Posted on 11/29/2017 8:36:33 AM PST by Main Street
It is extremely unlikely that this researcher killed himself. Indulge us if you will and put your Sherlock hat on and take a stab at who you think benefits from his death.
Breakthroughs rarely, if ever, occur in just one place and by just one person. People build upon work done by others. Consider Newton and Leibniz and their simultaneous development of calculus. Or how Einstein built upon Maxwell.
In the case of a medical researcher there would be reams of data, lab books, discussion with others in the field who are pursuing a similar goal. Not as much fun as a juicy conspiracy tale.
Ok malaria was a bad choice!
The point I was trying to make was there will be no single cure for cancer. There are cancers from viral infections - e.g., HPVs, cancers caused by environmental conditions - radiation & chemical, cancers due to genetic
So lot of cancers to overcome and likely to come from modern environment & life style changes so a lot of work to be done!
I hate to rain on your parade Freddie but Big Pharma has too much money tied up in research and chemo to let somebody come up with a cure that makes those million dollar mostly worthless chemo treatments obsolete. Why do you think marijuana is still listed as a class one drug? You can’t patent it. Doctors and health workers are not to blame. They just dispense what’s available.
Face it, there is a gaggle of anti-industry halfwits here who will jerk their knees at any opportunity to bash the pharma industry, or any one of many others, facts be damned. They should be called out for what they are.
Yep, there are a lot of untrusting maroon Freepers. A researcher who may have the biggest discovery of his life just decides to kill his self? Maybe, maybe not. You are correct though, we should wait to see what facts are floated and if they pass the smell test.
Again, he may have been killed by some health issue or he may have killed himself. He may have been murdered by a jealous colleague, or a lover, or some thug off the street. The article offers nothing but a sensational headline meant to push a narrative to those who only read headlines or possess no critical thinking skills. Blaming thugs and accountants working for “Big Pharma” based on a headline is just so mind-bogglingly stupid that it burns.
We’ll only know what they tell us.
As I said IMHO!! I think back to a local physician that was trying a treatment with great results and the medical community took him to court and he lost nearly everything he had fighting in court.......not the first time I’ve heard of that......makes one wonder. That was my point!
I too am originally from Chicago (to be fair, a first-ring suburb.) My grandfather was one of the only white businessmen left in his part of the South Side and I got to witness ‘reverse discrimination’ up close. As a small child I heard about crooked judges, cops, officials, etc. I know it exists in that area because it is part of the culture. I also intuitively picked up that the reason that corruption exists is because good people allow it to remain because they didn’t want to get involved, didn’t know how they could help, or simply didn’t have it impact them directly so didn’t much care. And as such, a great injustice is allowed to exist there and has for generations, unfortunately.
As to your comments, if you truly hold that anyone running for office should be “hunted down and shot as a threat to civilization” then there is no reasoning with you. Such a line of thinking will certainly increase your odds of getting a license plate manufacturing job with 3 squares and a cot as fringe benefits.
I offer that such sentiments from the anarchist edges of thought directly contribute to the decay of our representative democracy at every level. Back in the day we were taught by our elders that at some point in our lives we need to give something back to our communities. The best and brightest in our towns - doctors, business owners, pharmacists, etc. - traditionally answered that call and all agreed to serve on boards and committees in their churches, schools and communities because that was how they “gave back.” Then cynical types like you with blanket statements that anyone who serves publicly is a crook and untrustworthy came along and the best and the brightest decide it isn’t worth the grief and stop serving. We were then left with hoping that the best of the second tier folks in town serve in positions but they too get run off. What is left is single-issue, small minded folks in positions of power who, ironically, are more likely to get involved in crooked deals and graft.
Why is congress so crooked? Because good people with a heart for service have been run off by the likes of you and now we are left with less overall quality in our representation. Congress draws people from state, county and large city positions. State & county positions get filled by school board, city council and town board folks; and those positions get filled from volunteer boards and committees. Congress is screwed up because our society has run off a good portion of the best and brightest at the local level who aren’t interested in being threatened with blanket labels & violence from folks like you. With no good players on the bench, we end up fielding bad players because one way or the other the game will get played.
