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Second Opinion: Laetrile at Sloan-Kettering

| Release Date: August 29, 2014

Summary: Ralph W. Moss PhD, a young and eager science writer, was hired by Sloan-Kettering’s public relations department in 1974 to help brief the American public on the center’s contribution to the War On Cancer. One of his first assignments was to write a biography about Dr. Kanematsu Sugiura, one of the Center’s oldest and leading research scientists as well as the original co-inventor of chemotherapy. While meeting with this iconic scientist to pen a biography on his 60-year career at Sloan-Kettering, Moss discovered that Sugiura had been studying this “quack remedy” in laboratory mice, and with unexpectedly positive results. Shocked and bewildered, Moss reported back to his superiors what he had discovered, only to be met with backlash and denial from Sloan-Kettering’s leaders on what their own leading scientist had found. Fueled by respect and admiration for Sugiura—Ralph W. Moss attempted to publicize the truth about Sugiura’s findings. And after all diplomatic approaches failed, Moss lived a double life, working as a loyal employee at Sloan-Kettering while also recruiting fellow employees to help anonymously leak this information to the American public—through a newly formed underground organization they called Second Opinion.

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Runtime:	76 min
Rating:	Not Rated
Official Site:	http://www.secondopinionfilm.com/
Production:
Genres:	Biography, Drama, Documentary
Country:	USA
Language:	English

Director	Credit
Eric Merola	Director

Writer	Credit
Eric Merola	Writer

Cast	Credit
Alec Pruchnicki	Himself
Ben Moss	Himself
Chester Stock	Himself
Kanematsu Sugiura	Himself
Lewis Thomas	Himself
Lloyd Old	Himself
Martha Moss	Herself
Melissa Moss	Herself
Ralph Moss	Himself
Robert Good	Himself

Producer	Credit
Kate Merola	Co-Producer