ARA Review by Guyero of Winning the War on Cancer

[Guyero]

[Following is an OnlineBookClub.org ARA Review of the book, Winning the War on Cancer.]

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1 out of 5 stars

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Behold: a cure-all! It treats cancer! It treats HIV! It treats everything! And there's not a single negative side effect! But you've never heard of it because of big, bad Pharma.

If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Even if Big Pharma were trying to hide something as miraculous as the author claims these extracts are, word will eventually get out. Someone will pick up on it and start promoting it and selling it. Yet somehow this hasn't happened in the 2 decades since the author's father died, plus the decades he worked with these extracts. Something doesn't add up.

Then let's talk about the mechanism by which these extracts work: do they cure cancer (as the author claims in the first and third parts of the book) or do they increase platelet counts (middle part of the book)? Somehow the author never seems to notice that she's switching mechanisms in the middle, and never presents both at the same time. Which is it?

The author rails against the "snake oil salesmen" of old, but this whole book reads the same. She is masterful at crafting her argument. You're reading along, thinking "Yeah, that's true. Sure, of course. Yep, that's right. WAIT!!! Wait, no, that's not how science works at all!!!" She draws you in with a series of facts and good science, only to pivot in a final sentence and present something scientifically impossible--but if you're not paying close attention you'll miss it because you've been drawn into her logic build.

I spent a long time debating whether to give this book 1 or 2 stars, but it was the final couple chapters that pushed me to 1 star. The author starts going off on environmental pollution, personal "detoxification", and any number of other topics that are probably aimed at making her story more personal to the reader but still doesn't do anything else to actually shore up the science. I have to end on one final point that would be ironic if the author doesn't seem so completely oblivious to it: she states that had been treating herself with her natural extracts for 6 months prior to her getting diagnosed with cancer. Too bad they didn't work such a miracle on her as they did on every other person she mentioned in the whole book. (less) I have rated this book 1 out of 5

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