I wrote this paper, about this in 1994- 1995 for my senior thesis at WSU for my BS in Zoology. Dateline was also a part of the problem. México killed so many reef sharks for shark cartillage that were the only predators of one type of sea urchin. It didn't just kill sharks, it allowed these urchins to decimate coral reefs. It pisses me off that this is still a problem.
Oddly enough, I had never heard this "fact" before. But a fun shark fact I love is that Lemon Sharks get attached to some of their favorite divers, and they can get jealous when other Lemon Sharks get more attention from their favorite divers.
I'd never heard of this myth before but I knew about the shark fin soup. I totally believe something like that has taken off amongst human beliefs. It's very sad that we are destroying this creature.
@Sammysapphira there are people who have migrated from China to other countries. I was even offered shark fin soup at a wedding reception in America in like 2008 It is not just a China problem, and even if it were, it still has global impact.
@@ShadeSlayer1911people. Chinese people. Not Chinese. Disregarding the fact that pills are sold here in the west as well. Lets make sure we aren't saying accidentally racist things yeah?
As a shark conservationist and sharky boi myself, I thank you for making this video, and cutting right to the chase in speaking the truth. This needs to be spread more for awareness, and the practice of shark finning needs to be stopped world wide.
This video is wrong in one aspect. Even if the Science was correct, there's no justification for this tragedy, not only to sharks, but to the whole ocean fauna. Overfishing, acidification and climate change are killing the ocean. The entire South Florida is turning from blue to green. Extreme water surface temperature as never seen before. The problem is not bad science, the problem is bad people and ignorance.
Honestly I’ve never heard of the “fact” of sharks not getting cancer until I saw this video. Sharks really don’t get the credit they deserve, the movies don’t help with that either.
It's disgusting the way people misrepresent things to sell a book, a movie, a documentary, an alternative medicine so they can get more money at nature and everyone's expense.
I think this is another one of them there 'externalized costs' runs roughshod throughout business. It's like how manufacturing is linear from mining to landfill rather than circular, for the most part. Some aluminum cans and paper go round and round but not much else.
They will always do this. The problem is lack of oversight AND money. Since we will not get rid of money until technology enables us to have unlimited resources, strict oversight is the probable solution.
You mean the guy who spent decades attaching his name to other people's hard work with no more contribution than "Make her boobs bigger and jiggle more,"?
It's clear that the reason he discusses,are not the reason why they do this.If the practice continued because if the want for cartilage,it would make no sense to throw 90% of the cartilage back into the water to rot.The collection if fins is for far weirder reasons than cartilage content.
The Pacific islands very rarely provide iron ore, so the Polynesians wrapped rough shark skin around wooden pieces ands used them as files/grates, especially when creating their famous boats. I have seen such a tool in a lecture held by a specialist in Polynesian culture. Note that these people fished only for single sharks, not on an industrial scale.
Can we do more scientific general ignorance myths, where they come from, and what unexpected harm and/or benefit they have brought the scientific community and humanity as a whole?
This isn't a general myth for the whole world, but it is very common among my community. Maybe it will interest you. :-) I was born blind. When I was a little girl, I didn't like to eat carrots. However, the adults around me promised me that if I ate my carrots, they would make my eyes healthy and strong. Eventually, due to bleeding cataracts and detached retinas, both eyes had to be removed so that I wear plastic now. It is very true that people can develop a form of night blindness if they are deficient in vitamin A and that carrots have carotene that can be converted to vitamin A. That is as far as that myth goes. I didn't know that, so I ate carrots out of desperation as my eyes got worse , and I believed that my behavior and my dislike for carrots caused the trouble I ended up having with my eyes. I still hate carrots, but now I feel pissed off every time I taste them in something. I also did not feed carrots to my daughter when she was little. I left it to her grandparents to make that introduction if they felt like doing it.
@@rhyami iirc the "carrots improve your sight" myth comes from ww2, the brits developed radar to be able to tell when zeppelins were coming to bomb and to hide their technology they explained it as feeding carrots to their military to better their night vision. Sucks you had to lose your eyes, hope you're doing well though.
Oh yeah, people who have tried it will tell you that the shark fin itself adds little to nothing to the soup, and it's arguably the worst part of an otherwise flavorful broth. It's more of a status symbol nowadays, from what I understand.
@@ShadeSlayer1911Yeah mock shark fin soup is way better, sometimes they have it be vegetarian orientated and have mushroom substitutes (which are way more flavourful)
@Spartan-sz7km i normally don't care for vegetarian substitutes for meat products. But in this case, mushroom sounds way better than shark fin in every way. I like a good mushroom soup. It's very umami
I have to admit, I just accepted the "sharks don't get cancer myth," since I've been hearing it my whole life. I'd never buy shark cartilage though because that's just stupid. I eat plants all the time, but I've never gotten photosynthesis powers.
I'm Chinese American, but I did live in Hong Kong for many years. That's not the reason Chinese people want shark fin soup. Shark fin soup has been seen as a luxury food and thus a symbol of wealth long long before modern science even knew about cancer. Also, in Chinese culture, share fin is NOT a Chinese medicine. It's not. It's sold in the "expensive ingredient stores" that sell ginseng, bird's nest, sea cucumbers. Shark fin is one of those, it is not medicine. Feel free to Google this. When I googled it, I was surprised to see that Wikipedia says we think shark fin is medicine. That's weird, because I argue that's not true. From Chinese history, originally shark fin was something fed to poor people and was undesirable. But one day a chef for the emperor wanted to create an impressive dish using the most cheap and unwanted ingredient, as a way to impress the emperor, and he invented shark fin soup. Shark fin is collagen and has no real flavor, shark fin soup tastes good because of all the other expensive and flavorful ingredients used, including curated ham, a lot of chicken broth, and sometimes conches and fish parts. Being medicine that protects against cancer is not something I have ever heard, even though I grew up eating shark fin, in a city where we all ate shark fin. At the time, I was a child and didnt know how bad the shark fin industry was. We all just thought it was normal and ok, probably because no one really asked "where did these come from?". At this point, a lot of Chinese Americans have denounced shark fin because we learned what it involves. A number of Chinese American organizations have made a point to take a stand as well as spread the message. The mass slaughtering of sharks and the ecological devastation is all because of a chef in our ancient history made us all desire this ingredient in our food, merely because it symbolized wealth.
I do not know where this medicine idea came from, I have always heard that shark fin soup was a luxury and for weddings. Back in the mid 2000's, that's what they said on TV during Shark Week. Even back then they were trying to say "Have your fun with depictions of the ocean's deadliest predator, but remember the real victims are the millions of sharks killed for their fins."
