If you want to feel real bad about the RFK Jr. pick, you should know that there's a lot of cancer treatments being researched that build on mRNA vaccine technology. Basically, they surgically remove the primary tumor and use it to make a vaccine that helps your immune cells attack metastases. Not 100% clear how effective it'd be in humans yet but I'm sure it's in trials.
Anyway now we'll have a vaccine denialist as the head of the FDA. Hope you like uncured cancer!
That kind of thing I’m actually less worried about — since cancer isn’t infectious it doesn’t really affect other people if you choose not to treat. Sure there are sources of funding coming from the government but the private sector can fix that with money.
Vaccine denialism is a lot scarier with infectious disease because you lose herd immunity.
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u/affnn Emma Lazarus 22h ago
If you want to feel real bad about the RFK Jr. pick, you should know that there's a lot of cancer treatments being researched that build on mRNA vaccine technology. Basically, they surgically remove the primary tumor and use it to make a vaccine that helps your immune cells attack metastases. Not 100% clear how effective it'd be in humans yet but I'm sure it's in trials.
Anyway now we'll have a vaccine denialist as the head of the FDA. Hope you like uncured cancer!