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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

PoindexterOglethorpe

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3. I was listening to something yesterday on NPR

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Sun Nov 5, 2017, 12:12 PM

Nov 2017

and someone was quoted as saying that cancer has only come about in the past fifty or sixty years because of pollution and other modern horrors.

That's so untrue that one does not know where to begin, but I'll start here: even dinosaurs got cancer.

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Someone needs to come out of the 11th century... [View all] Archae Nov 2017 OP

I wonder if leeches are demons or wonders of medicine to these kookachooks. The Genealogist Nov 2017 #1

Thank you for this SCantiGOP Nov 2017 #2

I was listening to something yesterday on NPR PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2017 #3