Im glad you addressed this. I have had artheitis all my life and in the 20th century many supplements for joints had shark cartilage in it. It DOES work to rebuild cartilage in your joints. Nowadays, they use chicken sternum and its not as great. My husband worked in Hong Kong and I have friends from Taiwan as well as South Korea. Shark fin soup was just for eating and many dont think anything of it. Never heard of it as medicine either. Wikipedia is owned by the CIA so I dont read anything on that website, its not scholarly.
@@Xaviernisan I am sorry but, no. Most of what you have referred to as nature are, in-fact, learned behaviors. Humans are THE example of how the myth of the Alpha has had a negative impact on sociology.
Kyle, because of you, I discovered Planet Wild and became a supporter. Now I just want to save as much as I can, so I can volunteer on these worthwhile initiatives actively, and not just as a supporter. Thanks for that!
PETA is the type of group that makes themselves feel better by shaming others. Similar to the freaks cementing their bodies to freeways in the name of “environmentalism”.
What an incredibly frustrating video. Thank you so much for bringing these kinds of videos. I completely understand what you mean. I work as an ADHD Coach and an sex coach and there's so much misinformation and all around bullishit when it comes to do with ADHD and Sex.
Kojima isn't overrated, he's just the George Lucas of video games. When he has a supportive team who's willing to reign him in but still give him respect, he produces bangers (the original trilogy). When he's left to his own devices, he produces stories that are mid, but have their merits (the prequels). But when he's cut out by a greedy company, they have no hope of producing anything good (the sequels)
How did Lucas get "cut out"? He sold Star Wars. It was his creation and he chose to part with it. There wasn't a Konami equivalent like there is with Kojima and Metal Gear. Sure, you can definitely argue that both MG and SW suffer from their original creator no longer being part of the process, but the way we got there was totally different. Kojima didn't get $4 billion for Metal Gear.
@@jedimasterpickle3 I used "cut out" more for the sake of the simple comparison, but yes, you're right. Lucas got an amazing deal while Kojima was just screwed over
I'm 30 years old and this is the first time I'm hearing about sharks not getting cancer. I've heard about sharks not being able to stop swimming but never heard of sharks not getting cancer.
I remember famous oceanographer Jacques Cousteau basically saying: "Sharks have been given a bad reputation. They are NOT the bad species they are made out to be."
11:30 While the iron in spinach may be a misunderstanding, especially so considering it also contains oxalates, it does still contain a lot of other healthy stuff like folate. Of course, also some bad stuff like nitrate, so as with anything, don't overeat it, and especially don't make your diet exclusively spinach.
That's just appalling that they would do that to a living, feeling, thinking animal. It's unethical, immoral, and just plain wrong. It should be illegal if it isnt already.
@@spazticfantaztic8553 What's most insane of all is my country has a sustainable shark farming program as we have several shark dishes and use 90% of the shark as what we don't eat becomes animal food or fertilizer. But the one part of the fish we don't really use is the fins as not even dogs find them tasty. They could literally have as many shark fins as they want. But they don't want the fins from gummy sharks.
I don't know anything about sharks, but I know about having cancer myself: I was too young to feel anything more than pain but, I saw people around me (other patients) feel all kinds of stuff from despair to wishing death upon healthy people as if was some form of vengeance. The industry feeds on these people and their families who sell out themselves in pursuit of some fleeting hope. Quick example: I met a mother of two kids, she was friendly to me because I was around the same age as her son. She had breast cancer, after a year of treatment I heard her husband sold the house they had in order to pay medical bills. She died a couple months after that anyways.
I've literally never read that sharks don't get cancer. Shame because some shark species show pack/school structures. They're also shown to be smart and social animals. Human miss management is real, as apex predators and intelligent creatures we should manage the things we put our hands on. Do we need to metal in everything no, just the stuff we have too and or need to manipulate. Sea life management is unavoidable. Im a believer that all life on earth will die. If we go full hippie and live like my ancestors we will die here on this rock along with everyone else. We can extend life if we can take things from earth into space with us before the earth gets burned by the sun. I know all that'll happen far from now but its still allowing life that would die in that second to exist far after that someplace else. We could manage our resources, tech, animals, and improve it till the universe ends its self.
This video is wrong in one aspect. Even if the Science was correct, there's no justification for this tragedy, not only to sharks, but to the whole ocean fauna. Overfishing, acidification and climate change are killing the ocean. The entire South Florida is turning from blue to green. Extreme water surface temperature as never seen before. The problem is not bad science, the problem is bad people and ignorance.
@@brancoslos8650 understandable, the threat of life on earth is definitely other possibilities. I mentioned the sun because I believe given enough time after an asteroid strike or solar wave life could bounce back just like the past. However, after the sun goes red giant it'll swallow the earth and blast the surface long enough to glass the surface. Life in any meaningful way wouldn't be able to come out of it. We are really limited in time and physical space to jump systems and bubble systems that are faster than light move away from us.
I'm so glad you did this video! I learned about this from the late Rob Stewart's documentary Sharkwater. Every human being needs to see Sharkwater! It is absolutely unacceptable that this is still going on. There's possibly more money in the shark fin industry than in the illegal drug trade! Thank you for doing this Kyle! You should expand on this and talk about Rob Stewarts documentaries and work on this issue.
Oh great, Kyle provided depression! :D But really, great vid about an important topic. It's terrible how misinformation just literally destroys the Earth
Thank you for creating this and being extremely explicit in the fact that these practices are unethical, indefensible and completely unacceptable. I have a deep respect for your willingness to call out misinformation and the consequences of that misinformation.
@@WeissM89 A number of sharks equal to the casualty numbers of both world wars combined are killed every year, in a manner straight out of a horror movie, over false claims about danger an cancer cures. That's not a vegan thing, that's an environmental and consumer catastrophe.
I would have appreciated if you expanded a bit more on "Why?" and "How?" do sharks get cancer. Were the first studies wrong? Or maybe sharks are only affected by certain types of cancer and not others?
When I was in high school in the late 90s my first job was at the neighborhood grocery store. It was a local company, not a chain and had an emphasis on "health" items. There was a large section up front with loads of supplements -- powers, pills, oils, all kind of stuff, but also books. I distinctly remember the "sharks don't get cancer" book and pill setup, along with the types of folks who came to the store because it catered to this stuff. I got a general crank vibe from those folks. They always said things in this "'they' don't want you to know..." voice that made me suspicious of all of it.
