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"There had been a head of the FDA (who later turned out to be a fraud) his name was Fishbein and he was rampantly opposed to any alternative therapy. He went after Hoxsey, the Hoxsey therapy back in the 1940's and 50's, and destroyed Hoxsey. But not before Hoxsey sued the AMA and Fishbein and [proved] that the therapy actually worked. But it didn't help him because they closed him down anyhow"----Gary Null http://www.livelinks.com/sumeria/health/garynu1.html
In Iowa, Hoxsey was treating 300 patients a day
in the late -1920s. During the vicious 1937-39 period when Fishbein was stopping Rife's
treatment, Hoxsey was charged more than a hundred times with practicing medicine without a
license in Texas.
Still, Hoxsey's Dallas clinic grew to the point where it was handling
as many as 12,000 patients, with affiliate clinics being established in Illinois,
Pennsylvania and other states. In a legal action against Fishbein and the AMA in 1949,
Hoxsey won. Fishbein' attorney admitted that Hoxsey' treatment did cure cancer. Judge W.
L. Thorton ruled: "I am of the firm opinion and belief that Hoxsey has cured these
people of cancer. Hoxsey has been done a great injustice and . . . articles and utterances
by defendant Morris Fishbein were false, slanderous, and libelous."
Nevertheless, through an organized conspiracy of the AMA, the FDA and
the NCI, Hoxsey's clinics were closed. Doctors who worked with Hoxsey lost their licenses.
Pathologists who examined tumors for Hoxsey lost their businesses. State medical boards
closed free clinics where hundreds of "terminal" cancer patients were being
saved. His treatments have never been officially tested, despite admissions by opponents
that they work and court testimony by experts which resulted in a jury concluding that
Hoxsey's cancer treatment had therapeutic value. Hoxsey's primary assistant still operates
a Hoxsey clinic in Mexico. (Ref: Barry Lynes)
Under Fishbein's direction, the AMA sailed into a golden harbor of prosperity fueled by surgery, radiation, drugs, and a sprawling high-tech hospital system. The corporatization of medicine throttled diversity. The code word for competition was quackery. When Healing Becomes a Crime --Kenny Ausubel
Organized medicine quickly adopted the stance that his alleged "cures" fell into three categories: those who never had cancer in the first place; those who were cured by prior radiation and surgery; and those who died. When Healing Becomes a Crime --Kenny Ausubel
It was easy for the medical profession to paint Hoxsey as a quack: he fit the image perfectly. Brandishing his famed tonic bottle, the ex-coal miner arrived straight from central casting as the stereotype of the snake-oil salesman. When the AMA coerced the pathologist who performed Hoxsey's biopsies to cease and desist, Hoxsey could no longer verify the validity of his reputed successes. Organized medicine quickly adopted the stance that his alleged "cures" fell into three categories: those who never had cancer in the first place; those who were cured by prior radiation and surgery; and those who died. In exasperation, Hoxsey attempted an end run by approaching the National Cancer Institute. In close collaboration with the AMA, the federal agency refused his application for a test because his medical records did not include all the biopsies. When Healing Becomes a Crime --Kenny Ausubel
Meanwhile Hoxsey struck oil in Texas and used his riches to promote his burgeoning clinic and finance his court battles. Piqued at Hoxsey's rise, Fishbein struck back in the public media, penning an inflammatory article in the Hearst Sunday papers entitled "Blood Money," in a classic example of purple prose and yellow journalism. Outraged, Hoxsey sued Fishbein. In two consecutive trials, Hoxsey beat Fishbein, standing as the first person labeled a "quack" to defeat the AMA in court. During the trials, Hoxsey's lawyers revealed that Fishbein had failed anatomy in medical school, never completed his internship, and never practiced a day of medicine in his entire career. When Healing Becomes a Crime --Kenny Ausubel
Clearly, conventional cancer treatments have an important place in medicine and save lives. But since the 1950s, evidence has steadily accumulated that surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy are far less effective than the public is being led to believe. Investigative journalist Daniel Greenberg, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review in 1975, produced the first widely reported exposé showing that cancer survival rates since the 1950s had not progressed, and that improvements from 1930 to 1950 were mainly a consequence of improved hospital nursing care and support systems. Greenberg found that even the valid improvements were very, very small, and that there had been no significant advancements in treating any of the major forms of cancer. When Healing Becomes a Crime --Kenny Ausubel
Pharmaceutical companies pin the high costs of drugs on the forbidding expense of testing and approving each new drug, now pegged at $500 million. In fact, this prohibitive figure has served as a barrier of entry for all but giant corporations. The entire system is founded in patents, twenty-year exclusive licenses that provide monopoly protection. As an herbal product, the Hoxsey tonic cannot be patented and therefore occupies the status of an orphan drug that no company will develop. While approving about forty highly toxic cancer drugs, the FDA has yet to approve a single nontoxic cancer agent or one not patented by a major pharmaceutical company. When Healing Becomes a Crime --Kenny Ausubel