Why no funding for heart disease cure?

Your pharmaceutical company-inspired propaganda about alternative medicine on the front page of the June 11 business section by Marilynn Marchione is extraordinarily poor reporting for a "news" paper. A real report from a real news reporter would have interviewed people inside the NIH, people who have found it almost impossible to get real alternatives studied in this big pharma-controlled bureaucracy. Most of the $27 billion annual taxpayer-supported funding goes to support pharmaceutical interests. Check it out.

This "reporting" also helps explain why liberal news papers are losing readership. People are not stupid. I have some knowledge on these matters. The foundation I founded has tried on two occasions to get funding from the NIH to study Nobel prize winner Linus Paulings's alleged cure for heart disease. We were turned down twice. This is a matter of public record.

To date there have been more than 1,000 studies of the cholesterol-lowering drugs, but not one, zero, nada - no studies of the Pauling therapy for heart disease.

Owen Fonorow

Lisle Illinois