I'm going to let
this video speak for itself. It is about an hour long. Even though it looks like it should be viewed on an old-school slide projector it is actually pretty good at providing facts and hard evidence to support its claims.
So take some time to watch it.
Really.
...and eat more apricot kernels.
*edit: the movie is titled A World Without Cancer.
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See: Here lies the problem with the Facebook scare!
I WATCH the bloody thing, and then we don't get to discuss it.
I AM NOT A PATIENT PERSON.
and I'll probably forget everything before school.
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just kidding.
but seriously, creepy. I feel like I should rush out to a health food store. :/
Oh. My. Land. I just keep watching, and it keeps getting worse!
AHHHHH!
You don't have to publish this comment...I just...wow. can't believe it.
scaray!
hide me!
Or take me to buy vitamins!
or something!
Logan, that's just great but you never said which movie it is, Just a thought.
Ok. First off: I didn't finish it.
I got twenty-one minutes in. Here's what I've got so far:
He only gives one example of “vitamins” curing cancer. This example is not regarding a chronic disease. Afterwards he claims that “no chronic disease” has ever been cured by use of medicine, but always by nutrition which claim he never backs up.
He uses four names for one substance. Nitrilicide, Laetrile, Vitamin b-17, and Amygdalin. Yet, when you watch it he makes it sound like all of these things are somehow different. (Technically, Amygdalin is..)
There is no such thing as a “nitrilocide family.”
Vitamin B17 is not a vitamin unless you agree with his theory. There is no proof that laetrile (as it properly should be called) is necessary for humans to function. G. Edward Griffin is the only scientist to call it a vitamin everyone else calls it by its chemical name. Griffin himself named it Vitamin B17 to support his theory.
The reason why this product is banned? It can cause cyanide poisoning if you eat too much of it.. and if you’re trying to cure something you’d probably eat quite a bit of it. http://www.emedicinehealth.com/cyanide_poisoning/page2_em.htm
As far as testing of it goes this study shows that the use of laetrile is totally ineffective: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/306/4/201.
I’m not sure where this guy comes from, but “millet” was the common food source for Chinese and Korean people and so if he’s arguing to a Western audience he’s got a vastly flawed argument. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millet
Likewise, “Sorghum cane” comes from Australia and, thus, was not present in early Westerner’s diets. Varieties of it can also cause cyanide poisoning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorghum
Even though he talks about the “Hunsa” kingdom and its citizens incredible health and how they are “known world over” I can’t find a single site talking about this supposed group of people.
The supposed “cancer by way of trophoblast” theory might have some validity. Researchers are talking about Beard’s contribution here http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_4_1x_what_are_gestational_trophoblastic_disease_49.asp , but they are not supporting the idea that this is the only way in which cancer is spread.
I don’t know that much about cancer but I do know that his definition of a “benign tumor” is skewed. He says that a benign tumor is one which has “many non-cancerous cells within it” while scientists have proved that a benign tumor is one which is encapsulated and thus cannot spread its cells throughout the body.
Every cell is surrounded by the “phospholipid bilayer” which is polar. He calls this a “thin protein coating which has a negative charge.” He then claims that the negative charges of the two repulse each other. If this were reality no cells would ever get blood.
Interestingly enough, some people argue that the laetrile can cause cancer.
The whole "the scientists are trying to make money off of us" argument does not go over well with me. Sounds a lot like Creon's politics and we can all see how well that turned out for him.
I would suggest reading both his book which is called by the same name and what’s written against the idea including this: http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/laetrile.html
That’s as far as I got in the video. Now I’m off to write a Chemistry paper. Toodles.
P.S . I feel I need to bring up a pet peeve of mine to end it all= Columbus was not trying to prove that the Earth was round. The fact that the Earth is round had already been proven by the time he sailed. In fact, Columbus thought the Earth to be pear shaped. The reason why we today believe this about “Columbus proving the Earth wasn’t flat” junk is because of Washington Irving’s “Riddles of Columbus.” http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=h&p=c&a=b&ID=52
:D
"The whole 'the scientists are trying to make money off of us' argument does not go over well with me."
Okay, Saralyn, this is what the Bureau of Labor Statistics has to say on the subject:
-As the largest industry in 2006, health care provided 14 million jobs—13.6 million jobs for wage and salary workers and about 438,000 jobs for the self-employed.
-7 of the 20 fastest growing occupations are health care related.
-Health care will generate 3 million new wage and salary jobs between 2006 and 2016, more than any other industry.
But no one's making any money off this industry, right? No, of course not! Oh, wait a minute...
Ok. Sorry. I wrote that quite poorly. I do agree that there is profit within the medical field. People are people and some will take advantage of the system. But to state that the whole medical World is corrupted by money and is not working to find cures rings false to me.
Also - this entirely opinion - it would seem as though with a growing population that will continuely need health care that the number of workers in the field would increase, but probably the drastic amount is not entirely necessary.. I agree. But, the list does include health care for retirement homes which, as the baby boomers get older will increase in staffing.
http://www.bls.gov/oco/cg/cgs035.htm
Perhaps my views of the health care World are tainted, however, because I have considered a career within it.
My thoughts on the business side of the health care industry...
14 million jobs. That's 14 million people who can now find a way to feed their families. What's wrong with that? Most of these people are trying to make medicine more effective, and help people lead healthier lives. I don't see anything wrong with a booming health industry. People need money to live, if a lot of money goes into one industry, as long as it's not all going to a small group of people, I say great for that industry. It's keeping people off the streets.
Granted... a lot of people in the health industry make a lot more money than they need to live. But they have to have some incentive to go through all those years of school, I have a cousin-in-law who recently told me it's going to cost him about half a million to get through med school... I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd want to be paid well after forking out that kind of money for my education.
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