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Subject: FDA vs. alternative dr. (fwd) - Fri, 23 Feb 1996 16:03:01
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 16:03:01 -0500
From: Christopher G Caruso <ccaruso@sas.upenn.edu>
Message-Id: <199602231416.JAA29329@mail1.sas.upenn.edu>
Subject: FDA vs. alternative dr. (fwd)
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> >From owner-paracelsus@teleport.com Thu Feb 22 01:09 EST 1996
> Received-Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 01:09:38 -0500
> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 00:59:43 -0500 (EST)
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> To: paracelsus@teleport.com
> From: healing@flinet.com (Elizabeth Miller)
> Subject: FDA vs. alternative dr.
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> This story is 12K long and contains at the end a request for help with his
> legal defense fund...
> I forward it to Paracelsus from another list because it IS about
> alternative therapies and it IS current, if not pleasant...
> ======================================================
> HEALTH & HEALING by Dr.Julian Whitaker
> January 1996 Supplement.
>
>
> As I discussed in November, Stanislaw Burzynski, M.D., Ph.D. has been
> treating cancer patients for years with a non-toxic therapy he
> discovered called antineoplastons. Many patients with terminal cancers
> taking this therapy are now in complete remission.
>
> Despite the obvious evidence of benefit, the Food and Drug Administra-
> tion (FDA) has been trying to put Dr. Burzynski out of business for the
> past 12 years. This culminated on November 20, 1995 in 75 criminal
> charges that could put this talented physician in jail for 229 years!
>
> It all started in 1983 when the American Cancer Society put Dr.
> Burzynski's therapy on their "unproven methods" blacklist; A few months
> later, the FDA filed a civil suit in federal court in an attempt to shut
> him down. Federal Judge Gabrielle McDonald ruled that Dr.
> Burzynski could continue his work, but did stipulate that he could not
> ship the therapy across state lines. The vendetta began.
>
> The FDA Used Dirty Tactics
>
> Robert Spiller, the FDA lawyer assigned to this case, was furious that
> the judge did not put Dr.Burzynski out of business, and told Dr.
> Burzynski's defense lawyer, "Well we did not get him that way,but we
> can use the criminal system."
>
> Since 1983, Spiller, the FDA, and a parade of mindless US attorneys
> have terrorized Dr. Burzynski with raids on his clinic in Houston,
> Texas, and have used the grand jury system to harass Dr. Burzynski and
> his staff. In 1985 the FDA convened the first grand jury, then raided
> his clinic, and seized virtually all of his medical records (11 filing
> cabinets full). Because Dr. Burzynski could not practice medicine
> without the charts, the court ordered the FDA to "allow him" to come
> to FDA offices in Houston and copy the charts at his expense.
> In spite of all this activity, there was no indictment.
>
> A second grand jury in 1990 subpoenaed 100,000 more documents, but after
> nine months of investigation, the FDA did not convince the grand jury
> to indict Dr. Burzynski. To date, the FDA has not returned those
> medical records and subpoenaed documents.
>
> He Did Everything by the Book
>
> In 1991, experts from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) carefully
> reviewed the charts of seven patients with "incurable" brain cancer who
> were being treated with antineoplastons. They noted antitumor action in
> all seven, complete remission in five, and called for long-term
> trials to more accurately assess benefit. Burzynski then submitted
> copious data to the FDA, seeking permission to do the necessary trials.
>
> >From 1991 to 1993, while the FDA "sat" on the request, Dr. Burzynski was
> under constant investigation by the FDA and the US Attorney's office as
> they sought to demonstrate that he was sending his therapy across state
> lines. A third grand jury was convened in 1994 and yet again failed to
> indict.
>
> The Texas Medical Board Jumped in.
>
> As if not to be outdone by Robert Spiller and the FDA, the Texas State
> Board of Medical Examiners is also out to get Dr. Burzynski. There has
> never been a patient complaint to the Board against Dr. Burzynski. In
> spite of that, in 1994, they tried to put him on indefinite probation.
> The probation requirements were hostile, restrictive, demeaning, and
> more appropriate for a paroled felon than a physician who had never had
> a complaint nor been charged with a crime.
>
> In fact, some of the requirements were Paternalistic nonsense. For
> instance, one was that Dr. Burzynski abide by Texas and federal law,
> as if he was not required to abide by the law ordinarily. More ominous,
> several requirements were open to subjective interpretation.
> Anyone reading them would conclude that it was not an effort by the
> Board to safeguard the public, or even uphold the law. It was more a
> step toward closing Dr. Burzynski's practice.
>
> The Medical Board contended that Dr. Burzynski should be on probation
> in a 20 page "finding of facts" court document. In that document, it
> was confirmed that many of Dr. Burzynski's patients had not been helped
> by conventional therapy, yet were alive because of antineoplastons.
> In addition, seven physicians- including the chief of neuroradiology
> at the National Institutes of Health-testified that without
> antineoplastons many patients would die. This testimony was not
> contested by the State or the board.
>
> However, the Texas Medical Board didn't care. They wrote that "the
> efficacy of antineoplastons in the treatment of human cancers is not
> of issue in these proceedings..." and went on about their business of
> destroying Dr. Burzynski and the therapy.
>
> That document was signed by Board president John M. Lewis, M.D., a
> Houston cardiologist. Folks, what kind of doctor would try to "get"
> another doctor by using as evidence a ''finding of fact " document
> that large numbers of patients would die as a result? What has
> happened to our civilization?
