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cancer. The colorful mailers and brochures he sends out refer to the area as the “Switzerland of America,” under the cheery banner, “Where Sick Folks Get Well,” and promise that cancer is curable without the knife or radium or X-ray. But Norman Baker is a quack. That’s why the medical board ran him out of Iowa, then chased him down to Mexico

 That’s why the medical board ran him out of Iowa, then chased him down to Mexico

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Norman Baker is not a doctor. Norman Baker is a charlatan.

He is conventionally handsome. Sharp-featured and clear-eyed. Confidence-inspiring, straight out of a B.

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