Posts by botchtowersociety

Mary, with all do respect, if you want to see the return on investment, look in the mirror. When my Dad started his research the life expectancy following a diagnosis of leukemia was two months. Sometime this year the number of living bone marrow transplant survivors will pass a million.

And indirectly, this may lead to a cure for HIV. Bravo!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/14/hiv-cure-berlin-patient_n_796521.html

There is a mutation that causes T-cells to have HIV immunity. It is present in a small percentage of the population. This transplantee (the Berlin patient) was cured of HIV after the allograft. His donor had the mutation, which gave him immunity. Gene therapies are already targeting this.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-28/sangamo-gene-therapy-shown-to-be-safe-in-first-study-in-hiv.html

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A thought just occurred to me about prior to the creation of the universe

by poppers in

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would god the father pre-exist the other two?

if not, what would their purpose be, what function did they serve?.

botchtowersociety

That isn't true. The bible comes out clearly and states that Jesus is the begotten son of God. Begotten meaning

(especially of a male parent) to procreate or generate ( offspring).

2.

to cause; produce as an effect: a belief that power begets power.

Sorry about that!

No problem, but you reference the translated English word, not the original Greek one (monogenes).

http://www.studylight.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=3439

"One of a kind"

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Do you type or do you hunt and peck?

by JimmyPage in

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i was just thinking how thankful i am that i took a typing course in school years ago.

i would think it has to be very difficult posting on a board like this hunting and pecking all the time.

so how fast can you type?

botchtowersociety

I can do about 45-50, and I have never taken a class.

You can test yourself here:

http://www.typingtest.com/

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The cause of the Fukushima nuclear disaster

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the fukushima nuclear disaster is claimed that japanese government which was troubled with the place of dumping for the nuclear waste was selling off secretly the plutonium to iran.. the zionist of israel who found this and flew into rage caused the tsunami earthquake (m6.8) as retaliation to east japan by the atomic bomb, devising computer virus and exploding mini atomic bomb in the fukushima nuclear power plant.. http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/fukushima.html.

botchtowersociety

Conspiracy theory? Prodigal Son and 1975 will be on this thread in no time.

It could not have been a nuclear bomb. No nukes are powerful enough to release the amount of energy this quake did.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami#Energy

Energy

This earthquake released a surface energy (M e ) of 1.9±0.5×10 17 joules, [ 45 ] dissipated as shaking and tsunamic energy, which is nearly double that of the 9.1-magnitude 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami that killed 230,000 people. "If we could only harness the [surface] energy from this earthquake, it would power [a] city the size of Los Angeles for an entire year," McNutt said in an interview. [ 32 ] The total energy released, also known as the seismic moment (M 0 ), was more than 200,000 times the surface energy and was calculated by the USGS at 3.9×10 22 joules, [ 46 ] slightly less than the 2004 Indian Ocean quake. This is equivalent to 9,320 gigatons of TNT, or approximately 600 million times the energy of the Hiroshima bomb.

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Is the US government intentionally supressing a cancer cure?

by Nathan Natas in

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please view this video:.

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http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/06/11/burzynski-the-movie.aspx.

botchtowersociety

I too am a cancer survivor. I had surgery and radiation afterwards and I'm alive right now. One thing that scares the hell out of me is finding out that the radiation I had initially could very well give me another kind of leukemia anywhere from 9+ years after having it. It's been 9 years now and that thought is always at the back of my mind.

It has been 17 years for me.

There are ALWAYS new clinical trials going on and yet here we are, decades later and a 'cure' always seems to be 'right around the corner'-----kinda like the New System---but never materializing.

I've already mentioned that there is no such thing as a single cancer cure, there are many different kinds of cancer. Some cancers have high cure rates with current marketed technology, and some do not.

Billions of dollars have been used for research and while we sometimes hear about a 'promising treatment'---it suddenly vanishes and you never hear a damn thing about it again.

I don't know where you are getting your news from, but some ideas that show early stage promise do not pan out in humans in the real world. It could be that they do not improve response rates, or that the risk/benefit profile is not sufficiently favorable to recommend their use.

. Or, you just keep hearing about how 'further testing is needed' before being able to submit it through the bureaucratic bullshit that is the FDA.

Agreed. The regulatory regime means that hundreds of millions of dollars must be spent and many years must pass before a therapy can be put into commercial use. This slows down the process greatly.

Good example is a wonderfully promising technique invented by an engineer by the name of John Kanzius in 2005, using radio waves to eliminate most cancers from the body (Kanzius himself had leukemia).

Kanzius isn't the only researcher working on gold nanoparticles. However, to my knowledge, no one is performing clinical trials using this method at this time. It may be that the method needs more refinement and/or validation in animal models before being tested in humans. Has Kanzius filed an Investigational New Drug application with the FDA? I don't think so. He may still be collecting data in order to do it. I write about biotech for a living, and cover many emerging cancer techs, but I haven't been following his story closely.

