David Baxter PhD
Late Founder
He doesn?t get sharks get cancer
By Marc Abrahams, Improbable Research
September 6, 2010
?Sharks don?t get cancer?, writes William Lane again and again, in books and articles..
Ah, but they do, writes Christie Wilcox, documenting at length and in detail what Dr. Lane managed to ignore or dismiss:
By Marc Abrahams, Improbable Research
September 6, 2010
?Sharks don?t get cancer?, writes William Lane again and again, in books and articles..
Ah, but they do, writes Christie Wilcox, documenting at length and in detail what Dr. Lane managed to ignore or dismiss:
The myth started way back in the 1970s when Henry Brem and Judah Folkman? noted that cartilage prevented the growth of new blood vessels into tissues?. Robert Langer decided to repeat the initial rabbit cartilage experiments, except this time using shark cartilage?. a scientist by the name of Carl Luer at Mote Marine Laboratories in Sarasota, FL was looking into sharks and cancer, too?.
That?s when Dr. I William Lane stepped in. He?d heard about the studies done by Langer and Luer, and become immediately entrenched with the idea that oral shark cartilage could be a treatment for cancer?. Of course, Lane started up his own shark fishing and cartilage pill making business called LaneLabs which still makes and sells cartilage pills today?. the Federal Trade Commission stepped in by 2000, fining Lane $1 million as well as banning him from claiming that his supplements, or any shark cartilage derivatives, could prevent, treat or cure cancer.
But what?s worse is that this entire fraudulent enterprise that steals the money of those desperate for any kind of hope is based on a myth. No matter what a money-grubbing man with a PhD in Agricultural Biochemistry and Nutrition tries to tell you, sharks do get cancer.
That?s when Dr. I William Lane stepped in. He?d heard about the studies done by Langer and Luer, and become immediately entrenched with the idea that oral shark cartilage could be a treatment for cancer?. Of course, Lane started up his own shark fishing and cartilage pill making business called LaneLabs which still makes and sells cartilage pills today?. the Federal Trade Commission stepped in by 2000, fining Lane $1 million as well as banning him from claiming that his supplements, or any shark cartilage derivatives, could prevent, treat or cure cancer.
But what?s worse is that this entire fraudulent enterprise that steals the money of those desperate for any kind of hope is based on a myth. No matter what a money-grubbing man with a PhD in Agricultural Biochemistry and Nutrition tries to tell you, sharks do get cancer.
