Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
The guy is right. Cancer comes with a certain amount of status. This can be handy sometimes. Hey, when you have cancer anyway, why not make the best of it?
But compare cancer with for instance a slowly debilitating problem like a vitamin B12 deficiency which, until it is finally diagnosed after a long series of tests, can make you feel lousy all day and less and less capable of functioning. Big fat chance you will be regarded as a querulant (lazy, makes mistakes, between the ears, etc…) and by the time you are correctly diagnosed your reputation will already be irrevocably damaged.
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The guy is right. Cancer comes with a certain amount of status. This can be handy sometimes. Hey, when you have cancer anyway, why not make the best of it?
But compare cancer with for instance a slowly debilitating problem like a vitamin B12 deficiency which, until it is finally diagnosed after a long series of tests, can make you feel lousy all day and less and less capable of functioning. Big fat chance you will be regarded as a querulant (lazy, makes mistakes, between the ears, etc…) and by the time you are correctly diagnosed your reputation will already be irrevocably damaged.
So yes, let's cure cancer :-).