”Did you know that the cure for cancer was discovered very recently, but the pharma industry is keeping it from us to make more money?”
”Which cancer?”
”What do you mean ‘which cancer’, it’s the cure for cancer!”
”There is no absolute cure for all cancers. Every cancer is different, that’s why it’s so hard to find cures in the first place.”
”No, you don’t understand. It is the cure for cancer! They were just hiding it from us!”
”Again, there can’t be a single cure for every cancer imaginable. Even if you’d say it’s the cure for all carcinomas or all sarcomas, it’d be more than unlikely. The causes of those cancers are just too different.”
”What are you talking about? Cancer is cancer.”
”No. A carcinoma is a cancer that develops from epithelial cells, a sarcoma cancer that develops from fat, connective tissue or muscle. That alone is already a big difference. And even if you compare breast cancer and prostate cancer, which are both adenosarcomas, the difference is huge! Breast cancer alone has several sub-types that different kinds of treatment.”
”You are wrong. My aunt’s best friend’s uncle’s cousin had bone cancer and this new cure healed him completely in just a month. He didn’t even need chemotherapy and it cost him only 200 bucks!”
”So you’re telling me the cure is actually available?”
”No, he got it from a friend who works in one of those labs. A true whistle blower.”
”Ok, let’s just for the sake of this argument assume that is true. Which kind of bone cancer did this… cousin have?”
”What do you mean with that, it was bone cancer.”
”Leukemia, although that is usually considered blood cancer? Cancer from a different part of the body, like the lung, that spread to the bones? Or one of the many kinds of primary bone cancer that actually starts in the bone?”
”You don’t believe me, I see that you’re brainwashed by all the big pharma propaganda. You don’t want to believe the truth! They report frequently that they found a substance that can kill cancer, but you never see it applied in medicine!”
”Yes, that’s why all patients with cancer go untreated and die…”
”Exactly!”
”That was sarcasm. Look, just because a certain substance can kill cancer in a petri dish doesn’t mean that works in the human body too. A gun can kill cancer in a petri dish but that doesn’t mean that we can just start shooting at people in the hope to cure them.”
”People with cancer are not being cured, they are being poisoned with all that chemotherapy and radiation.”
”That’s the thing about cancer cells. They are your own body acting up against you. If you want to kill them, you’re always very close to killing yourself. It’s a dangerous balance.”
”That’s bullshit. I know several people who just stopped eating sugar and their cancer went away. Cancer cells feed on sugar.”
”And what do your other cells feed on, stupidity?”
”It’s impossible to have a civil discussion with you, you’re too brainwashed to accept the truth! The cure is out there while we’re being poisoned by greedy scientists. I’m not talking to you anymore!”
”I … Yes. Maybe that’d be better.”
Disclaimer: The price for certain medication and treatments, especially in the USA, is outrageous. I’m not denying that the pharma industry is making way more profit than is appropriate. But that doesn’t mean the medication and treatments are useless.
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