Reading Richard Walters' article (from healthy.net above) gave me
more misgivings than reassurances.

It is a favorite ploy of quacks to say that the medical establishment
opposes them for its own self interest.  What is the evidence for that?

My impression is the opposite.  The doctors are always looking for a
new way to save their patient's lives, and the drug companies compete
with extraordinary intensity to a) develop new drugs or, even better, b)
buy out some small company or scientist that has come up with something
new.  They should be beating down Dr. Burzynski's door to sign him up
to work for them and to market his drugs.

Why aren't those things happening?

Surely it isn't, as Walters says, that there's no money to be made on
this treatment.  Walters says, "At present, antineoplaston therapy is
not cheap. The monthly minimum cost of outpatient treatment is
between $3,000 and $5,000, excluding the expense of room and
board in Houston, transportation, and so forth. The minimum length
of treatment time is averaging from four months to one year."

Burzynski must be making big, big bucks.  Why aren't the drug
companies all over him to get in on the action?

Walters talks about various miracle cures, but it's awfully easy to lie
about that, either directly or by reporting stories told by liars.

Walters says that Burzynski has suffered persecution from the American
Cancer Society, the FDA, and the Texas State Board of Medical
Examiners.  But he doesn't appear to have interviewed anyone at any
of those institutions to find out if it it's true, or why.

All of us would like to believe in miraculous cures.  All of us would
like to believe that nobody could be low enough to lie to a dying
child's mother in order to rip off money from her.  All of us would
like to believe that liars, sociopaths, and criminals don't exist.  But
those of us who weren't born yesterday should beware.

Maybe Burzynski is on the level.  I'm not qualified to tell.  But my
internal BS alarm is ringing an insistently loud note.

   Alan