Cancer Conspiracy
Royce Moore
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Cancer Conspiracy Theory
The infinite amount of advanced technology and government funding has allowed scientists to be able to discover new medicinal cures. Recent medical findings have reduced and eliminated many infectious diseases that have severely affected and killed people in the past. Today, people in society have been found to live longer, healthier lives. With hundreds of new discoveries and contributions to medical research, scientists all over the world are creating cures on a daily basis. Today, if a person gets sick, society has a cure. It seems as though there is a cure for mostly everything, except the one thing that kills 7.6 million people worldwide each year— cancer. People have begun to question the irony in how cancer is a 95.5 billion dollar industry, with still no real “cure.”
Medical research was conducted to help increase knowledge in the field of medicine. Most of the money that is funded towards the medical field includes testing for safety of new treatments and developing new treatments. A large amount of taxpayer money is used to contribute to these funds, and society wonders why the cure to the main disease that kills a significant amount of the population yearly is not being released. Some even believe that this is on purpose, hence the conspiracy theory. One reason that people argue that this is true is because the cure cannot be patented, and without a patent, companies cannot make profit off of it— which explains why the discovery of the cure is not being celebrated or posted in newspaper headlines. An online survey found that more than one third of Americans believe in the cancer conspiracy theory, claiming that Americans think the “Food and Drug Administration is deliberately keeping natural cures for cancer off the market because of pressure from drug companies.” Conspiracy theories are widely supported by the general public, partially because most are uneducated on what medical
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Cancer Conspiracy Theory
The infinite amount of advanced technology and government funding has allowed scientists to be able to discover new medicinal cures. Recent medical findings have reduced and eliminated many infectious diseases that have severely affected and killed people in the past. Today, people in society have been found to live longer, healthier lives. With hundreds of new discoveries and contributions to medical research, scientists all over the world are creating cures on a daily basis. Today, if a person gets sick, society has a cure. It seems as though there is a cure for mostly everything, except the one thing that kills 7.6 million people worldwide each year— cancer. People have begun to question the irony in how cancer is a 95.5 billion dollar industry, with still no real “cure.”
Medical research was conducted to help increase knowledge in the field of medicine. Most of the money that is funded towards the medical field includes testing for safety of new treatments and developing new treatments. A large amount of taxpayer money is used to contribute to these funds, and society wonders why the cure to the main disease that kills a significant amount of the population yearly is not being released. Some even believe that this is on purpose, hence the conspiracy theory. One reason that people argue that this is true is because the cure cannot be patented, and without a patent, companies cannot make profit off of it— which explains why the discovery of the cure is not being celebrated or posted in newspaper headlines. An online survey found that more than one third of Americans believe in the cancer conspiracy theory, claiming that Americans think the “Food and Drug Administration is deliberately keeping natural cures for cancer off the market because of pressure from drug companies.” Conspiracy theories are widely supported by the general public, partially because most are uneducated on what medical