Chuck Negron has died at 83. He was one of the founding members of Three Dog Night. I loved their music. Some of my favorites were - Never Been to Spain , An Old Fashioned Love Song and One is the Loneliest Number. But all their music was enjoyable. Who didn’t love Shambala or Joy to the World? There are so many. RIP Chuck 
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The first song that comes to my mind is Joy to the World — probably because of The Big Chill. Man, I am getting old.
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I’m getting even older. I saw them in concert in the early '70s, when their warm-up act was The Doobie Brothers.
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Ok, you beat me. 
Snooker and Pool legend John Virgo has passed away.
He was a commentator on the snooker tournaments and famoulsly held a trick shot segment on a show hosted by Jim Davidson.
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Oh wow 
I didn’t even know he was sick Brad Arnold, founding member and vocalist of 3 Doors Down, has passed away due to cancer. He was 47. RIP Brad
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I’ve heard of the band, but I don’t know their music. Still, 47 seems awfully young to pass of cancer.
James van der Beek passed at 48. Mainly known for the show Dawson’s Creek which TBH I never watched. Still very young like the aforementioned Brad Arnold.
I just read about this. He announced he was battling colorectal cancer in late 2024. He was married and the father of 6 children ranging in age from 4 to 15 RIP James
Hate to hear that. I feel bad for his wife and kids.
Is anyone else cynical enough to think that we would have a cure for cancer if big pharma didn’t profit so much off of treating cancer?
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I don’t think so.
Here’s why. I did some research into cancer a few weeks ago out of curiosity and found out some interesting things.
Cancer isn’t one disease. There are hundreds of cancers, each with unique variations and mutations. Cancer cells replicate rapidly and form tumors. Individual cells within a tumor often develop different mutations, creating a mix of cancer variants within the same tumor.
Anti-cancer drugs and radiation can target specific types of cancerous cells, but the cancers mutate so rapidly that all it takes is for one of the cells to mutate in a way that evades the treatments. These resistant cells can grow into tumors that are even more resistant to treatment.
Surgery can remove a tumor, but if any tumor cells break off and travel to other parts of the body, the cancer has metastasized, and a new cancerous tumor can grow there.
Since there are hundreds of different cancers and endless subtypes, a drug that “cures” cancer and all its possible mutant variants is almost impossible to develop. Cancerous cells are part of one’s body, so treatments that destroy cancer cells without harming healthy cells make their development particularly difficult.
On a positive note, AI might help by speeding up drug development and enabling personalized treatments, but a universal cure seems unlikely anytime soon, given cancer’s diversity.
They are curing more cancer than before just not all cancer.
Progress in cancer tends to look slow because it happens cancer-by-cancer, mutation-by-mutation, rather than as one breakthrough.
I survived Thyroid cancer. My Mother died from it 20 years ago. I survived Uterine cancer. I also survived Ovarian cancer. That was nearly unheard of not so long ago. That one however required a long regimen of Chemo. But, I’m still here - 16 years later 
I had genetic testing done since many women in my family have suffered with Thyroid cancer or issues. I have 2 sisters, one with daughters and I was worried about their health. Even though my Mother and myself shared the same type of cancer, we did not share the same strain. The results after testing showed no maternal or familial markers. It was all just an unkind coincidence. My sisters and my nieces still have it checked periodically for safety sake.
They are making advances all the time. I do believe more types will be contained sooner rather than later. But, I don’t think there will ever be a “cure for cancer”. As Just B said:
CRISPR technology is looking promising too. I don’t think there will be a cure for “cancer.” But there may be a way to selectively kill it. Someday.
Thanks, all, for the measured responses.
I think part of why these conversations keep coming up is that people already feel technology is often shaped by profit as much as progress. You see it in smaller ways all the time, yearly phone releases that feel like incremental upgrades, or computer hardware improving step by step rather than in big leaps. Fair or not, it creates a perception that innovation gets drip-fed because that’s what makes commercial sense.
That same thinking then gets applied to bigger things like electric cars or medicine. Some people believe EVs were slowed down because existing industries had too much invested in oil, or that large companies simply pivot rather than lose out, like tobacco companies moving into e-cigarettes once smoking started declining. They didn’t disappear, they adapted.
I’m not saying cancer cures or major medical breakthroughs are being deliberately held back, that’s a much bigger and more complicated claim, but it’s easy to see why people are sceptical when they look at how profit has influenced other industries. You see it in things becoming harder to repair, software and car features moving to subscriptions, or industries reshaping themselves when profits shift, from lightbulb lifespans in the past to streaming fragmentation or how new technologies often only become standard once regulation or market pressure forces the change. None of that proves anything is being hidden away, but it explains why people feel innovation sometimes arrives when it makes commercial sense rather than the moment it becomes possible.
It reminds me of a scene in Yellowstone, where the ranch hands realise that if they actually buy refrigerators, or agree to the salesman’s electricity hookups, they’d be tied into his system, essentially becoming dependent on him. In the Dutton world, that’s a big no-no: anything that makes them beholden to an outsider threatens their autonomy. The ranchers are used to doing things themselves, on their own land, and answering to no one. So instead of getting sucked in, they politely but firmly walk away, refusing to be part of his scheme. The salesman thinks he’s got them, the cowboys seem like easy marks, but in the end, their independence wins out. It’s a subtle but perfect illustration of why people are wary of letting profit-driven systems control too much of their lives, and why innovation often feels like it’s rolled out only when it serves someone else’s interests, rather than purely for what’s possible.
In the end, the ranch hands didn’t want to get suckered in, but we let ourselves get suckered every day by systems and products designed to make us dependent.
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Oh, I don’t think that’s cynical, I think it’s the freaking truth.
I’ve never watched Yellowstone, I don’t have the streaming it’s on but I went down a Youtube rabblit hole about Beth Dutton. OMG!!! She’s unbelievable, love her.
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When I first started Yellowstone I hated her. I thought she was vile. Then … not so far into it, I was like “ahh” now I get it.
You did not want to be on her bad side. But, she was fiercely loyal to those she loved and held dear. And then to find out the actress, Kelly Reilly is English!? Whew! What an actress
This thread is all over the place LOL 
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Sorry. 
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