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December 27, 2010
Mr. Griffin marshals the evidence that cancer is a deficiency disease like scurvy or pellagra aggravated by the lack of an essential food compound in modem mans diet. That substance is vitamin B17 and it is abundant in apricot kernels. In its purified form developed for cancer therapy, it is known as Laetrile. Why has orthodox medicine waged war against this non drug approach?
Griffin contends that the answer is to be found, not in science, but in politics and is based upon the hidden economic and power agenda of those who dominate the medical establishment.
On March 29, 2012 the Wikipedia entry for “Amygdalin” stated:
Amygdalin is sometimes confused with laevomandelonitrile, also called laetrile for short; however, amygdalin and laetrile are different chemical compounds.
Laetrile, which was patented in the United States, is a semi-synthetic molecule sharing part of the amygdalin structure, while the “laetrile” made in Mexico is usually
amygdalin, the natural product obtained from crushed apricot pits called neoamygdalin.
Though it is sometimes sold as “Vitamin B17”, it is not a vitamin. Amygdalin/laetrile was claimed to be a vitamin by chemist Ernst T. Krebs in the hope that if classified as a nutritional supplement it would escape the federal legislation regarding the marketing of drugs. He could also capitalize on the public fad for vitamins at that time.
The promotion of Laetrile to treat cancer has been described in the scientific literature as a canonical example of quackery, with Irving Lerner of the University of Minnesota describing it as “the slickest, most sophisticated, and certainly the most remunerative cancer quack promotion in medical history.”
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