[Talisker]

So then it’s your belief that everyone from big pharma to the research hospitals to the private consortiums to the university labs who are all spending their own money, their own profits, their own borrowed investment money, state and federal grants - they’re all not really trying, and if they find something there’s a large conspiracy to squelch it, maybe a gentleman’s agreement that anyone who actually finds something will toss it in the trash?

Try reading pubmed or any of the numerous cancer research journals. You might find yourself disabused of this astonishingly ignorant meme quickly. There’s reason to be pessimistic about a “cure” for cancer, but not because vast amounts of money and some of the most advanced technology and knowledge on the planet aren’t working on cancers around the globe.

Nice rant, but it doesn't address the fact of the cancer industry as a very big business (hundreds of billions per year) which would end if a cure was acknowledged. Look around at this big wide world - ever see a business that big voluntarily ended?

Or should we all just trust the halos that come with those white coats?

[Talisker]

Not to mention that many states have laws allowing physicians only the use of surgery, chemo or radiation therapy for cancer, and specifically disallow any alternative treatment. Yeah, that's for patient protection, right? Not any other illness, just cancer.

Meme? Or industry protection?

[narses]

“... ever see a business that big voluntarily ended?”

AT&T, Smith-Corona, Tower Records, soon GM/Chrysler. Big often fails, it happens.

Big Medicine a century ago fed off infectious diseases, TB and polio leap to mind. Where are they now?