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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And we HAVE the "cures" for those things -- antibiotics, vaccines, vitamins, mosquito nets They're pretty cheap, too, it's just that lots of people in the world are really fucking poor
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And yeah not to begrudge anyone their personal crusades but on the macro scale it looks really bad to sink tremendous money and PR and effort into curing diseases that you mostly don't get until you hit middle age, because WE get them, while kids still die of malaria all the time
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