Book review: The Cancer Resolution?: Cancer reinterpreted through another lens, by Mark Lintern.

In the grand tradition of outsiders overturning scientific paradigms, this book proposes a bold new theory: cancer isn’t a cellular malfunction, but a fungal invasion.

Lintern spends too many pages railing against the medical establishment, which feels more like ax-grinding than science. I mostly agreed with his conclusions here, but mostly for somewhat different reasons than the ones he provides.

If you can push through this preamble, you’ll find a treasure trove of scientific intrigue.

Lintern’s central claim is that fungal infections, not genetic mutations, are the primary cause of cancer. He dubs this the “Cell Suppression theory,” painting a picture of fungi as cellular puppet masters, manipulating our cells for their own nefarious ends. This part sounds much more like classical science, backed by hundreds of quotes from peer-reviewed literature.

Those quotes provide extensive evidence that Lintern’s theory predicts dozens of cancer features better than do the established theories.