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200 years? How about in 50 years? Heart attacks and cancers will be detected early and easily treatable. The idea of chemotherapy will seem barbaric.

williamdclt 8y ago
To be fair chemotherapy does sound barbaric already today, but it's one of the few things we know that kind of works
- tcj_phx 8y ago
  Otto Warburg figured out a lot about cancer. Unfortunately he was a jew in Nazi Germany, and his insights were mostly forgotten when the “bad genes” theory of cancer took hold of the medical profession. There was a semi-recent NY Times article about the resurgence of Warburg’s metabolic theory of cancer. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4493566/#!po=5.91398 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4493566/#!po=5.... > but it's one of the few things we know that kind of works Chemotherapy as a treatment for cancer is one of many pseudo-scientific medical practices commonly used by conventional medical practitioners. Edit: link to NY Times article on Warburg: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/magazine/warburg-effect-an-old-idea-revived-starve-cancer-to-death.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/magazine/warburg-effect-a...
bonzini 8y ago
Chemotherapy sucks, but it works and is scientifically sound.
- codr4 8y ago
  Works short term but wrecks your immune system long term, which means you will get sick from something else and no one can be blamed. Have you actually seen someone on chemo? Scientifically sound is not the first thing that comes into my mind. There's even a decent amount of objective research out there these days showing exactly this so there are really no excuses for clinging to these delusions any more.
  - PhasmaFelis 8y ago
    > Have you actually seen someone on chemo? I have. Chemo is horrible. It really wrecks a person. But you know who looks even worse? Someone who died of untreated cancer.
    - codr4 8y ago
      The same as someone who died from a second round of untreatable cancer after having their system wrecked? Look, I get it; cancer is no fun. But when the cure is worse than the disease, it doesn't make sense any more. Except if you profit from disease and suffering, I guess.

williamdclt 8y ago

To be fair chemotherapy does sound barbaric already today, but it's one of the few things we know that kind of works

tcj_phx 8y ago
Otto Warburg figured out a lot about cancer. Unfortunately he was a jew in Nazi Germany, and his insights were mostly forgotten when the “bad genes” theory of cancer took hold of the medical profession. There was a semi-recent NY Times article about the resurgence of Warburg’s metabolic theory of cancer. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4493566/#!po=5.91398 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4493566/#!po=5.... > but it's one of the few things we know that kind of works Chemotherapy as a treatment for cancer is one of many pseudo-scientific medical practices commonly used by conventional medical practitioners. Edit: link to NY Times article on Warburg: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/magazine/warburg-effect-an-old-idea-revived-starve-cancer-to-death.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/magazine/warburg-effect-a...

bonzini 8y ago

Chemotherapy sucks, but it works and is scientifically sound.

codr4 8y ago
Works short term but wrecks your immune system long term, which means you will get sick from something else and no one can be blamed. Have you actually seen someone on chemo? Scientifically sound is not the first thing that comes into my mind. There's even a decent amount of objective research out there these days showing exactly this so there are really no excuses for clinging to these delusions any more.
- PhasmaFelis 8y ago
  > Have you actually seen someone on chemo? I have. Chemo is horrible. It really wrecks a person. But you know who looks even worse? Someone who died of untreated cancer.
  - codr4 8y ago
    The same as someone who died from a second round of untreatable cancer after having their system wrecked? Look, I get it; cancer is no fun. But when the cure is worse than the disease, it doesn't make sense any more. Except if you profit from disease and suffering, I guess.