Run For the Cure

[jamesq]

The CIBC Run For the Cure is this Sunday. Come on out and show your support whether you have breasts or simply like them.

You can sign up today, Friday and Saturday at any Running Room (check the website for hours). The race starts at 10 AM at Southcentre Mall.

Comments

[petranef.livejournal.com]

While I applaud the well-meaning sentiments of an event like this, the cancer industry is Big Business, and they aren't going to "find" a cure so long as they can make money off of people's suffering.

[jamesq]

I disagree, and I'll tell you why.

Reason 1: The people doing the research generally got into medicine to help people. That their corporate masters are soulless monsters doesn't matter. They will continue to look for a cure and they will crow from the highest mountaintop when they find one.

Reason 2: Corporations are incapable of seeing past the next quarter. If they think they can make even one extra dime over the competition with an honest-to-ghod cure for cancer, they *will* market it.

Reason 3: They can make more money off live cancer survivors then dead cancer victims. Dead people are notorious for being immune to marketing.

If you're interested in a valid argument against the pharmaceutical companies, simply compare how much they fund the study of tropical diseases vs. the study of erection enhancers.

But then, the run isn't promoted by Pfizer.

'Accidentally' rising

[nosarious.livejournal.com]

Wasn't Viagra originally developed for hair loss? What the lab coats thought was a useless product was massaged into a stiffer formula for, er... her enjoyment... A new line of products penetrating deep into virgin territories?

Sadly, of course, it has led to an even larger, meatier product: Spam.