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> There is nothing in the natural environment that can cause cancer. Except naturally occurring cell mutation, specialisation and growth? The argument itself
by rue 16y ago
> There is nothing in the natural environment that can cause cancer.
Except naturally occurring cell mutation, specialisation and growth?
The argument itself seems somewhat feasible if formulated to say that something about modern life drastically increases the occurrence of cancers. The data seems to suggest that one popular counterargument, that people tended to die of something else before cancer got a chance (since the risk seems to grow as a person ages), is not valid. The data set is still not quite large nor heterogenous enough to be enough evidence on its own.
- thisisnotmyname 16y agoNot to mention the sun.
- wwortiz 16y agoWell that is partly our fault as well, HFCs and all that jazz eating the ozone layer. But considering Uranium isn't man made and all the other radioactive elements and radiation that occurs naturally, cancer is not man made. There is pretty much radiation everywhere, anything above absolute zero is emitting infrared. When you take everything into account cancer can't be man made but perhaps we did lead to the widespread amount of cancer.