Immune System

[staranjela]

i enjoyed this vid

[xtremetom180]

great video thanks

[TheLuthien83]

so 80's :)

[joshpugfan]

Our teacher showed us this in Biology class.

[glitchyyy]

Cool, a jewel in the mix.

[allthesecars]

I love the music.

[werty448]

@#$%! One of my friends, ( I have 4) will die of CANCER!?!? NOOOOOO!

[MrJmazing1]

can this be uploaded in higher quality??? I'd love to download it...

[veroxever]

THIS IS OLDER THAN HELL!!!!

[Gto1988Efi]

WTF

[ironnica]

um...... the intro synth made me dizzy :/

[declan44charlie0]

This is the craziest fucking thing i've ever seen

--Dr. Stephen T. Colbert D. FA

[raymanlegy]

isnt it illegal to film in a hospital? Well this is an old video. Maybe the rules weren't enforced back then.

[buddyboyboy13]

inforce1.com to help build your immuine system

[crazygeo81]

Is this The Misfits first album ? or how they got started in highschool ?

[jennifaurus]

Man this song is gonna be in my head all year :)

[AlaskaJPiper]

OMG This is hilarious!

[warc9]

War? THIS IS SPARTA!!! ( had to)

[jetstream1982]

realy depressin and scary video but realy good opens your eyes

[Skyeblue28]

This is a funny video! But I really love the message it is portraying. Any complicated subject matter is best explained in an artistic way.

[notfesykceb]

Oh dear...

[GrandmaLSRP]

How many oscars did you win for this?

[hunybfly70]

hahahahaha .. somewhat helpful but mostly hahahahahahaha

[ecosportboy]

Amazing! Conglatulations!!!

[Lita302]

this was very entertaining, and the terminology from the rap part was especially helpful!

[Diego0402]

I Loled XD, but I like it a lot!!

[splada12]

sweet

[dietodaydotcodotuk]

1 word - antiHISTAMINES

they cause cancer and ill health while still soothing the symptoms of your bodies warning system(running nose, itchy skin, red eyes), they dont allow the immune system to do its job properly ..growths and invaders do unchecked

[karmacomacure]

lol well i thought it was funny

[gripthugg]

WTF!

[calvinator9111111111]

Why cant there just fucking be a simple video on youtube fucking explaining how the immune system works omg! And why is every science video always from the fucking 70's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM­MMMMMMMMMMMMMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG­GGGGG

[Timeslayer1127]

WTF!???

[Reichu]

My suggestion would be to put expanded the video's info beyond "Scary video..." to include some of the stuff currently buried in comments. It's cool to know that this is home-made and you're not just reposting something you found.

It got a bit sensationalistic about "chemicals" and such. (Targeting "carcinogens" instead would have been a little better. We are chemical beings, after all!)

[Reichu]

Er, I meant "would be to expand the video's info beyond 'This is a haunting video'." Doof.

[F1ghtingFalcon]

Okay, the eighties New-Wave Baroque Synth Organ version of Slipknot lecturing me about cancer is really fucking terrifying!

Thanks, tculhane, I'm going to see this every time I close my eyes. :P

[Staceyvkl]

It really helped with my stupid biology test ..

[Zedz0]

i was never told about this war! is it still going on?!?!?!?

[charleswhatnow]

I like when the lead singer randomly holds up the mallet and beaker.

[tylerparris]

i would rather read robbins....

[aromooh]

me gusto, esta muy bueno, llegue aca poruqe tenia que estudiar vacunas genikas xD

[Guarding]

Is it possible the kill the guy in the video?

[profrancis14]

this video looks like it has been shoot on the 1980's

[tculhane]

1990 actually -- but very close! I had just started teaching at Crenshaw High School in South Central L.A. after working at the good Samaratin Hospital in L.A. for 6 months as a medical transcriptionist. So the doctors there let me shoot in the hospital. The blue screen work was done at the Beverly Hills Community Access TV at Beverly Hills High School. The technology was very primitive then!

[Zedz0]

are you the lead singer?

[imsayn77]

@tculhane Crenshaw High is South La not South Central. .

[TheDoctorGoat333]

SHOT, not shoot. SHOT... like "you should be shot for not knowing how to spell".

[profrancis14]

@profrancis14 oh yeah shot ^^ hehe sry

[ironnica]

@profrancis14 haha, the intro music didnt give it away?

[bananabacz]

this is the shit great job!

[majesticalps]

haha great video and yep the song is so catchy! :D

[Spurphy]

I love this video, the song is so catchy and we watched it in our AP Bio class!

[WeThePeopleRleaders]

i love this video lol

[cyrusrom]

oh paleas it is nicer t cell b cell

[BrkGymnas]

Im a freshmen in college, and i have my biology science II final tomorrow so I have been studying all day. And I can honestly say that after watching this video, my roommate and I are going to be having nightmares tonight and most likely fail our exam tomorrow. thank you

[GangsterG2]

haha how did you do on your test dude. loll

[MonsteriuM]

awesome.. but if you could only make a full subtitled version, that would be great.

[BUYanAIRCAR]

yeah it's a good vid, and kinda educatonal

[yankeegurl62]

interesting thought. My sister had no risk factors, and yet she developed tongue and throat cancer.

[mark01318]

some how here immume system didnt kill those canseres cells kinda makes me think of aids where ur immume system gets destroyed and so u die from a flu bacteria cuz ur immume is fukt up if we could find a way to increase a bodies immume system it would kill the canserus cells for us but how ?

