Dr. Moran has totally ignored the well over 100 published reports by
Gerson in the peer-reviewed literature and by many other medical
scientists confirming his work. When Gerson submitted five well-
documented cases to the NCI in 1956, he was told that five cases was too
small a sample, and they would need 25 more. When he submitted the
requested 25, he was told that he would need 125 more. Seeing that no
matter how many cases he submitted, more would be required, Gerson
demurred. Ever since then, the NCI has responded to inquiries with the
half-truth, "Gerson was asked for documented cases, but refused to provide
them."
This, unfortunately, has been the response of the medical
establishment and their servants, the governmental cancer agencies for
decades. They show no interest in changing the status quo, which is
phenomenally lucrative, to the tune of $160 billion a year in the US
alone. Prevent cancer, and at least some of those billions disppear.
Cure it, and there go highly lucrative careers in oncology and surgery.
The American Cancer Society has been in existence nearly 100 years,
during which time the cancer rate in the US has risen by more than
tenfold. In their charter, they are required to disband when a cure for
cancer is found. The executives of this multibillion dollar activity are
in no hurry to lose their lucrative positions, to say nothing of their
pharmaceutical company funding.
The US government and various pharmaceutical companies are generous
in their support of chemotherapy research and other useless pursuits
(judging from the past decades of failure), but when they demand more
research results from alternative therapy providers, there is NEVER a
penny of funding proffered to support this research. These people are
expected to fund their own research, while defending themselves against
attacks from industry and government simultaneously.
A case in point is Nicholas Gonzales, MD, in New York. The NCI was
given funds by Nestle to support a research project into Gonzalez'
methods, and the entire cancer establishment in the US tried to keep the
study from happening, going so far as to attempt to lift his license while
he was out of the country, visiting Nestle in Switzerland to present some
interim results.
Before any progress can be made in this area, the medical hypocrisy
must stop, and some real attempt must be made to provide facts to the
users of the various therapies. If the therapies are truly as useless as
has been claimed, that would quickly become clear in controlled
experiments. But experiments done by people like Peter Lechner at the
Landeskrankenhaus in Graz, Austria have show quite the opposite. Why is
nobody quoting Lechner's paper? Why have his documented positive results
evoked no interest whatsoever? Where are the true medical scientists?
References:
Lechner, P. "Dietary regime to be used in oncological postoperative
care." Proc. Oesterreicher Gesellsch. f. Chir., Jun. 21-23, 1984
History of the Gerson Therapy: contract report by Patricia Spain Ward
PhD, for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, 1988. 5th
edition. Gerson Institute.
Straus, H. Dr. Max Gerson: Healing the Hopeless, Quarry Press,
Kingston, ONT. 2002.
Competing interests:
I am Dr. Gerson's grandson and biographer, author of Dr. Max Gerson, Healing the Hopeless
Rapid Response:
Re: Who needs to be pressured?
Dr. Moran has totally ignored the well over 100 published reports by
Gerson in the peer-reviewed literature and by many other medical
scientists confirming his work. When Gerson submitted five well-
documented cases to the NCI in 1956, he was told that five cases was too
small a sample, and they would need 25 more. When he submitted the
requested 25, he was told that he would need 125 more. Seeing that no
matter how many cases he submitted, more would be required, Gerson
demurred. Ever since then, the NCI has responded to inquiries with the
half-truth, "Gerson was asked for documented cases, but refused to provide
them."
This, unfortunately, has been the response of the medical
establishment and their servants, the governmental cancer agencies for
decades. They show no interest in changing the status quo, which is
phenomenally lucrative, to the tune of $160 billion a year in the US
alone. Prevent cancer, and at least some of those billions disppear.
Cure it, and there go highly lucrative careers in oncology and surgery.
The American Cancer Society has been in existence nearly 100 years,
during which time the cancer rate in the US has risen by more than
tenfold. In their charter, they are required to disband when a cure for
cancer is found. The executives of this multibillion dollar activity are
in no hurry to lose their lucrative positions, to say nothing of their
pharmaceutical company funding.
The US government and various pharmaceutical companies are generous
in their support of chemotherapy research and other useless pursuits
(judging from the past decades of failure), but when they demand more
research results from alternative therapy providers, there is NEVER a
penny of funding proffered to support this research. These people are
expected to fund their own research, while defending themselves against
attacks from industry and government simultaneously.
A case in point is Nicholas Gonzales, MD, in New York. The NCI was
given funds by Nestle to support a research project into Gonzalez'
methods, and the entire cancer establishment in the US tried to keep the
study from happening, going so far as to attempt to lift his license while
he was out of the country, visiting Nestle in Switzerland to present some
interim results.
Before any progress can be made in this area, the medical hypocrisy
must stop, and some real attempt must be made to provide facts to the
users of the various therapies. If the therapies are truly as useless as
has been claimed, that would quickly become clear in controlled
experiments. But experiments done by people like Peter Lechner at the
Landeskrankenhaus in Graz, Austria have show quite the opposite. Why is
nobody quoting Lechner's paper? Why have his documented positive results
evoked no interest whatsoever? Where are the true medical scientists?
References:
Lechner, P. "Dietary regime to be used in oncological postoperative
care." Proc. Oesterreicher Gesellsch. f. Chir., Jun. 21-23, 1984
History of the Gerson Therapy: contract report by Patricia Spain Ward
PhD, for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, 1988. 5th
edition. Gerson Institute.
Straus, H. Dr. Max Gerson: Healing the Hopeless, Quarry Press,
Kingston, ONT. 2002.
Competing interests:
I am Dr. Gerson's grandson and biographer, author of Dr. Max Gerson, Healing the Hopeless
Competing interests: No competing interests