Startling news! It's bad to crap where you eat!

[viktor_haag]

While I may be willing to believe that the incidence of cancer in humans could dramatically increase with changes to diet and environment that result from increases in population density, industrialization, pollution, and other factors that are, essentially, caused by human habitation, to me this is a far cry from trumpeting that "cancer is man-made".

Smoking, getting no exercise, and eating lots of saturated fats increases risk factors for coronary heart disease: does this mean that it also is man-made?

What the heck is not man made in this case? Presumably death caused by animal predation? (But then why are you walking around in the predator's catchment area?) Lightning strike? (Why are you walking around in a thunder storm?)

Hrm.

Comments

[robin-d-laws.livejournal.com]

In related news, cat cancer is cat-made.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

I'm sure at some point, some cat will get The Feline Sekret published, and then all cats will realize that their perfection is within their own grasps (despite the lack of thumbs).

[sixteenbynine.livejournal.com]

This study seemed problematic from the outset for a lot of reasons. There's enough wrong with cancer (and our diets, and out lifestyle) that we don't need to go to this extreme to demonize any of it.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Agreed; demonization is so easy, though, so it must be correct! Otherwise, it would be harder, right?

[pyat.livejournal.com]

They actually said, "There is nothing in nature that can cause cancer." Leaving aside the fact that cities and factories are part of nature in the same way beehives and bird's nests are, what about, say... The Sun? Uranium?