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VIDEO -- Rare Comedy Monologue About the "Side Effects" of Chemotherapy

"I'd like to start you on some medication. I can't say it's gonna do anything, but on the other hand, it can't hurt, either. Okay?"

Eric Bogosian — 1994

It should not be funny — it shouldn’t even be a “thing”, ya know? He’s delivering it straight and it is funny because it’s so fucking true! And millions upon millions of our fellow human beings, from babies to the elderly, have succumbed to that nightmarish comedy routine. Today! It’s happening today all over the world. It’s not thought of as funny or abnormal or absurd. “Here, take this synthetic chemical, and when it makes you sick, take this other synthetic chemical, and so on, and so forth…Ugh!”

And how many cases of cancer are actually cancer? How many people start taking chemo based solely on tests for “markers”? What if the tests are pseudoscientific? What if people are taking chemo and dying from it when they never really had cancer to begin with? Remember the HIV scamdemic and the heinous AZT?