July 21, 2005

Request from readers

If there is anybody in our reading audience that subcribes to the online version of Nature Magazine, I'd like to see a summary of this article:

Cuban science: ¿Vive la revolución?

Nature.com (subscription) - London, England, UK

... achievements: in addition to the meningitis B vaccine, it has produced a cancer vaccine that, despite considerable opposition from anti-Castro politicians, has ...

I am morbidly curious about how these folks are going to spin the "Cuban medical miracle" when common Cubans on the island have to take their own bedsheets to the hospitals.

Posted by George Moneo at July 21, 2005 12:36 AM



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I swear, it's like the plague, creeping under every door. Is there no end to the lovers of evil?

Posted by: Kathleen at July 21, 2005 12:42 AM

If Fidelzebub can heal the sick and raise the dead, why isn't he out doing that instead of machine gunning refugees fleeing on makeshift rafts? Seems like the ability to do the one would keep you too busy to waste time with the other.

Posted by: Murel Bailey at July 21, 2005 02:53 AM

He has many Mengeles experimenting on the prisoners, like they use Aids victims as human guinea pigs and a whole country as a human shield.
But one will never know by reading Nature...
Hey, John Kerry was also able to raise the dead and make the cripple walk, but he needed to be president to be able to activate that mojo, maybe he and cagastro know the secret of life that we don't!

Posted by: CB at July 21, 2005 04:17 AM

The Mengele comparison is very apropos, specially for those who know about the AIDS "experiments" carried out in the name of "science," by the kubanski "medical elite." Hell, send them a link to therealcuba.com and tell them to check out the health care/hospital pages. Guarantee it won't do any good, though. These neoMengeles can't and won't handle the truth - too painful for their little cryptonazisocialist egos.

Too bad kakasstroffe doesn't have the equivalent of a Dr. Morell (Der Furor's quack house doctor) to "treat" his increasing ailments - might shorten his lifespan, which would be the best advance in health science coming outta Kuba.

Posted by: Alberto Quiroga at July 21, 2005 07:03 AM

My source on the ground says that it's a likely international "urban legend" generated by cagastro in order to scam the EU out of money for "research". Monies that I assume would go to the development of bioweapons, which he has been done for a while.
My source also tells me that cancer rates are on the rise, and that cagastro's experiments tend to be more on the side of "green medicine" and "mini-cows".
Green medicine: extract from medicinal plants
Mini-cows: trying to breed cows the size of goats (when you have goats already this is stupid). He could very well import them from Thailand, where they have mini-cattle as a natural form of life.

Posted by: CB at July 21, 2005 07:05 AM

I think I can get it for you. I will be in touch with you by email sometime today soon.

Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at July 21, 2005 09:02 AM

INTERSTING.... ALL THESE WONDERFUL MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS,YET CUBA'S AIDS PATIENTS HAVE INCREASED BY 43% IN ONLY 2 YEARS,
AND OVER 1,500 PEOPLE HAVE DIED FROM IT LAST YEAR...COULD "SEXUAL TOURISM" BE THE NEXT CUBAN MEDICAL CHALLENGE?? OF COURSE WE WILL NEVER READ THAT IN NATURE MAGAZINE.
WELL SAID CB! CUBA IS USING AIDS VICTIMS AS GUINEA PIGS AND THE COUNTRY AS A HUMAN SHIELD!
DISGUSTING TO SAY THE LEAST.
CARMEN

Posted by: CARMEN at July 21, 2005 10:31 AM

Anyone know what the article is about?

Posted by: Mendel at July 21, 2005 01:24 PM

I wonder if that's the same cancer drug that Bush allowed the regime to sell to the Us drug company, I think the deal was valued at like 1 billion dollars.
My memory is a bit foggy as it went down like three years ago. Anyone know more?

Posted by: madtom at July 21, 2005 11:06 PM