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    1. Adam Strandberg‏ @The_Lagrangian 10 May 2019

      Why aren’t clonally transmissible rumors ubiquitous? If they occur by nose contact in Tasmanian devils, why not by skin contact in most animals (including humans)?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonally_transmissible_cancer …

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    2. Rants Drive Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev 21 May 2019
      Replying to @The_Lagrangian

      1) Cancer cells start as ordinary cells (thus by definition recognized by host immune system), and undergo constant selection to avoid the host's specific immune system as they mutate. Very unlikely to escape an entirely different immune system, bc no selection pressure.

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    3. Adam Strandberg‏ @The_Lagrangian 22 May 2019
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      https://twitter.com/the_lagrangian/status/1127198671571955713?s=21 …

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      Adam Strandberg @The_Lagrangian
      Replying to @The_Lagrangian @MemeArcana
      immunological genetic diversity can also be sufficiently low amongst humans to give viruses immunological “backdoors”, don’t see any reason why this wouldn’t also be true for transmissible cancers (specifically in the case of MHC) pic.twitter.com/LtZXCWbXba
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    4. Rants Drive Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev 22 May 2019
      Replying to @The_Lagrangian

      This is getting kind of tedious. They could have happened. They didn't.

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 May 2019
      Replying to @St_Rev @The_Lagrangian

      I want to go meta on this point: * universe: rolls die * die: 5 turns up * people: "but why 5? That seems unlikely!" * me: <sigh>

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    6. Rants Drive Rev  ☯️ 🏴 😻‏ @St_Rev 22 May 2019
      Replying to @MorlockP @The_Lagrangian

      This.

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    7. Adam Strandberg‏ @The_Lagrangian 22 May 2019
      Replying to @St_Rev @MorlockP

      It is not obvious to me that the universe has in fact rolled a five- I suspect there are many more of these that we have yet to discover

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 May 2019
      Replying to @The_Lagrangian @St_Rev

      concur "we found it in dogs" - sounds like selection bias. What have we studied more? Man's best friend, or some random beetle from Bolivia?

      5:13 AM - 22 May 2019
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        2. Adam Strandberg‏ @The_Lagrangian 22 May 2019
          Replying to @halvorz @MorlockP @St_Rev

          there is an argument to be made that adaptive immunity doesn’t matter from this perspective since species with adaptive immunity don’t have generally lower pathogen burden https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51370139_Hedrick_S_M_The_acquired_immune_system_a_vantage_from_beneath_Immunity_21_607-615 …

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