Elizabeth Murchison: Fighting a contagious cancer

[kagairu]

I feel numb, that was so gross. But interesting at the same time.

[tdreamgmail]

Idk, this video seemed to be interested in showing off disgusting cancers.

[abram730]

Cancer chooses growth over sustainability and puts it's needs over the survival of the whole. A functional society being like a body and each individual acting in the interests of the whole.. Cancer cells are cells without Altruism. We do as a society have a cancer that has become both malignant and contagious.. It no longer needs it's host.

I speak of capitalism in it's current form.

Cancer has a voice and it speaks. Look no farther then Ayn Rand

watch?v=s7zwO88nRH8

[abram730]

Cancer chooses growth over sustainability and puts it's needs over the survival of the whole. A functional society being like a body and each individual acting in the interests of the whole.. Cancer cells are cells without Altruism. We do as a society have a cancer that has become both malignant and contagious.. It no longer needs it's host.

I speak of capitalism in it's current form.

Cancer have a voice and it speaks. Look no farther then Ayn Rand

watch?v=s7zwO88nRH8

[Sushikragen]

watch 'food matters'

[vetsaway]

She is correct.Cancer is going to wipe out most of mankind in the US for sure.All doctors tell you that if you get it you will die.I am not going to go away that easy.There are well over 2 mil people alone just in the US that will not go away easily.Call us crazy,but we have been curing ourselves of cancer for 40 yrs.Some of our cancers haven't returned for 30 yrs.

[JanetJCrowe651]

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[bloggsie45]

search youtube using "dennis hill cancer"

It might help the little devils

[prabhatpalpal]

She is strangely attractive...

[Tealy855]

Cancer is a metobolic disease caused by a dietary deficiency of nitrilosides/Amygdalin found in seeds and other

unpopular foods just like scurvy is a deficiency of vitamin C - This was

discovered in 1952- Big pharma / FDA covered up the cure and declared it fraud and quackery.

Watch World Without Cancer Video and investigate. Many lives have been saved just by modifying diet and

just saying no thank you to the Big pharma / FDA chemo/ radiation rackett .

[finix65]

ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE OMFG IT SPREADS BY BITING AND IT CAUSES TUMORS

[ahhhhhDE]

@finix65 hi jon

[fatkat444]

The walking dead returns soon! 

[Dirtboy101]

this sounds like the premise for a zombie film. scary stuff!

[TheJovanist]

Who cares about cancer and the tazmanian devil, this lady is hot as hell.

[KillerMZE]

I think she just found a more likely candidate for the zombie apocalypse than mad cow disease...

[Threeejw]

ewwww !

[mkotisrael]

if Tasmanian-devil-cancer is a natural disease in the wild, meaning it's not caused by humans, then why do we need to cure it? won't it be unethical? i agree we should study it, but for our own sake. though the sight of an inflicted animal suffering distresses me, isn't it just the regular course of nature?

[capedchameleon]

@mkotisrael Bearing in mind all the millions and millions of animals suffering and dying in labs in hope to find cures for diseases (or to test chemicals, makeup, natural behaviors or whatever else those sick perverts fancy) I think it's a little rich complaining about someone actually trying to help some animals for once.

You know, you might consider the human race a disease in the wild..

[mkotisrael]

if Tasmanian-devil-cancer is a natural disease in the wild, meaning it's not caused by humans, then why do we need to cure it? won't it be unethical? i agree we should study it, but for our own sake. though the sight of an inflicted animal suffering distresses me, isn't it just the regular course of nature?

[FTLNewsFeed]

@mkotisrael It'd be more unethical to see a harm and do nothing about it if we could. Also "regular course of nature" is a fallacy, there is nothing better or right about nature and what happens in it. By that logic we should halt all advances in medicine because it's nature's way (and some would advocate that position).

[khaluu2000]

And so zombies have cancer. BAHAHAHA. jk jk. This was highly enlightening news~

[foldoun]

OH. F$&%. 

[foldoun]

OH. F$&%.

[leonidasx666]

She didn't explain that most of the Tazmanian Devils share a recent common ancestor (like a grand-grand father...) so their genetics are "familiar" to one another, and THAT is also a reason why it's spreading so fast. A second "family" that exist on the island doesn't seem to be affected.

