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Wednesday, 2 August 2017

No alternative medicine ever disappears when shown to be ineffective: The case of laetrile – Respectful Insolence

... In the early 1980s, clinical trials showed that laetrile had no appreciable anticancer effect in humans and that it was also toxic. (The reason, of course, is the cyanide.) In science-based medicine, that would have been that. The treatment would have been abandoned. But that’s not how alternative medicine works....

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