Dated: January 11, 2001 Letter to the Editor Los Angeles Times
I am the Founder of The
Cancer Cure Foundation, a non-profit organization that, for 26 years, has
been dedicated to the task of compiling information on alternative cancer
treatments from around the world.
I am in strong disagreement with
the views expressed by Barrie Cassileth in the article entitled "Laetrile by
Any Other Name Is Still Bogus" which appeared in your publication on January
1, 2001. Our findings are that Laetrile is among the best treatments for
cancer that has ever been found. It does not work 100% of the time (what
therapy does?), but our studies show that Laetrile is significantly more
effective than radiation or chemotherapy.
Conventional medicine is
losing the fight against cancer. After decades of research and the
expenditure of billions of dollars, the cancer rate still continues to
climb. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States,
second only to heart disease. Thirty-three percent of all women will develop
cancer in their lifetime — fifty percent of all men! Virtually every family
now is at risk. Conventional medicine is further from a cure for cancer than
when the search began.
Your readers should be cautioned that Barrie
Cassileth is employed by the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan,
which has a reputation for scientific fraud. In 1974, it was the scene of
one of the greatest scientific scandals of the century. Dr. William
Summerlin, one of the top-ranking researchers there, claimed to have found a
way to prevent transplanted tissue from being rejected. To prove his case,
he displayed white mice with square black patches of fur, claiming that skin
grafts from black mice were now accepted by white mice. It was later
discovered that he had created the black patches with a marker pen.
On a much more serious level was the well-publicized Laetrile test conducted
at Sloan-Kettering in the 1970s. The final report stated there was no
evidence that Laetrile was effective. However, employees inside
Sloan-Kettering secretly sent copies of the actual lab reports to the press
that proved just the opposite. Dr. Ralph Moss, who was Assistant Director of
Public Affairs at Sloan-Kettering, was one of the whistle-blowers. He was
fired because of it. The Sloan report was an insult to truth and a
prostitution of science. A well-documented account of this episode is the
chapter entitled "Genocide in Manhattan," in World without Cancer, by G.
Edward Griffin. It will change your view regarding the integrity at
Sloan-Kettering.
Sincerely,
G. Edward Griffin |