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2 January
On this day, there are Two ‘cancer stories’ for the price of one on Yahoo !
-> @YahooNews picks up, too, on the @guardian story at http://t.co/bIkxquUyiK : Most cases of cancer down to bad luck rather than lifestyle
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 2, 2015
But how do such news items even get to us ? :
That may be part of how the article in @sciencemagazine gets 'transcribed' via @pressassoc to such as the @guardian, @KarlaCheeatow... ?
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 2, 2015
And, when people comment (who might stand to lose... ?), where is the bias (sc. ‘the truth’) ? :
@guardian complete propaganda because people are finding out "thetruth". The drugs don't work they just make things worse! Lifestyle CURES
— Organic G Pig (@OrganicGuinea) January 2, 2015
@guardian this is insulting too, to those who have cancer and are trying to battle a terminal illness. It's Damn nasty and upsetting
— Organic G Pig (@OrganicGuinea) January 2, 2015
The 'sub-text', @guardian ? Urging profiling / scanning / surgery on those who eat xyz berries as 'protection' against 'oxidation' effects ?
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 2, 2015
Is the polarity that Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman point up in Sleeper (1973) ever so topical, @guardian : https://t.co/41gykZRu81 ?
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 2, 2015
Other than Woody Allen famously saying (through characters in his films, i.e. in the script) Hey, don’t knock masturbation. It’s sex with the person I love most ! [Annie Hall (1977), we also have this (from Sleeper (1973)*) :
Female doctor : What we have done, Miles, is highly illegal and, if we get caught, we’ll be destroyed – along with you.
Miles Monroe: Destroyed ? What do you mean… ‘destroyed’ ?
Male doctor : Your brain will be electronically simplified.
Miles : My brain… ? – (wistfully) it’s my second favourite organ…
To be continued…
End-notes
* Both films were co-written with Marshall Brickman, as Allen has sometimes done (even recently) with Brickman and others…
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