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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION VERSUS DANIEL CHAPTER ONE:
A STORY OF GOVERNMENT ABUSE OF POWER (March 2011)
William J. Olson and Herbert W. Titus
Daniel Chapter One
During 2010, our firm was privileged to represent Daniel Chapter One (“DCO”), a
Christian ministry which offered for sale certain dietary supplements, including herbal
products. Our work during 2010 focused on:
(a) the final stages of the proceeding against DCO before the Federal Trade
Commission (“FTC”);
(b) the Department of Justice’s enforcement action against DCO in the U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia; and, finally
(c) DCO’s appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
attempting to reverse a “cease and desist” order issued by the FTC to prohibit DCO
from marketing its dietary supplements primarily to persons battling cancer.
We were successful in having the FTC grant a petition for reconsideration because the
original FTC order violated its own rules, and we were successful in having the District Court
reject the Department of Justice’s efforts to sanction DCO based on our argument that the
District Court had no jurisdiction while the case was pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals.
However, our work was completely unsuccessful in getting the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia to assert control over the Federal Trade Commission’s unconstitutional
actions against Daniel Chapter One.
After our representation ended, a DCO motion for rehearing en banc in the U.S. Court
of Appeals was filed and denied, and the next step is for a petition for certiorari to be filed in
the U.S. Supreme Court by May 17, 2011.
Although the final chapter on the DCO litigation has not yet been written, the story of
the Federal Government’s war against dietary supplements, herbal remedies, and alternative
medicine generally needs to be understood by the American people who increasingly distrust
establishment medicine, and want their freedom to choose alternatives preserved.
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A Historical Perspective
The attack on alternative medicine by the establishment medical community is by no
means a new development. Almost four hundred years ago, London herbalist William Trigg
encountered similar resistance from the British College of Physicians, which held a royal
monopoly on practicing medicine, and rigorously prosecuted outsiders who treated the sick.
The College particularly disliked Trigg’s habit of treating people for free, at a time when
doctor’s fees were exorbitant and doctors regularly refused to see poor patients. In addition,
Trigg had embarrassed other physicians by remaining in London during the Plague to care for
his patients, while registered doctors had fled the city.
Trigg was prosecuted on three separate occasions for aiding the sick without being a
member of the College of Physicians. On the third trial, William Trigg was permitted to call
his cured patients as witnesses in his defense, and it is reported that at least 100 of Trigg’s
patients remained outside the courtroom waiting to testify when his case was dismissed.
By way of contrast, testimony from the persons who DCO had helped was considered
irrelevant to its violation of regulations in advertisements. The testimony of lay witnesses
were excluded. Furthermore, Trigg’s case was tried before a real judge — what today would
be known as an “Article III” judge — not an administrative law judge — a legal functionary
working for the Executive branch. DCO was tried before the head of the FTC’s Office of
Administrative Law Judges, a component of the same agency that brought the charges against
him, and the same agency that heard his first appeal.1 It is a sad commentary that William
Trigg was afforded greater rights to defend himself under the cruel monarch Charles I, than
DCO was given under our Constitutional Republic.
The Federal Assault on Dietary Supplements and Alternative Medicine
In the early 20th century, Congress created the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”),
granting it authority to prohibit “deceptive practices” and “false advertisement” in the
nation’s commerce. 15 U.S.C. sections 45 and 52. One would think that such plain statutory
language would require the FTC to prove, in fact, certain advertising to be “false,” or specific
practices to be “deceptive,” to justify taking action to stop any particular ad or practice.
However, courts routinely accept the FTC’s view that it need not prove, in fact, that an
advertisement is false or that a practice is deceptive. Instead, courts permit the FTC to prove
its case by requiring the advertiser to demonstrate affirmatively that the advertiser had a
“reasonable basis” for the claims it made in the contested advertisement or disputed practice.2
See http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/alj.shtm
Such deference to the FTC prompted a federal judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Ninth Circuit to write that he could not understand why the FTC should ever choose to
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Furthermore, under the FTC’s “reasonable basis” theory, the FTC is allowed to ignore
the actual words of the advertisement and attack what the FTC determines to be the “overall
net impression” of the ad, rather than what the ad actually says. And claiming that the FTC
knows better than the consumer the ad’s “overall net impression,” the FTC need not call even
one consumer witness to testify. Instead, relying on its supposed “expertise” in marketing, the
FTC has convinced the courts that it knows better than the American consumer the impression
created by the advertisement.
