Comments on: Calif. HS student devises possible cancer cure
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- As nice a story as this is, her discovery is not a cure, but a treatment. A cure eliminates the underlying cause of the disease and apparently this does not.
Fundraisers continually hype the need for funds to "find a cure", but there is never any indication as to whether the funds are actually used for that purpose or if they are really funding a search for a more effective treatment. - Reply to this comment
- "When she was a freshman, she started reading doctorate level papers on bio-engineering." Educational systems try to baby-feed education, when they should take just this approach if they want students to excell. If you get use to reading things far above your level, you can learn a lot in a very short time. She said "I found that it almost became like a puzzle, being able to decode something."
Education should not be drudgery . . . - Reply to this comment
- She could do this because she was outside of the influence of drug companies. Scientists doing research under drug company supervision are under strict guidelines to search for treatments, not cures. Curing a disease is not profitable.
But on the bright side this shows what could be accomplished were it not for greed. - Reply to this comment
- But the baggers want to eliminate public education in America. In the near future all patents for such beneficial ideas will be owned by citizens of other countries.
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- Yay! Great job! She should win the nobel prize, and receive full credit for her idea(s). If not, it will only discourage people with creative ideas from coming forward, and for the drug companies...gee...who do you think will make/market this concoction---Betty Crocker?
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- when I first read the article the first thought that came to my mind was. How many young naturally curious and adaptive and intelligent young minds have we aborted in this country?We will never know.
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- And, the patent is owned by?
$1 to $0.1 the entry form signed over rights. - Reply to this comment
- Lets just cut the spite thing and say she may be on to something and see where it goes
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- as described here, what she came up with is not only logical but also an obvious alternative for cancer destruction. it seems it took a young mind to ask the simple question, why not? there was another article in a west coast news site on her sometime ago and the article indicated that after some 10 years of testing it would be available for humans. assuming the process met approval.
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- If you really think about it, the system is rather logical.
Perhaps we 'older' people are too concerned with the outside stresses and concerns of daily life that the obvious passes us by? - Reply to this comment
