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I really believe that we don't fully understand what cancer is. I really believe that after taking care of a loved one post mastectomy. I really believe that af

I really believe that we don't fully understand what cancer is. I really believe that after taking care of a loved one post mastectomy. I really believe that after listening to a relative who worked at the CDC and had cancer multiple times bitch about how most studies are bullshit and there's very little new in cancer research. I really believe that after another relative of mine caused two cancer clinics to change their practices. I really believe that after listening to the tales of a relative be patient zero in a cancer study. And on and on. Cancer runs rampant in my family. I've had multiple relatives who have had it, some multiple times. Your opinions about my opinions not withstanding, I will continue to believe what makes sense to me.

14u2c 5y ago
> I will continue to believe what makes sense to me. And I will continue to believe experts that have specialized in a area of study that I have not, regardless of my personal comprehension of the topic.
- jodrellblank 5y ago
  Maybe that's sensible, maybe it isn't (how close are 'what an oncologist thinks' and 'what a layperson believes an oncologist thinks'?). Commenting on the internet "I'm more virtuous than you because I dismiss your experience without caring what it is" isn't particularly sensible, it's tribal signalling "I'm in the science tribe not the conspiracy-alternative-health-woo tribe". Isn't it?
cush 5y ago
That's not how science works. We don't fully understand most things, but it doesn't mean they don't exist.
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