I Really Wish Presidents Would Stop Promising to ‘End Cancer’.

Biden relaunched his initiative. Here’s why I just can’t bring myself to get excited about it.

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In a recent speech, Biden launched his supercharged “moonshot” initiative, vowing to end cancer as we know it.

Emily Goodin with The Daily Mail writes:

“Biden, who wants to cut cancer deaths in half over the next 25 years, said cancer can be transformed into a disease that can be managed and lived with.

He issued his new call to arms at the John F. Kennedy Library, on the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy’s famous ‘Moonshot’ speech, where JFK rallied America to beat Russia to the moon — which was accomplished in 1969.

‘When he set that goal, he established a national purpose that could rally the American people and a common cause. And he succeeded,’ Biden said of JFK.

‘Now in our time, on the 60th anniversary of his clarion call, we face another inflection point, and together, we can choose to move forward with unity, hope and optimism. I believe we can usher in the same unwillingness to postpone — the same national purpose — that will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills to end cancer as we know it. And even cure cancers…