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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

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    1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 May 2018

      Of course, given that @robles_jdaniel is unlikely to read the articles I post in response to his request, I thought it probably would be a waste of time to post them. However, maybe others on the fence about Burzynski would see them. 2/

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    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 May 2018

      If my scientific and analyses of @ericmerola's propaganda and #Burzynski's claims for #antineoplastons prevent even a single patient from falling prey to this quackery, it will have been worth it. I stand with @rjblaskiewicz. 3/

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    3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 May 2018

      First, read @rjblaskiewicz's article on how #Burzynski takes advantage of desperate cancer patients. It's horrific. 4/https://www.csicop.org/si/show/skeptic_activists_fighting_for_burzynskis_cancer_patients …

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    4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 May 2018

      Now let's get back to @ericmerola's movie. When I first encountered it, I was a little less harsh on #Burzynski than the years have led me to become, but I still thought his treatment probably had no anticancer effect and that he was scamming patients. 5/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/stanislaw-burzynski-bad-medicine-a-bad-movie/ …

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    5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 May 2018

      I also heaped scorn on #Burzynski's claims that he was doing "personalized gene-targeted cancer therapy." In reality, he was ordering Caris tests and making shit up, throwing together expensive targeted therapy and chemo. 6/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/stanislaw-burzynskis-personalized-gene-targeted-cancer-therapy/ …

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    6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 May 2018

      Then I learned that #Burzynski had figured out that one antineoplaston was a prodrug of an orphan drug and was starting to use that drug off label as his "miracle cure.". 7/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/stanislaw-burzynski-antineoplastons-and-the-orphan-drug-sodium-phenyl-butyrate/ …

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    7. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 May 2018

      Over the years I've documented the stories of many patients whose desperation led them to #Burzynski. For instance, here is the sad case of eán Ó’Laighin. 8/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/dr-stanislaw-burzynskis-antineoplastons/ …

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    8. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 May 2018

      And here is the even sadder case of Amelia Saunders, first how #Burzynski lied to her parents. 9/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2012/11/30/a-response-to-the-father-of-a-burzynski-patient/ …

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    9. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 May 2018

      Then, how it turned out that, while #Burzynski was convincing her parents that his ANPs were working against her tumor, her tumor was actually progressing. 10/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2012/12/12/sad-news-about-a-burzynski-patient/ …

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    10. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 May 2018

      Even more sadly, Amelia Saunders died less than a year after she had been diagnosed with her brain tumor. 11/ https://www.facebook.com/ameliasmiracle/posts/405566886190045 …

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 May 2018

      It turns out that, if you examine #Burzynski's "success stories," they are almost never really success stories. Anyone with a decent knowledge of oncology (like me) can figure out that it wasn't his treatment that resulted in good outcomes. 12/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/stanislaw-burzynskis-cancer-success-stories/ …

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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 May 2018

          Indeed, pediatric oncologists and intensivists in Houston hate #Burzynski because his ANP treatment is very toxic (it can cause life-threatening hypernatremia) and they frequently have to try to save patients that he's poisoned. 13/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2013/06/04/stanislaw-burzynski-versus-the-bbc-2/ …

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 May 2018

          Oh, and if you're thinking of mentioning the second #Burzynski movie (which I like to call "Burzynski II: Electric Boogaloo") by @ericmerola, don't. I reviewed it too. It's even dumber and more full of misinformation than the first Burzynski movie. 14/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/stanislaw-burzynski-propaganda-versus-news/ …

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        4. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 May 2018

          Through it all, #Burzynski has cynically used dying cancer patients as cannon fodder in his war against @US_FDA and the Texas Medical Board. 15/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/stanislaw-burzynski-trying-to-relive-his-success-beating-the-rap-in-the-1990s/ …

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        5. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 May 2018

          Through it all, there are frequently stories about #Burzynski in the press that show false balance. 16/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/stat-news-false-balance-about-stanislaw-burzynski-and-his-disproven-cancer-therapy/ …

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        6. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 May 2018

          Depressingly given all the years it's been at it, last year the Texas Medical Board, although it managed to enter a judgment against Burzynski, failed to strip him of his medical license and only had his practice monitored. 17/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/texas-medical-board-lets-off-stanislaw-burzynski-lightly/ …

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        7. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 May 2018

          Sadly, #Burzynski is still up to his old tricks. providing false hope and charging them hundreds of thousands of dollars for his ineffective treatment. 18/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/05/01/how-is-it-that-in-2018-cancer-stanislaw-burzynski-is-still-preying-on-desperate-cancer-patients/ …

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        8. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 May 2018

          Unfortunately, although it makes me feel good about humans to see how willing they are to help, the generosity of strangers frequently provides that money through social media fundraising. 19/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/05/03/how-is-it-that-in-2018-cancer-stanislaw-burzynski-is-still-preying-on-desperate-cancer-patients-update/ …

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        9. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 May 2018

          As for #Burzynski's data, although he's published some of his results, he's never published any convincing evidence. Here's one example. 20/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2014/04/17/stanislaw-burzynski-publishes-42-5-of-one-clinical-trial/ …

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        10. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 May 2018

          Here's what is perhaps #Burzynski's best attempt to show that his ANPs work. It is utterly unconvincing. 21/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2014/06/09/stanislaw-burzynski-publishes-his-antineoplaston-results-again-its-no-more-convincing-than-last-time/ …

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        11. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 May 2018

          Then there's this trial, which, as much as #Burzynski and his fans tried to spin it otherwise, basically showed that ANPs don't have detectable activity against liver metastases from colorectal cancer. 22/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2015/03/24/dr-hidaeka-tsuda-demonstrates-that-antineoplastons-dont-work-against-colon-cancer/ …

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        12. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 May 2018

          In the end, what #Burzynski shows more than anything else, is how ineffective state medical boards and the @US_FDA sometimes are about stopping quackery. 23/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/stanislaw-burzynski-and-robert-o-young-how-two-quacks-of-a-feather-illustrate-how-poorly-states-regulate-medical-practice/ …

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        13. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 May 2018

          Worse, now that #RightToTry has passed Congress and will soon be signed into law, Burzynski's practice model has, in essence, been legalized. After all, ANPs have passed phase I testing and Burzynski still has clinical trials for them registered—bogus trials, but trials. 24/

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        14. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 23 May 2018

          In the end, for four decades, #Burzynski has victimized the most desperate of patients, selling them a toxic brew that causes severe hypernatremia for vast sums of money while labeling it "nontoxic." Why he is lionized in alt med circles, I'll never understand. 25/25

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