why is that scientist can create just about anything but cant find a simple cure for cancer or hiv?

Answer 1

It's the same thing with diabetes... why, indeed?

Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that treating the disease is far more profitable than curing it. Imagine the empty and bankrupt hospitals and doctors offices. Nahhh, they'll never find a cure.

Answer 2

Truthfully, it's because both of those conditions are so incredibly lucrative to treat (ie. do you have any idea just how much hiv drug coctails cost per year?). As a result theres no incentive to put other treatments into the market. If anything, there's a commercial interest to prevent cures entering the market (not unlike how big oil companies supress alternative energy, which happens to be a great analogy when you find out that the american medical system was made by the rockefellers).

The reason HIV hasn't been cured yet is because it's a virus. That means most chemical agents and antibiotics won't affect it, and this is a bit of a problem considering that a large part of allopathy is based off of using those. That said, things which kill the viruses quite well (primarily ozone and certain forms of electricity put into the body), do exist, they just aren't openly practiced (since people that do get raided and arrested). I know a few people who have gotten past their HIV by using one of those two methods, but I don't expect it to ever be made public.

Cancer is a bit harder to give a short concise description to. The points on note would be,
a) Conventional medicine still has a very poor and ignorant understanding of what cancer is (which they should not since it's not super complicated)
b) All our cure methods are quite outdated and are absurd if you look at what they actually do.
c) most of our cure approaches hover around a 50% survival rate, and do a lot of damage to a person's body and wellbeing at the same time
d) cancer is the one condition that anyone who practices a cure for (which works) tends to get arrested or at least raided. I personally know of 3 specific methods which work, and the people who created the method were arrested after they had sucess and then died in prison. There are another 3 approaches I'm inclined to believe work, but I don't have any actual proof.

When my relative got cancer I basically had a "f*ck mainstream doctors" attitude, asked someone in the know about alternative cancer treatments, compared what their approach would do (verses chemo and radiation), saw the alternative was harmless, used it, tumor went away in about 2 weeks. Never worried about it again.

If you really dig to the bottom of the cancer problem in the US, it's really absurd. Tons of risk factors are allowed to be here and many of the accepted cures should not pass any reasonable standard of safety.

I know this is a bit hard to accept, but that's about the best answer I could give you.
Here's a simple example to show some of my viewpoints on cancer.
Cancer cells are very vunerable to heat. If you heat them up, they will die. Secondly, cells often turn cancerous if you are exposed to ionizing radiation, which causes the DNA to mutate.
Radiation therapy is founded on the idea of sending a whole bunch of beams of radiation through a person's body so that the beams all intersect on the tumor, and thus have the highest ammount of strength there. By doing so, they dramatically heat the area up and kill all the cancer cells. As a side effect, all other places that get hit have the potential to turn cancerous. Radiation therapy is normally advised since it's benefits "outweigh the risks" or in plainer language will most likely kill the tumor, but a second cancer is not assured, therefore overall it's a wiser probability choice than doing nothing.
The problem with this is that you can just send a beam of heat directly into the tumor which heats it up (instead of using ionizing radiation), termed hypothermia. Hyperthermia gets decent results, doesn't really have any side effects, but no one is allowed to practice it, and radiation therapy is still our method of choice.

Answer 3

There are thousands of diseases that have no cure. And if there was a "simple" cure, it would have been found.

Trillions of dollars in research later, and the survival rates for some cancers are as dismal as they were 30 years ago.

Part of the problem with HIV and cancer is that the cells mutate quickly and are resistant to different treatments in each individual person. That's why two people with the same type of cancer - say breast cancer - can get the same chemo treatment and it will work on one person, but not the other.

I disagree with the conspiracy theorists who think they are withholding the cures. Don't you think that these scientists have family members and friends that are affected by these diseases? Why wouldn't they give those cures to their loved ones?

Maybe I'm naive, and maybe I just can't fathom the idea that greed would override a loved one's health.

Answer 4

There's a two sided coin to this, one is that big money is in continual medications, not a cure. Just think that if people were cured of just about any and all ailments, the big pharmaceutical companies would lose billions of dollars. They know this and will never admit to it, but just take a second and think of the logic behind all the propaganda. The other side of this coin, is that some ailments do require medications but the true healing is within the person, not drugs, surgery, or otherwise.

Answer 5

fake. As a scientist and a non secular guy, that's my perception that God might desire to get the credit. It exchange into by potential of his clever layout that we will create drugs and discover remedies for ailments.

Answer 6

There is much research going on in all types of cancer to try and find a cures- dedicated hard work by those same people who some suggest are conspiring to hide a cure.

Cancer is hundreds of diseases, not just one. The difficulty is that different cancers are caused by different things, so no one strategy can prevent them, and different cancers respond to different treatments so no one treatment can cure them all

Some cancers can be cured these days though. Cancer Research UK says that 7 out of 10 children are cured of cancer. Testicular cancer, Hodgkin's disease, and many cases of leukaemia can all be cured in adults with chemotherapy, most skin cancers are cured with surgery, and many cases of thyroid cancer and cancer of the larynx are cured with radiotherapy.

