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#163: Making Medicine Modern (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

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Is It a Cancer or a Disease?

Most cancers are not contagious, and therefore the fact that you get a cancer is your own system's failure to control a kind of runaway process. So really what I'm evoking is there's an evolutionary phenomenon going on when you have a prion. It does raise the question of what is different in those few cancers that are contagious. Like the one that afflicts Tasmanian devils... Is the only one that I can come up with. There are several but it's definitely, as far as we know, the exception and not the rule.

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