the-truth-about-cancer

The Truth About Cancer
Ty: Talk about the California report of 1953. I’ve heard you—I’ve
read some of your writings about the California report and it’s very
interesting topic.
G. Edward Griffin: It is and it’s a clear example of the degree to
which—I guess there’s no other word but fraud, the degree to which
fraud, deliberate, conscious fraud can be injected into what we would
normally think is a scientific process. Early in the days of development
of laetrile there were stories circulating that people were getting well.
They’re being treated and they’re coming back from the edge of the
grave and so forth. And so naturally the pharmaceutical industry wanted
to put an end to this. And so they set up a deal where they wanted to
have it tested. The idea is, okay, none of this discussion about people
getting saved, none of these little stories. Let’s do a scientific test. Well,
everybody was in favor of that except they insisted that only those who
were opponents of laetrile do the tests because nobody else could do
the tests you see, and it had to be the oncologists and the people on the
staff of the pharmaceutical industry and so forth. Well anyway, to make
a long story short, and it is a long story, the California branch of the
AMA, the California Medical Association was given the task of doing a
test on laetrile. And the people who were in charge of this were all in the
cancer industry. The two men, as I remember their names correctly, that
wrote the analysis of the report were Dr. McFarland and Garland I think.
And McFarland I think was a surgeon. And Garland I think was a
radiologist or maybe it was the other way around. But they were—there
was a surgeon and a radiologist and the other members of the panel
were all in similar positions. Most of them were radiologists interestingly
enough I think.
So anyway, they all had kind of a vested interested in not finding
something that would interfere with their businesses you see. So there
was sort of a bias built in. anyway, they did this very fine scientific study
using mice and so forth. They spent a lot of money and they produced
the report and McFarland and Garland announced that there was no
evidence whatsoever that laetrile had any effect whatsoever in the
control of cancer. So that was all anybody needed to hear. There was
something done by the California Medical Association and two fine
upstanding doctors. Well, these doctors, just to give you an idea of how
fine and scientifically astute they were, these were the guys that both of
them said that there was no connection at all between cigarette smoking
and lung cancer—the same doctors, yeah, before they got involved in
this report. But they had already been bought and paid for by the
tobacco industry, of course. In fact, I think it was McFarlane that even
made this fantastic quote, “a pack a day keeps cancer away.”
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