Cancer Diaries

Part Five: Morris Fishbein

Written by Rick Archer
September 2013

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David Bonello states that Morris Fishbein was a legendary hatchet man who ran medicine for nearly 50 years.  Bonello suggests Fishbein destroyed the careers of many people during his reign of terror.  Bonello believes the damage Fishbein did to the health care system of the time deprived untold numbers of suffering humans any possible chance at a cure.  [ source ]

For this article, I have relied heavily on the work of two men.

Wade Frazier has a fascinating web site A Healed Planet.  Mr. Frazier spent much of his career in the energy field.  From what I gather, he came across several energy technologies superior to what we have today.  At every turn, he encountered cut-throat practices determined to keep the superior technologies suppressed.  I sat up and took notice.  Every story from the energy field sounded just like the stories I have been writing about in the medical field. 

Frazier's stories caused me to think about American business practices in a profound new way.  I now feel far more cynical about how business is practiced in this country than I ever imagined possible. In addition, I have a better idea now the magnitude of the obstacles we are up against in asking for change in America's medical industry. 

Mr. Frazier makes it very clear that the problems I am concerned about like the suppressed cancer cures are merely symptoms of a far deeper problem.  In a business world with regulatory agencies and laws designed to protect the American people, powerful businessmen have found ways to circumvent or handcuff the people charged with enforcing these protections.  Everything Wade Frazier speaks of sounds like a John Grisham novel where juries are tampered with, politicians are bribed, and pro-environment judges are targeted for replacement by 'business-friendly' candidates.  Furthermore, in Frazier-Grisham's world, some businessmen will stop at nothing to suppress their competition. 

Typical methods start with the proverbial "make them an offer they can't refuse".  If they do refuse, then their lives become a living hell. Facing corrupt politicians and ethically-challenged, law enforcement officials, the upstart entrepreneur finds his business under attack.  The problems begin with Media attacks and harassment from regulatory officials.  If that doesn't work, the problems escalate. Raids, illegal seizure of documents, threats, and trials based on trumped up charges become part of the standard treatment at Stage Two.  If those don't work, then arson, vandalism, threats against loved ones or even a well-placed bullet come next.  This kind of evil corruption is certainly fascinating in a Godfather or Soprano setting, but Wade Frazier makes it clear this behavior is real and disturbingly common in the American business world.  We like horror movies because they aren't 'real'.  But Frazier makes a compelling point that the Godfather series isn't fiction.

Wade Frazier offers far too many examples for one to discard his Conspiracy theories lightly.  He spent most of his career in the energy field.  He attempted to promote cheaper and more environmentally-friendly energy systems such as cold fusion, an invention which would render fossil fuels obsolete, only to be beaten down time and again.  Although he could never be sure of the identity of his opponents, he assumed they were likely representing an oil industry determined to keep their monopoly intact by suppressing superior energy breakthroughs.   The problem with Empires is they will stop at nothing to maintain their position on top.  As the attempt to unseat them becomes more threatening, their level of ruthlessness escalates accordingly.  The greater the threat - no matter how wonderful it might be for the planet or the human race - the greater the attempt at suppression.  However, in Frazier's opinion, rarely do they resort to violence. While extreme measures can permanently derail certain free energy threats, these methods are undertaken sparingly as they attract too much attention.  The invisible power brokers have learned that a world unaware of their suppression efforts is their best protection. Mr. Frazier pains a very dark picture indeed.  Unfortunately, I find myself agreeing with him far too often. "The dynamics I have seen in energy I have also seen in medicine, particularly in the cancer racket. The more wealth and power vested in any particular industry or profession, the more ruthlessly it protects itself. Every industry and profession has an infrastructure designed to protect itself from competition. How far they take their defensive strategies, and how far they can take them, is dependent on how powerful that industry or profession is. The more concentrated that wealth and power, the more likely conscious and ruthless activities to keep the competition at bay will be seen." - Wade Frazier I don't envy my daughter and her generation one bit.  I cannot imagine how they will ever dislodge these cold-blooded tycoons at the top who will stop at nothing to stay in power. About This Article I based most of my story about Morris Fishbein on Mr. Frazier's excellent analysis of the problems in medicine titled The Medical Racket.  Frazier's analysis of the suppression of alternative cancer cures dovetails closely to his similar analysis of the suppression of 'free energy'.  While the environment of our planet continues to spiral downward thanks to the monopolies that refuse to change to new technologies, people die of diseases like cancer that could have been solved long ago.  I then stumbled upon Murder by Injection, an amazing treatise on the subject of suppressing cancer cures. It was written by Eustace Mullins.  Mr. Frazier had mentioned this book several times, but it took me a while to realize Frazier had actually based much of his own article on Mullins' book.  Both men are in total agreement about the source of the problems in the Medical Industry. You may note while reading that you won't see a note for the 'source'.  There is a simple explanation - 90% of the information in the following account is drawn directly from Frazier's article The Medical Racket and the rest from Murder by Injection. And now, let's take a look at Morris Fishbein.  A careful study of his tactics reveals how our entire medical industry was originally set on a dangerous path that resonates just as much today as it did back in the Twentieth Century. RA, September 2013

After a decade of incredible profits, Simmons was getting a little tired of his hectic schedule.  In 1913, he recruited Morris Fishbein, 24, to the AMA offices.  One can assume that Simmons began grooming the young man to run the office in his absence.   As it turns out, Simmons wanted to enjoy his wealth, not work harder.

By the 1920s, Simmons was a wealthy man indeed.  Ruling from his high and mighty throne at the AMA helm, Simmons was his own boss.  He began to live the good life during the Roaring Twenties.

Simmons' downfall was a woman.  Simmons had a mistress, a woman he installed in a luxurious Gold Coast apartment. He didn't bother to conceal her presence in his life one bit.  Now he wanted to ditch his wife.  He became increasingly cruel in his determination to get rid of her.

Simmons had already seen every trick under the sun, but there was one he was especially fond of.  He heard a story about a man he knew who had gotten rid of his wife by having her committed to an insane asylum. This was not such an unusual procedure during that period; it had happened to literally hundreds of wives. 

Simmons smiled.  What a great idea!

As a so-called physician, Simmons had unlimited access to narcotics. Simmons began to sedate his wife without her knowing.  While she was in her stupor, he began a game of psychological terrorism designed to make the woman think she was losing her mind.  Perhaps a beloved brooch would disappear despite its having been stored safely in her handbag.  Or perhaps a picture would disappear from the walls of the house and Simmons would blame his wife for its mysterious disappearance.  Her glasses would be lost and the woman would go frantic trying to find them.

Mrs. Simmons would complain someone must have deliberately moved her belongings, perhaps the housekeeper.  Simmons would counter that this was nonsense.  These lost items were the result of his wife losing her mind.  And then the missing items would suddenly reappear with the husband suggesting she was nuts.  The goal was to convince her that she was going insane.  If she became desperate, perhaps this would drive her to suicide and save him the trouble of committing her.

