Why Alternatives

On "alternative" methods for treating cancer

using the example of Dr. Tullio Simoncini's bicarbonate therapy

The following thoughts on a very complex subject were formulated in response to the assertion that the Italian oncologist Dr. Simoncini merely wanted to enrich himself with the method he discovered for fighting cancer^[1], that he wasn't really a cancer specialist and that in any case "no better effect could be expected from any esoteric treatments compared to a placebo".

Even the Italian Wikipedia^[2] refers to Dr. Simoncini as a "former Italian oncologist". This is enough proof for me personally that he actually gave up his highly lucrative profession to use his own method (according to Dr. Stephan Seeßle, oncology is one of the most expensive and profitable fields of medicine) — with all the extreme problems that he got himself into by breaking away from the ranks of the "good" oncologists. Even if he did demand payment for his treatment, this would never have been as profitable as his previous work as a conventional oncologist.^[3]

Additionally, Dr. Simoncini had to pay high court costs, as dissenters like him seem to be regularly hauled into court and even thrown into prison — from Dr. Johanna Budwig to Dr. Josef Issels, Dr. Wilhelm Reich and Dr. Emanuel Revici to Dr. Koch, Dr. H. E. Sartori, Dr. Cornelis Moerman, Royal Raymond Rife, Harry Hoxsey and others who dared to think outside the box of what they were taught at university or what was generally accepted in their day.

Anyone who dares to mess with the business interests of the pharmaceutical industry will feel their power. This can be substantiated with numerous incontestable sources, see On Cancer Business & the Cancer Industry and Insider proves pharmaceutical industry puts money / profits before patients' health — and life — massive Big Pharma corruption exposed).

Books on the subject include Ralph Moss' "The Cancer Industry: The Classic Exposé on the Cancer Establishment". Dr. Moss was formerly a science writer and deputy director of public affairs at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He was fired when he dared to denounce their cover-up of the positive results of experiments with Laetrile (vitamin B17, an alternative cancer cure) — a typical example of attempts to silence dissidents and those who get in the way of profitable business as usual by depriving them of their livelihood — which in his case did not succeed. Incidentally, it speaks volumes that only one of his numerous books on the subject of corruption and profiteering in cancer treatment and alternative cancer therapies has been published in German.

Barry Lynes' "The Cancer Cure That Worked! Fifty Years of Suppression", James P. Carter's "Racketeering in Medicine: The Suppression of Alternatives", Daniel Haley's "Politics in Healing — The suppression and Manipulation of American Medicine", Kenny Ausubel's "When Healing Becomes a Crime" and other books also deal with this topic. (Again, most of them have not been published in German — for the same obvious reasons.)

Cancer as a fungal disease,
in which regression of the neoplasms can often be brought about by sodium bicarbonate

Max Planck wrote: "The more astonishing a scientific discovery, the more it is fought against by science." Ignaz Semmelweis is one well-known, tragic example among many. According to the "Semmelweis reflex"^[4] — an expression attributed to Robert Anton Wilson, "innovations in science tend to be punished rather than rewarded because established paradigms and patterns of behavior are against it".

Of course, there are also significant financial interests that are massively jeopardized by new discoveries (an example in point would be the cigarette industry, which for decades was able to withhold research results on the dangers of smoking). In the case of cancer, we have the massive interests of the pharmaceutical lobby standing in the way.

However, Simoncini is not the only person to establish a link between fungi and cancer.

For example, three German doctors collaborated to write several books on the fundamental role of fungi in the development of neoplastic and other diseases (see The Fungal/Mycotoxin Causation of Human Illness [particularly CANCER]).

Alternative practitioner Walter Rauscher, who treated cancer patients, also found that fungi play a causal role in certain cancers (see his book "Tödliche Mykosen durch krankmachende Hefe-Schimmelpilze" ["Deadly mycoses caused by pathogenic yeast molds"]).

There are many videos of patients (including that featuring a doctor) who were cured by Simoncini's method. I also know of a case of prostate cancer with bone metastases where the patient cured himself with sodium bicarbonate. Of course there are certainly cases that were unsuccessful (but compare these with the extremely high failure rate of conventional cancer treatment).

Of course, Simoncini did not find THE cure for cancer — because this obviously does not exist. But he did (credibly for me and many others) find a method that has greatly helped a number of people, and he was prepared to accept the worst inconveniences (loss of license to practice medicine, lawsuits...) AND financial losses.

As far as I know, very few people are prepared to risk their income or their entire livelihood — not to mention their reputation — for what they consider to be the right thing to do.

In my opinion, Simoncini's discoveries definitely deserve to be scientifically examined and verified, but for the reasons mentioned above, this has hardly ever happened. Exceptions are such rare studies as Bicarbonate increases tumor pH and inhibits spontaneous metastases.

About other so-called alternative methods

There are numerous approaches that have been successful with cancer and other illnesses after conventional and "chemical" treatment gave no results (or actually worsened the patients) who were sent home to die. My personal preference is for methods that allow the patients to help themselves, e.g. by changing their diet, detoxification, the power of the mind (placebo) and much more (also see my 22 "Greatest Hits").

Finally, I would like to point out that, in my experience, there are indeed practitioners in the field of alternative medicine whose actions are determined less by competence and knowledge (the more you know, the more modest you should become, because you realize how little you really know and how much there is still to unravel, see Socrates' "I know that I know nothing") but more by business interests, ego and wishful thinking (my detailed experience report).

Basically, however, he who heals is right.

Quotes

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Theodore White

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600), Italian Dominican friar and cosmological theorist burnt at the stake for "heresy"

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody will see it.
Mahatma Gandhi

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Bertrand Russell

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Footnotes

1 which he also described in his book "CANCER IS A FUNGUS A Revolution in Tumor Therapy"

2 ...which, like Wikipedias in other languages, has a strong anti-"alternative" bias. In fact, Wikipedia articles on alternative or complementary medicine should be treated with great caution (German-language): this is the conclusion of research by Hamburg physician Dr. med. Hans Barop and journalist Claus Fritzsche. And the same applies to all other subjects in politics and business where powerful financial interests are involved, see Wikipedia: from altruistic and egalitarian foundations to propaganda, disinformation, and suppression of truth.

3 I assert this without further verification, since a simple proof already lies in the fact that conventional treatment is partially covered by insurance.

4 The reflex-like tendency to reject new evidence or new knowledge because it contradicts established norms, beliefs, or paradigms.