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Re:Why Has There Been So Little Progress on Alzheimer's Dise... by tecleandor on Sunday April 26, 2026 @05:46AM (#47908894)
> Which illnesses have been cured? Diabetes, cancer?

Chicken pox, polio, hepatitis C, dracunculiasis, yaws, malaria (on the way of it), tuberculosis, syphilis, everything that can be killed with antibiotics, rubella...

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Re:Why Has There Been So Little Progress on Alzheimer's Dise... by defrost on Sunday April 26, 2026 @05:55AM (#47908931)
Remember a year or two ago when it was thought that measles was cured in the USofA?

Halcyon days.

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Re:Why Has There Been So Little Progress on Alzheimer's Dise... by yxhuvud on Sunday April 26, 2026 @10:59AM (#47910879)
There is a cure though. What is happening is just that people are too stupid to use it.
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Re:Why Has There Been So Little Progress on Alzheimer's Dise... by red-iron-pine on Monday April 27, 2026 @10:20AM (#47922016)
agit-prop works, and the rube demographic is only growing larger because of it

see also: right wing grift

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