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 .p7 Introduction: Saving Joey Hofbauer  .p1 42%/6000 hospitals offer some form of alternative therapies
 .p2 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer | Pfizer ]] acquired [[ https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer_acquires_alacer_corp_a_leading_vitamin_supplements_company | Alacer ]] megavitamins (Emergen-C)
 .p3 M.D. wife [[ https://www.facebook.com/bonnie.fassoffit/ | Bonnie Fass-Offit ]]
 .p3 benign [[ https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/blue-rubber-bleb-nevus-syndrome | Cutaneous Blue Ne .vus syndrome ]] mimics malignant melanoma, fools most dermatologists
 .p4 loss of cartilage beneath kneecap, surgery and 1 year recovery
 .p4 enlarged prostate, most men with prostate cancer die of something else first, while surgery is brutal
 .p5 Chiropractic manipulations can lead to injuries, acupuncture to infection, some megavitamins ''increase'' cancer risk
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 .p25 Ch 1 Recovering the Past: Mehment Oz and His Superstars  .p7 Introduction: Saving Joey Hofbauer
 .p7 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdalin#Laetrile | laetrile ]]
 .p7 1977 Oct 5 neck lump in 7yo Joey Hofbauer, ome swollen lymph gland
 .p8 Cancer of lymph glands, radiation and chemotherapy 95% chance of recovery
 .p11 laetrile "treatment" by psychologist [[ https://www.ratemds.com/doctor-ratings/8085/Dr-Michael+B.-Schachter-Suffern-NY.html/ | Michael B. Schachter ]]
 .p13 after six months of unconventional treatments, Joey had 17 swollen lymph glands, liver damage (megadose vitamin A), possible cyanide poisoning
 .p14 Laetrile [[ https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/26/archives/inquiry-casts-doubt-on-laetrile-figures-credentials-of-four-who.html | Robert Bradford ]][[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society | John Birch Society ]]
 .p15 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Donald_Kelley | William D. Kelley ]] Clinic Mexico [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_McQueen | Steve McQueen ]] (smoker, asbestos exposure in the marines) [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesothelioma | pleural mesothelioma ]] died age 50
 .p16 [[ https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM197705192962013 | N Engl J Med 1977;296:1167-1168 ]] May 19 (not 26) 1977, Laetrilomania
 .p17 Judge rules alternatives adequate . p18 Joey dies 1980 July 10, !McQueen dies 1980 Nov 7
 .p18 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Moertel | Charles Moertel ]] teams at Mayo, UCLA, Sloan-Kettering study 178 cancer patents on laetrile and high dose vitamins
  . no stabilization or improvement, median survival 4.8 moths, "... not justified", FDA bans laetrile in 1987
 .p21 Fringe group [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Federation | National Health Federation ]] criticised by [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Cancer_Society | American Cancer Society ]] and [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quackwatch | Quackwatch ]]
 .p25 Ch 1 Recovering the Past: Mehmet Oz and His Superstars
 .p25 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Oz | Mehmet Oz ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dr._Oz_Show | Dr. Oz Show ]]

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 .p94 Ch 4 Fifty-One Thousand New Supplements: Which Ones Work?  .p94 Ch 4 Fifty-One Thousand esotheliomaNew Supplements: Which Ones Work?

Paul Offit Books

Do you Believe in Magic?

The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine

Paul A. Offit, M.D. - Multco Hollywood 615.5 o328d 2013

  • p1 42%/6000 hospitals offer some form of alternative therapies
  • p2 Pfizer acquired Alacer megavitamins (Emergen-C)

  • p3 M.D. wife Bonnie Fass-Offit

  • p3 benign Cutaneous Blue Ne .vus syndrome mimics malignant melanoma, fools most dermatologists

  • p4 loss of cartilage beneath kneecap, surgery and 1 year recovery
  • p4 enlarged prostate, most men with prostate cancer die of something else first, while surgery is brutal
  • p5 Chiropractic manipulations can lead to injuries, acupuncture to infection, some megavitamins increase cancer risk

  • p7 Introduction: Saving Joey Hofbauer
  • p7 laetrile

  • p7 1977 Oct 5 neck lump in 7yo Joey Hofbauer, ome swollen lymph gland
  • p8 Cancer of lymph glands, radiation and chemotherapy 95% chance of recovery
  • p11 laetrile "treatment" by psychologist Michael B. Schachter

  • p13 after six months of unconventional treatments, Joey had 17 swollen lymph glands, liver damage (megadose vitamin A), possible cyanide poisoning
  • p14 Laetrile Robert BradfordJohn Birch Society

  • p15 William D. Kelley Clinic Mexico Steve McQueen (smoker, asbestos exposure in the marines) pleural mesothelioma died age 50

  • p16 N Engl J Med 1977;296:1167-1168 May 19 (not 26) 1977, Laetrilomania

  • p17 Judge rules alternatives adequate . p18 Joey dies 1980 July 10, McQueen dies 1980 Nov 7

  • p18 Charles Moertel teams at Mayo, UCLA, Sloan-Kettering study 178 cancer patents on laetrile and high dose vitamins

    • no stabilization or improvement, median survival 4.8 moths, "... not justified", FDA bans laetrile in 1987
  • p21 Fringe group National Health Federation criticised by American Cancer Society and Quackwatch

  • p25 Ch 1 Recovering the Past: Mehmet Oz and His Superstars
  • p25 Mehmet Oz Dr. Oz Show

  • p47 Ch 2 The Vitamin Craze: Linus Pauling's Ironic Legacy

  • p65 Ch 3 The Supplement Industry Gets a Free Pass: Neutering the FDA
  • p94 Ch 4 Fifty-One Thousand esotheliomaNew Supplements: Which Ones Work?
  • p111 Ch 5 Menopause and Aging: Suzanne Somers Weighs In
  • p128 Ch 6 Autism's Pied Piper: Jenny McCarthy's Crusade

  • p140 Ch 7 Chronic Lyme Disease: The Blumenthal Affair
  • p163 Ch 8 Curing Cancer: Steve Jobs, Shark Cartilage, Coffee Enemas, and More
  • p173 Ch 9 Sick Children, Desperate Parents: Stanislaw Burzynski's Urine Cure
  • p197 Ch 10 Magic Potions in the Twenty-First Century: Rashid Buttar and the Lure of Personality
  • p223 Ch 11 The Remarkably Powerful, Highly Underrated Placebo Response
  • p241 Ch 12 When Alternate Medicine Becomes Quackery
  • p253 Epilogue: Albert Schweitzer and the Witch Doctor: A Parable

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