Summary Of Why Enduring Cancer Is Not A Moonshot By Jeffrey Kluger

Jeffrey Kluger, an accomplished senior writer for Times Magazine, argues throughout his persuasion article “Why Curing Cancer Is Not a ‘Moonshot’” that finding the cure for cancer is far more complicated and complex than the steps it took to reach the moon. Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio, Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, and Moon Hunters: NASA’s Remarkable Expeditions to the Ends of the Solar System are just a few of Kluger’s 9 books published. He uses emotionally loaded terms, hasty generalization, begging the question, and some other techniques through his article to convince the reader that curing cancer is not a moonshot. Kluger posses both the knowledge and the qualifications to speak about his views

He claims, “‘curing cancer’—in the larger global sense of simply wiping it out—would require personalized care, designed around every single patient with any single type of the disease.” He explains the massive amount of research and funding it would take to obtain these high objectives and the difficulty of completing the task at hand. Kluger says, “That may not be an unattainable goal—but it’s a devilishly complicated one” supporting his argument that finding the cure of cancer would involve much more time and research into it than landing on the moon

He uses term such as “undeniably, extraordinary, seductive, humiliation”, and “nimble” in an attempt to sway the readers opinion. By using this technique, Kluger easily manipulates the reader's standpoint on the topic to go along with his own belief. He uses this method in several sentences to draw attention to what he is saying. In the sentence, “Now consider cancer, or, more accurately, cancers—plural” he uses the terms “cancers” and “plural” to draw the reader's attention towards the hundreds of different cancer types. This allows him to strengthen the view point that a moonshot and finding the cure for cancer are two topics that are relatively impossible to compare to one another. Towards the end of the article Kluger mentions, “But cancer—far too nimble far too complex—didn’t play along then, and won’t now.” This is a form of Hasty Generalization because the author beings to draw conclusions from little evidence. There is no guarantee that it will take hundreds of years to find the cure for cancer, but in this statement Kluger is assuming that it will because of the complexity of the