Choosing the wrong therapy for your cancer could be
really dangerous. Critical thinking don't hurt, but stupidity has killed more than one
Dangerous for who? I find it a rational hypothesis at this point that the primary danger is to the cancer industry profits. As Coleman points out, your are going to die anyway. Might as well make your death as protracted, painful, and expensive as possible, right?
I suspect that shooting people full of SV40 cancer virus in the polio vaccine was an accident. But when the event served as a sound foundation for the cancer industry to blossom, and the 'cooler heads' of the Technocracy adherents gained power and recognized the opportunity to save the earth from overpopulation as more and more people shifted into the 'useless eater' ranks, the utility of the medical/industrial complex crystallized in their minds. By happy accident of fate, it was also a good way to make a ton of money. This monetary aspect served as an enlistment mechanism to get the most critical parties on-board with the project.
Dangerous for you. For the survival rate please re-read my reply and the linked article, and consider what you are thinking about hundreds of thousands of young researchers and oncologists all around the world.
Obviously I have thought about this. It is a very valid conundrum, and a sticking point in many 'consipricy theories.'
I myself have family who are in the industry. They make good money and I have no indication that they have any awareness of the (proposed) nefarious nature that I am hypothesizing about. They are aware of their million dollar student loans, and their lack of a 'formal dinning' room in their current house and the consequent need to upgrade for this reason. They are also proud of their role in serving society though they have a variety of complaints about 'the system.'
I find it quite plausible that a very corrupt and surreptitious system could be operated successfully with perhaps 0.2% of the participants being fully aware of the overall details. They would just need to be well placed, and the system itself would need to be sufficiently complex (involving, say, media, education, research, and most critically, finance.) Note that the U.S. maintained an amazing amount of secrecy in the development of the atom bomb. Were it not for Hiroshima, it probably could be secret until this day (although that total secrecy would defeat the point of it.)
It should be noted that a key element in maintaining a system such as I am describing is gatekeeping (which is why I mentioned it up-thread.) In this way, even if some participants smell a rat and decide to 'go public', the damage will still be contained and the games can continue. If one researches this stuff one finds a fair number of medical professional who in fact do bow out and blab. As long as it is only 'crazy conspiracy theorists' who hear them, the damage is minimal.
Another element is to avoid hurting the 'wrong people'. We would still be happily injecting babies with significant quantities of mercury were it not for a powerful senator's own grandchild being damaged. Now we have to dose people at 1/10th the former rate except for the multi-dose flu shot which still delivers a healthy dose through the blood/brain barrier. With better technology to allow more targeted individual tracking this problem can be minimized.