Many diseases can be relatively clearly assigned to a cause and a treatment. However, this is not the case with cancer, because there is no single cancer, instead there are many variations that cannot be treated uniformly; unfortunately there is no universal medicine. But because the topic is so complex, conspiracy supporters make it simple: Everything causes cancer and the cure is simple.
What types of cancer are there?
Cancer can arise anywhere in the body and is named after the part of the body in which it originates. For example, breast cancer that begins in the breast is still called breast cancer even if it spreads to other parts of the body.
There are two main categories of cancer:
- Hematological (blood) cancers are cancers of the blood cells, including leukemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma
- Solid tumors are cancers of the body organs or tissues. The most common solid tumors are breast, prostate, lung and colorectal cancer
Although these types of cancer are similar, they can also differ in many ways, such as: B. the growth, spread and response to various treatment methods differ greatly. Some types of cancer can be treated with surgery, while other types require special medications, chemotherapy or combinations. Unfortunately, there is no uniform treatment method.
What causes cancer?
In general, smoking, alcohol consumption, little exercise, sunburns as a child, a family history, an HPV infection and being overweight are considered causes. In many cases, however, there is no obvious cause, so people who have never smoked, never drank alcohol and exercised very often all their lives also develop cancer.
It is precisely into this gap of uncertainty that enterprising conspiracy believers push their way, citing all possible causes of cancer, such as eating foods with artificial sweeteners or additives and genetically modified foods, using microwaves, aerosol cans, cell phones and cleaning products, and living near high-voltage power lines .
The reversal of the burden of proof is often used: For example, it is argued that microwaved food causes cancer, but if you ask for proof, you should first prove that it not the case. But that's not how science works. Anyone who claims has to prove!
Conspiracy believers more often believe in cancer myths
A few days ago, a study was published (see HERE ) that examined the extent to which misinformation about the causes of cancer, which leads people to refuse to take preventative measures, is widespread among vaccine skeptics and conspiracy believers, as it has so far been there was no data whatsoever.
To investigate this, researchers surveyed users of several popular online discussion platforms about their beliefs about cancer from January to March 2022. They asked participants to provide information about their age, gender, country of birth, country of residence, level of education and profession in the medical field.
After excluding incomplete questionnaires, 1494 people who responded were included in the analysis. Of these, 209 were not vaccinated against Covid-19, 112 preferred alternative rather than conventional medicine, and 62 said they believed in flat earth or reptilian creatures.
At 64 percent, knowledge of the actual causes of illness was greater than the mythical causes at 42 percent. Of the actual causes of cancer, the most agreed-upon factors were smoking and passive smoking, a family history of cancer, and being overweight. The most commonly believed mythical causes included eating foods with additives or sweeteners, feeling stressed, and eating genetically modified foods.
Many respondents believe in false causes
Many respondents incorrectly identified some lifestyle factors as causes of cancer, including eating foods containing additives (63.9%) or sweeteners (50.7%), stress (59.7%), and eating genetically modified foods (38.4%) %).
Awareness of real and mythical causes of cancer was lower among respondents who preferred alternative medicine, were not vaccinated against COVID-19, or believed in a flat earth or reptilian conspiracy theories.
The unvaccinated group and the group of conspiracy believers each correctly identified a median of 54.5% of the actual causes of cancer. In contrast, the vaccinated group and the conspiracy believer group each correctly identified a median of 63.6% of actual cancer causes (P =.13 and P =.003, respectively).
The unvaccinated group correctly identified a median of 25.0% of the mythical causes of cancer, and the conspiracy believers correctly identified a median of 16.7%. The vaccinated group and conspiracy believers each correctly identified a median of 41.7% of mythical cancer causes ( P < .001 for both comparisons).
Respondents who preferred alternative medicine identified a median of 54.5% of actual cancer causes, and respondents who preferred conventional medicine identified a median of 63.6% (P = .04). For mythical causes of cancer, these percentages were 16.7% and 41.7%, respectively ( P < .001).
Of all respondents, 45.0% agreed or strongly agreed with the statement “It seems that everything causes cancer.” A similar proportion of respondents agreed with this statement, regardless of views on alternative medicine, vaccination status or conspiracy beliefs.
