Making Sense with Sam Harris — #485 — The New Science of Cancer

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#485 — The New Science of Cancer

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Sam Harris speaks with Siddhartha Mukherjee about the science of cancer. They discuss the updated edition of The Emperor of All Maladies, whether cancer is one disease or many, why prevention is so hard, inflammation and air pollution as carcinogens, the myth that cell phones cause cancer, liquid biopsies and Bayesian…

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