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In addition, everyone can vote with their pocketbook, boycotting harmful products, buying safer ones, and encouraging others to do the same thing. That's how important battles are won, by ordinary people at the grassroots - getting informed, doing the right thing, telling others, and proving where real power lies when it's used constructively.
Epstein's 2005 book titled, "Cancer-Gate: How to Win the Losing Cancer War" includes articles he wrote during the previous 15 years, highlighting the cancer epidemic, the leading cause of (preventable) death in America.
He explained that it's easier to pollute than protect public health, that regulatory agencies turn a blind eye, that elected officials are corrupted to go along, that big money nearly always gets its way, that organizations like NCI and ACS abound with conflicts of interest, and that many scientific community members willingly compromise their integrity in return for generous research grants and other benefits.
As a result, cancer is a growth industry, environmental harm and human health the price for big industry profits. The power of vested interests keeps them burgeoning. Public awareness can change things, not decades more worthless research in lieu of simple solutions, eliminating harmful substances that kill.
Epstein's new book titled, "National Cancer Institute and American Cancer Society: Criminal Indifference to Cancer Prevention and Conflicts of Interest" denounces both organizations for losing the war on cancer, arguing they waste billions of taxpayer and charitable contributions on treatment instead of prevention.
As a result, nearly one in two men and over one in three women are affected because of reasons explained above, including powerful vested interests profiting on disease and human misery.
Moreover, for decades, "the cancer establishment" spread misleading information and claims, including predicting in 1984 that cancer mortality would be halved by 2000, and in 2003 NCI director, former ACS president-elect and FDA commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach pledging to "eliminate suffering and death from cancer by 2015." Instead, it proliferates more than ever.
In their 2003 "Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975 - 2000," NCI, ACS, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also claimed "considerable progress (made) in reducing the (number of people with cancer) in the US population" when, in fact, an out-of-control epidemic persists.
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