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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article ,   
   PV  wrote:   
   >M.I.Wakefield wrote:   
   >> "The Doctor"  wrote in message news:l0vskp$d52$1@gallifrey.nk.ca...   
   >>   
   >>> In article ,   
   >>> Alan Baker   wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>> "Since the early 1950s, both amygdalin and a modified form named   
   >>>> laetrile or Vitamin B17 have been promoted as cancer cures. However,   
   >>>> neither of these compounds nor any other derivatives are vitamins   
   >>>> in any sense,[3] and studies have found them to be clinically   
   >>>> ineffective in the treatment of cancer, as well as dangerously   
   >>>> toxic. They are potentially lethal when taken by mouth, because   
   >>>> certain enzymes (in particular, glucosidases that occur in the gut   
   >>>> and in various kinds of seeds, edible or inedible) act on them to   
   >>>> produce cyanide.[4][5][6][7][8] The promotion of laetrile to treat   
   >>>> cancer has been described in the medical literature as a canonical   
   >>>> example of quackery,[9][10][11] and as "the slickest, most   
   >>>> sophisticated, and certainly the most remunerative cancer quack   
   >>>> promotion in medical history."[3]"   
   >>   
   >>> Well I do know of a person on laetrile and actually fought cancer   
   >>> back.   
   >>   
   >> Personal anecdotes are no substitute for actual science.  Although   
   >> the fact that you didn't know that explains much about your   
   >> uninformed opinions on evolution.   
   >   
   >Why would he worry about actual facts when he has anecdotal evidence,   
   >besides it's probably a friend of a friend whose room mate's sister 2nd   
   >cousin knew of someone who knew someone who might have had cancer and was   
   >healed by.........   
   >   
      
   And the tests involved.   
      
   >--   
   >PV   
   >   
   >"The intention of the contents of that link was to make you __find__ the   
   >log file and then __read__ its contents, not just cut'n'paste it into a   
   >message so that someone else reads it for you."   
   >   
   >Ing. Pierangelo Masarati   
   >(response to The Doctor's support request)   
   >   
   >   
      
      
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