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[Bill Totten]

Author G Edward Griffin exposes how corrupt politics prevent real cancer
cures from reaching the public

by Alexis Black, citizen journalist


Thirty-one years ago, a man wrote a book exposing the politics involved
in cancer therapy. It painted a picture of a world in which an effective
control for cancer existed but was outlawed because it couldn't line the
pockets of the powerful pharmaceutical industry. In 31 years, little has
changed.

G Edward Griffin's 1974 book World Without Cancer is as poignant today
as the day it was written, and in some circles, just as controversial.
That's because Griffin tells the story of a powerful substance that,
despite its potential to aid in the fight against cancer, few cancer
sufferers will ever know about, and that their doctors certainly will
not offer them. That substance is vitamin B-17, also called Laetrile,
and it is a naturally-occurring substance that has been banned for use
in the control of cancer in the United States.

Griffin was first introduced to the subject of vitamin therapy for
cancer control while on a fishing trip with San Francisco physician John
Richardson, he said in a telephone interview. Dr Richardson told Griffin
he had seen great success in treating his cancer patients with vitamin
B-17, but he faced opposition from local medical authorities who, when
they caught wind of what he was doing, balked at the fact he was using a
treatment that was not FDA-approved. In an effort to protect his right
to administer a therapy he had seen work on so many patients, Dr
Richardson turned to Griffin for help in advancing his cause, and thus
was the beginning of World Without Cancer.

Griffin, who knew nothing of the science of cancer when he began his
project, soon learned plenty. His research led him to the conclusion
that naturally-occurring Laetrile is indeed an effective treatment for
cancer. In fact, from the time he started his research to today, Griffin
says he has seen literally thousands of people benefit from treatment
with Laetrile. He also learned that cancer is a disease linked directly
to a deficiency of vitamin B-17, which is found in high amounts in
apricot kernels. However, perhaps the most important and most troubling
thing he learned was that Laetrile and its health potential were being
kept out of doctors' hands for political - not scientific - reasons.

According to Griffin, the 1953 California Report continues to be the
basis of most scientific or legal opposition to vitamin B-17 today. The
report, written by Dr Henry Garland and Dr E M McDonald of the
California Medical Association's Cancer Advisory Commission, claims
there is no proof Laetrile is an effective control for cancer. (It
should be noted that these two particular doctors were at the time also
insisting there was no link between smoking and lung cancer.)

However, Griffin writes in World Without Cancer that Garland and
McDonald actually falsified information from Laetrile experiments cited
in the California Report. In fact, ten years after the report was
published, original documents surfaced that proved information had been
falsified. Although the report was subsequently updated, additional
problems - such as insufficient vitamin dosages used in the experiments
- persisted, and the conclusions of the original California Report
remained embedded in the literature and minds of many.

Additional studies conducted by well-known groups like the
Sloane-Kettering Institute have proven the effectiveness of Laetrile,
according to Griffin. However, those study results have not been publicized.

"When you dig into the facts, and you read the reports by the people
themselves inside those institutions, you find out they found in their
testing that Laetrile was highly effective, but they received directives
from the top to suppress that information", Griffin said.

So why would the "powers-that-be" work so hard to suppress information
that could benefit thousands of people dying of cancer? "They do that
because they're trying to make a buck, and something that is found in
nature, like Laetrile, cannot be patented", says Griffin. But the story
doesn't stop there.

The Hitler / Pharma connection

World Without Cancer is divided into two parts, and in the second half
of the book, Griffin goes on to reveal some disturbing information about
an international drug cartel that came into being in the years before
World War II that he says played a significant role in shaping the field
of medicine in this country. This powerful cartel was created, Griffin
argues, when I G Farben, a German-based chemical company and financial
backer of Adolf Hitler, joined together with Standard Oil of New Jersey,
founded by American business tycoon John D Rockefeller, in an agreement
not to compete. The partnership was largely concealed, since neither
company wanted their countries to know about the relationship in the
event of an inevitable second world war. In a lecture, Griffin once
referred to the Farben-Rockefeller merger as "the largest and most
powerful cartel the world has ever known, even though most people have
never heard about it".

