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The "Race for the Cure" scam exposed: The cancer industry's guilt-powered shakedown of a gullible public Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Just as military leaders desire to have a war because it makes them important, the people involved in disease-mongering desire to see those diseases because it keeps them relevant and allows them to go on television and make urgent appeals for participation in these "Race for the Cure" shams. The last presupposition, which is more present in the advertising and the overall philosophy of these money-raising efforts, is that we should all be involved out of the goodness of our hearts.

Everybody hurry, hurry to raise more money for the cancer barons Another odd presupposition in the "Race for the Cure" is that there is a limited-time race underway, and we all have to hurry up and participate to find a cure before the deadline expires. It creates a sense of urgency, as if we have to urgently participate by running in circles or donating money to this race.

If we are good people, the message seems to imply, we will also race for the cure, and if we fail to participate, we must feel really guilty about it, because we are not part of the solution to breast cancer. This hidden presupposition is, like the other three, blatantly false. Again, there is no genuine disease as they define it, there is no cure and no urgency to raise money for finding more ways to treat the symptoms of breast cancer with patented chemicals. If there's any kind of urgency, it should be the urgency to educate people about ways to prevent breast cancer.

Mark my words: Breast cancer will never be cured by patented chemicals. The "race for the cure" is a massive deception that distracts us from what we all need to be focusing on in regards to this condition, which is prevention through nutrition, detoxification, avoidance of cancer-causing chemicals, stress reduction and physical exercise.

Click here to see the 'Race for the Cure' cartoon.) Of course, we have to raise money while we're running around in circles in order to find this elusive cure, but that's the whole point, isn't it? To raise money and donate that money to various nonprofit groups that actually function as front groups for the cancer industry, which is all about Big Business and big profits. If money actually solved cancer, the disease would have been solved long ago, because billions of dollars have already been poured into research for this fictitious disease, and still, there are no solutions.

REPPED: You've probably seen billboards that proclaim "Race for the Cure." There are a multitude of false presuppositions in this statement, but let's start with the obvious -- the myth that there is a "cure" to the disease being fought by the race. Let's take breast cancer as the disease of choice, for example. The slogan on these billboards presupposes that there is a chemical cure for breast cancer just waiting to be discovered, and if we could just turn over enough rocks, we could find this magical cure and all live happily ever after without breast cancer.

The health care reform legislation that Congress should pass, but won't Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Of course, you can always "race for the cure" if you're really stupid enough to think that running around in circles, raising money for Big Pharma via a corrupt non-profit organization, is going to solve this problem. See my race for the cure cartoon for an illustration of this. Without question, the healthiest people in the United States are those who operate outside the health care system. Health care reform doesn't matter to them, because they've already reformed their own health! They make informed choices about foods, medicines and exercise. They don't see M.D.

New research shows vitamin D slashes risk of cancers by 77 percent; cancer industry refuses to support cancer prevention Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Those "race for the cure" cancer walks are a complete scam (they really aren't searching for any way to prevent cancer or cure cancer, they're only searching for new patented drugs to profit from cancer). This research on vitamin D is a huge threat to the cancer industry profit mongers because it reveals a way to prevent cancer for free -- by seeking natural sunlight exposure and letting your skin manufacture your own powerful anti-cancer medicine (vitamin D).

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When this is considered against the multimillion-dollar race for the cure waged by the Alzheimer's empire, we must demand that our public officials use our resources to further identify the neurotoxicity of industrial chemicals in our food, drinking water, and environment, and that they strictly regulate those with known neurotoxic effects. The "fight" against Alzheimer's disease means avoiding exposures to toxins, and defending our younger generations from the ravages of industrial chemicals on their developing brains. Why does aluminum have a bad rap?

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Members of the public are running around in circles raising money, funding the "race for the cure," dumping their hard-earned cash into a huge financial black hole of so-called research. We're standing by waiting for cures from a scientific community that, it turns out, isn't even interested in curing disease. The industry is far more interested in treating and managing disease, because that's where the profits are found. If the US medical research companies were interested in real science, they would stop trying to research the disease and start trying to research the causes of the disease.

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Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, which sponsors the annual "Race for the Cure," took up the cause. With the help of transplant doctors like Peters, they lobbied state legislatures and the federal government to mandate insurance coverage for the procedure. Insurers were in a bind. Paying for transplants could cost them millions of dollars a year. But if they refused to cover them, they faced court cases like Health Net or irate legislatures. Most chose to pay, and as the insurance money flowed, the number of breast cancer patients who were transplanted soared.

The Cure Con: how you're being deceived by charities that claim to be racing for the cure for cancer and other chronic diseases Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

When there's a race for the cure, the money raised goes into the hands of someone who's making a tidy profit conducting laboratory research or drug testing for various diseases. Some of that money goes to the pharmaceutical companies. When you give money to the race for the cure of some disease, you're really giving money to proponents of the pharmaceutical industry, who are, in effect, looking for a "magic-bullet" drug cure they'll gladly sell back to you at upwards of 10,000% markup. Do you see why this is such a con?

For most diseases, the race for the cure is really just a way for drug companies to shift R&D costs to suckers. You fund the R&D, and then you get to pay full price for the drug they drummed up thanks to your generous donation. Want a real cure? Exercise for free No chemical, no magic-bullet drug, can reverse your lifestyle choices involving food and physical exercise. If you want to race for health, then race to get the cardiovascular benefits from it. You can just walk around for a couple of miles yourself.

When you give money to the race for the cure of some disease, you're really giving money to proponents of the pharmaceutical industry, who are, in effect, looking for a "magic-bullet" drug cure they'll gladly sell back to you at upwards of 10,000% markup. Do you see why this is such a con? So you spend three hours running your legs off, coughing up cash for "the cure," and then these organizations take your money and spend it on drug research. But then, if a new drug is found that even claims to help treat the disease, do they give you the drug for free? Of course not.

Part of the foundation's involvement in pharmaceutical companies includes accepting money from AstraZeneca, the makers of tamoxifen (a drug linked to uterine cancer) and major players in the race for the cure events. Brinker also reportedly owns half a million dollars in stock in a cancer treatment company called US Oncology. Are you getting the picture yet? You can get the rest of the story at: http://charlotte.creativeloafing.com/2003-10-01/news_cover.

Favoring drug-company interests that do nothing to prevent breast cancer One of the best-known "race for the cure" organizations in the world (at least when it comes to breast cancer) is the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Even though it claims to help breast cancer patients, the foundation reportedly helped block the Patients' Bill of Rights legislation in 1999, 2000 and 2001.

It's the race for the cure! It's the telethon for the cure! It's the walk or run for a cure! At grocery stores, cashiers ask if you want to donate a dollar to help find the cure. Other retailers want to sell you fashion-minded colored bracelets that raise money to find the cure. There's always someone who wants your money in exchange for the hope that your dollar will somehow help them "find a cure" for some awful disease. I have a very big question to ask about all of this. This has literally been going on for decades.

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