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Part One: The Founding Father of Fake Cancer Cures

Behind the Bastards

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Harry Hoxsey's Story Changed Wildly Over the Years

Harry Hoxsey claimed that his father had developed the salve on his own in 1908. The versions of the story Harry told also tended to leave out the critical fact of how his father died. He would later claim that he didn't start using the formula on his own until 1922, the year after his mother's death. Some might suggest that a cancer cure that failed to say both the cure's mother and father might not be a cancer cure.

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