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were all kind and sympathetic, thoroughly believing in their
treatment methods (and outlawing others for your protection).
You may conclude, as I did, that a totally “scientific” system of
belief and treatment can still be quite wrong, even though, ad-
mittedly, the treatments like amputation to cure prosematis
would be 100% effective.
“Prosematis” is a fictional disease I made up to illustrate
how more serious diseases, like cancer, are treated. Scientific
data are a collection of accurately obtained, statistically sound
measurements. Science is not the culprit. But its application re-
quires wisdom —a human quality. It can be lacking in any indi-
vidual or profession. Yet, we all have some of it.
An example of wisdom for an individual might be changing
daily habits when cancer threatens, such as improving diet,
stopping addictions, and stopping the use of recognized car-
cinogens. This book will elaborate on these.
An example of wisdom for the medical profession would be
searching for carcinogens in the tumorous organ. Then search-
ing for the same carcinogens in the patient’s air, water, food,
and body products.
For example the dye “butter yellow” is known to cause ele-
vated alkaline phosphatase levels in animals. Many cancer pa-
tients show elevated alkaline phosphatase levels, too. Research-
ers should search for butter yellow in these cancer patients. To
my knowledge such a study has not been done, nor do I see evi-
dence of this whole approach! Here’s another example. Scien-
tists know that broken chromosomes are characteristic of nearly
every cancer.9,10 They also know that heavy metals, like copper,
cadmium, and the lanthanides (“rare earths”) cause chromo-
(^9) Weiss, L.M., Warnke, R.A., Sklar, J., Cleary, M.L., Molecular Analysis of the t(14;18)
Chromosomal Translocation in Malignant Lymphomas, N. Eng. Jour. Med., v. 317,
no. 19, 1987, pp. 1185-89.
(^10) Warrell, R.P., et. al., Differentiation Therapy of Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia with
Tretinoin (All-Trans-Retinoic Acid), N. Eng. Jour. Med., v. 324, no. 20, 1991, pp.
1385-93.