Anomalous Distraction is one of the the web-homes of @xtaldave, a skeptical blogger, mischief maker and part-time skeptical activist (or skeptivist).
When not being a skeptic, I am a sceptical crystallographer postdoc working in an academic research environment (i.e. University) in the UK.
My scientific work concerns the 3D structure of proteins and macromolecules involved in Arthritis, molecules which are strangely enough, also involved in ovulation – whodathunkit!? In the not too distant future, I hope to free myself of the shackles of mentor-ship and obtain my own funding (via a fellowship, for those in the know) to pursue my own interests.
This blog will touch on those areas, but it’ll have a broader remit, mainly concerning science, pseudo-science and academia. Or indeed anything else I can shoehorn into it.
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I’m sick to death of people like you. Whatever sliver of hope there is on the horizon for cancer patients, people like you grind into the ground, leaving us with a feeling of total hopelessness.
Quackwatch is the same – the guy gets up in the morning wondering how many sick people he can make feel sicker every day.
Don’t you get it – main stream oncology do not have handle on cancer – so we’re forced to look elsewhere.
Hi Ros.
I am sorry if I have offended you somewhere, but do not for a minute think I am unsympathetic to the plight of cancer sufferers. I spent 3 years working as a postdoc for cancer research UK I am familiar with the feild.
What I am very much against is quacks who exploit a cancer sufferers sense of hopelessness for their own financial gain. Modern medical science can do many wonderful things, but a cancer cure-all is fantasy. We cannot cure every cancer, because there are too many different causes at a molecular level.
This is the sad truth. Anyone who tells you otherwise is giving you false hope. Would you rather be lied to or face an inconvenient truth head on?
Best wishes,
Dave