[stevenbedrick]

In the case of this specific post, it is unfortunately very appropriate to bring him up: his administration is enthusiastically setting back the US’s ability to study, treat, and cure cancer by years and possibly decades; his cuts at the FDA are setting back the availability of new therapies and his cuts to AHRQ and are undermining our ability to study whether the ones we have work; and his proposed budget would strip access to healthcare (including cancer screening and relevant preventative care) from tens of millions of Americans. Oh and his administration’s attack on higher education, and his immigration policies relating thereto, are gutting our scientific and biomedical workforces.

So while I am as sick as anybody about hearing about him, on a thread about advances in cancer treatments, it would be awfully weird to ignore the elephant in the room. Just sayin’.

[matwood]

And don't forget the anti-vaccine attitude rampant in his administration. The HPV vaccine stops an infection that is known to lead to cancer.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6001440/

[stevenbedrick]

Excellent point; the administration has a serious and well-publicized antipathy to mRNA vaccine technologies in particular, and has begun to suppress research in that direction. Given that mRNA vaccines are one of the biggest advances in vaccine technology in decades, and that mRNA-related techniques are key to many of the most promising methods for treating a whole host of rare diseases etc., it seems absurd that we would intentionally be seeking out agnotology in this space, but here we are.