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The Suppression of Alternative Medical Therapies 173
eral occasions requested Dr. Gerson supply details of the method of treatment
but has thus far received no satisfactory reply."
This editorial was just the beginning of a concentrated campaign of
harassment against Dr. Gerson and the people who were working with
him in his Research Foundation. Between 1946 and 1954, Dr. Gerson was
investigated five times by the Medical Society of the County of New
York. After each investigation, the Research Foundation requested that the
investigators give a statement, and in each case the request was denied.
However, in 1948, Dr. Gerson and his Research Foundation were left
in no doubt as to what the medical establishment thought of them when a
review of their work was published in the Journal of the AMA. The review
was entitled "Frauds and Fables," in which the journal suggested that
Gerson was a fraud. The Research Foundation threatened to sue the AMA
and were able to stop reprints of the damaging article. However, as a consequence
of the damaging publicity, Gotham Hospital refused to allow Dr.
Gerson to work on its premises after 1950.
Moreover, Dr. Gerson was not able to restore his good name within the
medical profession in America. It became impossible for him to publish a
single piece of research in any medical journal from the end of 1949 until
the end of his life, despite (or perhaps because of) his thousands of success
stories. In addition, Gerson was prevented from presenting patients at
a hearing of the House of Commerce Committee in 1953, which was
investigating therapies for cancer and other diseases. Despite requests
from his patients that he be allowed to present his findings, as well as a
letter from Dr. Gerson himself, the chairman of the committee failed to
offer Dr. Gerson the chance to demonstrate his findings.
With his work increasingly under fire in the United States, Dr. Gerson
went to Europe in order to publish his discoveries. A German journal,
Medizinische Klinik, published two of the reports which U.S. journals had
refused to print: "Cancer: A Problem of Metabolism" and "No Cancer in
Normal Metabolism." He was also invited to the University of Zurich in
1952, after attending the International Cancer Congress in Berchtesgaden.
When Dr. Gerson returned to the United States from Europe, however,
he faced still more hurdles. In 1957, he was investigated by the Licensing
Board of New York State. Even more damaging to his work, his malpractice
insurance was terminated. In 1958 Gerson was suspended from the
Medical Society of the State of New York, and the laboratories which Dr.
Gerson's Research Foundation used for X-rays, blood, and urine analyses
were warned that should they continue to do work for Dr. Gerson and his
patients, they would be put out of business. Dr. Gerson died in 1959.
The harassment of Dr. Gerson by the medical establishment, while both
unethical and immoral, is understandable within a commercial context. If