Here is an illustration of how a promising cancer treatment can be buried. The following information comes from Daniel Haley's brilliant book, Politics in Healing: The Suppression and Manipulation of American Medicine.
Haley recounts how a 1991 clinical trial of the innovative and "alternative" cancer medicine, hydrazine sulfate (HS), was rigged.
Rigged to fail.
A promising medicine, HS had shown good results in trials at Harbor/UCLA hospital and in Russia. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) felt obligated to test the drug. But there was a catch.
The drug's discoverer, Dr. Joseph Gold, had found that HS could provoke very dangerous effects if patients were taking other drugs, especially tranquilizers. Several warnings were given to NCI before it began its test. The warnings were explicit. Patients could DIE if they were taking tranquilizers.
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Realist - Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.
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