“Tumorville,” Christopher Hitchens’ current Vanity Fair column about the wealth of bad advice and scarcity of effective options he faces, takes aim at pro-life “religious maniacs” who lobby against stem cell research—one scientific avenue that really does offer real hope: “The politicized sponsors of this pseudo-scientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the ‘war’ against cancer, and other terrible maladies too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.”