Re:Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer?
by adaml_623 on Monday August 19, 2013 @11:19AM
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I never said that this article was about a cure. I was responding to the quote: "A cure is the hope so great, so seemingly out of reach, that it must never be invoked"
I was responding to the fact that people seem scared to hope. There is no cure yet (probably). But to not hope that somebody has just found a cure is just silly.
Not using the word cure is the rational response to the fact that there is no cure for cancer -- there is only remission.
> If I get cancer I want a cure. If anybody in my family gets cancer I want them cured.
You just changed the subject. Wanting a cure, and having a cure, are obviously different topics.
> This wariness of using the word cure is just because of the idiots in this world.
So scientists, and medical ethicists, are idiots. Good for you -- I prefer it when a person reveals his ignorance without beating around the bush.
> People who believe that anecdotes prove a point.
It is you who are relying on anecdotes. Scientists evaluate evidence, and the evidence says there is no cure. Anyone who claims otherwise is deluding himself.