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IceDemeter -> RE: The Great Cancer Hoax: (6/11/2011 6:40:59 PM)
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Just a few questions to think about:
--- He has a multi-million dollar facility with multiple staff - is he not running this as a profitable business?
--- If this is running as a profitable business, how does it differ from any other pharmaceutical company?
--- Why has nobody else, following standard protocols, been able to duplicate his reported results?
--- Why, in the decades since he first came up with this, has he not had any version make it through peer-reviewed, standard protocol Phase II clinical trials to the point of full approval? There certainly are a lot of drugs produced both by large pharmaceutical companies and by small, independent producers who have managed the feat.
As someone who has lost loved ones to various cancers, you can bet that I have done the research both on standard and "alternative" treatments. This is one that didn't pass the smell test when I first researched it almost a decade ago and doesn't pass it now.
Internationally there are a host of researchers in universities, in private labs, in governments, and in large pharmaceutical companies who have been working diligently for decades looking for cures for the myriad of cancers that exist. Very few of these researchers are in a position to profit personally from what they find. These are people who are very careful to follow accepted protocols so that they don't miss possible toxicities, so that they will be able to list expected side-effects, and so that their results can be replicated by others. These are the folks who have come out with treatments that had no problem being accepted by the FDA and the counterparts of the FDA in other countries.
I find it reprehensible the amount of gross misinformation that is spread by conspiracy theorists who state that there is a "cure for cancer" already discovered but not used because someone would lose profits. If this were true, would there be a polio vaccine? Would there be continuous advancements in antibiotics? Would the successful treatments for various cancers that have come out over the past decades be in standard usage? Do these theorists really believe that all of the researchers out there would silently watch their own loved ones suffer and die of cancers but still withhold the "cure" from the rest of the world? Do they think that the purveyors of "alternate" treatments are not profiting from their wares but only "Big Pharma" is making money from peoples' suffering?
Pfft - do more than watch an infomercial created and paid for by the one who serves to profit by those convinced by its pseudoscience. Start looking at the amazing work being done in the US, in Isreal, in Germany, in the UK - heck, even here in Canada - especially at the universities. Start researching what the difference is between a Phase I and a Phase II clinical trial. Start meeting with some of the researchers in person and hear what kind of effort that they put in to make sure that they are doing science, and not alchemy. If you don't have access to the papers that aren't in the public domain, then make friends with someone at your nearest university and get their access, and make friends with someone in the medical community to get their access.
The "great Cancer hoax" is all of the snake-oil salesmen who profit greatly by taking advantage of people when they are most vulnerable --- advocating use of products with no proven results, no testing, no trials, and nothing other than anecdotes to back their claims.
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