Pokemon cause CANCER!!!

Burntcircuit · Post by **Burntcircuit** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 8:33 am

http://www.cancer.gov/ncicancerbulletin ... 2505/page2

Gotta catch em all!

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:38 am

The funniest thing about this, is that the gene wasn't named Pokemon in tribute (or maybe disgust) to the series, but because its an acryonym.

POK gene series, Erythroid Myeloid Ontogenic factor.

Chaszmyr Mae'Val · Post by **Chaszmyr Mae'Val** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:44 am

So what did that make the bloody egg sized tumour in my throat? Squirtle???

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:52 am

egg sized? no, that would be Togapi

Burntcircuit · Post by **Burntcircuit** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:54 pm

Could have been Eggsecutor too...

LeftTentacleGreen · Post by **LeftTentacleGreen** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:05 pm

Gotta catch 'em all.

Gengar003 · Post by **Gengar003** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:23 pm

MUahhaaha! What does that make me? The avatar of cancer? Fear my bulbous growth-inducing power!

... no wait, that's Bulbasaur's job.

How recent is this? Shit's gonna hit the fan when the owners of Pokemon (I think it's Nintendo now) find out.

AkaneJones · Post by **AkaneJones** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:53 pm

It's kind of old I saw it like a 6 months to a year ago. Either way it wouldn't mater one of the bird feather growth gene is called SonicHedgehog. It's just an odd sort of flattery. Please not that Pokemon isn't even Pokemon but Pocket Monsters at the parent side of Nintendo. Where as Pokemon was just a fancreated term for it adopted Nintendo outside of Japan. Same thing with Kodomo no Omocha actually what with it's english name being Kodocha. Either way though scientific names and corperate copyrighted names are a differant buisness.

Wilmo · Post by **Wilmo** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 12:24 am

Burntcircuit wrote:http://www.cancer.gov/ncicancerbulletin ... 2505/page2

Gotta catch em all!

see, that's one of biology's flaws... if you discover it, you get to name it...

Example:

Some guy with the name southern made a technique, so he named it "a southern blot" (might be suthern, but I'm no spellingmeister) Then someone developed something similar, and oh boy wouldnt it be funny to name it a "northern blot"... nowadays there are western and eastern blots too...

ridiculous names like pokemon and sonic the hedgehog... (not kidding)

Biology needs an IUPAC type thing to re-organize and make sense of things damnit! they could call it the IUPAB (har har)

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:31 am

At least biologists aren't naming things after themselves (for the most part) anymore. In the 1850s there was a whole family of octopuses that are forever named after the guy who collected them as they washed up on the beach.

Indigo Violent · Post by **Indigo Violent** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 6:15 pm

There's a species of beetle that was discovered by a Discworld fan. I forget the genus, but the species is nannyoggiae or something to that effect.

Ctholhic · Post by **Ctholhic** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 12:15 am

There's a species of prehistoric turtle named after the author of that series (Terry Pratchett) as well.

Of course, no science is free from this kind of event. Newtons, Ameperes, Pascals, Mollybdenum, Einsteinium, Californium, Americium, Francium. Even if they weren't named by the people whose names they share the situation is quite similar would you not say?

Cemetery Polka · Post by **Cemetery Polka** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 1:40 am

We've got a couple of things in our solar system that are named after prime time asskicking supergirls. There's a Xena AND a Buffy.

If my Astronomy studies get me anywhere I can promise you guys the Kwerki Nebula is in the cards.

RavenxDrake · Post by **RavenxDrake** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 8:32 am

Hmm... And, even as I read that, I realized "Yes. Kwerki is a Nebula".... which is an odd thing to think, much less type, much less say out loud in your house...

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 2:55 pm

Yea, but how does The Ass Pirates of the Kwerki Nebula sound? Pretty fucking terrifying to me.

Tellner · Post by **Tellner** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:08 pm

Wilmo wrote:see, that's one of biology's flaws... if you discover it, you get to name it...

Example:

...

ridiculous names like pokemon and sonic the hedgehog... (not kidding)

And what's wrong with that? If you find it you should get naming rights. And what's wrong with a little whimsy or patting oneself on the back?

Gengar003 · Post by **Gengar003** » Sun Jan 01, 2006 6:34 pm

>Gengar003 has died
>You got Cancer 1ea

Honor · Post by **Honor** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:26 am

Cemetery Polka wrote:If my Astronomy studies get me anywhere I can promise you guys the Kwerki Nebula is in the cards.

We need to recruit a particle physicist.... I just think the name Kwerki should be applied to an exotic particle that has mysterious qualities and is attracted to almost all other particles.

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:18 am

I propose changing the name quarks to kwerkis. That way, you could have an up, down, top, bottom, strange, and charmed kwerki. Besides, quarks kind of act.. ya know.. like that.

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