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I've also been wondering WTF is wrong with the CBC in the last year or two. It's like they put people in charge who have never seen a single CBC show and have no idea what CBC viewers like or want.

[Edit: Yes, Harper needs to be voted out, too. It's very important!]

Thank you for that!

Eliminating meat from our diet entirely would be as backwards as factory farming is. Animals have as much of a place in the ecosystem as anything else. Learning to raise them and coexist with them without creating a huge imbalance is certainly something worth striving for.

"Basically a solved problem"

Boy, I love it when I hear phrases like that. Inevitably, they're followed up in a few years with other phrases like "unforeseen circumstances" or "lack of contingencies" or "now, we're really fucked up the ass."

There's a similar lack of enthusiasm for hydrogen fuel cells for cars. Could it be that the proposed solution is just not the panacea that you're making it out to be?

Hi Naomi,

I have a three part question:

1. What's the most fulfilling aspect of your work lately?
2. Where do you see the most positive, bipartisan action taking place right now?
3. Who inspires you?

Enjoy your AMA!

You're not an ignorant dick. In fact, you're asking exactly the right questions.

The root causes of cancer are far too many to "cure" it, as such. Like some of the other posters here are trying to tell everyone, the only way to cure it is not to get it in the first place. That's a fact that anyone can determine for themselves with a library card and a little determination.

Many medical professionals want to believe they're still searching for a cure because that's why they entered medicine in the first place... not to treat cancer, but to get rid of it. Then, when they realize it's not that simple, they're understandably reluctant to admit defeat all at once. At that point, their focus shifts to developing better and better treatments - in the name of a cure but without actually lowering the number of incidences of the disease.

There is no reason that modern medicine cannot put more emphasis on prevention, so as to beat cancer before it appears, but as you can also see in this AMA, a lot of people consider anything not rooted in lab science as some sort of sham. It's highly ironic, actually. This attitude is rampant in the medical profession, and frankly, it's very unhelpful, both to doctors who want to take a more balanced approach and, of course, to patients.

So, you're absolutely on the right track, but as long as these two cultures are in opposition, it will indeed be a "slow moving iceberg" seeing cancer become less prevalent in our lives.

[EDIT: typos, clarification of a couple of points]