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Upbeat Attitude Doesn't Affect Cancer

Posted by Hemos on from the it-still-kills-you dept.

Reality Master 101 writes "Defying years of conventional wisdom, researchers announced that your attitude doesn't influence your outcome, and 'patients shouldn't feel pressured to stay positive'. I particularly liked the phrase, 'the tyranny of positive thinking'."

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  1. In other news... by JHMirage · · Score: 4, Funny
    Researchers find that "certain pants do not, in fact, reduce or enlarge the size of women's posteriors."

    "Wives across the country can now stop asking their husbands if they look fat in this or that article of clothing" claims Harvey Lechbetter, lead analyst for the prestigious Cloth Foundation, which sponsored the clinical trials.

    --

    A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.
  2. Re:Heh, what the hell? by andyt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sod that. Who on earth remembers the dull happy ones?

    If I find out that I'm going to die soon, I'm gonna be the loudest, whiniest most obnoxious patient anyone has ever seen. I want people to think of me in 10 years time as "that crochety bastard who made my life hell".

    And after I die, I want to be cremated and my ashes poured into the petrol tank of my Doctor.

    I may not be remembered fondly, but they won't forget me in a hurry!

  3. Re:The only true Hope by andyt · · Score: 4, Funny

    2) Accept the free gift of salvation from Jesus Christ...

    "Free when you convert now. But hurry, this offer must end soon...."

    oh, oh, wait..

    "Try Heaven free for 30days with JhC as part of our no-risk offer. That's right, absolutely free...."

  4. Re:The only true Hope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yes indeed, the offer will end when you die - so don't delay. Eternity is forever.