New favorite vid next to You Super Power vid. As a diver for 20+ years, excellent to see this info making it to newer audience's. Now lets start a rumor that mosquitoes cure cancer. Unfortunately those little SOBs are part of the ecosystem too.
I'm so fucking glad that one of the biggest science communicators on youtube is talking about this. Sharks are and have been one of my favorite animals, bar none, and their treatment has been nothing less than abhorrent. I'm so sick of grifters and snake oil salesmen taking advantage of people's ignorance and devastating such an amazing and important creature. I remember when this shark-cancer myth popped up, and I have literally never once taken it seriously. One dude, two books, millions of innocent animals killed.
2:02 Hey Kyle, if it makes you feel any better, I love fun facts, but I've never heard this until I scrolled through your channel. If asked, I would've said that sharks can detect electrical impulses from creature nervous systems
If you think this is shocking, read up on ghost nets when you get a chance. Have you watched Deadliest Catch? If they lose one of those traps, the crab in it can't forage for food so they die. More crab then enter the trap to eat the dead crabs, until they die. Rinse and repeat. (Newer traps are designed to have parts of it quickly rust out to eventually give crab an escape route, and break this cycle.)
I’m a scuba diver, I remember the first time I got to scuba dive. It changed my life. I never seen or felt nature in that way nor have I since unless I’m under the water in the ocean. Seeing the pictures of those sharks and all those being harvested are absolutely heartbreaking, literally brought a tear to my eye if not multiple. It hurts to see this happening to the animals in the ocean.
Thanks Kyle for exposing such frauds. Sharks fascinated me since my childhood. They are VERY misunderstood creatures, in every meaning of the word. I love them so bad ! It genuinely hurts me when people say bad things or spread lies about them. Once again, thank you for using the tribune that is your channel to give them the credit they deserve. Much love to you, shark lovers from everywhere in the world, from Southern France. Adrien. Edit : PS : Swimming/SCUBA diving with sharks is a lifelong dream of mine. Hope I can make it true someday.
I had never heard of this myth nor did I ever know why people use shark fins for things. I now know and I am even more shocked about it than I thought I would be. Thanks for making me depressed about it Kyle. Also thanks for educating me.
Sometimes they milk them too much and surprise surprise bleeding a creature out is generally bad for it's health but (most) people know what they are doing and don't take nearly as much, plus horseshoe crab blood has massive benefits in medical research. Shark fins don't.
When i was in mainland China 2016 the chinese goverment launched a huge campaign about sharks getting killed for their fins but people doesnt seem to care or perhaps it is because the fishing industry consider the sharkfin harvesting to be extremely profitable. Besides there are a vegetarian option and no you cant taste the difference to the actual shark fin soup.
I have to say, I have never heard of this myth. I knew that shark finning was a problem because of shark fin soup, but this is new to me, and honestly even more frustrating.
We fight fire with fire here. Write a paper that says that it turns out that sharks are actually particularlly prone to certain types of cancer especially bone cancers and thats why they evolved to have cartilage instead of bones.
Imagine aliens coming down to earth, abducting people, chopping off their limbs for their own dogmatic beliefs and 'benefits', and then throwing them back to the ground. "But noooo, we let them back on earth! How is that not humane?! We didn't know that they cannot survive without their arms and legs." But in fact, the aliens did know. They knew very well, and they didn't care.
This is honestly the first time I'm hearing this myth, that sharks don't get cancer, and that their cartilage can treat or prevent cancer in people. It however, is NOT the first time learning about the appallingly inhumane practice of harvesting shark fins...absolutely horrid.
Starving calves for 5 days so there's less poop when you slaughter them at 10 days old for the crime of being born male? I sleep. Male baby chicks literally genetically modified to be a different color, so they can hatch on a conveyer belt, be sorted by robots, and then be dropped into a meat grinder minutes after birth? I sleep. Sharkies killed for no reason?? Real shit.
I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart, Kyle. I appreciate that you are bringing this to the public's eye and using your platform for good. In a world that seems full of evil it can be hard for people to realize that the good people are still here and "fighting the good fight" as it were. and i suppose I'm sorry if I'm coming off as cliche and sappy. It's because I am LOL but really though; thank you, Science Lebowski Kyle Hill. Thank you for doing your part
I'm gonna be honest, Kyle; before today, I'd never heard that sharks don't get cancer until literally today. Plenty of other shark facts, but never this one.
Great video Kyle, keep spreading understanding and knowledge which is actually validated and supported not just speculated. I'm so tired of everything being speculation to get engagement off fear and misunderstanding, you're a beacon in the dark in a world full of misinformation. I really appreciate this video, sharks are horribly misunderstood and one of the most important animals and groups on the planet. We're already done devastating damage to the world through hunting them through fear and ignorance. We need more compassion and understanding of them.
That is just one of the definitions, and arguably an older one. The most used definition is "to kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of"
@@thorwaldjohanson2526 With a root of deci(ten), and the historical examples of the Russian decimations during the battle of Stalingrad during WW2 and the Italian decimations of WW1, I'll stick with the non-bastardization of the English language.
@@Verdictus13 words change over time. It's a fact of life. "correcting" people on a correct meaning is a bit cringe. There are many examples, do you correct people when they use words like nice, gay or cool?
Maybe it's because I'm not from the west coast (or really on a coast at all), but I've never heard anyone claim "sharks don't get cancer." Ironically, Kyle is the first person I've heard say that.
Kyle I love what you're doing here. Just wanted to thank you for bringing Planet Wild to my attention, its exactly the kind of organization I've been looking for to support! Got a new member today thanks to you :)
My mom got cancer in 1992. She took shark cartilage supplements. It didn’t work. I had no idea how it was harvested, that’s horrific. Thank you for making this video
I must've been living under a rock because I never heard of this. The only thing I have ever heard about shark Cartlidge is that it can be used to produce something that is claimed to treat osteoarthritis. It is a component of shark Cartlidge. It has a big fancy name, and I can't remember it at the moment. :-) that can help repair the Cartlidge in arthritic joints. In fact, I see that supplement on store shells along with glucosamine. I suspect a lot of the shark population is killed for that purpose because there are a lot of old people with arthritis buying supplements. I have not tried shark Cartlidge myself, but I have wondered about it since I'm almost at the point of needing a knee replacement. I can see now that this isn't a decision to take lightly and that I need to do a lot more research.
