The cancer thing

While I’ve not had the chance to watch the video (I will as soon as I can, there are a few torrent links to copies around the place), I have been able to find a smattering of links that further my initial points.

Quackfiles, Quackwatch,  ACAHF,  Houstonpress,  James Randi: Forums, Yahoo! Answers.

There is a lot of reading in those links, a few are really long.

But essentially, this guys cure for cancer is to inject piss into people.
Admittedly it’s not as crassly simple as that, but the stated mechanism of effect involves an extract of urine and the DNA of the cancer. The main issue is that the extract is too large to interface with DNA molecules. There are many others, but this one is the crux.

Also for a guy that has faced a conspiracy to have his work shut down, he sure makes a lot of money. The FDA have not stopped him conducting reasonable research under the same conditions that all medical treatments must go through.
And when he is asked to detail the methods so others can duplicate and confirm his work he refuses.
Instead, he uses loop holes in FDA regulations to allow people to get his treatment, but only if they pay large sums of money.
If there was really a giant, government endorsed conspiracy with “Big Pharma” to stop this guy’s work, the CIA would simply disappear him. It’s not like the US doesn’t have world wide secret prisons full of people who have never had a charge made against them is it?

And it’s not like the are no other cancer cures being researched;

Virus used as anti cancer treament

Additionally, the US does not hold a monopoly on anti cancer research. Any other country can (and does) do cancer research independently to the US efforts. The first company that discovers the cure for all cancer will make more money than any other group in history. There are literally millions of people diagnosed with cancer every year.
And every one of them will gladly pay as much money as they have for a cure.
Which is why people like this guy get paid $100,000 to inject piss into people.

I will watch the documentary and I will use the evidence to determine my position on the matter.
But, extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence.

This was going to be an email reply

But it’s not specifically about what the email list is for, so I decided to follow the rules of the list and put it here.

It is in response to the ‘news’ article about Eric Shcmidt’s comments

I don’t care whether you agree or disagree, this is an opinion rant. And much of it is specific to Australia.

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The concept of privacy on the internet is laughable at best. If you put info on the internet it will get out.

As for your real life info getting into the wrong hands for nefarious uses, goto your local council and ask for the electoral role. Then find someone and dig through their garbage. Find any shopping receipts. Gather at least 3 months worth.
From that alone you will know more about any given person than what is available on the internet.
You will know their health, relationships, diet, and even a possible psychological profile. Yes it can all be done from tracking your shopping.
Anyone here use FlyBuys? or any other ‘loyalty’ scam/tracking system? Do you have an RTA E-Tag? Do you walk past any of the thousands of security cameras with your face uncovered? If you have used a phone, or sms, say hi to carnivore (or whatever it’s called these days)
And more is being done than is known by the public. Go look at the NSA or our very own ASIS.
All of those can be used in a more damaging way than what can be done with your internet life.

I don’t care about google being able to read my email, track my search or what ever other incriminating information there is.
Signal to noise means that in order to trawl any useful data about me, an agency would have to expend an amount of resources sifting the the pile of noise. And then the only thing they would find is what is already publicly available.
For anything I don’t want to be common knowledge, I simply don’t record it in a manner that can be intercepted by a third party.

Corrupt governments have been abusing innocent citizens long before there was internet, and easier as well because of the control of information was in their hands.
Worrying about being framed or similar is silly, because when it happens, there will be nothing you can do about it anyway. You would be better served worrying about being hit by lightning.

Worrying about media bias/advertising/misinformation etc is just dumb. If you don’t like what your media is presenting to you, don’t participate.

If you don’t like where the society you live in is going, leave it, don’t participate. Opt out of the world, it is possible to go of grid and live a good fulfilling life.

Bernie Maddoff was caught because he got greedy, not because ‘the law’ found him, his greed created more signal than noise.
You can stay in the system, hiding in the noise and getting away with more than anyone suspects.

The original statement of ”If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place,” is one I find onerous and offensive. I disagree totally with it’s premise.
But it won’t affect anything I do whether I agree or not. There are people, groups, organisations and institutions that simply don’t care about innocence, or the public good. These entities are going to screw us over no matter what the law, government or anyone else does.

Get used to it, understand it and work with it.

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My friend just gave me a gift of giant toxic mold. heh

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