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>"A toast to the dead, for children with cancer and AIDS/ A cure exists, and you probably could have been saved."<p>I appreciate the can-do attitude of biohacking, but this is A. flatly wrong and B. a grave insult to every working pharma chemist.<p>from <a href="http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2014/04/15/sweet_reason_lands_on_its_face" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2014/04/15/swe...</a>:<p><i>Looking someone in the eye and asking them if they really are accusing me of watching some of my family members die from diabetes, cancer, and heart disease while I was hiding the cures and collecting my paycheck is an uncomfortable conversation, but I’ve had it a few times.<p>The only counterattack has been that no, they’re not saying that I personally have these things in my desk drawer, it’s the higher-ups, you know, them.<p>“So how have I been working on these diseases for 25 years without rediscovering any of these cures?” I ask, and that generally winds things up. But I like to think (or to kid myself) that I’ve planted a slight seed of doubt.<p>You need as much conviction in your voice as the quacks have, though, and that’s not easy, because they have a lot. Science has the evidence on its side, naturally, and that’s a lot, but conspiracy theorists and their friends have something to believe in, and that’s a very strong part of human nature indeed.</i>