Thursday, October 14, 2010

All Our Fault

Here is an interesting science story, a tentative finding that most cancers are man-made. See this story in the U.K.'s Daily Mail online, for more details.

It turns out Egyptian mummies have next-to-no tumors and early man had very few too. The researchers believe the rise in cancer coincides with the start of the Industrial Revolution.

As Arte Johnson used to say on Laugh-In, in the thick, fake German accent of his character Wolfgang: "Verrry in-tuh-res-ting." I always thought Wolfgang sounded a lot like management guru Peter Drucker, an Austrian.