# WOO WOO WOO! Here comes the Crank Patrol - Buzynski edition! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 8, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woo-woo-woo-here-comes-the-crank-patrol-buzynski-edition/662969 "2013-07-08T20:01:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woo-woo-woo-here-comes-the-crank-patrol-buzynski-edition/662969/1 "2013-07-08T20:01:35Z")
Ugh. This fucker just won’t die. 35 years. It’s been _over 35 years_ since this quack started offering his wonderful antineoplaston therapy. 35 years and he has yet to provide any significant evidence that it _actually works_. 35 years of nothing to back him up but individual patient reports. You know, you’d think that the fucker getting into bed with John Merola and Joseph Mercola would give most people pause, but no, apparently their names aren’t as synonymous with bullshit as they deserve to be. Pity. Hell, you even get their supporters bandying around the old “I will never give authorization to a drug not from a major corporation” chestnut from some chief of the FDA - a quote that, to date, nobody has _ever_ been able to track to a legitimate source. It’s like these people either lack a bullshit filter, or have it finely-calibrated to reject anything that sounds even remotely reasonable. I would bring up a family friend at this point, but SDMB has made it excessively clear that my personal life is suspect and subject to instant claims of “not true”, so I’ll just leave it at the statement that Burzynski (and Mercola too) can suck a gigantic bag of dicks. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woo-woo-woo-here-comes-the-crank-patrol-buzynski-edition/662969/2 "2013-07-08T20:03:49Z")
Wow no link to anything in the OP to help people understand what in the hell the rant is actually about = FAIL. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woo-woo-woo-here-comes-the-crank-patrol-buzynski-edition/662969/3 "2013-07-08T20:08:32Z")
[This might help the rest of us get up to speed on the OP’s outrage](http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/cam/antineoplastons/patient/page2). ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woo-woo-woo-here-comes-the-crank-patrol-buzynski-edition/662969/4 "2013-07-09T01:14:20Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Wow no link to anything in the OP to help people understand what in the hell the rant is actually about = FAIL. Figured there was general knowledge about Burzynski. > **[Burzynski Clinic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burzynski_Clinic)** > > The Burzynski Clinic is a clinic selling an unproven cancer treatment, which has been characterized as harmful quackery. It was founded in 1976 and is located in Houston, Texas, in the United States. It offers a form of chemotherapy originally called "antineoplaston therapy" devised by the clinic's founder Stanislaw Burzynski in the 1970s. Antineoplaston is Burzynski's term for a group of urine-derived peptides, peptide derivatives, and mixtures. There is no accepted scientific evidence of ben > **[Stanislaw Burzynski and "Antineoplastons" | Quackwatch](https://quackwatch.org/related/Cancer/burzynski1/)** > > Unlike most "alternative medicine" practitioners, Stanislaw R. Burzynski has published profusely. The sheer volume of his publications impresses p ... That help any? Here’s one more for good measure: > **[BBC Panorama investigates Stanislaw Burzynski](https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/bbc-panorama-investigates-stanislaw-burzynski/)** > > Last week, I reviewed a long-expected (and, to some extent, long-dreaded) documentary by Eric Merola, a filmmaker whose talent is inversely proportional to his yen for conspiracy, pseudoscience, and q ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woo-woo-woo-here-comes-the-crank-patrol-buzynski-edition/662969/5 "2013-07-09T06:30:30Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > I would bring up a family friend at this point, but SDMB has made it excessively clear that my personal life is suspect and subject to instant claims of “not true”… So just tell us which areas of your life you’ve been exaggerating about and we’ll give you the benefit of the doubt on the personal stories you post here. ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woo-woo-woo-here-comes-the-crank-patrol-buzynski-edition/662969/6 "2014-01-06T01:25:55Z")
Wanna do something about it? > **[The Houston Cancer Quack](https://thehoustoncancerquack.com/)** > > This WordPress.com site is the cat’s pajamas > [@](#): > > Now that Burzynski’s failure to help patients has been thoroughly documented by USA Today, it is important that skeptics and patient advocates seize the opportunity to press Capitol Hill to take action and investigate how it was that a quack like Burzynski was able to charge patients, their families, and their communities for an unproven and supremely unpromising therapy for decades. The page goes on to give instructions and recommendations for how to contact your congressperson to push for legislative action. (I realize this initiative from the skeptics movement is over a month old but only just listened to the [relevant SGU episode](http://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcast/sgu/437) tonight. Relevant segment is about at the halfway point). ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woo-woo-woo-here-comes-the-crank-patrol-buzynski-edition/662969/7 "2014-01-09T16:16:12Z")
An update: > **[Texas charges controversial doctor with false ads](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/08/texas-charges-controversial-doctor-with-making-false-ads/4373163/?sf21455916=1)** > > Texas authorities say a doctor misled consumers with false ads. They are getting him on false advertising. Shades of getting Capone on tax evasion.