Not using the word cure is superstitious claptrap.
Not using the word cure is the rational response to the fact that there is no cure for cancer -- there is only remission.
If I get cancer I want a cure. If anybody in my family gets cancer I want them cured.
You just changed the subject. Wanting a cure, and having a cure, are obviously different topics.
This wariness of using the word cure is just because of the idiots in this world.
So scientists, and medical ethicists, are idiots. Good for you -- I prefer it when a person reveals his ignorance without beating around the bush.
People who believe that anecdotes prove a point.
It is you who are relying on anecdotes. Scientists evaluate evidence, and the evidence says there is no cure. Anyone who claims otherwise is deluding himself.
I never said that this article was about a cure. I was responding to the quote: "A cure is the hope so great, so seemingly out of reach, that it must never be invoked"
I was responding to the fact that people seem scared to hope. There is no cure yet (probably). But to not hope that somebody has just found a cure is just silly.
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Not using the word cure is the rational response to the fact that there is no cure for cancer -- there is only remission.
You just changed the subject. Wanting a cure, and having a cure, are obviously different topics.
So scientists, and medical ethicists, are idiots. Good for you -- I prefer it when a person reveals his ignorance without beating around the bush.
It is you who are relying on anecdotes. Scientists evaluate evidence, and the evidence says there is no cure. Anyone who claims otherwise is deluding himself.
I never said that this article was about a cure. I was responding to the quote: "A cure is the hope so great, so seemingly out of reach, that it must never be invoked"
I was responding to the fact that people seem scared to hope. There is no cure yet (probably). But to not hope that somebody has just found a cure is just silly.