In cases such as the one brought against Daniel Chapter One, the FTC takes its
“reasonable basis” theory two steps further. Not only must an advertiser of dietary
supplements prove it had a “reasonable basis” for health claims about such products, the FTC
insists that the advertisement is based on “competent and reliable scientific evidence.” As is
the case with “reasonable basis,” the FTC does not define what is or is not competent and
reliable, or even what is “scientific.” And the courts have not required such a definition from
the FTC. Indeed, the courts have allowed the FTC to set the bar even higher for health claims
respecting cancer, requiring support of “controlled clinical studies” of the kind required by
the Federal Drug Administration for the approval of a toxic pharmaceutical drug.
Because Daniel Chapter One’s claims related to cancer, the FTC insisted that those
claims had to be supported by the FDA standards for new drugs. Yet, it was uncontested that
it would be economically infeasible to conduct controlled clinical studies of such supplements
and remedies because no one could ever recover the costs of the studies even if they proved the
remedy to be safe and effective. Moreover, in the Dietary Supplement Health and
Education Act, Congress approved scientific support for dietary supplement health claims that
fell short of “controlled clinical studies,”and on that basis chose not to require FDA testing of
such supplements before permitting them to be marketed. This law, however, is viewed as
limiting only the power of the FDA, which now hands its cases over to the FTC, and watches
while those that market dietary supplements are crushed by the imposition of a test of
falsehood and deception that cannot possibly be met.
The Article III courts do little, if anything, to stop these powerful unelected
bureaucracies. As a consequence of this judicial deference, the FTC — like the FDA and other
government agencies — has become a tool of Big Pharma and organized medical interests (the
only type of expert witness who is believed is a physician) which are dedicated to preservation
of a government-subsidized monopoly and the undermining and eventual destruction of
alternative and complementary medicine. Even though there is increasing evidence of
prove a case by needlessly shouldering the burden of proving the actual falsity or deceptiveness
of a claim. Indeed, we read appellate opinion after appellate opinion in which Article III
judges simply parroted the FTC’s administrative findings and methodology without questioning
whether the FTC’s enforcement practices conformed to the limited statutory authority
conferred on it by Congress.
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corruption and of fabrication of so-called controlled clinical studies in peer-reviewed medical
journals, government agencies like the FTC are not deterred from imposing their view of
“science” on the American people.
If a church were to seize such power, imposing its “religious” view of health and
healing, the courts would scream “separation of church and state” and rule in favor of
individual choice. But when a government agency invokes the name of “reasonable basis,” the
courts bow before the altar of so-called “science” and permit the agency to run roughshod over
healthcare practices and programs outside the “mainstream.”
Marketing of dietary supplement products is largely based upon historically-verified use
and individual testimony of effectiveness. Just as when blood letting was believed to be the
optimum treatment for many diseases, now cutting (surgery), poisoning (chemotherapy), and
burning (radiation) are viewed as optimal cures for cancer by the scientific and medical
establishment. However, the American people increasingly are voting with their dollars and
pursuing much gentler alternatives with much better track records. It becomes a financial
imperative that those who profit from establishment medicine use their connections in
government to squash alternative approaches.
Why should the government have the right to impose its “scientific” opinions as to the
effectiveness, and even the safety, of medical practices and procedures? With the enactment of
Obamacare is not the government using money coerced from the American people to subsidize
one way kind of medicine to the exclusion of alternatives. Thomas Jefferson once said that to
compel a man to furnish contributions to the propagation of opinions — not just religious
opinions, but opinions — which he abhors and with which he disagrees is both sinful and
tyrannical.