However, his wife proved to be tougher than most victims. After some months of this treatment, his wife fought back by filing suit against Simmons. A highly publicized trial in 1924 ensued.  Mrs. Simmons testified in court that he had tried to have her framed on a charge of insanity. She contended that Simmons had given her heavy doses of narcotics, prescribed on the strength of his "medical experience" and produced evidence of the prescriptions. 

To Simmons' horror, he realized the jury was buying her story. His strategy had backfired terribly. As details of this sensational trial appeared daily in the paper, the viciousness of his ploy ruined Simmons' image.  Having lost all respectability, Simmons was forced to step down at the AMA.

As a fascinating footnote, the Simmons trial inspired numerous books and plays.  In fact, this story was the inspiration for Gaslight, the fascinating film noir starring Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman about a husband who plays a series of dirty tricks designed to drive his wife insane.  

Max Gerson

At the age of 75, isolated from medical colleagues and unable to find assistants, Gerson undertook the work of rewriting the entire manuscript in order to show "that there is an effective treatment of cancer, even in advanced cases."

The book was published in 1958. It was titled A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases.  Gerson died of pneumonia the following year.  Gerson was halfway through his second volume. [ source ]

Royal Rife

While Morris Fishbein was wiping out cancer cures that he could not monopolize, a San Diego biologist was developing a microscope that today stands as one of biology's greatest breakthroughs.

Royal Rife was a quiet, highly sensitive man who did not handle stress very well.  Fortunately, he had a terrific wife and a support group of doctors who kept a protective umbrella over him.  This freed Rife to go into the laboratory for days at a time to explore a world of microbiology never seen before till his microscope came along.

Royal Rife attempted to find an electromagnetic means to cure disease.  Rife sought a way to kill the bad tissue while sparing the good tissue. Rife's work was so profound that he deserves to stand among science’s giants.  Unfortunately he would be denied that honor, a sad tale indeed. 

Rife was trying to cure tuberculosis by electromagnetically killing the organism responsible for it. He needed a microscope that could view the tuberculosis organism, but such a device did not exist, so Rife conceived and built his own. He began building his first one in 1917, and completed it in 1920.

For the next five years, Rife prepared and viewed about 20,000 tissue specimens, but his microscope was not powerful enough.  He sometimes had to painfully adjust his microscope for up to 24 hours to get the specimen into focus.  This delay infuriated him.  He needed something better.

The next step was to make sure no publications would touch material dealing with Royal Rife.  The medical journals, supported almost entirely by drug company advertising revenues and controlled by the AMA, refused to publish any paper by anyone on Rife's therapy. Generations of medical students graduated without hearing of Rife's breakthroughs in medicine.

And what happened to Rife's decades of meticulous evidence of his work, including film and stop-motion photographs? Parts of his instruments, photographs, film, and written records were stolen from his lab. No one knows who was behind it. No one was never caught.

While Rife attempted to reproduce his missing data, his virus microscopes were vandalized. Pieces of his Universal Microscope were stolen. Earlier, arson had destroyed the multi-million dollar Burnett Lab in New Jersey, just as the scientists there were preparing to announce confirmation of Rife's work.

The last blow came when police illegally confiscated the remainder of Rife's 50 years of research.

And what about Royal Rife?  The trial shattered him the same way his machine shattered viruses.

It is important to note that while Rife was an incredible genius, he also lived an extremely sheltered life.  Spending vast amounts of time peering into a microscope, Rife never developed the emotional shields to criticism and stress that are necessary to cope with daily life.  In an odd sense, Rife was little more than a bubble boy when it came to dealing with the harsh tactics of cut-throats like Morris Fishbein.

At this point, Dr. Johnson had all the money, glory and prestige he wanted.  Saying he would gladly trade it all to cure cancer, Dr. Johnson had dedicated his life to discovering a cure for cancer.  Once he met Royal Rife, Dr. Johnson was convinced he had found the answer to his prayers.

Unfortunately, Dr. Johnson could not seem to affect the train wreck caused by the 1939 trial.  No one could have predicted that Rife would suddenly fall to pieces or the business would go bankrupt.  But Dr. Johnson was smart enough to know that there was still hope.  Johnson wasn't going to give up easily.  He was made of sterner stuff than his friend Roy Rife.

After Fishbein and his buddies tried wiping out the Rife frequency device and discrediting Rife's research, Johnson began a campaign to get Rife's device the recognition it deserved.  As leader of the counter-attack, Johnson continued to amass data.  He also got local legal and medical authorities involved. 

Then, just as Johnson was on the brink of making a very public announcement about Rife's device, he suddenly took ill in 1944.  Nothing seemed to help.  Johnson died a rapid death.

His death raised many unanswered questions.  The timing of his death was suspicious as was the cause of his strange illness.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, two federal inspectors examined Johnson's hospital records.  They concluded that he was likely poisoned.  Was this a mob-style hit?  Quite possibly. 
[Barry Lynes, The Cancer Cure that Worked, p. 97]

Morris Fishbein's triumph was complete.  Royal Rife never recovered from the 1939 trial.  For the final 30 years of his life, Royal Rife was a ruined man, a pathetic shell of his former self.

Harry Hoxsey

Texas oilman Harry Hoxsey (1901-1974) made a deathbed pledge to his father to distribute a family remedy discovered by one of their horses, a remedy that cured cancer. It was an herbal remedy. The Hoxsey method treated tens of thousands of American patients during the 1920s and 1930s.

Harry Hoxsey was a colorful figure indeed. Born near Auburn, Illinois, he was the youngest of twelve children.  At an early age he began assisting his father, the owner of a livery stable and a veterinary surgeon.  At the age of fifteen Hoxsey quit school and began work as a coal miner, later selling insurance and working at other jobs. He completed a high school correspondence course by studying at night for three years.  At some point, he also became an oilman.

According to Hoxsey's autobiography, his family's healing saga began in 1840 when Illinois horse breeder John Hoxsey, his great-grandfather, watched a favorite stallion recover from a cancerous lesion on his leg. Put out to pasture to die, the horse grazed repeatedly on a clump of shrubs and flowering plants and healed itself.

Experimenting on samples of these plants, John Hoxsey concocted an herbal liquid, a salve, and a powder. He used these medications to treat cancer, fistula, and sores in horses with such success that breeders brought their prize animals from as far away as Indiana and Kentucky.

The herbal formulas were handed down within the family, and Harry's father, John, a veterinary surgeon, began surreptitiously treating human cancer patients with success.

From the age of eight, Harry Hoxsey served as his father's trusted assistant.  His autobiography describes several individuals in whose treatment he assisted.  The book also includes a dramatic account of how Hoxsey at age 17 received the formula from his father.  As his father lay on his deathbed, his father handed him the family treasure. 

His father's dying words, "Now you have the power to heal the sick and save lives."
 

Quack or Healer?

The problem Hoxsey always faced was that he looked and acted like a classic “quack.”  