You, who don’t know me from Adam, have some audacity to unilaterally declare all who serve as crooked thieves, malcontents and sell-outs. In the past 5 years have personally got rid of an inept and meddlesome police chief, a shady liquor store manager, and a 19.5 year veteran cop just months from being vested in their retirement because they were filing false time sheets. In a different organization I also got rid of a dirty police chief at great risk to my health, safety and career given how that person had charmed many in the public. Good government requires people willing to stand for what is right even when it is hard or unpopular. In the words of Jeremiah, as for me and my house we will choose to serve God and, by extension, my fellow man.
Every organization - be it public, private, non-profit, religious - has bad apples. But in fairness, they also have good apples as well. The only thing that evil needs to succeed is for the just to do nothing. I will fight the good fight to maintain the integrity of my organization regardless of your dark, jaded, anarchy-leaning take on things. I do not have influence among the nations or in Washington DC or our state capital or even the county courthouse down the street. I do, however, have great influence over the integrity of this municipal organization that I’ve been entrusted by the public to head up; and I will not shrink from that responsibility even if trolls start sporting for a fight.
There is an old myth, circulating for years, that "Big Auto" has suppressed the R&D of electric cars. Pure BS. There is already a huge, guaranteed, market of duped liberals for electric cars. No automaker would stand in the way of parting a fool from his money.
The new therapies in cancer are going to be worth, literally, hundreds of billions. Big Pharma wants that money, and every pharmaceutical company knows damn well that if they tried to suppress a particular cure, their competition would not, and they'd be slaughtered in the marketplace.
You need more faith in capitalism. It works.
The bottom line is that every new technology, no matter how dislocating initially, invariably causes more money to be made and new jobs to be created somewhere else. That's been -- and in the future will continue to be -- true in medicine in general and cancer research in particular.
The bean counters and "hired thugs" want to make money. Finding cures and new therapies is the best way to do that. Use a little common sense.
The blogpost at USA Today is irresponsible. The ME hasn’t even ruled yet.
Because the family says so? The inability to accept suicide is often the first impulse a family has.
If not suicide, a far more likely cause than these conspiracy theories is that he OD'd. Drug abuse is a serious problem for medical professionals because of the relatively uncontrolled access some of them have to drugs.
Most of your post is correct. But while Leibniz had a superior notation to Newton’s, it’s quite historically clear that he did not simultaneously develop anything. Europeans advanced that myth, because they resented an Anglo physicist getting the credit. Newton showed Leibniz some of his work, he did not independently develop calculus. He stole it and took credit because Newton did not publish the work until years later.
Who is “they”?
There is one commonality. ALL politicians are crooks. And most cops. It's only gotten worse.
It's no big trick to gather local gossip, who's crooked as a corkscrew, the very rare honest man who thinks he can change things, in diners, bars, motels, offices, shop floors, job sites, engineering departments. When you move around, it's self protection.
It is painfully easy to claim "honesty" and have that peculiarly selective memory. Tell me that, when you were in office, you never heard about illegal such and such, and chose, because of cowardice, that you paint as practicality, to "forget":
The sheriff that liked to sit in front of the TV, naked, except for his gunbelt, and play fast draw. (He shot the nightly news.)
The town manager who ran a side line in forged inspection and tax stickers.
The cop who was always drunk, it was only a matter of degree, but was being carried until he could retire, and he spent his work days in a back office "filing".
The county tax assessor who liked to jack-light deer, because he always had.
The grade school principle who raises fighting cocks, still.
Spare me your self-righteous bluster. It's become too easy to hide all this. You can pretend you are noble in protecting these people, and their little failings, but as has been noted, lately, if all these women KNEW about Conyers, Clinton, Franken, the list is endless, for years, why didn't they say anything? Why haven't you, when these thing come up?
You're hip deep in the Swamp, and pretending it's a perfumed hot tub, instead of a semen smoothy.
You had better hope and pray there is no Civil War 2. EVERYONE knows these things. If you aren't afraid of the people you "serve", you should be. The cops MAY protect you from righteous anger, when SHTF, and they may not. They have families, too.
I’ll defer to your knowledge of that history.
It is against the law to find a cure for cancer or arthritis.
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