▲ | d--b 3 months ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
I'm not looking for alternative medicine, I'm looking for things that haven't been approved for general use yet. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | kerkeslager 3 months ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
"Things that haven't been approved for general use yet" is not meaningfully different from alternative medicine. You've adopted the aesthetic of cyberpunk instead of crystals or tarot or whatever, but let's be clear: you're not approaching this any more scientifically. Do you know how many kinds of brain cancer there are? Are you aware that different kinds of brain cancers work differently and require different treatments? The fact that you're asking for "bio hacks" for brain cancer without even mentioning what kind of brain cancer it is, shows you don't know enough of the background information to even ask the right question, let alone assess the answers. This is like, asking "How do I fix a car problem?" without specifying what the problem is. Specialization exists in our society for a reason. Let the oncologists do their job. I get it, you're smart and you want to help. I'm smart too, and as smart people we can muddle our way through a lot of lower-complexity specializations without actually being a specialist. But I'm telling you medicine, especially oncology, is not one of those things. People a lot smarter and a lot more knowledgeable than us have been trying to cure brain cancer for a very long time and the fact that it isn't cured shows it's not something you and I can muddle our way through with a conversation on Hacker News. It's far more likely that whatever harebrained idea you come up with will hasten your friend's death or increase their suffering before they die, than that it will improve anything. I mean, among the things you're considering is infecting your friend with Zika virus. For fucks sake. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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