Also, the appearance of this cancer is rather peculiar because it started in human populated areas (were there are fewer animals) and then migrated to where there are the big colonies.

-Saw it on Discovery Ch.

[EmoAlias]

Oh my god that is so gross. D8

[Fuzzy192006]

Contagious cancer? Honey badger don't give a shit.

[Kojak7snap]

@Fuzzy192006 He's crazy!

[krishna49]

Very well done!

Her speech was informative and well spoken.

Makes me wish she had done a 20 minutes speech.

[Rasayana85]

Wait!? They do what when they meet each other in the wild? Didn't you say that these were adorable little creatures?

Never minde.

Considering her goal, while I think that it would be a somewhat good ambition considering that that the whole eco-system might depend on that predator, I can't help to think "why?"... ;-)

OK, I would like to see that the species survives, but I am kind of curious what would happen if we let the problem be. As Murchison makes it sound the species will die out for...

[Rasayana85]

@Rasayana85

...sure. But just what if some part of the population is isolated from the canser, or per chance just happens to avoid contagious individuals, for just so long that they can spread in to those areas where the population already has diminished. What kind of evolutionary pressure would this cancer have on the Tasmanian Devils on the long run?

[zapproowsdower]

Agreed this was a fantastic, even mind-blowing, presentation.

[Arghira]

1 in 3 people...that's just stupid....

[Silverstarlightt]

Fantastic talk. REALLY interesting. I'm kind of freaked out now though.

[malexandrec]

To save the tasmania devils would require the creation of a segragated population -- transfer of healthy individuals to a new island via quarantine? Which island would be a new home -- free of the cancer of the world and all species , HUMANS?

[Strand0410]

I non-ironically love the tooth gap. It's so adorkable.

[rpm297]

Oh good. A new way to die. As if there's a shortage of those.

Informative. Thanks. Not bad for $6k a seat...

[Kojak7snap]

@OccamsKatana Life is an emotional experience. Your reaction here is a highly emotional one, and every decision we make as humans is based on priorities informed by emotions. Researchers have found that emotion and reason are not opposed forces, but essentially the same neurological process. As humans, we cannot think without using emotion; it is an essential ingredient in thought.

[jag305]

@OccamsKatana Excellent tip, if becoming a scientist, immediately excise your sense of empathy. As we all know, that generally improves your ability to make dispassionate ethical decisions without regard to anyone's suffering and that always ends well. Also, you misquoted a statement in a video that is right above your own post...lazy.

[CommentsSurvey]

@jag305 : thank you for your response. I can't believe how many nasty people have posted comments here, all over an excellent review of cancer that is exterminating the Tasmanian Devil. This is what makes YouTube so difficult to be on. You never know what kind of crazy conflicted statements some people are going to make. It's as if this is their "happy hunting grounds" to inject conflict into everything possible. We need an antidote or a way to ban these people permanently. Poisonous.

[OccamsKatana]

@jag305 - Didnt feel like quoting the whole thing, too long, this does the job.

Furthemore, I simply disagree.

you fail.

[theblastedfrench]

I think I'm in shock from all the horror photos.... 

[JDNuvo]

Its nice to see Ted Talks has something other than women giving sex talks. More please.

[wulf8121]

SUPER CANCER!? Well that's just perfect! :-/

[inosentz]

contagious cancer... yeah, i've heard of that, its called human pappilomavirus - cervical cancer

[tharu8888]

What a fantastically informative talk. Not a single word wasted! An infectious cancer with its own DNA? I wish Dr. Elizabeth Murchison all the very best in finding a cure for this terrible plague and save the Tasmanian Devils. The lessons we learn from that will be of utmost importance to finding cure for other forms of cancers as well.

[OCUBOX]

WTF! @ images, great talk though, I'm comfortable (?) watching real human dissections but those images made me very uncomfortable lol

[uberfrozenglow]

cancer is to the body as humans for earth. just hope they don't use this kinda of knowledge to biologic weapons

[margarita0422]

she was amazing, i posted it in my fb

[AyudaSelaine]

CTVT -- We see it all the time in Guatemala. Quite horrible and scary but treatable.

