In Oregon, Art Robinson is running against Pete DeFazio. Robinson is not a politician, he is a scientist. He has written many papers on many topics. He was recently interviewed by Mr. Rachel Maddow, who dredged up a paper from 15 years ago in which Robinson discussed hormesis -- and, based on her limited understanding of this scientific concept, she accused him of wanting to spread radiation around, because radiation is "good for you".
Robinson tore her a new one (though she was too stupid to ever realize this) explaining that hormesis is very complicated, that it would be impossible to defend a single sentence plucked out of a dense scientific work, and that she was clearly smearing him.
He showed brilliance and backbone. And Maddow just shook her head and commented that he was a nutjob.
Bottomline: These Scottish scientists better watch out, because the Left will never forget their nefarious plot to give everyone salmonella.
I'm not a scientist, but I'm underwhelmed.
It would be great if we could throw away scattergun treatments like chemo and radiation that cause so much collateral damage, and use methods that precisely target and kill only cancer cells. Truly a magic bullet if they can make it work.
Problem is they don't say how they get their microscopic assassins to recognize cancerous (and only cancerous) cells. I guess that remains to be discovered.
Hate to sound cynical, but if I were a researcher trolling for cash, I might claim I was on the verge of a "cure for cancer".
Once again, I'm not a scientist or a doctor, but I'd need some more information before I got out my checkbook.