I’m surprised there IS a cuban embassy to the US after everything.
Ah, this along with Argentina’s president, are why thiel and fam moved to Argentina. Someone in his family has lung cancer. He can go there, get his own private air field and get treatment for cancer, build a compound however he likes in the mountains. 1 hour timezone difference to new York and dc. 10 hour time difference from the most populated timezone in the world.
A convenient place to run a tech empire remotely and recieve cutting edge cancer treatment
I gotta admit I hate the framing of this as “Cuba vs the US.” Cuba coming up with a treatment is commendable. The US coming up with many treatments is commendable. This is fucking medical science, not politics.
The US and their horrible system have worked against science on many occasions.
This is fucking medical science, not politics.
Everything is politics. Especially when everything you try to do is hampered by stupid and/or abusive politics, such as the embargo.
You’re right that coming up with the drug is in itself commendable, but you’re wrong in implying that coming up with it while under the embargo doesn’t make it even MORE impressive.
The US is Sabotaging healthcare science long-term with it’s bullshit. We would be better off if it turned into a new Atlantida.
It is all politics. Your fucking life is going to be even more political soon meaning miserable cause of some policies. I hate it when people are like “duh I am not into politics”.
The US embargo against Cuba is political as well.
The US politicians turning a blind eye on the lives destroyed by for-profit healthcare are political as well.
Don’t forget how in the US, the amount of doctors is restricted by law by Congress, determined by Congress.
The US coming up with anything is not commendable because we literally always overcharge wildly for life saving treatments and let anyone who can’t afford them die
Idk, the rest of the world generally gets them at a reasonable pricing
And that redeems the US how? If you do something evil, a harmful act with purely selfish motives, it doesn’t matter how many people learn from you and use that knowledge to do good, what you did remains evil.
Cuba’s medical work is amazing.
The US blockade is has been and remains a crime against humanity.
Tbf, if it wasnt for the embargo, cuba wouldnt invest in the one of the few things they can export.
The bar is low and you guys keep on bringing shovels
*drills
We can’t be sure.
The PRC isn’t blockaded in the same way and has also invested in medicine and sends out lots of medical missions; that said, it had a bigger economy and does that less than Cuba.
And even so, it doesn’t make the blockade right - even if this is a potential silver lining.
Did we need to play devils advocate today?
Why is that tweet AI generated. Gross
@Grok why is that tweet AI generated? /s
I fear a significant portion of humanity will be servitors before long.
Before long???
Ahaha, I’m going to hack their stupid fucking machine, they are going to get [REDACTED]
Man, imagine slowly dying of late-stage lung cancer, then getting picked to be in a trial for a drug that could greatly improve your situation, but you get put in the control group. Placebos will still cure cancer if you think they will, right?
It’s important in case the drug that is being tested has unintended side effects, not having a control group means you have no idea if bad things are caused by the drug or by some other external factor (like medical history of the patients, environment…)
The control group probably isn’t given placebo drugs, that probably wouldn’t fly in most countries. Haven’t looked into these specific trials and I’m not a medical professional!
That’s not really how trials for treatments like this work. The non-experimental groups would get standard of care/a comparator which would be used to determine efficacy. It would be unethical to give sugar pills to patients with advanced NSCLC.
Edit: yep https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12568215/
Ironically placebos work so well in almost all cases that placebo results actually screw the data a bit. The human fucking mind is crazy yo
Similarly, the nocebo effect also works!
The AMA has a section in their code of ethics about when and how to use a placebo in situations like this.
That’s exactly what I was going to say!
“Your cancer is very advanced, and without intervention, you will be dead within the year. We’re running a clinical trial on an experimental immunotherapy vaccine that can dramatically improve your outcomes. You’re in the control group, here’s a placebo.”
Placebo knee surgery literally works
That would be because we now know many cartilage related knee surgeries do not.
the effect is extremely real though, same with nocebo. They did a study a while ago, told people something was poison oak when it wasn’t and rubbed them with it. They broke out in rashes.
Also, worked 30+ years in science and specifically a lot of immunology.
I’m not going to spend much time reading a LLM generated article from a source that pays people for surveys. In general, you are not wrong as far as placebo goes. Nocebo is just life.
Cool, my brother in law has like stage v lung cancer. He’s a piece of shit magat though, and I never liked him. He should’ve died two years ago and even his teenage kids are kinda upset he hasn’t. Always gave me bad vibes.
I assume you mean IV.
It’s so late it’s 5 now
So, when can we get this???
The post suggests that it has been approved in Cuba and Argentina. I believe you would need to wait for certification by the relevant medical authority in your country.
Go to Cuba and get it i guess
I can see Floridians riding a boat, but deny it for others. It’s like Texas, where the border jumpers vote like saboteurs.
I just wish cancer have never had a thing. Fuck cancer.
Your body is constantly making cancerous cells. But the immune system is constantly detecting and cleaning them up.
