Support Breast Cancer Cure while Promoting Brain Damage

It's about time people see the breast cancer "awareness" b.s.. We need to fund cancer research & treatment, not more "awareness" . There are a lot of private businesses making a lot of $ on this pink marketing. How about this .....[h=3]Smith & Wesson's Pink Breast Cancer Awareness 9mm Pistol[/h]
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I don't understand why anyone would donate to anything other than the Breast Cancer Foundation
 
Macs said:
I don't understand why anyone would donate to anything other than the Breast Cancer Foundation
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uhm like how are they going to like know about the Foundation unless like they uhm like raise AWARENESS first:lmao:
 
rafiki911 said:
I don't see what is wrong with buying a product you want or need and a portion of the proceeds got to the foundation.

Here is a link from the Breast Cancer Foundation that shows you what ligitamate products you can buy from what stores that actually give them a percentage of what is sold.

http://www.cbcf.org/central/GetInvolved/ShopForCure/Pages/Shop-Canada.aspx
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So when there is a cure all these business and foundations will be out of business or have lower profits.
phew, glad they are still searching for a cure for the past 50 years.
 
If you wanna go there I believe there is a cure, the government just makes more money keeping everyone sick. The doctors win and the pharmacuticals win and the hypocratic oath goes out the window....

The point of my post was to let people know that not all the pink items are for "awareness" but some are ligitamate and a portion of profits go to the actual foundation.
 
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Noob question: How does running for cancer help the cause? Do people pay to participate and then that money is used for cancer research? Or people donate as charity? If they donate, can't they just donate without running? I have tried to Google but nothing shows how running for cancer actually works for the cause. Also, where does the money actually go?
 
leon_nerd said:
Noob question: How does running for cancer help the cause? Do people pay to participate and then that money is used for cancer research? Or people donate as charity? If they donate, can't they just donate without running? I have tried to Google but nothing shows how running for cancer actually works for the cause. Also, where does the money actually go?
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It makes people FEEL better.
They want a cure yet they never speak of removing the crap from the food supply.
The US is the only developed nation that still allows HGH (human growth hormone) in their milk supply. Other countries have banned it.

Aspartame/Splenda cause cancer in mice and you don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out if you are putting chemicals into your body that is not natural then obviously nature will kick in and your body will fight hence all the issues we have.

Take a pill for the symptoms but never get to the cause, yah that makes sense.

IMO if we change our language and start speaking e.g. what chemicals are you eating and drinking (water is a chemical) ppl will start to view everything they input differently.

btw- Did you know our Government has "secret" internal studies that track within the city where the hotspots are for cancers? If you live in a valley, you have a higher rate of cancer.

ok ok I am off to buy some more diet coke
 
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rafiki911 said:
If you wanna go there I believe there is a cure, the government just makes more money keeping everyone sick. The doctors win and the pharmacuticals win and the hypocratic oath goes out the window....

The point of my post was to let people know that not all the pink items are for "awareness" but some are ligitamate and a portion of profits go to the actual foundation.
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get out the tinfoil hats everyone! You think that the biggest medical breakthrough of the history of mankind could be kept a secret? You know how many people would have to be in on this? Not every doctor is "in it for the money".
 
stevex said:
get out the tinfoil hats everyone! You think that the biggest medical breakthrough of the history of mankind could be kept a secret? You know how many people would have to be in on this? Not every doctor is "in it for the money".
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Do you know how research works?
I know some of it. Your paper/work trickles up and they decide if you can Publish it.
At the top of the triangle in each area there is a board member that comes from big Pharma.
We figured out how to get around gravity and go to space, we figured out how to make nuclear weapons, we figured out how to clone animals (I am sure ppl too if they really wanted too) but we can't figure out diseases that have plagued us now for 70+ years.

Everyone makes more money by keeping people on a maintenance plan, ask the diabetics.

Have you seen the nonsense the Americans believe about Universal Health Care that every other developed nation provides to it's Citizens?
 
Cancer is not a conventional invasive disease like a virus or bacteria. Cancer is your own body going haywire and each type of cancer is a different flavour of haywire.
 
Mongrel said:
Cancer is not a conventional invasive disease like a virus or bacteria. Cancer is your own body going haywire and each type of cancer is a different flavour of haywire.
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Actually they have found cancer to be in our genes. If we were to live longer, more people would die of cancer. Just so happens many people die of other stuff first. New treatment is based on that.

As for the Run. It raises awareness and also you'd be surprised at how many people are willing to sponsor you to torture yourself.

Don't really think its Rafiki that needs the tinfoil hat...
 
Well, we've cured certain Cancers in recent history; but Science still hasn't found a significant breakthrough in an overall cure. To my knowledge the One thing that Cancer does well is that is doesn't discriminate against rich or poor. It's just that rich people have more resources to throw at the disease. Other than that, it's a vile disease that rots you from the inside out.
 
leon_nerd said:
Noob question: How does running for cancer help the cause? Do people pay to participate and then that money is used for cancer research? Or people donate as charity? If they donate, can't they just donate without running? I have tried to Google but nothing shows how running for cancer actually works for the cause. Also, where does the money actually go?
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It's a way of spurring people to donate. You can call it a gimmick if you want. If you just leave it up to people to donate when they want rather than creating a timeframe and a 'goal' then you don't get nearly as much. People both pay to participate, and collect pledges from others as a way of supposedly motivating them to achieve the goal. Running is a preferred challenge because it's healthy, anybody can do it cheaply, it happens out in the public eye and makes for great images in the news.
 
fastar1 said:
It's a way of spurring people to donate. You can call it a gimmick if you want. If you just leave it up to people to donate when they want rather than creating a timeframe and a 'goal' then you don't get nearly as much. People both pay to participate, and collect pledges from others as a way of supposedly motivating them to achieve the goal. Running is a preferred challenge because it's healthy, anybody can do it cheaply, it happens out in the public eye and makes for great images in the news.
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hmm I wonder how a drinkin and dartin would work out for the ppl that don't/can't want to run.
Beer for Breast Cancer research
bottoms up
bullseye
 
-D- said:
Do you know how research works?
I know some of it. Your paper/work trickles up and they decide if you can Publish it.
At the top of the triangle in each area there is a board member that comes from big Pharma.
We figured out how to get around gravity and go to space, we figured out how to make nuclear weapons, we figured out how to clone animals (I am sure ppl too if they really wanted too) but we can't figure out diseases that have plagued us now for 70+ years.

Everyone makes more money by keeping people on a maintenance plan, ask the diabetics.

Have you seen the nonsense the Americans believe about Universal Health Care that every other developed nation provides to it's Citizens?
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Thats nonsense. There are many times that governments have gone against big pharma let alone scientists (who all sit on the peer review boards and are from academia). During the SARS crisis the canadian government threatened to make the main active antibiotic cipro, contravening world patent laws, in an act of self preservation because BAYER tried to extort cash from the Canadians by claiming low inventory. BAYER suddenly found lots of inventory at the right price.

As for cancer, my biggest gripe is that a few of the charities have been hijacked by other causes. One that comes to mind was when male breast cancer survivors were not allowed in one run as it would not have sent the right optics that the charity wanted. Gripe #2 is that we do quite a bit of crap research in canada that is more oriented towards keeping a researcher in the gravy. Grant money can get siphoned away towards other pet vanity projects that get easy papers. It is hard to know if your $$ are being spent on effective research.
 
Also there are no secret studies. They are all out in the open as it's the easiest research to do. It's called epidemiology and anyone and their cat can do it. It's part of the crap research I mentioned above.
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