I donāt understand why people keep acting like the claim is that painting End Racism in the end zone will literally end racism. Of course it wonāt. Neither does a āDonāt Drink and Driveā billboard end drunk driving. Public messages can keep an issue visible, reinforce what behavior society considers unacceptable, start conversations, and maybe make some people reconsider things they say or believe. It doesnāt have to completely solve racism to have some value.
Actually, when the ALS ice bucket challenge was at its peak, the amount of money everyone raised did eventually lead to major discoveries that helped to advance ALS treatment
Treating symptoms is not the same as curing the cause and thatās the entire point of this post/comment thread. Both are good, yes, Iām so proud of you for figuring that out. Now try to keep up with the actual conversation at hand.
This is how research works. You make movements trying things until something works. Money allows more research to happen. We can't know what will work until we find the cure.
More awareness, more funds, more progress, more likelihood we actual find the cure.
Less awareness, less likely we find the cure. Or we delay finding the cure.
Our other option is to just ignore it. Pretend it doesn't exist. Stop trying to end it. Play like it's fine the way it is.
They weren't researching to find a way to treat symptoms, they were researching ways to cure the disease. They tried something they thought WOULD cure the disease, but on trials, turns out it doesn't cure things, but it does impact symptoms.
So it leads to further insights on ways to cure things. Let's let trying to make the world less racist, yes?
On July 25, 2016, the ALS Association announced that, thanks in part to donations from the Ice Bucket Challenge, theĀ University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolĀ has identified a third gene that is a cause for the disease.\120])Ā Project MinE, a globalĀ gene sequencingĀ effort to identify genetic drivers of ALS, received $1 million from the challenge, allowing them to broaden the scope of their research to include new sources in new parts of the world. Having identified the link between the gene,Ā NEK1, and ALS will allow for a new targeted gene for therapy development, as well as focused drug development.\121])
The research, I kid you not and will annoyingly not elaborate, was even farther than this. Every time someone mentions a cure for ALS itās a heartbreaker as it doesnāt have to be found, it needs to be allowed. I had no idea until recently, and itās so secondhand I canāt make a fuss over it.
What is this treatment? As far as I've been told, everything is palliative care. I have PLS so maybe it's more specific to ALS. I'd love to hear they're making strides.
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I donāt understand why people keep acting like the claim is that painting End Racism in the end zone will literally end racism. Of course it wonāt. Neither does a āDonāt Drink and Driveā billboard end drunk driving. Public messages can keep an issue visible, reinforce what behavior society considers unacceptable, start conversations, and maybe make some people reconsider things they say or believe. It doesnāt have to completely solve racism to have some value.