thepete:

I spotted this story on Engadget back in December (original here: www.engadget.com/2011/12/08/high-school-senior-kills-canc… ) but have intentionally been sitting on it to see if the mainstream news would run with the story or just continue covering the same old Santorum (I’m not just referring to the Republican). Typically, this amazing breakthrough (“the Swiss Army Knife” of cancer treatments) has not become a major story in the news. Cancer kills more people in the US than terrorism kills around the world. I lost a college friend and a grand father to it, I know three people fighting it now, the current statistics say that one-in-three adults in the western world will get cancer. Yet the USG spends hundreds of billions (even trillions) of dollars fighting terrorism while cancer gets infinitely less and the press does nothing but exploit this focus on war and ignores the more realistic threats to American life (along with it’s hopefully treatments). Why are America’s priorities so screwed up?

from thepete.com