What would happen next...?

[NMSquirrel]

Naw, I just think you're a hypocrite and a fool.


NEXT!

and so..you don't understand so you resort to demeaning statements..

[Enmos]

|| Squirrel and Neverfly, anymore of this from you two and you may find yourself taking a little time off.
And don't bother responding to the above.

Did anyone even read the links I posted?

[NetJaded]

Take the red pill and then find a happy place.

[Neverfly]

Did anyone even read the links I posted?

LOL yeah, it kinda got swept away by that eh? Sorry... My tolerance was pretty short, yesterday.

Another angle to examine, aside from the history of cancer, is also the causes of cancer.

[The Flemster]

Blimey!

Anyway, thanks for the answers. My curiosity has been abated for a while!

[Fraggle Rocker]

There is a connection between the over one thousand nuclear tests humans have carried out for the past 60 years and the once unheard of disease cancer.

Are you familiar with the Fallacy of Correlation? Post hoc ergo propter hoc, in English, "Correlation implies causation."

Absolutely, positively, 100%. IT was a rare, obscure disease rarer than Polio in the US in today. Almost no one, ever got cancer before the 1940's.

Life expectancy in the industrial world has skyrocketed since then, so it stands to reason that any disease whose frequency of occurrence increases with age would be much more common now. People used to die from infections and from various diseases that are now treatable. Death from industrial and farming accidents was also much more common. Nutritional science was in its infancy and practically everybody smoked cigarettes (unfiltered), so they died of heart disease and things like that much younger than they do now.

The fact that people now live long enough to die of cancer is a testament to science, and also to the comforts of civilization. Road accidents are now one of the leading causes of death everywhere in the world, and it's certainly not because driving has become more dangerous, it's because they're not being killed by something else first.

It used to be a miracle for your children to actually survive the rigors of childhood and grow up to be adults. Now infant mortality is practically zero and childhood disease is so rare that (in the U.S. at least) murder and suicide are in the top five.