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Re:New Da Vinci bio portrays a man obsessed with knowledge, ... by QAPereo on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @07:17PM (#15495756)
Actions. Newton’s actions depict a miserable prick, Jobs’ an intelligent sociopath, etc. Jobs died because he thought he was smarter than medicine when it came to beating cancer; hardly the first self-destructive and impulsive action in his record. Newton probed his own eyeball, tried to erase Hooke from history, etc.
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Re:New Da Vinci bio portrays a man obsessed with knowledge, ... by slau on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @07:50AM (#15498309)
Unless you're a doctor who treated Jobs, I doubt we can make any claim about whether his choices killed him or not.

Let's not forget that Jobs underwent a surgery to remove the first round of cancer, and then ended up getting a liver transplant (probably because his pancreatic cancer has metastised into this organ as well). Because of the immunosuppressive medication one has to take for the rest of one's life after a transplant, recurring cancer is extremely dangerous because the cancer can grow unbounded.

I don't really see how surgery and a transplant align with "smarter than medicine."

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Re:New Da Vinci bio portrays a man obsessed with knowledge, ... by QAPereo on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @01:01PM (#15500799)
He chose no radiation and no chemo, which for that cancer is insane; this has been pretty well documented for years now.
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