Schizophrenia

[infinite monkey]

They don't cure nothing.
Same diseases been hanging out
since l was a kid, man.
What's the last shit a doctor cured? Polio.
You know how long ago polio was?
That's like the first season of Lucy.
Shit, Fred had an Afro with finger waves!
Have you ever met anybody with polio?

The same diseases been hanging out
since l was a kid:
AlDS, sickle cell, tuberculosis, cancer,
Jerry's kids still limping around.

They ain't curing it,
'cause there ain't no money in the cure.
The money's in the medicine.
That's how you get paid, on the comeback.
That's how a drug dealer makes his money,
on the comeback.

--Chris Rock

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

They don't cure nothing.
Same diseases been hanging out
since l was a kid, man.
What's the last shit a doctor cured? Polio.
You know how long ago polio was?
That's like the first season of Lucy.
Shit, Fred had an Afro with finger waves!
Have you ever met anybody with polio?

The same diseases been hanging out
since l was a kid:
AlDS, sickle cell, tuberculosis, cancer,
Jerry's kids still limping around.

They ain't curing it,
'cause there ain't no money in the cure.
The money's in the medicine.
That's how you get paid, on the comeback.
That's how a drug dealer makes his money,
on the comeback.

--Chris Rock

I agree 100% . But there ARE people who ARE good who ARE trying. the fact that they're being discredited and repressed doesn't mean someday rainbows won't come flying out someone's ass and something will get cured.

[glatt]

The most interesting and hopeful thing I've heard of lately (maybe I heard it here on the Cellar) is the doctors who had discovered how to culture cancer cells from a person with cancer.

The hope is that once this technique becomes perfected and widely available, they can get a sample from a tumor, grow more of it, so there are a hundred petri dishes full of this cancer, and then apply various chemo to the different dishes to see which kind of chemo is most effective for that particular tumor. Then the jump straight to that particular chemo, rather than just guessing and wasting time.

You read about these studies and the reporters all make it sound like its a huge breakthrough that will change everything, but they use words like "may," and "could," "promising," and "hope" but I was really encouraged when I read this news because it seems like a whole new approach. I hope it's implemented widely soon.