Last week, the Tiger Cub Online twitter account released a poll asking its followers which conspiracy theory interested them the most. Options included were: the Flat Earth Theory, the people behind 9/11, the JFK assassination, and whether or not the FDA has a cure for cancer. For 48 hours, the votes came in. Flat Earth Theory was the most popular for the majority of day one. Day two showed more of a split between all four options. The theory about the FDA came out on top by 8%. In this article, I’m going to go over the probability of the theory and why or why not it’s justified.
The Big Pharma conspiracy states that the medical establishment and large pharmaceutical companies operate against the public good by withholding treatments for cancer and other diseases in order to gain profit. Basically, this means that medical professionals, politicians, etc. are keeping the final cure for cancer under raps to gain profit from other treatments administered. People have also said that the medical genocide is to keep population rates down. A survey conducted in 2002 by the Princeton Survey Research Associates, Rodale Press, and the American Cancer Society, says that 27.3% of the respondents believed there was a cure. However, Ted Gansler M.D., medical content director for the American Cancer Society (ACS), reported that people who were not very informed about cancer had the highest misconception scores on the survey. That being said, there was a lot of evidence against the theory.
According to the National Cancer Institute, 609,640 will die from some form of cancer in 2018. Ian Curtin, a co-founder of BioBind, brings up the main argument against the theory.
“That’s 600,000 potential customers for the pharmaceutical companies. Wouldn’t they stand to make a much bigger profit to keep these people alive as long as possible?” Curtin said.
Another argument against the theory is that many people believe that cancer research is conducted under corporate organizations when actually it is usually done in collaboration with many scientists in a university or academic setting. The disease has also affected many politicians and the majority of people researching this topic find that to be hard evidence. Why would Senator John McCain and Vice President Joe Biden’s son die from Glioblastoma if they knew there was a cure?
From the research I have found, there is not a very high probability that the FDA has a cure for cancer. There was no strong evidence supporting the theory, all of the evidence was against it. Before writing this article, I wanted to believe in the conspiracy because it just made sense. After delving into the case, I have a new perspective.
For more information, you can visit the following websites and decide for yourself whether or not you believe in The Big Pharma theory.
Let’s Examine the Myth that Big Pharma Doesn’t Want to Cure Cancer
The Big Pharma Conspiracy Theory
