If anyone know of a natural cancer cure study in mice or rats that has been published please get in contact with me (or post here) as I have been looking for one for years.
Wait, what? Really?
If that's true, I can see only one explanation - with mice models, we can do far more aggressive research, and therefore we cover a bigger chunk of the parameter space. Some of the same research strategies may not be ethical with human models.
In regards looking for a cure for cancer we are like the drunk who lost their keys in the dark alleyway, but who is searching around the street lamp since the light is better. Until we actually start doing the right studies we will really struggle getting anywhere.
We never seem to realise while we are on the part of the curve that's accelerating (and things are great) that it's actually a bell curve. There are probably people writing things about this sort of stuff, how we can maybe start to overlap our understanding, maybe even measure what part of the curve we are on? Maybe get governments to invest money into new technologies just at the right points...
Not actually true. There are lots of examples of mines closing down because exploiting them further is not economical. Some of them restart operations when prices for the dug up commodity rise.
(A Google search for `mine reopening' easily finds a few examples in the news around the globe.)
And although I feel like a weird contrarian saying this, it's entirely possible that by selecting for treatments that are effective in other species, we may be inadvertently missing out on things that might work in humans.