Quote Originally Posted by TheGodfather View Post
If you think about it, the average life expectancy used to be in the 40s over a hundred years ago, now with people living longer in general, allowing them to live longer with cancer is putting more money in peoples pockets.
I'll reply with a serious answer.

The life expectancy of United States citizens has increased not only because of the advances in medical research, that has led to stronger medicine that has become more effective over the years at doing different things, namely helping to fight off or cure diseases; but, also because of the safety risk of people's jobs. I do not know where you stumbled upon the life expectancy ever being 40, even in the colonial period the life expectancy was higher than that, except for slaves.

Now with diseases such as polio and the measles being just about all but eradicated in most developed countries of the world, why would the government have any motive in hiding a cure for deadly diseases like cancer or AIDS? If the U.S. Government discovers a cure for these diseases, which they cannot because there are an array of different cancers to consider, it would be preposterous for them to keep it a secret because the amount of power they could yield and the untold amount of money they could earn, which would be enough for any Washington dimwit to go blabbering that we have found a cure. The U.S. would be viewed in a different light by helping to fight diseases that claim hundreds of millions of people worldwide every year.

So in conclusion, I find your direction of thinking to be misguided and obtusely vacuous. Thanks and have a great day.