Sep 17, 2020
This is a unique show in the
Finding Genius series. Podcast founder and host Richard Jacobs
sites Perry Marshall’s ideas as the impetus for starting the
Finding Genius podcast.
In this discussion listeners can learn more about why and hear
about an upcoming symposium Marshall has helped construct on
cancer and evolutionary biology.
He explains
Perry Marshall is an author and
highly influential business consultant with an electrical
engineering background. In this discussion, he connects the
foundational ideas in Evolution 2.0 with cutting-edge cancer
science. Marshall lost his father to cancer at age 17 and has
followed theories behind its treatment ever since. He reminds
listeners that common cancer therapy treatment only works routinely
with early stage cancer.
Alternatively, he says that when cancer reaches stages 3 and 4,
survival chances are not that much better than they were in 1930.
Therefore, there must be a lag in how we are addressing serious
cancer diagnoses. This lag is connected with a traditional view of
passive evolutionary theory rather than theories like that of
Professor Henry Heng, who claims evolution is actively engineered
by organisms themselves; in addition, they are able to pass those
engineered traits to their offspring.
Henry Heng is one of the
speakers at the upcoming Cancer and Evolution Symposium
along with Columbia University
Medical Center's Azra Raza and evolutionary theorist James Shapiro
from the University of Chicago. Dr. Heng connects this theory of
evolution and
cancer, noting that treatments like chemo destroy about 98% of
the cancer cells while the few remaining develop massive wholesale
restructuring of their DNA and are then more equipped to spread and
survive. Importantly, this restructuring is active rather than a
random accident of mutations.
Marshall explains these ideas in more detail and discusses other
topics covered by the speakers. He describes the symposium as a
world-class collection of
cancer and evolutionary theorists coming together to address
cancer evolution and disable the cancer treatment lag. The
symposium will work via Zoom and takes place October
14th through 16th.
To sign up and learn more, see
the symposium website: cancerevolution.org.
Available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/2Os0myK