Archive for the 'Health and The Immune System' Category

Immunity and Cancer

Thursday, May 5th, 2005

Cancer is not a single disease. It is a large set of diseases that are very different in outcome. However, all forms of cancer start with one or more genetic changes or mutations that give rise to transformed cells. These transformed cells, can in turn go through other changes that can give […]

Stupidity, immunity and infection

Thursday, May 5th, 2005

One of my favorite Calvin and Hobbs cartoons has Calvin running from Susie with a surgical mask on, yelling: “Cooties, cooties!” Susie responds by telling Calvin not to worry because stupidity produces antibodies. Susie was right. Stupidity does produce antibodies. Like me, you can probably think of a number of […]