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.Let us suppose thatbeen far from a paragon of excellence.But more important, anythe FDA had only the power to require the label and literature of1."And if it Works.," The Washington Post,] June 4,1971.1.Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Vol.II (New York: Alfred Knopf,2."Frustrating Drug Advancement," Newsweek, Jan.8,1973, p.49.1945), p.291. 356 WORLD WITHOUT CANCER: Part Two A WORLD WITHOUT CANCER 357manufacturer in his right mind would naturally seek the highest solve the problem, for the FDA is still fully operable and free topossible sanitation standards if for no other reason than to avoid rewrite its rulings, to tighten them up so as to override the court'slawsuits from customers.One can be sure also that inspectorsdecision.Sooner or later, the doctor or the distributor will befrom companies that underwrite the manufacturer's productunder arrest again.liability insurance have more than a casual interest in theirUltimately, the law must be changed.At the very least, thatclient's sanitation record.Since violation of the underwriter'smeans legislation specifically aimed at removing the FDA fromstandards can result in higher premiums or in cancellation of thejurisdiction over vitamins.Another approach might be a lawsuitinsurance, the manufacturer would be a fool to ignore them.Aton behalf of cancer victims challenging the constitutionality of theany rate, local health agencies are more than adequate for the jobinfringement upon their rights.Both lines of attack should beof maintaining sanitation standards.Federal inspectors are nolaunched.more proficient than state, county, or city inspectors, and there isThe final contest, however, will be fought on the largerno need for such wasteful duplication.battleground of whether the government should have any powerContamination and adulteration of food-and-drug productsover our food, medicine, or health.It will be only around thisundoubtedly would occur from time to time.But they also occurquestion that the many issues will lose their fuzzy edges and aunder the present system of FDA guardianship.The truth is thatchance for a real victory will become possible.In order to abolishthe FDA serves no reasonable or necessary function in this fieldthe FDA, or at least to restrict its operation, we will need eitherand should be withdrawn from it completely.legislation or a constitutional amendment.We should pursueIt is time to stop this nonsense about humbly petitioning theboth.FDA to grant us permission to test Laetrile, to sell apricot kernels,The possibility of a constitutional revision is not as extreme asto take high-potency vitamins, or to do any of a hundred otherit may sound.In fact, Dr.Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia one ofspecific things which it prohibits.Asking the FDA to approvethe signers of the Declaration of Independence, a member of thethese is like asking the wolf to okay the lunch in Little Red RidingContinental Congress, Surgeon-General of Washington's armies,Hood's basket.It is time we realize that the FDA has no businessand probably the foremost American physician of his day hadin this field at all.We must stop asking meekly for permission andclose the outfit down! urged his colleagues to include "medical liberty" in the FirstAmendment at the time it was drafted.He wrote:How is this to be accomplished? Returning again to thetrophoblast analogy, our first task is to manufacture and inject theUnless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the timewill come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictator-extrinsic factor which is the vitamin of public opinion.Theship.To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and denyintrinsic factor will be the re-building of legislative, judicial, andequal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medicalconstitutional safeguards.Within this category, our most immedi-science.All such laws are un-American and despotic.and have noate work is in the courts.We must provide legal defense for thoseplace in a republic.The Constitution of this Republic should makephysicians and distributors who have the courage to risk theirspecial provision for medical freedom as well as religious freedom.(1)reputations and their livelihoods (to say nothing of a jail sen-There are more human beings alive right now than the sumtence) by standing against the bureaucracy.Of necessity, however,total of all those born from the beginning of time to the beginningthe legal battles fought on their behalf initially must be on narrowof this century.If we fail to heed Dr.Rush's advice; if we fail togrounds and defensive in nature.The primary thrust of most ofrealize that medical freedom is just as important as the otherthese cases will be merely to prove that the use of vitamin B17freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights; then, before thisdoes not in fact violate the law.century is over, more human beings will have died of cancer thanThe objective here is not to change the law, (for laws are notchanged in court) but merely to keep the defendant out of jail.1.As quoted by Bealle, The New Drug Story, op.tit., p.188, and by Dr.DeanBurk in The Cancer News Journal, May/June, 1973, p.4.Even if these cases are successful, however, they do not really 358 WORLD WITHOUT CANCER: Part TwoBIBLIOGRAPHY 359Acevedo, Ph.D., Herman F., Tong, Ph.D., Jennifer Y.and Hartsock, M.D.,the total of all men who have ever lived on this earth prior to thatRobert J."Human Chorionic Gonadotropin-Beta Subunit Gene Expres-time.And this will happen in a century during which the solutionsion in Cultured Human Fetal and Cancer Cells of Different Types andwas known and written in the scientific record.Origins." Cancer.October 15,1995, Volume 76, No.8, pp.1467-1473.In the days ahead, the controversy over medical freedom willAckerknecht, Edwin H.History and Geography of the Most Important Diseases.intensify.Let it come.The reputations of honest men will beNew York: Hafner Publishing Co., Inc., 1972.tarnished by the medical establishment and the media, andAmbruster, Howard.Treason's Peace.New York: Beechhurst Press, 1947.respectable business ventures will be ruined.So be it.Innocent"Amygdalin Claimed Nontoxic Anti-Cancer Therapeutic Agent." Infectiousmen will be tried before corrupt or intimidated judges andDiseases.Oct.15,1971, pp.1,23
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