Wed 23 Jun 2010
Geekiness to the Rescue!
Posted by Michael under Body Experiment
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There’s a geeky joy I get learning the underlying truth about scary things. This movie called “Healing Cancer From the Inside Out” gets double geek points for shining a brilliant light on a serious subject, and making it not-so-scary using the twin razors of clarity and precision. Brilliant!
For instance, I didn’t realize that “untreated patients live longer than treated patients”(!) Yep, that’s what the numbers show.
Or that mammographies aren’t necessary(!) Really? Yep, there’s a misconception there.
Or that smoking doesn’t correspond with getting cancer(!) Huh? Yep, smoking is many things, but it’s not the real trigger.
What I liked about this movie is that it broke down all these unexamined beliefs and held them up to the light. Just looks at them as if staring at a bug under a microscope, but it backs up everything with research and numbers. I like that. Charts and graphs are geeky.
The movie talked to people who have a different way of looking at cancer, people who look at it and don’t see a bogeyman but just a little, insignificant thing that can be cured without much thought or drama. I like that too. Things aren’t really so complex and scary when you truly understand them. Understanding is geeky.
Here’s a series of clips…
My mom already had chemo, which I now know is far deadlier than the thing it claims to cure. I still hope she sees the full two-part movie which I’m boxing up and sending to her now. I know I don’t have any control over whether she sees it, or even if she wants to accept what she hears, as she’s part of the cancer industry doing mainstream research, but…. one can plant a seed.
For me, this movie falls under the category of, “thank you for recommending that, and thank God I chose to see it instead of ‘aaah… I can’t be bothered’”. There’s too much fear around cancer. Knowledge is definitely power.
This gets my “Eternal Cheesecake Award of Excellence”. Well done! See this movie!