Take for example the story of his father handing him the cure on the deathbed.  Unfortunately, although this makes for a great tale, none of this can be verified.  Although the story may indeed be true, we have to take Hoxsey's word for it.  When it comes to medicine which is basically a life and death business, people are reluctant to take someone's word for anything.  The stakes are too high.

Hoxsey had several obstacles to overcome.

One major problem was the mysterious origin of his cure.  His second problem was his lack of education.  He was not only a high school drop-out, he had no medical training to speak of.   Nor did he have any experience working in any medical capacity.  One day he simply appeared out of nowhere with this magic cure and began healing people.  Anyone with a brain should have been skeptical.

Hoxsey was a talker and a born salesman.  Although people liked his outgoing ways, he wasn't what you would call 'the doctor type'.  Not by a long shot.  Doctors are typically buttoned-down, cautious men by nature.  Hoxsey on the other hand was born to tell a yarn in a colorful folksy way that people might be tempted to label 'BS'.  Therefore, in some ways, Hoxsey's bold personality worked against him.  Not only did Hoxsey lack any medical explanation for why his cure worked, he was obviously a snake charmer to boot.

To his credit, despite his gift of gab, Hoxsey never claimed that he had developed his remedy himself. He told anyone who asked he was merely passing on a family tradition and making it available to humanity.

And yet, even here Hoxsey had a problem.  The herbs in the Hoxsey formula were said to be licorice, red clover, burdock root, Stillingia root, barberry, Cascara, prickly ash bark, and buckthorn bark.  Unfortunately, a similar formula was listed in the United States National Formulary.  Known as "Compound Fluid Extract of Trifolium," this concoction was first described in 1898 in the King's American Dispensatory.  Interesting coincidence.

In other words, Hoxsey surely appeared to Fishbein as obvious prey.  Unlike the extensive medical credentials of a Max Gerson or the unquestioned scientific genius of a Royal Rife, this Hoxsey guy had quack written all over him.  Fishbein sensed an easy takedown.
 

Thomas Mannix

Was Hoxsey a charlatan?  Maybe.  Or maybe not.  Take a look at this picture.

At age 23, Hoxsey opened his first clinic in early 1924.  He experienced immediate and spectacular results.  One doctor was very impressed.  This doctor arranged to have Hoxsey treat a Chicago policeman named Thomas Mannix.

Mannix was down to his last gasp. He had terminal cancer and was being given only a few weeks to live.  Basically the doctors were using the dying policeman as a human guinea pig.  They wanted to know if Hoxsey’s treatment was toxic. The doctor who arranged the trial was not expecting the policeman to improve, as he had already been subjected to surgery and radiation which had accomplished nothing. 

As for Mannix, with his condition was rapidly deteriorating, he had nothing to lose.  As his perpetual frown suggests, Mannix knew he had one foot in the grave. 

Hoxsey wasn't quite so pessimistic. He felt that his treatment could cure the man.

As the pictures confirm, the results were startling. 
 

Here Comes Mr. Morris

As news of the Chicago cop's miraculous recovery reached the Chicago offices of the AMA, Morris Fishbein decided to investigate.  Something must have intrigued him because, Fishbein used an agent to offer to buy the rights to Hoxsey’s herbal cancer remedy.  

Dr. Malcolm Harris, an eminent Chicago surgeon and later president of the AMA, had offered to buy out the Hoxsey anticancer tonic after watching Hoxsey successfully treat a terminal patient. Hoxsey would get 10 percent of the profits, according to the offer, but only after ten years. The AMA would set the fees, keep all the profits for the first nine years, then reap 90 percent of the profits from the tenth year on. The alleged offer would have given all control to a group of doctors including AMA boss Dr. Morris Fishbein.

The AMA completely denies this ever happened, so we are left to rely on Hoxsey's account.  Hoxsey said the sticking point in negotiations related to the deathbed pledge that Hoxsey made to his father: people would get the treatment regardless of their ability to pay. Hoxsey had made sure to honor his father's dying wish.  Consequently he had treated countless patients for free over the years. Hoxsey made it clear this was a non-negotiable issue.

The response of Fishbein and his pals was that once they bought it, they would charge whatever they wanted for the cure. That ended negotiations and set the stage for a vendetta against Hoxsey.  The ensuing fight led by Fishbein would last for 25 years.

Hoxsey first opened a clinic in Taylorville, Illinois, in 1924, but faced constant harassment.  There were numerous arrests for practicing medicine without a license, as well as hostile encounters with the American Medical Association (AMA).  Finally Hoxsey gave up and moved to Dallas.   The further Hoxsey could get from Chicago, the better. 

On March 9, 1936, Hoxsey opened a cancer clinic at the Spann Sanatorium in Dallas. He soon established another clinic downtown. But he had not left controversy behind.  His reputation as a quack followed him to Big D.

By Hoxsey's own estimate, between 1937 and 1939 he faced over one hundred charges of practicing medicine without a license.

The constant harassment drove Hoxsey mad with fury.  Hoxsey fought back with every resource he had.  The Hoxsey-Fishbein vendetta became a brutal knock-down, drag-out fight to the finish. 

At first, Fishbein clearly had the upper hand.

Hoxsey was arrested more times than any person in medical history.  But no charge could stick because no cancer patient ever testified against him. On the contrary, his patients would gather at the jail in a show of support and hasten his release.  Hoxsey avoided jail time in different ways.  Sometimes he would just get it over with by paying fines.  Other times he would appeal decisions.  Hoxsey spent a lot of time in court over the years.

It helped immensely that Hoxsey came from a hardscrabble beginning where he learned to fend for himself.  Hoxsey was a very resilient man.  Born with a flamboyant personality, he almost thrived on the controversy and enjoyed being in the public eye.

One thing that helped was his natural affability.  Once he came to Texas, he made friends easily.  People in Texas like big talkers.  Soon enough, Hoxsey had friends in all sort of places. Senators, judges, and even some doctors endorsed his anticancer treatment.  Although the colorful, gregarious healer fit the stereotyped image of a quack to a T, legions of supporters rallied behind him, saying they owed their lives and continued well-being to Harry Hoxsey. 

Stymied and frustrated at their inability to shut Hoxsey down, finally the 1940s Dallas district attorney's office stopped bringing cases against him.  Now Fishbein had lost his favorite tool. Fishbein decided the next best step was to discredit Hoxsey.  He resorted to JAMA and the mainstream press to attack Hoxsey.

As it turned out, this is the move that would mark Fishbein's downfall.  Fishbein didn't know it, but he had overplayed his hand.

David Versus Goliath

In 1949, Morris Fishbein, longtime editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), wrote an attack on Hoxsey that was published in the Hearst paper Sunday magazine supplement.  That morning 20 million people read the piece entitled "Blood Money." Fishbein, the influential "voice of American medicine," had portrayed Hoxsey as a malevolent charlatan. He also repeated many of the unsubstantiated charges that he had been printing for years in JAMA.  He said Hoxsey's cure was worthless and cured nothing.