Our founders warned against concentrating all three powers in one government body.
370 years ago the English Parliament finally abolished the King’s Court of Star Chamber
which used all three powers to suppress competition in the nation’s trades and business. For
nearly 100 years the Federal Trade Commission has increasingly trampled on family free
enterprises such as Daniel Chapter One. It is past time to defund the FTC and other
administrative agencies like it and return economic liberty, and health freedom, to the people.
If this seems like a radical solution, one need only examine the story of how
unconstrained power was used against a small Christian ministry which has helped many and
hurt none — Daniel Chapter One.
The Story of Daniel Chapter One
Daniel Chapter One is a Christian house church which operates a healthcare ministry
based on the spiritual gifts, education, training, and experience of its founders, James and
Patricia Feijo. Structured as a nonprofit religious corporation sole under the laws of the State
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of Washington, and headquartered in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, DCO has presented the
Gospel of Jesus Christ, taught Biblical principles of healthcare and healing from the Word of
God, and offered a number of herbal and nutritional products for sale to the public for many
years. DCO used the Internet, publications, speaking engagements around the country, and a
daily radio show to share the Good News of Jesus Christ and the healing qualities of DCO
products.
The products offered by DCO have included conventional herbal remedies, as well as a
number of products that it developed according to Scriptural principles, its study of the
combined legacy of 6,000 years of the use of herbs and nutrition, and its observation of many
persons who had personal experience in using those products. DCO’s products have been
remarkably effective in promoting the health of Christians and non-Christians alike across the
country. These products help the body rid itself of toxins and pathogens, and provide it with
the nutritional components which the body requires to fight off disease. All of those products
help the body strengthen its immune system to do what it was designed to do by God — to heal
itself. http://www.danielchapterone.com
In the fall of 2008, however, DCO came under attack by the federal government for
offering to the public these Scripturally-based and historically-proved dietary supplements as
an alternative to “conventional” medicine — such as chemotherapy and radiation oncology.
This attack was launched by the FTC, in conjunction with the FDA, to do the bidding of the
wealthy and powerful Pharmaceutical industry and the establishment medical community, to
impede the increasing use of alternative medicine by Americans. The FTC usurpation of the
setting of the nation’s health policy to limit patient choice was called “Operation False Cures.”
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/09/boguscures.shtm. Of course, the FTC never even had to
prove the cures were false.
The FTC developed a theory that DCO was misleading the public solely because DCO
had not tested any of its dietary supplements by controlled clinical studies of the kind
conducted by the FDA before permitting the marketing of a toxic pharmaceutical drug. But
there is no reason to test a nutritional supplement as one would a toxic pharmaceutical drug,
and since most food supplements cannot be patented, it is financially impossible to meet the
test established by the FTC.
DCO made no claim that its products were backed by FDA-style tests. Rather DCO
promoted its products primarily on the basis of testimonies of persons who had benefitted from
using those products in their fight against cancer. The FTC was unable to find even one
person who testified that he had been led to think that DCO’s product claims were based on
FDA-style clinical studies. And, despite the devotion of enormous government resources in the
effort to silence DCO’s educational efforts about its products, the FTC was unable to find
even one person who was harmed by them.
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On the other hand, DCO brought many lay witnesses to testify under oath as to the
safety and efficacy of DCO products. The FTC’s Chief Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”)
upheld the position of the FTC Complaint Counsel, shut his ears to these lay witnesses —
keeping them from testifying about their personal experiences of healing with DCO products.
The ALJ did allow DCO to present four expert witnesses, including a renowned herbalist, to
testify, but immediately discounted all of their testimony for the sole reason that they were not
Medical Doctors. Instead, the FTC relied exclusively on the testimony of one Medical Doctor
who no longer practices medicine, but works as a professional expert witness and designs drug
studies for the pharmaceutical industry being criticized by DCO. This same so-called expert
witness could not even answer the ALJ’s question as to whether an herb was a plant.
