St. Judes - Do not donate to them

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In reply to Tempus Edax Rerum • 8:35p, 1/2/25
Tempus Edax Rerum said:
LoneStar77 said:
This is one of the most bizarre threads I have seen on this board, and that is saying something. I am a long time employee of a major corporate partner with St. Jude. Please look at their website or talk to family that has been impacted or an employee. Their goal is "Finding cures. Saving children", not housing patient families or providing supplemental income. Bizzare...


Plenty of research institutions are focused on finding cures for cancer. St. Judes just grifts way more than most.
Just curious Tempus, are you based more on Spite or on Malice?

You project both a lot here.
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In reply to Tempus Edax Rerum • 9:15p, 1/2/25
Tempus Edax Rerum said:
LoneStar77 said:
This is one of the most bizarre threads I have seen on this board, and that is saying something. I am a long time employee of a major corporate partner with St. Jude. Please look at their website or talk to family that has been impacted or an employee. Their goal is "Finding cures. Saving children", not housing patient families or providing supplemental income. Bizzare...


Plenty of research institutions are focused on finding cures for cancer. St. Judes just grifts way more than most.
"St Jude is just another cancer cure mill." - Tempus
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In reply to Porteroso • 9:54p, 1/2/25
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St. Jude is a behemoth, because people really care about kids being saved from cancer. If you were to wage a successful campaign against it, and remove their funding, the world would be worse off, not better.

This is one of those situations where the truly ignorant are given a loudspeaker by social media. A 20 minute conversation with the right St. Jude worker would clear this up, but will you even try? No, just tell kids on the hiking trail to avoid St. Jude if they get cancer.
We spend more today on Cancer care yet Cancer rates continue to rise. We do nothing about addressing the symptoms/causes, just provide treatments because its Big $$$$$$
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In reply to BluesBear • 1:14a, 1/3/25
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Porteroso said:
St. Jude is a behemoth, because people really care about kids being saved from cancer. If you were to wage a successful campaign against it, and remove their funding, the world would be worse off, not better.

This is one of those situations where the truly ignorant are given a loudspeaker by social media. A 20 minute conversation with the right St. Jude worker would clear this up, but will you even try? No, just tell kids on the hiking trail to avoid St. Jude if they get cancer.
We spend more today on Cancer care yet Cancer rates continue to rise. We do nothing about addressing the symptoms/causes, just provide treatments because its Big $$$$$$


MAHA
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7:41a, 1/3/25
My son was a patient at St. Jude in 2010 and he is still alive today.

When St. Jude was founded in 1962 the survival rate for Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) was 4% but is now 94%.Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent when it opened in 1962, to 80 percent today.

My son's lead Doctor was bilingual, and St. Jude flew him to South America once per month for a week to train other Doctors on treatments so cancer patients could be treated locally. St. Jude shares all their research at no cost.

We never paid for any treatment and St. Jude continues to do follow up physicals and cancer screening at no cost. At first it was every 6 months, then annually and now every 5 years.

Most of the treatment is outpatient so you show up, get your chemo or radiation and go home or stay in a residence on the St. Jude property or a local hotel. Your child will wear a St. Jude patient ID bracelet for the duration of treatment. In 2010 at the time we were there almost every restaurant in the city offered a discount as well as places like movie theaters, the zoo, and museums when they saw that St. Jude bracelet. On more than one occasion a total stranger or the restaurant manager in Memphis outright covered our meal.

FWIW I thought St. Jude went overboard to help families with expenses such as food and travel.

I cannot say enough good things about the Doctors, Nurses and Employees at St. Jude. They are from all over the world (as are the patients) and they are incredibly smart and dedicated people.

Basically since 2010 the only two places I donate in bulk are to my church and St. Jude.



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In reply to Jacques Strap • 7:55a, 1/3/25
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My son was a patient at St. Jude in 2010 and he is still alive today.