Big mistake.  No one knows how to prove a cure does work, but for that matter, how does one prove a cure doesn't work?

Hoxsey sued Fishbein and the Hearst newspaper empire for libel and slander.  From Fishbein's perspective, the trial got off to a bad start when the judge allowed fifty of Hoxsey's patients testified on his behalf.  Typically in these kind of trials, the lawyers do everything in their power to disallow patient testimony.

However the biggest mistake was allowing Fishbein to testify.  Hoxsey's lawyer trapped Fishbein into making astonishing admissions.  Under oath, Fishbein was forced to admit that he had failed anatomy in medical school.  Then he was forced to admit he had never treated a patient or practiced a day of medicine in his entire career. Even more shocking, Fishbein admitted in court that Hoxsey's supposedly "brutal" pastes actually did cure external cancer.  Unbelievable. One can imagine how Fishbein seethed and burned at getting a taste of his own medicine.  The leading Quack chaser in American History was being forced to eat his words by a man he considered the worst charlatan he had ever met. The reporters gasped.  The mighty Morris Fishbein was coming unglued on the stand.  At the start of the trial, it had seemed a hopeless David versus Goliath contest.  Now to amazement of many, Hoxsey was winning. Sure enough, the verdict went to Hoxsey. The judge found Fishbein's statements to be "false, slanderous and libelous."  Although his monetary award was just two dollars, Hoxsey had achieved a stunning moral victory. The leader of America's "quack attack" was now on the defensive.  Every single one of Fishbein's many enemies stepped forward.  Critics charged the AMA with being a doctor's trade union which used unscrupulous national medical policy to further its own selfish interests.  In a lawsuit, the United States Supreme Court agreed that the AMA had conspired in restraint of trade. Dr. Fishbein was forced to resign.  Fishbein was no longer calling the shots.

The 1953 Fitzgerald Report

Four years after Fishbein's fall came another blow.  The son of Senator Charles Tobey had developed cancer.  He was given less than two years to live by orthodox medicine. However, Tobey Jr., discovered options in the alternative field, received alternative treatment and fully recovered from his cancerous condition.  During his treatment, the younger Tobey learned of the alleged conspiratorial practices on the part of orthodox medicine. He passed the word to his father who initiated an investigation.

Congressman Charles Tobey enlisted Benedict Fitzgerald, an investigator for the Interstate Commerce Commission, to investigate allegations of conspiracy and monopolistic practices on the part of orthodox medicine. The final report clearly indicated there was indeed a conspiracy to monopolize the medical and drug industry and to eliminate alternative options.

In 1953, the Fitzgerald Report, commissioned by a United States Senate committee, concluded that organized medicine had "conspired" to suppress the Hoxsey therapy and at least a dozen other promising cancer treatments.  The proponents of these unconventional methods were mostly respected doctors and scientists who had developed nutritional or immunological approaches.

The Report pointed out that panels of surgeons and radiation therapists had dismissed these therapies as 'quackery', and now these promising treatments were banned without a serious investigation.

"My investigation to date should convince this committee that a conspiracy does exist to stop the free flow and use of drugs in interstate commerce which allegedly has solid therapeutic value. Public and private funds have been thrown around like confetti at a country fair to close up and destroy clinics, hospitals, and scientific research laboratories which do not conform to the viewpoint of medical associations."

Benedict F. Fitzgerald, Jr., Special Counsel, US Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 1953

Not that this Report accomplished anything.  Every one of those so-called quack therapies cited in the Fitzgerald Report remain on the American Cancer Society's blacklist of "Unproven Methods of Cancer Management" to this day.

However, at the time, it seems like the clouds were finally clearing.  A new day was at hand, a time when alternative medical practitioners could finally take a shot at curing cancer without the corrupt interference of the AMA and its FDA strongarm.

Hoxsey was feeling very optimistic.  By this time, the Hoxsey clinic in Dallas had 12,000 patients.  Thanks to the publicity from the trial, Harry Hoxsey was so famous he was contemplating running for governor of Texas.  This post that would enable him to appoint the state medical board and thereby get an impartial investigation into his therapy.  Hordes of Hoxsey's patients flooded Washington, D.C., demanding medical freedom of choice. Hoxsey even threatened to picket the White House with 25,000 cured patients.

This was the high point in Hoxsey's career.  He had organized medicine on its heels.  However, the Fishbein trial would prove to be Hoxsey's last hurrah.  Hoxsey was now Public Enemy Number One and Spartacus all rolled into one.  A inexpensive therapy with the potential to help cancer sufferers could not be allowed to spread unchecked. 

The AMA mounted a massive legal counterattack both in legal courts and in the court of public opinion. The AMA brought in its Big Gun, the FDA, and nailed Hoxsey on violations of Interstate Commerce.

The FDA imposes sanitation requirements on interstate travel and is charged with preventing the spread of disease in all products - vegetables, meats, drugs, etc. The FDA has the right to criminally investigate fraudulent claims regarding willfully shipping known adulterated goods across state lines. The FDA can take action against the interstate marketing of any drug in which the "standard of strength, quality, or purity" of the active ingredient is not stated clearly on the label.

The FDA claimed Hoxsey was allowing his "untested, potentially unsafe drug" to cross state lines to his various clinics in the different states without legal permission. That violated Interstate Commerce laws.

One day in 1960 the feds put locks on the doors of every one of Hoxsey's 17 clinics.  They shut him down cold and he was never able to rally. There was no way he could mount a legal fight in 17 different states at once.  Hoxsey was like King Kong trying to futilely swat away those planes shooting him down.  Hoxsey fought as hard as he could, but he seemed to have an entire army of opponents taking shots at him. Hoxsey ultimately lost the fight. His one-time highly successful Dallas clinic was forced to close its doors in 1960. His successors opened a clinic in Tijuana, Mexico.  But as for Hoxsey, it was over for him.  He gave up.  Hoxsey chose to stay in Dallas and devote his attention to the oil business.  In 1967 he developed prostate cancer and spent his last seven years as an invalid, dying in isolation, nearly forgotten.  It was darkly ironic that he was unable to cure his own cancer.  Hoxsey was buried in late December 1974 without any obituary or tribute in the Dallas newspapers.

Morris Fishbein and the Quack Attacks

Although Morris Fishbein never practiced a day of medicine in his life, that never stopped him from leading his “war on quacks.”  Royal Rife, Max Gerson, and Harry Hoxsey all died as lonely, discredited broken men.  But these three men were just some of the trophies.  Fishbein had plenty of other kills as well.

Some of his favorite attacks were reserved for chiropractors. From his post as editor and secretary of the American Medical Association, his anti-chiropractic writings, speeches and political activities had a profound effect on the profession's development.

Because Fishbein was the foremost medical politician of the time, he was perceived as a multi-faceted author on public health issues.  Therefore his credibility was high across large sections of the population and in most social institutions.

