Now there's a
headline that gets attention! It sure
got mine when I saw it on the cover of a book prominently featured in a health
food store. This was not a treatment,
the book suggested, but a cure! A gift
to humanity, the author self-indulgently stated. What had thousands of dedicated researchers missed over the
years, I wondered?
Claims of
cancer cures are of course nothing new.
In medieval Europe a live crab would be placed on the body at a site
close to a tumor, left there for a while, and then the animal would be removed
and killed. Why? Because many tumors were seen to bear a
physical resemblance to the crab. In
fact, our word cancer derives from the Latin word for the creature.
The idea
then, was that the tumor would develop some kind of association with the crab
and would somehow be sympathetically destroyed along with the poor
crustacean. Judging by the fact that
this procedure persisted for a couple of centuries, it must have produced at
least some successes. This of course is
not surprising in light of our current knowledge about spontaneous remissions
and the "placebo" effect. But
even with the popularity of "alternative medicine" today, it is safe to
say that anyone suggesting that crabs can physically withdraw cancer from the
body would be regarded as less than sane.
Now fast
forward to the 1990s. Imagine that you
were suffering from cancer. Imagine
that you were told that you could be cured of the disease in just five days by
identifying and then removing the cause of your cancer. Imagine that all you had to do was buy about
thirty five dollars worth of parts and build a simple electronic device that
would tell you exactly what to do.
Imagine that
you were instructed to eat a certain food, then squeeze a pimple on your body
and place the emerging fluid on the device next to a sealed plastic bag of the
same food. Imagine that you were then
to connect the contraption to your knuckles by means of two leads and listen to
the sound emanating from a little speaker in the apparatus.
Now imagine
that by the type of sound emitted you could determine whether this particular
food was a cause of your cancer and must therefore be eliminated from the diet
to ensure a cure. Finally, imagine that
you don't have to imagine all this. For
indeed, the foregoing is the actual scenario being plied to the public in an
epic work with the grandiose title "The Cure for All Cancers!"
Hulda Regehr
Clark, who surprisingly possesses a PhD in physiology from the University of
Minnesota, unabashedly claims to have discovered the secret that has stymied
all other scientists. The cause of
cancer, she claims, is an intestinal parasite that can escape from the gut and
take up residence in a variety of organs which have been weakened by previous
exposure to a variety of substances ranging from mercury in dental fillings and
thallium in wheelchairs to wallpaper glue and asbestos in clothes dryers.
But the
cancer process can only begin if certain other chemicals are concurrently
present in the body. Apparently the
greatest culprit is isopropanol, otherwise known as rubbing alcohol. But other solvents, such as methanol or
xylene can also initiate cancer when present together with the parasite. These solvents, according to Clark, are found
as contaminants in our foods, drinks and cosmetics.
The cure for
cancer then is obvious to the writer.
Kill the parasites and avoid all products contaminated with solvents as
well as all chemicals which weaken our organs.
These products include shampoos, cold cereals, carpets, stainless steel,
porcelain and toast. Toast, you
ask? Of course. Didn't you know that it is contaminated with
tungsten from the element in the toaster?
How does one
go about killing the parasites? A
mixture of cloves, black walnut and wormwood destroys the intestinal flukes, as
they are called, and therefore in Clark's words, "can cure all
cancers. "And of course the
instrument just described, which Clark calls a "Syncrometer" will
determine exactly which foods and other substances must be avoided to affect a
cure.
If you want
to know whether there is any aluminum in your brain, weakening it and therefore
making it more susceptible to disease, the Syncrometer can tell you.
According to the detailed instructions, just
buy a piece of pork brain, place it on the device next to a piece of aluminum,
attach the leads and listen for "resonance. " The pork brain, you see, guides the
instrument where to look, and the piece of aluminum tells it what to look
for. Similarly, you can use a piece of
fish intestine to test for parasites in your colon.
How anyone
can come up with such a bizarre concept boggles the rational mind. The story would be funny, if the possible
consequences were not so sad. Hulda
Clark actually uses her Syncrometer to diagnose cancer! She then goes on to cure people of a disease
they never had.
Clark, in one
of many "case histories," describes how a patient had undergone
colonoscopy for severe diarrhea and had been pronounced cancer-free by her
physician. Yet one of Clark's bizarre
tests showed a positive reaction for cancer.
"It came as a shock to her that she actually had colon
cancer," Clark says. I bet it did. Of course, a week after starting on the
anti-parasite program she was pronounced cancer-free. Strangely, the diarrhea was still present. One also wonders about how many people who
really may have serious disease resort to this "therapy" at the
expense of proven remedies?
But Clark is
not completely anti-establishment. She
does admit that oncologists are kind, sensitive, compassionate people. But "they have no way of knowing about
the true cause of cancer since it has not been published for them. I chose to publish it for you first so that
it would come to your attention faster. "
And publish it she did. Our
doctrine of freedom of speech guarantees her right to do so. Of course the doctrine does not require that
what is stated be scientifically valid.
Free speech emerging from the wrong mouth can be very dangerous!