And so the extremely influential Rockefeller came to be interlocked with
the drug industry, and under the guise of philanthropy, began donating
large sums of money to America's faltering medical schools. Of course,
the catch was that such schools were told the money had to be used for
drug research, which would create a great profit for Rockefeller
interests. In their time of need, medical schools readily complied.
"When they accepted the money, they had to follow the dollar, and they
designed their curricula so it favors pharmacy (and) pharmaceutical
drugs", says Griffin.

This effectively gave birth to the conventional medical care system we
know today, which is based almost entirely on prescription drugs and
knows little to nothing about basic nutrition. "The medical schools of
the United States now teach the students everything there is to know
about their product, which is drugs", Griffin says, "And so [doctors]
come out as highly trained drug salesmen, and they don't even know it!"

Even doctors are kept in the dark about B-17

It's no wonder then that natural treatments like vitamin B-17 remain
banned or widely unknown in the United States; there is a long line of
profit and power ensuring they stay that way. That's why doctors will
not offer cancer patients vitamin therapy with vitamin B-17, and why
most doctors, if asked about Laetrile, will say it has been proven
ineffective. However, Griffin doesn't blame the doctors for conventional
modern medicine's focus on drugs, noting, "They're kind of victims of
this whole system as much as the rest of us, and they and their families
die of cancer just like everyone else. So it's clear that they're not
holding back a control for cancer that they know works. If they knew
about it, they would use it, just like Dr Richardson. It's just that
they're pretty well sheltered from that information, and they rely very
strongly on the prestigious sources at the top."

Since Griffin's book hit shelves in 1974, awareness of natural health
has increased, but little has changed in terms of the availability of
Laetrile in the United States. It remains illegal for doctors to
prescribe or sell Laetrile as a control for cancer. According to
Griffin, however, some clinics continue to quietly use the substance,
often only after the patient has obtained it. Many other patients travel
to Mexico for treatment.

Griffin worries that vitamin B-17 is not the only natural treatment for
serious disease being suppressed because of political and financial
reasons. "I'm convinced, and this is just my opinion now; I can't back
this up with facts, but on the basis of what I've seen, I think this
whole AIDS field is just a rubber stamp of the cancer field", Griffin
states. He adds, "I am sure that you'll find this thing all over the
medical field because they follow the buck. They have to have something
that's patented to do that, and patented medicines are usually toxic."

Today, Griffin says writing World Without Cancer dramatically changed
his views and may have saved his life. "It is like night into day", he
says. "I am firmly convinced that had I not done this research and
learned what I did, I probably would have been dead today because I was
living the lifestyle of the typical American - fast foods, no exercise
(and) no awareness of the fact that I had any responsibility for my health".

The politics of cancer therapy

On the first page of his book, Griffin openly acknowledges that what he
writes is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration, American
Medical Association or the American Cancer Society and says that they in
fact would call it "fraud and quackery". That is because, as Griffin has
often said, the politics of cancer therapy are far more complicated than
the science of cancer therapy.

This core problem, according to Griffin, cannot be solved until we get
the politics out of a lot of other areas as well. In the meantime, it is
up to each individual consumer to take responsibility for his or her own
health and wellbeing. "I think it's important for people to understand
that government, in most cases, is not the solution; it's the problem",
Griffin warns. "As long as people think that the government is supposed
to take care of them and protect them and that they can trust their
politicians - as long as they think that, they're in deep trouble. And,
in fact, we are all in deep trouble because of that kind of thinking."

A second, updated edition of World Without Cancer was released in 1997
and can be purchased at Griffin's website, http://www.realityzone.com.
You can also visit the Cancer Cure Foundation, an organization Griffin
is a part of that promotes new information on the prevention and control
of cancer, at http://www.cancure.org.

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For more about G Edward Griffin, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Edward_Griffin
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