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Compelling Documentary (Burzynski, the Movie)

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MaikU:
You are right. I am done criticizing actual video, but not the tactics of such people (who made the video). And tactics are no different than other charlatans, zeitgeisters etc..

I have no idea what that last sentence is suppose to mean, but would you care to actually point out some "tactics" and explain exactly what it is that should be criticized?

 

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Mike replied on Sat, Jul 23 2011 12:17 PM

heard him on Peter Schiff show - watched his movie (link below). if it is even 50% accurate it is enraging. My wife is a pediatric oncology nurse and she said the medical aspect of it is accurate. this is a great example of big government and big business doing real evil....  if you know anyone that has been affected by a life threatening disease - i suggest a watch or at least forward it on to them this guy and people like him need the support of as many people as possible. below also is as much of a  description of the movie as will fit. F the FDA!!!

it is a real shame that gigantic companies in bed with gigantic government is what most people think capitalism is.

 

http://www.burzynskimovie.com/

Burzynski, the Movie is the story of a medical doctor and Ph.D biochemist named Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski who won the largest, and possibly the most convoluted and intriguing legal battle against the Food & Drug Administration in American history.

His victorious battles with the United States government were centered around Dr. Burzynski's gene-targeted cancer medicines he discovered in the 1970's called Antineoplastons, which have currently completed Phase II FDA-supervised clinical trials in 2009 and could begin the final phase of FDA testing in 2011–barring the ability to raise the required $300 million to fund the final phase of FDA clinical trials.

When Antineoplastons are approved, it will mark the first time in history a single scientist, not a pharmaceutical company, will hold the exclusive patent and distribution rights on a paradigm-shifting medical breakthrough.

Antineoplastons are responsible for curing some of the most incurable forms of terminal cancer. Various cancer survivors are presented in the film who chose these medicines instead of surgery, chemotherapy or radiation - with full disclosure of medical records to support their diagnosis and recovery - as well as systematic (non-anecdotal) FDA-supervised clinical trial data comparing Antineoplastons to other available treatments—which is published within the peer-reviewed medical literature.

One form of cancer - diffuse, intrinsic, childhood brainstem glioma has never before been cured in any scientifically controlled clinical trial in the history of medicine. Antineoplastons hold the first cures in history - dozens of them. [ANP - PubMed 2003] [ANP - PubMed 2006] [Rad & other - PubMed 2008] [Chemo/Rad - PubMed 2005]

This documentary takes the audience through the treacherous, yet victorious, 14-year journey both Dr. Burzynski and his patients have had to endure in order to obtain FDA-approved clinical trials of Antineoplastons.

Dr. Burzynski resides and practices medicine in Houston, Texas. He was able to initially produce and administer his discovery without FDA-approval from 1977-1995 because the state of Texas at this time did not require that Texas physicians be required to adhere to Federal law in this situation. This law has since been changed.

As with anything that changes current-day paradigms, Burzynski's ability to successfully treat incurable cancer with such consistency has baffled the industry. Ironically, this fact had prompted numerous investigations by the Texas Medical Board, who relentlessly took Dr. Burzynski as high as the state supreme court in their failed attempt to halt his practices.

Likewise, the Food and Drug Administration engaged in four Federal Grand Juries spanning over a decade attempting to indict Dr. Burzynski, all of which ended in no finding of fault on his behalf. Finally, Dr. Burzynski was indicted in their 5th Grand Jury in 1995, resulting in two federal trials and two sets of jurors finding him not guilty of any wrongdoing. If convicted, Dr. Burzynski would have faced a maximum of 290 years in a federal prison and $18.5 million in fines.

However, what was revealed a few years after Dr. Burzynski won his freedom, helps to paint a more coherent picture regarding the true motivation of the United States government's relentless persecution of Stanislaw Burzynski, M.D., Ph.D.

Note: When Antineoplastons are approved for public use, it will allow a single scientist to hold an exclusive right to manufacture and sell these medicines on the open market—leaving the pharmaceutical industry absent in profiting from the most effective gene-targeted cancer treatment the world has ever seen.

