Burzynski vs FDA
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Jesus, this is worse than the normal link and run RSS type posts. Atleast normally it's just an article that'll take about 5mins max to read, but this is a video that's almost 2 hours long :/.
Something to do with the FDA refusing to license this guy's anti-cancer drugs or something.
Wikipedia page on the drugs...
Long story short... They're not licensed as medicines because there is, as yet, no scientific evidence that they work.
Long story short... They're not licensed as medicines because there is, as yet, no scientific evidence that they work.
Thanks, that's two hours not wasted.
It's a battle that's been going on for decades, but seems to have pretty much escaped our media. In short, Burzynski discovers what appears to be an effective cancer treatment, he successfully treats patients with often advanced forms of various cancers and has good success rates. From here on in, it becomes a huge battle with the FDA over the legality and efficacy of his treatment. May sound boring put like that, but the vid is far from boring.
Take it or leave it, just thought a few in here might be interested, I realise that 2 hrs is far longer than most of you GD ADHD sufferers can handle.
Take it or leave it, just thought a few in here might be interested, I realise that 2 hrs is far longer than most of you GD ADHD sufferers can handle.
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Not to sound like a 'conspirator', but if you watch the video, the trials that were conducted did not use the correct dosage of the treatment that Burzynski recommended.
In other words, the FDA intentionally used ineffective doses to discredit his work. Meanwhile, the US government was applying for patents for his inventions behind his back.
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Yes, hopefully someone independent can come along, use the correct dosages in accordance with Burzynski's recommendations, and prove one way or the other whether they are effective or not.
Then we'll know if he has a legitimate case or is another nut
The trials conducted blatantly altered the agreed testing protocols and used far lower doses than Burzynski recommended and had previously had success with.
Anyway i'm not making claims one way or the other, just putting the vid out there for people to watch and form their own opinion of Burzynski and his cancer treatments, if nothing else the film shows he's a determined guy who fought off the powerful and influential FDA and Pharma corporations for decades.
Firstly any written evidence for those claims? Why would a government want to patent anything like that? Why did they not use the correct dosage?
Unfortunately online videos are no good for opinion making. Almost all are heavily bias one way or another and so many just make up facts (not saying this one is but who's to say unless youve done lots of other research on the subject). Like most of the other conspiracy theories there is one major question with this which, until answered, puts the rest of it in the shade... Why? Why would the FDA want to disallow a cancer cure? Why would a government want to patent a cancer cure? Why does he not sell it to a big pharma company?
The money argument only goes so far because the first pharma company coming out with a cure would make huge sums, far more than another symptom reducer.
The money argument doesn't go, 'just so far', cancer treatments generate multi-billion dollar profits, the money side of things sadly is the overriding factor.
From reading your comments, it's obvious to me you haven't watched the film, I'm not donning a tin foil hat and claiming any major conspiracy here, it's a film that imo reveals how big business works and the lengths that companies/corporations will go to to protect their own. Who's right? who's wrong? lets face it the line becomes so impossibly blurred at times it becomes difficult to know who really is protecting our interests.
Yet it does as you (like many others) missed the point.
Cancer treatment is a multi billion dollar industry, spread over dozens of companies.
A cure for cancer will be a multi billion dollar industry for the one company that sells the drug...
Why spend money on a treatment when there is a cure from another company. Its not even like its a contagious disease so it can't be eradicated so the funds will keep coming in.
No I haven't watched the film, as I said they are usually fill of rubbish and I dont know enough to work out what is bias and wrong in this video. Its not just the poorly made YouTube conspiracy videos that have this problem, well produced dvd/cinema released versions do as well (eg gasland and the incontrovertible truth [and I agree generally with the side they argue], both full of bias hyperbole and incorrect facts).
So far there is a Wikipedia article that suggests the drug doesn't work and a video that suggests the drug is the subject of a conspiracy. I'm more inclined to believe the former as it is user editable and has actual references.
Unfortunately I'm not about to sit through two hours of film (I made the mistake of watching gasland) when you still haven't answered the questions in my last post.
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If you watch the film it addresses your questions.
I'm not posting to try and create a flame war, I just thought the film was compelling viewing and maybe worth a watch for some people on here, I was obviously wrong, no biggy.
It's o.k you can go back to Eastenders and Coro now.