However, it is important to note: These research results are only observational findings, as the scientists limit. The researchers therefore admit that these results could have been influenced by trolls or incorrect answers.
The three most popular healing methods among conspiracy believers
As already mentioned above, the world is made very simple for themselves by conspiracy believers: There is only cancer , so there are also simple cures, everything else is money-making by “Big Pharma”. The following methods are particularly frequently touted:
- Cannabis oil
Also known as marijuana or hemp oil, oil is extracted from marijuana plants, often with higher levels of a compound known as CBD (cannabidiol), which has less psychoactive effects than the more well-known THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), which gets marijuana users high.
Cannabis oil is said to be useful as a means of destroying or shrinking cancerous tumors, as well as a cure for diabetes, ulcers, arthritis, migraines, insomnia, infections, and many other illnesses.
Although commercial cannabis preparations are FDA-approved to relieve cancer-related side effects such as nausea and vomiting and improve appetite, no clinical studies have shown that cannabis products can cure cancer.
Claims alleging healing effects are anecdotal and largely unfounded, based on scant research conducted on mice and in laboratories. Side effects may include loss of memory and attention.
On the contrary, cannabis preparations can inhibit enzymes that patients need to metabolize other cancer drugs, increasing their toxicity or decreasing their effectiveness.
There is also an article from us in this regard: Fact check: “Cannabis shrinks tumors”
- Laetrile
Laetrile, which became popular as a cancer treatment in Russia and the United States more than a century ago, is the trade name for a purified form of amygdalin, an extract from apricot kernels and some nuts and plants. Laetrile is broken down by intestinal enzymes to produce cyanide, which advocates say kills cancer cells and leaves normal tissue unharmed.
However, the cyanide not only selectively attacks cancer cells, but all cells and can therefore even be fatal. Clinical trials conducted in the 1970s and 1980s, including those sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, showed that laetrile did not reduce the size or growth of malignant tumors, but some patients suffered cyanide poisoning.
In particular, a “Doctor Leonard Coldwell”, real name Bernd Witchner , propagated laetrile, which he referred to as vitamin B17 - but this vitamin is only found in “alternative medicine”. We reported on this in detail here: No, there is no cancer-curing vitamin B17!
- Influence of pH value by diet
Based on the scientific observation that cancer cells thrive in an acidic environment - i.e. a low pH value - some claim that highly "acidic" foods such as meat, cheese and grain products increase the risk of cancer because they lower the pH value in the blood .
They claim that eating "alkaline" foods such as fruits, green vegetables and other plant products inhibits the growth of cancer cells by raising the pH of the blood and extol the benefits of the alkaline diet (also known as the alkaline ash diet or alkaline acid diet).
In fact, cancer cells cannot live in a highly alkaline environment. But neither are healthy cells! The body strives to keep pH constant, and a change in diet will not significantly change the pH of the blood, which is tightly regulated by the kidneys and lungs regardless of the food consumed.
The only thing that can be temporarily changed is the pH value of saliva and urine through food. However, this has absolutely no influence on the pH value of the blood and therefore also not on the environment of the cancer cells in the body. On the contrary, a significant deviation in blood pH can lead to serious, even life-threatening conditions known as acidosis (low pH) or alkalosis (high pH).
10 reasons why there is no cancer cure conspiracy
- Not all organizations involved in medical research are for-profit
Universities around the world regularly conduct research, and charities such as the American Cancer Society regularly provide funding. Important breakthroughs in cancer treatment come from such sources .
- Medical researchers and their families are not immune to cancer
The “hidden cure” conspiracy belief implies that millions of people working in research and healthcare are impeccably obedient drones who never give in to the temptation to help someone they care about or to make the world a better place. It means that doctors and scientists must be willing to watch in silence as their mothers, their children, and their spouses suffer and struggle with a disease that they themselves know is curable.
- Even corporate CEOs won't be able to use their billions if they die from something their companies could have cured
If we found that the overwhelming majority of corporate executives and government officials have been spared from cancer, we might have reason to suspect that a cure has been found and is saving a few. But that is not the case. With every year that passes, the list of rich and powerful people dying of cancer grows longer. It includes corporate CEOs, politicians, government officials, Big Pharma employees and heads of state from around the world.
