Then the scientists who proved the effectiveness of those treatments would be scientific celebrities mentioned in the same breath as Pasteur, Curie, Watson and Crick, and Salk.

This is where dipshits reveal their fundamental misunderstanding of how science functions. The biggest and most profitable scientific events are the ones that challenge and upend accepted norms. Researchers are constantly testing and searching for evidence of the weird and wild new theory.

What if trees were made of rainbows and rivers flowed with warm chocolate?

So let's see:

Ivermectin: Relatively low toxicity de-wormer

Fenbendazole: Relatively low toxicity de-wormer. However, it was actually investigated as a possible chemotherapy drug... but didn't produce notable results.

Aprocot seeds: Contain cyanogenic glycosides

Soursop tea: Contains annonacin, a neurotoxin linked to Parkison's disease.

Chlorine dioxide: Fuck no. Bleach/sterilizing chemical.

Dandelion root tea: Not gonna cure your cancer, but apparently fine?

Frequency therapy: Run of the mill "healing with tones" quackery

Antineoplastons: Never heard of this one. Apparently a term made up by a quack cancer center for some chemicals he found in urine.

I also find it amusing that they're railing against chemotherapy drugs... while pushing a drug investigated as a chemotherapy drug as well as some quack compounds pushed as chemotherapy drugs. I guess it's only bad when they're mainstream, hipster "You wouldn't have heard of them they're too underground" chemotherapy drugs get a pass.

Chemotherapy and (some) radiation treatments are actually designed to kill patients, it's just that they are designed to kill the cancer first/more. Side effects from most of those treatments is cancer, but since you already have cancer, it's worth the risk.

The hard part about treating cancer, besides from that it's a family/kind of disease and not a single thing, is killing it without killing the patient as well. Everyone has heard about a new cure that kills cancer in a Petri dish, but remember so does a gun. Getting better at targeting the treatment is what has really advanced the field in the past 20 years.

One example is rotating radiation sources which intersect in a 3D point in space. That way the total dose can be high, but the dose received by the healthy parts is low. Only at the focal point the full blast is applied, which is hopefully directly where the cancer is.

Prevention really is the way to go with cancer, by living healthier lives, eating healthier foods and getting vaccines where possible. For example the HPV vaccine is super effective at preventing a specific kind of cancer in women (and for a smaller part men). But getting girls (ages 8-14) to take the vaccine can be hard and the past couple of years have made it harder. Living healthier lives is also easier said than done, with the troubles most people are facing these days it's more of a pie in the sky kinda thing rather than a real option.

Chlorine dioxide is used in bleach and is both toxic and corrosive. People like these are not just stupid, but dangerous.

If the world found that out, those things would be called medicine and doctors would prescribe them.

What if...?

Well, for start, people would start publishing papers in peer-reviewed journals presenting their findings. Then other scientists would propose studies to the FDA, get their studies approved, and eventually publish their findings. And eventually everyone would say, huh, it looks like our original methodology was wrong, and this other stuff is actually what 'cures' cancer.

Because that's what happens when science fucks up. Eventually someone figures it out, runs an experiment, proves it, other people check their results, and then the collective knowledge adjusts to incorporate the new information.

Unlike, say, religion, and conspiracies, Karen.

People convinced that the expensive treatment is a scam and there's a cheap cure never seem to realize that if the cheap cure actually worked it would quickly become a very expensive cure.

We could prove it by my doing a study on all the people that rejected medicine in fav our of alternatives. Hkwever, we might find it hard. They are dead.

Dara O'Brian has a great but about what you call alternative medicine that is proven to work. We just call it medicine.

What if the moon were made of spare ribs?

Would ya eat it?

I know I would!

What if dog was spelled cat.

Any sentence beginning with "what if the world found out" is false

What if the world found out that your head is empty?

Nice hypothesis. Now try to verify it on you and your cronies so that the average intelligence in the population rises.

Something tells me that if these things were actually good at mitigating cancer, this poster would question why they are allowed to purchase them, and therefore not use them as a result.

If that were true Steve Jobs would still be alive I guess?

Something something... "and you just KNOW who is keeping this hidden knowledge away from the populace"

Also, if drinking bleach is really the cure they think it is I say let em try it. This level of misinfo is really starting to feel like a darwinian mechanism.

What if you found out you were fucking nuts and everyone was just acting pleasant with you in hope you don't go rabid and fucking bite them ???

Do a study comparing them. With a suitable sample size of cancer patients, it would be really easy to demonstrate that modern treatments led to more deaths more quickly than those untreated, and that your bullshit treatment leads to fewer deaths or outright "cures".

Put your money where your mouth is. Do the meticulous, rigorous science and prove your claim beyond reasonable doubt. It would literally be a paradigm shift in modern medicine. Nobel worthy for sure. Do it. Why aren't you? Just being smug and self-righteous in your ignorance and misinforming vulnerable sick people on the internet instead is not compelling. Show me the data.

What if, indeed.

Y'see, that's what we call "a hypothesis".

Why is cancer capitalized when patients are the emphasis. Capitalizing random words. Trump is that you?

It would mean that the scientific method is no longer a viable way to make discoveries.