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Jury nullification thwarts Burzynski conviction. (cancer fraud trial of Stanislaw Burzynski)
March 1, 1997... The trial of Stanislaw Burzynski for cancer fraud ended in a hung jury (6-6) on March 4. CBS's 48 Hours' interviews of jurors told the tale as to why they couldn't agree. Clearly, the jurors agreed that Burzynski was guilty as charged of...
The idea vs the reality of "alternative" medicine.
March 1, 1997... The author has been tracking the use of nonstandard healthcare for 25 years. Washington and Alaska Blue-Cross was good enough to share the unpublished results of its AlternaPath experiment in which 1,000 subscribers were enrolled on a...
Classic on how quackery advances - how the NIH Office of Alternative Medicine came to be. (National Institutes of Health)
March 1, 1997... "Beyond the pail" by Bilger [The Sciences Nov-Dec, 1996:16-20] provides a detailed account of how a small-time Minnesota dairy farmer (Herbert Saunders) inspired a crusade that "breached the wall between conventional and `alternative'...
1997 Slim Chance Awards. (fraudulent weight control ads)
March 1, 1997... Worst Product: The Equinox Weight Management System is an herbal program based upon the quack theory that our bodies must be "detoxified" for proper balance and function of digestive and enzyme systems. Included are Equi-lizer Fast Start...