01-09-2013, 09:52 PM
[url="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/09/us-usa-cancer-watson-idUSBRE90805N20130109"]DNA pioneer James Watson takes aim at "cancer establishments"[/url]
Quote: James Watson, co-discoverer of the double helix structure of DNA, lit into targets large and small. On government officials who oversee cancer research, he wrote in a paper published on Tuesday in the journal Open Biology, "We now have no general of influence, much less power ... leading our country's War on Cancer."
On the $100 million U.S. project to determine the DNA changes that drive nine forms of cancer: It is "not likely to produce the truly breakthrough drugs that we now so desperately need," Watson argued. On the idea that antioxidants such as those in colorful berries fight cancer: [size="6"]"The time has come to seriously ask whether antioxidant use much more likely causes than prevents cancer."[/size]