Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!abc From: abc@brl-tgr.ARPA (Brint Cooper ) Newsgroups: net.med,net.veg Subject: Re: Unconventional Cancer Therapy Message-ID: <8589@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 25-Feb-85 10:04:42 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8589 Posted: Mon Feb 25 10:04:42 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 27-Feb-85 21:09:10 EST References: <703@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: abc@brl-tgr.ARPA (Brint Cooper (CTAB) ) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 44 Xref: watmath net.med:1312 net.veg:369 In article <703@decwrl.UUCP> daemon@decwrl.UUCP (The devil himself) writes: >Re: Unconventional Cancer Therapy______________________________________________ > > The original article mentions both the curing and preventative effects >of a macrobiotic diet. The flame that followed seemed to notice only the pre- >ventative effect. A pity. The original article CLAIMED curing and preventative effects of a macrobiotic diet. No evidence of "cure" was offered. Because event B follows event A is no proof whatever that A caused B. > There are many people who have cured cancer with a macrobiotic diet. Again, what is your evidence of a "cure?" Do you distinguish between spontaneous remission, which occurs in a small fraction of cases, and outright "cure?" Have the "cured" people remained free of the original malignancy for five years? >That doctor was one of the more recent to come to the media's attention. An- >other famous person was Dirk Benedict. > I personally know another person who did this. His name is Tinker. >He had a bad case of cancer, including at least one tumor the size of an or- >ange. He went on a macrobiotic diet and was *completely* cured in less than >two years! Again, if such a diet is truely a "cure" for cancer, it should be able to withstand the rigors of scientific, "double blind" testing or, at least, a retrospective variant thereof. Has such research been published? Have these results been subjected to critical, scientific, peer review? > As for the related complaint that he or she brought up, I don't think >it's insulting to say that the medical establishment has (until recently) ig- >nored preventative approaches and concentrated on curing. It's simply true. For 50 years that I know of, many physicians have been urging patients to quit smoking; clearly a "preventative" approach. For 40 of those 50 years, their pleas went unheeded. Perhaps the public has not been listening to their doctors! What is your evidence that the medical establishment ignored preventative approaches? Brint