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Pokemon Causes Cancer! - A Black Falcon - 28th January 2005
http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/54387.cfm
heh... :) (thanks to gamespot)
Pokemon Causes Cancer! - Great Rumbler - 29th January 2005
First seizures and now cancer! It's GENIUS!!*
*And, yes, I do know what that's really about.
Pokemon Causes Cancer! - Geno - 29th January 2005
Interesting name for a gene.
Pokemon Causes Cancer! - Dark Jaguar - 29th January 2005
You should note that scientists are human beings, as opposed to giant computers with no sense of humor. They name things in very arbitrary ways sometimes.
You want to know exactly what generation we are dealing with in current genetics? Take a look at one of the genes needed for birds to produce feathers. This gene is called the "SonicHedgehog" gene. Seriously.
Pokemon Causes Cancer! - OB1 - 29th January 2005
Nintendo can't be happy about this.
Pokemon Causes Cancer! - EdenMaster - 29th January 2005
Dark Jaguar Wrote:You want to know exactly what generation we are dealing with in current genetics? Take a look at one of the genes needed for birds to produce feathers. This gene is called the "SonicHedgehog" gene. Seriously.
No way! Really??
Pokemon Causes Cancer! - alien space marine - 29th January 2005
Yep but wouldnt it look bad for them to sue a cancer research lab?
Pokemon Causes Cancer! - EdenMaster - 29th January 2005
alien space marine Wrote:Yep but wouldnt it look bad for them to sue a cancer research lab?
I doubt a lawsuit, but if it gets to Nintendo they may request they change the name if possible. It's not like they're using the word Pokemon to market something, it's now a semi-medical term.
I can see Nintendo wishing to change the name. Having one of their mot successful franchises linked (albeit indirectly) to cancer isn't exactly great for marketing.
Pokemon Causes Cancer! - A Black Falcon - 29th January 2005
I really doubt that they'd care so much...
Pokemon Causes Cancer! - Great Rumbler - 29th January 2005
Most Pokemon fans probably won't, that's for sure.
Pokemon Causes Cancer! - A Black Falcon - 29th January 2005
Most pokemon fans will not hear the story.
Pokemon Causes Cancer! - Dark Jaguar - 30th January 2005
That's for sure :D.
...
You know during an interview with some scientist on some show he had a big Mewtwo poster in his lab? Wow aren't I specific?
So either A, that's just a poster he has because he's a nerd, or B, every morning he gives a peptalk to the other people working there saying "This is what we are working towards here people!". If it's the second... I'm building an ark...
Pokemon Causes Cancer! - Great Rumbler - 30th January 2005
You could build a giant rocket and fill it with animals and then when the rocket reaches 100KM it could incinerate the Earth.