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The Cancer Industry with John Horgan | Starting Strength Radio #48

Starting Strength Radio

Mark Rippetoe

Training, Fitness & Nutrition, Strength, Barbell, Health, Fitness

4.6740 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Mark Rippetoe and John Horgan, director of the Center for Science Writings at the Stevens Institute of Technology, discuss smoking, cancer medicine, and the high cost with marginal benefit of testing and treating some cancers. 00:00 Introduction 04:04 Bad news about the "War on Cancer" 14:38 The cancer industry 23:56 Problems with screening 34:01 Diagnosis blow 38:19 Immune system 41:17 Improving cancer care 49:21 Research defects 53:21 CYA obstacles 56:41 Hybrid system & regulatory costs 01:03:16 How to not die of cancer

Transcript

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0:00.0

From the Asgard Company studios in beautiful Wichita Falls, Texas,

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from the finest mind in the modern fitness industry,

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the one true voice in the strength and conditioning profession,

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the most important podcast on the internet.

0:17.0

Ladies and gentlemen, starting strength radio welcome to starting

0:23.7

strength radio we're here on Friday as we are on every Friday and every once

0:30.4

in a while we change things that sometimes I sit here and talk just to amuse myself

0:37.1

and we record it and we call that a show.

0:39.8

Today we actually have an actual show, an actual guest, and an actual important topic.

0:45.4

And we're here with John Horgan today.

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John is the author of an article about cancer treatment, funding, research, and things that are actually kind of important,

1:03.1

things that you need to think about. In our ongoing effort to get you to think, instead of

1:09.0

obey when doctors tell you things.

1:13.4

We're going to talk to John about an extremely important topic here.

1:19.5

And John, thank you for being with us today.

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It's my pleasure, Mark.

1:24.3

We've got a thread up on my Q&A on the website that features your article.

1:33.5

And we've gotten quite a few hits, and it's got some real good discussion on this.

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But I thought it was an extremely valuable topic because of the fact that everybody,

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that somebody everybody knows has died of cancer.

1:50.0

It's the second leading cause of death in the United States.

1:55.0

And 1.7 million cancer diagnoses last year and 600,000 deaths.

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