NEW YORK DAILY NEWS (8/28/14): "Though a documentary, it's dramatic enough to be reminiscent of 'The Insider', the whistleblowing thriller about Big Tobacco." --------- The War On Cancer, launched in the early 1970s, set the stage for a massive influx of new ideas in fighting the disease of cancer. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, America's leading cancer research center at the time, was assigned the task of testing an unconventional therapy called “Laetrile” in an effort to curb the public’s “false hope” in the alleged “quack” therapy. Ralph W. Moss PhD, a young and eager science writer, was hired by Sloan-Kettering’s public relations department in 1974 to help brief the American public on the center’s contribution to the War On Cancer. One of his first assignments was to write a biography about Dr. Kanematsu Sugiura, one of the Center’s oldest and leading research scientists as well as the original co-inventor of chemotherapy. While meeting with this iconic scientist to pen a biography on his 60-year career at Sloan-Kettering, Moss discovered that Sugiura had been studying this “quack remedy” in laboratory mice, and with unexpectedly positive results. Shocked and bewildered, Moss reported back to his superiors what he had discovered, only to be met with backlash and denial from Sloan-Kettering’s leaders on what their own leading scientist had found. Fueled by respect and admiration for Sugiura—Ralph W. Moss attempted to publicize the truth about Sugiura’s findings. And after all diplomatic approaches failed, Moss lived a double life, working as a loyal employee at Sloan-Kettering while also recruiting fellow employees to help anonymously leak this information to the American public— through a newly formed underground organization they called—“Second Opinion”. --------- DVD & Blu-ray: 75-minute feature documentary + 74 minutes of added material.
Z**A
help to make a better future. This documentary is informative and educational
Pay attention to this film, buy it: help to support humanity's compassionate cause; help to make a better future. This documentary is informative and educational.... unfortunately, it's one of too many examples in the world of innovative cancer therapies being marginalized by our so called "sick-care" industry here in the US.Clearly, the clinical data has demonstrated that Laetrile works for some people: are you surprised to hear this? History has shown that scientists (especially medical doctors) continue to refuse to apply the scientific method to their own methodology in research. This is just as true today as it was... say for example... 150 years ago when Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis was beaten to death {for discovering that doctors should wash their hands before surgery}.I'm a aerospace engineer with advanced degrees in mathematics and physics. When I was diagnosed with cancer ten years ago: I found it hard to understand why my doctor was coercing me to get multiple CAT Scans every year... even after three years; even though my pre-op scan and every one of my post-op scans were negative. If I had presented only a few years earlier, they would have required retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND), then chemo and radiation therapy {which would have provided no clinical benefit what-so-ever} The top Urologist in the state eventually told me that I never needed even one CAT scan... he said that they were just trying to scare me, in order to make money off my situation. The top Urologist in the state said that!In every age PhD scientists struggle with new ideas, regardless of the data and/or the efficacy of the current theoretical basis that might support the data; but even worse: PhD scientists struggle with the truth... especially if it compromises their egos or financial security. PhDs in every age refuse to accept progress: example: if you were a geology graduate student in the 1950s and you supported the concepts once called 'continental-drift', you were ostracized; while only ten years later, you'd be the Nobel Laureate who discovered Plate Tectonics. The earth is what it is, regardless of how you might allow others to describe it.Government has no place forcing citizens to comply with corporate special interests. You should be able to eat or drink whatever you want; you should have a right to choose your medical treatment - if and or when you are diagnosed with cancer, and especially if you are facing end of life issues..... when it happens to you.... you'll know what I mean.A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.Max Planck
S**S
Watch It - Another piece of the puzzle, although missing some insights
If you're researching cancer and Laetrile, this is a great piece of the puzzle.And yet:It's amazing to me that a man of conviction like Moss still hasn't connected the dots -- with all of his research and book writing and appointments and all that he has done (for which I personally thank him - for whatever that's worth)-- he still has not connected how The Times, for example, are connected to Sloane Kettering. Is it all a global conspiracy??? Not the way people think of conspiracies... no. But when he expects the legacy media to report on THEIR big brother (or perhaps the other way around), which is Big Pharma - he's high. Didn't he learn anything about human nature, special interests, that "profit" system he was talking about? Has he learned about in-group preference, and how there are certain groups that band together controlling finance, media, pharmaceuticals, all of it - together? *And while I'm not a John Birch fan as I wonder if it's controlled opposition, they are correct in that the UN is financed and made possible by Big pharma and the FED and the legacy media - all of it. So yeah... in a sense it IS all connected.
E**R
Another very important matter this throws light on...
Something equally disturbing, with regard to how things played out, is the suicide rate among doctors and medical professionals. Moss's ethical struggle, with whether or not he should risk his job and the well-being of his family, is extremely common.Doctors have zero support. They are attacked from the medical authority side as well as the medical consumer side. They're out there, all alone, with nobody to catch them if they jump ship. Granted, the desire to maintain a certain lifestyle seems superficial but they aren't merely responsible for themselves. They have families and, for some, a dead bread-winner is preferable to taking their friends and family down with them in an ethical hail mary. If they're dead, they don't have to choose.Doctors aren't allowed to "doctor". It is simply not allowed and the reason is "patent medicine". The allowance of it, the politics of it and the power of it that stems from a single aspect of it - money.
D**N
The more things change.....
Thank you Dr. Moss for bringing this to story to light.As films and other sources with accounts similar to this continue to be brought forward, Is it any wonder so many of us doubt what is presented as "scientific evidence"?When I was young, the 60's and 70's, it was considered "liberal" to question authority. Doctor Moss and others mentioned in this film are the living examples.Today individuals who dare question are attacked and labeled as a "denier", or worse by establishment "scientist", mainstream media, politicians and government officials, many even calling for criminal penalties against dissenters!Ironic that the most egregious of these modern day authoritarians are from the political left, or perhaps not, huh Dr Moss?
G**L
If enough men like Ralph Moss would speak up about the truths they ...
Such important information here. If enough men like Ralph Moss would speak up about the truths they find, AND more and more people watch other documentaries (like "The Truth About Cancer), perhaps the tide can turn on the control big pharma has, and perhaps, hopefully, a day will come when the 'cancer industry' will exist no more. Would that we all, at least most of us would really explore the effects of our food, environment, so-called medicinal drugs and vaccines; then, the links would become clear and REAL work would be demanded to eradicate cancer. No, this wasn't in the scope of this excellent documentary, but there are several that do explore and implicate the real causes. And this one certainly shows the complicity in our "trusted" centers of healing and learning in promoting a huge lie.
