“Curing” Cancer With Statistics
I was listening to an ad on television paid for by the American Cancer Society (ACS). In an obvious attempt to solicit funds and give viewers the idea that the ACS is actually doing something, they announced that 50% of people with cancer have been cured. Please keep in mind that the ACS supports traditional medicine, and is against alternative approaches to treating cancer. So how can treatments that involve chemotherapy or radiation therapy that kill all types of cells indiscriminately, be actually curing anything? How can chemotherapy be effective for treating cancer if only 3% of oncologist would [...]
