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Re:U.S. Cancer Death Rate Has Dropped by a Third Since 1991 by tee_0 on Friday January 13, 2023 @04:45PM (#34374317)
I don’t buy it. Cancer that is screened eventually will present. It doesn’t change the amount of cancer that presents. Again, this changes survival but not diagnoses. People who abstain from living in the modern way almost never get cancer or diabetes. Is this because they aren’t being screened? The explosion doesn’t correlate to change in screening methodology. Yes, people who ignore the simple facts are parasites. Like with the recent breakthrough in epigenetic aging, for decades the theory of mutation based aging dominated despite the clear and simple fact that there was contradictory evidence. For decades we had to put up with the amyloid theory of Alzheimer’s even though the plain and simple fact was that there were people without Alzheimer’s who had plaques and there were people with Alzheimer’s who didn’t have plaques. The reason why billions of dollars were spent on the wrong solutions and the reason why millions of people have suffered and died prematurely for no good reason is people like you who glom onto whatever is the least painful thing to believe. Whatever liberates you the most from accountability. No, it’s not anything we are doing, it’s just data anomalies and we are totally helpless. The same doom worship that is responsible for every global warming advocate getting really glassy eyed and avoidant whenever you start to discuss actual solutions rather than just rave about how utterly screwed we are. People don’t want solutions they want to resign to their helplessness. So yeah you are part of the problem in my opinion. You just want to resign to the fact that cancer is totally beyond our ability to comprehend or do anything about it. And you ignore these insane data points that demand to be scrutinized and made sense of because it would interrupt your world view.
Re:U.S. Cancer Death Rate Has Dropped by a Third Since 1991 by dekhn on Friday January 13, 2023 @04:49PM (#34374370)
You have a fundamentally incorrect misunderstanding: "Cancer that is screened eventually will present"

The problem is screening is very sensitive, and has a high false positive rate. What doctors aren't worried about is people having benign tumors- it's having aggressive cancers that impact a person's health.

But I think you have deeper problems; based on your various posts it looks like you're just angry at the health care system and want to believe that it's being irrational or ignoring problems.

Re:U.S. Cancer Death Rate Has Dropped by a Third Since 1991 by tee_0 on Friday January 13, 2023 @07:32PM (#34375920)
Thank you for checking up on my post history. I am angry with the medical establishment and I am justified. This all started when i had a serious medical diagnosis and later learned about groundbreaking therapies that have been sidelined by the medical establishment. It turns out that this happens on a wide scale. Wide compared to what one would imagine, zero.

When the very first clinical trial took place, the cure for scurvy was discovered. What people don’t know is that the cure for scurvy was known for hundreds of years. The native Americans knew what scurvy was and knew how to cure it. Various people in the old world learned of this and knew it. But it was ignored by the medical establishment. And what even fewer people know is that after the very first clinical trial proved beyond doubt how to cure scurvy… nobody cared. The results were rejected by the medical establishment and scurvy was not systematically treated until much later.

How is this possible? Weren’t people dying? Wasn’t the situation urgent? Weren’t the medical experts of the time men of reason and very intelligent? The incentive structure of large bureaucracies is never aligned well with the common good or the truth. It’s made up of thousands of people who have their own interests and salaries to worry about. And the system is supported by robots like you who reject logic and refuse to question the current models despite the fact that these models are purpose built to become obsolete — that’s how science works.

I will not look through your comment history because I’m not insecure about myself.