Cancer is NOT a deficiency of “B-17″
April 22nd, 2008
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We have discussed what cancer is here before. It’s not a single condition, but a number of conditions characterized by uncontrolled reproduction of cells and a tendency to spread throughout the body. A claim was made a long long time ago that cancer was a “deficiency” in the same manner that scurvy is a deficiency of vitamin C and nutritional anemia is a deficiency of iron. This is, of course, not based on reality at all, but it sounds appealing because a deficiency is easily remedied by the administering of the nutrient which is lacking. (thus the opportunity to sell something.)
The claim is that it is a lack of “vitamin B-17″ and that viamine B-17 is both the cure for cancer and the way to prevent it. In a common thread, it’s also stated that cancer never existed before “modern” times when “the processed food we eat” stopped delivering this vitamin. There actually is no such thing as vitamin B-17, and a number of substances have been claimed to be vitamin B-17. The most common is amygdalin. Amygdalin is a substance which occurs in certain seeds and nuts in very small quantities and which can be concentrated from almond extracts. It’s been reputed as a cure for cancer for years and has been tested more than a few times. Despite being hocked by quacks in backwaters of the world, modern medicine has found the evidence pretty conclusive: it doesn’t help at all against cancer and apparently has no beneficial effect on any disease.
It may even be harmful, because, due to the sources it is derived from, it can also contain greater than trace quantities of cyanide. The greatest champion of the stuff as a magic cure-all for cancer and everything else that ales you was Dean Burk. He was a chemist for the National Cancer Institute – before he was apparently fired. He died in 1988 of cancer (so much for the magic cure). Others who championed this stuff include conspiracy theorists and Jason Vale, a one time arm wrestling champion who sold the stuff as a cancer cure until 2004 when he was convicted of fraud and sent to prison. Now he’s back and selling franchises for a juice bar chain called “The Juice Master” – which supposedly will cure everything and bring you better health by making your own juice from fruits and vegetables. He also gives talks and sells books – not surprising.
What never ceases to amaze me is the staying power these scams have. For one thing, there is no shortage of people who seem to pop up and claim Jason Vale was targeted by the “Cancer Mafia” of drug companies or that he was “railroaded” into prison. There ramain several sites dedicated to “vitamin B-17″ including vitamineB17.org. That website seems to be associated with known wacko G. Edward Griffin, who has also written about conspiracies behind the federal reserve and quests to discover Noah’s Arc.
The claims of this substance being a miracle cure for diseases goes way back to the 1800’s but the current claim that it cures cancer seems to have first been widely distributed in the 1950’s. By the 1960’s it was debunked through and through, and yet it never quite went away. Sites still come out and state it’s a “cure for cancer.”
To see just how old this scam is, you can check out this video on Youtube. As you can probably tell, it’s not exactly a modern presentation and has the look of decades old yellowing film – which is what it is.
What really gets to me, though, is that despite the fact that this is older than dirt and that there is plenty of information debunking this idea, which as much as simple Google or Wikipedia search, people still eat this crap up hook line and sinker. Just look at the following video:
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May 18th, 2010 at 9:10 am
drbuzz0 said:
You haven’t looked into this at all
Although it is called Planet X it is not a planet, it is a brown dwarf star (the suns twin), which is only visible via very expensive infrared equpiment, it is on a several thousand year orbit. They built a telescope at the south pole and at the vatican to see it. It is causing the volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis, these will intensify over the next 3 years. There was an earthquake in Ireland two weeks ago, first time in recorded history.
http://www.darkstar1.co.uk/
You wont believe it until you look at it from all angles, but considering the activities of the governments alone is enough to make you people suspicious, why have they moved the CIA to Denver at a cost of billions, why has Bush bought land in Paraguay, why do a disporportionate amount of retired military live in Denver, Why does Denver International Airport resemble the “end of the world” with its own pale horse of the appocalypse?
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_denver05.htm
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May 18th, 2010 at 9:24 am
Philip Porter said:
Three years? How is this possible when everybody knows that the world will end on December 21, 2012?
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May 18th, 2010 at 6:49 pm
Philip Porter Why are you pushing this nonsense in a place you must know will not buy into it? Why are you throwing yourself against those that are not going to accept anything you write without solid proof? Surely you must know that pointing to the rantings of other deluded folk isn’t going to cut it with us.
