Reply #59: Yes, money shapes decisions and often in bad ways

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

If it were found that common kitchen ingredients cured all cancers that would pose a $$$ problem for Pharma companies.

And they peddle a lot of expensive junk that doesn't help people much.

But to take it to the extreme that some do, that a conspiracy blocks development of effective treatments, is economically senseless.

And since they use the government to do the most basic research on cancer they wouldn't be able to hush up a real breakthrough.

Cancer is really, really difficult. There is no evolutionary reason for people to live as long as they do, let alone longer, so it isn't surprising that diseases of old age (which cancer is, for the most part) are not easily curable.

Most of our "cures" are simply helping the body cure itself and we do not seem to be (evolutionarily) designed with good cancer-fighting capabilities because they would have had a relatively small effect on survival of offspring..