The Procrustean bed or how to make cancer into a disease of random mutations

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The Procrustian bed In Greek mythology, Procrustes was a son of Poseidon (god of the sea) who often invited passersby to stay at his house to rest for the night. There he showed them to their bed. If the guest was too tall, he would chop off their limbs until the bed fit just right. If they were too short, he would stretch them on a rack until the bed fit just right. The great contemporary thinker and philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb often uses this allegory, but it is also quite appropriate to describe how the facts have been tortured to fit the theory of the Somatic Mutation Theory (SMT). The basis of the SMT (that mutations cause cancer) was first postulated in 1914, by Theodor Boveri in his book ‘The Origin of Malignant Tumors’ who guessed that a combination of chromosomal defects could result in cancer. The 1950s discovery of the double helix of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick lit a fire under genetic research, making this theory the predominant cancer...
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