Not commenting on the virtue or lack of same displayed by the AMA, but I find the idea that Rife actually had a cure for cancer to be most doubtful.
Even assuming the AMA had succeeded in supressing it, that wouldn't stop researchers in Europe and ESPECIALLY in Asia from going balls-out to rediscover it.
In the 60s-80s, the Soviets were pursuing every single fringe-science idea ever thought of, up to and inculding claravoyance and cold fusion. Yet somehow they were never able to duplicate 1920s technology?
I don't buy it. The whole "harmonics" thing smacks of pseudoscience and even if it were discovered that cancer was caused by a virus, that would not be a sign of an impending cure...we have NO cure for virii. AIDS is caused by a virus, but that doesn't mean we're about to cure it. So is the common cold.
No, this guy might have been hounded by the AMA without good cause, but I am very very skeptical of the idea that he had an actual cure for cancer.