Survival of the Sickest, Why We Need Disease

“It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!” This is a phrase a software engineer will use to jokingly confess his software has a defect. When Sharon Moalem wrote the NY Times Bestseller, Survival of the Sickest: Why We Need Disease, he probably did not intend to make a joking confession of flaws in Darwin’s theory, but he succeed in doing so. Recall the words of Darwin: Natural Selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good. C.DARWIN sixth edition Origin of Species — Ch#4 Natural Selection If Darwin’s claim is true, why then are we confronted with numerous, persistent, hereditary diseases? Can it be … Continue reading Survival of the Sickest, Why We Need Disease