[lawrenceRaider]

Originally Posted by JohnnyHammersticks

Purely hypothetical conversation I had with a friend last weekend. If someone stumbled on some totally natural, "magic" cure for all types of cancer, something like rubbing an acorn on your elbow, would the behemoth cancer industry ever let us know about it? Think of all the billions of dollars that industry brings in. Doctors/surgeons salaries, research grants/researcher salaries, chemo, radiation, etc. I'm skeptical that--if some easy, natural cure that couldn't be patented by Big Pharma were found--we would ever hear about it. I don't mean to imply that everyone involved in cancer research is corrupt by any means, but it seems naive to believe that the whole industry would just fold up their tents and find new careers. There are billions and billions of dollars involved in maintaining status quo.

Why? You don't think that they could leverage what they are doing now to try and cure/monetize other health issues?