- Most researchers value fame, prestige, and personal achievements more than money
Even if we tacitly accept that scientists and doctors do not care about improving the world or helping sick people, we cannot assume that they only care about money. Any scientist who finds or participates in a breakthrough cure will be instantly famous among colleagues and peers.
Not only does it mean a Nobel Prize, but it virtually guarantees statues and entire buildings erected in their honor and a mention in virtually every medical and scientific textbook. It means the admiration of millions of victims and family members who were saved. The discovery of a cancer cure would mean a reputation equal to that of Einstein and a legacy that will endure through history.
It's very unlikely that many scientists would be willing to forego all of this and would rather collect hush money from whomever or not to publish the ultimate cure.
- All governments would have to be involved, but not all would make money from it
In the conspiracy belief, governments and pharmaceutical companies work together to suppress a cure. Governments in whose countries patients have to pay for everything themselves would make good money from this, but countries in which medicine is socialized would lose money.
So how likely is it that these countries will lose money while watching other countries get rich? Wouldn't every country like to reduce healthcare costs and instead spend the money on things like defense and energy development?
- No insurance would be involved
Why should major insurance companies continue to pay for expensive but ineffective treatments when there is a cheap and effective cure? They would have every possible incentive to uncover and expose the suppression of better and cheaper treatments!
- Companies would even a lot of money from a cure
If an ultimate cure could be patented, the inventors would go down in history for their achievements, and the company they worked for would make billions. If e.g. For example, if “Vitamin B 17” (see above) were a working remedy, many companies would have already extracted the active ingredient and sold it under their own brand name and with a seal of quality.
Instead, such remedies can only be found on esoteric pages of “miracle healers”, which only point out in the small print that it is not recognized as a remedy in order to avoid complaints as much as possible. But unfortunately too many cancer patients still fall for it.
- Companies are already choosing cure or prevention over profit
There are already examples of low-cost products that are very effective at eradicating a particular disease even though it would make more profit per patient to let people get sick and then treat them, including vaccinations against polio , measles , and other diseases .
This contradicts the claim that companies are so reckless that they would rather make people suffer so they can get a little more money out of them than market a cure. Otherwise, vaccines and antibiotics would also have had to be suppressed.
- There is more than one for-profit company in the market, which means competition
So it seems reasonable to conspiracy believers that a cure would shrink profits? But then this goes hand in hand with the claim that a cure would be the way to beat all competitors, because after all, there is more than just one company!
If one company develops a cure, but all other companies only sell remedies for the symptoms, then no one would buy from the other companies anymore. On the contrary, every company strives to be faster and better than the competition, companies are in constant competition - and if there was a cure, it would be the Holy Grail for the company.
But even if a company comes out with a cure, it's in a shark tank: every other company will try to find any flaws in the studies or side effects that have been brushed under the table. And when this happens, the competition will wipe the floor with the company!
- Hiding a cure costs much more
But let's assume that, as conspiracy believers claim, all companies are in cahoots. Each company involved in the conspiracy would have to weigh the likelihood and consequences of fraud by its competitors and by every single scientist currently or previously on its payroll against the predicted benefits.
For the conspiracy to work, each of these companies would have to be incentivized to remain silent. In other words, they would have to receive more money than they would lose. This applies to every country with socialized healthcare and every insurance company that pays for treatment.
But then there is also every doctor, every researcher and every scientist who is involved in some aspect of it. They would all have to receive an amount sufficient to resist the temptation to reveal anything. In addition, everyone involved in the drug research studies must also remain silent.
In addition, an army of henchmen would be needed to eliminate all people who do not want to cooperate, and they would also have to be paid. They would also have to monitor and eliminate or bribe all independent and rival researchers.
So the cost of hiding a cure for cancer would be immeasurably high, and there would be a constant danger that the conspiracy would be exposed since tens of millions of people would be involved.
It would really be much cheaper and more relaxing for everyone involved to simply publish the supposed cure.
Article image: Pixabay
Sources:
American Cancer Society , PT , Cancer Therapy Advisor , Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center , The Credible Hulk
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