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Part One: The Founding Father of Fake Cancer Cures

Behind the Bastards

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Hoxie's Tonics

In 1950, the FDA went after Hoxie with the intent of hitting him with an injunction to stop him from treating cancer. Their argument rested on proving that the Hoxie treatment did not work. One of the most poignant cases presented involved a high school boy of 16 who after a football injury developed an extremely malignant cancer and a leg bone.

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