Christina Applegate vs Cancer Woo

I have to post about this. Christina Applegate has had a double mastectomy rather than continue with the very real risk her cancer could worsen significantly. She has a mutation in the BCRA-1 gene that predisposes her to both breast cancer and ovarian cancer. Not good news.

First, I really feel for her. I've always thought she was smart and funny, and cancer is not something I would wish on an enemy. So this is why the blathering by Mike Adams is so egregious. He seems to think that by simply believing you won't get cancer--then you won't get cancer.

Yeah, I know he says to take anti-cancer supplements, eat a healthy, anti-cancer diet, and all that. But truthfully, what he's proposing is so ludicrously inadequate to the task of battling cancer, it's tantamount to telling her to freaking pray. No offense. The placebo effect is real, it's just not consistent. It also depends on belief in order to work. Your mileage may vary. Hugely.

My ex-wife got colo-rectal cancer about 6-7 years ago. I know it was difficult for her, but she's still alive and (apparently) healthy today. I'm pretty sure that would not be the case if she hadn't allowed science-based medicine to do its thing. There may be a few doctors out there who are thinking that harming patients is good business, but when you think about it, how could anyone with a normal conscience and a desire to do good ever intentionally do harm to someone? No, I'm sure her doctors are trying to do the best, most-right thing for her. And so are Ms. Applegate's doctors. As she is, for herself.

It's a common tactic among politicians to ascribe to their opponents exactly the same characteristics that they themselves possess. Let me suggest Mike Adams wants to harm people, and get rich off their suffering. It's unconscionable and evil, and I am condemning him for his words. Because it's probable that someone will listen to him, and be much more greatly harmed as a result.

Give me facts, not fairy tales. Facts are god's native language, and he is not trying to deceive us with the universe. That part is just people.