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May 18th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
DV82XL said:
You say “the first was enforced dogma of the Catholic Church, that had been disproved by the Greeks”
how do you know this? where is the proof? according to this the notion that catholics believed the earth was flat was a myth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth
However, assuming for as moment that it was not a myth, it may be more Catholic lies after all. What I believe you are doing is behaving exactly like those under the control of the Catholic Church. They had been brainwashed into believing things work a certain way, and may say something like
“the idea that the world is round is nonsence, a vague conspiracy theory and why would you come here saying that it is round you have no proof. The evidence you have presented is not proof. We understand the modern world and know it to be flat and will not believe you”
So therefore you acknowledge that the Catholic Church maufactured this conspiracy. What if today the masses were still under an even greater and older conspiracy manuafctured AGAIN by the Catholic Church, how would you know of this if you were a victim of that conspiracy. You wouldn’t! That was me a year ago. Society would have taught you that looking at conspiracy theories is the activity of the mentally ill. So how do you get break free from that? You look into the stuff that you are told is conspiracy. It is only then that you will be on the road to freeing your mind.
I am trying to make you see that you have the wrong approach, that this sceptical attitude wont help you, it only serves the ego. You need to go through a waking up process (start by watching Wake Up Call on google videos, I assure you it is very interesting and will probe you into asking many more questions) after which you will see that most major and small events that happen in the present and in history are not disconnected activities, like our university eduaction and the mainstream media has us believe, but they all are connected in ways most people, brainwashed by the Zionist lies could not possibly imagine.
You are a prisoner, but how do you break out when you don’t know that you are in a prison, there are many levels to the prison, but you can only break out when you stop being sceptical prisoner and start to look at what is preventing your understanding of the matrix and reality. Socrates said “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” once you keep that in your mind, your mind is open to all possibility, it doesn’t mean you accept everything, but that you can filter it through intuition. This is the only way to find the truth. Dismissal and disinterest in unproven theories compartmentalises your understanding of reality and provides you with a fake notion of personal security. Ignorant slaves are exactly what Rothschild and Rockefeller want.
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May 18th, 2010 at 8:16 pm
BMS said:
I rounded it up, yes that date is meant to be the main date for activity
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May 18th, 2010 at 8:28 pm
I had a feeling the Rothschilds would make an appearance here. If you’ve got a conspiracy theory, you’re sure to find Zionists behind it, controlled by the Rothschilds, the A-List of the Lizard People.
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May 18th, 2010 at 8:34 pm
Philip Porter said:
Actually I know all about this and in fact, considerably more than yourself.
What you’re talking about is a bastardized version of something called the Nemesis Hypothysis It holds that a brown dwarf star could orbit the sun in an extreme elliptical orbit far beyond the orbit of Pluto and that this could account for the apparent periodic rise in cometary collisions and some other anomalies. Basically the object would come close enough to the sun every 26 million years and in doing so would disturb some cometary orbits.
Most astronomers consider the hypothysis to be a bit speculative. It *could* be true, but there’s no direct evidence. However, there are possibilities of detecting such a body. Brown dwarfs are difficult to detect, but since this one is relatively close, it should be visible with sensitive enough infrared telescopes.
The WISE mission began in 2009 to map the sky using a wide field infrared telescope. If Nemisis is there, WISE should pick it up. The mission is between 1/4 and 1/3 complete. Thus far nothing detected.
By the way. I know you’re a conspiracy theorists and so the Vatacan seems like a great place for some super-sensitive telescope (very in vogue with the Da Vinci code and all) but the Vatacan is located right in Rome. Horrible place for a super-sensitive telescope! There is a small astronomy there, but really, if you actually wanted to do serious observations with a big hightech telescope, a place like that has too much light and thermal pollution and its too low and too much moisture in the air.
Highly sensitive modern telescopes are built on remote mountaintops and desert plateaus. Only an idiot would think the Vatican would be a descent place for one.
Also, the South Pole would not be a very good place for a big super-sensitive infrared telescope. While it has the advantages of very dry air and very cold ambient temperatures, there are some big drawbacks. For one thing, all the equipment has to be brought in on C-130, but more importantly the blowing snow and ice crystals during high winds would scour optics and mirrors. It’s a very harsh environment. The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station does do astronomy research, but building optical telescopes that are exposed to the outside for an extended period of time is not feasible. Buildings tend to be burred in drifting snow banks (hence the current station is actually elevated.
Highly sensitive telescopes need big mirrors to gather light. South Pole is probably a no-go.
See.. I know about this. Considerably more than yourself, actually
Oh by the way, what does this have to do with cancer?
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