference of his own and, before a battery of reporters and cam- some kindly but misguided soul who posted John Diamond an __ eramen, charged that Sloan-Kettering officials had engineered a essay on the benefits of vitamin B17 mixed with walnut water massive cover-up. He provided all the supporting documents and which caused him to dismiss B17 so emphatically. Or was it that named all the names necessary to validate his case. The following John actually trusted the conventional research reports he had _— day he was fired for "failing to carry out his most basic job accrued on this vitamin? responsibilities" .* Interestingly, Dr Dean Burk, the former head of the Similarly, in his book, World Without Cancer, cancer industry Cytochemistry Department of the National Cancer Institute and _ researcher G. Edward Griffin notes: one of the co-founders of this famous American medical institu- "Every laetrile study had been tarnished with the same kind of tion, had personally worked on vitamin B17. He described this scientific ineptitude, bias and outright deception... Some of these substance in very different terms: studies openly admitted evidence of anti-cancer effect, but has- "When we add laetrile to a cancer culture under the __ tened to attribute this effect to other causes. Some were toxicity microscope," said Dr Burk, "providing the enzyme glucosidase studies only, which means that they weren't trying to see if laetrile also is present, we can see the cancer cells dying off like flies."”° was effective, but merely to determine how much of it was (Glucosidase is the enzyme heavily present in cancerous cells, required to kill the patient."* which triggers the unique cancer-destroying mechanism found in The "evidence" supporting John Diamond's claim that vitamin vitamin B17. An excellent clinical analysis of this mechanism is B17 is useless and even dangerous is available in abundance in all found in B17 Metabolic Therapy — In the Prevention and Control __ of the major cancer institutions today. Well, of course it is! of Cancer, a concise history of the research into this vitamin, We're in the merchant's house, don't forget! including many clinical assessments.”') As Pat Rattigan, author of The Cancer Business, reports: Dr Burk also stated that "The threat to the cancer business evidence for laetrile's efficacy had from effective therapies was taken very been noted in at least five seriously from the beginning. By the independent institutions in three "When we add laetrile to a 1940s, the Syndicate had 300,000 widely separated countries of the names on its 'quack' files. Vitamin world.” cancer culture under the B17, being a unique threat due to its So whom do we trust in this 1 W eat simplicity, attracted more matter? Diamond or Burk? By microscope, said Dr Burk, concentrated attacks than all the other looking at where John Diamond providing the enzyme treatments put together: fraudulent might hone gous BI” such | glucosidase also is present, ff Pst: he, banner-ary ing conventional cancer research we can see the cancer cells newspaper character a nations; move more sharply into focus. d g g tac I dismissal of heretic employees; etc. ying off like flies. The FDA, orchestrating the onslaught, sent out 10,000 posters and Cancer is big business, and hundreds of thousands of leaflets knowledge claims on any treatments warning about the dangers of the that earn money and, conversely, on any treatments that do not _ toxicity of the non-toxic substance. Earlier, a Congressional earn money for the drug companies are never neutral. Accounting Office had found that 350 FDA employees had shares Dr Ralph Moss served as the Assistant Director of Public in, or had refused to declare an interest in, the pharmaceutical Affairs at America's most famous cancer research institution, industry." Memorial Sloan-Kettering in Manhattan. He knows the cancer The American Food and Drug Administration issued one such industry inside out. Read what he had to say in an April 1994 story about the death of an 11-month-old girl, supposedly from interview with Laura Lee, and judge for yourself the quality of the cyanide poisoning due to her apparently swallowing her father's Because of the Money evidence against the effectiveness of vitamin B17: vitamin B17 tablets. Cancer specialist and B17 advocate Dr Dr Moss: "Shortly after I went to work [at the Sloan-Kettering Harold Manner takes up the story: Cancer Institute], I visited the elderly Japanese scientist "I was lecturing in Buffalo, New York and...after I had made Kanematsu Sugiura, who astonished me when he told me he was some strong statements, a man stood up and said, ‘Dr Manner, working on laetrile (B17). At the time it was the most controver- how in the world can you make statements like that when the sial thing in cancer, reputed to be a cure for cancer. We in Public FDA is making these other statements?’ I reiterated that the FDA Affairs were giving out statements that laetrile was worthless, it statements were lies. He said, ‘Look at this little girl in upstate was quackery, and that people should not abandon proven thera- New York; she took her father's laetrile tablets and died of pies. I was astonished that our most distinguished scientist would —_ cyanide poisoning.’ Just then, a little lady stood up: 'Dr Manner, be bothering with something like this, and I said, 'Why are you let me answer that question. I think I am entitled to because I am doing this if it doesn't work?' He took down his lab books and that little baby's mother. That baby never touched her father's showed me that, in fact, laetrile was dramatically effective in laetrile tablets. The doctor, knowing the father was on laetrile, stopping the spread of cancer." marked down "possible cyanide poisoning". At the hospital they Laura Lee: "So this is verified, that laetrile can have this used a cyanide antidote and it was the antidote that killed the positive effect?" child. And yet that statement will continue to appear, even Moss: "We were finding this and yet we in Public Affairs were though they know it is a lie.""”” told to issue statements to the exact opposite of what we were The scare stories always focus on the minute amounts of finding scientifically."* naturally occurring cyanide found in vitamin B17. But no Unable to sit on this information, Dr Moss later called a press mention is made in any of these stories of the wondrous "When we add laetrile to a cancer culture under the microscope," said Dr Burk, "providing the enzyme glucosidase also is present, we can see the cancer cells 34 ¢ NEXUS dying off like flies." www.nexusmagazine.com OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2002