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Cancer is serious business #1 (permalink) Wed Jun 15, 2011 22:30 pm   Cancer is serious business
 





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Cancer is serious business #2 (permalink) Thu Jun 16, 2011 7:40 am   Cancer is serious business
 

I'm very dubious about the "cure" he allegedly discovered.
If it was as potent as he claims it to be, some company would've bought it from him, and would have started selling it at exorbitant prices and would have been turning a huge profit from it.
The status quo they are purportedly maintaining would be costing them a lot of money.

I think that doctor doesn't have squat to offer in the way of a cure, he's just popping off at his mouth to get attention from the media.
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Cancer is serious business #3 (permalink) Thu Jun 16, 2011 10:30 am   Cancer is serious business
 

Our Tort System wrote:
I'm very dubious about the "cure" he allegedly discovered.
If it was as potent as he claims it to be, some company would've bought it from him, and would have started selling it at exorbitant prices and would have been turning a huge profit from it.
The status quo they are purportedly maintaining would be costing them a lot of money.

I think that doctor doesn't have squat to offer in the way of a cure, he's just popping off at his mouth to get attention from the media.


I hear what your saying Tort.

You kinna sound a tiny bit like the cop in "Up in smoke" who doesn't realise that the entire van the guys are driving is made of Hash.

Just cause its to big for him to imagine. doesn't mean its not real :-)
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Cancer is serious business #4 (permalink) Thu Jun 16, 2011 10:43 am   Cancer is serious business
 

Political Lurker wrote:
You kinna sound a tiny bit like the cop in "Up in smoke" who doesn't realise that the entire van the guys are driving is made of Hash.


Maybe I do sound like that cop, never watched the movie (probably will check it out and watch it)
I just go for the simplest explanation, I believe it's called "principle of parsimony". If you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras, in Gil Grissom's words. And the simplest explanation is that this doctor wants to generate publicity around himself by making up stuff. Such tricks are very corny and hakneyed indeed!

When somebody is trying to sell me a conspiracy theory, I take it with a pinch of salt and almost never buy it.
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Cancer is serious business #5 (permalink) Thu Jun 16, 2011 19:07 pm   Cancer is serious business
 

Our Tort System wrote:
Political Lurker wrote:
You kinna sound a tiny bit like the cop in "Up in smoke" who doesn't realise that the entire van the guys are driving is made of Hash.

Maybe I do sound like that cop, never watched the movie (probably will check it out and watch it) I just go for the simplest explanation, I believe it's called "principle of parsimony". If you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras, in Gil Grissom's words. And the simplest explanation is that this doctor wants to generate publicity around himself by making up stuff. Such tricks are very corny and hakneyed indeed!

When somebody is trying to sell me a conspiracy theory, I take it with a pinch of salt and almost never buy it.


So what about all the people (all of whom seem very credible indeed "children included") who claim he cured them?

Are they all just part of a different conspiracy you prefer? Or are you going to say thats not a conspiracy? Surely both alternatives are a "Conspiracy" are they not?

IMO The term conspiracy theory is a stigmatised phrase deliberately created by the mass media.

For conspiracies are everywhere.
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