> "I would like to think that people would be careful enough in their search for treatment that this would never happen" The laetrile hoax cure for cancer (htt

> "I would like to think that people would be careful enough in their search for treatment that this would never happen" The laetrile hoax cure for cancer (https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.3322/canjclin.31.2.91 https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.3322/...) and similar incidents before before and since show that people who are dying become desperate and are easy prey for people selling snake oil.