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Peter Moran
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You may recall I was writing to Abram Hoffer about the
study Linus Pauling did on his patients treated with
vitamin C and other vitamins. It claimed the treated
patients lived 21 times longer than untreated. I challenged
Pauling's statistical methods, and wanted reassurance that
the cancer patients were all equally "in an advanced
stage", as Pauling claimed.
Hoffer did reply at length. He did not, however, offer to
supply any further information about the subjects. He is
basically standing by Pauling's work. He has recently
published a further book on Vitamin C and cancer which
presumably still makes such claims. He has also not
responded to a more pressing second request for the data.
He says his "charts were very complete and contained data
from the cancer clinic, from the referring physicians and
from my own follow up notes". Also: "In my more recent book
Vitamin C and Cancer, Quarry Press I re examined the
patients he had used in his calculations and it turns out
that his predictions were very close to the actual
outcome.,"
The data, then, is available, but he will not release it. I
think we are entitled to draw our own conclusions.
The correspondence is lengthy. I will eventually put it on a
web site, but anyone who wishes to see it can email me
privately.
Peter Moran
study Linus Pauling did on his patients treated with
vitamin C and other vitamins. It claimed the treated
patients lived 21 times longer than untreated. I challenged
Pauling's statistical methods, and wanted reassurance that
the cancer patients were all equally "in an advanced
stage", as Pauling claimed.
Hoffer did reply at length. He did not, however, offer to
supply any further information about the subjects. He is
basically standing by Pauling's work. He has recently
published a further book on Vitamin C and cancer which
presumably still makes such claims. He has also not
responded to a more pressing second request for the data.
He says his "charts were very complete and contained data
from the cancer clinic, from the referring physicians and
from my own follow up notes". Also: "In my more recent book
Vitamin C and Cancer, Quarry Press I re examined the
patients he had used in his calculations and it turns out
that his predictions were very close to the actual
outcome.,"
The data, then, is available, but he will not release it. I
think we are entitled to draw our own conclusions.
The correspondence is lengthy. I will eventually put it on a
web site, but anyone who wishes to see it can email me
privately.
Peter Moran