New book explores how a cancer drug caused a scandal in higher education, science and politics

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Media Professor Emeritus Matthew Ehrlich talks about his new book, The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine, It explores why University of Illinois president George Stoddard was forced out in 1953 during an uproar over an ultimately discredited cancer drug called Krebiozen. And it details how US government’s medical agencies were involved. And why President Lyndon Johnson supported a test of the drug.

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Matthew Ehrlich

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Media Professor Emeritus

Author, The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine