MuTaTo And The Marlboro ManThere's been a little bit in the news, lately, about a be-all, end-all cancer cure, a cure for all cancers. (Here. Take this pill and call me no more.)
We've seen stuff like this before.
Smoke this. Cigarettes are good for you. You will be cooler and calmer. Women will love both you and the turkey-platter-belt-buckle you wear, if you smoke Marlboros.
Yeah, well, it doesn't work that way.
This cure-all-cancer report out of Israel about a universal cancer cure is NOT finding any traction among cancer scientists and medical practicioners, nor among the mainline biotech, financial, or popular media, because, frankly, nobody believes it. I resisted commenting about it a couple of weeks ago because nobody was reporting about it, except a few media outlets that chose to get a few extra clicks by sensationalizing it.
The cancer economy is huge. Direct cost of cancer treatment, alone, in the USA, approaches
$100 billion per year. Add to that the research and development economy, hundreds of millions per year, and you can then understand that a disruptive new cancer treatment, if it's real, will get huge traction in all media.
That ain't happening with this story. There is huge scepticism about it. As good a summary as any about these wild MuTaTo claims have been explained in
this article. Few other media outlets are bothering to even mention the story.
There are many great people who have borne the burden of contemporay ridicule, only to have been vindicated by subsequent discoveries and research - Darwin, Einstein, Curie, others - but the literature is also filled with the names of obscure proclaimers who couldn't bring their proclamations to reality. I can't name them because they (and the literature) have, rightly, disappeared into historic backwaters.
I won't be losing any sleep over these MuTaTo cure-alls for cancer. I am not The Marlboro Man and I do not wear a belt buckle the size of a turkey platter.
But I do intend to have a nice smoke with my friends here, a big fat cigar, several of them in fact, as this Bioasis story unfolds in the weeks and months ahead.
jdstox