Podcasts Culture Point of Inquiry Cancer Quack Stanislaw Burzynski: Exposed

Cancer Quack Stanislaw Burzynski: Exposed

Published: March 17, 2014, 5:24 p.m.

\nThis week, Point of Inquiry welcomes David Gorski, MD, PhD: cancer researcher, surgeon,\xa0and managing editor of the\xa0Science-Based Medicine\xa0blog, aka "Orac"\xa0of\xa0Respectful Insolence.\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\n\nGorski and Beyerstein discuss a pair of\xa0expos\xe9s of cancer quack Stanislaw Burzynski in the March/April issue of the\xa0Skeptical Inquirer, one by Gorski and one by skeptical activist\xa0Robert Blaskiewicz.\xa0\n\nGorski explains why\xa0Burzynski's urine-derived antineoplaston therapy is worthless; how the doctor strong-armed the FDA into letting him peddle these expensive and potentially dangerous drugs for over 30 years; and how the treatment may have killed a little girl.\xa0Gorski\xa0also discusses Blaskiewicz's report on skeptical activists who banded together online to warn the public about\xa0Burzynski's quackery and push back against his\xa0attempts to silence his critics.\xa0\n\n