Several presidents and ex-presidents are suffering from cancer. According to Chávez, this is no coincidence - somebody is provoking it with "modern technology".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/29/hugo-chavez-us-cancer-plot
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)