“My fight for organic silicon and for the right of the French to free therapeutic choice.” That is how Loïc Le Ribault himself, in his memoirs, sums up the commitment of his last years.
The right to choose
The idea is simple and it is old: an informed adult has the right to decide how to be treated and by whom, including outside officially recognized treatments, and a doctor has the right to prescribe according to conscience. In many countries that right is restricted today, and it remains at the heart of a debate that goes far beyond the story of Loïc Le Ribault: who decides, in the end, what a sick person may try?
What he said
“Patients would rather be cured illegally than suffer or die within the law.”
Loïc Le Ribault, 1995
“I bear no grudge and no desire for revenge, and I quite understand that scientists do not believe in my discovery; but I rise against their refusal to test it without ever having tried it.”
Norbert Duffaut, 1991
What it cost him
Why we say this here
Silicium Editions publish his books so that this debate stays open. This site gives no medical advice and recommends no treatment; it defends an idea, one Loïc Le Ribault paid for with his freedom: that the choice belongs to the patient.
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