In 1971, flush with the nation’s success in putting a man on the Moon, President Richard M. Nixon announced a new goal. Cancer would be cured by 1976, the bicentennial.
When 1976 came and went, the date for a cure, or at least substantial progress, kept being put off. It was going to happen by 2000, then by 2015.
Now, President Barack Obama, discussing his plans for health care, has vowed to find “a cure” for cancer in our time and said that, as part of the economic stimulus package, he would increase federal money for cancer research by a third for the next two years.
Interestingly enough, I just ran across [url=http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1162]this comic[/url] with some truth on why this “race for a cure” is not what the politicians make it out to be.
Glad to see another PhD Comics fan. My wife’s a pharmaceutical scientist (and PhD candidate) and its message really hits home.
Has our President even acknowledged the existence of mult types of cancer?? I haven’t heard of him saying so. Just wondered?