"Steve Jobs would probably be alive today if he had not put off conventional medical treatment in favour of alternative remedies..."

According to Dr Ramzi Amri, of Harvard Medical School:

He added that as Mr Jobs had comparatively mild neuroendocrine tumors, compared to the far more aggressive pancreatic adenocarcinoma tumours that 95 per cent of pancreatic cancer sufferers have.

He wrote: 'In my series of patients, for many subtypes, the survival rate was as high as 100 per cent over a decade.'

Ah, yes, remember in Steve Jobs's Stanford graduation speech (from 2005), he talks about learning that he had a tumor on his pancreas?

The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months...

Later that evening I had a biopsy...  I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. 

We kept reading that he had a rare form of cancer. But rare was good. The doctor cried with joy when he suddenly saw that — against the odds — the cancer wasn't the kind that was almost certain to kill him. According to Amri, for that kind of cancer "the survival rate was as high as 100 per cent over a decade."

Here we are, mourning our loss of a genius, and the genius (apparently) fell for the monumental stupidity of "alternative" medicine.

Take a lesson, people.