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To: SilentZ who wrote (759885)	12/31/2013 3:39:13 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1572611

Z, Steve Jobs (not that I like him; I really don't) believed that eating more healthily gives people a better chance at surviving cancer. Which it does. That is not to say that it is a cure for cancer; it isn't. He never said it is. But eating better is a perfectly smart thing to do. You're whitewashing what Steve Jobs did to himself when he was first diagnosed with cancer. He refused the conventional treatments for an entire year while he tried to cure it with "horseshit and horseshit roots," as his mentor Andy Grove so colorfully put it. Only later did he do what he was supposed to do, but arguably he might have eliminated any chances of surviving his cancer longer than he actually did. None of that negated the unique brand of genius that Jobs brought to Apple and to the high-tech industry in general. Just like Ayn Rand's views on smoking shouldn't negate her philosophical views. Tenchusatsu