When St. Jude was founded in 1962 the survival rate for Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) was 4% but is now 94%.Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent when it opened in 1962, to 80 percent today.

My son's lead Doctor was bilingual, and St. Jude flew him to South America once per month for a week to train other Doctors on treatments so cancer patients could be treated locally. St. Jude shares all their research at no cost.

We never paid for any treatment and St. Jude continues to do follow up physicals and cancer screening at no cost. At first it was every 6 months, then annually and now every 5 years.

Most of the treatment is outpatient so you show up, get your chemo or radiation and go home or stay in a residence on the St. Jude property or a local hotel. Your child will wear a St. Jude patient ID bracelet for the duration of treatment. In 2010 at the time we were there almost every restaurant in the city offered a discount as well as places like movie theaters, the zoo, and museums when they saw that St. Jude bracelet. On more than one occasion a total stranger or the restaurant manager in Memphis outright covered our meal.

FWIW I thought St. Jude went overboard to help families with expenses such as food and travel.

I cannot say enough good things about the Doctors, Nurses and Employees at St. Jude. They are from all over the world (as are the patients) and they are incredibly smart and dedicated people.

Basically since 2010 the only two places I donate in bulk are to my church and St. Jude.



Awesome story!
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8:55a, 1/3/25
So the problem with St. Jude is not that it provides free care, but that it has a large endowment and does not 1) house patient families or 2) provide supplemental income?

Man, what an odd critique.
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In reply to Tempus Edax Rerum • 9:02a, 1/3/25
Tempus Edax Rerum said:
LoneStar77 said:
This is one of the most bizarre threads I have seen on this board, and that is saying something. I am a long time employee of a major corporate partner with St. Jude. Please look at their website or talk to family that has been impacted or an employee. Their goal is "Finding cures. Saving children", not housing patient families or providing supplemental income. Bizzare...


Plenty of research institutions are focused on finding cures for cancer. St. Judes just grifts way more than most.
This is especially ironic, given your vocal support of big pharmaceutical companies. Speaking of grift, how much did Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and the like make from the world govts. on the COVID vaccine again? All told it was in the hundreds of billions of dollars. And who is the number one advertiser in the world today? Once again the large pharmaceutical companies. And what industry is the number one lobbiest of Congress? You guessed it: the pharmaceutical industry. And finally, which of the 7 largest pharmaceutical companies have been convicted of criminal negligence in a court of law at some point in the last 30 plus years? Answer: All of them.

But sure, it's St. Jude's that's the grift. Let me guess, you don't like the fact that St. Jude's is providing all of these medications for free.
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9:10a, 1/3/25
Game, set and match.
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In reply to Tempus Edax Rerum • 12:33p, 1/3/25
Tempus Edax Rerum said:
LoneStar77 said:
This is one of the most bizarre threads I have seen on this board, and that is saying something. I am a long time employee of a major corporate partner with St. Jude. Please look at their website or talk to family that has been impacted or an employee. Their goal is "Finding cures. Saving children", not housing patient families or providing supplemental income. Bizzare...


Plenty of research institutions are focused on finding cures for cancer. St. Judes just grifts way more than most.

How do you define grifting? Do you think the ghost of Danny Thomas is getting paid billions? Or do they simply get more money in donations than you think appropriate?
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In reply to Mothra • 12:45p, 1/3/25
Thanks you for your post.
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In reply to OsoCoreyell • 1:09p, 1/3/25
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Tempus Edax Rerum said:
Harrison Bergeron said:
No more ringing endorsement.
I'm not surprised you aren't too bright.

https://www.propublica.org/article/st-jude-hoards-billions-while-many-of-its-families-drain-their-savings
That's the scandal? That St Jude provides free cancer treatment but doesn't provide housing, travel, food and lost wages for the parents of patients? You're an idiot and Pro Publica is the scam.
Well, they do provide housing for one parent.
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In reply to Mothra • 4:02p, 1/3/25
Mothra said:
So the problem with St. Jude is not that it provides free care, but that it has a large endowment and does not 1) house patient families or 2) provide supplemental income?

