Left: bullshit viral tweet (no one has cured cancer, they've just created a new molecule that might one day be part of a treatment) Right: depressing/absurd repliespic.twitter.com/fgC0nTq193
Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him
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Left: bullshit viral tweet (no one has cured cancer, they've just created a new molecule that might one day be part of a treatment) Right: depressing/absurd repliespic.twitter.com/fgC0nTq193
More conspiracy tweets Wouldn't it be lovely if cancer was a simple enough problem that we could ever come up with a single 'cure'?pic.twitter.com/1PYoglCi5z
(In case you were wondering who the baking soda/cancer guy was. Sounds like a lovely gent)pic.twitter.com/TUjEz6sX0D
More conspiracy replies (cont.)pic.twitter.com/9ZyRFvkgX6
To sum up: - no one has even come vaguely close to curing 'cancer' - all they've done is develop a new molecule for treating one type of cancer - this molecule will probably fail to be useful (most of them do)
I'm clearly a shill for Big Cancer
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