
Part One: The Founding Father of Fake Cancer Cures
Behind the Bastards
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Hoxie's Injunction - You Got It. He Get Out of Here
Judge Attwell ruled that the FDA could not claim that Hoxie's cure was injurious or futile. The FDA appealed and asked a circuit court to grant the injunction instead, arguing that Attwell had been swayed by incompetent testimony. In 1956, his gross annual income was estimated at $1.5 million, and he saw more than 8,000 patients that year.
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