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RE: Science in Hollywood: I Am Legend (2007)

in #science6 years ago

A man and his dog in apocalypse land... I really felt the bond between them and Will Smith's acting was very good in my opinion. I liked this movie and the story was pretty innovative too.. A wrong implementation of the presumable cure of cancer and suddenly all are turned into zombies except a select few. The climax was also good and this movie surely kept me till the very end.

This story is also pretty educative as part of the moral for me is that power comes with a responsibility and the greater the power, the greater the responsibility. Playing with fire sometimes can turn really lethal!

I pretty much agree with your scientific inputs. I'm keeping this:

Because in fact, cancer is the generalized name that we use to designate a very wide variety of diseases

This is true and this is the real difficulty with combating cancer. Cancer is the name of the effect and it too differs from time to time. Causes are also numerous so this complicates the matter a lot.

Anyone who has been involved in the scientific process and knows how science works would never be in favor of such an absolute claim.

No need to add anything here...

Great post @irime! Looking forward for the next in the series!

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Yes, I find that one of the reasons why the general public gets so suspicious about "how come we haven't found a cure for cancer yet despite so much research" is because of a failure to grasp the concept of cancer being a general term for a myriad of diseases.

Great advances have been made, but in many cases a lot of further research is needed both to improve efficacy and to minimize damaging side effects (lest we end up unleashing the zombie apocalypse, hehe).

Thanks for this thoughtful comment, @theodorelib!

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