She Exposed The Biggest Cancer Scam Of The Century
Black History Year
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🗓️ 18 October 2024
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It was the biggest scam of the century. Cancer patients were being sold a fake cure, and she knew how to stop them. But there was one huge problem: according to the government, she didn’t even exist!
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| 0:00.0 | Abby's just woken up. It's 731 and she's forgotten to ring the doctor. There's no point |
| 0:05.5 | ringing now. She needs to get to work, but she's not worried. She's got an HSBC Premier bank account |
| 0:10.5 | with access to digital GP appointments plus two second opinions a year should she need them. |
| 0:15.1 | Everything's premier when your bank account is. Search HSBC Premier, HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:22.4 | The doctor will see you now. |
| 0:24.6 | Apply with £100,000 annual income or £100,000 savings or investments with HSBC UK or Premier status abroad. |
| 0:34.2 | It was the biggest scam of the century. |
| 0:39.3 | Cancer patients were being sold a fake cure and she knew how to stop them. |
| 0:45.3 | But there was one huge problem. |
| 0:48.3 | According to the government, she didn't even exist. |
| 0:52.3 | This is two-minute black history, what you didn't even exist. This is 2-Minute Black History, |
| 0:54.4 | What You Didn't Learn in School. |
| 1:06.1 | Alma Levant Hayden was a brilliant chemist, |
| 1:09.8 | one of the best in the world. In the 1960s, a miracle |
| 1:13.7 | cure for cancer called Krebyosin came on the market, and Hayden wanted to find out if it was |
| 1:20.4 | legit, but there was a problem. She worked for the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, |
| 1:30.3 | but the agency pretended like she didn't exist. |
| 1:31.5 | Even though she ran an FDA lab, she was never allowed to be publicly associated with the |
| 1:37.5 | agency. |
| 1:39.1 | Why? Scientists for the agency often had to testify in court, and the FDA was afraid the public would reject work from a black scientist. |
| 1:59.0 | But Hayden had proved Krebyozen was a fake. Would racism prevent her from |
| 2:05.4 | exposing this dangerous scam? This was one of the biggest cases in agency history, but Hayden |
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