Cancer breakthrough stuns scientific world

itechnology ^ | September 05 2002 at 08:26PM | Steve Connor

[andy_card]

You're outed as a Liberal moron. Go f@ck yourself.

Brilliant rebuttal. But do you have substantive problems with my answer, or do you just prefer to insult anyone who happens to post anything factually correct? Predicting whether public or private researchers will discover a cure for cancer first (assuming such a thing exists, which seems unlikely) is a matter best left to fortune tellers, not political ideology.

But then you've stated that no PhDs work in the private sector, so you've already outed yourself as a complete moron. As a Phudnik myself (albeit in a non-scientific field), I've been making on the order of twenty times in the private sector what I earned working for the government.

[FormerLurker]

Did you know that "andy_card" just signed up on FR on 2002-07-12? In fact, his profile states that he used to work in the Carter administration and that he's an atheist...

From his profile;

Why are you looking at my profile? I'm just another fiercely anti-ideological pragmatic neo-conservative atheist. I welcome all hate freepmail.

I'm still trying to recover from two original sins: a brief stint in the Carter White House (held over from the Ford Admin.), and an equally brief professorship at the Kennedy School. I apologize for that.

[Enduring Freedom]

Loser, you're not impressing me with your 20 times income speech. Tell it to trailer trush at DU. As an entrepreneur, I attract more money in a year than you will ever see, pinhead.

And as an entrepreneur, I am acutely aware of the limitations of specialized education on the usefulness of a human being towards accomplishing objectives, such as a cure for death by cancer.

Sad to say, but Phucks like you claim to be, in my opinion, are overpaid underachievers who aspire to debate the merits of navel lint. Stay away from anything that matters, such as life and death.

Cancer will be cured by anyone but academics.

[Enduring Freedom]

Andy Card is an a$$hole. Upon that we all agree.

But thank you for revealing his self-confessed precursors for being an a$$hole - Carter (Socialist incompetent) administration, atheism, academic indoctrination.

From this we all can learn - save your children, before it's too late.

[Enduring Freedom]

Your brief stint in the Carter administration may have something to do with Carter being tossed out on his ear rather abruptly.

My guess is Mideast policy advisor, in that it was a stunning failure, a prelude to the Islamic rising that led to 9/11.

A$$hole.

[sourcery]

future reference bump

[r9etb]

I know there are some legitimate clinical trials needed, but often it seems the FDA is so afraid a drug/medical method is going to kill someone they would rather let those people die.

The best reason for the FDA requirements is found in cases where those requirements have been bypassed in the name of expedience.

Two examples:

1. Recall the big AZT acceleration for AIDS? The Lancet later published an article demonstrating that it caused more harm than good.

2. Recall the disaster announced last year in the clinical trials for fetal tissue implants to combat Parkinson's disease?

A "miracle cure" like this seems wonderful -- but it's also potentially a disaster: they're basically sending a virus to fight a virus. It'd be a Bad Thing if this ended up mutating into some deadly third virus.