The reporting on that seriously bothered me, but then it's like most science that the poor media sources get hold of - boiled down to an overly simplistic and sensationalist one-liner. What annoyed me more were idiots on social media sites/comments sections who said things like "hah, no point to your healthy lifestyles then", or " glad I never pandered to the health agenda, I would have wasted my time"...because even if we ignore the benefits in relation to cancer, did they all forget about heart disease?!
I found the "bad luck" idea really interesting as a cancer survivor - the paper itself was a bit more specific, saying that in rarer cancers, the factors making them likely were so highly variable that chance was a reasonable description. My cancer was not so rare, but extremely rare in my age group except in people exposed to excessive radiation, which I hadn't been. You probably hear this a lot too, but people can get really obsessive with working out what you "did wrong" to develop your condition, as if that can help them avoid illness themselves.
It's sort of like the ppl who scoff when a prostitute reports a rape, "because you're a sex worker! You get paid to have sex! What do you mean, you were 'raped'?"
Well, it's like this. Assume I'm a sex worker (I'm not). I get paid to provide you with a service. If you take that service from me, forcibly or not, without paying for it, we've crossed the line from consent into rape. If you hire me for BDSM sex play, if I use the safe word and you fail to respect that, again, we've crossed the line from consent into rape. Doesn't matter how long I've been a prostitute, why I'm a prostitute, whether the guy who raped me comes from a "good family" with "connections," whether I'm a dominatrix who likes the rough sex trade--it's still rape if I say no and you do it anyway. Prostitutes aren't "asking for it" any more than any other woman is.
the Mate will be forever 41 because of cancer. colon cancer, to be specific, which "statistically never happens in a person (his) age". which is true, that's why 50 is the baseline for colonoscopy. he smoked, he was a recovering alcoholic*, he had lived on the streets homeless for a couple of three years. probably contributing factors...but as we never knew his family history (he was adopted under a sealed adoption), who knows what else factors were there
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I am amazed at the ability of the medical profession to live with themselves KNOWING how often they deliberately leave desperately ill patients in pain rather than give them enough medicine to keep them comfortable. There is no guess work left when it comes to figuring out how much pain med to give. These days you wind up having to waste time figuring out how to browbeat a doctor into giving it to you. I have little respect and less trust when it comes to modern medicine. They are all about protecting themselves against possible malpractice suits and they couldn't care less about their patients so long as they can prove "on paper" that they did what they are required to do. :^{
not only that, but in the US, we have pencil pushing people who are NOT doctors deciding what is and what is not an addictive dosage of medication. and holy cats, hospice care patients should be allowed as much medication as needed to keep them comfortable!
I am so sorry you were put through that. Bad enough to lose your mate, but to have to scrap with the d@mned doctors over keeping him comfortable is beyond acceptable. You and I both know that medical doctors who suffer terminal illnesses don't have to put up with such nonsense. :^{
This article continues the trend of sloppy science writing, unfortunately.
"The best way to prevent some cancer types is by eliminating environmental factors and by changing lifestyles."
No, the best way to reduce the risk/incidence of some cancer types is by eliminating environmental factors (or reducing them, or mitigating their effects) and social factors (because people in poverty are more likely to die of cancer; people who belong to oppressed groups are more likely to die of cancer; and the ability to change lifestyles requires quite a lot of societal support).
Some of the reporting was better than other, but overall I was glad the idea was put out there that many cancers occur without influence of known "risk factors." Even in cancers and other conditions where there are known risk factors, there is still an element of chance. Not everyone with those risk factors develops the condition. Not everyone with the condition was exposed to the risk factors
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What annoyed me more were idiots on social media sites/comments sections who said things like "hah, no point to your healthy lifestyles then", or " glad I never pandered to the health agenda, I would have wasted my time"...because even if we ignore the benefits in relation to cancer, did they all forget about heart disease?!
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Well, it's like this. Assume I'm a sex worker (I'm not). I get paid to provide you with a service. If you take that service from me, forcibly or not, without paying for it, we've crossed the line from consent into rape. If you hire me for BDSM sex play, if I use the safe word and you fail to respect that, again, we've crossed the line from consent into rape. Doesn't matter how long I've been a prostitute, why I'm a prostitute, whether the guy who raped me comes from a "good family" with "connections," whether I'm a dominatrix who likes the rough sex trade--it's still rape if I say no and you do it anyway. Prostitutes aren't "asking for it" any more than any other woman is.
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There is no guess work left when it comes to figuring out how much pain med to give. These days you wind up having to waste time figuring out how to browbeat a doctor into giving it to you.
I have little respect and less trust when it comes to modern medicine. They are all about protecting themselves against possible malpractice suits and they couldn't care less about their patients so long as they can prove "on paper" that they did what they are required to do.
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You and I both know that medical doctors who suffer terminal illnesses don't have to put up with such nonsense.
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"The best way to prevent some cancer types is by eliminating environmental factors and by changing lifestyles."
No, the best way to reduce the risk/incidence of some cancer types is by eliminating environmental factors (or reducing them, or mitigating their effects) and social factors (because people in poverty are more likely to die of cancer; people who belong to oppressed groups are more likely to die of cancer; and the ability to change lifestyles requires quite a lot of societal support).
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