We can try to avoid diseases in the cardiovascular
system by changing our lifestyle, eating less
industrial fast food, exercising regularly, etc.
It is not possible to protect yourself completely
against cancer. You can get it even if you eat a
healthy diet, for instance if your DNA is damaged by
radiation.
Cancer is a genetic disease. There is a huge amount
of research in this area, and many approaches - like
the cancer stem cell theory or new anti-cancer drugs
like Tyrosine-kinase inhibitors - seem to be promising.
I believe science can find a cure for most forms of
cancer, but maybe not for all. It is one of the biggest
unsolved problem in medicine and molecular biology.
The incentive to solve it seems to be high enough. If
we can solve it, we will solve it. As Goethe says:
in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
-J.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcos" <[email protected]>
To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple, Replaced By Tim
Cook
I have to disagree. The idea that science can find the cure to every
ailment is premised on the idea of the body as a machine. It's absurd
to think that we can continue the present, artificial, consumptive
lifestyle and not have some *problems* in the body somewhere. Even if
science were to find a "solution", it would be like adapting to the
intake of gasoline -- severe maladaption.
mark
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