We love the message "this will cure old age", even though a) old age isn't a disease and b) there's unlikely to ever be a single thing that prevents us ageing
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Cancer is similar - there are so many thousands of types of cancer, the complexity alone makes it pretty much impossible for a single "cure" to be found
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The problem is that we love the IDEA of a miracle cure. One pill daily for endless life and health? Sign me up!
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So we thirst after stories of scientists finding that one cure that will fix it all, even though we all know that there's probably never going to be one anyway
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New blog! FYI
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Great post. This is something that happens a lot in complementary and alternative medicine. My <insert favourite CAM treatment> works for everyone and every health condition because it's "holistic". Complete nonsense of course.
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Let's also notice how concentrating on a petri dish cure (or on genetics, neurobiology, etc) absolves us of any responsibility to improve the social circumstances that contribute to disease.
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Definitely. We want a pill that will cure disease because that shifts the burden of responsibility away from society
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I'm glad you put disclaimer at the end about old age not actually being a disease. It used to frustrate me no end when asking patients about family history & what their parents died from to be told old age or 'natural causes'. This was for exclusion criteria for clinical trials.
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