Man, what an odd critique.
Just to clarify St. Jude does partially house patient families (the patient and 1 parent) if they live more than 250 miles away according to their website. I'd bet they bend those rules when a family is in need.

St. Jude is the main charity for Delta-Delta-Delta sorority. There is a large "hotel" (for lack of a better word) that Tri-Delt built to house families on a short-term basis. The Target House is a long-term lodging facility and Domino's Pizza facility and the Ronald McDonald house both offer short- and long-term lodging.

At the time we were there St. Jude treated about 5,000 patients a year and now the website says 8,600 per year. Those numbers blew me away when we were there. As I mentioned in a prior post, most patients do not spend a night in the hospital, they show up and get chemo and/or radiation and then drive back home or spend the night at one of the residential facilities. I am not sure who spends the night in the hospital, but I would guess it is patients who need isolation because their treatment has severely weakened their immune system.

Over the years St. Jude has asked my son to be part of a long-term study of one sort or another and they always offer to pay him to participate in the study. While he participates in the studies he declines the money.

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In reply to Mothra • 4:17p, 1/3/25
Mothra said:
Tempus Edax Rerum said:
LoneStar77 said:
This is one of the most bizarre threads I have seen on this board, and that is saying something. I am a long time employee of a major corporate partner with St. Jude. Please look at their website or talk to family that has been impacted or an employee. Their goal is "Finding cures. Saving children", not housing patient families or providing supplemental income. Bizzare...


Plenty of research institutions are focused on finding cures for cancer. St. Judes just grifts way more than most.
This is especially ironic, given your vocal support of big pharmaceutical companies. Speaking of grift, how much did Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and the like make from the world govts. on the COVID vaccine again? All told it was in the hundreds of billions of dollars. And who is the number one advertiser in the world today? Once again the large pharmaceutical companies. And what industry is the number one lobbiest of Congress? You guessed it: the pharmaceutical industry. And finally, which of the 7 largest pharmaceutical companies have been convicted of criminal negligence in a court of law at some point in the last 30 plus years? Answer: All of them.

But sure, it's St. Jude's that's the grift. Let me guess, you don't like the fact that St. Jude's is providing all of these medications for free.
I love St. Jude's and Big Pharma!!!
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4:38p, 1/3/25
If you're feeling as inspired by this thread as I have been, here is a link to donate to St. Jude.

https://www.stjude.org/donate/donate-to-st-jude.html?sc_dcm=58700006946881490&sc_cid=kwp&sc_cat=b&&&&&ds_rl=1291300&ds_rl=1285465&msclkid=82e2807fed73100e0007e7078bfb3635&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=M%20-%20Core%20Brand%20EX%20EL&utm_term=st%20judes%20donate%20online&utm_content=PM_PR_Dig_Srch_PM_AO_US_Nat_MS_M-Ads_LF_-_-_-_SERP-Exct_Srch-B_-_-_-_Donate_-_EL_-_-_Srch&gclid=82e2807fed73100e0007e7078bfb3635&gclsrc=3p.ds
Our vibrations were getting nasty. But why? I was puzzled, frustrated... Had we deteriorated to the level of dumb beasts?

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In reply to BluesBear • 7:20p, 1/3/25
BluesBear said:
Porteroso said:
St. Jude is a behemoth, because people really care about kids being saved from cancer. If you were to wage a successful campaign against it, and remove their funding, the world would be worse off, not better.

