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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem is some people are wondering whether that path leads anywhere at all. At the same time that Null's book, the 1,000-plus-page Get Healthy Now!, is exploding onto the best-seller list, questions are being raised about just what brand of medicine it is that he's out there peddling. In recent months there was vocal resistance within the public broadcasting network to showing Null's videos during pledge drives, in part because of concerns about the sensational claims he was making and the somewhat shaky science with which he backed them up. Other critics...
...controversy that surrounds him, there are plenty of reasons for Null's popularity. Much of his health regimen is pretty sound stuff, a common-sense soup of exercise, herbalism, diet and more, all served up in an easy-to-understand style. What's more, Null does not seem motivated by profit. He leads a health-support group in Manhattan and charges nothing for enrollment, and despite fierce bidding for his manuscripts, he often chooses small publishers, and then may defer royalties to help make the project affordable. Null, says Bob Marty, producer of the PBS shows, is "a pretty generous...
...there's another side to Null--a side that was first seen 20 years ago, when he was a contributing writer for Penthouse. One of Null's earliest stories was a blistering investigative piece called "The Great Cancer Fraud," in which he and a co-author accused the medical community of suppressing alternative cancer treatments in order to generate income for itself and the drug industry. Null's language was incendiary--condemning "the medical establishment's solid-gold cancer train"--but the magazine nonetheless ran the piece...
From a young reporter this is to be expected. But two decades later, Null, 54 is still warning of a variety of medical bogeymen out to gull a trusting public. Fluoridation of water, for example, was pressed on the U.S. by "public relations men and their industrial paymasters," he writes in Get Healthy Now! Even his recent problem at PBS, he implies, may have been an attempt to silence him. "The guardians of the gates of orthodoxy at PBS," he says darkly, "you don't know who their friends...
More troubling is what Null recommends people do in response to the poor medical care they're receiving. In Get Healthy Now! he endorses a range of fringe cancer therapies, including anti-neoplastons (peptides derived in part from human urine). He takes a similarly radical approach to AIDS, raising a long-discredited argument that one of the reasons traditional therapies are ineffective is that it has never been proved that HIV plays as great a role in the disease as scientists believe...