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A further revelation in Peter Elkind's Fortune profile of Apple CEO Steve Jobs: In a June 2005 commencement address at Stanford University, he told students, "About a year ago, I was diagnosed with cancer." Jobs first learned he had a form of pancreatic cancer in October 2003. [Fortune]
Jobs lied about cancer diagnosis at Stanford
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5:00 PM on Tue Mar 4 2008
By Owen Thomas
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I just can't get worked up about this, and it's not just the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field in action. Anybody who's had cancer gets a pass to misbehave about it in my book. I've been through chemo and yes, you just get a Cancer Princess card to play for the rest of your life. That's just how it is.
ok, I say that 19 or 20 months ago can be called "about a year ago". Call me crazy. I think Valleyrag sux on this one.
You're kidding, right? He said he got the diagnosis "about a year" before June 2005, and you're branding it a lie because it was actually 20 months instead of 12? That's like calling someone a liar for telling you they feel pretty good today when they told someone else they feel great.
I was at a dinner 4 or 5 years ago with him and he had a raw vegan diet while everyone else had the standard fare. He looked thin then. Thank God he made it though. Hopefully it wasn't because he had money though. Everyone deserves a chance to beat cancer. He should donate his iFunds to cancer research.
Poor taste and very poor judgment. I'm thinking this a non-story, even for a non-story rag like VW.
If you're going to sling mud, at least find a real issue AND consider cancer a topic that's non funny.
uh...what?
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