Sometimes an institution or movement turns on the society that supports it, harming the whole for its own benefit. A public bureaucracy can forget its underlying purpose and focus on perpetuating itself, or an organization can come to believe that the rest of society owes it special privileges. When an organ within the body of society becomes thus corrupted and proves itself unwilling to reform, society must excise the diseased tissue before it spreads.
Cancer and Its Causes
Cancer starts when cells within an organ begin to operate outside the strictures and rules that the body’s cells were programmed to follow. This can be triggered by environmental insults such as chemicals, radiation, or viral infections. It can also occur because of structural errors in the DNA that determines the body’s growth and function.
David Bell
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David Bell, senior scholar at the Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), programme head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in Geneva, Switzerland, and director of Global Health Technologies at Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund in Bellevue, Wash.
