Comments on: Can You Give Someone Cancer?

By: Mix

Mix — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:23:34 +0000

Of course we know how to cause cancer. We do it in lab animals. Radiation can trigger cancer fairly quickly, and carcinogenic chemicals like benzene can too. They’re pretty reliable – at least in the lab, with lab animals, at high levels of exposure. But the results of that would look a lot more suspicious and uniform than five people in the same older age group getting the various types of cancer people get naturally. I figure Chavez is pretty paranoid already, and a cancer diagnosis will wig out anybody.

Remember Alexander Litvenenko? He was poisoned too fast for his radiation exposure to result in cancer, but I’d assume it would be possible to poison someone more slowly and subtly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko

By: Iain

Iain — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:11:39 +0000

Hmm, the President of Iran was visiting Mr Chavez recently and now he’s spouting ridiculous nonsense. Maybe there’s a connection there.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:21:19 +0000

I disagree with Shawn’s post about whether or not the government could cure cancer, mainly because the cons of keeping the cure a secret would overrule the pros. Sure, keeping a cure secret might decrease the world’s population, but if the news of a cure was ever leaked, the government would have to deal with the wrath of the country. If this were to occur, the angriest Occupy Wall Street protester would look like a mildly irked preschooler.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:04:12 +0000

One would have to think that our government would focus on curing cancer before cultivating methods of spreading it.

By: dave chamberlin

dave chamberlin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:17:28 +0000

Hugo Chavez is an idiot. He has a long history of saying rediculous things. If we did have access to his blood stream and we wanted this fool dead there are about 1000 infectious diseases that would be the preferred options. Anyway he loves to divert attention away from his mismanagement of government to conspiracies blaming the United States, which might be the smartest thing he does.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:57:16 +0000

Mabey the government knows how to solve cancer but fears that we would be over populated

By: Dave C.

Dave C. — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:42:07 +0000

My guess is too many Cuban cigars.

By: Frank Glover

Frank Glover — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:55:25 +0000

“I don’t buy the “if the us knew how to give people cancer, they would of prevented it already’ because that implies a view of the government that doesn’t work with mine.”

Well *that’s* a reliable basis for indictment…

By: rob

rob — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:24:28 +0000

You better trust the government now with ndaa they have to right to use the military on american soil to hold you indefinitely without trial or even charges.

By: steven wright

steven wright — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:15:06 +0000

I can agree with Don STAGGER about not trusting the government, hugo chavez’s reason for skepticism and the difficult reliability of proving or actually doing it.

I don’t buy the “if the us knew how to give people cancer, they would of prevented it already’ because that implies a view of the government that doesn’t work with mine. I imagine THE WATCHMEN where people are getting cancer for political reasons and its very mysterious, is it really Dr. Atom or is it smoking cigarettes?

I’m glad atleast this article vies for the chemical-iniation theory of cancer rather than the other ones out there that reduce it to genomes.

By: Don Staggers RN

Don Staggers RN — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:01:48 +0000

I know that you cannot give a person cancer. Cancer happens due to cellular changes in the body; But, I do not blame him for wondering. I Love my country, proud to be an American but I do not trust our government. How can anyone trust the US of A when we gave our own soldiers LSD in the fifties, broke over 370 treatys with native Americans oh, and don’t forget the gautamalens that we purpesly infected with syphalis for medical experimintation.

By: David Little

David Little — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:12:28 +0000

A while back, I recall reading an interesting article on how the Tasmanian devils are being killed by a cancer that is spread by them biting each other when one has cancer. Sadly, I can no longer find the link. However, if that is the case, then it might be possible to give someone cancer if you managed to slip cancerous tissue into their body without them noticing. Good luck there.

By: Toni

Toni — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:23:00 +0000

you might as well send a fulminating lightning volt. More effective in removing idiots from power.