This is one of those situations where the truly ignorant are given a loudspeaker by social media. A 20 minute conversation with the right St. Jude worker would clear this up, but will you even try? No, just tell kids on the hiking trail to avoid St. Jude if they get cancer.
We spend more today on Cancer care yet Cancer rates continue to rise. We do nothing about addressing the symptoms/causes, just provide treatments because its Big $$$$$$


Actually false. Cancer rates have been declining for a long time
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In reply to Porteroso • 7:20p, 1/3/25
Porteroso said:
Tempus Edax Rerum said:
LoneStar77 said:
This is one of the most bizarre threads I have seen on this board, and that is saying something. I am a long time employee of a major corporate partner with St. Jude. Please look at their website or talk to family that has been impacted or an employee. Their goal is "Finding cures. Saving children", not housing patient families or providing supplemental income. Bizzare...


Plenty of research institutions are focused on finding cures for cancer. St. Judes just grifts way more than most.

How do you define grifting? Do you think the ghost of Danny Thomas is getting paid billions? Or do they simply get more money in donations than you think appropriate?


They hoard their endowment.
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In reply to Mothra • 7:23p, 1/3/25
Mothra said:
Tempus Edax Rerum said:
LoneStar77 said:
This is one of the most bizarre threads I have seen on this board, and that is saying something. I am a long time employee of a major corporate partner with St. Jude. Please look at their website or talk to family that has been impacted or an employee. Their goal is "Finding cures. Saving children", not housing patient families or providing supplemental income. Bizzare...


Plenty of research institutions are focused on finding cures for cancer. St. Judes just grifts way more than most.
This is especially ironic, given your vocal support of big pharmaceutical companies. Speaking of grift, how much did Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and the like make from the world govts. on the COVID vaccine again? All told it was in the hundreds of billions of dollars. And who is the number one advertiser in the world today? Once again the large pharmaceutical companies. And what industry is the number one lobbiest of Congress? You guessed it: the pharmaceutical industry. And finally, which of the 7 largest pharmaceutical companies have been convicted of criminal negligence in a court of law at some point in the last 30 plus years? Answer: All of them.

But sure, it's St. Jude's that's the grift. Let me guess, you don't like the fact that St. Jude's is providing all of these medications for free.


You're an odd dude. Millions were saved with the covid vaccine yet you ***** about the money spent on developing and distribution of it. You are one heartless SOB.
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In reply to Realitybites • 8:06p, 1/3/25
Realitybites said:
Tempus Edax Rerum said:
Scam hospital. Do not donate to them!
I'm guessing this is why he hates them.

"St Jude Trans Policy

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital does not discriminate against patients based on their gender identity or sexual orientation...but they do not provide gender-affirming surgeries or hormone treatments to minors"

Most of those other childrens hospitals are all in on the trans agenda and medical kidnapping.
Winner winner chicken dinner.

Mask boy is made because they won't provide free Conversion Therapy.
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In reply to Tempus Edax Rerum • 8:08p, 1/3/25
Tempus Edax Rerum said:
Harrison Bergeron said:
No more ringing endorsement.
I'm not surprised you aren't too bright.

https://www.propublica.org/article/st-jude-hoards-billions-while-many-of-its-families-drain-their-savings
You literally posted an article from The View, so I assure you that you're calling me not "too bright" is a massive complement.

BTW - do you wear one mask / jab? you up to 100 yet? How do you keep them all on your face?
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In reply to Tempus Edax Rerum • 8:13p, 1/3/25
Tempus Edax Rerum said:
Porteroso said:
Tempus Edax Rerum said:
LoneStar77 said:
This is one of the most bizarre threads I have seen on this board, and that is saying something. I am a long time employee of a major corporate partner with St. Jude. Please look at their website or talk to family that has been impacted or an employee. Their goal is "Finding cures. Saving children", not housing patient families or providing supplemental income. Bizzare...


Plenty of research institutions are focused on finding cures for cancer. St. Judes just grifts way more than most.

How do you define grifting? Do you think the ghost of Danny Thomas is getting paid billions? Or do they simply get more money in donations than you think appropriate?


They hoard their endowment.

What is their 5 and 10 year plan?

