How To Immmediately Scare You With Scarce Evidence

If you answered yes to the question, should you use it, then you need to look yourself in the mirror and ask if that's the person you always want to be. Because messaging isn't always about you, or your intent. Messaging is often about the effects of what you're putting out there. 

No, this isn't to hamper freedom of speech or freedom of expression. This doesn't advocate for not siding with your favorite political party. We all have those very basic rights. This is to remind the world that just because you believe something is a certain way, with or without proof, it's important to remember how it effects others. 

Take, for instance, the way some messaging is being handled by poltical bodies. For instance, health information. Some of you hate Robert Kennedy because he's a friend of Trump. Some of you might agree that he was, on paper, woefully unqualified for the job. And the facts show, his history is what's called…sketchy. 

But, it doesn't mean he's always wrong. If you don't think so, then ask, why did he push for certain dyes to be taken out of foods? Is he dreaming? Actually, he's pushing something he knew. Other countries, some that spent more time worrying about their peoples health, recognized the negative potential in colorful dyes. Red dye number 3 was removed from ue due to it potentially causing cancer. We, in the United States, were well behind the times as we fed this to children. 

So, hate Kennedy all you want, but listen to him and hear what he's saying, because he's not always wrong with his missions. And remember this quote: 

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. 

 - Stephen Hunt, The Court of the Air

With that in mind, there is a term that I stumbled across that was irksome, to say the least. And, without a doubt, this proves that not all messaging is good. 

TURBO CANCER

After doing some research, thanks good old Mr. Kennedy, Turbo Cancer isn't a recognized medical term. It's slang, and nothing more. 

The term started circulating online, particulary on social media, and as a result of discussions about conspiracies behind the COVID-19 virus. It's a term used to describe cancers that allegedly grow or progress at an alarming rate, and the link, or rather fear, that it's linked to something like the COVID-19 vaccines. 

Why aren't doctors or researchers using the term? Could it be that there's a conspiracy to protect the pharmaceutical industry? Even if you were to play devils advocate, it hasn't been proven. 

Or, it could be that there are cancers that are naturally aggressive. The simple biology of the tumor can be the cause of "rapid" progression. But, as of now, there's no credibly reported proof that supports it being the vaccines. 

Kennedy cares about people's health, and he's open to alternative ways of getting healthier when sick, as well as staying healthy. But, should someone in his position be throwing around slang terms that end up on social media in our polarized world? There's a solid argument that he's not paying attention to the effect his platform can have on people. 

Example: Take someone like myself, or who experienced going into a doctors office to get a simple medication refill, and literally walked out with cancer. I felt fine. I had no symptoms. But, by the time I CBC came back the next day, and I looked for an A1C result, I found I had cancer. 

Not only did I have cancer, but I had a lot of cancer. My labs showed my PSA results, and as 4 was the upper end of normal, I got a 328.9. It had spread everywhere, by that point. 

I had just been in the hospital after a workplace accident, just seven months prior to the trip to see my doctors. They ran a CBC there, and I was fine. So, in 7 months or less, I had gone into prostate cancer and was already to the point Doctors announced that I was dying. There was no long-term plans, not anymore. 

Was this some new and myterious type of cancer? No!

The message that Kennedy used, however, is a wake up call. It will have an immediate effect on people hearing it, particularly in a world where people are constantly attached to the internet through their phones, and such rhetoric is spread like pourring gasoline on already burning blazes. Messaging that works to get a scary point across, with no actual evidence to support it, is how you can move people the fastest. 

If you think about that, and translate it, the same techniques are applicable to sales, marketing, and oh, yes…writing. But, do you think they should be used in the decisions on healthcare? 

Final Thoughts

When we give people like Robert Kennedy, or anybody else, a microphone and a platform from which to spread their messages, it's important for them to realize that they are now in charge of something over other people's lives. Putting someone in charge of our health that means well is a nice thought. But, someone who uses misinformation based terms, like Turbo Cancer, and espouses that they're are connecting something like cancer to a particular cause, particularly a newer thing like the COVID-19 vaccines that were not well tested or even very well researched, is dangerous. 

In a case like mine, I happened to have the same genetic markers that Angelina Jolie had. Yes, when it set in, it took hold fast and it grew like wildfire. If there is a correlation to the vaccines having pushed it along, I haven't found any evidence to support that, and when I learned I had the cancer I did my due dilligence and delved into every bit of information on cancer and biology I could find. I wouldn't want to see me appointed to Robert Kennedy's position either, short of going back and getting a medical degree. 

The next time you see something alarming, disturbing, or scary, question its validity to the fullest. I did.