Current ridicule

[MarkE]

I don't really disagree with what you have said here Mark, A lot of folks do die on the roads and it is terrible.  My point was that it was not Big Oil that is keeping super mileage cars from the market.  I would like to think that if someone marketed an unsafe vehicle, not many would buy it and they would go under.  Maybe folks are not smart enough to do that any more?  When it comes to safety, usually there are unintended consequences.

I do not remember the statistical numbers but, we all can agree that flying commercial is far safer than driving...right?  When Airlines were told that a mother could no longer hold their infant in their lap, and had to buy a seat for the child, many parents decided to drive instead of fly as they could not afford it any longer. 

At the point the Government made this decision...guess how many kids were injured as a result of sitting on their Mom's laps in a commercial aircraft?  0.  Now, how many were injured or killed when they had to drive instead of fly?  As I said, I do not recall the number but it was way more than 0.

I would not want to have to make these decisions that affect real people's lives, for many reasons including the example above.  I just think the Gov., which is nothing more than a group of people, make many bad decisions like this all of the time because it looks good...at first.

I agree about the e-cigs.  Now our town has banned "smoking" them in buildings and businesses.  When asked why, the Mayor said that.."Well, when people see folks using these E-cigs, they might mistake them for a real cigarette and then light a real one up themselves, and we can't have that"  I kid you not.

Bill

I don't smoke.  When I first started working in a town where workplace smoking was banned it was something that made life for me more pleasant, even though I always considered other people's smoking mostly a minor annoyance from the ashes and smell of stale ashes being everywhere.  But this E-cig stuff is just nuts.  There are crazies wandering around shouting up the completely unevidenced notion of "second hand vapor". 

The separate seat for an infant might have made sense in 1970.  These days I don't see a safety justification.  Travel with an infant is tough on everyone.  People should avoid it if they can.  The way the airlines cram seats together an extra seat or two are needed just so the mother can have what they need to care for the infant accessible.

[raburgeson]

Survival rate has nothing to do with money. At the end of 5 years 3% are cancer free. The 300 MGP Volkswagen has never entered the US. So, how do you figure they tested it? Now, let's talk money. The price of oil drop over 50%, it did not drop over 50% at the pumps.

When I spoke of money and chemo I was pointing out gouging high prices and an illegal monopoly. The government is one hundred percent behind protecting that monopoly.

3% is being to kind as there is misdiagnosis and those people that would beat the cancer themselves without medication of any sort. This is horse crap medicine at best. Most western nations have real cures and they are on a shelf. That was the point of bringing up chemo in the first place and now I will go on to other fish to fry. Although big pharma has all kinds of big bad skeletons in their closet there are several other companies gouging and shelving and false advertising, and buying governments world wide. Why don't we go on and discuss Monsanto next.

Someone is starting to look like a government goon, I know how to fight with them. I get a lot of lame excuses all over the net for phama. There are many Big Pharma whistle blowers on the net. Search them with a good search engine and it will take you days to go through all the videos and articles. These are people that were on the inside and know the real story.

[MarkE]

Survival rate has nothing to do with money. At the end of 5 years 3% are cancer free. The 300 MGP Volkswagen has never entered the US. So, how do you figure they tested it? Now, let's talk money. The price of oil drop over 50%, it did not drop over 50% at the pumps.

The 300mpg VW is not 300mpg even in Germany, and is a technology demonstration vehicle.  VW is a leader in gas mileage worldwide, including products sold in the USA which have to meet stringent pollution and safety standards that impact fuel economy.  Even at that, when normalized to km/liter the USA versions of VW product get mileage very close to their European siblings. Oil gets: transported and refined.  Then the gasoline gets distributed, and taxed.  (A/2 + B + C + D) > (A + B + C + D)/2

When I spoke of money and chemo I was pointing out gouging high prices and an illegal monopoly. The government is one hundred percent behind protecting that monopoly.

The state of pharmaceutical market manipulaton and collusion with politicians in the USA is shameful.

3% is being to kind as there is misdiagnosis and those people that would beat the cancer themselves without medication of any sort. This is horse crap medicine at best. Most western nations have real cures and they are on a shelf. That was the point of bringing up chemo in the first place and now I will go on to other fish to fry. Although big pharma has all kinds of big bad skeletons in their closet there are several other companies gouging and shelving and false advertising, and buying governments world wide. Why don't we go on and discuss Monsanto next.

Someone is starting to look like a government goon, I know how to fight with them. I get a lot of lame excuses all over the net for phama. There are many Big Pharma whistle blowers on the net. Search them with a good search engine and it will take you days to go through all the videos and articles. These are people that were on the inside and know the real story.

[sarkeizen]

Survival rate has nothing to do with money.

Which is irrelevant.  Chemotherapy increases the 5yr and 10yr survival rate.  You seem to want people to die.  Just sayin'

At the end of 5 years 3% are cancer free.

You could at least take the time to read your own exceptionally moronic articles.

No, it only means that they survived at least 5 years before expiring.  If they die of cancer the day after their 5 year survival date, then they are still classed as cured!!

This moronic excuse for an article IS talking about the 5 year survival rate...and of course like most things you post...it's wrong.

It's likely a reference to an Australian study which attempting to look at the contribution chemotherapy makes to five year survival.  The figure is around 3%.  The cancer survival rate with chemotherapy is, at least according to one article closer to 60%. 

When I spoke of money and chemo I was pointing out gouging high prices and an illegal monopoly.

What monopoly?  There are generic brands of taxol.  Medicines do not get any special protection than any other chemical patent.

This is horse crap medicine at best.

Again you are simply and completely incorrect.  ALR with chemo is about 25% 5yr survival overall.  Without it you are pretty much dead in less than a year.

Most western nations have real cures and they are on a shelf.

The only "cure" you made up....I mean mentioned was DCA.  DCA is not a cure, for example in murine studies it either did nothing or CAUSED tumors...but of course you didn't read that study...or any study...or much of anything at all that might challenge your intellect or your moronic preconceptions.   There is exactly one Phase I trial with published information on DCA.  The first Phase II trial was completed last year.  It might turn out to be a good treatment for some cancers...assuming people like you don't make it hard to hire good research staff.

Someone is starting to look like a government goon

That clicking?  That's just the sound that you're out of ammo and now you're going to pretend like you have something else to do.

These are people that were on the inside and know the real story.

LOL.  Now your argument is: "Oh it's out there on the internet somewhere.".  Tell you what, you post any article which is well sourced from actual science and strongly makes your case and I'll read it...then I'll tear it to shreds.   I highly doubt any such evidence exists on the internet but please feel free to surprise me.

[Vinyasi]

I've been warned that my recent contribution to WikiBooks will be deleted since it is offensive to someone's sensibilities:

"This is original research of the most egregious kind trying to pretend that the laws of physics are a fantasy. It doesn't belong here."

Backed up here.