If you don't know, you probably ought to pipe down
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In reply to Tempus Edax Rerum • 8:31p, 1/3/25
Mister, you sound like a walking warning about what happens when kids eat paint chips then try to have a normal life.
That which does not kill me, will try again and get nastier
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In reply to Harrison Bergeron • 8:40p, 1/3/25
Harrison Bergeron said:
Realitybites said:
Tempus Edax Rerum said:
Scam hospital. Do not donate to them!
I'm guessing this is why he hates them.

"St Jude Trans Policy

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital does not discriminate against patients based on their gender identity or sexual orientation...but they do not provide gender-affirming surgeries or hormone treatments to minors"

Most of those other childrens hospitals are all in on the trans agenda and medical kidnapping.
Winner winner chicken dinner.

Mask boy is made because they won't provide free Conversion Therapy.
Remind me. He's Fab right?

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In reply to Tempus Edax Rerum • 5:32a, 1/4/25
Tempus Edax Rerum said:
Mothra said:
Tempus Edax Rerum said:
LoneStar77 said:
This is one of the most bizarre threads I have seen on this board, and that is saying something. I am a long time employee of a major corporate partner with St. Jude. Please look at their website or talk to family that has been impacted or an employee. Their goal is "Finding cures. Saving children", not housing patient families or providing supplemental income. Bizzare...


Plenty of research institutions are focused on finding cures for cancer. St. Judes just grifts way more than most.
This is especially ironic, given your vocal support of big pharmaceutical companies. Speaking of grift, how much did Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and the like make from the world govts. on the COVID vaccine again? All told it was in the hundreds of billions of dollars. And who is the number one advertiser in the world today? Once again the large pharmaceutical companies. And what industry is the number one lobbiest of Congress? You guessed it: the pharmaceutical industry. And finally, which of the 7 largest pharmaceutical companies have been convicted of criminal negligence in a court of law at some point in the last 30 plus years? Answer: All of them.

But sure, it's St. Jude's that's the grift. Let me guess, you don't like the fact that St. Jude's is providing all of these medications for free.


You're an odd dude. Millions were saved with the covid vaccine yet you ***** about the money spent on developing and distribution of it. You are one heartless SOB.
You're an odd dude. Tens of thousands of children have been saved by St. Jude yet you ***** about the size of their endowment. You are one heartless SOB.
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In reply to Mothra • 7:35a, 1/4/25
Mothra said:
Tempus Edax Rerum said:
Mothra said:
Tempus Edax Rerum said:
LoneStar77 said:
This is one of the most bizarre threads I have seen on this board, and that is saying something. I am a long time employee of a major corporate partner with St. Jude. Please look at their website or talk to family that has been impacted or an employee. Their goal is "Finding cures. Saving children", not housing patient families or providing supplemental income. Bizzare...


Plenty of research institutions are focused on finding cures for cancer. St. Judes just grifts way more than most.
This is especially ironic, given your vocal support of big pharmaceutical companies. Speaking of grift, how much did Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and the like make from the world govts. on the COVID vaccine again? All told it was in the hundreds of billions of dollars. And who is the number one advertiser in the world today? Once again the large pharmaceutical companies. And what industry is the number one lobbiest of Congress? You guessed it: the pharmaceutical industry. And finally, which of the 7 largest pharmaceutical companies have been convicted of criminal negligence in a court of law at some point in the last 30 plus years? Answer: All of them.

But sure, it's St. Jude's that's the grift. Let me guess, you don't like the fact that St. Jude's is providing all of these medications for free.