Fun trivia: Many years ago, there was an abattoir near the mouth of the Brisbane River in Queensland Australia. If you needed a feed, you'd go to the offal dump pipe that flowed straight into the river and catch sharks and other fish. Sharks help keep the ocean clean. They'll eat dead animals, rather than hunt live ones because it's more energy efficient. Not that the sharks know that. They're just generally lazy. Easy prey or dead stuff is the way they operate. Just look at the frenzies around whale carcasses in the ocean.
I've been a medical professional for decades, and I'm also a huge nerd. I've somehow literally never heard that "sharks don't get cancer". If someone told me that, there's precisely zero percent chance I would have believed them. Why do people believe unbelievable things so easily???? Regardless, thank you Kyle for always doing your part to educate the masses!!!
I was surprised that so many people hadn't heard of it, but your comment gives me an idea why: you're 18 years younger than me. Sharks Don't Get Cancer was written in 1992. It spawned a whole series of reports on 60 Minutes and Dateline in the 90's. It was huge in the 90's and Congress even had hearings about why the pharmaceutical industry wasn't using sharks to cure cancer, and the industry's insistence that it didn't work and the Gingrich Congress's refusal to accept this played a huge part in shifting pharma related conspiracy theories from the left wing to the right wing. This bunk was everywhere, but you need to be close to 40 to have really seen it when it was. When Sharks Still Don't Get Cancer was written in 2022 it was relegated to the fringe trash heap where the first one belonged.
I heard that myth many times. I didnt question it really but then I was not aware of there being a ton of 'medication' based on this. I knew about shark-finning but I thought it was due to shark-fin soup being a thing in certain countries. Thanks for educating me, Kyle.
I was about to say, China has been decimating entire ecosystems because of all the bogus Chinese medicine which is tradition there and no one calls them out on it.
Kyle covering shark genocide was not something I expected, but I am so glad he made this video. Amazing as always!
Genocide refers to humans
@@samsonsoturian6013 Are sharks not human?
Found the vegan. Calling killing animals for food a "genocide" is extremely offensive. Animals are meant to be skinned and eaten.
@@EthanPineapplename 3 sharks that filed taxes
@@ineedapharmists Easy. Kevin O’Leary, Mark Cuban, Lori Greiner.
I wrote this paper, about this in 1994- 1995 for my senior thesis at WSU for my BS in Zoology. Dateline was also a part of the problem. México killed so many reef sharks for shark cartillage that were the only predators of one type of sea urchin. It didn't just kill sharks, it allowed these urchins to decimate coral reefs. It pisses me off that this is still a problem.
"The earth sharks"
Kyle. Why was that qualifier necessary? What do you know that we don't?
its foreshadowing for his next series: Sharks on Europa
He's, of course, differentiating them from the Space Sharks chapter of Space Marines from the historical documentary Warhammer 40,000
@@Mith420420 I cant wait for that video to drop
To differentiate from air, water and fire sharks, of course.
Kind of a bad qualifier when you consider that it’s ambiguous between standard sharks and Land Shark.
Oddly enough, I had never heard this "fact" before. But a fun shark fact I love is that Lemon Sharks get attached to some of their favorite divers, and they can get jealous when other Lemon Sharks get more attention from their favorite divers.
It was a big deal in the 90's. It's where the whole glucosamine supplement fad came from.
Very late reply, but can confirm that lemons are like big puppies. My absolute favorite times diving is around lemons.
I'd never heard of this myth before but I knew about the shark fin soup. I totally believe something like that has taken off amongst human beliefs.
It's very sad that we are destroying this creature.
Not "we". China.
Chinese "medicine" is irradicating so many endangered species. Most poaching world wide is done due to their demand.
@Sammysapphira there are people who have migrated from China to other countries. I was even offered shark fin soup at a wedding reception in America in like 2008
It is not just a China problem, and even if it were, it still has global impact.
Same here!
@@Sammysapphirathanks for the racism buddy
Now why don't you huff that definitely proven vit C supplements to cure your brain cancer
Thank you for calling out "traditional" animal abuse. I hate that stupid shit
You're gonna have to convince a lot of Chinese that it's not real or worth it to make any real impact.
Any awful practice being defended because it's "traditional" or "part of culture" makes my blood boil
Cool to find so many vegans here!
@@ShadeSlayer1911people. Chinese people. Not Chinese. Disregarding the fact that pills are sold here in the west as well. Lets make sure we aren't saying accidentally racist things yeah?
@@harmonic5107what racism? Bro he said "Chinese"
As a shark conservationist and sharky boi myself, I thank you for making this video, and cutting right to the chase in speaking the truth. This needs to be spread more for awareness, and the practice of shark finning needs to be stopped world wide.
This video is wrong in one aspect. Even if the Science was correct, there's no justification for this tragedy, not only to sharks, but to the whole ocean fauna. Overfishing, acidification and climate change are killing the ocean. The entire South Florida is turning from blue to green. Extreme water surface temperature as never seen before. The problem is not bad science, the problem is bad people and ignorance.
Thank you for your service
Sharks Are extraordinary animals. But i'm so sorry for people decimate this apex predator of sea.
Honestly I’ve never heard of the “fact” of sharks not getting cancer until I saw this video. Sharks really don’t get the credit they deserve, the movies don’t help with that either.
Shark finning is just plain evil man.
We don't live in a bone prison. Our bones are forced to live in a flesh prison. Think of of the poor skeleton having to wait 100yrs to feel the sun
Look I cant speak for your brain but personally mine lives inside my skull
Found the necromancer.
You can’t have my bones, I’m still using them
@@0jutai For now;)
I like the way you think Mr. Necromancer. I bet you and all of your reanimated friends would be fun to hangout with 😂
Not always, in a motorbike accident my right femur got a bit of a tan. The Sun didn't suit it though as it's now 1/2" shorter than the left one.
It's disgusting the way people misrepresent things to sell a book, a movie, a documentary, an alternative medicine so they can get more money at nature and everyone's expense.
i honestly find it more disgusting that the majority never question what they hear or read
Humans at there finest
I think this is another one of them there 'externalized costs' runs roughshod throughout business. It's like how manufacturing is linear from mining to landfill rather than circular, for the most part. Some aluminum cans and paper go round and round but not much else.
@@Drogoran that's the real disgusting thing here. the majority of people just simply... don't think.
They will always do this.
The problem is lack of oversight AND money.
Since we will not get rid of money until technology enables us to have unlimited resources, strict oversight is the probable solution.
0:16 Hideo Kojima? You mean THE Hideo “Game” Kojima, inventor of the Hideo Game?!
He created the Strand Game even
You mean the guy who spent decades attaching his name to other people's hard work with no more contribution than "Make her boobs bigger and jiggle more,"?