I think stem cell therapy and super-charging our our immune cells would prove the most promising treatment.

Stem cell derived immune system cancer therapies in clinical trials (I know the man who founded this company).

http://www.geron.com/GRNOPC1Trial/

http://www.geron.com/products/productinformation/spinalcordinjury.aspx

There are certainly some drugs out there have saved lives, but sometimes the side effects are so bad, people stop taking them. Cryotherapy for cancer is another treatment that you rarely hear anything about, but it seems to have a pretty good success rate.

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Therapy/cryosurgery

It is being investigated, and is not yet at the stage where it can be run through clinical trials.

These things take YEARS to run through clinical trials. They also take a LOT OF MONEY to perform. Let's say you are a researcher and have invented and patented a promising new technique. You have to found a company, hire people, and find millions of dollars from angel investors to get you off the ground. Your small company will not be able to earn a dime until you can get final approval. This could easily take a decade. In the meantime, you have to keep raising funds in order to keep the research and trials going (since you have no sales). This is very, very expensive, and there is no guarantee that someone will not come up with something better in the meantime.

The FDA sets an extremely high bar. There are politics and personalities involved. It is a huge barrier to entry for those that are innovating new therapies. In the meantime, millions of people have died over the decades from a great variety of diseases because of our regulatory regime. You are preaching to the choir, Mary.

http://www.isil.org/resources/lit/death-regulation.html

I know some might not agree, but to me, after 60 years of research and billions of dollars donated, the return on the investment has been pretty low....

Actually, there have been huge advances. Your odds of surviving are far higher today than they were 20 years ago, let alone 60.

in the meantime, Big Pharma continues to rake in billions each year for the same treatment they've been using for decades: chemotherapy and radiation.

Most chemo agents are in generic status these days. The big money makers for big pharma these days are drugs like Avastin, Herceptin, and Glivec, none of which are classical chemo drugs (the first two are monoclonal antibodies, the last one is a small molecule kinase inhibitor).

Since this subject interests you, shoot me a PM for info on what is going on these days.

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Conspiracy theorists

by JimmyPage in

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some here like to perpetuate the idea that there is a hidden group lurking in the shadows playing democrats and republicans against each other for their own benefit... or that a new world order is about to annihilate herds of common men to stay in power.. please name one specific living person who is a member of this elite group..

botchtowersociety

The voluminous documentation and testimonies of victims described in The Franklin Coverup, by attorney John De Camp (Nebraska), leave no question that the FBI themselves are a major player in the coverup of missing and abused young children by prominent politicians and powerful individuals in this country.

John De Kamp was a publically disgraced US Senatorial hopeful that wrote a book designed to disgrace those that accused him of child abuse. He invented a conspiracy theory.

Two grand juries have found his accusations to be false. Two of the purported victims were convicted of perjury and one was sentenced to a decade in prison.

Next.

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Conspiracy theorists

by JimmyPage in

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some here like to perpetuate the idea that there is a hidden group lurking in the shadows playing democrats and republicans against each other for their own benefit... or that a new world order is about to annihilate herds of common men to stay in power.. please name one specific living person who is a member of this elite group..

botchtowersociety

Or four or five, and don't hold back on the youtubes.

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A thought just occurred to me about prior to the creation of the universe

by poppers in

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would god the father pre-exist the other two?

if not, what would their purpose be, what function did they serve?.

botchtowersociety

Would God the father pre-exist the other two?

If you are referring to the Trinity, then no. All are eternal and preexistent, none was ever without the others.

Yes, but God lacks for nothing, right? So why fellowship?

God has relationship and fellowship within himself, so no, God lacks for nothing. The Trinity is a perfect love in perfect relationship. This is a part of the inner life of God as believed by Christians.

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Conspiracy theorists

by JimmyPage in

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some here like to perpetuate the idea that there is a hidden group lurking in the shadows playing democrats and republicans against each other for their own benefit... or that a new world order is about to annihilate herds of common men to stay in power.. please name one specific living person who is a member of this elite group..

botchtowersociety

Allegation:

the vast majority of children that go missing in the US are NEVER FOUND....

VAST MAJORITY!!! GASP!!!!!

Debunked:

For instance, of those nearly 800,000 children reported missing each year, 99 percent are found through law enforcement efforts, according to FBI statistics.

http://sparkaction.org/node/223

The chance that a child is kidnapped and murdered stands at about 1 in every 347,000. 90 percent of stranger kidnappings are committed by males aged 20-40 years old. Less than 5 percent of children kidnapped by strangers are never found, while 99 percent of abductions committed by a family member or acquaintance result in reunification of child and parent.

http://children-laws.laws.com/child-abduction/abduction-statistics/country-wide-child-abduction-statistics

And so now it hopscotches on to a new one.