For example, when UVBI was discovered, it rapidly swept through America’s hospitals as it saved many patients who would have otherwise died and was featured throughout the media (e.g., The New York Times and Time Magazine). The AMA then offered to “validate” Knott’s device for $100,000 plus the rights to the therapy, with Knott getting a small sales cut in return. Knott refused and the AMA conducted a study designed to fail and then reported UVBI offered no benefit (despite many of the patients in the study improving) after which hospitals rapidly abandoned the “debunked” practice (whereas UVBI is still used in the hospitals of other countries like Russia due to the phenomenal results it provides for “incurable” illnesses).

Similarly, around this same time, the AMA approached the inventors of many alternative cancer therapies (such as Krebiozen, Hoxey’s remedies and the Koch Catalysts) and pressured them to sign away almost all of the rights for the treatment to the AMA or be blacklisted. In each case, the inventor refused because they wanted it to remain affordable to everyday people (e.g., the AMA had initially used Hoxey’s remedy but massively inflated the cost for it). So, following their refusal, the AMA launched a blitz against the therapy, and then with the help of the FDA, buried it (which was later corroborated by court cases and a 1953 Congressional investigation).

In short, because of the power the AMA wielded, a single fraudulent negative study could immediately erase large bodies of independent research showing otherwise. Because of this, many remarkable medical innovations were successfully erased from history and part of my life’s work and many of the things I use in practice are essentially the therapies Simmons and Fishbein largely succeeded in wiping off the Earth.