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Bringing known cancer cures to a clinic near you. Join me to push past the barriers to using cures which lack only a patented drug and thus monopoly profits.

An idea worth spreading

Auto-zooming and pie menus to make the mouse (GID) do more and let you geo-navigate an unbounded amount of data using talents of geographic navigation developed over the last fifty million years. When mousing and mouse-button zooming let a system be learned in less than a single minute (see the hospital information system in "The Humane Interface" by Jef Raskin), auto-zooming should do even better. With zooming as the base mechanism, there is always room for more information to be handily available.

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User Interface issues, One Laptop Per Child, the Toyota Production System (doing science every day), extreme incrementalism, sharing via wikis, safe software via virtual machines, and sex for fun.

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  A reply on Talk: Michael Specter: The danger of science denial

  Oct 23 2012: Sab M, I agree with you and note that the speaker failed to mention the issues of BT and non-propagating seeds and resistance to plant poisons so more poisons can be used and then can make it to our table to be eaten.
  
  He failed to mention the huge impact of the extra wood alcohol that we get from aspartame, namely vast increases in the diseases of civilization such as autism, Alzheimer's, and especially MS since 24 July 1981 when the head of the FDA personally approved use of aspartame against the disapproval of the team of scientists who studied the matter in some detail.
  
  See WhileScienceSleeps dot com for compelling videos and the whole of chapter 12 of Woodrow Monte's book of similar name. These are not mere anecdotes, they are true scientific studies that show that this artificial sweetener is actually killing us in huge numbers, to profit G. D. Searl, Monsanto, Ajinomoto, and others.
  
  Aspartame is very sweet and very cheap so it makes economic sense unless there is some penalty for killing people. We should have a law against killing people. We thought we did but it doesn't seem to work if Don Rumsfeld is on their side.

• A comment on Talk: John Wilbanks: Let’s pool our medical data

  Oct 22 2012: I'd like to know about the experience of people drinking diet sodas. See WhileScienceSleeps dot com for the understanding of sources and effects of methanol for humans. Turns out we are a hundred times more sensitive to wood alcohol than the usual test animals. Thus the FDA's animal testing is useless and aspartame is dangerous to us. Woodrow Monte's book and website, and even his interview by Joe Mercola are troves of important data, but showing it in this venue might be compelling.
  
  Let's also try to get Eatery users to include the packaging of pre-processed food in their photos.

• A comment on Conversation: An open, facebook-integrated instant global democracy

  Oct 8 2012: IBIS is not, so far as I know, integrated with Facebook in any significant way.
  
  Is there an example where you see DoshMosh working well and promoting a deeper understanding of some complex issue? The notion is indeed interesting, but I am not convinced, yet, that it has much promise in that demanding way of contributing well to creating deeper clarity and shared knowledge.

• A comment on Conversation: An open, facebook-integrated instant global democracy

  Oct 4 2012: To really make a voting system work well, in my opinion, it needs an argumentation system based on questions, multiple answers to each question, and pros and cons for each answer. See the Issue Based Information System, IBIS, now exemplified by Compendium. See Jeff Conklin's book "Dialogue Mapping" for a serious discussion of how such a system can and should work.

• A comment on Conversation: Who wants an open source curriculum based Education?

  Oct 4 2012: We teach knowledge and understanding. Facts and concepts. Given the open source model, let's apply this system of argumentation to the problem.
  
  http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_the_internet_will_one_day_transform_government.html
  
  At the end he talks about what will matter in the transformation. I say one hyper-valuable tool is IBIS (Issue Based Information System) style argumentation. When we can distinguish twixt claim/position/idea/answer and question and arguments pro and con, we can understand tremendously complex things much better.
  
  One tough thing is that in essay form we often take a position without making the question to which this is an answer actually explicit. Skilled people can intuit such a question and propose it. Knowing the question clarifies the answer a great deal. When you change the question for which this is the answer then you need to make another copy of the answer/idea/position, since the pros and cons will also be different. Nevertheless, the discussion or argument gains clarity and alternate answers are easy to propose and consider.
  
  This is a form of learning that gets radically better as more people use it for more topics over time. There really are a hundred million questions deserving careful thought and good answers. Lots of good answers. And what a web to explore! It could be fascinating for a lifetime. It is for me already.