Fishbein's opposition undoubtedly helped keep the chiropractic profession limited to caring for a small percentage of the population. Chiropractors were forced to devise survival strategies to combat the negative images that continue to influence the profession even today.  But chiropractors were just small game to Fishbein.

Fishbein's favorite targets were undoubtedly the Quacks.  Anyone who didn't play ball with Fishbein ended up on his Quack List. Fishbein led a war on "quackery" throughout the 1940s. Eventually the AMA's "quack" files would include over 300,000 names.

Hoxsey, Rife and Gerson were far from the only cancer treatment pioneers wiped out by Fishbein and his boys. There were others as well. Dinshah Ghadiali was a gifted scientist who rubbed shoulders with Edison and Tesla. He came to America from India in the 1890s, believing the "land of the free" propaganda and the Horatio Alger tales.

In the 1920s, Ghadiali developed and used with great success what he called "Spectro-Chrome Therapy". It was simply healing by subjecting people to light waves. In certain respects, it was very similar Royal Rife's therapy.

Ghadiali had the distinction of being Fishbein's first major victim.

The moment Fishbein came into power, he attacked Ghadiali in the JAMA January 24, 1924 issue.  From there, Fishbein would lead the attack that saw Ghadiali put on trial eight separate times.

Ghadiali would eventually spend eighteen months in prison. In a pattern that now seems familiar, a 1945 fire of mysterious origin destroyed Ghadiali's main research building just before an important trial.  After the fire had eliminated most of the evidence that he could defend himself with, Ghadiali was helpless.  Then came the final blow.  Not only did they put him in prison, part of the judgment was to burn his books.  His life's work was eradicated.

Dr. William Koch developed glyoxylide in the 1940s.  He soon found himself in Fishbein's gunsight - maybe even literally.

Koch apparently experienced numerous attempts on his life. Doctors who supported his treatment were physically attacked and some died violently or mysteriously. Koch himself died in disgrace, his treatment abandoned. Today, modern medical orthodox research has borrowed from his work, without giving him any credit or mention.  It was really a war on the competition, Al Capone-style.

Another casualty of the Fishbein era was Howard Beard. In Beard’s case, his life was ruined by the relatively gentle methods of repeatedly burning down his laboratory and throwing him into prison.

Over and over, the pattern repeats itself. Sometimes it is an attempted buyout. When that is rejected, the attacks come.  Gunshots, poisoning, hit and run "accidents," kangaroo courts, prison, confiscated documents, media smears, mysterious fires... the litany goes on and on.

The Fishbein Era was the most notorious, but even in his absence the tradition he established has been continued.  Post-Fishbein attacks on John Crane, Rife's successor, and Ernest Krebs of laetrile fame can be added to the list. 

In the 1950s, the cancer treatment known as Krebiozen was championed by one of America's most respected doctors, Andrew C. Ivy. Ivy held many high positions in the medical profession during his career, including a board member of the American Cancer Society, a dozen international awards, a dozen honorary degrees, high-ranking university positions, etc.  Krebiozen and Ivy were wiped out in the early 1950s about the same time that Fishbein was forced down at the AMA.  Dr. Ivy's career was ruined because of his support of Krebiozen and Dr. Stevan Durovic.

The attacks on Hoxsey and Ivy became the focus of a congressional investigation in 1953. The Fitzgerald Report found that more than a dozen promising cancer treatments were wiped out by organized medicine. Under oath, Dr. Durovic told a familiar story. Durovic alleged that J.J. Moore, the AMA's treasurer at the time, asked him to give distribution rights to Krebiozen to two businessmen who were friends of his. When he was rebuffed, Moore threatened to use his power at the AMA and the university to destroy Durovic, Ivy and Krebiozen.  Durovic refused to cooperate and then watched in horror at Moore threats came true.

The attacks that Hoxsey, Rife, Gerson and Durovic endured have little documentation to support the conspiratorial nature of what happened. The kinds of offers that Fishbein's agents made to Hoxsey and Beam Ray or the one JJ Moore made to Durovic would not initially be in writing. Gangsters and government officials have long known the game of not leaving a paper trail for those kinds of offers. It is part of the plausible denial strategy, not letting the right hand know what the left hand was doing.  

However, when one victim after another steps forward to explain how they were treated, a very clear pattern of deliberate intimidation emerges.

When one sees the same pattern repeated over and over - poisonings, shootings, buyout offers, public and legal attacks, mysterious fires, vandalism, document theft, raids and the like - how can it be all dismissed as "coincidence" or "delusion," especially when the motive is so clear?
 

Tobacco

There is an old joke that each state was asked to name its best known vegetable.  Idaho said potato.  Texas said cotton.  California said grapes.  Kansas said wheat.  Iowa said corn.  North Carolina answered "tobacco".  So did Virginia.

Native Americans used tobacco for medicine and ceremonies, but they were not addicted to it. When the English and the Spaniards first visited the New World, they brought tobacco back to Europe where it became very popular.

When the English began colonizing North America they sought gold, just as the Spanish did. However, once gold proved scarce in North America, another economic gold mine had to justify the New World invasion. For the English it became tobacco and furs.

Jamestown in Virginia would not have survived if not for tobacco revenues. By 1638, three million pounds of tobacco a year were making their way to Europe from the Chesapeake. By 1672, it had grown to 17 million pounds a year.

Europeans were becoming addicted.

During the 1920s, German researchers were documenting the link between smoking and cancer. In 1939, Franz Lickint published Tobacco and the Organism, which Robert Proctor called “arguably the most comprehensive scholarly indictment of tobacco ever published.”

Hitler's goal was turning Germany into the land of Aryan supermen. The Third Reich investigated cigarettes, tobacco consumption and health. 

After finding cigarettes to be bad news indeed, Hitler said that tobacco was the red man's vengeance from the grave upon the white man.  Ouch.

Torches of Freedom

On March 31, 1929, a woman by the name of Bertha Hunt stepped into the throng of pedestrians in their Sunday-best clothing marching down Fifth Avenue in what was known in New York as the 1929 Easter Parade. 

Hunt created an absolute sensation by lighting up a Lucky Strike cigarette.

Her action would not have created the reaction it did had not the press already been alerted to what was going to happen in advance.

Hunt then told the reporter from the New York Evening World that she “first got the idea for this campaign when a man with her in the street asked her to extinguish her cigarette as it embarrassed him."

“I talked it over with my friends, and we decided it was high time something was done about the situation.”

It symbolically linked smoking to the women's aspirations for a better life during the women’s liberation movement in the United States. 

At the time there were social taboos that suggested "gentle ladies did not smoke".  Edward Bernays cleverly realized cigarettes could be seen as a sign of rebellion.  His campaign encouraged women to smoke in public despite social taboos.

Cigarettes were described as symbols of emancipation and equality with men.  The Torches of Freedom campaign was a classic instance of using sexual liberation as a form of control. 

It proposed addiction to tobacco as a form of freedom.

The tobacco company propaganda was clever indeed. What billed itself as a feminist promotion of the emancipation of women was in reality a public relations ploy to open a new market for tobacco by getting women addicted to cigarettes. 

