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This comic is a pretty great summation: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1162 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1162
by Eric_WVGG 11y ago
This comic is a pretty great summation: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1162 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1162
- JesperRavn 11y agoI especially like how it explains the meaning behind the oft repeated mantra that cancer is not a single disease, or that cancer is not a single disease therefore there will never be a cure for cancer. Both these statements reflect true facts about the nature of cancer, but out of context they sound like weird illogical platitudes.
- giardini 11y agoUnfortunately the comic missed the reason why such research continues: people will pay most of their money for a cure for (or even a temporary reprieve from) _their_ cancer. This becomes "all of their money" rather than "most..." if their child has cancer. Cancer centers are enormous money-generating systems. Most of their research is useless but the doctors running them get rich, the corporations who own them get rich, all of their patients die and in the end nobody cares so the process continues.
- iskander 11y agoI actually agree with you up until the last sentence. Many researchers and doctors care quite a bit and are excited to finally be moving toward curative treatments (rather than chemo treadmills).