Oklahoma City police officers probably never thought it would be their job to find the cure for cancer, but they're now working a case that has the potential to save millions of lives. That's because a crook in Oklahoma may have the cure for cancer, and not even know it. It's now a race against the clock to find it before it's erased forever. Sook Shin says, "I cannot eat and sleep since last Sunday."
Last Sunday, Shin was carrying a possible cure for cancer in the back of her car. Years of data stored on a small iMac computer. She says, "I'm devastated. And I feel so guilty." Shin and her husband are leading cancer researchers in an OU research lab. The two have committed their lives, working long hours, seven days a week to find a cure for prostate cancer. She says, "It has been a long journey up to now."
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They stopped at a restaurant on North Western to grab a meal before heading back to the lab. When they finished, they found their car windows busted and the laptop gone. Shin says, "I just cannot eat, sleep. I feel enormous guilty feeling. Not backing up." Most of that data was never backed up, a mistake Shinn says could be a major setback in the fight against cancer. She says, "Please return the computer with the data saved. This would tremendously help us and you would do something for society."
The couple says that computer has the power to save millions of lives, but they're afraid whoever took it will wipe its memory and sell it. They're posting a flier in pawn shops hoping someone can help in time. Some of that data can never be replicated, and other parts of that research could take up to 2 years to do over. That's earth shattering, considering 30,000 men die in the U.S. every year from prostate cancer. Meaning more than 60,000 people could lose their lives, all because of a stupid crime.
6 comments:
Yeah, sure.
Their 'cure' probably involves prayer and homeopathic nonsense.
And she has no back ups and no hard copies? I smell sh!te
Two years worth of groundbreaking, lifesaving research data, everything on a single laptop without any copies whatsoever? I find that quite hard to believe. But then, you can be a scientific genius and still be a total moron.
Several years of work without a single backup? Bollocks! I could maybe believe that for a home desktop computer, but not a work's laptop.
If it's true, it's not only devastating, I imagine it'd be pretty close to negligence. How much money (not to mention the number of lives) would potentially be lost/wasted if the work had to be done again?
...more than 60,000 people could lose their lives, all because of a stupid crime.
The crime may well be stupid, but the couple needs to take some responsibility too.
As I see it, if everything really happened like the article claims, the thief can still hardly be blamed for the deaths if the cure for cancer is delayed. Theft, fire, broken pipes and water damage and especially hard drive failure are facts of life and you are simply an idiot, an irresponsible idiot if you don't prepare for them in any way. And leaving your precious laptop in a parked car? Come on, it was like these people wished this to happen. I suspect this is a publicity stunt.
This sounds fishy. Why would all the information be on a laptop with no backups anywhere? If they were working at OU, why weren't they using any of the computers and resources there? Shouldn't there be at least one other copy of the research somewhere?
I doubt they've found a cure for cancer. And even if they did, 60,000 men will probably still die in the next two years anyway, since even if their cure works 100% of the time, it will still be years before it turns into a tangible treatment that's approved for human use.
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