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| I think this is the guy - it's a still from youtube of someone blathering about the Revici cures at least. |
Quacks are a dime a dozen, but few seems to require more
gullibility on the part of their victims than William Kelley Eidem. Eidem is the
author of the book The Doctor That Cures
Cancer, the blurb of which reads: “The
controversial Emanuel Revici,
M.D., [whom retired MD Lynne August calls “the Einstein of medicine”] made the bones grow back in cancer
patients, and restored health to AIDS patients as well as drug addicts and
alcoholics. His medicines lifted debilitating migraines in as little as 3
minutes. Revici’s reward? He was attacked and ostracized by the best. JAMA published false reports about his
work. The American Cancer Society blasted him time and again. Meanwhile, word
of mouth brought new patients to see him for decades. The smears didn’t work,
so something more needed to be done. This is the true story of the greatest
medical scientist who has ever lived. Find out what happened to Dr. Revici and
find out how you can use the principles of his discoveries to reverse even
advanced cancers and many other illnesses.” The methods are briefly described
here. It’s insane gibberish and quackery, and that is to put it pretty mildly.
(The JAMA report, by the way, was a small prospective study of Revici’s methods
from 1965: Of 33 cases with established cancer 22 died, 8 left the study
because they were unimproved by the treatment, and the final three still alive
under Revici’s care 18 months later all exhibited signs of tumor progression.
But you know. Conspiracies and so on.)
What’s Eidem’s evidence for the efficacy of the methods? Oh,
he’s got an anecdote – himself: “One morning as I was about to
step into the shower, I noticed a couple of large round looking red splotches
on my thigh and calf. They were about the size of a half dollar,” which is
almost definitely not cancer but a skin rash. Why did Eidem think it was
cancer? He used … a pregnancy test: “Many
years earlier, I’d also learned that the common pregnancy tests sold in drug
stores will sometimes produce a positive result if the person taking the test has
cancer.” So he took a pregnancy test, which he claims was positive;
therefore cancer. He didn’t bother seeking out a doctor, since chemotherapy is
apparently worthless anyways. Instead, he applied his own methods, and … “All of my lesions went away in about four or
five days.” Suffice to say: If you think there is any point in
investigating his methods further you probably deserve an entry in our Encyclopedia
yourself.
Diagnosis: Batshit insane. Keep a safe distance. Probably
not much influence, though.
Since you are unaware, the report in JAMA excluded several patients arbitrarily. There were 38 patients in the study. Not 33. All 38 were expected to die, but 8 were cured. The JAMA article falsely claimed that there was no evidence of any remissions microscopically or macroscopically (naked eye) when in fact visible tumors disappeared. IOW, the so-called report was a fraud written by the appropriately named Dr. Lyall.
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