Reddit reviews One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins (Science Masters Series)

https://www.amazon.com/One-Renegade-Cell-Science-Masters/dp/0465072763

> How cancers begin and spread, by the scientist responsible for the major recent research breakthroughs

> Cancer research has reached a major turning point. The amount of information gathered in the past twenty years about the origins of the disease is without equal in the history of biomedical research. In this book one of America's most eminent scientists explains to the general reader the step-by-step process by which cancers arise, and more importantly, how they spread.

> Robert Weinberg explains how normal genes control the conventional growth of the cell, how, in their mutated form, they enable cancers to arise, and why these genes have such life-and-death power over us. Drawing from information that simply was not available until recently, One Renegade Cell explains this insidious disease as no other book as ever been able to do.

>..could you give me some other examples of science that goes against "political correctness" or "modern fads"?

One example of impeccably accurate science that has gone against political correctness for over 60 years:

It is commonly referred to as The Warburg Effect, but many in the scientific and medical community have erroneously dubbed it: "The Warburg Hypothesis". Discovered by Otto Warburg, MD, PhD, in the early 1900s, and succinctly delineated in the article titled "On the Origin of Cancer Cells", which appeared in the February, 1956 issue of Science Magazine.

In that article, Dr. Warburg illustrates how all cancers of mammalian tissue, regardless of where they occur in the body, originate from a singular cause; a reduction in the cell's access to, or utilization of oxygen for the creation of ATP, with a compensatory shift of the cell's metabolism toward anaerobic fermentation of glucose (the degree of malignancy being determined by the ratio of aerobic respiration to anaerobic fermentation in the cell).

Warburg's findings were independently confirmed by Cameron and Goldblatt Published April 1, 1953


None have succeeded in disproving Warburg's research. Because of the long-favored theory that Cancer is caused by genetic mutation, either hereditary or induced, Warburg's work was marginalized from the start.

Dr. Weinberg reversed his original theory years ago after discovering that less than one DNA base in a million appeared to have been miscopied, concluding that not enough defect existed to cause cell mutation.

One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins : “Something was very wrong. The notion that a cancer developed through the successive activation of a series of oncogenes had lost its link to reality”.

Despite the retraction of the mutation theory as being causal to the development of cancer by Dr. Robert Weinberg (who theorized the oncogene mechanism), both science and medicine have too much invested in the theory to put it to pasture.

For example: (March 24, 2017) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cancer-random-genetic-dna-mutations-two-thirds-of-cases/

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