Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 01, 2010

Reminds me that the Revelation of John symbolizes Satan as a dragon. The father of all bureaucracy? Oh, surely not… Ahahahaha

Reminds me of “Dragonheart”.

So true. That’s one crafty dragon!

Alternate solution: “War on Dragonism.” That could go on endlessly without even having to fundraise!

back in my day..I’m 54, I actually had a teacher who taught us that war was good for the economy and was needed for “population control”….that’s about as hard core as you can get…and the sad part is, most accept it as fact..

How long was Polio researched before the cure? Somewhere there are stories of illnesses that had fundraisers and were actually cured!

I was thinking of this not only from the “war” prospective but also for all the large fundraisig groups that are looking for cures and such….granted, they do tend to be helpful but what would happen if there really was a cure for cancer….what would the Am. Cancer Society do then….just being antagonistic this morning…

POTREBIE Didn’t Salk develop his vaccine independently of those proffessional fundraisers? They saw they were without a job so they switched to birth defects, so many causes that they will be employed till Gabriel blows his horn and someone has to account.

A cure for cancer won’t happen; a cure for a specific type, possibly, but each form of cancer is different and needs to be targeted in a specific way. Unfortunately, one-size-fits-all treatments we are so accustomed to (for bacterial and fungal infection) don’t work with cancer or many types of retroviruses. If a cure were found, however, the researcher would probably do just like all other research in this field; publish it. Once published and tested by other researchers, the original discoverer would likely receive an award of some kind and quite probably a considerable reputation boost within the scientific community. Many scientists are notoriously driven to share what they learn.

Sounds a bit like the plot from Johnny Mnemonic

And a great way to create more public relations and creative positions for all.

In the case of diseases like cancer and AIDS, prevention is FAR easier than cure. But there’s no money in that…

Makes me think of the pseudo Anti abortion criers.

If they real want to end it, demand that no insurance cover the operation, since insurance co.s through work and independent sources cover the vast majority of abortions. Instead they cry against a public health care bill that isn’t even in effect yet.

Might have something to do with the Repubs crying about it getting more insurance co money than the other guys.

Nothing works like stirring up emotions so the voter won’t think things through.

Oh, and the “serpent’ in Gen, is obviously a “dragon” or raptor since it was standing upright and had an ability to communicate (read the curse that makes it crawl on it’s belly AFTERWARD and “eat dust” so it won’t speak) Since Raptors apparently had both those capacities.

Destiny23 said, 30 minutes ago

In the case of diseases like cancer and AIDS, prevention is FAR easier than cure. But there’s no money in that… ………………

Just how does someone prevent cancer?

A Vegan diet does not prevent cancer (though it may reduce the likelihood of some types).

jaredcormier has it right about cancer research - a general cure for all cancers is not likely because each type of cancer is a completely different disease. Regardless of what pharmaceutical companies might want, doctors and medical researchers do want to cure cancers (and get the credit for the cures). A legitimate cancer cure would get published; when you hear about “cures” supposedly being suppressed that’s because they are snake oil that doesn’t stand up to scientific scrutiny.

There is a prevention/cure out there and its biblical as well. “Then God said, ” “I am giving you every plant on the face of the whole earth that bears its own seeds. I am giving you every tree that has fruit with seeds in it. All of them will be given to you for food.” ” So God told us to eat of the fruit and seed well apricot and apple seeds have a high concentration of vitamin B17. http://curezone.com/foods/laetrile.asp contains great information concerning cancer.

^Potatoes are the root of all evil…

Oh yes, this makes sense.

For instance, Galvani and Volta started their work on electricity in mid 1700’s, and then scientists just researched it for centuries. And we all know that even to this day, electricity is completely useless…

Or take cancer research. Sure, testicular cancer went from death sentence to 99% curable, childhood leukemia is now 90+% curable, breast cancer death rates fell fivefold…but hey, those scientists aren’t curing all the cancers as fast as we would like. It must be a conspiracy to get money…

I like Non Sequitur, but man do you hit a stinker every now and then…

Um, folks… are we slamming Wiley for what we are reading into the comic? Maybe it’s neither about cancer, or AIDS, or the Defense Department, or whatever. Maybe he just thought it was funny to have a dragon saying things like that.

