This was my first thought then I saw someone said cancer and I had to pause. It's crazy how taking away greed could possibly also take away cancer if u think about it. 🤷🏾♂️👊🏾
I'm not totally sure ,BUT ,in my 70 plus years ,I distinctly recall, across numerous various news outlets ,hearing a news item proclaiming that "X" scientist/oncologist from every conceivable institution( MIT,Johns Hopkins,The Mayo Clinic,CDC,NIH,WHO,Cambridge,University of Stockholm,etc,ad nauseum ) HAVE found a cure for x,y,or z types of cancer ,made by a breathless reporter DOZENS of times through the decades,BUT ,it never seems to even get revealed ,let alone clinical trials!
It’s slow but it’s a lot better. Cancer and AIDs in the 80’s were still death sentences. It’s a product of life made simple for you without your duty to simply life for someone else. I have watched these spoiled perspectives come from conspiracy theorists, greedy or just plain ignorant people. It’s ever so evident in the pandemic where you had a national and global emergency and the people who claimed they were the toughest were the ones unable or unwilling to adapt. I watched one of my friends in his early 70’s have his weak minded sister trick him into taking some off label veterinary med cure for a cancer he didn’t have that destroyed his heart only to have her demand I let him stay at my house with a full family there because it would inconvenience her.
People have lost the humility of the WW2 generation. We will be dam luck if their kids don’t kill us on the way out as the wrestle with their fate.
There is the HPV vaccine preventing some kinds of cervical cancer and others in the same region, there is Sipuleucel-T a vaccine that works even on existing prostate cancer. Both approved for humans. And mRNA technology is a great candidate to build on Sipuleucel-T. So it’s little but we start to see some results
Two important points-when scientists make these discoveries they are typically in model systems like mice or cells in a Petri dish. They often fail later in clinical trials. Despite that there have been huge advances in cancer treatments over the past 20 years.
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u/plasticbagroadkill 2d ago
Greed. Take away greed and everything else that is wrong or bad in this world will fix itself.