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Part One: The Founding Father of Fake Cancer Cures

Behind the Bastards

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Hoxsey's X-Ray and Radium Have No Place in Cancer Treatment

Harry Hoxsey had his own medical professionals write papers and studies lambasting the mainstream medical industry or whatever you want to call it. New patients were first sat down with a clerk who wrote down their medical history. This included data on what their other actual doctors had told them. To prospective patients, the whole encounter at Hoxsey's clinic would have felt very similar to a visit with their normal doctor. And this was another of Hoxsey’s great innovations. Alternative medicine that looked from the outside just like regular medicine.

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