>
> Case Was Dismissed
>
> Fortunately, Judge Paul Davis was more reasonable and compassionate then
> the "good ot' boys on the Board. He threw the case out, and chastised ``
> the board for being "arbitrary and capricious and for abuse of
> discretion." The Medical Board appealed, and the case is with another
> group of judges.
>
> In 1994, the FDA granted Dr. Burzynski permission do clinical trials on
> antineoplastons. He has begun four separate trials at his own expense.
> You might imagine that since the FDA had proved the trials they would
> have left him alone. Not so. On March 24, 1995, Dr. Burzynski appeared
> on the CBS This Morning Show, , along with three patients who had been
> diagnosed as terminal but were now free of cancer. The effect this TV
> appearance ad on the FDA was like shaking a cage full of rattle-snakes
> and pouring them over Dr. Burzynski's head.
>
> The FDA Vendetta Continued
>
> That very afternoon the FDA raided Dr. Burzynski's clinic, herded
> employees into a closed room, and wouldn't let them out until they had
> given the FDA a lot of personal information. They spent seven hours
> ransacking the clinic, and left with boxloads of documents.
>
> With this, the FDA kicked off the fourth and most malicious of all
> grand jury investigations. For eight nonths, there were monthly rounds
> of subpoenas. As with all grand jury interrogations, witnesses had to
> appear without a lawyer and were at the mercy of the prosecuting
> attorney. After a full day of abusive questioning by an assistant US
> attorney, a receptionist at the clinic, Eva Vigh, collapsed with a heart
> attack and has yet to recover.
>
> lf you still harbor the delusion that Robert Spiller, the FDA, and the
> US attorneys are trying to protect you against cancer fraud, let me tell
> you that in June of this year, the FDA raided and seized the X-rays and
> MRI's of Dr. Burzynski's most responsive patients including the
> "best-case" series evaluated by the NCI. This was done to prevent him
> from showing this evidence that the therapy works. Incredibly, as a
> society, we are desperately looking for a cancer cure, yet when one is
> found the FDA seizes the evidence, then works to put the discoverer
> in jail.
>
> Federal Judge Lynn Hughes ordered the FDA to make copies of the X-rays
> and return the originals, which they did. Of the almost one million
> documentsand items the FDA has seized over the past 13 years, these
> X-rays are the only items they have returned-- and that only because of
> a court order. Of course, the Bill of Rights forbids arbitrary
> government seizure of property, but who cares?
>
> Wouldn't You Want Life-Saving Therapy?
>
> Now look at your spouse, your children, and your grandchildren. Imagine
> that one of them had an inoperable brain tumor the size of an orange and
> that with the antineoplastons developed by Dr. Burzynski, it had shrunk
> to the size of a pea.
>
> I want you to know that in order to "get" Dr. Burzynski, Robert Spiller q
> would think nothing of going into your home and seizing the
> antineoplaston therapy, knowing that it was the only hope your loved
> one had to avoid a horrible death.
>
> Robert Spiller has done well at the FDA. He is now Associate Chief
> Counsel for Enforcement.
>
> Folks, over the past five years we have gotten involved in a variety of
> important causes, and have had an impact. However, our support of Dr.
> Stanislaw Burzynski is more important than all of them combined, because
> of what is at stake. If the FDA wins unholy war with Dr. Burzynski they
> will not only destroy one of the most promising cancer therapies we
> have, they will also reinforce the message that any physician or
> scientist with the talent, energy, and courage to make a positive
> difference in the health field, had best move to another country.
>
> Is that what you want?
>
> Dr. Burzynski does not have the money necessary to save his therapy and
> himself. Without a dime from the government or any other agency, he
> discovered, developed, and even synthesized a truly significant
> breakthrough in cancer. And hounding him all the way was Robert Spiller
> and the FDA--with your tax dollars. Is Robert Spiller helping you?
>
> Let's Get Behind Dr. Burzynski
>
> Supporters of Dr. Burzynski have set up a legal defense fund. I
> encourage you to give any amount you feel you can. For a $50 donation,
> the defense fund has put together an information packet on anti-
> neoplastons, including the NCI report on seven cases.
>
> For $75, the defense fund will throw in a video-tape of the recent
> congressional hearings conducted by Congressrnan Joe Barton
> investigating the FDA's vendetta against Dr. Burzynski. Mrs. Mary
> Michaels offers tearful testimony. At the age of five, her son Paul
> had an inoperable brain cancer the size of an orange. Both the Mayo
> Clinic and Memorial Sloan-y, Kettering Cancer Center told her that
> nothing could done.
>
> Today, on Dr. Burzynski's therapy, Paul is a normal, rough-housing,
> skateboarding, 14-year-old-kid. The brain cancer has shrunk to the size
> of a pea. You can feel the emotional torture this family experiences
> every time Robert Spiller and his goons raid Dr. Burzynski to cut off
> their supply.
>
> You can also watch Commissioner David Kessle not answer a single
> question during his testimony, and you will get to meet, in person,
> Robert Spiller.
>
> Make checks payable to The Burzynski Legal Defense Fund, and mail to
> P.O. Box 1170, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272.
>
> Send a copy of this supplement to your local newspaper, radio and
> television stations. Rest assured the FDA is also "working" the media.
> *****
> Minds are like parachutes,
> They only function
> when open.
> *
>
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