Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer | America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments. - eviltoast
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  • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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    1 month ago

    I think that’s a fairly small part of it. There were two big things that happened:

    1. Scientists were able to show that the HPV vaccine prevents cervical cancer. This gets rid of the treatment/cure payment thing entirely.
    2. Air pollution turned out to be a lot more harmful than people realized, which means that there’s a much stronger reason to get rid of combustion as a routine thing that happens, and Trump’s bribe-payers would be out a really huge amount of money if that happened.