It’s not always about you, or your favorite hobby-horse cause. Sometimes, it’s just about being funny. Until Wiley pops in and says, “This is what this is alluding to,” take it with a grain of salt, and don’t start getting mad at him for your perceptions.

Take a couple of “D” cells and call me in the morning!

Dragons prevent cancer, so don’t kill them. They either eat the person or incinerate them, no research grant necessary, no fundraising. Well, there is the question of what they really do with those sacrificed virgins.

Love Dragons - this is a job I could do!!!!

those “cancer prevention techniques” all sound highly dubious… someone suggested eating apple seeds (?) which have cyanide in them… people in prison have been known to commit suicide by eating large quantities of apple seeds. in any case you all seem to be ignoring the fact that no matter what you do, you’re going to die someday. and “old age” isn’t a real option. in a “developed country” it’s probably either going to be cancer or heart disease, take your pick. that goes for vegetarians too, you guys aren’t immortal (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12001975 < study indicates 1 to 1 ratio in mortality rates between vegetarians and non-vegetarians on 14 separate causes of death)

in any case, it’s an amusing comic

Isn’t that two words

If you want to find out more about the money drain that is breast cancer research, read “The Cure,” http://www.amdevine.com, and “The Secret History of the War on Cancer” by Dr. Devra Davis. Also check out Breast Cancer Action, http://www.bcaction.org/, an organization dedicated to telling the truth about cancer.

Never mettle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup!

Spock: There are always alternatives…

When did this cartoon become about cancer & cancer research? It might as well be between newscasters and the news. Once you report it, it’s no longer news, so just research. It could be ANYTHING. Yes, I know this isn’t a “perpetual fundraising industry”… or is it? Think about advertising & news. Slamming Wiley (‘I like Non Sequitur, but man do you hit a stinker every now and then…) for bringing up something that the COMMENTATORS brought up is just silly.

GO WILEY! Even if it is about cancer research (which I honestly doubt) you do enliven the posting boards. Oh and by the way - I’ve survived a rather brutal bout with cancer. I personally have nothing against research.

There’s a story told about a military project in Stalin’s Russia: a bunch of scientists and engineers were shipped off to Siberia and given the assignment of coming up with a new weapon system. They quickly realized they were between a rock and a hard place: if they didn’t build the weapon, they’d be executed for failing; if they did build it, they’d be executed in order to keep the technology secret. So they came up with a scheme where they were always making progress but never quite got an operational weapon… and as I heard the story, they survived this way until after Stalin died, at which point the project faded away and they returned to normal life.

I think the “Star Wars” missile defense program is pretty much the same.

As for charities, who can forget the TB Association quietly morphing into the American Lung Association when a cure and vaccine for TB came along and there was no longer any need for the sanitarium system?

Read into it what you will. But to have this comic appear on the first day of Breast Cancer Awareness Month… Coincidence? I think not.

hey, wiley….it’s mallory’s cousin! i hope mel white and robert asprin sees this one!

@Puddleglum: Sounds like Zeno’s paradox; each minute, he covers half the remaining distance to his destination. So he effectively never gets there!

Or perhaps like the current Congressional flap with NASA. Never mind a sensible exploration program that takes into account the pittance of a budget (unlike Bush’s fantasy Moon redux, without a real budget), let’s have a jobs program for LockMart and ATK and Boeing, and…!

I think he’s making fun of places like the “Family Research Council”. If they succeeded and got abortion and homosexuality outlawed, they’d all be in the poorhouse and have to find real jobs (or–more likely–find a new bogeyman to blame and fund-raise against).