1977 | 4. The Miracle Cure

One Year

Slate Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Medical authorities said that Laetrile was dangerous quackery. It became a sensation anyway. Diana Green saw this drug made from apricot pits as her son Chad’s best chance to survive leukemia. Her shocking actions, and the little boy affected by them, became the focus of a heated national debate over freedom of medical choice. One Year is produced by Josh Levin, Evan Chung, and Madeline Ducharme. Mixing by Merritt Jacob. Want more One Year? Join Slate Plus to unlock full, ad-free access to One Year and your other favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Slow Burn show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/oneyearplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, that's my prime delivery.
0:01.6	What, already?
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0:28.1	go to amazon.com.uk.uk slash prime.
0:32.5	Hey, this is Josh Levine, the host of One Year. I hope you're enjoying our season on 1977. This week's
0:39.8	episode comes from our producer, Evan Chung. Here it is.
0:45.4	While I've been waiting to testify since this meeting opened, in this country, 200 people have
0:52.4	died of cancer. It was an emotional day in Austin when the Texas Senate Committee on Human Resources met on May 2, 1977.
1:01.0	Over the next three hours, members of the crowd took turns at the microphone.
1:06.0	I had lost previously five members of my family to cancer and had seen them suffer. And they tried everything, all of their chemotherapy and all of their high-powered poisons,
1:16.6	and it didn't stop it.
1:18.6	The witnesses talked about the fear that gripped them when they discovered they were ill.
1:23.6	I was diagnosed as having cancer of the breast.
1:26.6	My doctor had given me a 50% chance of living.
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