Looking back with modern eyes, it might seem preposterous that any woman would imagine tobacco consumption somehow made them more independent, but the use of confident, glamorous models seen smoking with a look of sheer joy on their faces worked wonders.

The tobacco companies were cynically manipulating American women into thinking that smoking was a badge of freedom.  It worked.  For years, cigarette smoking was seen as a sign of feminine sophistication.

Then someone had the bright idea to market to men as well.  The advent of the Marlboro Man linked masculinity with smoking.

If all of this seems vaguely familiar, the fairly brilliant Virginia Slims cigarette campaign was simply an update of the original Torches of Freedom campaign.  You've come a long way, Baby!

Or have you?     ( Source: Culture Wars)

Doctors and Tobacco

These are some of the witty slogans that graced cigarette ads back in the 40s and 50s:  "Not a cough in a carload" (Old Gold)    "Not one single case of throat irritation due to smoking Camels."    "More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette."    "Just what the doctor ordered" (L&M)    "Our cigarettes are recognized by eminent medical authorities." (Philip Morris)    "For Digestion's Sake, Smoke Camels" because the magical Camel cigarettes would "stimulate the flow of digestive fluids."    "Chesterfield is Best for You."

More Doctors
Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette!

One of the most famous ad campaigns used doctors.

Quote: Doctors in every branch of medicine were asked,
"What cigarette do you smoke?"  The brand named most was Camels!

These ads were part of a particular campaign from R. J. Reynolds which ran from 1940 to 1949. Each ad claimed that "More Doctors smoke Camels".

According to a Stanford Research Study, incorporating images of physicians into their ads was a common technique used in the Forties and Fifties to reassure a worried public that smoking was safe. The none-too-subtle message was that if these doctors, with all of their expertise, chose to smoke a particular brand, then it must be safe.

The advertisement would typically feature a white coated doctor posing with his best friend the cigarette. The ad would use his medical expertise as a way to present Camels as harmless to one's health, but then would step back to remind readers that doctors are people, too, and that their true reason for preferring Camel's is the taste.

Unlike the celebrity and athlete endorsers, the doctors depicted were never specific individuals.  Any physician who engaged in advertising would risk losing their license. (It was contrary to accepted medical ethics at the time for doctors to advertise.)

Instead, the images always presented an idealized physician - wise, noble, and caring - who enthusiastically partook of the smoking habit.  In reality, the "doctors" in these ads came out of central casting from among actors dressed up to look like doctors.

Little protest was heard from the medical community or organized medicine, perhaps because the images showed the profession in a highly favorable light. This genre of ads regularly appeared in medical journals such as JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, an organization which for decades collaborated closely with the industry. The big push to document health hazards also did not arrive until later.

In the majority of these advertisements, the "More Doctors" campaign slogan was included alongside other popular Camel campaigns such as "T-Zone ('T for Throat, T for Taste')," "More people are smoking Camels than ever before," and "Experience is the Best Teacher." In this way, Camel was able to maintain consistency across its advertisements.

Celebrity testimonials were often thrown in for good measure.  Here we have actress/singer Maureen O'Hara (1920-present), actor/singer Dick Haymes (1918-1980), and actor Ralph Bellamy (1904-1991).

Interestingly, their endorsements are meant to represent "America's Choice".  In reality, two of the three celebrities were immigrants. O'Hara was born in Dublin, Ireland, while Haymes came from Buenos Aires, Argentina.  No one paid much attention.  

Haymes passed away from lung cancer and Bellamy passed away from respiratory failure. 

Maureen O'Hara, on the other hand, turned 93 in 2013 and looked great at her birthday party.

Go figure.

Morris Fishbein and Tobacco

Although Morris Fishbein received his notoriety through the suppression of alternative cancer cures, his work with the tobacco industry was equally astounding.

Fishbein applied Simmons’ “Seal of Approval” racket to food for a generation with great success.  It make perfect sense to try the same thing with the up and coming tobacco industry.  Fishbein began an active campaign of promoting cigarettes in the 1930s. From the 1930s to the 1950s, the pages of JAMA were filled with cigarette ads, and they were making medical claims.

Not only was Fishbein raking in money from cigarette ads, he was advising cigarette companies on how to structure their "research" so they could make ever-grander medical claims. In 1935, Philip Morris began a new ad campaign, JAMA being the most prominent place for its ads, touting a new additive that made its cigarettes superior to the competition's. The additive was diethylene glycol. Philip Morris stated that its research showed its additive was superior to the rest of the industry, which used glycerine as its moistener. Ethylene glycol is what goes into car radiators today as antifreeze. Diethylene glycol is its cousin.

What Americans did not know about diethylene glycol was that Fishbein was working behind the scenes with Philip Morris, helping design their research. After looking at the original data that Philip Morris produced, Fishbein told them how to create "good data" that they could promote.

They took his advice and hired Michael Mulinos, a pharmacologist at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, to perform a study on diethylene glycol. Mulinos' study appeared in the New York State Journal of Medicine in June 1935. Mulinos reported that rabbits that smoked Philip Morris cigarettes with diethylene glycol had three times less swelling of their eyes than those who smoked the brands using glycerine.

That study became the cornerstone of Philip Morris' promotional campaign. Philip Morris' chief chemist and nine of his assistants canvassed the nation, speaking at major medical conferences, hyping the research results and targeting doctors in particular. Their ads offered free cigarettes to doctors, and Philip Morris even sent representatives to doctors' offices to give them free cigarettes while hyping diethylene glycol.

The Philip Morris campaign was a major success, making Philip Morris the America’s leading cigarette seller. Those experimental results were used in Philip Morris' ad campaigns clear into the 1950s. Philip Morris was so grateful to Fishbein that they offered him a retainer for his continued good advice. Fishbein uncharacteristically declined their offer, probably because it might show favoritism to the other tobacco companies. Fishbein was raking it in from the ad money anyway.

As fate would have it, diethylene glycol made headlines in 1937 when a drug company put diethylene glycol, without first testing it, in the first antibacterial medicine ever sold in America, sulfanilamide. Within weeks of introduction, sulfanilamide began killing people across America, including children. About 100 people died. The AMA even helped prove that diethylene glycol was the culprit.

Fishbein had a problem on his hands, and he acted characteristically. He ran an editorial in the midst of the tragedy, noting that diethylene glycol was used safely in many American products, including cigarettes. Helped by Fishbein's damage management, Philip Morris was able to continue promoting its diethylene glycol for another generation.

In 1949, Fishbein was finally overthrown as the dictator of American medicine, largely due to the legal victories that Harry Hoxsey was winning. As with his mentor Simmons, Fishbein was thrown out when his public image suffered. Even President Truman’s brother testified on Hoxsey’s behalf, as Hoxsey’s treatment cured his skin cancer. Truman’s brother talked to the sitting president about saving Hoxsey from the AMA’s vendetta, but the President said his hands were tied because of the political-economic realities of the medical establishment. Truman would call the AMA “just another mean trust.”

