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[–] [email protected] 81 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1217/

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)
  • Killing cancer cells: easy
  • Not killing normal cells: hard

Guess who found an easy way to get a PhD.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

The grave robbers were the cancer.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

But does it also not kill the rest of the person? A bullet will kill cancer cells in lab conditions.

[–] zr0 15 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Wait. I know how to cure the MAGA’s.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

The old cure for fascism.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Medicine is in the dose. If you take enough ibuprofen it will kill you beside your pain. Lithium is a useful and powerful mood stabilizer, but take just a tiny bit more, and it's deadly poison

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Sure, but there are far more things which will kill the entire person at the same dose they'll kill the cancer than things which can be carefully controlled by choosing the right dose.

These studies which claim to kill cancer in a petri dish usually turn out to be the former, because not killing the host is the difficult part

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That's fair. But imo if it kills cancer cells, it's worth investigating

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

❌ Bleach
❌ Hydrochloric acid
❌ Lava
❔ Yellow cake

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago

If you swallow a bunch of gunpowder, drink gasoline, fill yourself with nitroglycerin, and then slam yourself on the floor—sure, you'll get hired by the talent agent, but then you have to reveal that you can only do the trick once.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago

the fungus has nothing to do with any pharao

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Wait I know this story, I think it was called The Last of Us

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

The Curse of No Cancer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

It's a curse on the pharma industry?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Well wait a second, they found out what caused the pharaohs curse? That's awesome!

Well I guess I'm one of the lucky 10.000 then.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Pharaoh's blessing just dropped