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Science doing its thing.

Scientists have unlocked the entire genetic code of two of the most common cancers – skin and lung – a move they say could revolutionise cancer care.

Not only will the cancer maps pave the way for blood tests to spot tumours far earlier, they will also yield new drug targets, says the Wellcome Trust team.

Scientists around the globe are now working to catalogue all the genes that go wrong in many types of human cancer.

The UK is looking at breast cancer, Japan at liver and India at mouth.

China is studying stomach cancer, and the US is looking at cancers of the brain, ovary and pancreas.

The International Cancer Genome Consortium scientists from the 10 countries involved say it will take them at least five years and many hundreds of thousands of dollars to complete this mammoth task.

But once they have done this, patients will reap the benefits.

Wonderful news and a perfect example of how science transcends borders…and politics when allowed to.   Where are the Deniers claiming that cancer is a hoax and that scientists have conspired to “invent” a disease as a means of receiving grant money from clueless governments?  And if there are no deniers, then why should the science involved in cancer research be any more reliable than that of climate change?

The truth is there isn’t any difference. Climatologists are as passionate and conscientious about the work they do as microbiologists are about theirs.  Science has no place for charlatans and when one is discovered, they are quickly found and banished.  If not, then we would never have advanced as we have.

Science might very well be one of the few disciplines where integrity is not only the right way to go but is in truth inherent and essential to its very survival and growth. While one may try to make the argument that 2+2=5, it’ll never get a rocket to the moon and at the end of the day, that is the only criteria by which scientists operate.  Being right is what it’s all about.

This is the point which climate change deniers can’t seem to grasp.

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