THEY SAID THAT?

"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.

"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." - Dr. Herbert Ley, Commissioner of the FDA.

"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.

"It is part of the cure to wish to be cured." - Seneca (4 BC to 65 AD).

"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).

"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."- Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790).

"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 University.

"...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.

"... 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).

"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.

"...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.

"..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.

"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. Discoverer of Vitamin B17 (Laetrile)