CRUK & Crooks

What is going to be written here really does take some believing but I can assure you all out there that the facts and figures are absolutely true for the figures are published on their own website! 
Cancer Research UK are/were a noble cause without doubt as they accepted donations from north, south, east & west in the pursuit of finding a cure for cancer. Indeed, they have created marvellous slogans that tug at the heartstrings; ie, "together, we can beat cancer" & "race for life", but so far have not saved all those lives taken by cancer. Their latest slogan on the website is "UNITED WE ARE STRONGER THAN CANCER". All very fanciful, but in actual fact they are not and we are not!
There were 493,242 deaths registered in England and Wales in 2010, (a rise of 0.4 per cent compared with 2009) and we are lead to believe that cancer is the biggest single killer yet only 157,275 deaths were from cancer in the UK! So just where did the other 335,967 come from? I think they simply play around with words and omit the ones that lessen effect. They also  adore the words 'may', 'could', 'possibly', 'maybe', 'estimated' etc (I think you get the general idea by now!) in their summarisations.
Curing cancer is no longer a fanciful notion for it has become big business, so big in fact that last year CRUK raked in £433,000,000 to play about with! Now, one would have thought that you could cure almost anything with that sort of money - but apparently not as the adverts urge us to throw even more money into their ever greedy 'research' pot. Indeed, so greedy are they that they sent my mother-in-law a nice little begging letter just before Christmas (3 years ago) urging her to 'add a little more' to her monthly donation as 'Christmas is a special time for cancer sufferers'. I have absolutely no doubt that the mother-in-law would have been daft enough to do so too from her meagre pension..... had she not already died from stomach cancer on October 10th of that year! A strongly worded letter received no apology but at least they must have removed her name from their lists of 'possible mugs'. 
The problem we find with the cancer industry is that it is mostly fraudulent-yes-I can see the shock/horror on most of your faces as I dare to insult such a 'charity' but we all know where charity really begins!

The vast majority of so-called scientific studies focused on cancer research are inaccurate and potentially fraudulent, suggests a new review published in the journal Nature. A shocking 88 percent of 53 "landmark" studies on cancer that have been published in reputable journals over the years cannot be reproduced, according to the review, which means that their conclusions are patently false.

'ooh, err missus!' that's obviously not what the people at CRUK want to hear as it rather  muddy's the waters of all their bleating about more funding needed. If they have coined in £433,000,000 yet 83% of 53 'landmark studies' cannot be reproduced then there is something seriously wrong here folks as many, many people employed in the 'industry' are living the dream at the expense of everybody else's donations-and that includes those pondlife, amoebic souls over at ASH who happily feed off CRUK.
But then, when you look at the basis of the smoking ban there is something seriously flawed there too. The junk science for a start, never mind the frauds & deceptions created to enforce its passage through parliament! CRUK, despite numerous complaints, still insist on stating that 11,000 deaths each year are attributable to SHS-something that simply cannot be proven! They still maintain that SHS is a causation of SIDS-again a most scandalous accusation that cannot be proven and if you think about it the situation for a moment you will quickly realise what a spurious claim this really is for SIDS has, by definition, no known cause of death-so how the hell can SHS be attributed to SIDS? But, they are the leviathon, they have public sympathy and the public are oh so gullible!
It is interesting to look at the wage scale of CRUK, especially when you think of all those little collection tubs & buckets they have laying around this country. Especially when they 'con' people into trotting round a muddy field a few times, coercing sponsorship money from people ignorant of the truth. Especially when they have OAP's sending them £2 per month and ask said OAP for more after their death! It is big business. They have one donor who gives £1,000,000 per annum - I'll bet they send a new pair of slippers to that donor every Christmas-not a begging letter! Now, to that pay scale I mentioned, this is all the proof you need that CRUK is simply a business!
Top earners pay-scales (take a deep breath folks!)
£60,001 – £70,000          = 48  
£70,001 – £80,000          = 35  
£80,001 – £90,000          = 36  
£90,001 – £100,000        = 12  
£100,001 – £110,000      =   8  
£110,001 – £120,000      =   5 
£120,001 – £130,000      =   2 
£130,001 – £140,000      =   6 
£140,001 – £150,000      =   4
£150,001 – £160,000      =   3 
£160,001 – £170,000      =   3 
£170,001 – £180,000      =   1 
£210,001 – £220,000      =   1
£220,001 – £230,000      =   1

Yep, that equals 165 people employed by CRUK being paid in excess of £60K per annum from your donations-serious monies indeed!

Wages and salaries on the balance sheet for 2011 actually read as £108,933,000.

Harpal S Kumar Chief Executive (no wonder he's smiling!)

Our picture of Mr Kumar shows a very happy Mr Kumar, well who wouldn't be in his position for he is 'trousering' probably £220/230,000 per year for doing what exactly? Sitting in meetings? Deciding where to open a shop next? Listening to area reports of who raised the most money-it truly must be a stressful position urging all those volunteers to get more donations in so as to furnish one's own pockets by approximately £4,230.00 per week, especially when knowing that 430 people per day are dying from cancer during this trousering! Perhaps Mr Kumar inspired the TV show!

We also have to remember that, according to their own words, 

"When the public donates to us, we pledge that their donations will strictly go towards researching cancer".

Oh! Righty ho then, that's that sorted then-so where do all these wages come from then? Where do all the funds for ASH (scroll down a tad for the proof) and other anti smoking/smoker organisations? I'll repeat - 

"When the public donates to us, we pledge that their donations will strictly go towards researching cancer".

... except of course when it is funding other anti smoking organisations or paying £108m+ in wages (for 'fat cats' to sit around deciding which fundraiser to promote next), or wasting donors money on days in Westminster lobbying MPs so as to be able to advance their anti tobacco, anti democratic process even further. And remember that 83% of the 'kosha' studies quoted are now baseless as they cannot be replicated/substantiated yet I'll bet they don't harp on about that to their lapdog MPs!
So next time you see a pleading sign from CROOK CRUK, don't bother to dig deep for a few pennies or some silver to chuck in the bucket, find a more worthwhile charity, one that actually helps cancer sufferers - 'hands-on' style - and doesn't utilise the unemployed as 'volunteers' whilst it begs money to pay more than £108,000,000 in wages/salaries etc. Next time you decide to "Race for Life" simply pay the entry fee (they earn out of that!) and then raise money for other, far more worthy causes. And remember this as they plead for more donations, the causes of cancer are multifactorial, it's not just the pleasures of the living that bring about cancer. Sex, drinking & smoking may (see how easy it is to slip one of their 'buzzwords' in) have something to do with cancers developing but cancer is already in your cell structure-it just needs something to trigger it! 
The biggest con of all though is the fact that whilst the 'crukers' rail against smoking/smokers they financially feed off the tobacco taxes provided by those very members of society - isn't there some weird form of hypocrisy there somewhere?

Perfect message from CROOK CRUK whilst reaping the financial harvest of Tobacco Control !