[WhichDoctor1]

That's really interesting. I've heard of the Tasmanian devil cancer before but it was always explained away as being because the Tasmanian devil had such little genetic diversity. I've never heard of that dog cancer. Quite scary really.

[jjmm112]

God is great- yeah??...................

[sporkonomix]

That's an eye-opening talk on cancer. I learned more about cancer in 13 minutes than I ever did in school.

[mazdaplz]

@sporkonomix

school fails teaching stuff beyond reading and multiplication

[DeoMachina]

This is the scariest thing.  God knows how she'll save the tasmanian deveil, but good luck

[mazdaplz]

@DeoMachina

kill all the ones on the side of the island with cancer. breed only non infected devils. the sooner the better because the least number of devils will have to die

[LaBambathereal]

10 000 yrs old cancer, damn.. how is it possible ? Did it spread from scavenger to another, repeating the patter for centuries ? And how it formed in first place ? =O

[datlik9]

Wow. I did not know that

[kolearian]

Maybe, it'll just be a bottle neck on their species, the ones that don't bite while courting will survive.

[Barbarian74]

@kolearian Actually this does seem to be a classic case. Much like how during the Bubonic Plague how those with only one CCR5 allele were immune to the plague (and nowadays people with that same mutation are immune to AIDS) if it wasn't for humanities ability to adapt and quarintine most like nearly 100% of humanity today would have the mutation and AIDS would have never became an issue... evolution truely is an amazing thing.

[kolearian]

@Barbarian74

Agreed, Evolution is pretty badass, though gruesome.

[ClosetKitten]

she got a great talk but not enough for the audience to stand up and applaud.

[yukit91]

an informative talk without using layman terms. it's truely fascinating

[TheGodlessGuitarist]

So if I'm correct, the Tasmanian Devils that do not like confrontation and who run away instead of face knawing, shall 'inherit the Earth' so to speak.

[meotaku2]

@TheGodlessGuitarist. You mean, the `meek` ones.

[TheGodlessGuitarist]

@meotaku2

Thought they were only indigenous to Europe, lol

[owenkilleen]

she is fantastic, she is passionate about life on this planet, and the ealth and continuation of it. a truly amazing human being.

[ZeroRacer]

she just made this world a little scarier. 

[gregaaron89]

This made me so sad... D:

[BensJamN18]

I really enjoyed this talk.

[Arcus2658]

I thought this was going to be about cervical cancer/HPV, from the title.

[meotaku2]

Wow

[jahrleriksen]

0:15

[sweetilleyad]

extremely well done presentation. I sincerely hope that humans do not develop a contagious version of cancer. I didn't realize that cancer escentailly has a parasetic nature, especially the version she is describing. Very frightening.

[2661960]

@sweetilleyad At 4:12 she mentions cervical cancer in women that is spread by a virus...which is why it is so important for all women to have pap smears.

[directorcl6]

Probably a result of the biological agents included in chemtrails. Research it and don't give up too soon. Digging will pay off.

[daemonowner]

@directorcl6 lol, chemtrails... XD

[annoloki]

Wow so if there were two species of devil, one that bit each other aggressively on meeting and another one that didn't... the aggressive species would be more likely to die out. Interesting.

[gaiagale]

I agree ...a remarkably artiulate presentation ...well paced ...simply organized yet well devloped and clearly informative

respect

I am curious though about the title ...the presentation was more about 'geting to know' a contagious cancer or perhaps 'researching aspects of' contagious cancers ...just a thought

that aside ...thanks for sharing

[danfromabove]

Shit, at least it's not airborne yet! Every cloud and all that.

[DarkNemesis25]

really good talk, vary interesting.. admittedly i had to skip some of those photos she showed.. yikes. pretty girl too.. but those teeth.. am i the only one noticing this .. dealbreaker for sure

[Alishaikh94]

@DarkNemesis25 Yeah she's pretty hot. But the teeth as you said...

[FlyKingRy]

God, what a beautiful animal. Man, i feel sick

[Ignorantf00l]

oh for fuck's sake!