Was not expecting how sad/angry I would become through the video. Great video.
you should watch Gordon Ramsay's shark finning documentary. this is pretty brief by comparison (but still good for raising awareness)
ATLEAST USE ALL THE SHARK IF YOU'RE GONNA BE AN AWFUL MONSTER
Right? Where's my shark hat? At least when we where murdering beavers we got nice hats out of the deal!
It's clear that the reason he discusses,are not the reason why they do this.If the practice continued because if the want for cartilage,it would make no sense to throw 90% of the cartilage back into the water to rot.The collection if fins is for far weirder reasons than cartilage content.
The Pacific islands very rarely provide iron ore, so the Polynesians wrapped rough shark skin around wooden pieces ands used them as files/grates, especially when creating their famous boats. I have seen such a tool in a lecture held by a specialist in Polynesian culture.
Note that these people fished only for single sharks, not on an industrial scale.
That's what I personally believe in. If you take an animal's life, at least make use of as much of it as you can. Respect the animal.
Yeah, it makes no sense at all to waste all that meat like that! And why throw them back in the water alive?
That is why science communication is so important.
And correct science communication like this video at that!
Can we do more scientific general ignorance myths, where they come from, and what unexpected harm and/or benefit they have brought the scientific community and humanity as a whole?
This isn't a general myth for the whole world, but it is very common among my community. Maybe it will interest you. :-)
I was born blind. When I was a little girl, I didn't like to eat carrots. However, the adults around me promised me that if I ate my carrots, they would make my eyes healthy and strong. Eventually, due to bleeding cataracts and detached retinas, both eyes had to be removed so that I wear plastic now.
It is very true that people can develop a form of night blindness if they are deficient in vitamin A and that carrots have carotene that can be converted to vitamin A. That is as far as that myth goes. I didn't know that, so I ate carrots out of desperation as my eyes got worse , and I believed that my behavior and my dislike for carrots caused the trouble I ended up having with my eyes.
I still hate carrots, but now I feel pissed off every time I taste them in something. I also did not feed carrots to my daughter when she was little. I left it to her grandparents to make that introduction if they felt like doing it.
@@rhyami iirc the "carrots improve your sight" myth comes from ww2, the brits developed radar to be able to tell when zeppelins were coming to bomb and to hide their technology they explained it as feeding carrots to their military to better their night vision.
Sucks you had to lose your eyes, hope you're doing well though.
@@Raptorworld22 zeppelins are WW1 technology in WW2 the brits were intercepting bombers (examples He-111, Do-17)
@@daag1851 Ah, thanks for correction. Not a big history buff, just vaguely remembered the explanation from (I think) Horrible Histories.
He should do a video about animal testing in labs because computer models are now more efficient and accurate than actual animals.
4:09 "Sir, the second book hit the shelves!"
Sharkfin soup is such a travesty, its not even about the taste either its about cultural expectations and texture.
Mock shark fin has a great texture, though I don't intend to try the real thing to compare
I wouldn't even think it would taste or feel pleasant.
Oh yeah, people who have tried it will tell you that the shark fin itself adds little to nothing to the soup, and it's arguably the worst part of an otherwise flavorful broth.
It's more of a status symbol nowadays, from what I understand.
@@ShadeSlayer1911Yeah mock shark fin soup is way better, sometimes they have it be vegetarian orientated and have mushroom substitutes (which are way more flavourful)
@Spartan-sz7km i normally don't care for vegetarian substitutes for meat products. But in this case, mushroom sounds way better than shark fin in every way. I like a good mushroom soup. It's very umami
You leave Kojima alone, you midgardian Thor
Big Boss is coming after Kyle now
@@Travissaur Nanomachines?
More like Mid Thor
@@kylehill SHARKS DONT GET NANOMACHINES SON
(The people that don't understand the reference are probably so confused)
@@srleplay It’s spelled “Midgard”
I have to admit, I just accepted the "sharks don't get cancer myth," since I've been hearing it my whole life. I'd never buy shark cartilage though because that's just stupid. I eat plants all the time, but I've never gotten photosynthesis powers.
I actually have never heard of this myth until this video ngl
I'm Chinese American, but I did live in Hong Kong for many years. That's not the reason Chinese people want shark fin soup. Shark fin soup has been seen as a luxury food and thus a symbol of wealth long long before modern science even knew about cancer. Also, in Chinese culture, share fin is NOT a Chinese medicine. It's not. It's sold in the "expensive ingredient stores" that sell ginseng, bird's nest, sea cucumbers. Shark fin is one of those, it is not medicine. Feel free to Google this. When I googled it, I was surprised to see that Wikipedia says we think shark fin is medicine. That's weird, because I argue that's not true.
From Chinese history, originally shark fin was something fed to poor people and was undesirable. But one day a chef for the emperor wanted to create an impressive dish using the most cheap and unwanted ingredient, as a way to impress the emperor, and he invented shark fin soup. Shark fin is collagen and has no real flavor, shark fin soup tastes good because of all the other expensive and flavorful ingredients used, including curated ham, a lot of chicken broth, and sometimes conches and fish parts.
Being medicine that protects against cancer is not something I have ever heard, even though I grew up eating shark fin, in a city where we all ate shark fin.
At the time, I was a child and didnt know how bad the shark fin industry was. We all just thought it was normal and ok, probably because no one really asked "where did these come from?".
At this point, a lot of Chinese Americans have denounced shark fin because we learned what it involves. A number of Chinese American organizations have made a point to take a stand as well as spread the message. The mass slaughtering of sharks and the ecological devastation is all because of a chef in our ancient history made us all desire this ingredient in our food, merely because it symbolized wealth.
I do not know where this medicine idea came from, I have always heard that shark fin soup was a luxury and for weddings. Back in the mid 2000's, that's what they said on TV during Shark Week. Even back then they were trying to say "Have your fun with depictions of the ocean's deadliest predator, but remember the real victims are the millions of sharks killed for their fins."
Im glad you addressed this. I have had artheitis all my life and in the 20th century many supplements for joints had shark cartilage in it. It DOES work to rebuild cartilage in your joints. Nowadays, they use chicken sternum and its not as great. My husband worked in Hong Kong and I have friends from Taiwan as well as South Korea. Shark fin soup was just for eating and many dont think anything of it. Never heard of it as medicine either. Wikipedia is owned by the CIA so I dont read anything on that website, its not scholarly.
Excellent piece, Kyle. Can you do the myth of the Alpha wolf and the impact on human social structures, next?