Wielding legislative, executive and judicial power, the five-person commission of the
FTC simply rubber-stamped the findings of its ALJ. Hoping to obtain an independent review
by an Article III court, DCO petitioned the United States Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia for a review of the FTC action against it. In its Petition for Review, DCO waged a
vigorous challenge to the FTC’s claim that it had the authority to require DCO to conform its
dietary supplement ads to the FDA’s “scientific” standards governing pharmaceutical drugs.
Additionally, DCO challenged the FTC’s authority to impose its view of “scientific truth”
upon DCO, a religious nonprofit ministry. DCO’s petition, however, was summarily denied.
Before DCO fought the FTC charges against it, DCO was warned by many that one
cannot fight the FTC and win — that the deck is stacked by a system designed to achieve
efficiency, not justice. Yet DCO was accountable to a higher power, and felt obligated to
fight, in spite of the odds. It appears that none of the other nutritional supplement companies
targeted by the FTC believed they could win, and no other federal court cases are now
pending.
Because federal law limits the FDA’s powers to regulate dietary supplements, the FTC
has stepped in to impose upon herbal medicines and dietary supplements the FDA rules
designed exclusively to govern toxic pharmaceutical drugs. The public health is being
seriously jeopardized by the FTC, and Congress now needs to rein in its abusive campaigns
against alternative medicine.
While DCO is still standing against the juggernaut of establishment medicine and for
those Americans who have rejected the FDA — and FTC-approved toxic and expensive
medicine, the future of freedom of choice in medicine and healthcare is hanging by a thread.
DCO’s petition to the U.S. Supreme Court may be the only hope left before the FTC strikes
again to put alternative and complementary medicine out of business.
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Litigation Proceedings
The details of the FTC’s abusive campaign against DCO are detailed below.
In the Matter of Daniel Chapter One and James Feijo, FTC Docket No. 9329 –
September 18, 2008 to January 25, 2010.
On September 18, 2008, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) filed a complaint
charging Daniel Chapter One and James Feijo with having engaged in deceptive acts and
practices respecting the marketing of four named dietary supplements in violation of 15 U.S.C.
sections 45(a) and 52. The Complaint sought an order commanding DCO, inter alia, to cease
and desist making any advertisement in connection with any of DCO’s dietary supplements
“unless the representation is true, nonmisleading, and at the time that it is made, [DCO]
possess and rely on competent and reliable scientific evidence that substantiates the
representation.” Complaint, FTC Docket No. 9329, pp. 7-8.
After an administrative adjudicatory hearing, an FTC Administrative Law Judge
(“ALJ”) issued his initial decision rejecting all of DCO’s legal and constitutional claims and
defenses and granting the requested order. In that order, DCO was ordered to send a letter to
those persons who had purchased its products which repudiated its health teachings, and
embraced conventional medicine — something that DCO could never do. On appeal, the
Commission affirmed and, on January 25, 2010, issued its Modified Final Order (“Order”).
DCO’s Application to the FTC for a Stay of the FTC Order Pending Judicial
Review – March 23, 2010.
On February 25, 2010, pursuant to 15 U.S.C. section 45(g)(2)(A) and 16 C.F.R.
section 3.56(b), DCO applied to the FTC for a stay of the Order.
http://www.wjopc.com/site/health/DCO_Appl_Stay.pdf
http://www.wjopc.com/site/health/DCO_Memo_Support_Appl_Stay.pdf
http://www.wjopc.com/site/health/DCO_Appl_Stay_PropOrder.pdf
The application was supported by six declarations:
Declaration of James Feijo
http://www.wjopc.com/site/health/DCOdeclarations/Jim_Feijo.pdf
Declaration of Patricia Feijo
http://www.wjopc.com/site/health/DCOdeclarations/Tricia_Feijo.pdf
Declaration of Deane Mink, D.C. (http://www.minkchiro.com/)
http://www.wjopc.com/site/health/DCOdeclarations/Mink.pdf
Declaration of Karen Orr, D.C.
http://www.wjopc.com/site/health/DCOdeclarations/Orr.pdf
Declaration of Charles Sizemore, D.D.S. (http://www.drcharlessizemore.com/)
http://www.wjopc.com/site/health/DCOdeclarations/Sizemore.pdf
Declaration of Jerry Hughes (http://www.accentradionetwork.com/st.htm)
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http://www.wjopc.com/site/health/DCOdeclarations/Hughes.pdf
On March 23, 2010, the application was denied.
