{"id":129479,"date":"2016-01-13T13:24:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T20:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/13\/next-up-in-the-war-on-cancer.html"},"modified":"2016-02-11T22:39:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T05:39:35","slug":"next-up-in-the-war-on-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/13\/next-up-in-the-war-on-cancer.html","title":{"rendered":"Next Up in the War on Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I expect to see the following headlines:<\/p>\n

– GOP decries government interference in the people's right to be cancer-ridden. "They're coming to take away your carcinogens." <\/p>\n

– Trump declares he could solve cancer with a snap of his fingers if he were elected.<\/p>\n

– Fox News pundits condemn prioritization on cancer when influenza kills so many in the US. "Obama once more is caving in to the anti-cancer activists on the Left."<\/p>\n

– Paul Ryan promises a series of votes to overturn the anti-cancer program, proposing instead to parcel out 50% of the money to individual states as block grants for them to start their own "moonshot" effort.<\/p>\n

– The Koch Bros. buy the American Cancer Society and re-orient it as a grass-roots pro-cancer advocacy organization. <\/p>\n

– David Barton writes a new book about how the Founding Fathers believed cancer was an integral part of our American dream, and that trying to cure is against Biblical prophecy.<\/p>\n

Originally shared by +Les Jenkins<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nVice President Joe Biden to lead “moonshot” effort to end cancer | Ars Technica<\/a><\/span>
\nVague goals so far are to increase resources for research and “break down silos.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I expect to see the following headlines: – GOP decries government interference in the people's right to be cancer-ridden. "They're coming to take away your carcinogens." – Trump declares he could solve cancer with a snap of his fingers if he were elected. – Fox News pundits condemn prioritization on cancer when influenza kills so … Continue reading “Next Up in the War on Cancer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-health-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8256,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/05\/java_jive_6.html","url_meta":{"origin":129479,"position":0},"title":"Java jive","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 5-Jan-06 12:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Drinking lots of coffee can significantly reduce the occurrence of some types of breast cancer in women. \"Those women who drank six or more cups of coffee a day on...","rel":"","context":"In "Coffee"","block_context":{"text":"Coffee","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/food-drink\/coffee"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3591,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/22\/all_your_genes.html","url_meta":{"origin":129479,"position":1},"title":"All your genes are belong to us","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 22-Oct-02 11:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"British Columbia's Cancer Agency is no longer running a relatively low-cost, accurate cancer test on women. 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