@@Xaviernisan I am sorry but, no. Most of what you have referred to as nature are, in-fact, learned behaviors. Humans are THE example of how the myth of the Alpha has had a negative impact on sociology.
Yess pls
1:25 "older than trees" - that makes more sense than hearing that sharks are older than trains. I think im gettin old
Hideo Kojima catching a stray torpedo in the intro
You should make more videos debunking snakeoil. This stuff is vile.
Snakes are just bleps
They don’t go out looking for humans to bite, all they do is defend themselves
Kyle, because of you, I discovered Planet Wild and became a supporter. Now I just want to save as much as I can, so I can volunteer on these worthwhile initiatives actively, and not just as a supporter. Thanks for that!
This is the first time I've ever heard the claim that "sharks don't get cancer"
I'm glad that passed me by!
If only Peta was protecting endangered animals instead of stealing and killing dogs of homeless people.
PETA is the type of group that makes themselves feel better by shaming others. Similar to the freaks cementing their bodies to freeways in the name of “environmentalism”.
Protecting vulnerable species is actually hard, but it's so much easier pretending to do a lot.
Jason mamoa is tryna protect the sharks
Chrison Mahemsworth😂
Aquaman at home
@@willodelljr.4909
It's best homemade
What an incredibly frustrating video. Thank you so much for bringing these kinds of videos.
I completely understand what you mean. I work as an ADHD Coach and an sex coach and there's so much misinformation and all around bullishit when it comes to do with ADHD and Sex.
Kojima isn't overrated, he's just the George Lucas of video games. When he has a supportive team who's willing to reign him in but still give him respect, he produces bangers (the original trilogy). When he's left to his own devices, he produces stories that are mid, but have their merits (the prequels). But when he's cut out by a greedy company, they have no hope of producing anything good (the sequels)
Death Stranding is one of my favorite games of all time. No idea how much people negotiated with him on that though.
@SaltExarch: That pretty much also describes Terry Gilliam.
No he is over-rated. But so is Lucas.
How did Lucas get "cut out"? He sold Star Wars. It was his creation and he chose to part with it. There wasn't a Konami equivalent like there is with Kojima and Metal Gear. Sure, you can definitely argue that both MG and SW suffer from their original creator no longer being part of the process, but the way we got there was totally different. Kojima didn't get $4 billion for Metal Gear.
@@jedimasterpickle3 I used "cut out" more for the sake of the simple comparison, but yes, you're right. Lucas got an amazing deal while Kojima was just screwed over
I'm 30 years old and this is the first time I'm hearing about sharks not getting cancer. I've heard about sharks not being able to stop swimming but never heard of sharks not getting cancer.
I remember famous oceanographer Jacques Cousteau basically saying: "Sharks have been given a bad reputation. They are NOT the bad species they are made out to be."
I'm sad your comment was stolen by a p*rn bot 😢
11:30 While the iron in spinach may be a misunderstanding, especially so considering it also contains oxalates, it does still contain a lot of other healthy stuff like folate. Of course, also some bad stuff like nitrate, so as with anything, don't overeat it, and especially don't make your diet exclusively spinach.
That's just appalling that they would do that to a living, feeling, thinking animal. It's unethical, immoral, and just plain wrong. It should be illegal if it isnt already.
Found the vegan.
@@WeissM89 I'm not a vegan, nor a vegetarian.
It's illegal in most countries but a lot of Asian countries didn't get the memo or care, it's sickening
What's insane is this has been going on for 40 or more years, there honestly can't be a lot of sharks anymore
@@spazticfantaztic8553 What's most insane of all is my country has a sustainable shark farming program as we have several shark dishes and use 90% of the shark as what we don't eat becomes animal food or fertilizer.
But the one part of the fish we don't really use is the fins as not even dogs find them tasty.
They could literally have as many shark fins as they want. But they don't want the fins from gummy sharks.
I don't know anything about sharks, but I know about having cancer myself: I was too young to feel anything more than pain but, I saw people around me (other patients) feel all kinds of stuff from despair to wishing death upon healthy people as if was some form of vengeance.
The industry feeds on these people and their families who sell out themselves in pursuit of some fleeting hope. Quick example:
I met a mother of two kids, she was friendly to me because I was around the same age as her son. She had breast cancer, after a year of treatment I heard her husband sold the house they had in order to pay medical bills.
She died a couple months after that anyways.
I've literally never read that sharks don't get cancer. Shame because some shark species show pack/school structures. They're also shown to be smart and social animals.
Human miss management is real, as apex predators and intelligent creatures we should manage the things we put our hands on. Do we need to metal in everything no, just the stuff we have too and or need to manipulate. Sea life management is unavoidable.
Im a believer that all life on earth will die. If we go full hippie and live like my ancestors we will die here on this rock along with everyone else. We can extend life if we can take things from earth into space with us before the earth gets burned by the sun. I know all that'll happen far from now but its still allowing life that would die in that second to exist far after that someplace else. We could manage our resources, tech, animals, and improve it till the universe ends its self.
Well said!
" Do we need to metal in everything no"
Just want to point out this typo, the correct word is "meddle"
I feel like an asteroid or meteor is going to end us before the sun. (Or solar flare)
This video is wrong in one aspect. Even if the Science was correct, there's no justification for this tragedy, not only to sharks, but to the whole ocean fauna. Overfishing, acidification and climate change are killing the ocean. The entire South Florida is turning from blue to green. Extreme water surface temperature as never seen before. The problem is not bad science, the problem is bad people and ignorance.
@@ghostsyynx appreciate English is second language still learning
@@brancoslos8650 understandable, the threat of life on earth is definitely other possibilities. I mentioned the sun because I believe given enough time after an asteroid strike or solar wave life could bounce back just like the past. However, after the sun goes red giant it'll swallow the earth and blast the surface long enough to glass the surface. Life in any meaningful way wouldn't be able to come out of it. We are really limited in time and physical space to jump systems and bubble systems that are faster than light move away from us.
I'm so glad you did this video! I learned about this from the late Rob Stewart's documentary Sharkwater. Every human being needs to see Sharkwater! It is absolutely unacceptable that this is still going on. There's possibly more money in the shark fin industry than in the illegal drug trade! Thank you for doing this Kyle! You should expand on this and talk about Rob Stewarts documentaries and work on this issue.
Oh great, Kyle provided depression! :D
But really, great vid about an important topic. It's terrible how misinformation just literally destroys the Earth
Thank you,Kyle, for making this video. This is a subject near and dear to me for decades.
Please make more awareness videos like this
I did not know about this false fact but I’m glad I didn’t need to know it!