[Osuitea]

This is an animal living xith a mutating diseasa. Maybe because this cancer is on a cellular level that mike aids it becomes aggressive.

[RockalilyDunne]

I know this will sound odd, but I think you should have a glass of water available for the speakers, they always seem short of saliva, that is probably because of the nerves, but in some cases it seems difficult for them to talk.

Thank you for posting yet another very interesting ted talk.

[BoStevoD]

This was not the right thing to watch just after making dinner.

[MoOtJeMan]

Very troublesome.IF contagious cancers could eventually develop in our species, with international travel, there will be probably a few places left on earth, especially in the amazon where humans will be largely uneffected.

To be honest, I don't care much for other species (not saying I want them to go the T. devils to go extint) the fact that a few people got infected with cancer because of their immune system being inadequate. Wow, imagine if a mutation that could take on our immune system...

[DemonicSymphonic]

I bet her breath stinks like rotting meat.

[MobiusCoin]

Scary shit.

[asdfgoogle]

OH CRAP! The crowd is clapping! That means pause the video so the LOUD LOUD LOUD LOUD LOUD outro doesn't happen!

[kaminarigaston]

Fascinating.

[qttytn]

I feel like I have just been told I have cancer

[SEThatered]

@qttytn

Funny thing that you actually have it.

But

firstly: human cells have "cell repair set" (i've put it extremely simple here);

second: immune system is effectively wiping out cells that already have mutated.

We do have "built in" measures to counteract cancer.

So treat your body good, and it'll wipe those "mutants" out by itself.

[qttytn]

FUUUUUUUCCCKKK

[JohnnyKidder]

KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!

[TheSpankymonkey]

@JohnnyKidder - Nah, tame it. Call it Bob and make it into a nice, easy to maintain pet for everyone to stroke.

[TheSpankymonkey]

@JohnnyKidder - Nah, tame it. Call it Bob and make it into a nice, easy to maintain pet for everyone to stroke.

[xjustamem0ryx]

if the cancer doesn't kill them humanity will.

[AgentWD400]

Ultimate cancer.. great

[CommentsSurvey]

This young woman did a terrific job of explaining a horrific disease. I was able to watch it all the way through, and found it interesting and educational. Who would have thought it? Thanks for posting.

[NextToNothing123]

@CommentsSurvey Are you deliberatly belitting women with that statement? Do you think it's okay to say so because, "this pretty young lady has some really bright ideas"?

[CommentsSurvey]

@NextToNothing123 : I think you have my comment confused with someone else. I wrote: "This young woman did a terrific job of explaining a horrific disease. I was able to watch it all the way through, and found it interesting and educational. Who would have thought it? Thanks for posting."

I don't agree that the statement "this pretty young lady has some really bright ideas" belittles women. I would imagine the person who did write this is from an older generation and meant as a compliment.

[Kojak7snap]

@CommentsSurvey Your original comment very unambiguously carries the implication that young women are unlikely to have or convey ideas that interest you. This is an attitude that is more common in older generations, and it is belittling to women. In case you were not being deeply disingenuous, NextToNothing123 was paraphrasing your comment (fairly well, in my opinion), not attributing false statements to you.

[geekface212]

@Kojak7snap I think that you're unfairly judging what CommentSurvey said by getting too hung up on the fact that they mentioned 'The young woman' in their post. Is it not possible that when they said 'who would have thought it?' they were merely expressing surprise at the fact they enjoyed a presentation about a subject matter that wouldn't normally interest them, and not being derogatory to 'the pretty young lady with the bright ideas'?

[CommentsSurvey]

@geekface212 : Thank you. I don't know why these people want to cause trouble over compliments. I am a woman over sixty years old. I think these people who complain should find somewhere else to start an argument. It makes it very difficult to ever have a discussion on YouTube about important issues because these poisonous people seem to seek out ways to start conflict.

I think Researcher Elizabeth Murchison did an excellent job.

[Strand0410]

@Kojak7snap I did not get this impression that he was at all being sexist in his original comment. There's nothing belittling or sarcastic at all about what he said, and people should stop splitting hairs or putting words in each others' mouths because it reveals an even deeper persecution complex.

