Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi Terry:
This is the way I see it. These scientists think that they may have
found a way to prevent cancer from growing and in the end may even kill
it. This has worked in their lab mice, and they "think" that it may
work in human beings. But it has not been tried yet in humans and won't
until at least the end of the year, at which time it will be tested in
the people who have inoperable cancers and no other way of a cure.
But the press got a hold of this story and when they printed it either
left off the fact that it won't be tested in humans for a while or put
it at the very end of the story.
In the meantime people who now have cancer and are dying or have a loved
one dying read this story, and in their excitement either don't read the
whole thing or they misinterpret the way it is written.
None of *my* scenario says that the actual test and conclusions that the
scientists have come up with are a hoax, but the way that it was
reported was very misleading.
This is just my scenario, and the way I believe it happened. I could be
wrong, but I have seen this happen before and it wouldn't surprise me if
it was the way that it happened.
Sue
>
> Hi Sue,
>
> >Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >
> >Hi Terry:
> >
> >It didn't say the thing is a hoax.
>
> That's the way I read it.
>
> >What I basically got out of the
> >story is that they should have held off a little longer until they had
> >more definative answers before telling the public.
>
> But those "definitive answers" are the problem. And the huge promotion.
> What works in the test tube and in the field does not always translate to
> the real world. Maybe I should say often. I was not the only one who saw
> people reading "cancer cure" without paying attention to the fine print.
> This thing has been reported many times without all the hoopla and stock
> market frenzy.
>
> >I do understand where this news can give the people who are undergoing
> >the horrible treatment for cancer now false hope.
>
> It did the same for a few investors too.
>
> >I also don't think
> >that the news should have been released until there was something
> >definative to the idea of a cure.
>
> They might have mentioned that the required human protein hasn't even been
> developed yet.
>
> >But to say it is a hoax, isn't right either. Just because something
> >hasn't been proven or is in the process of being proven doesn't make it
> >a 'cold fussion' hoax.
> >
> >I still feel we are on the brink of a big breakthrough.
> >
> >Sue
>
> Heck, Sue, we have had huge breakthroughs and many new and more effective
> drugs are in human trials today. Many untried, unproven ideas may do even
> better but hyping one to sell a book or promote a stock may not be the
> greatest thing.
>
> A father called Dr. Dean Edell. His twin infant doctors both had cancerous
> brain tumors. He asked the good doctor whether he should take the girls to
> a doctor who is in trouble with the law for promoting a cure for brain cancers.
> Dr. Edell said something to the effect that he might as well, there is no
> one else promising anything. Perhaps someone can remember this doctor who
> was profiled on "60 Minutes" or some similar show? He has great credentials
> but his technology is unproven and his cost seems a wee bit exorbitant. In
> reality he is a fraud like so many others. The basic idea may even have
> some promise.
>
> If you want some real goofy clowns you could look into the Duesberg clique
> which features not one but two Nobel laureates. They think HIV does not
> cause AIDS. One mental giant, a dentist, went on television in Spain and in
> personal appearances with a demonstration where he punctured himself with a
> needle that had just punctured the arm of an AIDS patient. I tried without
> success to find the cause of his early demise. It was not released to the
> press.
>
> The people involved with the "NY Times" article were involved in some
> unseemly hucksterism IMO. I am glad there is a backlash. Bet they don't
> have nearly the courage of their convictions like the dentist above.
> Best, Terry
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