“还有关于John Richardson的人品。如果他就是一个唯利是图的人，他的朋友（我忘了名字了）怎么会愿意站出来为他说话？要知道他已经锒铛入狱，面对的是国家机器和强大的正规医疗部门。如果你我是他的朋友，会在什么情况下愿意站出来为他说话？那个人的老婆曾经是John诊所的护士，在John去世很多年她仍然站出来证明苦杏仁有效，为什么？”
Richardson原来是一个全科医生，1954年开始开业，并不算很成功，因为1972年他的税前收入$10400（相当于$58,757 in 2014）。在1971年与苦杏仁素的发明人小克利博商量后，他决定成为一个癌症专科医生。然后在1974年，仅两年以后，通过每个病人一个疗程收$2000 （相当于$9,615.38 in 2014）, 他的纯收入$172,981（相当于$831,639 in 2014）。折合成2014年的价格，他的收入在两年内增加了14倍。
我不认为Richardson一开始就是个维利是图的人。请想一想徐才厚们一开始就是坏人吗？但是当他看到这么多钱以后，他还能不能看到苦杏仁素不能治癌症的事实，我就深表怀疑了。我希望他在去世之前认真地审视他所做的一切，思考因为他的牟利，耽误了多少癌症患者，能够忏悔。
那位为他作证的人，如果他老婆是Richardson诊所的护士，那么他们就是利益相关者，其证词又有多少可信度呢？
我的确相信多数介绍苦杏仁疗法的人和网友并没有任何利益关系，他们仅仅是不能识破这些骗术而已。
我翻译的文章是发表在专业期刊，读者是医生。他最后问了这样两个问题：
“下一代的抗癌骗术的鼓动者能够从苦杏仁素运动中学习到足够的经验并加以改善吗？ 或者，我们的医疗人员能从中得到足够的教训来迅速有效地揭穿下一个骗术吗？"
我觉得如果他写给一般公众，他也许还会问这样一个问题：
“我们一般的患者和公众是不是能从苦杏仁素现象中得到足够的免疫力来理性应对下一个骗术呢？是不是因为你们的内心是一片晴空，天空就不时时飘过来乌云了呢？”
数据来源：
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/laetrile.html
The First "Metabolic" Doctor
John Richardson was a general practitioner who began practice in the San Francisco Bay area in 1954. In 1971, after discussions with Krebs, Jr., he decided to become a cancer specialist. He had not encountered overwhelming success as a general practitioner. His 1972 income tax return revealed that he had grossed $88,000 in his medical practice, leaving a net of only $10,400 taxable income.
Richardson's practice boomed as a result of his newly found status as a cancer "expert." He states that "Our office soon was filled with faces we had never seen before—hopeful faces of men and women who had been abandoned by orthodox medicine as hopeless or "terminal" cases." In 1974, he reported that his medical practice had grossed $783,000, with a net income of $172,981. By charging patients $2,000 for a course of Laetrile, Richardson managed to increase his net income 17-fold in just two years. According to his income tax returns, Richardson grossed $2.8 million dollars from his Laetrile practice between January 1973 and March 1976. The actual amount of money he received may have even been higher. In Laetrile Case Histories, he claimed to have treated 4,000 patients, with an average charge of $2,500 per patient. Culbert states that by 1976 Richardson had treated 6,000 patients. If these figures are correct, Richardson would have grossed between $10 and $15 million dollars during this time.
Richardson's practice changed significantly after he began treating cancer patients with Laetrile. He also began treating what he termed "pre-clinical syndrome" patients with Laetrile. These were patients with no identifiable tumor or lesion who complained of feelings of "impending doom, malaise, unexplained or vague pains, headaches, bowel changes, loss of appetite, loss of energy, and depression." According to Richardson, cancer patients reported a reduction in pain, an improved appetite, return of strength, and an improved mental outlook. In addition, high blood pressure returned to normal.
In spite of these "dramatic improvements," Richardson admitted that most of his cancer patients died. In an attempt to overcome this, he increased the Laetrile dosage to nine grams, six days a week, and placed patients on a vegetarian diet and "massive" doses of regular vitamins. Richardson coined the phrase "metabolic therapy" to refer to this combination of diet manipulation, vitamins and Laetrile.
In June 1972, Richardson's office was raided and he was arrested for violating California's Cancer Law. He was convicted of this charge, but the conviction was overturned on a technicality and a new trial ordered. Two more trials followed which resulted in hung juries. Hearings before the California Board of Medical Quality Assurance in 1976 resulted in the revocation of his California medical license. He then worked at a Mexican cancer clinic. During the 1980s, he practiced under a homeopathic license in Nevada until he had open heart surgery and entered an irreversible coma.
The Political Explosion
Dr. Richardson's arrest triggered the formation of the Committee for Freedom of Choice in Cancer Therapy (now called the Committee for Freedom of Choice in Medicine). The group's founder and President was Robert Bradford, a former laboratory technician at Stanford University. Michael Culbert, who at the time of Richardson's arrest was an editor at the Berkeley Daily Gazette, became a major spokesman for the Committee, editing their newsletter, The Choice, and writing two books promoting Laetrile: Vitamin B-17: Forbidden Weapon Against Cancer (1974) and Freedom From Cancer (1976).
Culbert was assisted in editing The Choice by Maureen Salaman, wife of Committee vice-chairman Frank Salaman. The Committee's legislative advisor was Georgia Congressman Larry McDonald, a urologist who used Laetrile. CFCCT's activities were closely allied with the John Birch Society, to which Richardson, Bradford, Culbert, the Salamans and McDonald all belonged. Soon after its formation, CFCCT established local chapters throughout the United States and used bookshops associated with the John Birch Society to hold meetings and distribute literature.
In May 1976 Richardson was indicted, along with his office manager, Ralph Bowman, and fellow CFCCT members Robert Bradford and Frank Salaman, for conspiring to smuggle Laetrile. A year later all were convicted of the charges. Bradford was fined $40,000, Richardson $20,000, and Salaman and Bowman $10,000 each. During the trial it was disclosed that Bradford had paid $1.2 million dollars for 700 shipments of Laetrile and that Richardson had banked more than $2.5 million during a 27-month period.
