November, 1997
Dear President
CBS Television
NBC
ABC
FOX

Dear Sirs

In 1992, Linus Pauling invented a cure for heart disease. This event,
although unreported and so far unstudied, will impact our world more 
dramatically than landing a man on the moon.

The event went unreported, probably for several reasons.  Most people
expect the medical profession to be pleased and hold a news conference!

  "As of today, the American Medical Association is proud to announce
   that the medical profession will halt its 900,000 annual heart operations,  
   i.e. 500,000 coronary by-pass and 400,000 angioplasties because they are
    unnecessary. We now know how to cure heart disease.  We are sure America's 
   heart surgeons will find other work.   Furthermore, we are happy to report 
   that the estimated $100 billion dollars American's spend on health care, 
   directly related to heart disease, will no longer go into the pockets of 
   heart surgeons, hospitals, and the coffers of large pharmaceutical companies. 
   We are extremely happy to report the reduction in suffering by the hundreds 
   of thousands of people that contract heart disease and die from it every 
   year, although it did come as a surprise that a non-medical doctor invented
   the cure..."   AMA 199???


Of course the medical profession is not going to make such an announcement!
At least until it becomes obvious to every person in America that a cure
for heart disease has, in fact, been invented.  By an American no less.

I submit that the American people expect our so-called Free Press to ask 
questions! The press may not be competent to judge for yourselves whether 
Linus Pauling was right.  But the American public expects you to hold the 
feet of the medical profession to the fire.  You people ought to be asking 
serious questions of the AMA, NEJM, the American College of Cardiology, 
and the American Heart Association.  (If you can't think of any questions, 
let me know..  For one thing, the "cure" is completely non toxic and otherwise
harmless. Thus, why wouldn't the medical profession pounce on it, even if there
were only an outside chance that it might work?)

The reason the American public, and the world generally do not know that
the cure for heart disease has been invented is pretty simple.  The press has
not been doing its job -- asking hard questions of those in positions
of medical authority.  Instead, the press acts as if it expects the medical
profession and medical institutions to make announcements that would be 
economically devastating to their primary interest -- themselves.


Owen R. Fonorow