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What the mass media offer is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food,
forgotten and replaced by a new dish.

—W.H. Auden


Remember that Cure for Cancer You Promised Us?!?

It isn't often that the cure for cancer comes along, but in 1998 the New York Times ran a front page article describing what was hoped would be such a drug. The new drug, endostatin, had proven to be almost miraculously successful in curing cancer in mice. Mice that had advanced stages of metastatic cancer including huge tumors (the equivalent of a 2 pound tumor in a human) were completely cured by the drug. The drug worked on a very wide variety of cancers and didn't have any of the nasty side effects of traditional treatments like chemotherapy. Continue Reading...