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Originally Posted by Buehler445

I have two college married college friends that went on to doctorate degrees in chemistry and something to do with biochemistry (**** if I know what she's doing). Anyway, I went to visit them over Christmas, and one of them was bitching that otherwise intelligent people think that we can cure cancer. She cited that everybody in research is competitive. Everybody would jump at the opportunity to be the one that cured it.

I then brought up your second point, that cells are structurally different, and different types of cancer are accordingly different. Jesus christ. You would have thought I would have blessed them with the best news they'd ever heard, they were talking over each other and all oogly eyed because I understood that concept.

I know virtually nothing about human physiology. I'm a lot better with plants, but still, I'm far from a cancer doctor. But particularly the biochemist (apparently. According to her anyway) struggle with basic understanding of biological concepts that leads to entirely too many conversations resulting in, "they have the cure for cancer...."

I'm a fairly dumb human, but come on people.

people are dumb. enough said.