Agreed !
Your statement ...” (And it is highly unlikely there is going to be a single cure anyway.) ...”
Hits right on the mark, cancer is more of a “condition” then one single disease. It’s not like malaria!
A lot of people on the site love conspiracies, it’s their first solution out of the box to anything! The fact that they immediately point to “Big bad something” as the culprit tells me they spend way too much time watching TV!
Moreover, all of the "easy" cures have already been discovered.
Actually, it's quite a bit like malaria. At one point it was insisted that it wasn't. Then they found the 1st infectious cause, and then the next and so on. The American Cancer Society now puts it at 15 to 20% infectious cause.
And that's not including the liver fluke they just found to be causing cancer in some Viet Nam veterans.
Having something cause cancer 40 or 50 years after the first infection makes it very hard to find that infectious cause. So I expect they are a long way from finding the last infectious cause for cancer.
TV, actually I was thinking that you throw in a couple people from the Gold Coast and Nelson DeMille had the outline of another New York Times #1 best seller.
Add in an underdog lawyer and John Grisham could beat DeMille to the punch. James Patterson’s ghost writer is already typing away on his keyboard. He will have a paperback version in the supermarket by Christmas.
SARC (but not really).
In all fairness to those who were suspicious or skeptical; that’s kinda what we do here on FR and the article was written in such as way as to point to the possibility a pharma company or some other person or entity had an interest in making sure such a cure never went to market.
Can’t really blame folks for looking where they were lead. Hey! Our opposition is normally the left. We know how underhanded and devious they can be so we are always looking for ulterior motives. We’re practically trained to be suspicious and skeptical now. :)
I’m reminded of that new show, Wisdom of the Crowd, where they use the general public to find answers because when we all put in our opinions; the truth organically emerges at some point. I find it ironic the lead actor, Piven, was also accused of sexual harassment so the network canceled the show because of it.
I also wonder if the backlash of this tsunami of sexual harassment claims isn’t going to come back and bite us all on the butt of political correctness to the point men and women will be afraid to talk to one another unless chaperoned. Isn’t that what they do in Islamic countries?