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by hereme888 649 days ago
No evidence is needed. Tissue damage is damage and genetic stress. It can increase the risk of a local cancer.

In fact, when the healing occurs, keloid scars can form, which is a benign growth.

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> No evidence is needed. Tissue damage is damage and genetic stress. It can increase the risk of a local cancer.

"No evidence needed" works if you want to be an astrologer.

Then everything causes cancer (and death really) by means of break, bruise, bump, burn, cut, prick, sprain, tear, etc.

Where evidence is needed is if you want to show a statistically significant result of your analysis that something indeed causes injury, and does it often enough to cause cancer within a person's lifetime.

>No evidence is needed. Tissue damage is damage and genetic stress. It can increase the risk of a local cancer.

Why doesn't the same damage occur when you're being blasted with 600 THz radiation (ie. visible light from your lightbulb)?