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This is just the right dose of motivation required for me now! Deciding to take a break and hopefully end up like this!

Thanks for this! :)


All the free claims of facilities here ONLY exists to support corruption. These free things are not materially helping poor people hence everyone seems to be unhappy. For example, in India it takes almost $700k per km of road construct while in the US, it takes only $120k per km to construct the road.

And when it comes to other attributes like quality of the road, speed of the construction or durability of the road.... It's far worst than the USA.

All the Indian govt programs only exists to support their corrupt contractors and not for helping people genuinely.


Plus one for this.


Absolutely right! This test is hyped. It has abysmally low sensitivity of 16% to detect stage I cancers and overall 44% for cancers of other stages. It is extremely poor sensitivity for any detection test.


How generic these symptoms are! I always wonder if medical science has really attempted to study these diseases to understand their unique symptoms.

I lost my dad at age 62 last year to AML. His generic symptom was weakness.


It's good that people are focusing on detecting such things early but unfortunately the management of any cancer basically falls into two categories - burn it or remove it. Burning maybe done via radiation, chemo etc. And treating liquid malignancies is even difficult.

I lost my absolutely fit and fine father last year to AML. I couldn't do jack shit about it and have this lingering feeling of how archiac the whole medical science - especially the drug discovery is.

No one in medical field is interested to cure any disease. All want to manage it so that pharma can get as many "subscribers" as possible to keep that money flowing in.

And such novel tests is just another mechanism to enroll new subscribers early in the journey to earn money for some more months. That's all.


> No one in medical field is interested to cure any disease. All want to manage it so that pharma can get as many "subscribers" as possible to keep that money flowing in.

I can assure you this is absolutely, 100% false. *Maybe* at the highest, corporate levels. I've never been privy to that level of discourse. I have however spent a lot of time working with the boots on the ground. Never have I come across a single one who intentionally avoided "a cure".


> No one in medical field is interested to cure any disease. All want to manage it so that pharma can get as many "subscribers" as possible to keep that money flowing in.

Care to support such outrageous claims with actual evidence or?


Definitely interested!


Great, I’ll send to the email in your profile!


As a funders to almost of these research studies, we also need to introduce some mechanisms which will impart a compounding fear in minds of these criminals as year passes.

Basically a wrong study results over the years may ended up affecting millions (if not billions) of people. Someone(at every level of the chain) should pay a compounding punishment for a verified fraud.

At the same time, this shouldn't prevent a Nobel upcoming scientist being bold. After all, science is all about pushing the boundaries of understanding or doing.


What's your industry and role?


Wow... I don't know why people tolerated this for so long? I wonder if there isn't a better way to be organised and put back the pressure on these monopolies?

Or it could be true that many have tried and failed at it?

Back in India, we still have a 100 Mbps connection for ~$16/month (500 GB cap and thereafter 2 Mbps unlimited)... There are more cheaper options than this still available.


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