ReviewOpen biology2025
The information overload, immunology and their relationship to world health.
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Abstract
Essential to much medical progress (for example, preventing AIDS, tuberculosis and cancer) is understanding how the class of immunity is controlled. Most envisage that pathogen- or danger-associated signals are critical. Many classical observations, particularly on the variables of immunization affecting the class of immunity generated, are paradoxical under this dominant view, and are therefore neglected. Among these is the role of antigen dose. Plausible strategies to prevent and treat AIDS, cancer and tuberculosis are based on such neglected observations. Many suggest that the information overload stultifies the canon, inhibiting progress. I illustrate here that seeking and resolving paradoxes can provide a different perspective from that of the dominant canon, opening vistas that address major issues pertinent to world health.
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