Marley? Next thing you know the Earth is a lifeless cinder.
Oh trust me, I’m skeptical. I don’t think I’ll see a “cure” for cancer in my lifetime, no matter how many pink ribbons are out there…
Not skeptical enough- at least not in that post. There are few claims more dubious than the ones that blogger was making.
Nonsense, the cure is obvious.
DESTROY EVERY CELL IN THE WORLD!
This is both wrong and rather insensitive. You can deal with your grief however you like, but don’t get self-righteous about it.
I know. I was just being a picky little asshole. I’m OK with you banning cancer, though…
For starters, companies patent drugs all the time that come from plant derivatives and common substances. Not to mention that cancers come from tons of different causes. Saying “they’re hiding the cure for cancer” is like saying someone’s hiding “the cure” for headaches or back pain or chest pain. There is no magic bullet for any of those.
Plus, said blogger links to the “apricot seeds treatment” as another resource, which is a long-discredited bit of snake oil.
Oh wait, here’s Soylent Juicy’s blogger’s reportedly suppressed miracle cure. Thank goodness for obscure websites like Wikipedia to tell us this stuff.
By the way, it can be patented specifically for cancer treatment and has been, and research is ongoing on that particular chemical.
And take out the rest of the Zodiac with it.
It’s worth pointing out that there will likely never be a cure for cancer, because cancer is not 1 disease, it’s thousands of diseases that effect the way cells grow and die in different ways. It only looks the same on a macroscopic level.
And then there are secondary cancers which occur as a result of the treatment we give the first time around.
So far the only real study that’s been published involved 5 people, and didn’t show any dramatic improvement. Also, it’s use in treating cancer HAS been patented according to wikipedia.
You’ve obviously never read J B S Haldane:
I wish I had the voice of Homer
To sing of rectal carcinoma
Yes, he wrote it as it was killing him, in the mightiest Fuck You ever.
This wasn’t very encouraging either:
Even if the drug itself can’t be patented, its use as part of a drug cocktail or a delivery system probably could be.
Dr. Tulio Simoncini says that cancer is a fungus and can be treated with bicarbonate of soda.
However, I tend to believe his claim is horseshit of the worst kind. It does sell a lot of books, though.