The "100 years" thing is an easy dunk but it does reveal a fundamental misunderstanding about what cancer is that drives a lot of false expectations about "a cure for cancer" It's not a specific disease that appeared one day, it's not caused by a germ like COVID-19 or AIDShttps://twitter.com/MucciTina/status/1369300248338853901 …
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The reason the "effective altruism" movement took the edgelord stance and got all the flak for saying cancer charities are a "bad use of money" is that it's really, really obvious cancer isn't the main way lives get shortened and people die young in the world
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Primary reason people die young is NOT cancer, as awful as rare conditions like childhood leukemia are The main killers of kids and youths in the world are still infectious diseases -- malaria, TB, parasites -- and malnutrition
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With an estimated 7 million preventable deaths (per annum) worldwide on average just from air pollution, about even with fatal cases of malaria, dengue, zika etc, Our "progress" is more equivocation than forward momentum.
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But also modelling research into cancer _as an industry_ is relatively novel too.
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