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From: carter@gatech.UUCP (Carter Bullard)
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Subject: Re: Re: Unconventional Cancer Therapy  FLAME!!
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Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 17:33:47 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 22 17:33:47 1985
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> > > 
> > >        You want	FLAME you opened yourself up perfectly.	 Laetrile
> > >        is the common name for Vitamin B17 no matter what your
> > >        opinion might be
> > 
> > Calling Laetril "vitamin B17" is fine with me.
> > Using your scientific "rigor" (mortis?), I think I'll
> > call MYSELF a B vitamin also, since it sounds SO wholesome!
> 
> When you can explain to me what cancer is, how it works, and how to
> prevent or cure it (with full documentation of 'rigor'us testing and
> research) then I'll believe that one of you knows what you are talking
> about.  As long as cancer remains a mystery, neither side can claim
> to be any more 'right' than the other.  You are both argueing relegion.

Religion?  What are you talking about?
The point is that, B Vitamins are a specific set of molecules.  Laetrile
is not in the set.  That is all, and you don't have to have an understanding
of anything with regards to cancer in order to recognize that when 
listing all the known B vitamins in the universe, the intelligent person 
does not include B17, because there is no such thing.  Its just a hyped up
California, big sell, advertising gimmick.  That is all.  Nothing more,
nothing less.
-- 
Carter Bullard
ICS, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA 30332
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