Thank you for creating this and being extremely explicit in the fact that these practices are unethical, indefensible and completely unacceptable. I have a deep respect for your willingness to call out misinformation and the consequences of that misinformation.
This is infuriating, so much needless deaths and suffering, for absolutely nothing, just for the greed of people!
I'm disgusted by humanity.
Found the vegan.
Oh great buddy ur a human until you managed to change ur self as an animal 😂😂😂
@@WeissM89 A number of sharks equal to the casualty numbers of both world wars combined are killed every year, in a manner straight out of a horror movie, over false claims about danger an cancer cures. That's not a vegan thing, that's an environmental and consumer catastrophe.
I would have appreciated if you expanded a bit more on "Why?" and "How?" do sharks get cancer. Were the first studies wrong? Or maybe sharks are only affected by certain types of cancer and not others?
Made me think of Futurama when the aliens hunt Fry for his 'human horn'. Surprised he didn't mention rhinos or elephants.
Thank you so much for covering this topic Kyle. It has been something very close to my heart for over a decade❤
10:26 'fascinating boneless boys" what a fun way to describe sharks
When I was in high school in the late 90s my first job was at the neighborhood grocery store. It was a local company, not a chain and had an emphasis on "health" items. There was a large section up front with loads of supplements -- powers, pills, oils, all kind of stuff, but also books. I distinctly remember the "sharks don't get cancer" book and pill setup, along with the types of folks who came to the store because it catered to this stuff. I got a general crank vibe from those folks. They always said things in this "'they' don't want you to know..." voice that made me suspicious of all of it.
New favorite vid next to You Super Power vid. As a diver for 20+ years, excellent to see this info making it to newer audience's. Now lets start a rumor that mosquitoes cure cancer. Unfortunately those little SOBs are part of the ecosystem too.
Thanks for getting the word out, Kyle
I'm so fucking glad that one of the biggest science communicators on youtube is talking about this. Sharks are and have been one of my favorite animals, bar none, and their treatment has been nothing less than abhorrent. I'm so sick of grifters and snake oil salesmen taking advantage of people's ignorance and devastating such an amazing and important creature. I remember when this shark-cancer myth popped up, and I have literally never once taken it seriously. One dude, two books, millions of innocent animals killed.
I just want to thank you for highlighting this cruelty. Sending you peace. 🕊
2:02 Hey Kyle, if it makes you feel any better, I love fun facts, but I've never heard this until I scrolled through your channel. If asked, I would've said that sharks can detect electrical impulses from creature nervous systems
Dear Kyle: I've seen almost all of your videos.
This is the most shocking and, by far, the most important.
Thank you
If you think this is shocking, read up on ghost nets when you get a chance. Have you watched Deadliest Catch? If they lose one of those traps, the crab in it can't forage for food so they die. More crab then enter the trap to eat the dead crabs, until they die. Rinse and repeat. (Newer traps are designed to have parts of it quickly rust out to eventually give crab an escape route, and break this cycle.)
Sharks not immune to cancer just bone cancer 2:43 lol
Okay, this is a joke because you know they don’t have bones
I’m a scuba diver, I remember the first time I got to scuba dive. It changed my life. I never seen or felt nature in that way nor have I since unless I’m under the water in the ocean. Seeing the pictures of those sharks and all those being harvested are absolutely heartbreaking, literally brought a tear to my eye if not multiple. It hurts to see this happening to the animals in the ocean.
8:40 Bro is Jotaro but for sharks.
i am 35. i have literally never heard this particular myth. fascinating!
To quote Dr Karl (circa 1980's) "For every person eaten by a shark, 100,000 sharks are eaten by people. Sharks must think about this a lot."
Thanks Kyle for exposing such frauds. Sharks fascinated me since my childhood. They are VERY misunderstood creatures, in every meaning of the word. I love them so bad ! It genuinely hurts me when people say bad things or spread lies about them.
Once again, thank you for using the tribune that is your channel to give them the credit they deserve.
Much love to you, shark lovers from everywhere in the world, from Southern France.
Adrien.
Edit :
PS : Swimming/SCUBA diving with sharks is a lifelong dream of mine. Hope I can make it true someday.
Sharks really get a bad rep. Jaws and the no cancer thing really did a number.
And people eating just the fins to look fancy
I had never heard of this myth nor did I ever know why people use shark fins for things. I now know and I am even more shocked about it than I thought I would be. Thanks for making me depressed about it Kyle. Also thanks for educating me.
Sorry to pile it on, but i hear horseshoe crabs don't survive their milking either. Answers with joe did a video on it.
Sometimes they milk them too much and surprise surprise bleeding a creature out is generally bad for it's health but (most) people know what they are doing and don't take nearly as much, plus horseshoe crab blood has massive benefits in medical research. Shark fins don't.
Thank you for doing this video Kyle. We need to protect all animals on our planet as every one of them are important.
When i was in mainland China 2016 the chinese goverment launched a huge campaign about sharks getting killed for their fins but people doesnt seem to care or perhaps it is because the fishing industry consider the sharkfin harvesting to be extremely profitable.
Besides there are a vegetarian option and no you cant taste the difference to the actual shark fin soup.
I've swam with wild nurse sharks before and in that experience they were so friendly and docile and curious. Thank you for making this video
What's with the drive-by on Hideo?!
I have to say, I have never heard of this myth. I knew that shark finning was a problem because of shark fin soup, but this is new to me, and honestly even more frustrating.
We fight fire with fire here. Write a paper that says that it turns out that sharks are actually particularlly prone to certain types of cancer especially bone cancers and thats why they evolved to have cartilage instead of bones.
Imagine aliens coming down to earth, abducting people, chopping off their limbs for their own dogmatic beliefs and 'benefits', and then throwing them back to the ground.
"But noooo, we let them back on earth! How is that not humane?! We didn't know that they cannot survive without their arms and legs." But in fact, the aliens did know. They knew very well, and they didn't care.
ill take it as a good thing that i never heard this particular "fact" before lol
This is honestly the first time I'm hearing this myth, that sharks don't get cancer, and that their cartilage can treat or prevent cancer in people. It however, is NOT the first time learning about the appallingly inhumane practice of harvesting shark fins...absolutely horrid.
Still not sure why people call things like that inhuman, when it is more that evident that violently killing something for profit is very human.
Starving calves for 5 days so there's less poop when you slaughter them at 10 days old for the crime of being born male? I sleep. Male baby chicks literally genetically modified to be a different color, so they can hatch on a conveyer belt, be sorted by robots, and then be dropped into a meat grinder minutes after birth? I sleep.