You're an odd dude. Millions were saved with the covid vaccine yet you ***** about the money spent on developing and distribution of it. You are one heartless SOB.
You're an odd dude. Tens of thousands of children have been saved by St. Jude yet you ***** about the size of their endowment. You are one heartless SOB.
I haven't looked into this but am willing to bet St Jude's doesn't offer stock like Pfizer does.
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In reply to LIB,MR BEARS • 7:51a, 1/4/25
LIB,MR BEARS said:
Mothra said:
Tempus Edax Rerum said:
Mothra said:
Tempus Edax Rerum said:
LoneStar77 said:
This is one of the most bizarre threads I have seen on this board, and that is saying something. I am a long time employee of a major corporate partner with St. Jude. Please look at their website or talk to family that has been impacted or an employee. Their goal is "Finding cures. Saving children", not housing patient families or providing supplemental income. Bizzare...


Plenty of research institutions are focused on finding cures for cancer. St. Judes just grifts way more than most.
This is especially ironic, given your vocal support of big pharmaceutical companies. Speaking of grift, how much did Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and the like make from the world govts. on the COVID vaccine again? All told it was in the hundreds of billions of dollars. And who is the number one advertiser in the world today? Once again the large pharmaceutical companies. And what industry is the number one lobbiest of Congress? You guessed it: the pharmaceutical industry. And finally, which of the 7 largest pharmaceutical companies have been convicted of criminal negligence in a court of law at some point in the last 30 plus years? Answer: All of them.

But sure, it's St. Jude's that's the grift. Let me guess, you don't like the fact that St. Jude's is providing all of these medications for free.


You're an odd dude. Millions were saved with the covid vaccine yet you ***** about the money spent on developing and distribution of it. You are one heartless SOB.
You're an odd dude. Tens of thousands of children have been saved by St. Jude yet you ***** about the size of their endowment. You are one heartless SOB.
I haven't looked into this but am willing to bet St Jude's doesn't offer stock like Pfizer does.
Indeed. I am sure Pfizer's investors loved the net $35 billion it made from the COVID vaccine in 21 and 22.

Pharmaceuticals are a VERY lucrative business. I am sure milli can attest to that.
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In reply to sombear • 8:18a, 1/4/25
sombear said:
Mothra said:
Tempus Edax Rerum said:
LoneStar77 said:
This is one of the most bizarre threads I have seen on this board, and that is saying something. I am a long time employee of a major corporate partner with St. Jude. Please look at their website or talk to family that has been impacted or an employee. Their goal is "Finding cures. Saving children", not housing patient families or providing supplemental income. Bizzare...


Plenty of research institutions are focused on finding cures for cancer. St. Judes just grifts way more than most.
This is especially ironic, given your vocal support of big pharmaceutical companies. Speaking of grift, how much did Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and the like make from the world govts. on the COVID vaccine again? All told it was in the hundreds of billions of dollars. And who is the number one advertiser in the world today? Once again the large pharmaceutical companies. And what industry is the number one lobbiest of Congress? You guessed it: the pharmaceutical industry. And finally, which of the 7 largest pharmaceutical companies have been convicted of criminal negligence in a court of law at some point in the last 30 plus years? Answer: All of them.

But sure, it's St. Jude's that's the grift. Let me guess, you don't like the fact that St. Jude's is providing all of these medications for free.
I love St. Jude's and Big Pharma!!!
You might need to rethink who you love. I am not saying all pharmaceutical companies are bad, or that they don't provide a benefit to society. But Big Pharma has become a cash cow, and places the bottom line over people's lives, often times with the benefit of limited immunity from prosecution for its bad acts. There are countless examples (see the opioid epidemic).

The industry needs to be completely reformed.
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In reply to Mothra • 10:40a, 1/4/25
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So the problem with St. Jude is not that it provides free care, but that it has a large endowment and does not 1) house patient families or 2) provide supplemental income?

Man, what an odd critique.
Left wing radicals hate any non-governmental group that does good work.
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In reply to Tempus Edax Rerum • 11:37a, 1/4/25
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Porteroso said:
Tempus Edax Rerum said:
LoneStar77 said:
This is one of the most bizarre threads I have seen on this board, and that is saying something. I am a long time employee of a major corporate partner with St. Jude. Please look at their website or talk to family that has been impacted or an employee. Their goal is "Finding cures. Saving children", not housing patient families or providing supplemental income. Bizzare...


