"Is Cancer Care a Cynically Inflated Business Model?"

<p>John Richardson, head of Richardson Nutritional Center LLC, tells the heartbreaking story of how his father and other innovators were, as he describes it, successfully treating cancer by using laetrile, or a common ingredient found in the seeds of apricots and other fruits. Despite findings by other researchers that appeared to show that laetrile can be useful in treating cancer, he says that a campaign of detraction and harassment was waged against the treatment and practitioners who were using it in the care of their patients. Laetrile was smeared in legacy media for decades and doctors who recommended it...