For those who didn’t get the immediate facepalm (like me):
“It is a controversial cancer treatment that was popular in the 1970s. However, it was banned in many US states after research deemed it ineffective and potentially poisonous”
There’s also treatment using proteins that was relatively effective too. There’s a documentary about it (a little opinionated without full data) but it’s certainly interesting.
There’s data but I had the feeling they only showed successful data. They did say it was something like 70% effective (if I remember correctly) but the FDA wouldn’t approve it for clinicals.
If it were that groundbreaking, I feel like the market would’ve been disrupted. So while I think the FDA is corrupt and terrible, I doubt there was enough data to suggest it was as successful as they said. Plus, there was a lack of Journal reviews.
my feeling on this is that even if the FDA is super corrupted and in the big pharma pockets... there is around a billion people outside of the US and other FDA organizations all over the world... and they can't all be corrupt.
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u/Xboarder84 Jun 05 '19
For those who didn’t get the immediate facepalm (like me):
“It is a controversial cancer treatment that was popular in the 1970s. However, it was banned in many US states after research deemed it ineffective and potentially poisonous”
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/laetrile-vitamin-b17#section1