Plenty of research institutions are focused on finding cures for cancer. St. Judes just grifts way more than most.

How do you define grifting? Do you think the ghost of Danny Thomas is getting paid billions? Or do they simply get more money in donations than you think appropriate?


They hoard their endowment.

What do you mean by hoard? Do you mean that people give them much more than they think they can responsibly spend?

They are building 2 new buildings, huge. Maybe it will allow them to have more doctors and researchers, and spend more of the endowment.

You seem to just be incredibly ignorant. If you can post something that makes sense, I'd be shocked.
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In reply to BluesBear • 11:44a, 1/4/25
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Porteroso said:
St. Jude is a behemoth, because people really care about kids being saved from cancer. If you were to wage a successful campaign against it, and remove their funding, the world would be worse off, not better.

This is one of those situations where the truly ignorant are given a loudspeaker by social media. A 20 minute conversation with the right St. Jude worker would clear this up, but will you even try? No, just tell kids on the hiking trail to avoid St. Jude if they get cancer.
We spend more today on Cancer care yet Cancer rates continue to rise. We do nothing about addressing the symptoms/causes, just provide treatments because its Big $$$$$$

That is false. St. Jude is one of the biggest research facilities trying to find the root causes of all cancers affecting children. They are a research hospital.

Your critique could be accurately leveled at big pharma, but research hospitals? No. And of all research hospitals, to pick St. Jude Children's Research Hospital?

It's as I said, this is the incredibly ignorant given a megaphone by social media and the internet, targeting big names, with one purpose only: to get attention. The op is an attention whoore. The writer of the article is too. Case closed.
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In reply to Porteroso • 11:44a, 1/4/25
Porteroso said:
Tempus Edax Rerum said:
Porteroso said:
Tempus Edax Rerum said:
LoneStar77 said:
This is one of the most bizarre threads I have seen on this board, and that is saying something. I am a long time employee of a major corporate partner with St. Jude. Please look at their website or talk to family that has been impacted or an employee. Their goal is "Finding cures. Saving children", not housing patient families or providing supplemental income. Bizzare...


Plenty of research institutions are focused on finding cures for cancer. St. Judes just grifts way more than most.

How do you define grifting? Do you think the ghost of Danny Thomas is getting paid billions? Or do they simply get more money in donations than you think appropriate?


They hoard their endowment.

What do you mean by hoard? Do you mean that people give them much more than they think they can responsibly spend?

They are building 2 new buildings, huge. Maybe it will allow them to have more doctors and researchers, and spend more of the endowment.

You seem to just be incredibly ignorant. If you can post something that makes sense, I'd be shocked.
He's an idiot. The biggest so-called hoarder of endowments are private colleges, but since they're groomer-friendly and radical leftists Mask Boy is not concerned. Harvard probably could provide free tuition for 100 years, but where's the outrage. Just the usual regressive hypocrisy.
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A non-profit that "hoards" endowments? Typically endowment principal cannot be spent. Donations into the endowment are typically principal.
Tempus and his/her ilk seem to have no fiscal sense when it comes to other people's money.
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By the way, here are links on the towers being constructed. 2 are under construction now. Within the past few months, they have applied for permits on demolishing 3 small structures, and building a new tower in their place. It will allow them to hire more doctors and scientists, spending more of their money, if that is what you ignoramoses are wanting.

https://actionnews5.com/2022/07/15/st-jude-has-plans-build-2-new-highrise-towers-campus/

https://wreg.com/news/local/st-jude-plans-new-16-story-advanced-research-tower/amp/

This last link is to their '22-'27 strategic plan.

https://issuu.com/sjcrh/docs/g01000_strategicplan_book_052022_1?fr=sMzJiNTYyODg4NzA
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