Cancer’s Procrustean Bed

In Greek mythology, Procrustes was a son of Poseidon (god of the sea) who often invited passersby to stay at his house to rest for the night. There he showed them to their bed. If the guest was too tall, he would chop off their limbs until the bed fit just right. If they were too short, he would stretch them on a rack until the bed fit just right. The great contemporary thinker and philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb often uses this allegory, but it is also quite appropriate to describe how the facts have been tortured to fit the theory of the Somatic Mutation Theory (SMT)