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[Hollywoodaction]

Researchers at the University of Alberta have found that DCA, a chemical that is already used to treat some illnesses in humans, causes the regression of all types of cancer cells.

http://www.depmed.ualberta.ca/dca/

You've probably never heard of it because it simply doesn't fit into the plans the drug companies. It has no patent.

http://www.depmed.ualberta.ca/dca/vid1.htm

[mindmetoo]

I dunno. If I was working at a drug company and I had the cure for cancer at my finger tips, I don't exactly have to worry about being fired. A Nobel prize for Medicine would pretty much make me immune. I'm not sure how drug companies could keep things like that secret. Someone would surely quit, take a safe job at a university researching it, and then roll out the discovery and collect his Nobel prize and bullet proof immunity. And if the guy has his science ducks in a row, he would have no problem finding some biotech company to fund his research to the hilt. (Or the National Science Foundation. Does big pharma control the NSF? Your conspiracy widens a lot...)

The amount of money a drug company would have to pay a scientist to keep quiet and NOT win the Nobel prize, fame, and not become one of the recognized giant shoulders upon which other scientists proudly stand, would probably be equal to what the drug company would earn keeping it all hush hush.

I mean, what would YOU do if you were a scientist working for big pharma and you had the magic bullet for cancer?

By way of example, look at the guy who proved H Pylori was the cause of most ulcers. How much money was big pharma making treating ulcers? Yeah it sucks that a simple antibiotic was proven effective. Or what about drug companies that were making loads off of menopausal women taking hormone replacement therapy? And then it was shown in a definitive study it was not only doing no good but was doing great harm. Why didn't the octopus that is big pharma crush that one? Or what about surgeons who were making loads of money tying off veins around the heart to cure angina, when one of their own demonstrated it had no effect and it was just placebo? Or TB. There was a whole industry devoted to treating TB. Or polio. There are a legion of examples where cash cows were over thrown by researchers.

[Pligganease]

I hate big medicine, and I firmly believe they have cures for so many things that they keep under lock and key until they need it for their own profits.

[mindmetoo]

[Grimalkin]

I used to work in medical information with one of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies so I completely understand this.

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[Atassi]

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[some waygug-in]

Some interesting reading for you:

http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/online/research/cancer.html

Does this mean that ALL of the people who work in the cancer research industry are consciously part of a conspiracy to hold back a cure for cancer? Author G.Edward Griffin explains ". . . let's face it, these people die from cancer like everybody else. . . [I]t's obvious that these people are not consciously holding back a control for cancer. It does mean, however, that the [pharmaceutical-chemical] cartel's medical monopoly has created a climate of bias in our educational system, in which scientific truth often is sacrificed to vested interests . . . [I]f the money is coming from drug companies, or indirectly from drug companies, the impetus is in the direction of drug research. That doesn't mean somebody blew the whistle and said "hey, don't research nutrition!" It just means that nobody is financing nutrition research. So it is a bias where scientific truth often is obscured by vested interest." (9) This point is similarly expressed by Dr. Sydney Singer: "Researchers are like prostitutes. They work for grant money. If there is no money for the projects they are personally interested in, they go where there is money. Their incomes come directly from their grants, not from the universities. And they want to please the granting source to get more grants in the future. Their careers depend on it." (10)




Money Spent on Fraudulent Research?
A large portion of money donated to cancer research by the public is spent on animal research which has, since its inception, been widely condemned as a waste of time and resources. For instance, consider the 1981 Congressional Testimony by Dr. Irwin Bross, former director of the Sloan-Kettering, the largest cancer research institute in the world, and then Director of Biostatistics at Roswell Park Memorial Institute for Cancer Research, Bufallo, NY: "The uselessness of most of the animal model studies is less well known. For example, the discovery of chemotherapeutic agents for the treatment of human cancer is widely-heralded as a triumph due to use of animal model systems. However, here again, these exaggerated claims are coming from or are endorsed by the same people who get the federal dollars for animal research. There is little, if any, factual evidence that would support these claims. Indeed, while conflicting animal results have often delayed and hampered advances in the war on cancer, they have never produced a single substantial advance either in the prevention or treatment of human cancer. For instance, practically all of the chemotherapeutic agents which are of value in the treatment of human cancer were found in a clinical context rather than in animal studies." (11)

In fact, many substances which cause cancer in humans are marketed as "safe" on the basis of animal tests. As expressed by Dr. Werner Hartinger of Germany, in regard to cancer-causing products of the pharmaceutical-petro-chemical industry, "Their constant consumption is legalised on the basis of misleading animal experiments . . . which seduce the consumer into a false sense of security." (12)

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