Cancer Cure Metaphors
Comments predominantly use cancer and its lack of a cure as a sarcastic metaphor to critique the limitations, ineffectiveness, or obstructive nature of the discussed technology, policy, or approach. Some samples discuss actual cancer research, treatments, and progress.
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Maybe this is the reason that cancer hasn't been cured...
It's like cancer suing chemotherapy for helping people get rid of it.
Not if you know how to cure cancer ;)
Hang on, what? Specifically the cancer part
Agree with sibling comment.This is another indicator that that is not quite the right way to think about cancer.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37839458
You hear promising things about Cancer treatment and yet we couldn't save this man.
This looks really great... until you get cancer.
this is like trying to cure cancer by banning any mention of tumors
That's like saying the cure for cancer is not getting cancer.
So _this_ is why cancer hasn't been cured yet. Gotcha.