Fishbein landed on his feet.  He soon went to work for the cigarette manufacturer Lorillard at a retainer of $25,000 a year. That was big money in those days, the equivalent of about $160,000 a year today.

Probably not coincidentally, one year after Fishbein was deposed at the AMA, for the first time JAMA published research results about the harmfulness of tobacco. Medical student Ernst Wynder and surgeon Evarts Graham of Washington University in St. Louis found that 96.5% of lung cancer patients in their hospitals had been smokers.

Freed of Fishbein's blackout, American science and medicine finally produced research results that confirmed the obvious.  It had taken America over 30 years to begin admitting what the rest of the world had known for a long time - tobacco kills.

Ironically, appearing in the same 1950 JAMA issue to introduce American to on the hazards of smoking, that did not even begin to slow the ad campaigns for cigarettes in JAMA.

Fishbein was working hard for his new employers, helping to design more research that Lorillard could promote. Fishbein helped mastermind the last advertising blitz for cigarettes that graced JAMA. The hullabaloo centered on Lorillard's Micronite filter, a "breakthrough" in cigarette technology. It was the first "mineral" filter. During the cigarette advertising wars that raged on JAMA's pages, the AMA Advertising Committee directed their chemical laboratory to study the effectiveness of cigarette filters. None of the filters worked very well, and actually worked against the desired effect of cigarettes in the first place: filling the lungs with smoke.

There was a marginal improvement with the Micronite filter, the only mineral filter tested. Lorillard was attempting to reproduce the resounding success that Philip Morris had with its diethylene glycol blitz of the 1930s.

In 1952, Lorillard began running ads in JAMA with headlines announcing, "Have you Heard the Story of New Kent Cigarettes, Doctor?" and "Doctor, Have You Tried the New KENT Cigarette?"

In their ad campaign Lorillard proudly announced, "At the recent convention of the American Medical Association, thousands of physicians heard the Kent story, and saw a convincing demonstration of the MICRONITE FILTER'S phenomenal effectiveness."

Physicians began complaining to the AMA about those shameless displays, especially when increasing evidence was submitted from the American scientific community about the harmfulness of cigarettes.

Reader's Digest was in the midst of a tremendous anti-tobacco campaign at the same time that Lorillard's Fishbein-inspired ad blitz was taking America by storm. Reader's Digest was running articles with titles such as "Cancer by the Carton," and cigarette smoking began declining in the early 1950s, as America began waking up. Reader’s Digest took one of the most heroic stands that any American media organization ever took, as its competitors had their pages filled with cigarette ads.

It finally came to a head in 1953. Sad to say, the showdown was not due to an episode of conscience overcoming the AMA.  As it turned out, it was the drug companies that spoke up. 

The drug industry had long been the financial backbone of the AMA.  Once they began complaining, the AMA listened. The drug companies thought that cigarette ads running alongside their drug ads in JAMA were discrediting them, because cigarettes were being likened to miracle drugs.  The drug companies took a stand.  Either they go or we go.

Faced with that devastating economic reality, JAMA announced that it would no longer accept cigarette ads beginning January 1, 1954.  It was a decision that cost JAMA $100,000 a year in cigarette ad revenues, but they had no realistic choice.  The drug industry was too important.

However, nothing changed for the tobacco companies.  The cigarette companies simply boosted their spending elsehwere. In 1954, Lorillard ran ads in Time, Life and other popular magazines.  Each ad cited the AMA experiments that "proved" how superior Kent's Micronite filter was to other cigarette brands' filters.  The doctors seethed.  Lorillard was continuing to bank on their credibility.

Consequently, in 1954, a war broke out in between the AMA and Lorillard. JAMA editorials blasted Lorillard for using its name without permission.  Lorillard just yawned. Lorillard countered with new ads that said while the AMA did not endorse any particular brand of cigarette over another, their own medical research still showed that Lorillard's Kent filter was the best of the bunch.

So just how wonderful was this much-touted Micronite filter?  In one of many ironic twists to the Lorillard story, take a guess what the magical ingredient was in the Micronite filter?

Asbestos!

Asbestos had already been linked by researchers to a number of respiratory diseases, including lung cancer.  The danger of asbestos was known as far back as the 1930s.  However it wasn't until the 1970s that public awareness of the danger became wide-spread. You conspiracy theorists will be amused to note the U.S. government and the asbestos industry have been criticized for not acting quickly enough to inform the public of dangers and to reduce public exposure. In the late 1970s court documents proved that asbestos industry officials knew of asbestos dangers since the 1930s and had deliberately concealed them from the public.

Yes, we would all agree sitting on news of a public health threat for 40 years is the sort of thing that makes people suspicious about the government.  But then they did the same thing with the dangers of cigarettes.  And they hid the fact that cancer had been cured a dozen times before Nixon's War on Cancer in 1971... which to this day still has failed to produce a "conventional cure".

Yes, Truth can be stranger than fiction.  In Fishbein's 1969 autobiography, he lauded the Micronite filter, and wrote how it spurred all the cigarette companies to put filters on their cigarettes.  And then he added:

"Within two years, however, the talk about the relationship of cigarette smoking to cancer began to assume the proportions of a great propaganda.  Now many years have passed, the campaign is intensified, and one begins to wonder how long it will be before some definitive answers are found for the questions that make people anxious and doctors despondent."

In Fishbein's world, one could only imagine how long it would take to figure out that tobacco is harmful to a person's health.

On that same page, Fishbein displayed his stalwart allegiance to the tobacco companies.  Without mentioning the hefty sums he earned from them, he stated that he campaigned for fluoridation at the same time. There was Fishbein, campaigning for fluoride and asbestos, and calling the effort against smoking a "great propaganda."

Even after the Lorillard affair, the AMA and the tobacco interests stayed in bed together for nearly another forty years. The U.S. Surgeon General issued the famous report in January 1964 which was damning of smoking and cigarettes. 

Immediately after, the AMA spent $500,000 of its own money and the tobacco companies kicked in another $10 million to fund a "study" to counteract the Surgeon General's report.

The AMA issued a brochure in May 1964 titled: Smoking: Facts you Should Know.

The brochure downplayed the hazards of smoking, stating that smoking's greatest health hazard was smoking in bed and burning the house down. The brochure tamely suggested that some research pointed to some health problems, although "some equally competent physicians and research personnel are less sure of the effect of cigarette smoking and health."

The brochure concluded with "Smoke if you feel you should, but be moderate." The tobacco companies were so pleased with the AMA's stance on smoking that they kicked in another $8 million for further AMA "research."

It was not until a 1980s investigation revealed that two AMA board members owned a farm where tobacco was raised, and that the AMA's retirement fund was invested in tobacco stocks, that the divorce proceedings began.

