Cancer is IMO easily treated. But the treatments don't lead to patented medicine or expensive treatments.
I have zero fear of cancer. John On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > John Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.australiannationalreview.com/cancer-research- >> fraud-claims-nobel-prize-winner/ >> >> > This article is titled: > > "Most cancer research is a fraud, claims Nobel Prize Winner" > > I think that title overstates what the article says. I would title it: > > "Most cancer research is a dead end" > > . . . or "most cancer research is futile, or barking up the wrong tree." > That is also the case with most cold fusion research. Also with most > product development, programming languages, new grocery store food snack > offerings, and just about every other attempt at innovation. Most of the > time, most new ideas fail. That's unfortunate, but it is not fraud. > > On the other hand, there is also fraud. Also lots of sloppy research that > should not pass peer-review, but it does. I have no way to judge whether it > is "mostly" fraud and slop, or mostly an honest mistake. In cold fusion, as > far as I know, most mistakes are honest. > > It is impossible to know an experiment is a mistake until you have done it. > > - Jed > >
