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Training an Immune System To Kill Cancer: a Universal Strategy
New submitter Guppy writes "A previous story reported widely in the media, and appearing both on Slashdot and XKCD, described a novel cancer treatment, in which a patient's own T-cells were modified using an HIV-derived vector to recognize and kill leukemia cells. In a follow-up publication (PDF), a further development is described which allows for a nearly unlimited choice of target antigens, broadening the types of malignancies potentially treatable with the technique (abstract)."
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In my church, for example, I was told that the universe is roughly 13 billion years old, the earth is about 4.5 billion years old (give or take 6000), and natural selection happens.
How forward looking. And what did you believe before your church told you that?. Next week they'll be saying that the earth revolves around the sun.
But don't let the vast majority form your opinion of a group. Keep pointing to the extreme minority that every despises and say that is what comprises the entire group.
Does your church support freedom of choice? Do you require men who rape women to marry them and support them? How about medical experimentation? Is every sperm sacred? Every egg? Do you keep slaves? Do you think that using condoms in Africa is a larger evil than letting aids run rampant? Should Africans die for your beliefs? Are you looking forward to going to heaven where the most popular pastime is watching atheists burn in hell? Am I going to burn in hell forever? Do you tell your children that if they don't believe in God that they are going to burn in hell forever? Do you sit around at home at night hoping that Israel will nuke Iran thus starting the rapture? Do you support the holy wars? The crusades? Inquisitions? Jewish blood libel? Ireland? Religious genocides? Croatia? Palestine? Iraq? Do you eat pork? Do you wear clothing of mixed materials? Do you feel that religion should dictate the laws of civil society? Health care? contraception? Should abortion doctors be murdered? Do you support the protection of paedophiles by the church? Do you think that your mother or brother or child should be murdered if they profess another religion, as God commands? Will you go to hell for having impure thoughts? Genital mutilation, for or against? Censorship of science in schools? Is God responsible for everything science has yet to explain? Should faggots be put to death? Should they be sent to internment camps and beaten until they get their heads straight? What about atheist children? Are they evil? Are atheists evil and without morality because they do not fear the eternity of hell? Am I a sinful cretin because some naked tart bit an apple once? Would you sacrifice your first born if God commanded it?
etc. etc. etc.
You can disavow all of these things, yet by subscribing to Christianity and believing in superstitious nonsense, "faith" (belief in that for which there is no proof) you support them when you support religion.
Unlike all theist religions, I have no problem with what anyone believes, until it affects me. What I don't like is you forcing your ideals on me, and the rest of society, and then telling me I'm a bigot because I object.