JF Ptak Science Books LLC Post 145
R.B. Pearson (of Denver,Colorado), the author of this neglect (published in 1938), makes the claim in 24 sparse pages that cancer is caused by vaccination. In the thousand words that are thinly spaced over this small pamphlet (held together by two staples, which must’ve been embarrassing to them), Pearson’s posts his quantitative evidence in a graph he constructed showing the steady climb of cancer rates following the introduction of Jenner’s vaccine. And nothing else. In fact all he did was plot the number of cancer cases against the flow of time, and that cwas it–no aknowledgement of, say, an increase in general population leading to more cases o fcancer or anything subtle like that. (This may be one of worst uses of the graphical display of data that I have seen.) Pearson makes a graphic display and explanation that cancer dramatically increased after Jenner’s introduction of vaccination. He nails this loose statistic to the mast of the Pequod, and proclaims vaccination to be a crime. His claims are supported by almost nothing save for a few specific and inapplicable cases: for example, he “cites” a nameless family, distributed over a great distance, where one branch is vaccinated and the other, not; the vaccinated branch all get cancer while the vaccinated-free people don’t; ergo, vaccinations cause cancer.
Pearson’s publishing life makes him seem a humbug and a scamp. He would write a little later, in 1942, a book called Pasteur, Plagiarist, Imposter--a title that bears the entire story of the book’s contents, which runs an impossible 352 pages (!?!) Pearson complains in the opening sentences: “The writer has made an effort in his prior books and pamphlets to show that the germ theory is false, and that illness was practically always due to errors of diet or manner of living, the germs being present solely as scavengers of dead and waste tissues and foods, and not as the cause of the disease.” And that he was writing the book to expand the mind of his reading universe: “the erroneous belief that germs cause disease and must be controlled or eliminated before it can be cured is so widespread as to close the minds of many people to any other ideas on this subject.” Indeed, the man was very cranky. He didn’t read French, either, and for his translations of Pasteur’s work he relied on the work of Miss Ethel Douglas Hume’s Bechamp or Pasteur? (1923), who claimed that Pasteur stole all of his ideas from this fellow Bechamp. Oy vey.
In his double-exclamation-pointed boisterously-titled “And They Don’t Know the Cause of Cancer!!” Pearson claims that cancer cells, the “animal-pus biologicals” are “equivalent to the cells of an animal lower down in the evolutionary scale…I believe they actually are cells from the tissues of a lower animal introduced into the human body in the guise of various biologicals”. He continues, “cancer may arise OUT OF CLUMPS OF SIMPLIFIED CELLS.” And, incredibly, (with the exploratory words left intact): “Would it be lese majesty” and ter-ril-la-bly wicked to hold that these degenerate cells are nothing more than animal pus cells introduced into the body as or with some so-called biological?”
As it turns out the author had cured himself of a tumour of twenty-years standing with a thirty-day fast (“with enemas”) following a fruitarian diet, allowing the “clean and healthy blood” to “absorb and eliminate tumourous growths”.
The one good thing that can be said about this effort is that the author didn’t try to sell anything except this pamphlet. Of course he did try and convince the reader not to be vaccinated, so he might as well have told them to start smoking cigarettes.