DCO Emergency Motion for Stay is Denied – April 1, 2010.
On March 26, 2010, DCO filed an emergency motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit (“DC Cir.”), pursuant to 15 U.S.C. section 45(g)(2)(B),
Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 18, and D.C. Circuit Rule 18, for a stay pending review
of the Order.
http://www.wjopc.com/site/health/DCO_UDCA_Motion_Stay.pdf
http://www.wjopc.com/site/health/DCO_UDCA_Motion_Stay_Exhibits.pdf
On April 1, 2010, that motion was denied.
The FTC Order Becomes Effective – April 2, 2010.
On April 2, 2010, pursuant to 15 U.S.C. section 45(g), the Order became “effective.”
See 16 C.F.R. section 3.56(a).
DCO Comes Into Substantial Compliance with the Order, Claiming Partial
Exemption under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) – April 2,
2010.
When the FTC Order became effective, DCO worked hard to comply with the order,
pending review of its case by a federal court. DCO’s compliance was detailed in a letter to the
FTC dated May 28, 2010, that since April 2, 2010 (the effective date of the Order), to comply
with those portions of the Order that required DCO either to take certain action or to cease
certain activities (i.e., Parts II, III and V of the Order), that: (I) DCO has not made any
representations that any DCO program, service, or product “prevents, treats, or cures, or
assists in the prevention, treatment, or cure of any type of tumor or cancer,” as proscribed in
Part II of the Order, and has withdrawn from its website, its e-Mail and its radio program all
ads making the proscribed claims; (ii) DCO, by the same actions, has not made any
representation “about the efficacy, performance, or health-related benefits” of any DCO
program, service, or product, as proscribed in Part III of the Order; (iii) DCO transmitted to
the FTC during April 13-May 3, 2010, by sworn declaration, a list of purchasers of the so-
called four Challenged Products for the period from April 1, 2009, through and including
April 9, 2010, as required by Part V.A of the Order; and (iv) compliance with Part V.B. of the
Order — signing and sending an FTC-mandated and FTC-written letter — would deprive DCO
of its claims that the Order was unconstitutional and in violation of DCO’s rights under RFRA.
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DCO’s Motion for RFRA Evidentiary Hearing – April 22, 2010.
On April 22, 2010, in connection with their Petition for Review pending in D.C. Circuit,
DCO filed a motion for an evidentiary hearing, in support of their claim that forced compliance
with Part V.B of the Order would substantially burden DCO’s free exercise of religion in
violation of 42 U.S.C. section 2000bb-1(a), the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (“RFRA”).
http://www.wjopc.com/site/health/DCO_Order_deny_RFRAhearing.pdf
That motion was denied by the D.C. Circuit by Order dated July 6, 2010.
DCO’s Petition for Review.
On March 17, 2010, pursuant to 15 U.S.C. section 45©, DCO filed a timely Petition
for Review of the Order, contesting the legality and constitutionality of the Order, with the
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Daniel Chapter One, et
al. v. FTC, Docket No. 10-1064 (D.C. Cir.).
DCO filed its opening brief on August 18, 2010, the FTC filed its brief in response on
September 17, 2010.
http://www.wjopc.com/site/health/DCO_Brief.pdf
DCO filed its reply brief on October 1, 2010.
http://www.wjopc.com/site/health/DCO_Reply_Brief.pdf
Oral argument was held before a three-judge panel (Ginsburg, Henderson, Kavanaugh)
of the court on November 12, 2010.
FTC Separate Enforcement Action in U.S. District Court – August 13, 2010.
