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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <5lm739l2ueq97uoc53c65npt3dl3hop9p8@4ax.com>,   
   John Fleming   wrote:   
   >[Default] On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 16:50:10 -0400, while chained to a desk   
   >in the scriptorium "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.   
   >   
   >Agreed.  Clinical trials are a much more effective method of   
   >demonstrating the efficacy of a treatment regimen.   
      
   So have there been **objective** clinical trials.   
      
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   >John Fleming   
   >Edmonton, Canada   
   >   
   >   
   >     Old MacDonald had a farm E-I-E-I-O   
   >     And on that farm he had a genome E-I-E-I-O   
   >     With a SNP SNP here and a SNP SNP there,   
   >     Here a SNP, there a SNP, everywhere a SNP SNP   
   >     Old MacDonald had a farm E-I-E-I-O   
      
      
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