Or it could be because chimps don’t eat all the crap we eat.
Gee, ya think that maybe some other cause may be in play here? Like, perhaps, I'm just spitballing here, our diets are hugely different?????
Well, this is good news for most of those cackling old hens on The View. They should live forever.
Did they adjust for age? Cancer is largely a disease of old age. Most wild animals slow down when they get to what we would consider middle aged and are either eaten or unable to catch what they need to eat, so they die before they get to the age when most human cancer cases happen.
This is indeed Obama-class junk science.
There are compensations for everything.
That means that the government school system is actually reducing cancer risk by dumbing-down its students. Brilliant!
More recent studies say the number is around 90%. And when we are talking about 10% difference in literally billions of genes, that is a lot of difference.
I knew there was a good reason for heavy drinking! Woohoo!
I’ve had three cocker spaniels. All died as a result of cancer. Lovely dogs, but each was only as bright as it needed to be to find the food bowl. Think I’ll let this theory develop for a bit before i embrace it.
Cancer also takes a while to get going. Usually the body has to endure insults for a while before something goes wrong and creates tumors. Unless I’m quite mistaken, Chimps don’t live that long in the wild, and those that are born with early-onset cancers like leukemia probably die very quickly, so that they are underrepresented in the population. We, being the sentimental saps we are, go to great lengths to keep sick members of the species alive, where most others do not, and those members subsequently make up a larger percentage of the population.
Considering how many of of our fellow citizens sit in front of the tube absorbing all that mindless drivel everyday, I’d say we’re well on the way to a cure.
Oh wow. Maybe bananas cure cancer.
So this is how they are going to explain the dumbing down of our children, lowering of test grades and graduating morons. It really is better for them, no risk of cancer that way, huh?
They're trying to link a decrease in apoptosis with an increase in neuronal tissue - not proven at the moment - and go from there to the speculation that this means less effective apoptosis defenses against cancer - an interesting hypothesis but also not yet proven. "More research is needed." No kidding.
In general. If you live long enough you will get cancer.
All animals in the wild have shorter life spans than in captivity...if you die young of other causes you don’t get cancer.