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