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Cancer Cure Foundation
| Against allopathy Alternative medicine |
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| Clinically unproven |
| Woo-meisters |
Founded in 1976 by the John Birch Society spokesman and antisemite[1]:163,262 G. Edward Griffin (1931–), the Cancer Cure Foundation is a 501(c)3 charity and website that 'provides an unbiased analysis of the major alternative-cancer clinics, treatments and therapies'.[2] In practice, this means it's a clearinghouse for just about every quack cancer cure under the sun.
It is listed as a non-recommended information source by Quackwatch.[3]
Listed therapies[edit]
A small selection of "therapies":[4]
- Antineoplastons: Created by Stanislaw Burzynski and derived from human urine. They don't work.
- Essiac: A tea made from four different herbs. It doesn't work.
- Gerson Therapy: Invented by Max Gerson, and consisting of a modified diet, coffee enemas, and lots of vitamin supplements. It doesn't work.
- Hydrazine sulfate
: Developed as a treatment by Joseph Gold. It doesn't work. - Iscador: an extract of European mistletoe. It doesn't work.
- Rife Machine: Created by Royal Rife, the device supposedly uses electricity to kill pathogens. It doesn't work.
- Shark cartilage: Exactly what it sounds like. It doesn't work.
Sensing a pattern yet?
Board members of note[edit]
- G. Edward Griffin: Author of World Without Cancer[5] and all around crank
- Thomas A. Dorman: a proponent of prolotherapy
Selected testimonials[edit]
What would a website promoting alternative medicine be without its own page of anecdata?
Dee Simmons: Stage one breast cancer survivor[6] Caught early, the stage one breast cancer 5-year relative survival rate is 100%.[7]
Lorraine Day, M.D: The subject of her very own Quackwatch page.[8]
Donald Factor: diagnosed with metastatic small cell lung cancer in 1986, survived until July 15 2017,[9] despite being treated solely with laetrile, high doses of Vitamin C, and coffee enemas.[10]
Outreach[edit]
The Cancer Cure Foundation sells or links to a wide variety of media, many having to do with laetrile, G. Edward Griffin's personal hobbyhorse.[11]
They also link to seemingly every alternative website under the sun, including those run by Andrew Weil, Gary Null, and Matthias Rath.[12]
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right by Matthew Dallek (2023) Basic Books. ISBN 1541673565.
- ↑ http://cancure.org
- ↑ https://www.quackwatch.org/00AboutQuackwatch/altseek.html
- ↑ Alternative Cancer Therapies
- ↑ World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17 by G. Edward Griffin (2010) American Media, 2nd ed. ISBN 0912986506.
- ↑ https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-beauty/2007/fall-winter/mother-daughter-team-turns-diagnosis-into-million-dollar-enterprise/
- ↑ http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/breast-cancer-stage-0-and-stage-1
- ↑ http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/day.html
- ↑ http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?pid=186248686
- ↑ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-176861/My-unorthodox-battle-cancer.html
- ↑ http://cancure.org/books-videos-audios
- ↑ http://cancure.org/links