Has Ann Coulter jumped the shark?

[trish]

All ionising radiation damages DNA - we use it in radiotherapy to stop cancerous cells multiplying. For healthy tissue, it damages DNA causes mutations which in turn can cause secondary cancers. Full stop.

Agreed. Let me offer an anecdotal account. About twenty years ago (I was just a child), my aunt was diagnosed with uterine cancer. The doctors gave her radiation treatments and removed her uterus. No one can tell me now whether the radiation treatments came first and the removal was a measure of last resort, or whether the radiation treatments were recommended to kill any proximal tumors that went undetected. In any case she lived fifteen more years before it was discovered she had intestinal cancer. The surgeons said her intestines were burnt by the prior radiation treatments and healed stuck together. In their estimation her intestinal cancer was caused by her prior radiation treatment. My aunt succumbed to secondary cancer.

[muh_muh]

the issue with such positions is that theyre both correct and utterly wrong
yes radiation is a cure for cancer although you should probably put the word cure in inverted commas
however it is a cure in a completely different way than she suggests
trouble is her audience is hardly intelligent enough to figure out the not at all sublte differences

[martin48]

Agreed. Let me offer an anecdotal account. About twenty years ago (I was just a child), my aunt was diagnosed with uterine cancer. The doctors gave her radiation treatments and removed her uterus. No one can tell me now whether the radiation treatments came first and the removal was a measure of last resort, or whether the radiation treatments were recommended to kill any proximal tumors that went undetected. In any case she lived fifteen more years before it was discovered she had intestinal cancer. The surgeons said her intestines were burnt by the prior radiation treatments and healed stuck together. In their estimation her intestinal cancer was caused by her prior radiation treatment. My aunt succumbed to secondary cancer.

This is why I'm working on proton therapy as an alternative to x-rays/gammas. With protons the dose to healthy tissue is much reduced. We will build the most advanced instrumentation to make proton therapy safe and reliable.

[trish]

Embarrassed to confess I had to google that. Sounds very promising. Large particle, more control over scatter and depth of penetration. So are you involved somewhere in the design of affordable miniature cyclotrons with features that make them especially suitable for therapy and use by hospital technicians?

Some links for those, like me, who was unaware of photon therapy

http://www.proton-therapy.org/howit.htm
Proton therapy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Silcc69]

Conservatives typically have hot looking pundits, Coulter is simply beast looking.

[broncofan]

She's awful. Another republican clown that gives other republicans a bad name.

Many Republicans would get a bad name simply by having it be known what it is they support as Republicans. Ann's popularity is evidence of the moral decay of the Republican party; Islamophobic and homophobic comments pass as wit.

[broncofan]

This title about Ann's writing becoming stale reminds me of a low-level functionary in 1944 complaining that Hitler is beginning to repeat himself about the Jews and is therefore becoming a bit boring and predictable. How many times is he going to say the word parasite?? Can someone get the Fuhrer a thesaurus.

Stale is the least of her problems.

[Ben in LA]

Conservatives typically have hot looking pundits...

S.E. Cupp comes to mind...

[PatrickLA]

Who the hell ever said Ann was pretty or cute? No one. And the Conservative shows DO have the hottest babes. Both sides have good and bad. Libs allow weed, cons don;t. Libs stay out of your sex life, cons don't. Libs tax and spend too much. cons arent supposed too but they do too. It is most fuked up, so just enjoy the ride.