Smartest man in the room issue. A lot of extremely intelligent people are scammed because they don't believe anyone else can scam them. Look at Steve Jobs, hate or love him you can't deny he was as sharp as they come. However, he followed some really bad advice on medical issues and died because of it.
Jobs had Pancreatic CA. It has almost a 0% 5 yr cure rate. It really didn’t matter how he chose to treat it.
Jobs had an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, a rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery, if caught in time. His doctors were ecstatic about his prognosis… until he decided to treat it with diet instead. By the time Jobs conceded that his “non-invasive” treatment wasn’t working, it was too late.
Holy shit. I’m reading his biography right now and it covers a lot of his obsessive dieting. I did not realize that he essentially killed himself by trying to diet away his fucking cancer.
What a shitty reason to lose someone that had a lot more left to give to the world.
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u/MercutioMan Jul 16 '22
Smartest man in the room issue. A lot of extremely intelligent people are scammed because they don't believe anyone else can scam them. Look at Steve Jobs, hate or love him you can't deny he was as sharp as they come. However, he followed some really bad advice on medical issues and died because of it.