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I was tempted to ignore this comment, because it's off-topic, but I'm not sure that that's a very good way to handle misinformation on important topics, either.
by thaumaturgy 9y ago
I was tempted to ignore this comment, because it's off-topic, but I'm not sure that that's a very good way to handle misinformation on important topics, either.
> They went to this place and discover their age of dying are mostly past 80, and no one had been treated or diagnosed with cancer.
Even if I were to believe this story -- and I don't -- there are many confounding factors in cancer and other biological systems. There are other places where residents have been found to live abnormally long (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/italy-acciaroli-scientists-investigate-why-residents-one-town-italy-live-long-a6961371.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/italy-acciaroli-s...). There is some evidence that cancer is common but rarely becomes dangerous because of immune responses, which brings along with it all the usual confounding factors related to immune system health (sleep, diet, exercise, and all the other advice that nobody likes following).
But regardless, there are things which reliably and directly cause an increase in cancer risk, and the question here is whether certain amounts of microwave radiation is one of them.
> Until I read about Steve Jobs saved Scott Forstall with Acupuncture in the news, then I realise may be not everyone in the west are against TCM.
Steve Jobs died of a specific form of pancreatic cancer (initially, a neuroendocrine tumor) that is very treatable and could have been removed surgically when it was discovered, before it advanced into the state that eventually killed him. Had he opted for conventional medicine instead of letting his head be filled with nonsense, he'd probably still be alive.
- ksec 9y agoAnd in the case of Scott Forstall, if he wasn't treated with Acupuncture, all the previous 7 cases that had symptoms exactly the same as his were all died. >There is some evidence that cancer is common but rarely becomes dangerous because of immune responses, which brings along with it all the usual confounding factors related to immune system health (sleep, diet, exercise, and all the other advice that nobody likes following). Agree. Look, I am not saying TCM solves every problem. It is just there are many things that we dont know. And in the cases of SJ, may be he should have gone to remove it surgically.