Anti-Cancer Agent Stops Metastasis In Its Tracks • Hacker News Board

Re: Anti-Cancer Agent Stops Metastasis In Its Tracks

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Post by berntb » Tue, Apr 20, 2010, 9:20 AM UTC

troystribling wrote: post #9

ryanhuff wrote: post #3

Its interesting (to me) that some of the funding for this work was provided by the Department of Defense. Is this common for the DoD to fund this type of research?

The US DoD health care systems supports approximately 10 million beneficiaries and has a budget of approximately 40 billion dollars, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Health_System .

About the size of Sweden's population -- which also has a state medical system. :-)

So there is as much socialism in the US as in Sweden? :-)

This gave me a sense of wonder insight into how large the large countries are.

Re: Anti-Cancer Agent Stops Metastasis In Its Tracks

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Post by pingou » Tue, Apr 20, 2010, 9:43 AM UTC

It looks promising, but I saw so much articles on new miraculous treatments that I became a little bit more dubious every time I read an article like this one.

Re: Anti-Cancer Agent Stops Metastasis In Its Tracks

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Post by chasingsparks » Tue, Apr 20, 2010, 1:22 PM UTC

freesciencenow wrote: post #7

As another comment mentioned, the full paper is subscriber-only. Paywalls for scientific research are evil. Do something people. Here: http://209.20.67.195/misc/nature08978.pdf

I'm curious: are you a regular HN user who decided to create a throw-away login or a person who stumbled across this page and decided to comment?

Re: Anti-Cancer Agent Stops Metastasis In Its Tracks

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Post by freesciencenow » Tue, Apr 20, 2010, 7:17 PM UTC

chasingsparks wrote: post #13

freesciencenow wrote: post #7

As another comment mentioned, the full paper is subscriber-only. Paywalls for scientific research are evil. Do something people. Here: http://209.20.67.195/misc/nature08978.pdf

I'm curious: are you a regular HN user who decided to create a throw-away login or a person who stumbled across this page and decided to comment?

Yes, regular. However, I hope this isn't gonna be a throw-away login: I've done this before with my regular account, and plan to do it every time I see a link posted where the paper is behind a paywall, both to help the discussion and as an act of civil disobedience. So I decided to create an account for this purpose.