Telos Journal Edition Four November 2013 | Page 11

who have never picked a weed or who are duped daily by ‘flavor enhancers’ will likely
remain a perpetual one, however.
As palpable as eating a good diet and exercising constructive beliefs seems,
systematic obstacles have prevented that knowledge from becoming ubiquitous for
decades. Some of them, like the inherent problems of big-agro, are not very easy to
replace. But others advertize woolly messages that resist holistic health foundations and
are immediately contestable.
The American Cancer Society’s fear-mongering is shamefully obvious in frequented
places, for example. On a main web page entitled: “Cancer causes: Theories
throughout history,” the ACS appeals to myth and superstition instead of the causal,
logical reasoning intellectually exercised since the Copernicus Revolution. Their opening
sentence, which stands alone in its own paragraph, reads: “From the earliest times,
physicians have puzzled over the causes of cancer. Ancient Egyptians blamed cancers
on the gods.” And it is followed up by ambiguous misuses of Hippocrates’s efforts int ?)?????????????????????????????????????a1?????Q??????d???????????????????)???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????+?a?????????????????????d???????q??????????????????????????????????????)???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????t)????????????????
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