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A little shameless self-promotion of an interview about Stanislaw Burzynski—with blinky lights

Post author By Orac
Post date March 18, 2014
2 Comments on A little shameless self-promotion of an interview about Stanislaw Burzynski—with blinky lights

A couple of days ago, I got so carried away writing a response in the comments about David Lauser, Sammy Hagar’s drummer and husband of a woman named Liza Cozad, who is being used as a tool to pressure the FDA to allow more single patient INDs (also sometimes called compassionate use exemptions) for Stanislaw Burzynski’s antineoplastons (ANPs). Sadly, despite decades of failures and recent efforts to expose those failures, I still see credulous stories about Burzynski like this one, in which the reporter completely misses the point.

That’s why, in these days when credulous reporters still, in essence, do Burzynski’s bidding with respect to the message he wants to get out, while Burzynski takes advantage of the desperation of patients with incurable cancers, every little bit helps to counter that message helps. Hopefully that’s what’s been done when a certain individual who’s very close to me was interviewed by Lindsay Beyerstein for Point of Inquiry. The interview, of couse, has the Orac stamp of approval; so please check it out.

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Tags antineoplastons, cancer, Stanislaw Burzynski

By Orac

Orac is the nom de blog of a humble surgeon/scientist who has an ego just big enough to delude himself that someone, somewhere might actually give a rodent's posterior about his copious verbal meanderings, but just barely small enough to admit to himself that few probably will. That surgeon is otherwise known as David Gorski.

That this particular surgeon has chosen his nom de blog based on a rather cranky and arrogant computer shaped like a clear box of blinking lights that he originally encountered when he became a fan of a 35 year old British SF television show whose special effects were renowned for their BBC/Doctor Who-style low budget look, but whose stories nonetheless resulted in some of the best, most innovative science fiction ever televised, should tell you nearly all that you need to know about Orac. (That, and the length of the preceding sentence.)

DISCLAIMER:: The various written meanderings here are the opinions of Orac and Orac alone, written on his own time. They should never be construed as representing the opinions of any other person or entity, especially Orac's cancer center, department of surgery, medical school, or university. Also note that Orac is nonpartisan; he is more than willing to criticize the statements of anyone, regardless of of political leanings, if that anyone advocates pseudoscience or quackery. Finally, medical commentary is not to be construed in any way as medical advice.

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2 replies on “A little shameless self-promotion of an interview about Stanislaw Burzynski—with blinky lights”

[…] you are going to go back and listen to that interview, aren’t […]

A little self-promotion is a good thing. A very nice presentation, Orac.

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