Sharkies killed for no reason?? Real shit.
I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart, Kyle. I appreciate that you are bringing this to the public's eye and using your platform for good. In a world that seems full of evil it can be hard for people to realize that the good people are still here and "fighting the good fight" as it were.
and i suppose I'm sorry if I'm coming off as cliche and sappy. It's because I am LOL but really though; thank you, Science Lebowski Kyle Hill. Thank you for doing your part
Am I the only one who's never heard the myth before this video?
I'm gonna be honest, Kyle; before today, I'd never heard that sharks don't get cancer until literally today. Plenty of other shark facts, but never this one.
Why didn't you name it
Sharks and Cancer - The Myth That Doomed Billions
Looks like he read your comment. Check the title now. 👍
What was it called before
Y'all got bamboozled lmao
Thanks for dispelling more misinformation! We really need to do as much as we can for our oceans.
Agreed with everything, but the Kojima comment...
Excellent video that explains important facts in an easily understandable way. Keep on producing your videos - we need them!
1:59 I thought that the most known shark fact that most of them don't attend church
They aren't forklift certified either
@@lilyjohnson6587 World ain' fair men
It's NOT 'fish are friends, not food?' 😮
I've been had.
Great video Kyle, keep spreading understanding and knowledge which is actually validated and supported not just speculated. I'm so tired of everything being speculation to get engagement off fear and misunderstanding, you're a beacon in the dark in a world full of misinformation.
I really appreciate this video, sharks are horribly misunderstood and one of the most important animals and groups on the planet.
We're already done devastating damage to the world through hunting them through fear and ignorance. We need more compassion and understanding of them.
A reminder that a decimation is a reduction by 10%, we have done a hell of a lot worse than decimate sharks... Yes I am being pedantic 🙃
I think he ment devastated. So many creators have been doing this lately.
That is just one of the definitions, and arguably an older one. The most used definition is "to kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of"
@@thorwaldjohanson2526 With a root of deci(ten), and the historical examples of the Russian decimations during the battle of Stalingrad during WW2 and the Italian decimations of WW1, I'll stick with the non-bastardization of the English language.
@@Verdictus13 words change over time. It's a fact of life. "correcting" people on a correct meaning is a bit cringe. There are many examples, do you correct people when they use words like nice, gay or cool?
@@thorwaldjohanson2526 Only when the definition is important to the discussion. What is happening to sharks isn't a decimation, its far worse.
Can't say I have ever heard this myth in over 50 years.
I love that my favorite youtubers are talking about these sharks being needlessly murdered. Thank you Kyle.
But leave Hideo alone!
Hey, Kyle! Thanks for promoting Planet Wild. I’ve signed up and hope lots of others follow. 🦈🌍🌲
Maybe it's because I'm not from the west coast (or really on a coast at all), but I've never heard anyone claim "sharks don't get cancer." Ironically, Kyle is the first person I've heard say that.
Kyle I love what you're doing here. Just wanted to thank you for bringing Planet Wild to my attention, its exactly the kind of organization I've been looking for to support! Got a new member today thanks to you :)
do you guys think hes just reading the comments while kicking his feet in the air
Maybe for 3 minutes
Obviously he has Aria read them to him
What people do for shark fins is criminal
70% !!! Thanks for that. I feel great. No seriously I'm just a ball of happiness...................nope
My mom got cancer in 1992. She took shark cartilage supplements. It didn’t work. I had no idea how it was harvested, that’s horrific. Thank you for making this video
If you didnt grow up with Street-Sharks I feel bad for you son.
I must've been living under a rock because I never heard of this. The only thing I have ever heard about shark Cartlidge is that it can be used to produce something that is claimed to treat osteoarthritis. It is a component of shark Cartlidge. It has a big fancy name, and I can't remember it at the moment. :-) that can help repair the Cartlidge in arthritic joints. In fact, I see that supplement on store shells along with glucosamine. I suspect a lot of the shark population is killed for that purpose because there are a lot of old people with arthritis buying supplements. I have not tried shark Cartlidge myself, but I have wondered about it since I'm almost at the point of needing a knee replacement. I can see now that this isn't a decision to take lightly and that I need to do a lot more research.
*Save the REAL ocean puppies!*
*SAVE THE SHARKS*
The Welsh called sharks "sea dogs"
Fun trivia: Many years ago, there was an abattoir near the mouth of the Brisbane River in Queensland Australia.
If you needed a feed, you'd go to the offal dump pipe that flowed straight into the river and catch sharks and other fish. Sharks help keep the ocean clean. They'll eat dead animals, rather than hunt live ones because it's more energy efficient. Not that the sharks know that. They're just generally lazy. Easy prey or dead stuff is the way they operate. Just look at the frenzies around whale carcasses in the ocean.
Thanks Kyle, I just subscribed to Planet Wild.
I've been a medical professional for decades, and I'm also a huge nerd. I've somehow literally never heard that "sharks don't get cancer". If someone told me that, there's precisely zero percent chance I would have believed them. Why do people believe unbelievable things so easily????
Regardless, thank you Kyle for always doing your part to educate the masses!!!
I've literally never heard of "sharks don't get cancer" during the nearly 24 years I have been on this planet
I was surprised that so many people hadn't heard of it, but your comment gives me an idea why: you're 18 years younger than me.
Sharks Don't Get Cancer was written in 1992. It spawned a whole series of reports on 60 Minutes and Dateline in the 90's. It was huge in the 90's and Congress even had hearings about why the pharmaceutical industry wasn't using sharks to cure cancer, and the industry's insistence that it didn't work and the Gingrich Congress's refusal to accept this played a huge part in shifting pharma related conspiracy theories from the left wing to the right wing.
This bunk was everywhere, but you need to be close to 40 to have really seen it when it was.
When Sharks Still Don't Get Cancer was written in 2022 it was relegated to the fringe trash heap where the first one belonged.
I heard that myth many times. I didnt question it really but then I was not aware of there being a ton of 'medication' based on this. I knew about shark-finning but I thought it was due to shark-fin soup being a thing in certain countries. Thanks for educating me, Kyle.
Message sent
China leaves on read
Chinese people like brutal food sources.
I was about to say, China has been decimating entire ecosystems because of all the bogus Chinese medicine which is tradition there and no one calls them out on it.
True, Traditional Chinese Medicine is a threat to so many species and ecosystems it needs to be stopped
I was told this by a nurse while my grandfather was on chemo, that they were using shark to assist in attempting to cure him