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Episode 6: What Would Doc Do<br />
Ty: I’ve seen <strong>the</strong> newspaper ads that <strong>the</strong>y used to run that had that<br />
exact quote. That was from him.<br />
G. Edward Griffin: That was from him. He was one of <strong>the</strong> guys.<br />
Incidentally he died in bed some years later in a fire started by his<br />
cigarette in bed.<br />
Ty: Wow!<br />
G. Edward Griffin: It burnt him up. I mean I’m sorry that anybody died<br />
especially from fire but I thought it was a certain irony…<br />
Ty: Poetic justice<br />
G. Edward Griffin: …poetic justice or something. And <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r guy<br />
died of <strong>cancer</strong> of <strong>the</strong> lung. They’re both heavy smokers. So anyway, that<br />
gives you a little idea of <strong>the</strong> scientific expertise of <strong>the</strong>se guys. Well, as<br />
far as most doctors are concerned if <strong>the</strong>y see a report from <strong>the</strong><br />
California Medical Association and it’s accepted by <strong>the</strong> teaching<br />
institutions, <strong>the</strong>re’s no question that that is—that’s science, right. That’s<br />
au<strong>the</strong>ntic.<br />
Ty: That’s gospel <strong>truth</strong>.<br />
G. Edward Griffin: That is gospel <strong>truth</strong>. Well, and it was accepted as<br />
gospel <strong>truth</strong> for quite a while. and <strong>the</strong>n we got a hold of a copy of <strong>the</strong> full<br />
report. I’ve forgotten how we did it but we did and it was a big thick<br />
report. All anybody ever saw was that little summary that <strong>the</strong>y wrote.<br />
And it turns out that <strong>the</strong>se guys never use laetrile <strong>the</strong>mselves. They<br />
were just sort of analyzing <strong>the</strong> laboratory results of <strong>the</strong> study and this<br />
was <strong>the</strong>ir summary. Well, when you go back and read <strong>the</strong> actual pages<br />
of <strong>the</strong> report <strong>the</strong> summary was a lie, an absolute lie. Nobody ever went<br />
back to look at it. There was plenty of evidence in <strong>the</strong> laboratory work<br />
that it did retard <strong>the</strong> growth of <strong>cancer</strong>. In spite of <strong>the</strong> fact that it was a<br />
high question <strong>about</strong> <strong>the</strong> quality of <strong>the</strong> laetrile <strong>the</strong>y were using. In fact, it<br />
was pretty sure—it was pretty obvious that <strong>the</strong>y did not have a good<br />
quality laetrile.<br />
It was also obvious <strong>the</strong>y were using lower dosages than was being used<br />
in <strong>the</strong> clinics. And in spite of those two handicaps <strong>the</strong> laboratory results<br />
were reporting case after case after case where <strong>the</strong>se mice were<br />
recovering from <strong>cancer</strong> right in <strong>the</strong> body of <strong>the</strong> report. And yet, <strong>the</strong><br />
summary was <strong>the</strong>re was absolutely no evidence that <strong>the</strong>re’s—you know,<br />
etc. etc. This was sort of <strong>the</strong> flagship of what had been repeated many<br />
times since <strong>the</strong>n. The Sloan-Kettering report did pretty much <strong>the</strong> same<br />
thing and it goes on and on and on. And once people realized that not<br />
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