"excellent chance that you or a loved one will die from a potentially curable disease (cancer, dementia) because the research and clinical trials that should be bringing us those drugs are all being murdered."
Why is this an excellent chance?
Seems like the bare minimum fear to me.
If we defund that research, that means a lot more people will die. We won't know how many, because we never invented the stuff that would have saved them.
Also, maybe research dollars should emphasize prevention.
We don't need to completely burn it all down to make the situation worse. Well, the situation is worse so...
> Also, maybe research dollars should emphasize prevention.
If you don't know what you're talking about it's best to keep quite.
We already know how to prevent cancer. Don't smoke, don't drink, don't eat red meat, don't eat processed meats. That covers 99% of the top two categories of carcinogens. And then exercise or something.
The biggest hurdle to prevention isn't medicine, it's culture and anthropology.
About half of deaths in the US are due to cancer or heart disease, for a start, and this will absolutely hit research into both.
Also, maybe research dollars should emphasize prevention.