Tell me about common cons/scams: "Thanks, you suck. Hello, this is Linda."

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Tell me about common cons/scams: "Thanks, you suck. Hello, this is Linda."

BrownieMinusEye: Apr 22, 2008; Oven Wrangler

Masonity posted:

When diagnosed with incurable cancer I kinda get it. I mean, what do you have to lose? But who gets diagnosed with an easily cured cancer and then does this poo poo to themselves instead of getting the safe, sane treatment?

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BrownieMinusEye: Apr 22, 2008; Oven Wrangler

Speaking of an interesting counter-example to useless quack or traditional medicine, arsenic (via arsenic trioxide) has been an FDA approved treatment for certain cancers since the 90's. Only reason I know this is I'm currently doing a project with the lab that only a couple years ago helped discover the molecular basis for why it works (the arsenic inhibits a specific protein that normally stabilizes other important proteins in cancer cells, without that stabilization the important proteins get degraded faster and the cancer cell can't grow).

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