re: #13 Sergey Romanov

My wife is a MD/PhD student who’s worked in cancer research for years. The other night we were out to dinner with some older-generation friends, and one of them brought up asparagus as a cure-all for cancer, and said that there was apparently some validity to it because the Snopes page didn’t just say ‘false’, but ‘mixed’.

She didn’t read the whole page, apparently, because at the bottom it had a clear, definitive statement that while asparagus may help to prevent cancer, it can in no way affect an active, actual tumor.

My wife’s blunter response:

“You might as well say the sidewalk cures cancer.”