On August 13, 2010, United States Government filed a complaint in the U.S. District
Court for the District of Columbia, seeking injunctive relief enforcing two parts of the Order,
requiring DCO to sign and send a “corrective notice ... to past purchasers” of four dietary
supplements, as mandated by Part V.B of the Order and to cease and desist from certain
activities allegedly in violation of Part II of the Order. U.S.A. v. Daniel Chapter One, et al.,
Civil No. 10-1362 (EGS) (D.D.C.).
On September 1, 2010, DCO moved to dismiss, and also opposed the government’s
motion for a preliminary injunction.
http://www.wjopc.com/site/health/DCO_Motion_Dismiss.pdf
http://www.wjopc.com/site/health/DCO_MemoPA_Opp_PI.pdf
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After briefing and a hearing, by Order dated September 14, 2010, the district court
denied the FTC motion, and ordered that the case be stayed pending the decision by the D.C.
Circuit in DCO’s Petition for Review proceeding.
The FTC appealed that Order (USA v. Daniel Chapter One, et al., No. 10-5370 (D.C.
Cir.), and eventually filed an uncontested motion to dismiss that appeal, which motion was
granted on January 7, 2011.
FTC Motion for Enforcement in U.S. Circuit Court – October 8, 2010.
On October 8, 2010, the FTC moved for an order enforcing the FTC Order, arguing,
as it had in the district court (in Civil NO. 10-1362) that DCO was flouting the FTC Order, in
both refusing to send the FTC-mandated letters and in conducting certain activities that the
FTC maintained were violative of the cease-and-desist mandates of the Order. After briefing,
the D.C. Circuit entered an Order, dated November 22, 2010, enjoining DCO “to obey
forthwith” the Order.
D.C. Circuit Decision Dismissing DCO’s Petition for Review.
On December 10, 2010, the D.C. Circuit panel issued its “Judgment” — an
unpublished opinion — denying DCO’s petition for review of the Order. (The clerk was
directed to withhold issuance of the mandate until seven days after resolution of any timely
petition for rehearing or petition for rehearing en banc. See Fed. R. App. P. 41(b); D.C. Cir.
Rule 41).
FTC Motion to Reconsider Publication of Opinion.
On December 21, 2010, the FTC, claiming the importance and precedential effect of
this case, moved the court of appeals to reconsider its decision not to publish its opinion in this
matter. DCO’s new counsel, Sanger & Synsen of Santa Barbara, California filed a response
supporting the FTC motion pointing out the disparity between the FTC’s assertions in its
motion that this case presents questions of exceptional importance and its claim on brief that
this case is merely a “straightforward case of deceptive advertising.” The DCO filing stated
that DCO “cannot oppose the request to publish but do intend to petition for rehearing en banc
(or review by the Supreme Court) given the conceded significance of the Court's Opinion.”
FTC Motion for Expedited Issuance of the Mandate.
On January 6, 2011, the FTC filed a Motion for Expedited Issuance of the Mandate so
that it could “resume enforcement efforts and recover civil penalties” against DCO in district
court.
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As this paper is written, the FTC continues to press an enforcement action against DCO
in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and, now that the U.S. Court of
Appeals has denied DCO’s petition for rehearing en banc, DCO plans to file a petition for
certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Conclusion
As seen from the story of William Trigg, the struggle between conventional and
alternative medicine is anything but new. As with most areas of assault on individual rights, it
is a battle that each generation appears required to fight for itself. The dangers and lack of
success of conventional cancer therapies is widely documented, but robustly denied. The
successes of alternative cancer therapies have been demonstrated by thousands of cancer
survivors, but the government acts as though it is more interested in constraining healthcare
options than achieving good results.
The battle is not just between Daniel Chapter One and the FTC. It is between the
millions of Americans who have seen through the tactics of manipulation by fear widely used
by medical oncologists and radiation oncologists, and embraced the notion that the best
medicine encourages the human body to heal itself, just as God designed it.
The story of this battle for health freedom has been oft told, and a selected bibliography
is provided so that those of us who reject conventional approaches to cancer and other diseases
can know that we may be swimming against the tide of the world system, but we are in good
company.