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I watched that movie a while ago.  I thought it was excellent and would love to see the Dr. Rich and laughing at the pharmacuetical companies.

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Notice how this largely wouldn't be an issue if there were no such thing as IP laws.

 

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rosstaylor replied on Sun, Jul 24 2011 10:54 AM

This was an excellent documentary. Do you know if there's anything else like this? How about aids?

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Book of Numbers is about AIDS, but I've never seen it.  The most amazing thing I've seen about AIDS is how amazingly low the transmission rates are:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV#Transmission

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye4N8EH3dog&feature=related

Lol.non-responsive. Understand that graduate comes from two words> Gradually and indoctrinate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvzDHGLEUyw&feature=watch-now-button&wide=1

 

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I know of some alternative information on AIDS but I can not vouch for its credibility or say that i agree with its contents. In fact I think some of it is difficult to believe if i remember correctly, as I have not watched these videos for years. There is also some interesting research on cancer relating to Vitamin b17.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8142733917997460212

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3983706668483511310

http://www.amazon.com/AIDS-Inc-Scandal-Jon-Rappoport/dp/0941523039

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4312930190281243507

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John James replied on Sun, Feb 26 2012 12:19 AM

rosstaylor:
This was an excellent documentary. Do you know if there's anything else like this? How about aids?

This guy has a very compelling case:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkiX0jJJozk

 

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caulds989 replied on Tue, Feb 28 2012 3:45 PM

I actually watched this film on Netflix a few months ago. I am from Houston and I can tell you that he is famous there and every doctor, and thus each doctors patients, there would tell you he is a quack. Does this make him one? no. Is he one? I don't know. I found the film compelling. If everything in the film is factual (I haven't personally verified it) then this guy seriously needs support. As far as his patent faux pas go, I think he is workign in a system where it is necessary for him to have them. If you had watched the film then you would see that other's working for the american cancer society tried to claim patent rights to them, which if upheld would bar him from working on the treatment. Now, as for the efficacy, I don't think it really matters as this should be the right of the consumer to choose. However, if the documentary is factual then he has helped to save many people who had "hopeless" diagnosis'. The speed at which they recovered is also unprecedented. His numbers of success are also about 35% better than traditional chemo. His PhD, to me, is irrelevant. I don't care. There is a amous quote in good will hunting  where will says to a Harvard student, "one of these days you're gonna realize...that you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a education you could have gotten for $1.50 in late fees to your local library." To the poster who claimed that Dr. B got angry when others tried to test the success of his treatment in repeated chemical trials, the reason he got angry was because they were not properly dosing the patients. Obviously, it would be aggravating to be told by a third party that your treatments don't work when they aren't strictly following your treatment. This does not disprove the efficacy and repeatability of his treatment. And, finally, while I don't know if he is a quack, there are several aspects of this that speak to me. One, he beat the shit out of the FDA and the ACS in court for 30 years. This is not easy to do if they don't want you to win. Second, the whole thing smells of classic special interest group burying, especially the part about the FDA claiming they WOULD NOT approve a drug that did not come out of a major pharmaceutical company. Finally, the consumers had spoken. They flew halfway across the nation just to defend the man in court. Most doctors worry about being sued for medical malpractice at some point and most are sued at some point. Not the case for Dr. B. Additionally, never once was he tried in court on the merits of his treatment. The FDA never said his treatment didn't work nor was he tried for administering a treatment that didn't work. He was almost always sued on technicalities like violating interstate commerce for shipping the antineoplaston across state lines (by the way, apparently what he is doing IS a crime because he was almost put in jail...to whoever said he could sell quacksalve and get away with it, I suggest you try). But most of this should be irrelevant. The FDA has no right to bar a man from selling his treatment or the right of the consumer to buy it if they want. i think it is ridiculous that you must go through traditional chemo before you are even allowed to try his treatment. Given the minimal side effects of his treatment, were I to have cancer, I'd like the option to try his first.       

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