entitude - Regarding your question about the cancer lines noted above: I think Ani is basically pointing out the difference between preventitive measures and reactionary measures. Instead of trying to live healthy and prevent cancer and the costs associated with it (IE: not living downstream from things that contribute to cancer and avoiding the costs of cancer), mainstream science tries to find solutions or band-aids to fix them (thus finding a way to live in hell/live with cancer). When she says that cancer is opening a school downstream she is describing a familiar situation where a factory pumps out some chemical into a stream and cancer rates rise in the surrounding area. She says that scientists are fools for investing so much into a cure for cancer when there are very obvious ways to decrease it's impact (such as not dumping chemicals into a stream). Point well made.
entitude - Regarding your question about the cancer lines noted above: I think Ani is basically pointing out the difference between preventitive measures and reactionary measures. Instead of trying to live healthy and prevent cancer and the costs associated with it (IE: not living downstream from things that contribute to cancer and avoiding the costs of cancer), mainstream science tries to find solutions or band-aids to fix them (thus finding a way to live in hell/live with cancer). When she says that cancer is opening a school downstream she is describing a familiar situation where a factory pumps out some chemical into a stream and cancer rates rise in the surrounding area. She says that scientists are fools for investing so much into a cure for cancer when there are very obvious ways to decrease it's impact (such as not dumping chemicals into a stream). Point well made.