Monday, May 14, 2007
Hmm, Interesting
Mark accidentally made "The Internet" mad at him because someone posted a link to Mark's blog at a website where people post links and discuss them.
I am pretty bemused by this so I've been keeping up with the site, so I can observe first hand what's wrong with the Internet these days. Well today someone posted an article about a promising new cancer treatment - what may work out to be an inexpensive, relatively non-invasive general cure. It sounds too good to be true, but I think it's worth keeping an eye on.
The problem is the compound can't be patented and it will dry up a large source of
income for drug companies, so they don't have a lot of incentive to study and develop the drug. However, research IS being done (by universities and what-not) and I'm sure that even massive drug company efforts won't be enough to squash this thing if it pans out. The day that most politicians don't know anyone that's been affected by cancer is the day I'll really worry about conspiracies from this quarter.
The most powerful way to keep drug companies from sweeping this under the rug is to make more of the general public aware. So this is me doing my little part.
All that said, though, I have no idea how often miracle cures pop up that look really promising at first, but turn out to be unworkable in humans for whatever reason. So you get what you pay for here!
Here's a link to the wiki:
Dichloroacetate
I am pretty bemused by this so I've been keeping up with the site, so I can observe first hand what's wrong with the Internet these days. Well today someone posted an article about a promising new cancer treatment - what may work out to be an inexpensive, relatively non-invasive general cure. It sounds too good to be true, but I think it's worth keeping an eye on.
The problem is the compound can't be patented and it will dry up a large source of
income for drug companies, so they don't have a lot of incentive to study and develop the drug. However, research IS being done (by universities and what-not) and I'm sure that even massive drug company efforts won't be enough to squash this thing if it pans out. The day that most politicians don't know anyone that's been affected by cancer is the day I'll really worry about conspiracies from this quarter.
The most powerful way to keep drug companies from sweeping this under the rug is to make more of the general public aware. So this is me doing my little part.
All that said, though, I have no idea how often miracle cures pop up that look really promising at first, but turn out to be unworkable in humans for whatever reason. So you get what you pay for here!
Here's a link to the wiki:
Dichloroacetate
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I am not sure why I understand why the internet is mad at Mark. Do they object to his most recent post of pics of your kid, perhaps jealous they did not get to ride the train too? :)
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: 2:02 PM
It was the rogues' gallery pic (Batman movie villains with faces of Bush et al). Someone posted it on reddit.com and it got upvoted a lot which started a long tirade about how reddit is supposed to be for informative Internet articles and not funny pictures, even if the politics behind the pic is compatible (reddit is virulently anti-Bush).
I was blissfully unaware of all this until someone posted a comment on my blog that said, paraphrased, "Way to go, fucker. You got half of reddit pissed off". Even though I neither made the pic nor posted it to reddit nor voted it up once it was posted, and in fact had never heard of reddit before.
Thus did I anger teh intarwebz.
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I was blissfully unaware of all this until someone posted a comment on my blog that said, paraphrased, "Way to go, fucker. You got half of reddit pissed off". Even though I neither made the pic nor posted it to reddit nor voted it up once it was posted, and in fact had never heard of reddit before.
Thus did I anger teh intarwebz.
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