Cancer cure crimes.

• Author: Sullum, Jacob
• Position: Briefly Noted - Stanislaw Burzynski - Brief article

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which instigated four grand juries and two trials during its 12-year campaign to put Stanislaw Burzynski in prison, said it did not matter whether the Texas physician's unconventional cancer treatments saved people's lives. The point was that he had failed to get the FDA's permission first.

But according to Eric Morola's 2010 documentary Burzynski, which compellingly chronicles the doctor's long-running battles with state and federal regulators, the Phase II clinical trials that the FDA approved in 1996 under congressional pressure have supported what the teary testimonials of...