Selected Bibliography
A. History of the Fight for Health Freedom
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for Empirical Medicine (1994)
Coulter, Harris L., Divided Legacy: The Origins of Modern Western Medicine, J.B. Van
Helmont to Claude Bernard. Wehawken Book Company and North Atlantic Books (1988)
Coulter, Harris L., Divided Legacy: The Conflict Between Homoeopathy and the American
Medical Association. North Atlantic Books (1982)
Coulter, Harris L., Divided Legacy: Twentieth-Century Medicine, The Bacteriological Era.
North Atlantic Books and Center for Empirical Medicine (1994)
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B. Conventional Medicine and Pharmaceutical Drugs
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Harper Collins Publishers (2004)
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Schlosser, H. William, From Cure to Tyranny: American Medicine Exposed, Diagnosed, and
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Publications (2007)
Duke, Ph.D. James A., The Green Pharmacy Guide to Healing Foods: Proven Natural
Remedies to Treat and Prevent More Than 80 Common Health Concerns. Rodale Inc (2008)
Duke, Ph.D. James A., The Green Pharmacy Herbal Handbook. Rodale Inc (2000)
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Duke, Ph.D. James A., The Green Pharmacy: New Discoveries in Herbal Remedies for
Common Diseases and Conditions from the World’s Foremost Authority on Healing Herbs.
Rodale Press (1997)
Jaffe, Richard A., Galileo’s Lawyer: Courtroom Battles in Alternative Health,
Complementary Medicine and Experimental Treatments. Thumbs UP Press (2008)
The Joy of Food: The Alkaline Way. Health Studies Collegium (2008-2009)
Katz, M.D. Aaron E., Dr. Katz’s Guide to Prostate Health: From Conventional to Holistic
Therapies. Freedom Press (2006)
Null, Ph.D., Gary, The Complete Encyclopedia of Natural Healing: A comprehensive A-Z
Listing of Common and Chronic Illnesses and Their Proven Natural Treatments. Bottom Line
Books (2004)
D. Alternative Approaches to Cancer
Bollinger, Ty, Cancer: Step Outside the Box. Infinity 510² Partners (2010)
Faguet, Guy B., The War on Cancer: An Anatomy of Failure, A Blueprint for the Future.
Springer Science (2008)
Frahm, David J. and Anne E. Frahm, A Cancer Battle Plan. Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam
(1997)
Griffin, G. Edward, World without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17. American Media
(2006)
Hawkins, Don, Daniel L. Koppersmith, M.D., and Ginger Koppersmith, When Caner
Comes: Mobilizing Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Resources to Combat One of Life’s
Most Dreaded Diseases. Life Perspectives (1993)
Levenson, Dr. Frederick B., The Causes and Prevention of Cancer. Stein and Day Publishers
(1985)
Moss, Ralph W., The Cancer Industry: The Classic Expose on the Cancer Establishment.
Equinox Press (1996)
Servan-Schreiber, M.D. Ph.D. David, Anti-Cancer: A New Way of Life. Viking Penguin
(2009)
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Somers, Suzanne, Knockout: Interviews with Doctors Who Are Curing Cancer and How To
Prevent It In the First Place. Crown Publishers (2009)
Stang, Alan, Electronic Medicine: Cure for Cancer? Patton House Publishers (2005)
Welch, M.D., H. Gilbert, Should I Be Tested For Cancer: Maybe Not and Here’s Why.
University of California Press (2004)
E. Government and Health Care
FDA: Failure, Deception, Abuse: The Story of an Out-of-Control Government Agency and
What It Means For Your Health. Praktikos (2010)
Feldman, Roger D., American Health Care: Government, Market Processes, and the Public
Interest. The Independent Institute (2000)
Proctor, Robert N., Cancer Wars: How Politics Shapes What We Know & Don’t Know
About Cancer. Basic Books (1995)
Tanner, Michael D., Bad Medicine: A guide to the Real Costs and Consequences of the New
Health Care Law. The Cato Institute (2010)
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