The FDA and Big Pharma are soooo please when they are able to keep people in a state of panic and fear. Those are the two things that precipitate CONTROL, without it these two corporations will no longer maintain their billion dollar statis.
People need to start using their own brain - make intelligent decisions; not based on fear. No amount of great intelligence is required to be suspect of where all the money for research is being spent. We have fanominal scientist in this world and it is an insult to them that people actually believe that they are unable to get a handle on the science behind cancer. Cancer has become a business and as long as people dig in their pockets to make these companies even richer the facade will continue. I have never given one penny to cancer research and never will. If everyone followed suit this huge empire of deceit would all come to an end. For the posters on this website who chose to stick their arm out to have dangerous chemotherapy drugs flooding their body by all means be my guest. One right we still do have is the right to make our own decisions when it comes to our health. I would choose a less invasive form of treatment in all situations. We live in a brainwashed society and most people are sheep and that is exactly who will become the prey. I choose to be the wolf. Just because western medicine condons this barbaric treatment doesn't mean you have to sign up for it. Dr. Burzynski is providing treatment that leaves a body in a healthy state that is more than western medicine can offer. Chemo drugs are carcinogenic. That is pro life.

I can appreciate what you're saying, Cliff, and the caveat to all of us who have biases in any direction is to look at the facts and evaluate them free of our prejudices and emotional inclinations. From what I have read about this situation, it appears to me that the FDA has behaved dishonorably.

There are two issues here -- the trustworthiness of big government/big business fascism, and the best way to heal. I take it that the video is one more piece of the everlasting stream of evidence that big government control, in collusion with the medical/industrial establishment, is a disaster. Do we really need to have that demonstrated again? Dictatorships, even when implemented with patronizing good intentions, create immense suffering and injustice. Let freedom ring!

However, the second issue is also important. How shall we understand healing? For the last century, medicine has developed a very impressive set of technologies for dealing with disorders that are a function of a more or less separable PART of the whole physiological/psychological person. However, we are running into increasing difficulties with those disorders that involve the person as a whole -- these emerge quite noticeably in the so-called degenerative disorders that absorb most of the modern health care costs. I take it that the great healers of cancer an other such disorders have generally not attempted to introduce another medical technique, but have attempted to create a systemic environment in which the body's natural restorative and self-healing capacities are liberated to do their own amazing work. Of course, this approach requires the responsible action of the client (I do not use the term patient, as it has come to be associated the irresponsibility of sick persons to participate in their own healing).

This is why, if I had cancer, I would probably not consider Burzynski's approach. It might work in certain circumstances. In the absence of more research, who really knows? But we all know that the body possesses remarkable mechanisms of self-healing. Moreover, diet -- especially a whole food plant based diet -- is key to promoting those capacities. So, after I have had my carrot juice, please pass the broccoli and brown rice, thanks.

jm