[TheOneFrohman]

You see, every individual who has cancer cells have a different genetic code for each cancerous cell. Also, cancer cells are almost exactly the same as healthy human cells.

[Megablaze9292]

Skill = Skull I meant to say skull

[Megablaze9292]

The song is mot bad it has real music in ti, the guy that's drumming on the skills is just funny lol

[TheOriginalTeddyGurl]

Lol awesome!

[BDFoote2]

very disturbing but very informative.

I am in my first microbiology class...and it really has me motivated to set up my overdue mammography...thanks- BD

[mdrummond7]

shit this is funny stuff :) who knew education could be so much fun

[JohnnySkillish]

What an amazing and creative approach to medical education, information and environmental awareness! Not only quite informative, but also very scary! I guess that was the point though, right?! Are these the types of things that also help medical students remember how the body functions? Just curious. Thanks!

[salek1]

fantastic! i normally hate these type of videos but for some reason this one really caught me, thanks!

[tculhane]

I think that is the highest compliment a teacher can receive salek, so thanks! My education reform colleague Dr. Sherry Kerr (the woman in the video) and I created this with a home video camera back in 1990 because we normally hated the textbook presentations of the subject. The goal was to take things people normally dislike and find a way to make it fun or at least somewhat interesting. We could do alot better with today's technology!

[mark01318]

u did a great job

[cyther39]

I guess, it is in late 80's...

[jacko39]

Creative approach. But nevertheless the point is made. Very good.

[isotop235]

There is a T Culhane who does music and is onvolved with environmental issues...in Egypt and Greece...is that you?

[tculhane]

Yup, that's me. Sybille and I run a non-profit called "Solar C3ITIES, Connecting Community Catalysts Integrating Technologies for Industrial Ecology Systems". Our work is about using art and music and film-making with science education and engineering to build capacity in impoverished communities so that each community can find solutions to their challenges. We started in the inner-cities of America (Los Angeles in particular) and then widened the circle to so called "third world countries."

[tculhane]

How do you know about us isotop235? Have we met? Are you in the nuclear industry? Where does the handle come from? Have a happy thanksgiving with many blessings, and thanks for your comment!

[coogiez]

what

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tis funny xD

[scorpionshit]

this is funny haha

[finebodi23]

Kewl! I now understand what's going on. Question: What can I do to prevent cancer? "I heard that adopting a organic lifestyle can help"

[tculhane]

Thanks so much for the nice comments; we were just a bunch of inner city teachers trying to make science fun "in the hood" for gang kids back in the late 80's. Nice to see that old video still gets good reactions (but scary to think that the situation hasn't improved!)

[dancingvixen86]

Sad and scary, and yet so true in today's society. It's so important to educate people in the dangers that lie in our own surroundings. We don't realize that everyday objects may contain carcinogenic elements. I liked the video; it was both educational and entertaining at the same time!~

[82clairebear]

haha! can you come to my uni? my physiology lecturers weren't nearly as entertaining as this!

[izelatlan]

Someof this is verz goodöthez plaz fastand loose with the current unproved belief thatalmost all of our current cancers are prety tmuch caused bz chemicals in our environment. Although there is a moderate amount of truth in this it is very much more complicated.

Otherwise with that proviso it is very good. I will show it to my friends' kids and seeif they relate to it.

[Mehakkk]

Catchy songgg! I was all moving to it haha. Great way to bring attention to the immune system!

[rockandrollgirl]

good message!! but i agree, the music remainds me the 80's

[tculhane]

Glad you liked the message. Of course the music is reminiscent of the 80's -- I composed it in 1990, at the tail end of the 80's era (remember musically the 50's went on 'til the Beatle's/British invasion of 1964, while the "60's" lasted until their breakup in the early 70's. The synth & drum pads you hear in my melodic-mnemonics composition are what we had on our keyboards in the 80's. The sad thing is that we are no closer to eliminating the causes of breast cancer now than we were then!

[Paedomorphosis]

Nice job. That's really creative. I've got a question though. If tumors are just unrestricted cell growth, how can our immune system stop it? Do the malignant cells lack MHC class 1 complexes or something?

[tculhane]

You can tell us Paedomorphosis! I was just a young science teacher starting my career in the ghettoes of South Central Los Angeles at Crenshaw High School when I made this. I had been working at the Good Samaratin Hospital near downtown L.A. before I started teaching and Dr. Shook let me film this there with educational reformer Dr. Sherry Kerr (drama in education)playing the lead role. The idea was to stimulate students to take an interest in science and medicine instead of drugs and guns.

[BUGLER123456]

This video has a message. Beavis and Butthead would not like it but I do.

[tculhane]

The idea was to pitch "sex, science and rock and roll" instead of "sex, drugs and rock and roll". We wanted to make science class "sexy" or at least mildly entertaining. I think if Beavis and Butthead had been in our high school science class when we made this they would have like it better than what other teachers were doing (it was edited with help from the students of Crenshaw High School; the characters in the video were their teachers; it was shot at Beverly Hills High School's TV studio)

[Asani727]

...O.O...

[tculhane]

Try rating this knowing it was made by 2 high school classes (teachers in the video, students behind cameras and editing); rich white kids from Beverly Hills and poor black kids from South Central L.A. working together in 1990 before the uprising (called the "L.A. Riots") in 1992, when racial tensions were at an all time high. While others were fighting, we were finding common ground through bringing the text-book to life. Did any of your teachers or fellow students try to do this back then?

[haroonuk]

the music sucks