Apropos to nada as Russian adages go: "Pray to God but row to shore."; "Take when they are giving and run when they are beating."; "They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work."
Indeed, cancer treatment therapies that extirpate, hypothermiate, irradiate & toxicate have an efficacy of 2.5% (according to the N.C.I.), which equates to a failure rate of 97.5%. Yet these modalities are being exported to red China as American oncological departments do a land market business in 50 states & picturesque Puerto Rico.