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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 c
by 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...