Scott Bremner

The following is an open letter to Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, US Senators Bob Casey and Arlen Specter and US Representative Phil English:

Dear Sirs:

I was just wondering where you’ve been as a Pennsylvania resident quietly goes about the business of curing one of the deadliest killers known to man.

Cancer.

While we have heard all of you on just about every topic from politics to pastrami, if you have been speaking out on the efforts of John Kanzius to use radio waves to heat and kill cancer cells, one thing is clear:

We can’t hear you.

You were silent as John’s radio waves burst water into flames and burst cancer cells from the inside out in Pietre dishes.

You stayed silent as those tests progressed to small animals, and tiny nanoparticles were used to insert metal into the cells that would turn lethal when heated.

Still nothing as the animals grew larger, and the excitement did too, as research normally ten to twelve years in the making was accomplished in a matter of months.

Now John tells us that a leading manuscript will report in the next few months that four major cancers have been targeted with protein covered nanoparticles with minimal to no invasion of healthy cells nearby.

Now John says that the next prototype machine for human trials could be a full body approach to kill not only tumors but any rogue cells that get away, an advancement so critical that an industry once thought to be worth about 10 billion dollars is now estimated to bring its host community 100 billion dollars in economic punch.

That’s news so exciting that governments like Canada have offered to fully fund the remaining research for free just as long as the machines are made there.

And yet from you there is silence.

Is it a sense of entitlement, that John has promised the industry here so we don’t have to do anything except show up for the handshakes?

Is it a fear of the pharmaceutical lobby and the potential loss of all those dollars used to keep an entrenched power structure in place?

Why is every government familiar with the research arc clamoring for a piece of the pie, every place on earth except the one place where the inventor is hoping that his greatest achievement might be the reinvention of his home town?

I was just wondering,
Scott W. Bremner