Breast Cancer Therapy
 

There seems to be a new study every other day which gets trumpeted the big breakthrough in treating this or that. Often it's the result of one study and unrepeatable, but that's part of the research funding rat race.

Science Daily has an interesting one, breast cancer therapy needs dark.If it proves to be true it's cheap and easy.

Now we can supplement our paleo diets with paleo lighting.

The connection of melatonin levels, exposure to light at night, and circadian rhythm disruption to increased breast cancer risk has been sufficiently established for IARC (the International Agency for Research on Cancer) to have declared circadian rhythm disruption to be a probable human carcinogen (Group 2A).

So this is reaffirming an accepted premise. I guess that's a good thing, to bolster evidence for what they believe is true, but makes me wonder why they are spending resources to do this research.

What's disappointing is the little detail about how having dim light that is the equivalent of faint light coming under a closed door in a dark room is enough to negate the effects.

How can a modern human live a substantial portion of their life in the pitch dark?

Did they ever? Moonlight is usually brighter than that, all by itself.

maybe we could keep them in caves or down in the basement. naturally this is for their own good

Naturally.

Or perhaps Thomas Edison, in his quest to ensure that the lazy working class be forced to work beyond sunset, has more to account for than previously suspected ...