yesterday someone said "where would cancer research be without lance armstrong???"

i told him in the exact same fucking place, since they have not funded research since 2005 and at the height of it they were dishing out MAYBE 1% of the what the national cancer institute and american cancer society do every year.

did we really need him to make us think about a disease that affects 1.5 million to 2 million new patients a year?

don't get me wrong, i appreciate the services they provide to patients and also what lance did in texas going hard for public money to fund research. but overall the dude is a hype man for himself first and foremost, and he's conflated that task with being a philanthropist.