A Warning to All Parents: Pokemon Causes Cancer!

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<p><a href=“http://www.cancer.gov/ncicancerbulletin/NCI_Cancer_Bulletin_012505/page2[/url]”>http://www.cancer.gov/ncicancerbulletin/NCI_Cancer_Bulletin_012505/page2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>You knew this was coming… ;)</p>

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<p>Well, kryptonsa, just how was this discovered? Did the oncologist take a Picachu? ;)</p>

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<p>okay, you two, knock that off!!! LOL</p>

<p>Picachu…hahaha</p>

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<p>^^hee hee, corona!! ;)</p>

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<p>Come now… this is a -very- serious matter, what with the children’s exposure to exponentially increasing numbers of new Pokemon. What are there, like, 500 of them now? Compared to just 150 a couple of years ago?! :D</p>

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<p>Thanks for the laugh. For those who don’t bother to look up the whole article, the researchers named the finding pokeman, it has nothing to do with the kid’s phenomenon (it still exists? You can tell how long it’s been since son cared about it by my lack of knowledge); they have a sense of fun.</p>

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<p>This article is actually somewhat “old news”… written in early 2005, though I didn’t realize this at first. Nintendo, not wanting the bad press inherent with its trademark sharing a name with a cancer-causing gene, eventually threatened legal action against the cancer center that discovered it. The gene goes exclusively by the name of “Zbtb7” now.</p>

<p>But that’s no fun at all, is it?!</p>