Now that the shackles were removed, the AMA finally began speaking out against cigarette smoking. In the 1980s, some young, idealistic doctors within the AMA ranks began making noise. Even then, the AMA has rarely been at the battle’s forefront.  As late as the 1980s, if people walked into the AMA’s headquarters, they would have no trouble finding cigarette vending machines in the bathrooms and lobbies.

"Now that I’m gone, I tell you:  Don’t smoke. Whatever you do, just don’t smoke.   If I could take back that smoking, we wouldn't be talking about any cancer. I'm convinced of that."  - Yul Brynner, actor

Rick Archer's Note:  We have come to the end of this particular story.  It is now time for me to remind the reader that I personally have no idea how true any of these stories are.  I have done nothing more than pass on the anecdotes of two men, Wade Frazier and Eustace Mullins.  I have never met either man and know nothing about their integrity or research methods. 

Therefore I must remind you there is a certain margin for error in everything I have posted.  Nothing copied from the Internet can ever be considered to be the gospel truth.  On the other hand, one can assume I would not have published these words if I did not suspect there is a strong likelihood of truth here.

Morris Fishbein actively promoted cigarettes for 45 years.  He had to know what he was doing.  Even in Fishbein’s time, cigarettes were well known to be highly carcinogenic.

This is the man who intentionally promoted smoking, the single greatest cause of cancer, while simultaneously looking for ways to cash in on providing its treatment.  

Fishbein tried buying several cancer cures so he could monopolize them. However, the moment his shakedown ploy failed, he made sure to destroy the men who created them.  If he couldn't own the cancer treatment himself, Fishbein made damn sure no one else in the human race would ever benefit from it.  This story was repeated at least a dozen times during Fishbein's 25 year reign at the AMA. 

Besides promoting cigarette use and destroying cancer cures, Fishbein even found time to promote asbestos in cigarettes and flouride in drinking water. 

One begins to wonder if there is any possible scourge to the American people Fishbein managed to miss out on. 

In fact, one is hard-pressed to think of any other American individual in history whose actions were more profoundly anti-life and anti-health than this man.  And yet this is the man who represented a profession that is dedicated to healing.  The irony could not possibly be more profound.  How could anyone as diabolical as this man end up running the medical establishment?  How could members of the healing profession constantly turn a blind eye to this sociopath?

Well, I can also ask how could someone as diabolical as Adolph Hitler fool an entire country?  I suppose if Hitler could pull it off, so could Fishbein.

In fact, some compare Fishbein to Hitler for his use of intimidation, violence and media control to dominate an entire country.  I can certainly see their point. 

On the other hand, Fishbein never orchestrated a Holocaust.  And yet one might ask how many people died because Fishbein destroyed the technology of  Royal Rife.

Closer to home, one might think of Al Capone, another well-known citizen of Chicago.  Capone's moral decay led him to destroy any opponent who stood in his way without the slightest sense of guilt.

Fishbein didn't have any blood on his hands that we know about.  But when one compares the direct body count of an Al Capone to the indirect body count of a Morris Fishbein, a case could be made... well, draw your own conclusions. 

It stretches the limits of credulity not to believe Fishbein understood what he was doing.  For his entire career, Fishbein actively promoted cigarettes, the single greatest cause of cancer while simultaneously wiping out the cancer cures that worked.  These were cures that were harmless and inexpensive. 

In my opinion, Fishbein knew exactly what he was doing. His cigarette promotion was creating a market (sick patients) for a medical racket where the cash registers rang resoundingly.  Nor was there any competition to drive down prices.  Anything that could cheaply cure the disease was ruthlessly wiped out.  
 

Monopoly 

One could make a case that Morris Fishbein's anti-cancer cure policies benefitted the AMA in the exact same way that Rockefeller's willful destruction of countless small competing oil companies benefitted Standard Oil.  In many ways, the tactics are nearly identical. 

There is one major difference though. They say behind every great fortune lies a crime.  While I have trouble accepting that John Rockefeller was an honorable man, I can also make a strong case that Rockefeller's actions ultimately benefitted the United States of America.

When it comes to Morris Fishbein, all I can see is the crime.  The only argument in his favor is that his actions definitely benefitted the medical industry.  However, I fail to see any case where the actions of Morris Fishbein even remotely benefitted the people of the United States. 

Quite the contrary.  Millions of Americans died needlessly thanks to Fishbein's actions. I contend that Fishbein's policies deprived us of medical geniuses like Max Gerson and Royal Rife.  Had men like these survived, the United States of America would be famous today for some of the greatest advances in medical history.

Instead we plod our way along hoping the orthodox drug researchers will finally stumble on some synthetic way to beat a disease that has licked their best efforts so far.  I might add I have a hunch that cancer's weaknesses seem easier to target through natural methods than through synthetic drugs.  But then I am not a doctor, so what I think doesn't matter much.

What I do know is that the rate of people getting cancer just keeps getting higher. 

Before Morris Fishbein came along, one person in 20 got cancer in 1900.  Today one man in two and one woman in three gets cancer, the so-called disease of civilization.  They say the increase can be attributed to the fact that we all live longer. 

I say that argument is nothing more than a slick ad slogan designed to misdirect our attention from the truth. 

I say our planet absolutely reeks of carcinogens in the food supply, the water supply, the air and the earth.  These pollutants can be traced directly to the energy industry which refuses to clean up its act and the agricultural drug industry that pollutes our environment. 

I say Morris Fishbein is the poster boy for the morally-depraved attitudes that have made our people and our planet sick. 

However, even after Fishbein left, the same corrupt behavior continued.  I think the Burzynski story in Chapter Three made that perfectly clear.  That indicates to me there are Fishbein clones calling the shots today. 

I will leave it to Wade Frazier, the man whose words have been woven throughout this article, to have the last word.

"What would have happened if Royal Rife had succeeded and Morris Fishbein had failed?  

I say that had Rife continued, then there would be a lot of people who would have not died of cancer.

In addition, certain areas of the medical profession would have ceased to exist.  It certainly didn't take a doctor to operate the buttons on Rife's machines. 

But one need not mourn their loss.   

Scientists and researchers could have simply changed their focus to devote more time on things we are far behind on, like curing paralysis, unlocking the mysteries of the brain and growing organs and limbs.   Think of the hundreds of billions of dollars that has flowed to the unholy alliance of the AMA, FDA, drug industry and the State.  Think of all that money that has been wasted so far.  Imagine how it might have been put to good use.   Instead, we keep pumping dollar upon dollar into finding a cure for a disease that has already been cured a dozen times.  

And what is the answer for these problems?  

Remove the State backing from the AMA and FDA.  Unleash the power and creativity of the free market.  Allow freedom of thought.  Don't destroy inventions that have the power to advance society.

Many people have been brainwashed into thinking the State protects them. The truth is the exact opposite. 

The State protects the monopolies."
 

"The numbing irony is that the same corporations that produce carcinogenic chemicals, including agricultural ones like tobacco, are also running the cancer treatment industry and selling chemotherapy drugs.   Gee, aren't they clever!   Now that's what I call vertical integration."  - Ken Ausubel