Dark Ages Quotes - Page 3

• (The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).

  James D. Watson

  Cancer, Dark, Age

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• This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing.

  George McGovern

  Dark, Track, Age

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• The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Cancer, Dark, Age

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• A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as elections little more than rituals.

  Ralph Nader

  Dark, Age, Abdication

  Ralph Nader (2000). “The Ralph Nader Reader”, p.344, Seven Stories Press

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• The food industry, its trade associations, and research foundations, is well financed and highly organized to pressure the FDA.

  Ralph Nader

  Dark, Fda, Age

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• ...One of the side effects of (surgery, anesthesia,) X-ray..., and chemotherapy, is the suppression...of the patient's immunological defenses...A simple cold often leads to the death from pneumonia - and ('pneumonia') is what appears on the death certificate, not cancer.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Cancer, Dark, Simple

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• (Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:)"The question is much too difficult for me.

  Albert Einstein

  Dark, Age, Medical

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• The literature has become too vast to comprehend...It is...difficult to grasp even for workers in closely neighboring fields. ...There is much more reliance on word of mouth for the transmission of scientific data...gossip.

  Lewis Thomas

  Dark, Data, Gossip

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• Some of the shrewdest insight into natural processes have been greeted at the outset by the exclamation 'But that's ridiculous'.

  Lewis Thomas

  Dark, Age, Ridiculous

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• It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)...regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.

  Hippocrates

  Dark, Age, Temperature

  Hippocrates (1931). “Hippocrates”

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• There are plenty of quacks in the field. Fewer than you'd expect, though still plenty (in alternative medicine).

  John Bradshaw

  Dark, Medicine, Age

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• The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position.

  Nathaniel Chapman

  Dark, Age, Degenerates

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• Cancer has pizzazz, box office and glamour, and in actual dollars and prestige, even heart and mental can't hold a candle to it. It's a health dodge with a future and everybody who's anybody is jumping in.

  Edgar Berman

  Cancer, Heart, Dark

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• But cancer can also be fun with its luncheons, theatre parties, and fund raising luaus. ...What will they all do if a cure comes out of it? Considering how easily the March of Dimes conglomerate shifted gears after the polio vaccine, it should pose no problem.

  Edgar Berman

  Fun, Cancer, Party

  Edgar Berman (1976). “The solid gold stethoscope”

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• Societies that eat unrefined foods produce large stools and build small hospitals; societies that eat fiber-depleted foods produce small stools and build large hospitals.

  Denis Parsons Burkitt

  Dark, Age, Fiber

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• Though it is hard to believe, it is conservatively estimated that 25 to 50 million Americans carry trichinae larvae in their muscles and internal organs. ...If the (trichinosis) worms affect the heart, respiratory systems, or the nerves, severe symptoms or even death may result.

  Ruth Winter

  Believe, Heart, Dark

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• Amebic dysentery is endemic throughout the world, affecting 17.6% of the population. In the US, it affects 13.6%. ...No one..really knows the extent of the parasites and the diseases they cause.

  Ruth Winter

  Dark, Age, Population

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• Pets are found to suffer from all the ailments known to the human.

  Dick Gregory

  Dark, Pet, Suffering

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• The likelihood of treatment (of any one patient) increases with the length of time since the origin of the disease. ...Those cases in which the neoplastic process progresses slowly...are more likely to be transferred to the 'treated' category than to remain in the 'untreated'.

  Hardin B. Jones

  Dark, Progress, Age

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• Beginning in 1940,...questionable grades of (low) malignancy were classed as cancer. ...the proportion of 'cancer' cures...increased rapidly.

  Hardin B. Jones

  Cancer, Dark, Age

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• 22 of 52 top (FDA) officials have worked for regulated industries, or organizations that cater to those industries...During a hearing held in 1969 by the House Inter-governmental Relations Subcommittee, it was disclosed that of 49 high ranking FDA officials who had recently resigned or retired, 37 joined or served as consultants to regulated industries.

  Michael F. Jacobson

  Dark, Fda, Organization

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• In 1966 the ACS formulated a State Model Cancer Act which was instrumental in the enactment of anti-quackery laws now enforced in 9 states...In California (it is a) felony...The use of unproven methods is also a criminal offense in Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

  Jane Brody

  Cancer, Dark, Illinois

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• ...The evidence that fluoridation of the public water supply at the rate of one part per million is carcinogenic is irrefutable.

  John Flaherty

  Dark, Water, Age

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• ...Say somebody shot somebody....We...are so concerned about whether this evidence was admitted properly...(and) not recognize the intrusion into our sacred individuality that is being caused every time people turn on the faucet? ...I am astounded by how much untruth has been officially promulgated (pro fluoridation).

  John Flaherty

  Dark, People, Individuality

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• I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Dark, Medicine, Political

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