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health. At the time, Dr Kanematsu Sugiura was the — vested interests or justified as "not good for the senior laboratory researcher at the Memorial stockholders". This untenable situation could be Sloan-Ketting Cancer Center. He reported in his defended on the grounds of economic rationalism, i.e., experiments with mice that Laetrile was more effective in "Let a few of them die for the greater good". Yet the the control of cancer than any substance he had ever reality is that one part of society is surviving on the tested. This was not acceptable to his superiors. — suffering and death of the other. Instead of being pleased at the possibility of a Many people might believe that a serious, fraudulent, breakthrough, they brought in other researchers to _mass-life-threatening situation could never happen in duplicate Sugiura's experiments to try to prove that they modern times, yet I was an eyewitness to open were faulty. Instead, the follow-up studies confirmed — statements that such shocking economic rationalism is a Sugiura's findings. Undaunted, his superiors called for driving force behind the cancer industry. new experiments, but following procedures which were designed to make the tests fail. Eventually they did, and — A Family History it was only this failure that was announced to the world. This story begins some 35 years ago when my father Ralph Moss, PhD, was a science Geoffrey was the first person to impor writer and then the assistant director of Laetrile into Australia. Dad was a public affairs at Sloan-Kettering at the partner in a new health foods time of the Laetrile tests. When he was Instead, the company, and they were also the firs ordered by his superiors to release _ 9 in the world to sell flavoured minera false information about the results of follow up studies water. The market was wide open and those tests, he held a press conference confirmed my father had positioned himself well. in November 1977 in protest and was . 1, £2. 41° At the time, Laetrile was no subsequently fired for "failing to carry Sugiura's findings. prohibited so it seemed like a good out [his] most basic job responsibility Undaunted, his investinent to ane to his stab i. é (Moss, 1994). Dr Moss later wrote a . my father soon became aware of the book, The Cancer Syndrome, about this superiors called for overwhelming human need behind it. scandalous situation, but it hardly new experiments It was more than a mere product. Dad raised an eyebrow in the medical world. ? could see that it was really helping but following people. However, my father was row me ony ae nethin procedures which id ° l tiem an an far ftom hat seems bureaucratic and were designed to idealistic world. jomenscl oles tenors HM make the tests fal. M13, tulues fam person is diagnosed as having Eventually had become our stock room. He had two drivers and was responsible for the distribution. It was common for people to come to the home in order to diagnosed with cancer each year, conduct business with Dad. He his ensures that seven times as would often do business deals many jobs are secured. Billions of dollars are poured standing in the garage, sweaty from lugging boxes o into the fundraising process for cancer research, which stock. I was only twelve years old, yet I clearly is itself a huge industry employing thousands. A small remember some men in black suits with posh accents percentage of those funds not used up in the arguing with my father in the front yard of our house. undraising process filter through to a self-perpetuating | went outside to investigate the commotion. Dad was research process. How is it possible, under these inishing a very intense, in-depth conversation with circumstances, to remove a vested interest in not finding hese men in black. They looked at each other and a cure from this huge, convoluted bureaucratic process? rolled their eyes. | clearly remember hearing them say, Add to this that the drug companies have stockpiles of | "You don't understand; we simply cannot allow you to current treatments that are very toxic, are limited in import something that might damage the cancer industry i their results and are fetching very good prices. This people begin self-prescribing" (my emphasis). My father means that it would not be sensible to declare an easy, rarely raised his voice or got upset, yet he swore a cheap, non-toxic and readily available solution, which hese men, told me to go inside and told them to leave. requires little or no specialist training in its As Iwas going inside, I heard one of the men say to my administration, as obtainable on the market any time ather that if he refused to co-operate, they would ruin soon. It could be seen as being contrary to certain im and all of his businesses. cancer, as many as seven people are directly employed in their reatment. With hundreds of housands of people being they did... vested interests or justified as "not good for the stockholders". This untenable situation could be defended on the grounds of economic rationalism, i-e., “Let a few of them die for the greater good". Yet the reality is that one part of society is surviving on the suffering and death of the other. Many people might believe that a serious, fraudulent, mass-life-threatening situation could never happen in modern times, yet I was an eyewitness to open statements that such shocking economic rationalism is a driving force behind the cancer industry. Instead, the follow-up studies confirmed Sugiura's findings. Undaunted, his superiors called for new experiments, but following procedures which Eventually they did... NEXUS ° 31 were designed to make the tests fail. FEBRUARY - MARCH 2011 www.nexusmagazine.com