Cancer, diet, exercise, and hoaxes

A relative posted an article on Facebook supposedly from Johns Hopkins saying that diet is better than chemotherapy and surgery for countering cancer.  I do believe that diet and exercise are important parts of preventing cancer or recovering from it, but this sounded "too good to be true".

Sure enough, a search for "Johns Hopkins", cancer, diet, and radiation turned up "Cancer Update Email -- It's a Hoax" from The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center of Johns Hopkins Medicine rebutting much of what it was in the email.

Emails such as this are a cancer themselves.  The Johns Hopkins article was last updated April 2009!! But the cancer of false information lives on.

Free enterprise is the wrong metaphor for large corporations

We have been hoodwinked into considering large corporations as examples of free enterprise, just like many of the small businesses that keep popping up.  A better way to consider large corporations is as monarchies.

Monarchies were rarely monolithic, top-down structures, but a complex arrangement of carrots and sticks.  Carrots could include favors of money or position.  Sticks could be actual assassination or character assassination.  If all else failed, monarchies would divert people with a war elsewhere and demand patriotism from all

Corporations give carrots of campaign contributions and hire politicians into lucrative jobs later.  Corporations have murdered strikers and sympathizers, but they have always financed and promulgated false information about those who disagree with their agenda.  Do you really think the "birther movement" was "grass-roots"?  And corporations are really "patriotic" when they support a war with all its profits from selling military equipment.

And to think that we make a big holiday of throwing off the yoke of a monarchy.