Many other types of cancer are also cured if they are found early enough - 75% of breast cancers that are found very early - at stage one - for example. There is still a long way to go, especially with some of the commonest types of cancer such as lung, breast, bowel and prostate cancer.

Many people – invariably those who have not had cancer or been close to it - have pet theories about what causes and prevents it, and how to treat it. Existing treatments - chemotherapy and radiotherapy - are not perfect, far from it, but we know, because they have been clinically tested and proven, that they save some lives and extend many others.


And there's no conspiracy to hide or prevent a cancer cure in order to maximise profits. The conspiracy theory is an urban myth, a sort of game played by those who have not had cancer or close experience of it.

Think about it, if there were such a conspiracy:

*whoever discovered the cure would be keeping quiet, even though it would bring them fame and fortune. Any drug company discovering a cure would make more money than they can have dreamed of making up till now.

*every medical professional in the whole world would have agreed to keep the cure secret. Every single one. One blabbermouth, one disgruntled researcher or sacked nurse and the whole conspiracy’s blown.

*the thousands of people who would have to have been cured by it in order to prove it worked would be keeping quiet about it too. Newspapers and other media wouldn't have got a sniff of it.

*doctors, scientist, researchers etc would be watching their relatives die and dying themselves (they and their families develop cancer at the same rate as the rest of the population) even though they knew of a cure

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/conspiracy.html

http://health.discovery.com/centers/cancer/top10myths/myth9.html

Answer 7

The problem is that nothing is simple about cancer or the HIV virus.

When people talk about finding a cure for cancer, they think that it is like chickenpox or polio, where the causative agent for the disease was identifiable and only only one factor. The problem with cancer is that it is caused by many different things, such as viruses, carcinogenic agents or even heritable genes and it manifests itself in a multitude of different ways. Cancer is not one problem, it is thousands.

One example is breast cancer. It may be caused by genetic mutations, failure of the immune system's surveillance, abnormal growth factor signalling or heritable genes (BRCA1 and BRCA2). These are just some of the ways we think breast cancer is caused. Contrast this with cervical cancer, which is primarily caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) or hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer), which is primarily caused by hepatitis B or C. It is not easy to find a cure when cancer may be caused by such a multitude of sources.

The problem with HIV is that it attacks what is supposed to keep us healthy: our immune system. The HIV virus attacks many immune system cells, but is predisposed to CD4+ T helper cells that activate CD8+ T killer cells. By attacking the immune system, the person is not able to fight off the virus. They become immunocompromised and succumb to secondary infections. The puzzle is determining how to boost the immune system and prevent infection when the HIV virus targets that system.

We aren't close to a cure, but we are making progress. We have vaccines against both hepatitis B and HPV and are making great strides in developing new drugs and treatment. People with cancer and HIV are living much longer than previously. Science is working toward cures, but we must remember that personal responsibility is paramount to our own health.

Answer 8

Kim's answer is exactly what I would've said. It is not as simple as people think to cure these diseases. The idea that we have the cures but choose to not to dispense it is preposterous and foolish. It is not profitable to treat over cure. It costs WAAAAAAAY more to treat (the healthcare industry loses money as well as the patient).

It is very easy to believe the conspiracy theories, because it is a quick answer without research or thought into it.

To prove my point: look at the disease polio, we make BOATLOADS off the immunizations to prevent it (thanks to sabin and salk), just a quick needle stick and thats it. If we had to treat these patients instead of cure them, the hospital and government would end up paying a good portion of the costs, especially if they did not or could not afford health insurance.

I would love it if we found the cures for these illnesses, and we are on our way to doing so.

To the person later on who sited a website with proof that there are cures hidden. What you show, well the site really shows, are treatments!! Same thing that the Drs. are doing! And you use a doctor of podiatric medicine as a credible source...what is his specialty again? I'm sure he is a very intelligent person but his goal is to sell books and make money regardless of benefit to others (cough cough kevin trudeau??) you said so yourself. I could tell you my thoughts on how a space shuttle works and claim it to be the end all be all. But at the end of the day I never built a space shuttle or even worked in that field.

Now if you'll excuse me, I must get back to my book "How to scam patients without ever giving them help they need and mingling on yachts with the money you rake in".

Answer 9

We now have a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. Antibiotics and acid reduction medicine for a week can prevent stomach cancer.

Cancer treatment and prevent has come a long way in the last couple decades.

Answer 10

To all of those sadly misinformed and brainwashed folks who think modern medicine is a magnanimous entity and is not hiding cures, read this: http://www.naturalcancerremedies.com/NCR_A/index.html

Yes, the author is out there to make money.
Yes, the publisher is out there to make money.
The truth is, many people are finding cures in simple, readily available products... mainly healthy dietary supplements that have been around for centuries.

Meanwhile big pharma is sweeping these things under the rug. Why? I'll let what's left of your common sense work on that for awhile.