Amazing.
I'm struggling mightily to raise $42,000 to bring to public awareness a painless cancer treatment that was suppressed and in danger of being lost using the same website as Dershowitz. Meanwhile, this guy blows $60,000 to recover his dog. One man, one dog, sixty-thousand dollars.
Of course, he has raised more money so far than I have.
Human beings sure are funny.
Would You Spend $60,000 to Fight for Custody of Your Pet?
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They say a dog is a man's best friend, which explains why one man has already spent $60,000 to get his beloved pooch back from his ex-girlfriend. Manhattan art gallery employee Craig Dershowitz, 34, has spent $60,000 of his savings to win custody of his puggle, Knuckles, TODAY.com reports.
Knuckles currently resides in California with Dershowitz’s ex, Sarah Brega. Dershowitz and Brega dated for four years and broke up in March 2011, but shared custody of "Knux" until November, when Dershowitz claimed in court papers that she "kidnapped" the dog, "Today" reports. Dershowitz says he purchased the dog when the couple was together two years ago, and that Brega was supposed to return the dog once he found a new place to live after their split, but she refused to do so.
Now that he's out of dough, Dershowitz wants you to help fund his legal fight to get his dog back (see his website here). But Brega says Knuckles is doing just fine where he is. "Knuckles lives a happy and healthy life in California with me, where he has ample room to play, and lives in close proximity to a beach for off-leash dog-park outings,” Brega said in court documents.
She also told "Today" in a statement: "(Knuckles has) been with me his whole life. It is unfortunate that (Craig) is using the courts and a fraudulent fundraiser to continue to harass me. He is taking advantage of unsuspecting donors. Craig thrives on media attention and he is seeking it out in order to further his career while exacting revenge."
I'm struggling mightily to raise $42,000 to bring to public awareness a painless cancer treatment that was suppressed and in danger of being lost using the same website as Dershowitz. Meanwhile, this guy blows $60,000 to recover his dog. One man, one dog, sixty-thousand dollars.
Of course, he has raised more money so far than I have.
Human beings sure are funny.
Now ask yourself if, God forbid, one of your family members had cancer, would you want them to have a treatment that reduced their pain while they got well? Would that be worth $42,000 to you?
That is what I am working to make well known and widely available. $42,000 is such a tiny amount when we realize how much money we have available. Some people will spend $1,500 to watch a basketball game in person. Three hours later the money is gone and they go to a bar to have a couple drinks. Pffft, the money is like water.
Yet, raising $42,000 to do something durable, something wonderful, is somehow hard??
It's a human paradox how we find it so easy to spend large amounts for the frivolous, but we are cautious this way.
This man gets free nationwide publicity because his story is so outrageous. It helps his cause. I guess that's what sells newspapers.
PS. The dog cause has raised twice the amount of funds as has mine.
.. of course you are.. we all know how there is a massive conspiracy to suppress cancer treatments.
I was alert and pain free when I woke up in intensive care. I barely needed any pain meds and wouldn't have needed any but didn't have access to the meds for the first two days.
By the time I left the hospital 5 days later, I didn't need or take a single pain killer. My surgeon had never seen a case like mine because there is a huge amount of pain from having the bones ground down. Normally patients need to take Vicodin for 90 days.
This sort of thing could be available to every cancer patient. But it's not. So whether it is a conspiracy or not, the result for the patient is the same.
If this medicine is a real game changer it will become mainstream. It would be written about in established peer-reviewed medical journals and scientific publications. If the testing (properly controlled scientific testing) pans out then it would rapidly become the new treatment.
I'll tell you how real medicine isn't done... It isn't done by claiming to the public that you can cure cancer before passing the scientific review process.