THEY SAID THAT?

"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 Suguira 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.

"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.

"...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."

"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 an 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.

"We don't have any pesticides showing up in the food chain anymore." - NCI Director and ACS vice president, Dr. Frank Rauscher.

"The data provided by the McNaughton Foundation certainly indicates some activity (of Laetrile) in animal tumor systems." - Dr. Carl Baker, Director, NCI 1970-1972.

"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.

"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.

"Dr. Anthony Verlangieri, ..Rutgers U. ..., was refused funds for...reducing atherosclerosis 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 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.

"...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, discoverer of Vitamin C

"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.

(Why is there frequent criticism that the cancer research system is unreceptive to unorthodoxy?) "Because it's 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.

"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).

"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.