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Message Subject CANCER!
Poster Handle Anonymous Coward
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500 Years ago there was an Alchemist who knew how to cure cancer.


But the Medical Establishment sent assassins to kill him because he was a threat to them.


He rubbed them the wrong way.


"I am Theophrastus, and greater than those to whom you liken me; I am Theophrastus, and in addition I am monarcha medicorum and I can prove to you what you cannot prove...I need not don a coat of mail or a buckler against you, for you are not learned or experienced enough to refute even a word of mine...As for you, you can defend your kingdom with belly-crawling and flattery. How long do you think this will last?...Let me tell you this: every little hair on my neck knows more than you and all your scribes, and my shoe buckles are more learned than your Galen and Avicenna, and my beard has more experience than all your high colleges."

— Paracelsus, Selected Writings
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 15740069


Considering there wasn't really a medical establishment in the middle ages and the world was awash with quacks proclaiming they could cure this that and the other without having to show any evidence (pretty much like Kelley Eidem) I find it hard to accept that someone was persecuted for it.
Persecuted for witchcraft or similar but definitely not for curing people.
 
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