There is some debate over whether this qualifies as a blue-collar job. After all, ATCs usually earn more than $100,000 per year, work in an office-type surrounding, and supervise airline pilots, who themselves earn six-figure salaries.
Good news everyone! The Patent Office has granted a patent on a cure for cancer. Last December, the Patent Office issued Patent No. 8,609,158 on a âpotent drugâ that ârebukes cancer, cancer cells, and kills cancer.â According to the patent, this drug cures a litany of other maladies.
âHoly cow!!!â I said to myself (using a word thatâs less bovine and more graphic). âThis guy has discovered a cure for early metastatic cancer that appears to work 100% of the time!!!â And this was no âblack boxâ model or statistical study (you know, the kind that make observations but donât address underlying causal mechanisms. Medicine A cures disease B, but nothing about how it actually works).