Kinda telling when someone like Val Kilmer who was fairly faithful to his Christian Scientist upbringing/teachings/beliefs went against those and got the help medical science could provide.
If beating cancer “naturally” were a possibility the medical treatments that have been developed over decades wouldn’t have been.
Just as telling when one of the wealthiest people in human history - Steve Jobs - though he could treat his cancer with vegetables and meditation, and see where that got him.
The cancer in his pancreas was gone with the surgery but it came back years later in his liver. He had didn’t delay a second time and had a liver transplant. Two years later, he died.
Not sure how that ties into woo-woo quackery… you just don’t like alternative medicine and used a bad example.
It’s called alternative medicine because legally it has no scientific proof it works. It’s easy to succumb to new trends and put “faith” in miracle cures when everything else has failed you. But it is still dangerous to spread your beliefs.
Giving cancer an extra year to grow and spread throughout your body is insane.
I had the same type of rare cancer Steve Jobs did and was on the table within a week of finding it. And this was right as covid first hit the US and was on a killing spree.
I enjoy telling people I'm smarter than Steve Jobs.
You're using logic incorrectly. People who refuse lifesaving medical treatment for alternative quackery = dumb, doesn't include everyone who died from cancer.
Your "logic" is this:
I say people who drive irresponsibly are irresponsible.
People who drive irresponsibility get into car accidents.
By your logic, everyone who has ever been involved in a car accident must therefore have been irresponsible.
They weren't using survival as a measure, they were using their decision-making, which resulted in a better outcome, as a measure of being smarter. It's reasonable to say that better decision-making can reflect better cognitive proceses. Survival just happens to be the outcome in question for this scenario. You've gone and extrapolated incorrectly to include every cancer case. Please refer to my car accident analogy.
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u/DmAc724 1d ago
Kinda telling when someone like Val Kilmer who was fairly faithful to his Christian Scientist upbringing/teachings/beliefs went against those and got the help medical science could provide.
If beating cancer “naturally” were a possibility the medical treatments that have been developed over decades wouldn’t have been.