American Cancer Society

For those of you who have read my book, you know that I am very critical of how the government and academic sectors divert money that is intended for cancer research.  A frequent comment I receive from readers is that I don't go into how money given to non-profit organizations is spent.

I originally felt like this was out of the scope of my book, but the more I find out about how these non-profit organizations work, the more I wish I had included them.  The unfortunate truth is that these "non-profit" entities may be more guilty in diverting funds than even government funded academic labs.

While a university may take 50-75% of a grant intended for cancer research for so-called "incidental" expenses, this may be dramatically better than the thievery revealed by investigations of some non-profit organizations.  This is far too large of a topic for me to seriously explore this late on a Saturday night, but for now I'd like to leave you with this report forwarded to me by a fan of my book:

The article is called:  American Cancer Society:  The World's Wealthiest "Nonprofit" Institution. 

More on this later.