40+ years of cancer research

Billions upon billions of dollars spent, and they have nothing to show for it? In elementary school, we had to do the 'Terry Fox' run and since those days, nothing has changed. Still, each year, they have these massive drives "the ride to conquer cancer" and each year, they're still stuck in the same place. 10, 20, 30 years later, they're still doing the same things. Common sense should sound an alarm that something is not right here and needs changing. The medical industry either doesn't want to find a cure or they are too incompetent to find one.

Which one is it?

If there was a car in a shop for 40+ years that you had mechanics working on and if they couldn't fix it and still had no idea what's wrong with it and then they couldn't really account where most of the money went, would it not be time to get some new mechanics? Would it not be time to try something different? In either case -- when you spend that much time and money on "research" and have made no progress - it's time to ask why. What are you doing wrong? Why are you making no progress? What should be changed? The very questions that are not being asked.

But what happens -- you once again run into the scientism crowd that tells you that you can't question science because their ways are above and beyond the ways of ordinary humans. You just have to keep putting money into the collection plate when it gets passed around because that makes you feel good about yourself and you are closer to receiving a blessing.