“I Don’t Think They’ll Ever Find a Cure for Cancer. I Don’t Think They Want To Find a Cure”: Roger Daltrey Questions Big Pharma as He Nears the End of His Time at the Teenage Cancer Trust
The Who’s Roger Daltrey is signing off his 24-year patronage of the Teenage Cancer Trust with a final run of charity shows
January 14, 2024 | Source: Louder | by Fraser Lewry
The Who‘s Roger Daltrey is coming to the end of his hugely successful 24-year stewardship of the Teenage Cancer Trust’s annual charity shows, and his latest round of press interviews find him in typically sceptical form.
Speaking with The Times [paywalled link] about his time in charge of the Trust, Daltrey – whose sister died from breast cancer aged just 32 – expresses reservations about the scientific establishment’s approach to finding a cure for the disease.
“I don’t think they’ll ever find a cure for cancer,” says Daltrey. “I don’t think they want to find a cure. I’m being cynical here, but scientists look after the science but they also look after themselves. You do imagine if they did find a cure tomorrow it would be fabulous for the country, but there’d be an awful lot of scientists out of work. You might think I’m being cynical, but I do think that.”