Mike Kinnaird, Content Producer at Cancer Can Do One Podcast, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Why do people like me, see situations like these?
A post I wrote a few days ago on cancer funding got picked up by the excellent OncoDaily for which I’m always grateful.
Not heard of it?
It’s a publication read by oncologists and cancer researchers worldwide.
Now…I’m a volunteer cancer podcast producer with a background in radio. No medical training. No clinical experience. No research background. Yet to have cancer.
Zero.
I just looked at where the money went and asked a question anyone could have asked.
Why do we only fund what we can photograph and the rest remains invisible. Or so it seems.
And the people with decades of clinical experience wrote back saying – ‘yes, you’re right, we see it too.’
And that’s the bit I can’t stop thinking about. This isn’t elite knowledge. It’s completely obvious and in plain sight. And if people like me can see it, it’s not exactly well hidden.
It doesn’t take expertise to notice. It just takes someone willing to ask the question out loud. And… possibly without career-damaging consequences.
So why isn’t it changing, and who is consciously allowing it to happen? Because someone makes the funding allocation decision.”
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