Biologically, this argument makes no sense, it's almost certainly written by somebody not familiar with physiology and just trying to sound poetic. That or a journalists severely misinterpreting a quote or analogy from a researcher, which also happens quite a lot.

Cancers have a gigantic variety of causes, but a purposeful signaling pathway is not one.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

but a purposeful absence of preventive pathway could be one

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

What an extraordinary claim - I'm sure you'll be happy to provide evidence of this.