He praised the talk, how do you know that his 'surprise' came from her sex, not the subject? I didn't think Tasmanian Devil cancer would be interesting either.

[CommentsSurvey]

@Kojak7snap : Please do not contact me again. Find somewhere else to start an argument. I have blocked you and I hope you block me and that will be the end of it. Satisfied now?

[SEThatered]

0:15

[atmark666]

What is killing the Tasmanian devil?

ex-cons

[Benawisan]

reality can be a lot scarier than any horror film ever made

[shakyl008]

I Am Legend?...

[guyboy625]

first!

[DreamsCatcher101]

So this is the 2012 world population problem solver.

[Xone234]

This is some serious stuff...you guys shouldn't be so careless with ur opinions.

[Mystery207]

Stupid overpaid delusional sheep

[dudejohnny]

@Mystery207

I didn't know sheep got paid, I thought they just walked around and made noises. Do you have sheep working in stores where you live? Doctors, lawyers?

[dudejohnny]

@Mystery207

I didn't know sheep got paid, I thought they just walked around and made noises. Do you have sheep working in stores where you live? Doctors, lawyers?

[kolearian]

I can't help and think about the Flood. This may sound bad but it seems we could engineer something like the Flood. Just study the DNA of the cancer mentioned. The ultimate terrorism.

[gh0strider117]

@kolearian the Flood from Halo? yea, that is sorta how humans beat the Flood the first time a 100,000 years ago. we altered the genes of a third of the population and put them in front of the Flood, fight fire with fire and all that.

[jgbloyd]

If you liked this video, you're a zombie.

[dudejohnny]

@jgbloyd

BRAAAAAAAAAINS

[hare122275]

Maybe it's not so ironic that all these weird diseases tend to show up AFTER chemicals are dumped in an environment.

[lancelottodd]

She's quite cute, and I could listen to her talk about biology forever.

[ForYeensSake]

@lancelottodd To bad she was so stressed. I mean it looks good.

[Bugersaler]

Fix ur ******. If u do that, the idea you want to spread might actaully reach people faster.

[orgiophant93]

This episode of predictive programming has been brought to you by the Shadow Govt.™, BigPharma™, BigChem™, the Cancer Industry™ and Neo-Malthusians Worldwide™. Welcome to the New AIDS, please enjoy the show.

[jgbloyd]

@orgiophant93 Thumbs up! I can't believe all the positive comments on this video, but, then again, pretty much everyone I know is already sick and retarded because of it, so, yeah, the zombies are eating it up. Surreal.

[OhNoyate]

CONTAGIOUS CANCER? Oh great, what next?

[SAsgarters]

@OhNoyate Contagious cervical fractures.

[jgbloyd]

@OhNoyate Next, they'll be pushing for mandatory vaccines for cancer.

[KemaTheAtheist]

@ExclusiveManual

"Mind controlling parasites"

We already have those around: Cordyceps unilateralis

It only affects ants, but still...

[D0KTOR7]

@KemaTheAtheist Also Toxoplasma gondii, affecting cats, mice, and humans.

[D0KTOR7]

@KemaTheAtheist Also Toxoplasma gondii, affecting cats, mice, and humans.

[ExclusiveManual]

@OhNoyate Yep it's a universe of possibilities...

[SEThatered]

@OhNoyate

Certain papiloma viruses (HPV) can cause cancer.

This is not new.

In fact many viruses that can incorporate their DNA without destroying the cell in the progress, have the potential to cause cancer, but also they can bring a beneficial mutation (like resistance to some diseases).

It is not that one-sidedly bad.

[djlegacy96]

@OhNoyate airborn aids

[LiliFromHali]

@OhNoyate Well, I hear the Apocalypse is coming real soon.

[ErichoTTA]

@OhNoyate Cancer that's airborne!

[McArrowni]

@OhNoyate

Contagious zombie cancer seems the logical next step.

[LastHoserStanding]

@OhNoyate zombie apocalypse?

[skyonaraproductions]

i dont care about the place because it isnt a competition!! yea!!

[DahSlayah]

I love the TedTalks channel...

[DannyOc3an]

THIRD!

[futureboy00]

so scarry

[futureboy00]

second

[outsidemendham]

first