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Re:Cancer ‘vaccine’ eliminates tumors in mice by vkou on Thursday February 01, 2018 @03:22PM (#16285507)
> This thing isn't just some dumb pathogen floating around that just DoSes your body. It's digging tunnels and cutting phone lines. It has strategy.

The cancers that haven't mutated to emit VEGF don't survive to grow and kill you.

It's natural selection, not intelligence.

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Re:Cancer ‘vaccine’ eliminates tumors in mice by jcims on Thursday February 01, 2018 @04:42PM (#16286200)
Of course, but it doesn’t feel that way.
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Re:Cancer ‘vaccine’ eliminates tumors in mice by taneq on Thursday February 01, 2018 @10:51PM (#16288270)
Natural selection is a form of intelligence (aka directed goal-seeking).
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