Reply #118: Thanks for the dose of sanity from a professional

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It makes me so sad to see people saying "I need to send this info to a friend who is dying of cancer". I want to PM them and say "please don't do that to your friend - this is old news and probably not right for his/her particular cancer."

I think the problem is that we all can't be literate in every field, so those who aren't scientifically literate aren't stupid, but don't have the skills to evaluate the articles and the subsequent arguments, and it just feels better to them to think "there's a cure, if we could just get the Bad People to take it out of the vault".