Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1217/
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- Killing cancer cells: easy
- Not killing normal cells: hard
Guess who found an easy way to get a PhD.
But does it also not kill the rest of the person? A bullet will kill cancer cells in lab conditions.
Wait. I know how to cure the MAGA’s.
The old cure for fascism.
Egyptian curses?
Close, the Ark of the Covenant
Medicine is in the dose. If you take enough ibuprofen it will kill you beside your pain. Lithium is a useful and powerful mood stabilizer, but take just a tiny bit more, and it's deadly poison
Sure, but there are far more things which will kill the entire person at the same dose they'll kill the cancer than things which can be carefully controlled by choosing the right dose.
These studies which claim to kill cancer in a petri dish usually turn out to be the former, because not killing the host is the difficult part
That's fair. But imo if it kills cancer cells, it's worth investigating
❌ Bleach
❌ Hydrochloric acid
❌ Lava
❔ Yellow cake
we got alot of medications from fungus, like some antibiotics, immunosuppresants(some came from bacteria too)
If you swallow a bunch of gunpowder, drink gasoline, fill yourself with nitroglycerin, and then slam yourself on the floor—sure, you'll get hired by the talent agent, but then you have to reveal that you can only do the trick once.
Pharaoh's blessing just dropped
The grave robbers were the cancer.
Wait I know this story, I think it was called The Last of Us
Well wait a second, they found out what caused the pharaohs curse? That's awesome!
Well I guess I'm one of the lucky 10.000 then.
It's a curse on the pharma industry?
The Curse of No Cancer