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Kill or cure?
By T. Ryan Gregory | September 24th 2009 03:46 PM | 1 comment | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
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About T. Ryan Gregory

I am an evolutionary biologist specializing in genome size evolution at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Be sure to visit Evolver Zone


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This is too funny. A website called Kill or Cure? has been compiling links to science stories in The Daily Mail (UK) and their apparent "ongoing effort to classify every inanimate object into those that cause cancer and those that prevent it".

A snippet of the entries under "M"...


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This is an awesome find! I love that swedes prevent cancer, while sunscreen and statins both cause and prevent cancer, and snowboarding and space travel cause cancer. WTF?

Becky Jungbauer | 09/25/09 | 08:13 AM

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