• A reply on Talk: Jay Bradner: Open-source cancer research

  Nov 5 2011: I tried to reach Jobs, but even Woz seemed to lack the means to do it. But then he had already tried some of the "natural" cures, just not the right ones. Others are not willing to refuse to obey their uninformed oncologists. And it's hard to blame them until we have overwhelming proof that LIFT or GcMAF or antineoplastons or the Hoxsey vegetable cocktails and salves or the decorated gold nano-shells work lots better than the FDA approved standard treatments.
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  A reply on Talk: Jay Bradner: Open-source cancer research

  Nov 5 2011: I read science a lot. I ask questions. I set up Google alerts for the terms that seem most important. And it offends me when real cures are not pursued due to lack of monopoly profits. That's my method and my motivation, in brief.
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  A reply on Talk: Jay Bradner: Open-source cancer research

  Nov 3 2011: If I recall correctly, I saw the decorated gold nano-shells in Science Daily years ago. One useful decoration is folate since many cancers are eager for folic acid in order to grow quickly. Their eagerness is expressed by having lots of folate receptors on their cell surfaces. I thought they were using infrared radiation rather than radio waves to heat the nano-shells, but that's just a wavelength issue and they may not be that far apart. I dunno that detail.
  
  Why hasn't the National Cancer Institute pursued this with vigor instead of waiting for some guy to work it out at home.
  
  Our national priorities seem to need some revisions. But then the root cause might be the automatic conflict of interest built in to our practice of making candidates for Congress and other public offices raise their own campaign funds, especially from lobbyists. I call that practice a form of legalized bribery.
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  A reply on Talk: Jay Bradner: Open-source cancer research

  Nov 3 2011: There are several generic cancer cures, but they are NOT small patentable molecules that can ensure monopoly profits so they are very hard to get approved. Who would invest the $800 million when they would not get monopoly profits?
  
  http://CureCancerNow.WetPaint.com
  
  My favorite is macrophage activating factor, GcMAF, which is made in our bodies, unless we have elevated levels of Nagalase. Fetuses make Nagalase, since activated macrophages would attack fetal cells because they have the wrong chromosomes which do not match the mother's body.
  
  Some viruses emit Nagalase since activated macrophages eat cells infected with viruses. HIV+ is indicated when gp120, thought to be a viral coat protein, is detected. It acts like Nagalase.
  
  Virtually all cancers emit high levels of Nagalase. The ones that don't are eaten by activated macrophages before they get big enough to detect. At least that's my theory.
  
  While GcMAF treatment can fail for several reasons, including being too weak to walk for 40 minutes per day, Nobuto Yamamoto cured all of three groups of 16 cancer patients each in Japan, with breast, prostate, or colorectal cancer using 30-50 weekly injections of a tenth of a microgram of GcMAF. His clinical trials were reported in peer reviewed medical journals.
  
  No one is supplying the hundreds of millions of dollars to carry out FDA approved clinical trials since there is no patented chemical to guarantee monopoly profits. Still, the GcMAF is available to oncologists from GcMAF.eu for 100 Euros per dose plus shipping. Without FDA approval, you might have to move to Paris for most of a year to get the treatment. You poor thing. At least your hair won't fall out.
  
  Cancer can be cured. Right now. But not with FDA approved treatments. Shall we excise the FDA? And why isn't the National Cancer Institute pursuing this vigorously?
  
  Oh, by the way, activated macrophages may also cure HIV, CFS, and perhaps autism.

• A reply on Talk: Jay Bradner: Open-source cancer research

  Nov 3 2011: The AMA drove Hoxsey and his successful cancer treatment out of the country when they couldn't buy it and raise prices. Their cure rate has dropped substantially in the last half century, but it's still better than radiation and chemo in many cases.
  
  The FDA sued Stanislaw Burzynski repeatedly but now has finally permitted him to start formal clinical trials of his anti-neoplastons.
  
  Zheng Cui developed a nearly universal cancer cure called Leukocyte InFusion Therapy, LIFT, in FDA approved clinical trial in the South Florida Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Institute. Results are expected next year. They had a very hard time getting funding since apheresis is already an approved procedure and there is no patented drug to ensure monopoly profits.