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As you know, the discovery of the vesicular disintegration of matter led to the discovery of the orgone radiation and opened a new avenue of approach to the cancer problem. These things are so far removed from the "well-known" and are so much at variance with the customary mechanical thinking in biology that I do not believe that your endeavor could be successful. As you know, I am willing to show everything in my laboratory to anyone. But I am not willing and I am not going to expose my discovery to any unscientific, irrational, or arrogant behavior. I have no time for fruitless discussions, because my work keeps me very busy, day and night.
11 June 1941 I would so love to leave the field of sex, become a "pure" scientist, cure "pure" cancer. But it can't be done! Each simple case of cancer, rheumatism, cardiac neurosis, leads straight back to the gigantic problem of the sexual plague. I must be faithful to this conviction if I do not want to become a scientific scoundrel—and that's good!
12 June 1941
The owner [of the house], Mr. Lester Brion, has given me notice to leave (as of 1 November 1941). A neighbor has complained about the mice in the cellar. It is not an easy matter to relocate the laboratory. How would I continue the cancer experiments? Any house owner would throw me out. It will soon be obvious who the celebrities of this century really are. Still no answer from Einstein. 13 June 1941 When I set out to look for a new house for the laboratory, they asked me whether I was Jewish or Christian. I said, "Imagine if I were to ask a patient whether he was Jewish or Christian before treating his cancer." "But that's different. That's a humanitarian matter, not a social one," replied the bureaucrat. America in 1941!