As a pediatric hematologist oncologist I’d like to remind y’all that federal funding for ALL childhood cancers combined is only 4% of overall cancer research funding. CHILDREN with CANCER. Who deserve every single chance they can get yet are shown over and over how little our society cares. - ThreadSky

shematologist.medsky.social • 65 days ago

As a pediatric hematologist oncologist I’d like to remind y’all that federal funding for ALL childhood cancers combined is only 4% of overall cancer research funding.

CHILDREN with CANCER.

Who deserve every single chance they can get yet are shown over and over how little our society cares.

Reposted from Chris Hayes

The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.

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100peaksadv.bsky.social•64 days ago

“Save the children”

pediatricskc.medsky.social•65 days ago

Are American politicians even capable of caring anymore or is it all about money and power?

shematologist.medsky.social•65 days ago

The latter

billtbns.bsky.social•65 days ago

We elect garbage instead of dragging it to the curb.

agrayped.bsky.social•65 days ago

The cruelty is the the key. Ghouls

agrayped.bsky.social•65 days ago

WTAF

rare90sgrunge.bsky.social•65 days ago

I honestly think the only evidence we ever needed in regards to human life was Sandy Hook. But a real argument could be made that it was truly Columbine.
Our fall into this hellscape has come in so many obvious moments.

jenjrbskb523.bsky.social•64 days ago

I worked in a med onc/rad onc freestanding clinic... made half of what I do now, but it taught me a lot & you pay attention to more when the patients can't. Loved that job. I'd have stayed for less if they wouldn't have closed- still don't get how or why

tallmom63.bsky.social•65 days ago

These people are paying to play God

clayjones.bsky.social•65 days ago

Earlier I commented that kids don’t vote so Repubs don’t care but I should have clarified that they don’t vote Republican. Those vultures don’t care about adults either unless they vote for them and even then not really.

lawfullymyrtle.bsky.social•65 days ago

My son died of childhood cancer. By the end of his fight, he was a legal adult and donated his body to research a cure. These fuckers literally spit on my son’s grave. Fuck them all. #worthmorethan4 #morethan4 #forever19 #foreverjadenstrong

shematologist.medsky.social•65 days ago

I’m so very sorry

onmylastnerve.bsky.social•65 days ago

The man could probably fund the cure for cancer. But why would he do that? I'm sure being the world's richest villain is somehow more rewarding.

He's Shatman.

prodigalhoosier.medsky.social•65 days ago

Pro-life until birth…

joel-rocketco.bsky.social•65 days ago

Then it's time for that baby to pull up them bootstraps...

zoonotic1.bsky.social•65 days ago

On one of his first times hosting the daily show, Trevor Noah said pro lifers are like comic book collectors. Once it’s out of the package it loses all of its value.

prodigalhoosier.medsky.social•65 days ago

Sad, but very accurate.

prasad.bsky.social•65 days ago

thing is, gestation is *such* an accident of evolution -- an extreme outlier compared to the rest of life on earth

imagine for a second an advanced amphibian, reptilian, or avian species

they'd struggle to understand it

more likely ridicule it as small-minded

zoonotic1.bsky.social•65 days ago

Mammalian placentas are the viral envelope of ancient retroviruses in our DNA. And each mammal has a different retrovirus.

prasad.bsky.social•65 days ago

one more example (as if we needed them) of the arbitrariness of biology and the stupidity of biological determinism

as a species, we should "take care of our own kind" without a lot of highfalutin theology and self-aggrandizement

corinnern.bsky.social•65 days ago

Just when I think it can't get more horrible.

zoonotic1.bsky.social•65 days ago

This is why Elon has so many kids. He wants to bring us back to a time when you could expect that less than 1/2 of your kids would survive to adulthood. No vaccines, raw milk, gun violence, and no treatment if they get sick with anything, including cancer.

Once again, he he cruelty is the point.

osinskireflex.bsky.social•65 days ago

And research in childhood cancers is how so many effective chemotherapeutic agents were discovered. Without childhood cancer research many adults and kids with cancer would not have the many treatment options we have available today.