The guy wrote an article on his 'idea' back in 2011 in a newspaper:http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/25/cancer-evolution-ancient-toolkit-genes ht

The guy wrote an article on his 'idea' back in 2011 in a newspaper:http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/25/cancer-evolution-ancient-toolkit-genes http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/25/cancer-e... where he explicitly uses Haeckel as evidence for his theory: A century ago the German biologist Ernst Haekel pointed out that the stages of embryo development recapitulate the evolutionary history of the animal. Human embryos, for instance, develop, then lose, gills, webbed feet and rudimentary tails, reflecting their ancient aquatic life styles. Of course this is total pseudoscience and I'm floored someone is receiving money for coming up with this. His descriptions of cancer (after two years of apparent study) simply do not make sense in any context. Cancer's adaptation to anaerobic respiration has been know for a long time and isn't some magical 'atavism' or 'safe mode' but a necessity for a tumor.