On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: >> Cancer is a genetic disease.
However, to say that "cancer is a genetic disease" is again to imply that the body a machine. While the body, without question, has machine-like components, it far from the same as saying it should be treated mechanically. To try to solve such problems with such *crude* mechanisms as radiation and extreme chemicals are bound to make worse problems occur down the line. Genes go back into one's ancestral history, it would be prudent to look there. But then, there's a vicious relationship between using GDP (and the like) as a metric of economic health and the self-organization of expensive medical procedures in the economic system. marcos ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
