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I think he also said somewhere that people mainly disagree with distorted versions of your ideas...

"This year marks the 50th anniversary of the “War on Cancer” declared by Richard Nixon, a former President of the United States of America. By signing into law the National Cancer …

In fairness, I was responding to the first sentence in the quote from the article. It seems relevant, as a patient to ask, on average, how much longer will I live if I take this dr…

To be clear, those aren't 16 years of accumulating improvements. The median life extension - across all 90-odd drugs - was two months.

I'm sorry, but two months to five months after 50 years and hundreds of billions of dollars. That was hardly the promise of the "war on cancer"!

Maybe I've misunderstood, but for the average person that's even worse news, right? Two months was from clinical trials where there's no doubt that the "thumb is on the scale" in a…

“Statistically significant and highly clinically meaningful” perhaps, but not so much that they can say what that actually means. My understanding is that of all cancer drugs appro…

For the record, I _do_ think that the whole field of nutrition should be discounted. In the popular imagination we to tend blame journalism for the "one minute x causes cancer, the…

The premises of your argument, i.e. what your grandparent's did and animals dietary changes, are insufficient to justify your firm conclusion.

> I’d roll back a bit on meat. It can be very fatty, particularly red meat. Fat is not bad. We decided it was on the flimsiest of evidence and suspect "plausbility" arguments (eati…

I think Pollen should have said "Eat real food", and stopped there. Then our appetite will take care of itself, and won't require conscious - and ultimately - futile endeavour. And…