Burzynski: the Movie

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08/23/2020 Eye opening and shocking! Lots of shocking and frustrating information about the FDA practices. Same practices as with the food industry. This is a must watch! See more 07/03/2020 If you know anyone facing cancer you should watch this film. If you want to find out some of the evil deeds of the Food and Drug Administration and the National Cancer Institute are watch this film. See more 05/08/2019 Amazon has a median 5 star review. For powerful content, surprised to see otherwise here. I thought this delivered a clear case of the FDA's attempt to ruin Dr. Burzynski while attempting to steal his patents & block his legal treatment of patients who, despite their death sentence prognosis & daunting chemo/radiation options from standard medical institutions, were improving and/or in remission under Burzynski's care. After 3 federal grand juries, & 60M in tax payer $$ spent, ultimately the FDA had nothing on the Dr. Shame on the American Cancer Society and FDA! See more 03/16/2014 Makes me so sad to live in this world driven by money. The FDA simply has no incentive to allow cancer to be 'cured' now or ever publicly. God help our society and the only hope is more and more people see this movie (part 1 and 2) and spread the word and then that generation comes into power to make change. See more 04/18/2013 Burzynski: Cancer Is Serious Business comes to you from the pen of Eric Merola, an advertising art director who did graphics and art on his brother's stylistically similar Zeitgeist: The Movie. The pair seem to have cornered the market in Conspiracy: With Colons. This movie could, like Zeitgeist, be viewed as comedy, a ripe source of mockery of the conspiracist mind, if it were not for the fact that lives are literally at stake. Stanislaw Burzynski has spent over forty years investigating his "antineoplaston" therapy, during which time he has registered over sixty human trials - none of these trials has been published, and what little he has published is of insufficient quality to establish that antineoplastons are worth serious investigation, let alone effective. Other reviewers have noted that Merola seems to be unable to distinguish documentary from advertorial. That is a charitable interpretation. The film is naked propaganda, and not even in a good cause. Merola apparently encountered Burzynski when his cousin was a patient. He is clearly a True Believer. His treatment of Burzynski goes beyond uncritical and well into the area of hagiography. The thesis of the film is that Burzynski is a Brave Maverick Doctor who has stumbled on the cure for cancer, and is being suppressed by the "cancer industry" including the FDA. This claim is frankly implausible: it requires a conspiracy involving, at a conservative estimate, hundreds of thousands of people working for Federal agencies, other governments around the world, cancer charities, university research departments, and of course the cranks' favourite bogeyman, "Big Pharma". There are so many different individuals involved with so many different imperatives that a unified conspiracy is self-evidently a silly idea. The idea that a genuinely promising new drug would be found only by one man, and never by any of the tens of thousands of others in the field, is silly. Science doesn't work that way. We're conditioned to think of science in terms of its Einsteins and Newtons, but their discoveries were only the first, each discovery would have come along usually within a year or two from the mind of another. If something this simple was actually as powerful as Burzynski claims, it is pretty much inconceivable that nobody else would have noticed, even with Burzynski's lacklustre publication record. Cancer victims are uniquely vulnerable. A terminal diagnosis is, literally, a death sentence. Merola turns this caprice of nature around and claims that the death sentence is pronounced by doctors, not by your body. It's seductive, and the movie undoubtedly helps persuade people to part with the hundreds of thousands of dollars Burzynski charges, but in the end there is no credible evidence that it works. The cherry-picked anecdotes of survivors weaken when you realise that (a) cancer is very variable and early prognoses are less accurate than later ones; (b) at least on of the patients did not have a positive biopsy so may not actually have had cancer anyway; (c) most of the patients have also had conventional therapies including surgery; (d) other patients used in this way have subsequently died and been dropped like a hot potato by the clinic. Burzynski is not even useful to the student of film. As a conspiracist propaganda film Zeitgeist is a much better example. Burzynski does not stand comparison with other well known propaganda films such as Triumph des Willens, it lacks the budget and I'm afraid Merola lacks the creative spark of Riefenstahl.So Burzynski fails as an example of propaganda, fails woefully as a documentary and in the end is just a long-form version of a late-night cable TV infomercial. See more 03/04/2013 massive sack of quackery See more Read all reviews

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